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Speaker 1: I've never told you protection of I Heart Radio. So listeners. Um,

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Speaker 1: before we get into this one, and too to my questions, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I did want to just preface this by saying we're

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Speaker 1: we're in the final stretch of Believe It or Not,

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Speaker 1: and Samantha and I are working on a bunch of

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Speaker 1: To be honest, UM, some of these aisodes, they're going

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Speaker 1: the next year and all of that. And and that

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Speaker 1: We do have an episode coming up on looking back,

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Speaker 1: but what is one thing in this year that has

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Speaker 1: your favorite thing, because we're going to talk about some

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Speaker 1: of that stuffinitely, but just one thing that you you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been new for me. Like I'm like like floored

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Speaker 1: saying jingle bells the entire time, easy, so great, and

426
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: the oh Chris Christmas Tree also it was just oh

427
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: Christmas Tree the entire time. See simple best songs. Um.

428
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 1: I have a very funny memory of me and my

429
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: older my little brother at the like candlelight lighting service,

430
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: um when we were I was probably in college and

431
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: he was in high school, and we both started the

432
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: Carol too soon, like loudly, and not only that we

433
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: got the words. It's really those are the best times.

434
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: Oh wow, we get our our church that my parents

435
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: went to, it has like twenty members it's really small

436
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: if you make it. Yeah. Yeah, Well, speaking of we

437
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about some holiday traditions. So one thing

438
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 1: we do in my family that I don't think it's

439
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 1: too common as we do a picking turkey, which is

440
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: the night before Christmas Eve, we make a smaller turkey

441
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: and you just like pick at it. Um and literally okay, yeah,

442
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: because people in my house like the leftovers go fast listeners.

443
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing how fast it's all gone. Um. In fact,

444
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: that sweet Potato castrole that the Recipe I gave on

445
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: our Holidays episode recently, they asked for two this year

446
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: to to um. We we used to do a UM

447
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. We would go to a movie on Christmas

448
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: even every year that who got to pick it changed

449
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: And this is the source of contention in my family

450
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: still because one year my older brother chose Star Trek

451
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: Nemesis when he knew I was terrified of aliens, and

452
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: I very much remember that. UM. We used to read

453
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: Towards the Night for Christmas, like my mom read it

454
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: aloud before we went to bed. Um. These days, my

455
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: mom and I do Bloody Mary's while we get out

456
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: the Christmas decorations, which is nice. We wear the silly hats.

457
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: On Christmas Day. We usually watch Christmas Story and Christmas

458
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: Day UM, and then we sit around a bonfire log

459
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: and talk for hours and look at the stars um,

460
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite things. And I do

461
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: have a tradition of carefully choosing the last movie I

462
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: see in a year in the first movie I see

463
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: in the new year, which has backfired on me before

464
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: because one time I was limited to what was on

465
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: an airplane. Uh So, I watched The New Mummy with

466
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, but when I got back, I watched The

467
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: Old Mummy, which I love to make up right, which

468
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: I watched last night. I'm not gonna lie, and I

469
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: know I think, didn't you say a listener send an

470
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: email suggesting that yes, for a feminous movie Friday. I'm

471
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: down for that. Just just put that out there. I

472
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: feel like that should be a thing that we should

473
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: watch because I still love it to this day. They

474
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: did Brittain wrong. Uh so, yeah, not surprisingly for us,

475
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: we actually do the twist the night before Christmas as well.

476
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: That didn't happen until after I grew up, though, so

477
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: that she did. My mother does it more for the grandkids.

478
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: And she's got a beautifully like crafted books, so it's

479
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: really pretty. But our other traditions are very religious, because,

480
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: as I've talked about before, my family is very religious,

481
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: and so our traditions always included the telling of the

482
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: Baptist Christmas Story. I feel like I have to be

483
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: very specific from the Bible, from the chapter of Luke

484
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with it. Um, and a long round

485
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: of carols in which my family harmonizes to I will

486
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: say my family is fairly, very musically gifted, and they

487
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: have been singing together for a long time. So one

488
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: of the traditions is that we're seeing and then it

489
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: becomes a whole thing in the attress and I'm trying

490
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: to keep up. But the children are obviously the main focus,

491
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of green kids and stead grandkids

492
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: and kids that I don't know where they came from. Kids,

493
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: um and uh. They are the most excited. Typically they

494
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: sit and pick out their favorite songs to sing and

495
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: sit in the middle of the room reminiscing about reminiscing

496
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: with the adults about past holidays, and they all adventure

497
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: to get their toys and well, of course tear into

498
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: them because they're so excited and the adults would sit

499
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: and watch, which writing this out made it to sound creepy.

