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X Poll - Christmas Advice for December 17th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's begin the X pole, all right. Uh, So
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  the holidays can be a stressful time. It's particularly Christmas.
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  There's a lot of pressure to get stuff done. Seems
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  like there's always more work at work. Uh and uh
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  how do you how do you get through it?
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  Speaker 2: So this is a Christmas advice segment. If you have
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  a question for us, we can maybe answer it. But
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  maybe you have some things, some little tips and tricks
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  that you use to get through the holiday season.
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  Speaker 1: I like to, for instance, I like to pretend that
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  I'm not a Christian and I don't celebrate No, I
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  don't celebrate it. I'm I was not raised in a
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  Christian tradition. What what how do you guys make it
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  through the holidays? Or do you want to ask us
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  about how we make it? Or what ask us anything
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  about the holidays? You mean that there's a text question.
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  Speaker 3: What is a treat or something I could give my
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  co workers for a little Christmas gift?
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  Speaker 1: About a box of fudge covered ritz crackers.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: You can find them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Trader Joe's has a lot of great
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  do they ever holiday specific tree?
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  Speaker 1: If you like Reese's peanut butter cups do not have
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  the Traders Joe's almond butter cup. It's really it's it's
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  it makes a peanut butter cup look like trash.
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  Speaker 2: It's just but they have like Christmas themed candies and
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  cookies and things that are go go to Trader Drills.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a grant who needs some Christmas advice.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Grant, how can we help you? Grant?
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  Speaker 5: Well, my Christmas tree was doing fine drinking water, and.
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  Speaker 6: About a week ago it stop drinking water.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't need it to dry out on me
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  before Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: It's if it has stopped, you're kinda so if you
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  don't keep water in it constantly, what happens is Christmas
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  tree farmer here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's why he's asking you.
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  Speaker 2: What happens is it's called a sap cap. It will
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  cap itself off.
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  Speaker 1: Can you drill a hole in it?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, couldn't you take the tree and cut like
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  an inch off of the true started.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanted to pull it out and do all.
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  Speaker 1: Or drill a hole in the bottom of it a
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  little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know you.
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  Speaker 2: Could try that, but that's what's happened. You have to
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  you can't let that water ever get below the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Grant, you're probably all right, Well, the needles are
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  probably gonna fall off, and sorry Grant, it'll be a mess.
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  All right, thank you, don't and don't forget. A dry
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  Christmas tree is an extreme fire. See you later, Grant.
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  That's good advice. All right, let's go to Brent. H Brent, Hey, Brent,
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  where are you calling from.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sitting in my parking lot in Lehigh at my work.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what's what can we do?
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  Speaker 6: Well? I'm gonna give advice and I hope this is
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  not too dark for people. Okay, but my son was
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  killed in a motorcycle act two months ago, and no problem.
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  It's it's been tough, obviously. But my advice, my advice
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  but we're doing this year is we're overtipping. We are
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  that I'm doing service and anything that we can. And
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  we have a card that we're going to give to
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  either the waiter, the waitresses or the people that we
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  serve and has the story of our son and we
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  tell them to pay it forward if they can.
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  Speaker 4: What a nice.
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  Speaker 1: Idea that I like? That a lot, that's just that's
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  that's wonderful, Brent. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're finding something, So you're putting some good back into
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  the world when something bad happened to you, that's where
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  you go.
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  Speaker 6: That's we're trying. We're trying. We're trying to. We don't
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  want to sit there and mobile all the time in
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  our apartment, so we're getting out there to help.
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  Speaker 2: Even just that, even for people that haven't had that happen,
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  just the idea of overtipping.
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  Speaker 1: Thank Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Go to a good friend of the program, Alison.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Hi.
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  Speaker 7: So my advice is, so we don't have like grandkids
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  or any any little ones in our family, so we
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  so for for for a while now, we've separated out
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  when as adults when we celebrate with the family, So
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  nobody's elbowing each.
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  Speaker 9: Other over Christmas.
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  Speaker 7: Ever Christmas Day, I like, yeah, we just did sibling
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  Christmas on Saturday. Oh, like, siblings got together on Saturday.
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  My dad, my dad always claims the twenty fifth because
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  he makes prim rib, but this year he's going down
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  to his wife's mom's house and then all the families
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  do their own thing, which leaves me the pagan to
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  do her own thing. So I'm gonna go see nose Fautu.
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  Speaker 2: But I like the idea of not getting hung up
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  on the date. We have to do everything on christ.
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  Speaker 7: No, you don't, No, you don't. You don't have to
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  do anything on a day. What's What's what? Carrie says,
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  traditions are just pay pressure from the past.
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  Speaker 9: Or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hard to convince my sister that we do
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  not need to exchange gifts. She does not have to
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  buy gifts for all of my children and we we
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  just we need to get together, have a meal. You
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  do not have to exchange exactly, you know what, my.
