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Santa's Not Ready For This · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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I'm a Die Hard fan. I like those movies.
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Right? Well, at least the first couple.
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Once you get to Die Hard 5 or 6 you're like, OK I'm good.
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It's kind of like The Fast and the Furious, like.
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Oh yeah, I love the very first ones.
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Now, now, now I can't watch #10 where they're like flying from
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space and shit. I'm like, what the, I'm like as
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they're coming down, they're like family, Family.
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What the, you know, it's like, yeah, you built a rocket ship
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and you got a Mustang on the back of a rocket ship.
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And I'm like, I, I try to suspend belief to some extent.
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I just don't see how that. That's kind of how so Shaylee
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watch me. She makes me watch that 911 show
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and they went into space and it's like she like I like and it
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has. Right, right.
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Yes. It has Angela Bassett in it.
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She's like super like, so like, overreact, you know?
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Yeah. So I love so so 911's a good
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example. And then I like fire, fire
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country and all that, right. And sheriff country and all that
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hilarity is how many times can you burn the town down?
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I mean, I mean, yes. Or like it's like, yeah.
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I mean, it's kind of the same thing as Stranger Things, like
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how many time we got to keep fighting Vecna the same shit
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over and over. There's a Nashville version
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where I'm like and and the first episode.
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Which we don't watch, which I was highly upset because the
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same creator that creates all the 91 ones and then and he also
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created that Doctor Odyssey. Did you watch that?
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Oh, yeah, it had a yes. I loved that show.
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And because he's so stretched thin with like the new 911
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Nashville and all these other shows, they shelved Dr. Odyssey
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and I was like, what the hell? Like this is way better than
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these stupid 911 shows. I do and I had.
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I do. Don Johnson and Joshua Jackson
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and yeah. Yeah, I do like, I do like him
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as a creator and I enjoyed the first Doctor Odyssey season.
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But yeah, I guess Ryan Murphy, I think is the guy's name.
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Don't quote this. But I think it's Ryan Odyssey.
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I think you're right, yeah. Yeah.
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But yeah, I. Like, I like a lot of his stuff.
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I think he also put together SWAT, which has got Shamar
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Moore, I believe, too. And I like and I love SWAT.
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I like that series. I just like Shamar from the
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young I know you do days. Well, he look, he's looking.
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He still looks pretty good. He's in his mid 50s, late 50s
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and all, and he's buffing. Right.
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We're all kind of the same age as what you're saying.
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Well, yeah, but. We meet you and him.
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Yeah, we don't look as good as he does.
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Yeah, he's ripped. He's ripped hardcore, even jokes
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about It's so funny was one thing I noticed about him and I
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like him a lot because he was in Criminal Minds and stuff was it
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was interesting. He was in ATV show called Birds
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of Prey, which was ADC superhero thing on the on The CW.
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And so you remember him from The Young and the Restless.
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And then I saw him on Birds of Prey.
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And then when he got to Criminal Minds, he had these nice white
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pearly teeth, which he did not have and Young and the Restless
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or in Birds of Prey. And you can tell that the bottom
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set was not as nice. Anyway, he was doing a talk
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show. I don't know if it was, you
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know, one of the talk shows and they showed a picture.
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Here's your early Young and the Restless.
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And he goes. He goes, yeah, that's when I had
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effed up teeth. So he knew, you know, and once
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you got a little Jingle Jingle money in your pocket, then it's
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like, oh. You can get those veneers.
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Yeah, I mean and. You know, 10 grand a tooth.
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So yeah, he's. He's got it.
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But it was just funny that he even because I was like, because
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when I first saw him and saw the messed up teeth and then he was
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in come on, my mind's like, oh man, he got his teeth fixed.
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Well, he of course later in an interview.
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Oh, that's what. Yeah, anyway, it was.