500
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, it really we're sacrificing to

501
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: the children to give us, you know, make us feel

502
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: SENTI middle essentially, but yeah, it is kind of It

503
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: is sweet to see the kids getting excited. Sometimes I

504
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: get really annoyed because some of them are spoiled. But

505
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: I think I say that as yes, people deserve to

506
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: get what they want and what they need, and being

507
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: in like past social services that like y'all are, didn't

508
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: too much. Sure, and maybe I'm a little jealous because

509
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: I was, like, I didn't get this when I was

510
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: growing up. We were limited to this serious catalog for

511
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. Oh yeah, remember the serious catalog. When the

512
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: Christmas catalog came in, it was a big deal. I

513
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: used to do. I would sit and I would shake

514
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: the presents and I would write down my guests. And

515
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: it annoyed my parents so much that they started boxing,

516
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: like boxes and boxes, so I couldn't figure out things

517
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: I would have done that I did that for presence.

518
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: I would do like add a rock to it. Oh yeah, okay,

519
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: So that's smart. That's smart. I'll keep that in mind

520
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: and just say it. Um So. We did want to

521
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: talk about friend traditions, specifically to um so. In my

522
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: friend group we usually do in in my like high

523
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: school friend group that is still in touch, we usually

524
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: do a weird white elephant where we give each other strange,

525
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: cheap gifts or things that we found. Um And in

526
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: the past, I've received a big bird ornament with the

527
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: legs broken off, which I adore, by the way, um,

528
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: a ring with a penny on it that of one day.

529
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: My dream is to punch somebody while I'm wearing it

530
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: to give them it takes to the old Lincoln injustice like.

531
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: I hope it leaves an imprint. Um and then she's giving.

532
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: Of course, I've talked about that a lot, usually in

533
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: the changing of pies pies. Can I be a part

534
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: of that the pikes change? Yeah, okay, yeah. You know.

535
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: The thing is, though I feel like I've been typecast,

536
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: like everybody has this one pie they want. I'm like,

537
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: I want to let me make my own, let me experiment.

538
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,239
Speaker 1: You can experience all you want like I want. Like

539
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: I will say I made a chocolate pie this year.

540
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: Which I meant to put pictures up and I will. Um,

541
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't great. I found my mistakes and I'm going

542
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: to have to including the crust of course. But yeah, okay, okay,

543
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Well I'll keep you in mind next pike change. Um.

544
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: Normally we go Christmas bar apping. Obviously that's not happening

545
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: this year. Um. And normally I do see like a

546
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: lot of movies around this time, um, and a lot

547
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: of friends that I don't see very often, Like we'd

548
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: meet at a movie theater that central to us and

549
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: see a movie and that was always fun. Um. And

550
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: I'm we're trying to find ways to keep these traditions alive,

551
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: and well, I think we can do them safely, but

552
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: we'll see, that's the whole thing. Uh. And I'm not

553
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I seriously missed doing things for the holidays

554
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: with my friends. Uh. We typically do a friend's gift

555
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: muss is what we call it gathering, which would include

556
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions. Because our schedule would be

557
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: so cranepacked that we didn't have time to do two things,

558
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: so we just put it all together. Um. And we

559
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: would sit drink and be merry and of course we

560
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: would also do a white elephant gift as well. And

561
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: then our friend just recently, because he's a genius, added

562
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: the memes ornament, So you come pick out your favorite

563
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: memes printed out and make it into an ornament to

564
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: put onto their tree, and they would have a mains tree. Uh.

565
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, I was never good

566
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: at it. I was like, yeah, I would ever just

567
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: come and hang out anything art sailing, and I'm just

568
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: gonna hang out. But it's such a great idea. And

569
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: I will say the pressure of having creative friends, it's

570
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: hard to compete with them and they're awesome ghosts. And

571
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: of course trying to exchange a thoughtful gifts like that's

572
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: definitely one of the things that I used to be

573
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: really good at and I've gotten less good at said

574
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: the word because I'm like, I'm just tired here. I

575
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: have some money. I take money well, and I do

576
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: think that that is a part of my favorite things.