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  Speaker 7: Husband be glad to be a family.
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  Speaker 4: My husband's family.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of exchanging gifts, we all put out our favorite
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  charity like the Road Home or best friend's Animal Sanctuary
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  or something, and then you give a donation in that
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  person's name to that charity.
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  Speaker 4: You don't exchange gifts.
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  Speaker 2: You just donate to the charity of.
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  Speaker 1: Choice, or say you're going to the Human Fund, the
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  Human fun That's what I say. I say, I'm going
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  to be all right, thanks Alison.
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  Speaker 7: That's the same book.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, all right, more Christmas advice. How do you
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  get through the holidays? What ideas do you have or
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  can we give you any advice? All right, let's go
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  to Mike. First of all, Hello, Mike, all right.
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  Speaker 10: I would like to give a holiday dining tip. All right,
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  all right, all right, drink as much aid nog as
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  you can. It's hard to find this time year, so
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  drink of.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sounds like you just started, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: We got some of that eggnog that Jimmy told us
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  about that like the real store New England.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that? Do you know that agnog? Mike,
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  Old New England Agnog? Uh that brand, It's in the
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  liquor store.
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  Speaker 10: That sounds good, but you has cowories in it. We
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  can exercise in January exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, all right, Mike, thank you, thank you, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's seven six oh two nine.
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike has been into the I hope. So
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  Tammy is hi, Tammy? Where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm from Salt Lake, but right now I'm in
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  woods Cross.
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  Speaker 1: That's our good friend Camdall.
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  Speaker 4: It's nicest listener.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, what's up?
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  Speaker 8: I want to know what to do for my son.
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  He's twenty two years old, and he says he doesn't
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  want anything, and I'm like, we want to have something
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  under the present. The treat for you to rack operate.
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  Speaker 1: Is he living at home?
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Get get him a key to his own apartment.
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  Speaker 2: It is hard is you're doing in that direction? You're
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  doing your your parents a favor if you give them
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  some idea what you like, because they want to get
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  you something.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not talking to her son. We're talking to Tammy.
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  Speaker 3: Tammy does he does he have a gaming system?
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  Speaker 8: He's the computer games on the computer.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, because you could probably get him a gift card
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  to an online game purchasing service like Steam, I think
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  or something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not familiar with the computer ones. It's
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  it's I think, I think you're right. Steam rings a
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  bellt Steam gift card. Yeah, that would be good. Look
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  look up that and see or a key, a key
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  to his own apartment. There you go.
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  Speaker 8: I love having it home, having him home though. Honestly,
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  well that's.
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  Speaker 1: Good, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Christmas doesn't have to shovel the walk by you anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Curtis is here. Hey Curtis, what what can
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  you You're going to give us some advice?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? So my ye, my ninety year old mother just passed. Sorry, yeah,
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  I got all this crap that I don't want, and
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  so I'm wrapping it and giving it as office gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Your mother's stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got like this doll she made of like
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  fabric and two by fours, and I'm wrapping that up
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  and give one.
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  Speaker 3: Now, be sure when you hand them the gift and
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  they open it say, yeah, that's from my that's my
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  dead mother's.
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  Speaker 1: That's from my dead mother's emphasized my dead mother's a state.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to write a note asking him to you know,
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  I really they mean a lot to me. They're a
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  great leader, and I really agree, and I want them
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  to display it proudly.
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  Speaker 1: What other give me an idea of a couple of
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  other things that you're gonna.
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  Speaker 5: So we got these old well, a ceramic frog with
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  a butterfly on that.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, give that to give that to a secretary. Excellent, Curtis,
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  you win.
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  Speaker 5: Chris Rectors getting that. My boss is getting some perfume bottles.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent and empty, yes yes they are empty.
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  Speaker 5: And then some silverware to just random people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, great, it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 6: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks thanks for not a note saying have a forking
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  good non denominational.
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  Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, excellent, there.
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  Speaker 3: You go, credit, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: My Christmas gift to my kids is going to be
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  I'm going to get rid of my crap so they
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  don't have to deal with it when I'm ninety and gone.
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  Speaker 1: Who else we got here?
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  Speaker 10: Hi, Holly, Hey, good morning?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning. What is your giving advice?
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  Speaker 9: Well, my giving advice is a gift to yourself, so
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  I'm going to give some to everyone else as well.
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  I'm a therapist and this is something I tell people
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  all the time, but especially this time of year. It
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  is important to understand that it is okay to say.
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  Speaker 1: No, yes, yes, no.
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  Speaker 2: I have a hard time with that no.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's that crazy coworker that wants to invite you
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  over first bike. It's okay to tell them no, no,
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  you don't like hanging out with them at work. Why
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  would you hang out with them at their house with
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  their crazy cat dungeons and dragons?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thank you, thank you, bet Oh, let's go
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  to Milo. Hello Milo, by guys, what's your advice?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't really buy anything for adults for me.