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Just funny so. Yeah, if anybody got it, I'll
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take it was so funny. I went to the dentist and my, I
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have a great, I do have a good dentist and he's like, he's
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like, And so he has another dentist working there.
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And the dentist was like, he goes, man, you know, you, you
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really could use a smile, like your personality.
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And so he was trying to sell me on veneers, right?
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No, he was, he was. And I understand, you know, and
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he goes and he goes, yeah, I could probably get you done for
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about $10,000. Well, I mean, there's so much
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other things that I could do with $10,000.
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Not that I wouldn't like veneers and, and, and I think I've
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talked about that the fact that when I was with the Wallaces in
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my book, we didn't get dental care, I didn't get braces.
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I didn't have any of that. So, so I know that I'm not
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perfect, you know, and I was very, and I was very happy that
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Logan absolutely has 100% perfect teeth.
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So I do understand that the value of teeth and $10,000.
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Well, when I was 13, I had braces because I had like, the
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eye teeth that like, way up here, right?
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And then the severe buck teeth. And then my parents got divorced
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and neither one of them were willing to pay for the
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orthodontist bill. And so they yanked my braces
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off. They do what?
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No. Yep.
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No, I'm serious. No, they took them off.
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That's insane. Didn't continue treatment.
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And so when I got older and got a little money and then I got
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myself braces and. Yeah, your teeth look great, but
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yeah, but. Now.
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But yeah, it was. OK, what the?
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F And if they would have, they would have left them on.
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So I had to have a jaw surgery. I know you did fixed it over by
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as an adult because they could have corrected it when I was
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younger and because they pulled them off then.
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Yeah, yeah, I mean. It's one of those things where I
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always, I mean, it's like with people, we know our own
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imperfections. Oh yeah.
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When someone says, oh, you know, if, you know, if you had some
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dental work or whatever, you know, or whatever, we're not,
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we're not, you know, I'm not stupid.
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So yeah, I hear, I hear what you're saying on that.
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But yeah. But that story is probably the
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craziest story you've told me so far.
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Really. Like, like, like the braces are
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already on. It wasn't like.
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Yeah, they were already on. They were already on.
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I even had to have like the pallet expander.
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So I had that first with like the little back then it was a
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like a little key that you had to do yourself, which.
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Oh my God, that hurts so bad. Yeah, I had that.
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And then they put the braces on and like it hadn't even, it
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barely had brought down my eye teeth.
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Like that's how long I'd had them which.
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And then I'm sorry, we're not going to pay for it.
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Just yank those bitches. Yeah.
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So they took a month? Yeah.
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Yeah, OK. I thought my childhood was
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messed up. I'm going to five years is way.
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Yeah, that I, you know I don't. And it's just abortion.
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No, I get it, but it's almost like having your teeth repoed.
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I mean, it's just like it. It is.
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I mean, and you're 13, it's not like I could go get a job and
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pay for it myself, like. And when it when it mattered
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most, junior high, where the kids are the cruelest, the kids
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are the cruelest. Like they're like people are.
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So if you've got an overbite or you don't have great teeth or
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whatever, yes, kids are going to be mean and cruel and so.
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I was, yeah, I was teased so bad for my overbite.
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It was, it was horrible. So.
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Yeah, so let's just repo those teeth.
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What's up anyway? That's the craziest story.
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Well, I mean, that's what happened.
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I'd have a lot of resentment. Yes, I'm trying to think of.
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I don't know if that's. It should be towards my parents,
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either one of them. It was almost like like my dad
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was like, no, I'm not going to pay for it because your mom's
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not, you know, it was kind of like that situation, which was
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basically their entire divorce. Like we were stuck in the
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middle, like ping ponging. They used us as pawns basically.
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And so, well, it's. It sucks to like, OK.
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It's not surprising that that happened with SO.
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Yeah, so I mean, it's, it's kind of weird because it's one of
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those things where, you know, I really believe for every kid, if
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they need braces, they should get them or, or Invisalign,
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whatever they need. I mean, that's, that's part of
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being a parent, being raising your kids.