577
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: So when I do know someone so well, I get

578
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: excited about giving them their gifts. That that's really really

579
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: what I love to do. And gift giving it's a skill,

580
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: it is a whole skill, you know what. And several

581
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: of our listeners who send us things and let us

582
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: know over these things. They do a great job. I

583
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: will place like Jamie, one of our wonderful listeners who

584
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: a good friend of ours. She does a great job

585
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: of sending us like care packages. And I'm like, how

586
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: do you know me so well because you listen? Okay? Cool,

587
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: but she does. That's a great job, So thank you, Jamie. Uh.

588
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: And of course there's always typically an ugly sweater party,

589
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: and I bought one ugly sweater from Walmart. Don't hate me.

590
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: I was really desperate. There was nothing available anywhere that

591
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: I didn't want to pay fifty dollars for um that

592
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I wear. It is just like literally a sweatshirt that

593
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: has something ironed onto it. I'm thinking, if I remember correctly,

594
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: it's a tree with a cat on it. I think nice,

595
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: But I would like you know what I did it?

596
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: There you go? Um? And then I guess I'll be

597
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: wearing that alone in my house. That's my own little

598
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: to take a pictured posted and I want to see it. WHOA.

599
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: We do have some more of our favorite things to

600
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: talk about, but first we have a quick break for

601
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: word for responsor, and we're back thank you spotsor and

602
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about food, yes, um, so we

603
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: we broke this down since food is so important to

604
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: the holidays, and as we broke it down into two categories,

605
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: and one is to make. So I do love the

606
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: gingerbread cookies and sweet tato castle that I shared on

607
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: that previous episode. But I also love making the dressing

608
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: which I found a really good cauliflower of vegetarian when

609
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: it was not vegetarian. Um. And as a piece offering

610
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: to my mom when I didn't come home for Christmas

611
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: a few years ago, I made one of her favorite

612
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: very expensive things, which is called crab West Indies. Um.

613
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: And now I'm like roped in and we do that

614
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: every year. Um. I actually have a pretty delicious homemade

615
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: cranberry sauceress beam. And my dad used to make ambrosia,

616
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: which I mentioned because it's a food that literally evades definition.

617
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: Like I could ask anybody what ambrosia is and they

618
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: will tell me something different from the next person, and

619
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: there's no commonalities almost. I love, love love that. You

620
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: can see our episode over on saver for more on

621
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I keep thinking as a flower every

622
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: time I don't like what it's a it's a fruit soup.

623
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: In my family, that's not what it is for a

624
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: lot of people. Um and um, if you want any

625
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: of those dress bees, seriously, I will share them with you.

626
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: I am down to share. And uh yeah, if you

627
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: want to know more about any of these things, We've

628
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: done a lot of these topics over around Savers, so

629
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: you can go to check that out. Yeah, I'm gonna

630
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: have to, I think, Yeah, I don't really cook. So

631
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: the thing about my tradition is that in our house

632
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: when it comes to food, typically my mother and again

633
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: the women that are married. I don't know why, but

634
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: this is how it's always gone. The women that are

635
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: married are the ones that do it. So for the

636
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: longest time, it was just my mother when it was

637
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: us and like intimate family. And then if it was

638
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: not our intimate family. Uh, and we used to like

639
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: all of the bigger cousins, aunt's uncles, whatever, which we

640
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 1: used to do, it was all the married women who

641
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 1: would bring foods and be in charge of foods. So

642
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: very very yeah whatever. Um. So as of recently it's change. Uh.

643
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: And that kind of kind of a little bit bitter

644
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: about it because as a single person I don't do

645
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: all these celebrations, And I understand completely that I really

646
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: can't be bitter because by this point, my mother and

647
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: the rest of the family that are married and tied

648
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: down have done all of the traveling and had done

649
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: all this cooking for all these different gatherings that I

650
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I don't do that. I just

651
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: have the one main family thing. So it's become less

652
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: and less of a thing. Um. And my mother's also

653
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: decided that she doesn't want to do traditional anymore, maybe

654
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: like a one time, she said, because she's so tired

655
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: of those types of foods by that point that she

656
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: wants something to change. So one year it was like

