Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith and.
Speaker 2: Daphne's Amiga and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey everyone, we're here for
Speaker 2: a mini episode. It's a holiday episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back and happy holidays to everyone. I just
Speaker 3: want to say I was hoping that we were going
Speaker 3: to be able to do this episode in person, but
Speaker 3: because all of our schedules are so busy and everything,
Speaker 3: we weren't able to get together and do it in person.
Speaker 4: We're doing it on zoo. But I just want to
Speaker 4: say that.
Speaker 3: I've got a little holiday deliciousness to enjoy that I
Speaker 3: was able to enjoy.
Speaker 4: I did Okay.
Speaker 3: So I took this recipe that I normally make into
Speaker 3: a bunt pan that's really beautiful, you know, aunt pan.
Speaker 3: You can get them in all different like shapes and
Speaker 3: designs or whatever, but it's kind of like really hard
Speaker 3: to make sure that it comes out of the pan
Speaker 3: correctly and everything.
Speaker 4: So I tried it today just as.
Speaker 3: A loaf, like a loaf of bread, like like a
Speaker 3: like an apple sauce gingerbready pumpkin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's really don't.
Speaker 2: You were in person?
Speaker 5: That I know? So good?
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll be able to get together before the holiday
Speaker 3: season is entirely over and we can share a little
Speaker 3: sweet something together.
Speaker 5: Oh that so fun.
Speaker 4: Lift a glass, celebrate, Barnie.
Speaker 1: Do you bake?
Speaker 2: I know you've said that you cook, but do you
Speaker 2: bake and stuff during the holla?
Speaker 1: I don't bake because I can't have gluten. It gives
Speaker 1: me migraines. So I t some Isn't that the craziest?
Speaker 4: I bake gluten free?
Speaker 5: Do you well? I love some tips. Then that's great.
Speaker 4: I will give you something good.
Speaker 3: Hopefully you might feel comfortable trying a bite of something
Speaker 3: that I make for you.
Speaker 1: Sometimes super comfortable. Yeah, I don't know or anything.
Speaker 2: I just have real it's with different flower, right, is
Speaker 2: it like an almond flower or something spells or something.
Speaker 4: It's just there's a lot of things that can be
Speaker 4: gluten free, so you can replace it in lots of
Speaker 4: different ways.
Speaker 5: I would love some tips and tricks. Oh that's so fun.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I don't bake. I never have. My sister does.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, probably during I think it was
Speaker 2: during Melrose Place. Actually she lived with me for a
Speaker 2: while out here and had a baking business. So my
Speaker 2: entire closet pantry in the entryway was filled with doileys
Speaker 2: and pink boxes and gold trays, you know, vats of
Speaker 2: I don't know what. But anyway, we're very different that way.
Speaker 2: I love to go places that A.
Speaker 4: Well we went through.
Speaker 3: I usually have a whole lot of family around at Christmas.
Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, we have four kids, and
Speaker 3: now two of them have spouses. So when we're all together,
Speaker 3: we're you know, we're not only six, we're eight plus
Speaker 3: my parents plus my you know. Like so sometimes we
Speaker 3: have just just a casual fourteen, you know, for all
Speaker 3: the days and all the meals and whatever. And there
Speaker 3: was I think there was a I think one of
Speaker 3: the COVID Christmases where we didn't have our giant a
Speaker 3: Christmas party that we often have, and we were just
Speaker 3: the fourteen of us or eleven or however many that
Speaker 3: were that year. We were just cooking and eating and
Speaker 3: baking and eating and cooking and eating and bacon and eating.
Speaker 3: And we called it the cake a Day Christmas because
Speaker 3: I was baking a cake a day, Like I was
Speaker 3: trying new cakes and like try this one, which you know,
Speaker 3: and it was the cakea day Christmas.
Speaker 2: Remember the sour dough during the pandemic, everyone.
Speaker 5: Was doing a coward dough.
Speaker 2: You probably did that.
Speaker 3: Now, you know, my daughter is just a master at
Speaker 3: sourdoaught bread and she bakes a couple times a week
Speaker 3: and she's she's got that master. So she was.
Speaker 5: That's amazing. I mean, that was one thing.
Speaker 1: The meals, because when did you ever get three meals
Speaker 1: a day together except when your kids or baby baby babies.
Speaker 1: So I remember we went through a period having these
Speaker 1: huge baked potatoes every day. We'd sit down onto these
Speaker 1: huge baked potatoes. Start up baked potatoes, then you added cheese,
Speaker 1: then you added bacon, then you had storgry by then.
Speaker 1: But it's like a baked potato bar every day at lunch.
Speaker 1: And it was fun to have that thing to look
Speaker 1: forward to because the days were so weird.
