Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
Speaker 1: podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Hello, it's another episode
Speaker 1: of Reasonably Shady. My name is Giselle Bryants. What's up?
Speaker 1: What's up? This is Robin Dixon. And we are especially
Speaker 1: thankful for you, yes this week? Yes, we are. We're
Speaker 1: super thankful because it's thanks good thing. Okay, so f y,
Speaker 1: I Thanksgiving used to be one of my favorite holidays
Speaker 1: because it's just not the food we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into. We don't get too but I just always
Speaker 1: appreciate it just being thankful for everything that I have
Speaker 1: and like my kids, my family, whatever job I had
Speaker 1: at the time, just being grateful. God is like in
Speaker 1: the blessing business. He has like so blessed my life,
Speaker 1: and it's always time to just like pause and say
Speaker 1: thank you Lord. Yes, I agree. Yes, Now how do
Speaker 1: you feel about it? Now? Oh? Because you I said
Speaker 1: it used to be yes? Yes, So now I'm back
Speaker 1: to my birthday? Is my favorite holiday? My birthday? Yes?
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's weird. Um, I don't know about you, but like
Speaker 1: holidays with my family. When I was younger. I think
Speaker 1: when I was like a kid, holidays were so exciting. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, first of I was like, oh, I get
Speaker 1: off school for a few days, and then I get
Speaker 1: to see my family and it's like you like look
Speaker 1: forward to it. And my family is really small, and
Speaker 1: so as we've gotten older, we've kind of gotten smaller
Speaker 1: and smaller. And now it's like my holidays just aren't
Speaker 1: the same. Unfortunately, aren't the same in a bad way,
Speaker 1: Like what do you know, because we're just because my
Speaker 1: family is so small, and so it's like literally and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just like okay. So for for
Speaker 1: my family, my grandmother was the matriarchs of the family
Speaker 1: and everything was centered around her, you know. And then
Speaker 1: like when she passed, it's like, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: as people pass away, it just you kind of like
Speaker 1: passed the baton to someone else. So nobody picked up
Speaker 1: the baton. Your mom didn't pick it up, not in
Speaker 1: that sense. So my mom is um not from here.
Speaker 1: So it's my dad and his family that's from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: My mom's family is kind of distant, to be honest. Well,
Speaker 1: she has a brother that's in St. Louis, and we
Speaker 1: see him, you know, every now and then. But like
Speaker 1: I'm so envious with people that have like a ton
Speaker 1: of cousins and aunts and are I'm telling you, I
Speaker 1: have like two first cousins and I love them. I
Speaker 1: love them dearly. But like, you know, I have my
Speaker 1: one brother, my two first cousins. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: we all, like everyone in my family had like two
Speaker 1: children and that was it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and it's just like so my grandmother had two kids,
Speaker 1: and then my father had two kids, and then my
Speaker 1: aunt had two kids, and then a lot of family
Speaker 1: is good, but then it gets problematic because it's always
Speaker 1: asking you for money. People always like, oh can I
Speaker 1: borrow some shoes? You never see him again? This is problematic.
Speaker 1: I would rather have that, like the just excitement and
Speaker 1: you know, different relationships and you know, always someone around
Speaker 1: than like you know, my family where I just feel
Speaker 1: like we're so it's just because they're so first of all,
Speaker 1: I see my my you know, my parents and all
Speaker 1: that all the time. So it's like Thanksgiving it's no different.
Speaker 1: You're like, it's average Tuesday. Yeah, So it's like it's
Speaker 1: not like I'm not traveling somewhere to see family or
Speaker 1: so the Holladay is as an adult for me just
Speaker 1: you know, aren't as exciting. But we might be hosting
Speaker 1: our Thanksgiving, so you're okay. So if you're hosting Robin,
Speaker 1: that means you're cooking or you are interesting, you are
Speaker 1: in your responsibility, is I know? And that's what we
Speaker 1: need to get to this food because I hate Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: for I hate Thanksgiving. I don't look forward to any
Speaker 1: of it. I don't care about a turkey, uh stuffing
Speaker 1: kill me? What else? Smashed potati, potatoes, cranberry dressing, sweet potatoes.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like Thanksgiving food. I
Speaker 1: don't like it at all. So I don't It's like,
Speaker 1: oh and maybe that's why I like. Thanksgiving for me
Speaker 1: has kind of like fizzled because as I get older,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't really like that food, So like
Speaker 1: I'm not excited to go sit around the table and
Speaker 1: eat food that I don't like. Okay, first, okay, so
Speaker 1: have you ever done the whole Thanksgiving like prepared, cooked
Speaker 1: the whole Thanksgiving extravagance? Okay? I have. I was in
Speaker 1: the bed for like two weeks. That ship wore me out,
Speaker 1: like I was so tired. I didn't want I was tired,
Speaker 1: I was pissed off. I had an attitude. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to sit there and I just want to wait
Speaker 1: on the couch. I was mad. I was so mad.