657
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: American Italian style with lasagna. Another year I think she

658
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: made meatloaf and some things, and then another year she

659
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: did sandwiches. That was sandwiches and chips, and I was like, what,

660
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: But she typically makes a really beautiful cake, uh, for

661
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 1: my sister because her birthday is always a day after Christmas,

662
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: so she's she's the one of those babies, so we

663
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: do have that. UM. I always thought that was really weird,

664
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: But because I have become more demanding, I think as

665
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: I get older, UM, I Actually my sister does an

666
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: amazing chiena dumplings recipe, which, by the way, um, I

667
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: have now and now I make it, and I made

668
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: it the other day. My partner has never eat chicken

669
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: and dumplings. Do you know about me chicken and dumplings? Okay?

670
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: Like he honestly thought I was making dumplings stuffed like

671
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: stuff dumplings like you know that type of tradition. And

672
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: I was like what because he was very confused when

673
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: he saw into my pot like dough balls, and then

674
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: he was like what is this? And I was like,

675
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: what do you mean with this? This? This is chicken

676
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: and dumplings. You knew I was making those. He's like, wait,

677
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: you don't stuff the dump look at your stuff foot

678
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: with And so there was the whole conversation. Who by

679
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: the way, he's from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, so he

680
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: should of course, Dad, they did live in Pennsylvania for

681
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: a little while. But I'm still like, you've been a

682
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: round them long enough because he's never had it before,

683
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: you believe that. Um. But her recipe is simple, and

684
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: because I do like my dumpling really dense, I like

685
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: it to stick to the roof of my mouth. I

686
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: love it. Um that That's how I make it, and

687
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: that's why her simple recipes really great. And as the

688
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: season comes along, I've really gotten into soup. So I

689
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: think that's my new edition with food is just to

690
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: make as mini soups as possible. I'm gonna tell you what,

691
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: I just found the best potato soup restuffy. It's pretty

692
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: much bacon sleup with potatoes. That's what I've discovered, and

693
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: I love it. That sounds good. I traditionally make because yeah,

694
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: I grew up in the South as well, and so

695
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: we do this Southern like pork, black eyed peas, turnips,

696
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: and I started making a soup for that because I

697
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: normally don't spend that with my family anymore. But I

698
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: still want that thing and I've already I got the

699
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: ingredients to it. I am ready. Um. So, we didn't

700
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: want to talk about only seasonal foods that were our

701
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: favorites minus ginger, but I love ginger bread. Um. My

702
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: mom and I usually get one of the holiday Starbucks

703
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: flavors early on the early in the morning on our

704
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: Black Friday to fuel our shopping. Obviously we did not

705
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: do that right, but that is a thing. Our friend

706
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: and co worker here, Alex, makes a really boozy eggnog

707
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: modeled after George Washington's recipe that I adore and I'm

708
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: making on my own this year. Um and yeah, I

709
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: was not an eggnog person until I tried that one

710
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is good. I like this.

711
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: Oh so you're making his recipe? Yeah, oh yeah, you're

712
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: gonna make me some because man, I came in for

713
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: that last year. It was so good. Uh And I'm like,

714
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 1: I would love some more because I don't love eggnog either,

715
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: but that was he did an amazing job. And I

716
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: was like, I need five of these? Where are these?

717
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: Because he brought them in the cute little like Mason Jarson.

718
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: Let me let me have those? Uh So, yeah, I

719
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: want in I wanted. Uh So. My friend, who runs

720
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: a small Puerto Rican restaurant here in Atlanta, has a

721
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: tradition of making cocto, which is similar to eggnog and

722
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: is quite YU mean delicious. Uh And I think he

723
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: when he's made for friends, I think he makes it

724
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: extra boozy's delightful. Um. And I have to say, starting

725
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: around Halloween, there are candies and releases like different food

726
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: things that are specific to this time of a year

727
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: that I love, and one of them is the hers

728
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: She's candy king kisses, which I try to make you

729
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: try no, even though you're allergic to peppermint. I like,

730
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: it's fine, just take it, whish. I don't even like

731
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: kisses are most of the Hershey's brand candies. For some reason,

732
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: this candy makes me so excited. I'll buy bags and

733
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: bags and bags and save it because I love it. Um.

