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Classic Moment: Holiday Rules · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: My daughter in law just sent the Christmas Rules VRS
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  Speaker 1: follows one. No gifts that make noise, contain sugar, or
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  Speaker 1: require any batteries. Number two, all wrapping paper must be
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  Speaker 1: neutral tone. No Santa faces. That's over stimulating for the children.
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  Speaker 2: I hate this already.
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  Speaker 3: No Santa.
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  Speaker 4: It has me neutral wrapping paper. Now they want to
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  Speaker 4: control the wrapping paper. Then you're wrapping the gifts in
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. If you bring a dish, label all ingredients,
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  Speaker 1: list any aldergens, and note emotional intentions. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Who is this woman? John?
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  Speaker 5: Some lady?
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  Speaker 4: Oh it was her daughter in law that wrote the
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  Speaker 4: list when she posted the list, So she's roasting our daughta.
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  Speaker 5: Correct her daughter and it's like it's never one in
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  Speaker 5: the comments was like, this is the only time I'll
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  Speaker 5: agree with someone's mother, right, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Number four refer from comparing Christmas pass they're creating new
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  Speaker 1: traditions and don't want to blur our past with their present.
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  Speaker 1: Number five. No photos unless everyone can, sents, signs and
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  Speaker 1: approves the lighting. Number six. No questions about politics, religion,
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  Speaker 1: or how you're doing emotionally. Number seven, don't question how.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing emotionally. You can't. You can't have a conversation
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  Speaker 2: about your life.
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  Speaker 5: Now, yeah, you have to be a robot.
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  Speaker 2: So far, I think politics is the big ones, the
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  Speaker 2: big one. That's the big one.
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  Speaker 1: Hands down, here, children on what kind of cookies that
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  Speaker 1: they loved? Santa, he gets kale and water for heiration. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: be prepared to leave promptly at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 4: Santa gets kale in water in water, not cookies and milk.
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  Speaker 3: No one is going to this woman's house for holidays.
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  Speaker 5: I would have blocked her. I blocked her.
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  Speaker 2: You blocked on every platform. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: An hour and a half is ample time to celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, number nine, all the cars must be parked
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  Speaker 1: facing forward because the HOA man cemetery. I'll be spreading
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  Speaker 1: my holiday cheer courtesy of Jim Beam and check.
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  Speaker 2: Should what's the HOA.
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  Speaker 4: That's probably at condos. If you're condo, Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 4: the HOA. They have rules.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so your car has to be parked facing forward.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can understand that one.
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  Speaker 4: If they have rules where you live, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: understand that you have neighbors, but some of these other things,
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  Speaker 4: it's just absolutely crazy, insane.
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  Speaker 3: I think family members should rise up and someone say
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  Speaker 3: I'll do the holidays, yeah, and don't invite her.
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  Speaker 5: Right what everyone else responded? I would love to know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's just so controlling. It takes the
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  Speaker 4: fun right out of it. The holidays are supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but let's face it, the holidays do traditionally bring
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  Speaker 3: family drama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh everything, I mean crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with where we're having the holidays. Whose house
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  Speaker 4: we're going to. That's always the first big issue. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we had it at that house last year. We got
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  Speaker 4: to have it here, and then like you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go, We decide on a place, and then one
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  Speaker 4: person complains becomes a whole fiasco. That's the initial argument.
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  Speaker 3: How about the one if he's going, I'm not coming,
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, that's a project because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people in the family, the extended family, haven't spoken
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  Speaker 3: for years. Yeah, they may have had an argument like
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  Speaker 3: twenty years ago. They're still holding a grudge. So that
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  Speaker 3: person's not allowed.
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  Speaker 4: Right, right, Uncle Mark is whoever is posting on Facebook
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  Speaker 4: crazy stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there's always a crazy social.
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  Speaker 4: There's always a fighting on social media. All the time.
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  Speaker 4: So Jihanna, what do you do for the holidays.
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  Speaker 5: My family's a little different because I have two sides.
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  Speaker 5: I have my mom's side in my dad's side because
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  Speaker 5: they're not together right, So I always get really stressed
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  Speaker 5: out because I try to satisfy both sides. I have
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  Speaker 5: to go to one go to the other especially, and
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  Speaker 5: then Thanksgiving always falls around my birthday, so both sides
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  Speaker 5: like to have a cake. So I'm always like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I need to get to my mom's at this time,
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  Speaker 5: and then I need to go back to my dad's
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  Speaker 5: house at this age.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and then who had the better cake?
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  Speaker 2: Who is? And this and that.
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  Speaker 5: It's like and I'm so thankful to have, you know,
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  Speaker 5: two sides of the family. And now that I have
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  Speaker 5: my boyfriend Jake, his side lives in New Jersey, So
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  Speaker 5: that's a whole other player that we have to figure
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  Speaker 5: out this year.
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  Speaker 3: That's another thing with the extended family. Sometimes you have
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  Speaker 3: to go visit one that's in New Jersey to day
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  Speaker 3: with the one here. And for years I did Christmas
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  Speaker 3: Eve at my house when I was raising my family
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  Speaker 3: in Lynnfield, Big I just invited everybody, everybody from the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 3: the whole extended family, everybody, and then nobody's complaining. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't like him, go to another part of
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  Speaker 3: the house. Yeah, God, leave each other alone.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you do now?
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  Speaker 3: Last year was the first year that my son, Chris
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  Speaker 3: Chris Costa took over Christmas Eve and it was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: He and Hannah, his wife, had the family Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 3: which is my birthday and name I can make ad night.
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  Speaker 3: I hope they don't make a deal about it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, John, And did you know Billy's birthday is
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Eve?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forgotten birthday. It's good for us because we
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  Speaker 4: can rope two gifts into one. So your one gift
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  Speaker 4: is his Christmas present and his Birthday gift too.
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  Speaker 3: That's a nice way of putting it. Really, Thank God,
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  Speaker 3: I could save you a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just being honest. That's how it is.
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  Speaker 4: The other issue when it comes to to get together
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  Speaker 4: is during the holidays is alcohol. Yes, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: always somebody or multiple people that get too drunk. There's
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  Speaker 4: always an outburst. Does that happen in your any of
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  Speaker 4: your families?
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  Speaker 2: You don't even know.
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  Speaker 5: And it also ties into politics, because that's the only
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  Speaker 5: rule that I could agree with that this girl on
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  Speaker 5: because you mix alcohol in politics. My family, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people think the complete opposite. They have different views.
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  Speaker 3: So you have a divide in your.
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  Speaker 5: I have a divide in my family on my mom's side.
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  Speaker 5: And one year it resulted in you know, I think
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  Speaker 5: things were thrown, somebody mooned, somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was always a celebratory thing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say what relative. It's funny now, but
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to traumatized me as a child, and
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  Speaker 5: it was all over politics, and they had.
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  Speaker 3: Some liquor justin I gotta tell you a funny story
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  Speaker 3: about my brother. Okay, he lived down in Sarasota, Florida,
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  Speaker 3: And so my niece, Gina, who works for ihearted in
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  Speaker 3: New York, the headquarters. You've got a big gig. She's
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  Speaker 3: a liberal and my dad is hardcore conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Your brother.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So whenever she brings the kids to visit my
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  Speaker 3: brother down in Sarasota, she has to stay in the
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  Speaker 3: guest bedroom and my brother intentionally has a giant framed
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  Speaker 3: picture of President.
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  Speaker 2: Trump in the bedroom. This is what I'm talking about. Disaster, disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's so divisive. It takes all the fund
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  Speaker 4: right out of the family. Let me tell you