Speaker 1: Hey, fan Ritos, our hardworking team at iHeartRadio is taking
Speaker 1: a much deserved break this week. But before we do,
Speaker 1: we wanted to wish you a merry Christmas and happy
Speaker 1: holidays from all of us at how Rude Tanner Rito's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy holidays everyone.
Speaker 3: We hope you are enjoying some time with your family
Speaker 3: or some time alone if that's what you want.
Speaker 2: If that's what works for you. But maybe what are
Speaker 2: some of your favorite parts about the holiday season.
Speaker 3: Do you have any traditions or anything like that that
Speaker 3: you always do?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I do, Yes, we have lots of traditions. I think
Speaker 1: it's the same traditions that probably all of you listening
Speaker 1: have as well. We do a special ornament to commemorate
Speaker 1: the year if we take a trip or whatever. This
Speaker 1: year it's a it's a hand painted ornament of the
Speaker 1: new house. So that's to commemorate that we moved into
Speaker 1: a new house this year. I love that we wear
Speaker 1: the Christmas jammys matching plaid Christmas jammis on Christmas Morning.
Speaker 1: The kids hate it, but I think they secretly like it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I make them do it.
Speaker 2: Anyways.
Speaker 1: We watch It's a wonderful life. My mom used to
Speaker 1: make us watch this every Christmas Eve, but you know,
Speaker 1: I just make them watch it whenever everyone's all home
Speaker 1: because once the kids are getting to be teenagers, it's
Speaker 1: hard to find the time. And one of my favorite
Speaker 1: traditions that I didn't continue but I wish I did,
Speaker 1: was something my mom started when we were little kids.
Speaker 1: She would have me and my brothers. She would force
Speaker 1: us to write the Christmas story, so the story of
Speaker 1: the birth of baby Jesus in our own words, So
Speaker 1: before I could even write with a pencil, she would
Speaker 1: I would dictate to her and it would be very simple,
Speaker 1: like baby is born or what you know. It was
Speaker 1: like super simple, or you know, when I got to
Speaker 1: be a little bit older, it's like Jesus got a helicopter,
Speaker 1: a toy helicopter for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just it's great.
Speaker 1: And then when we turned eighteen, she put all of
Speaker 1: our stories in a binder, like she bound them together
Speaker 1: and gave that to us for Christmas on our eighteenth year.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I wish I had continued that.
Speaker 2: That would have been really cute.
Speaker 1: I had intentions to continue it, and then life sort of.
Speaker 3: Gone the way, but My mom did little interviews like
Speaker 3: that with me when I was like eighteen months, two years,
Speaker 3: three years. So I have these old audio tapes of
Speaker 3: me answering questions.
Speaker 1: Audio tapes your little voice.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm like full on, yeah, it's funny, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I love those traditions. I have some similar ones. H
Speaker 3: Christmas pajamas. Actually just got the girl's pajamas yesterday. We
Speaker 3: don't do the matchy matchy ones though. I try and
Speaker 3: get us like something that kind of is reflective or
Speaker 3: just a little bit different, but like in the same family.
Speaker 3: And I got these amazing Oh my gosh. There's this company.
Speaker 3: I swear I don't work for them. It's called PJ
Speaker 3: Salvage that makes the softest pj's ever.
Speaker 2: So got those.
Speaker 3: My parents will come over. We kind of tend to
Speaker 3: do like a Christmas brunch sort of thing, like breakfast
Speaker 3: eve thing. Miscal's gonna cook some stuff and then what else.
Speaker 2: We used to go look at Christmas lights, but it's so.
Speaker 3: Hectic now, although I might drag the kids out this weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll see, but yeah, it's it's a Christmas Channey's.
Speaker 2: We got to watch mup at Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1: Yes yes, I'm gonna watch it this year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch it.
Speaker 3: Just for you. I need you have to watch it
Speaker 3: and tell me you're not moved. Just I'm telling you
Speaker 3: it's incredible.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you.
Speaker 3: At Christmas Con this past weekend, they were like, what's
Speaker 3: your favorite Christmas movie? I said, it is The Mup
Speaker 3: at Christmas Carol, and I will fight anyone.
Speaker 2: Here for that.
Speaker 1: You will die on this hill for.