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  I just buy stuff for my kids.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't starets about any holiday cooking or anything like,
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  what do I have to do all that?
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  Speaker 8: Just like someone else do it?
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  Speaker 1: Or just order the pizza.
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  Speaker 3: Good idea, Milo, Thank you, thank you, Michelah all right,
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  let's go to Breeze.
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  Speaker 1: Oh bree.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your advice?
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  Speaker 8: So my ninety year old grandmother just passed away and
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  left behind.
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  Speaker 9: A whole bunch of her craps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like my.
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  Speaker 9: Uncle Curtis, that was just on, We're gonna get gift everybody.
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  Speaker 3: She had a lot of crap.
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  Speaker 1: If you're wrong, so what what are you? What are
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  you getting?
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  Speaker 9: You know, the spices from the spice cabinet?
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  Speaker 1: Excellent? Now our chat room is added to this.
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  Speaker 3: Not only when you hand them the gift and they
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  open it, you say, that's my dead mother's spice rack.
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  Add this to it. It's probably not haunted.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not probably not.
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  Speaker 1: Try that you don't happen to have one of those
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  one of those red rubber bags that hang on the
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  back of the bathroom door with a lose on it.
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  Dar all right, well you guys, thanks by thank you.
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  Speaker 4: The family with a sense of humor.
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  Speaker 6: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 3: How do you keep the gifts? You get a secret.
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  I struggle, so I had to take my gifts I
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  bought to my in laws. There you go item at
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  someone else so that.
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  Speaker 4: It is hard.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I get a I have a plastic tub for
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  everybody in my family, and as I buy things for Christmas,
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  I put them in the proper tub so I can
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  sort of eyeball who has what, and then it keeps
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  them all kind of contained in one place and hidden.
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  Speaker 1: That's why can I buy those from you? Tubs? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, with the with the stuff tub with stuff?
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  Speaker 1: How many you have three?
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  Speaker 10: Four?
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  Speaker 1: Three? I have four four. That's just what I need. Okay,
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  four tubs full of stuff and then a'll decide what
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  your tub goes to.
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  Speaker 2: Person in my Just give them the whole put a
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  bowl on the top of it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah. More advice.
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  Speaker 3: Never buy an elf on the shelf. It's been my
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  worst enemy for twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Wonder were they? Were they a problem on the shelf.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's stressful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why do it?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's another thing you have to remember exactly because
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  you have to move it every day.
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  Speaker 4: Right, it's another thing to remember.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see make your own. Put peanut butter between two
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  ritz crackers, coat and chocolate. Enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, here we go. There was somebody who says,
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  where was it?
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: We're having our Christmas this Friday? What should we do
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  on the twenty fifth?
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  Speaker 1: Go see Nosferatu would be good.
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  Speaker 3: Chinese food is a tradition on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 4: Just make it a cozy day. Just watch movies. Stay
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  in your jammies all day. It sounds great.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, my husband and I are doing Christmas ourselves
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  these years. What would you do if you had Christmas
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  all to yourself. We just gave you a list of
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  a bunch of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Jammies all day.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, stay in your jammis and watch movies.
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  Speaker 4: Chinese food and jammies.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the War on Christmas was already won by Christians
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  when they stole the tradition of the Pagans celebrating Saturnalia.
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  Speaker 1: Satya was just I believe satura beginning of Saturday Aliat celebrated.
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  Speaker 3: That's just in case your uncle brings it up during
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  the holidays. For gift ideas, find out the other person's
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  hobbies are interests and get them a gift centered around
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  that pretty basic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody said for the lady with the twenty two
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  year old son, I have a twenty year old and
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  I'm having the same problem. I bought him a big
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  box of all.
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  Speaker 4: His favorite treats and snacks.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I love a consumable Christmas gifts.
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  Speaker 4: That's great, you.
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  Speaker 3: Folks who are staying at home on Christmas. Netflix, well
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  I'm going to suggest two of them. Netflix has the
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  yule log, yeah, which is something that TV stations used
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  to do on Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: It was a loop of a Christmas I used to
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  have a VCR tape of the Christmas Fire.
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  Speaker 3: And it just it's Christmas music and it's just the fire.
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  So it's like you have a fireplace in your house.
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  Speaker 1: Well there's that one.
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  Speaker 3: But now go to Max and click on adult Swim
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  and there are two different ones there that are not
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  traditional yulog. Fair, Okay, you're not going to say what
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  they are. Well, one involves a murder, a murder for Christmas.
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  It's just the shot of the shot of the whole thing,
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  and then you hear sounds, you know, the cars pulling up. Oh,
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  I've got to clean the I've got to clean this place.
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  Speaker 1: Before the renters get here. And then you know, there's
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  a knock on the door.
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  Speaker 3: There's murderers, and you know, but you see the fire,
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  but you hear all of these