Speaker 5: Right, that's great, Yeah, yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we looked forward to cocktails at five and then
Speaker 2: begin well it's four thirty. Well it's a Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 5: You know, I was.
Speaker 2: I remember all those memes and instagrams like about that.
Speaker 2: You know how everyone picked up on the cocktail thing
Speaker 2: and just this now we all had to like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: what's a dry January anyway, who cares?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And isn't it nice that this year?
Speaker 1: It also makes you appreciate when you don't have those
Speaker 1: restrictions right now that we're back to regular holidays. So
Speaker 1: what are your holiday traditions that you really look forward to.
Speaker 2: I'm not from a big family. It's a little bigger.
Speaker 2: It's getting bigger because my husband has three kids and
Speaker 2: one just got married and you know, they have partners,
Speaker 2: and my brother got married and they're going to be
Speaker 2: having a baby. Sit so it's growing. But I didn't
Speaker 2: grow up with a big family, and so I kind
Speaker 2: of can do a group and a crowd for a
Speaker 2: period of time.
Speaker 5: But I have to have my room to sneak.
Speaker 2: Away to and shut the door. I have to or
Speaker 2: I will go nuts. And I don't want to be
Speaker 2: pressured into doing group things. Need I really like alone
Speaker 2: time and Christmas time. The holidays are the only time
Speaker 2: I can like let go and stop doing things because
Speaker 2: I know everyone else is doing that too, so I
Speaker 2: don't feel like I'm missing out or I'm getting, you know,
Speaker 2: behind on things.
Speaker 6: I like to.
Speaker 2: Write, read, listen to music, do nothing, stare out. We're
Speaker 2: going to be out in the snow with my sister
Speaker 2: up in the mountains. So I just like to be reflective,
Speaker 2: and I think it's important that people know that they
Speaker 2: can do that or whatever feels right to you. This
Speaker 2: is a time for reflection and slowing down and letting
Speaker 2: the sort of day to day go. And if it's
Speaker 2: a group, wonderful. If it's not, it's okay. And if
Speaker 2: you're working through Christmas, I've done that too, so but
Speaker 2: still to find what's right for you.
Speaker 5: I don't like the external pressure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really important, I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that, laur And we do.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we have kind of a giant
Speaker 3: family and extend family giants. So we have a huge
Speaker 3: crowd of people usually for the holidays, and kind of
Speaker 3: a revolving door of people coming and going in different
Speaker 3: travel plans. And especially now that some of our kids
Speaker 3: are having families of their own, we're having to shift around.
Speaker 3: Like sometimes Christmas morning doesn't look the way it did,
Speaker 3: you know, back when everybody was little and lived at home.
Speaker 4: You know, now sometimes we have to celebrate it on
Speaker 4: a different day and it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't really have to look the same as it did
Speaker 3: when when they were kids. You know, it's sort of
Speaker 3: morphed into what traditions are important and what.
Speaker 4: You know isn't as important.
Speaker 3: And of course we're having grand kids now we have
Speaker 3: a grand baby, so this is kind of our first
Speaker 3: big Christmas with a grand baby around. Who's you know,
Speaker 3: walking and appreciating it and starting to you know, be
Speaker 3: able to say Santa and stuff like that. So those
Speaker 3: traditions come back again when, you know, when we have
Speaker 3: grand babies around and everything. But some of the things
Speaker 3: that we have maintained through the years, regardless of what
Speaker 3: age people are or how many people are actually here
Speaker 3: this year, is we love to enjoy music together and
Speaker 3: we just you know, a couple of us play the piano,
Speaker 3: and we have people who play a guitar, and we
Speaker 3: have trumpet players in our family, and we have you know,
Speaker 3: lots of people sing and so like just having fun
Speaker 3: like sing alongs and just enjoying music.
Speaker 4: That's such a big part of our holidays.
Speaker 3: And besides baking, we actually and eating, we just love
Speaker 3: the music part of it and finding any excuse to
Speaker 3: just spend that kind of time together. But I hear
Speaker 3: what you're saying, daff and I think that that day
Speaker 3: after Christmas is always such like everybody gets a book,
Speaker 3: and that time where everybody finds a separate place in
Speaker 3: the house to go have a nap with their book
Speaker 3: is like some of the best parts of Christmas to
Speaker 3: look forward to.
Speaker 4: It's just that quiet time alone and just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important because the time goes faster than you think.
Speaker 2: And then if you work a lot and you have
Speaker 2: a busy day and then you have this time off
Speaker 2: and you're just going, going, going, you know, that's like
Speaker 2: that's not good. We all have to like disconnect at times,
Speaker 2: and yeah, decompressed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's nice in la which is always so busy,
Speaker 1: you know, in the entertainment istry. Everybody has two weeks
Speaker 1: off at Christmas to New Year's so that the streets
Speaker 1: are quiet, the town is quiet. It's such a lovely
Speaker 1: time if you stay home to decompress. It's really magical
Speaker 1: here at Christmas because it's the town. Everybody goes to
Speaker 1: the Four Seasons in Maui and then you know, right.