Speaker 3: Sure, and and be visited by the ghost of Christmas past. Okay,
Speaker 3: that is where I settle on it.
Speaker 1: But I love that.
Speaker 2: That's so great.
Speaker 3: Is there anything that you're looking forward to particular to
Speaker 3: like this Christmas or are you guys doing anything fun
Speaker 3: or just is it like lazy pajama day at home?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, well, well the way it works in my family,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works in your family, but
Speaker 1: since we're a divorced family, a blended family, right, I
Speaker 1: get the kids for the morning so they which was
Speaker 1: great when they were little and believed, you know, the
Speaker 1: Christmas morning they could exactly their visit from Santa. So
Speaker 1: that was great. And now it's just you know, I
Speaker 1: have to wait for them to wake up. I think
Speaker 1: that's at like five am.
Speaker 3: And no, I'm like, I get my kids this year,
Speaker 3: even year, I get them Christmas even and Christmas morning
Speaker 3: and yeah, like my parents will probably be here at
Speaker 3: like seven am and the kids will roll out somewhere
Speaker 3: around ten.
Speaker 2: You know, right, it's so different. But honestly, it's so different.
Speaker 2: It's I'm okay, it's a little less stressful, that's true.
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Speaker 3: I do miss the frantic assembly nights, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I'm putting the toys together, forgetting the
Speaker 1: batteries that need to go in the certain toys.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the thing I want to say that I'm most
Speaker 1: looking forward to is just getting to spend Christmas with Holly.
Speaker 2: Like, she's almost eighteen.
Speaker 1: And so for the last few years I have thought, okay,
Speaker 1: this is going to be her last Christmas. I thought
Speaker 1: that last year. We almost lost her this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I'm just really happy that she's still here
Speaker 1: because I adopted her eleven years ago, right before Christmas,
Speaker 1: right before my first Christmas alone because Jeremy had the kids,
Speaker 1: my ex husband had the kids that year. So I
Speaker 1: was so sad and so lonely, and so here came
Speaker 1: this poodle into my life, and she just saved me.
Speaker 1: She absolutely saved me. And so I think of that
Speaker 1: every Christmas. I'm so grateful that she's still here, and
Speaker 1: I'm really happy that whether it's the last year or not.
Speaker 1: So I'm so happy, so happy that she's here for
Speaker 1: another Christmas.
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Speaker 3: my babies at rescue too. And there's so many animals
Speaker 3: out there, particularly around the holidays. People do buy dogs
Speaker 3: as gifts and then they don't want them or something happens.
Speaker 2: So please adopt.
Speaker 3: If you can foster all of that good stuff, especially
Speaker 3: around the holidays, you know you will.
Speaker 1: Get more out of it than the dog, I guarantee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing, amazing. Now, you know, speaking of kind
Speaker 3: of sensitive things, I know, you know, holidays can be
Speaker 3: kind of rough for some people. It's either you know,
Speaker 3: maybe you don't really talk to your family. Maybe that's
Speaker 3: a good thing, but you know, I mean I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know your family.
Speaker 2: I don't know you. But you know, sometimes you have.
Speaker 3: To spend it maybe with your chosen family, or you know,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe the day is spent kind of on your
Speaker 3: own doing whatever you want to do. You know, I've
Speaker 3: been reading a bunch of articles this year about how
Speaker 3: people are like, yeah, you know what, this year, my
Speaker 3: family and I just didn't We were like, just didn't
Speaker 3: do Christmas, like and I and they were like and
Speaker 3: actually it was one of the best Christmases that we've
Speaker 3: had because we just didn't feel pressured to have to
Speaker 3: do or be anything or anyone.
Speaker 2: So I just want to.
Speaker 3: You know, if if the holidays are a rough time
Speaker 3: for you, I absolutely understand that.
Speaker 2: And and you know, it's it's okay to make the
Speaker 2: day whatever you want, Like seriously, you.
Speaker 1: Know, there's no cookie cutter pattern, like just make it
Speaker 1: whatever you.