734
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: And there's always a tradition of me buying whatever. The

735
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,479
Speaker 1: Reese's version is so typically, like right now it's Christmas trees,

736
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, and I buy that as well as

737
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: if you want, the larger version of the Santa And

738
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: I buy them from my dad specifically because I remember

739
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: looking at their stocking and they had nothing in them,

740
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: and so I felt it was my duty, just because

741
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: all of my stockings always had candies typically, and so

742
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: I felt like it was my duty to give. And

743
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: my mom would get like pecan log roll thingies, pecan candies.

744
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: He loves like troubles and such, So that that was

745
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: my like tradition. Oh yeah, that's that's a pretty good one.

746
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one. Um. Well, we have some

747
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: more favorites we want to cover, but first we got

748
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: one more quick break for a word our sponsor and

749
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: we're back, Thank you sponsor. And we want to talk

750
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: about holiday music. Remember favous there. Mine is definitely Ukrainian

751
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: bell Carroll. I like the intense trans Siberian orchestra, one

752
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: that should surprise no one who knows me well. I

753
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: like imagining it to a fight scene, which is very

754
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: Christmas e right, Um. I do like the Grinch and

755
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: rocking around the Christmas tree. What child is this? But

756
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: I will say I was in marching band in school

757
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: and a lot of Christmas songs have been ruined for me.

758
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: I also did work Black Friday, so that helped to

759
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: um because of playing them way too much or listening

760
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: to them way too much. Do you hear what I hear?

761
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: Never again? If I hear that song, I'm out, I'm leaving.

762
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't care. I will say, like, I think it

763
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: was right before No, it was right after Thanksgiving Christmas

764
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: music started playing and I have and I have an

765
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: adverse reaction, and I'm like why, I'll give me more

766
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: time because the reason I was thinking about this is

767
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: about a boy. I always think of it as a

768
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: Christmas movie too, again a new I know that Hugh Grant,

769
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 1: who knew I was such a huge grand film Like

770
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was, but I guess maybe I am.

771
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: I really like that. But the reason I thought about

772
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: it that is because he has the scene where he

773
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: hit his father's hit, which is a Christmas carol. He

774
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,479
Speaker 1: made millions of dollars off of it, and he hears

775
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: it and he's like, notion. And that is my reaction

776
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: to Christmas songs in public places, And I'm like, what

777
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: the hell? But I do love some things. And I

778
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: love that transparent version. That's the one with a little

779
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: girl right that meets up with the conductor. That's the

780
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: video she's like manically like going after it. I love

781
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: love that one. Um. And I'm also a big fan

782
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: of Mariah Carey. I do love her regitions, which apparently

783
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: she hasn't some new stuff with Jennifer Hudson and are

784
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,919
Speaker 1: on a Grande. And by the way, she can still

785
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: hit that whistle high false Soto. No worries. I wondered

786
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: about Marah Garry and karaoke. I would die. I told

787
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 1: you about the time I tried to sing her song

788
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: at a four h talent club. Right it did not

789
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: go well. Um, but I'm very partial to the old

790
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: school carols like Judy Garland and Bing Crosby, even though

791
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: I hate him as a person and so Natra. But

792
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: and I also have a really special place in my

793
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: heart for Dolly Parton and Kitty Rogers album because my

794
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: dad loved love that album and we listened to it

795
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: and I think it still plays at my parents house. Actually,

796
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: so I got I got my mom the Dolly Parton

797
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: Christmas Album for Christmas this year because she we were

798
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: watching the parade, uh and Dolly Parton was a part

799
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: of it, and she was like, oh, I love Dolly

800
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: Parton and I was like here we go, yes, um.

801
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: And then some of our favorite we want to talk

802
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: about our favorite Christmas mornings and mine it was when

803
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: I was nine years old, no question easy. Um. I

804
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: had been campaigning for five years for a dog, which

805
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: I know now sounds very funny. Um. This year I

806
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: was determined to get. When I made charts and diagrams,

807
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: I presented them to my family. I sent a letter

808
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: to Santa Claus with these diagrams. Um. And when Christmas

809
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: morning finally came. I was so excited. I was so

810
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: sure this was it. And it was at my grandparents

811
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: house and it came out and there was this dog

812
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: like cage like a carrier in the living room, and

813
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: I was like, went to it, and I opened the

814
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: door and there was nothing in there, and I, legit

815
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: almost started crying. I thought it was a joke or