Speaker 1: And you don't even like the food and I don't
Speaker 1: even like this. This is just some bull. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. As I feel really bad because I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm robbing my kids of that experience because I
Speaker 1: don't really like that food. And so but like I
Speaker 1: don't want to cook a turkey. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want to cook souur kroud, like I don't just who
Speaker 1: I eat surowd. Mother loves sou fresh sheet. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'll bring the sour kroud, okay, so you and my
Speaker 1: father caun't eat it. And don't get me wrong, like
Speaker 1: I do feel like there's something to be said about
Speaker 1: food brings people together and all of that. I think
Speaker 1: that that is magical. But I just like I remember
Speaker 1: back in the day because my mother is a great cook,
Speaker 1: and she would cook all of those things that we
Speaker 1: just laid out that we said we hate, and I
Speaker 1: remember just like my stomach being big, and like I
Speaker 1: felt I couldn't button my paints, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: why have I done this to myself? Why have I
Speaker 1: stuffed myself? Because it's not like anybody who's gonna take
Speaker 1: the food white. The food is still in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: I know it's the weird thing. And then so so
Speaker 1: I have on Thanksgiving holidays and like Christmas holidays cooked
Speaker 1: like um, shrimps, campy or crab cakes, you know, kale
Speaker 1: Like I just I cannot. I don't want that stuff.
Speaker 1: So last year, my kids, thank God, they're like, we
Speaker 1: don't like none of that food. We don't like because
Speaker 1: we've we've done Thanksgivings at my brother's house and his
Speaker 1: wife cooks traditional Thanksgiving. My kids are like over it.
Speaker 1: They're like, we don't even like that food. So last
Speaker 1: year I did crab legs for Thanksgiving, which was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I ordered them. They came from Maine. They were hell
Speaker 1: of expensive, but they were very good. Um, so I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to do that this year. Okay, now
Speaker 1: I think I know I've already ordered them. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so I ordered my crablegs. But I'm gonna my sister's coming,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna add some ribs, so I ordered those
Speaker 1: from like Memphis. Yeah, okay, I like that. I ordered
Speaker 1: a cake from Atlanta, Okay, some crumble cake. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing. And I ordered all of my sides from
Speaker 1: Founding Farmers, which is a restaurant here in d C.
Speaker 1: Or Potomac all sides. Okay, I'm done. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. And how many people? So it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be your sister. It's gonna be my sister. My kids,
Speaker 1: their dad might show up. He's going to be in Africa.
Speaker 1: He might show up at the table because because that's
Speaker 1: normally what he does. So well, I mean in anybody
Speaker 1: who wants to come, not y'all who was listening to this,
Speaker 1: but anybody in the family that wants to come can Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. Maybe we'll come. Robin,
Speaker 1: you can't come is you're hosting. And now that you
Speaker 1: say that you're hosting, what the hell are you ordering?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I gotta figure it out. And you're
Speaker 1: hosting how many people? I don't know? Because so this
Speaker 1: is the thing, like so Wana has a big family. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know we kind of said, okay, who ever
Speaker 1: wants to come over, they can come over, but like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is black people, because they
Speaker 1: it's either they all come in and nobody's coming right exactly,
Speaker 1: So I don't know what, you know what. After we
Speaker 1: finished this here, I'm going to make some phone calls. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what do you want on your menu? What's your
Speaker 1: menu looking like? So, I mean, I know there are
Speaker 1: people that like traditional Thanksgiving food, so I will order Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Traditional Thanksgiving food, by the way, for the most part,
Speaker 1: is so food. So like, yes, you know, as black people,
Speaker 1: we eat that kind of like all the time all
Speaker 1: the time. But I'll have someone like do like a turkey, turkey,
Speaker 1: ham turkey, Yeah, fried turkey, okay, yeah, fried turkey, ham,
Speaker 1: mac and cheese, green beans, collards, potatoes, yes, okay. Dessert
Speaker 1: what we're doing for dessert? Dessert? You know you gotta