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So I think it's almost your story's almost weird because
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with, with the Wallaces, well, that wasn't even an expectation.
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You're not going, you know, I'm saying the teeth could fall out.
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You're not going, you're not going to the dentist, no matter
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what yours were taken from you. Yeah, it's kills.
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Me, it just kills me. I'm like, I'm like, I can be all
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upset that I didn't go to the dentist as a kid, but you know,
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now my foster mom, of course, my foster parents, as you know, of
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course I went to the dentist. Of course they took care of me,
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but this, but this was junior that this was.
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Right, which was I was super vigilant about making sure the
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kids went to the dentist and that they got braces probably,
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probably sooner than what they should have had.
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But yeah, I just wanted to make sure that they didn't go through
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that suffering that I did, whether it's being teased or
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bullied or any of that stuff. So yeah, your kids all have
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great perfect teeth. And no, they do.
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But you bring up a point. It's amazing things in in
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childhood that you're like, OK, that happened to me.
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I'll make sure that never happens to my own kids.
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OK so I put the Mickey and Minnie up in my husbands
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Christmas village. This is them, the little Lego.
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They are. Mickey and Minnie, but he
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listened to the podcast on his way home, so he moved them.
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Like he didn't say anything to me.
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And then I noticed like the next day after he was home, they were
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moved and I was like, shit. Yep, of course he.
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Did he listened? But I did post a picture of them
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up in the village. It's on our Instagram and
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Facebook page. So you can go to Rick and that
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Michelle chick. Yeah, check it out.
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See if you can find them up there.
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You'll probably have to zoom in on the on the picture.
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My husband did say that I did hide them or put them kind of
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back to where he probably wouldn't have noticed.
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That's pretty good. Where Where's Waldo with Mickey
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and Minnie? I love it.
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So let's check out the photo and see if you can spot them.
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I was doing that earlier today. I was like, where's those?
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Just to zoom in, yeah. That's totally, I know, I know.
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That's I was just thinking about like, yeah, there's nothing we
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can we can talk about on this podcast.
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It's so much like my son's responding.
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You got a friend who's responded already.
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It's like, yeah, wait, shall we? Yeah, I got to start taking
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names out because my son Logan's, like, I can't believe
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you just said the real name. I think we've had this
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discussion with you and I like like you weren't going to get
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that sued because you, you was everywhere.
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It's real flirting out who they were.
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Well, I didn't say they were having an affair at the office
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or anything. So I.
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Not yet. Not yet.
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I'm sure. I'm sure.
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I'm sure. That day's coming.
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Which, Yeah. Speaking of, you said, you know,
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everybody sends those messages. My friend Risa, I did want to
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read her text message because I thought it was hilarious.
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So she listened to last week's episode and her text said.
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OK, Hun, I'm really glad you rescued the Mama cat and the
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kittens. I can't believe how diligent you
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and Shaylee were too. I do agree that Rick needs a
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restraining order when it comes to his crazy affection for
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Richard Page. And three Die Hard is absolutely
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a Christmas movie. And then she sent me a picture
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of her mom's nativity scene, and she said that her mom would get
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so mad at her when she was growing up because she would put
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Gumby and Pokey and Curious George in with the nativity
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scene. She has that nativity scene now.
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And so she said that Gummy and Pokey have gotten lost.
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She's not sure what has happened to them, but she still has
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Curious George and he carries on alone.
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So I thought. That was too, so I love that.
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Yeah. No, that I, I, I love stories
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like that. Tell her thank you for the the,
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the text or the e-mail that that's hilarious.
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And we do have one going back to the die hard we can add to the
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die hard is interesting enough. The movie was not released at
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Christmas time. No, which Risa?
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The same friend that got her thinking like, Oh yeah, because
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you mentioned that you had saw in the theater.
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And then she was like, well, yeah, when did it come out?