816
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: they were like, here's step one. You know, next year

817
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: we'll get the dog. And that's trying not to just

818
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: like keep the tears at bay. But then the super

819
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: sweet white dog with black spots and brown spots, this

820
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: little puppy, she came and nudged my hand with her

821
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: nose and I loved her immediately, and I named her

822
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: Dizzy with an e y after my little pony. The

823
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: e y was because everyone in my family, all my

824
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: siblings have an e y um. And I also got

825
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: to bite that ear. And I would go out with

826
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: Dizzy and she would chase me on the bike until

827
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: she got too tired and she just fall over, and

828
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: then she regained her strength and chased me again, and

829
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: that was the best. That was that. So that's the

830
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: only dog you ever loved? Huh? I'm dead inside everything. Yeah,

831
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, we've always had traditions with my grandmother would

832
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: call her kids and later grandkids we were off on

833
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: our own to yell a very loud happy Christmas Eve morning.

834
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: That's what she would say, even though it wasn't it

835
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: was really funny um and asked what Santa brought us,

836
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: which would be followed by a visit from her and

837
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: my grandfather to sit with us while we painfully showed

838
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: them every little thing we got, because of course, you know,

839
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: you have to and and growing up we didn't get

840
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: much as other kids typically did. I remember, I think

841
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: you've talked about this before, like the shame of coming

842
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: back like before school or whatever, and then trying to

843
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: compare and trying to make it sound bigger than what

844
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 1: it was, and we didn't have that much my mom,

845
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: it didn't work. It was just my dad. There are

846
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: four kids, and it was just really stretched for them.

847
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: But we'd always get excited to wake up early in

848
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: the morning and run down to see the presence that

849
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Speaker 1: Saint I did bring, which, by the way, I had

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Speaker 1: one of those like shoulder up Barbie doll like life

851
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Speaker 1: size ones where you can play with the hair I

852
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: didn't go with those because I thought I was gonna

853
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Speaker 1: be a cosmetologist. I don't know why, but it's a

854
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Speaker 1: little different from me as these weird tradition of a

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Speaker 1: fat man coming down my chimney to bring me presents

856
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Speaker 1: to you know, bringing presents to all the good boys

857
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Speaker 1: and girls. It was never a thing when I lived

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Speaker 1: in the orphanage. I know, I was seven when I

859
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Speaker 1: came here, and celebrating Christmas was altogether different, obviously, but

860
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Speaker 1: to have all of a sudden being told because you've

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Speaker 1: been good, because you get this, you can have this,

862
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Speaker 1: it was a weird phenomenon um. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: part of the reason I don't love Christmas, because it

864
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: never made sense and it just sounded like it just

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Speaker 1: made me question a lot of things about what is

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Speaker 1: this practice? Yeah? Sure, but you know, I definitely wouldn't

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Speaker 1: turn on a new toy, definitely not. I will definitely

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Speaker 1: take that a new toy. And I think like the

869
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Speaker 1: other part was that, as we mentioned earlier the Sears book, Dude,

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00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: when that Christmas catalog came, I was ready flagging everything,

871
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: gave me specific numbers, getting price ranges, was ready. Oh yeah,

872
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: that's a fun memory that this one has brought back.

873
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Speaker 1: And also I forgot about the whole showing your grandparents everything.

874
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: We had to do that too. It was like a

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Speaker 1: whole hour long pace. They sit down with that of

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Speaker 1: coffee and you and I know they were just as like,

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Speaker 1: do we have to do this again? Like what are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? Um? We also want to talk about

879
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: other favorite memories, and one of mine is from a

880
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 1: while back. My uncle I just died and my dad

881
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: was struggling with cancer. UM. So it was like you know,

882
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: the weight there was a wait over this holiday and

883
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: that year when we woke up on Christmas morning, it

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00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: was snowing and sticking and like a lot of it.