Speaker 5: No one's on the road.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to the Four Seasons in Maui.
Speaker 1: Now, but at the time maybe maybe I'm dating myself.
Speaker 1: But that's what used to happen in the industry, and
Speaker 1: now it's gotten so nice and quiet.
Speaker 2: So you'll be here and you are you having fails.
Speaker 5: I love to be here.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really similar to you, Daphnel, Like I really
Speaker 1: love my quiet time.
Speaker 5: Like my favorite thing is New Year's Eve home alone.
Speaker 1: I like to have that time when everybody's busy and
Speaker 1: crazy that I'm home and I'm quiet and I'm cuddled
Speaker 1: in a couple of years ago, we had a big
Speaker 1: rainstorm and one of my girlfriends was staying with me
Speaker 1: and she was going out to dinner with a big
Speaker 1: group of people and I've been invited, and she's dressed.
Speaker 1: It's eight o'clock a night. She's going out because I'm
Speaker 1: sure you don't want to come, And I was.
Speaker 5: Like, oh, absolutely sure.
Speaker 1: I was so happy to be home on my couch
Speaker 1: with my dogs. She's heading it and they had a
Speaker 1: lovely time. But I was like, I love that time
Speaker 1: to myself to really just sort of welcome in the
Speaker 1: new year from this place of quiet and peace. And
Speaker 1: my son and I have a tradition for Christmas, which
Speaker 1: is not at all the traditions I grew up with,
Speaker 1: but we make a big steak and mashed potatoes and
Speaker 1: watch die Hard.
Speaker 5: Well, I just.
Speaker 1: Love that's our Christmas movie. It's so much fun. Diehard
Speaker 1: Christmas movie, Christmas and it's so much fun. Although last
Speaker 1: year we tried to watch die Hard too, and it's
Speaker 1: way smarter than I ever have been or ever will be.
Speaker 1: And he goes, this is the same movie as die
Speaker 1: Hard just at an airport, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, like I never pulled that threat.
Speaker 5: I never that threat.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, maybe Diehard three will be
Speaker 1: better like this, just wait and see.
Speaker 3: But it was.
Speaker 1: Almost verbatim the same movie, same beats, and then they
Speaker 1: got more creative with three and four. I think they've
Speaker 1: been five Diehards. Anyway, Yeah, that's a super fun tradition.
Speaker 1: Then this year, one of my dear friends and moved
Speaker 1: away is coming back, so it's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of girls dinners times with friends. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be that family, right like my family of women,
Speaker 1: my family of girlfriends, which is going to be so
Speaker 1: much fun. I'm so looking forward to it. And I
Speaker 1: love what you said, Daft because it's so true. I
Speaker 1: remember one time I had to do I was doing
Speaker 1: a TV movie, and they said that. They said, I
Speaker 1: want you to send like a holiday greeting to people,
Speaker 1: and everyone's saying, have fun with your families, have fun
Speaker 1: with the tree, all this stuff, And I said, but
Speaker 1: many of us have different kinds of holidays. Like it's
Speaker 1: really important to say you can celebrate in so many
Speaker 1: ways or not celebrate in so many ways, because it
Speaker 1: can be a time too. You're sitting home watching these
Speaker 1: Christmas movies and all that looks like this big thing
Speaker 1: that I never had, right, Like I never had the
Speaker 1: twenty people around the tree. I never had that, and
Speaker 1: I used to feel bad about it. Now I don't.
Speaker 1: I really look at what do I want this season.
Speaker 5: To be for me? And it can be my son
Speaker 5: and I watching die Hard.
Speaker 1: It can be like a New Year's Day when everybody's
Speaker 1: home with a hangover. I love taking my dogs on
Speaker 1: a walk.
Speaker 5: In the woods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like waking up early and celebrating the new year
Speaker 1: with my dogs and my higher power and my inner thoughts.
Speaker 1: It's just so beautiful when I can let go of
Speaker 1: it has to look this way and I can let
Speaker 1: it be whatever I want it to be in the moment.
Speaker 1: And that's part of brwing up too. Yeah, that's part
Speaker 1: of getting older and knowing who I am.
Speaker 2: I've also noticed that those little magic moments can happen
Speaker 2: at any time, Yes, anywhere. The blessings you feel that blessing,
Speaker 2: you feel that connection, that can happen anywhere, online, at work,
Speaker 2: in the car, It can happen anywhere. It doesn't have
Speaker 2: to be with the perfect tree and the perfectness and
Speaker 2: the perfect gift. So take the pressure off.