Speaker 3: Want, make it whatever you want, and and and just
Speaker 3: know that, like it's it's another day, and and and
Speaker 3: to this too, shall pass, especially if this is maybe
Speaker 3: the first holiday without a loved one. I know that
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Speaker 3: Maybe do you have any ways that you've been able
Speaker 3: to get through this? I know you know the last
Speaker 3: few years have been hard without your mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this will be my fourth Christmas without my mom. No,
Speaker 1: my third Christmas without my mom. And the first year
Speaker 1: is always the hardest. That's what I'll say to anybody
Speaker 1: who's lost someone important to them. The first Christmas is
Speaker 1: the hardest. Not that it gets it gets. It's never easy,
Speaker 1: but it does get easier. And I found just sharing memories,
Speaker 1: like just talking about the keep them alive through your memories.
Speaker 1: I still buy my mom gifts, like even though I
Speaker 1: can't give them to her. Usually i'll buy her a plant.
Speaker 1: Like one year I got her the little the little
Speaker 1: heart plant. It's a colaboya carry plant and it's a heart, right,
Speaker 1: and usually they don't grow because it's just the leaf,
Speaker 1: so they don't grow. But this one had a node
Speaker 1: on it, and so I've had it for like almost
Speaker 1: three years now and it grew like so now it's
Speaker 1: like a vine with multiple hearts on it. I just
Speaker 1: thought that was so metaphoric.
Speaker 2: That is so for something I bought my mom that
Speaker 2: she's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so buy them the gifts, still think of them
Speaker 1: and then keep it right for yourself. Yeah, and you'll
Speaker 1: think of them every time. Like every time I see
Speaker 1: that plant now, I'm just like, yeah, that's mom. You know,
Speaker 1: she's still growing. So yeah, it's I love that.
Speaker 3: And you know, I can't believe we're heading into a
Speaker 3: new year, twenty twenty five. Here we come, a boy,
Speaker 3: buckle up, I can't believe it. Do you have any
Speaker 3: New Year's resolutions anything? Do you do New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I stopped that a long time ago. I gave up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, too much stuff, disappointing myself with it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just I just try to, I don't know, just
Speaker 3: keep being kind, be a decent human, you know.
Speaker 2: Be nice. Yeah, and like, just do more.
Speaker 3: Of that in twenty twenty five, because I think we
Speaker 3: really need that. And step away from your social media.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, turn on.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, that's that's one.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely like this year, I'm gonna just be a
Speaker 3: lot less invested in social media. Kind of already started it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah it's peaceful.
Speaker 1: It makes a difference. It really quiets the noise in
Speaker 1: your head, so.
Speaker 2: For sure, for sure. Now let's end with this favorite
Speaker 2: podcast moment of the year. I have to pick one,
Speaker 2: just one, just one.
Speaker 1: We had some epic I mean, we went to Vegas,
Speaker 1: which was amazing. Yeah, we went to We went glamping
Speaker 1: with some of our favorite friends. We did the pod swap,
Speaker 1: which you mentioned. Like that pod swap was so chaotic,
Speaker 1: so fun and so fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can pick one.
Speaker 1: And then all the wonderful guests that we've like, I
Speaker 1: just think about reconnecting with Adria, our studio teacher, for
Speaker 1: we haven't seen her in so many decades, and like,
Speaker 1: what a gift that is for us to be able
Speaker 1: to reconnect with people like that. So I can't pick one?
Speaker 1: Can you?
Speaker 2: Do you have one? I know, you know it was
Speaker 2: it was hard for me to pick one.
Speaker 3: But what I did was I just went what was
Speaker 3: the Okay, what was the first one that came to mind,
Speaker 3: because obviously that's the one that's like forefront, and it.
Speaker 2: Was it was the road trip to Vegas. Yes, that
Speaker 2: was so much fun. It's so great.
Speaker 3: I've had such a good time with you. We too,
Speaker 3: we introduced you to Cracker Barrel and my god, that
Speaker 3: was my first primar to remember. I have cracker barrel
Speaker 3: ornaments on my tree.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Of course you do, of course
Speaker 2: you do. Yeah, but I get it.
Speaker 3: I get it because I love them anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's guts engraving.
Speaker 1: And delicious for many of the adventures with you, and
Speaker 1: how many more.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait. Well, Happy holidays, Happy
Speaker 2: New Year.
Speaker 3: We love you, fan Rito's, and and we will see
Speaker 3: you next time and next year.
Speaker 1: Yes, amazing. Happy holidays everyone, Bye,