885
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: And and we're in Georgia's so I know people in

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Speaker 1: the north are like so, but here that's like, oh,

887
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: ting my life. Um. And so we all got bundled

888
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: up and walked outside in the snow and we made

889
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: snow people and had snowball fights and just enjoyed each

890
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: other's company. And it felt like one of those like

891
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: very wholesome family things that we would see in these

892
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: holiday movies we loved but couldn't necessarily do. Um. And

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00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: then I also have a really funny memory of one

894
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: Christmas and her pipes burst at our house, so we

895
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 1: didn't get to eat until four pm. And we usually

896
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: eat at one pm. And people know if they listen

897
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: to my other show, Savor, I usually get slowly day

898
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: drunk on these holidays. And I was drunk and I

899
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: ate way too much and I fell asleep, like on

900
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: the floor, clutching my stomach and pain. Well, everyone was

901
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: watching holiday movies and my family does not miss any

902
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: chance to bring that up. Never. Um right, right, rightfully,

903
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: So drink responsibly, eat responsibly. Um. And a few years ago,

904
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Speaker 1: my brothers and I had a huge blowout fight and

905
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Speaker 1: my mom and I. She had never done a tequila

906
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: shot and it was three am, and I taught her

907
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: how to do it tequila shot, and then I flew

908
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: to South Africa. But this is where the silly hats

909
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: rule came from. After that she instituted everyone has to

910
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: wear a silly hat. You know. I wish that we

911
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: could have alcohol, because my parents do not drink at

912
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 1: all and never have never kept it in the house.

913
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I could only imagine, as

914
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Speaker 1: we are very nice to each other and very calm

915
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: and don't speak to each other except for like a

916
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: little jab here and there and quickly like dissipates. I

917
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: could not imagine if alcohol involved, so because we are

918
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: definitely yeah, opposites in many ways, but yeah, And one

919
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: of the traditions growing up for me after my older

920
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: sister got married, which, by the way, so by the

921
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: time I got there, by the time my sister got

922
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: married was very short, so I didn't really get a

923
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Speaker 1: really close relationship, but we definitely got to spend some time.

924
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: I think she was like sixteen, and she got married

925
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: young and left the home. Um. So after they left

926
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: the house, we had a tradition where everybody came through

927
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day so for a Christmas dinner, so we

928
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: wouldn't do any of the present opening or that until

929
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Speaker 1: later that evening. So it kind of like prolonged Christmas

930
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: for me. So it was really lovely because you know,

931
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: you still had a few presidents they're waiting to be

932
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: opened at the end of the day. Um, and at

933
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Speaker 1: that night, instead of people are going home, all the

934
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: familyould stay, all of them whether so because also at

935
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Speaker 1: that point we had a foster family that had grown

936
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Speaker 1: up with my parents, and so they brought their extended

937
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: their children and all the extended family too. Uh. They

938
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Speaker 1: would come and stay and we would all get in

939
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,720
Speaker 1: our pajamas and would stay up playing games and sitting

940
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Speaker 1: and visiting. And I think this is the only rare

941
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: time we actually played board games together. So we would

942
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: play like Categories and life, all of that which we

943
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: talked about before, and around two am we would do

944
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: a late slash obviously very early breakfast that included some

945
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: kind of like cube steak and when I say cup steak,

946
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: it's like that chopped up steak that's in flower um,

947
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: homemade biscuits and sausage gravy. Yes, we had very country,

948
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: we very country, and it was delicious. Sometimes it would

949
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: be venezine and I could not eat that because it

950
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: was actually like they went hunting and brought in there

951
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: and that was too much for me. But uh, that

952
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: would also translate to morning time of having eggs, fresh eggs,

953
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: and then whatever was left over. So I always loved

954
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: that tradition. I thought that was so sweet and sentimental

955
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Speaker 1: and like the first time we were actually hanging out

956
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Speaker 1: like a family instead of being just in our own world.

957
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Well, I love that that sounds so so lovely. UM,

958
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure anyone listening. I genuinely adore hearing these

959
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: stories because they're so They tell so much about a

960
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: person and where they came from, where they grew up,

961
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: in their family, and and and people that care about them,

962
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: and um, just everyone has these little unique things and

963
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: I adore that. So listeners, if you have favorites you

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Speaker 1: want to share, are how you're continuing those favorites this

965
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: year during a pandemic or starting what will hopefully be

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Speaker 1: new favorites. UM, please send them to us. We really

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00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 1: really do love getting messages from you. Our emails, Stuff Media,

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Speaker 1: mom Stuff at I heart media dot com. You can

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Speaker 1: also find us on Instagram and Stuff I've Never Told

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Speaker 1: always to our super producer Andrew Howard, happy holiday and

972
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,360
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