Speaker 1: get like a good like I don't that's what. I
Speaker 1: don't like sweet potato pie. I don't like sepie. Y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all can have it. I don't like pumpkin anything. I
Speaker 1: don't like pumpkin pie is bad. We're like literally everyone,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if we're poo pooing or your Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, give me chocolate cake, but chocolate cake, or
Speaker 1: like a cheesecake, like a good you know, I would
Speaker 1: do like a maybe not a sweet potato cheesecake. But
Speaker 1: I don't even want that. But I don't know. I've
Speaker 1: got some stuff to think about. You. You've got a
Speaker 1: whole lot to deal with. An hands Okay, So Porsche,
Speaker 1: you know my good girlfriend, Porsche Williams. She swears by
Speaker 1: this honey baked ham, right, and so she orders it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be Thanksgiving. She orders it all
Speaker 1: the time because she orders it just because. So she
Speaker 1: just opens and refrigerating. There's a big old ham. Okay,
Speaker 1: soorsh Porsche, just telling your business right now. So she'll
Speaker 1: order it on a regular day. And you know how
Speaker 1: there's there's things that you like to snack on, right,
Speaker 1: So I like to snack on sweet things. She likes
Speaker 1: to snack on backhm, honey baked ham. Okay, Barti Williams,
Speaker 1: I'm telling on you. So what she does is she
Speaker 1: goes into the kitchen and she opens a refrigerator. She's
Speaker 1: told me this is superbatum. She pulls the top part
Speaker 1: off because the top part is like I guess, like chewy,
Speaker 1: and it's like I guess the honey baker is on
Speaker 1: the top of something child. I don't know, but she
Speaker 1: will sit there in the middle of the night, go
Speaker 1: downstairs like one two o'clock in the morning and get
Speaker 1: the pieces of the honey dam and she is happier.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, she's ever been. That is some Southern
Speaker 1: That is a Southern thing. First, So I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that Porsche swears by it. So maybe you should add
Speaker 1: that robin to the things that you order. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because that's that's easy to get. This is what I
Speaker 1: totally love. Though I do feel like Thanksgiving is all
Speaker 1: about apple cider. Yes, yes, yes, so I love. I
Speaker 1: will make a m apple cider and fireball cocktail. Really, Robbie,
Speaker 1: you've never let me try this. It's so good. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. So is it? So do you heat it up?
Speaker 1: Is it hot or is it cold? Um? Cold? It's cold,
Speaker 1: So it's apple cider. But you can eat. You can
Speaker 1: heat it up too, because I've gone like trick or
Speaker 1: treating with hot apple cider and fireball. Yes, I've done
Speaker 1: that hot apple cider and I just put you know,
Speaker 1: my great goose in it. But fireball is going to
Speaker 1: be even it's so good, gosh, it's perfect. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: loving that. Okay, So that's our drink for you guys
Speaker 1: for this Thanksgiving or cold apple cider with some fireball. Baby.
Speaker 1: We do want your you all to have a happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: And you know what, this year, I feel like we're
Speaker 1: thankful for reasonably shady. Oh we are, absolutely, we have
Speaker 1: so much to be thankful for. But you know, reasonably
Speaker 1: shady is something that like we you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: know how it was going to go or how we
Speaker 1: were going to do. But I'm thankful that it's been
Speaker 1: received very well. Yes, you all are enjoying it. We're
Speaker 1: enjoying it. We appreciate our time that we spend together
Speaker 1: as friends. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed. And don't let the
Speaker 1: fact that we have totally trashed all Thanksgiving food be
Speaker 1: a deterrent on Thursday. Eat your food if that's what
Speaker 1: you like. Yes, I'm enjoying pato. Yeah I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: sucking on my dry turkey. And wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: is this is my this is what kills me? How
Speaker 1: many different ways are they going to do stuffing stuff.
Speaker 1: So there's like corn bread stuffing. Oh, it's just stuffing
Speaker 1: turkey stuffinitely, all this damn stuffing, Like I don't want
Speaker 1: no parts of stuff. And y'all enjoy your stuff, and
Speaker 1: though enjoy it, yes, yes, all right, we love y'all.
Speaker 1: We just want to give y'all a little something of us.
Speaker 1: Reasonably Shady. This is like a mini little episode because
Speaker 1: we want you to enjoy each other for this holiday season.
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