Speaker 3: Well when it, you know, just the changing of the year,
Speaker 3: like when it becomes a new year, I just think
Speaker 3: that's a natural time for reflection and sort of looking back,
Speaker 3: looking forward and regrouping whatever that is, you know, for
Speaker 3: each person. I think that's just a natural time of that.
Speaker 3: And it marks time, you know, the calendar changes, and
Speaker 3: it's a marking of time.
Speaker 4: And do you do.
Speaker 3: Resolutions Like I don't know that I make thought about
Speaker 3: it or resolutions, but I do think I mark the time,
Speaker 3: like I note, like what is it that I want?
Speaker 3: You know what I really I like to reflect on
Speaker 3: the year behind and then think of what what it
Speaker 3: is in the year ahead or the coming years ahead.
Speaker 3: And but yeah, Courtney, are you kidding? Like I would
Speaker 3: never like leave the house on Year's is like such
Speaker 3: a good time to be quiet.
Speaker 4: It's so much your hour nor Yeah, no way.
Speaker 2: I've done times Square, We've done this staying up now,
Speaker 2: it's like, please stay up in line so I can
Speaker 2: watch it on TV the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just like I can, I please just be
Speaker 3: in sweats and be cozy and just stay in and
Speaker 3: yeah that's perfect.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I one year, I got really ambitious. We
Speaker 4: had I think another couple over it, and we made.
Speaker 3: Fortune cookies for resolutions. We all wrote like little resolutions
Speaker 3: on these little strips of paper and then baked them
Speaker 3: into these fortune cookies. That was sort of fun.
Speaker 5: I only did it and then did you open them?
Speaker 5: Whatever one you got was your.
Speaker 3: Like, I mean, it wasn't like anything necessarily private, you know,
Speaker 3: but it was like just a sharing moment, like oh
Speaker 3: I put this one in and coming out of a
Speaker 3: fortune cookie.
Speaker 4: It was just sort of a fun way to.
Speaker 5: I just kept it and get more gifts for Doug,
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Speaker 4: But yeah, resolutions this year for me?
Speaker 3: I guess I just I'm really reflective on this past
Speaker 3: year and so grateful for this podcast and this opportunity
Speaker 3: to have you guys in my life again in this way,
Speaker 3: and so like that's my New year reflection is like
Speaker 3: being so grateful for this year and what it's brought,
Speaker 3: but in the new year also sort.
Speaker 4: Of making a resolution to continue.
Speaker 3: Doing that and really remembering to spend time with friends
Speaker 3: like you guys, and just being so appreciative of this
Speaker 3: podcast and this opportunity.
Speaker 5: To dinner party court.
Speaker 4: We know that's going to happen sometime in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: No, but I feel the same way about this, And
Speaker 1: this was such a lovely surprise, like not just that
Speaker 1: we're doing it, but that it's been so much fun
Speaker 1: and how much fun I'm having with you guys. I
Speaker 1: really am so wonderfully, happily surprised by that. So my
Speaker 1: only resolution is just a deeper surrender. Like my prayer is, God,
Speaker 1: let me forget everything I think I know about myself
Speaker 1: and what my life is supposed to look like, and
Speaker 1: let me have a new experience, Like this was such
Speaker 1: a beautiful surprise and it's made me feel really open
Speaker 1: hearted and Okay, just show me, like what is the
Speaker 1: next indicator step. I'm open to new experiences, which is
Speaker 1: quite a surprise at this point in my life. But
Speaker 1: that's really where I am I feel ready and open
Speaker 1: for whatever's next.
Speaker 2: Me too, Court. I think there are changes happening. I
Speaker 2: know that right now there's transition on a big level.
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on in our world. You just
Speaker 2: want to be able to surf all the change with
Speaker 2: grace and not too much stress, not stress, you know,
Speaker 2: just any I want to be a piece regardless of
Speaker 2: what happens, and just be able to do it and
Speaker 2: have fun. So you know, it's a lot of change.
Speaker 2: But yeah, a year ago, we weren't doing this. You
Speaker 2: never know what's around the corner.
Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, we're all just it's unanimous. We're
Speaker 4: all so grateful for our listeners and for.
Speaker 3: This experience together, and you know, it's it's something we
Speaker 3: are all looking forward to in the new year.
Speaker 4: Is coming back for more still the place?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys, We're wishing everyone to be safe and
Speaker 2: to be well, and we hope you come back and
Speaker 2: bring your friends.
Speaker 4: And we'll have fun next year. We'll see everybody in January.
Speaker 3: Yeah, happy holidays, everybody, be safe, love you, bye bye.