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So she Googled it. I think she said June or July, I
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can't remember, but it was sometime in the summer.
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It wasn't even Christmas. Right, so so.
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It didn't even come out during the holidays.
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Yes, I almost think that negates the entire argument because yes,
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obviously the producers, I mean, yes, it happened at Christmas,
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but great. But they didn't sell it as a
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Christmas story. So to me, I'm almost, I'm almost
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on the team of like, no, Die Hard's not a Christmas movie
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now, right? Which again, there were other
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movies that had Christmas gremlins, you know, all the ones
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we listed last episode. And there's many more that I
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left out of that list, but SO. Yeah, now Logan.
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Logan, of course. My son.
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Rebuttal, of course. Christmas with Logan.
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Says they talk about Christmas all the way through it, but I
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love the fact that we now know that Die Hard came out in the
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summer. So I think that I think that
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squashes it. Let's see Die Hard 2.
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When did that come out? I'm curious what the release
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date on that too, because that 1 was definitely July 4th and that
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was definitely during the that was obviously during Christmas
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because so you right, they're not Christmas movies.
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No. They're not Christmas.
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Themed or. July 22nd, 1988 Yeah, all the.
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Or maybe they were just trying to rake in the summer box office
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bucks, I don't know. By releasing.
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It the summer I turned 18, but was that July 22nd exactly?
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That's crazy. I'm going to say because of the
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release date, you don't get to be a Christmas movie.
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I think we saw, I think we solved it.
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No matter what, no matter what's going on in the movie, we
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solved. Thank you, Mic Drop.
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That's right, next topic done and over.
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Well before we we win. Before, before we dive into the
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rest of the show, I just wanted to touch on the Robin Michelle
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Reiner. You know, my heart goes out to
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that in the entire Reiner family.
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I'm incredibly sorry for their loss and what they're going
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through. I can't imagine losing their mom
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and dad and you know, it's the fault of their brother.
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Like I just, I can't even imagine.
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I, you know, really quickly, I think again, that double edged
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sword of social media is absolutely atrocious because
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we're now hearing vile things that people are saying.
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And it's like, and, and this even goes to the Charlie Kirk
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thing. I, I'm so sick.
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So what happened was they, they're, they're, you know,
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people are taking sides again. And, and then they're like,
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well, the liberals talked about Charlie Kirk.
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So we're going to do this, you know, we're going to talk about
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Rob Reiner this way. And it's like, it's like, can we
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just stop it? Can we?
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And, you know, and the head of the snake is the biggest
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offender there is. And I don't want to go into that
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because we just don't want to stay.
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I don't like getting politics, but it's like, I just don't get
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it. Like, OK, as my as I, as my
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foster mom taught me, you got nothing nice to say.
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Don't say anything at all. Just shut your trap.
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You know, and how can you're supposed to be the, the leader
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of the free world And you're and you're and you're a kid in
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junior high or you just, you know, it's like if you just
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don't comment on anything, I think it's a you know, it's a
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lack of it's just he has no, yes, he has no empathy.
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And so I, I and I just don't think he cares.
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I don't think that we now, we, you and I both know a narcissist
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in our lifetime, you know, yeah. That now the narcissist has
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grown up. No, no, but the narcissist has
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grown up. The.
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One you're talking. About the one I'm talking about
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and I'm really impressed because guess what, he's developed over
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time. Empathy.
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He's a lot more, No, he's a lot. He has a lot of more empathy
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because a lot more life has happened to him, right?
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And so when I talk to him now that he's 40, he really is
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changed in that sense. I see it because it's
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interesting, because remember, he was hardcore Republican,
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like, Oh yeah. You know, like, like he didn't
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deviate. And now he doesn't.
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He doesn't. And not to say that he's not
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Republican, but I'm just saying he's still, he now has swayed in
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the in the hateful talk or the narcissistic viewpoints or, you
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know, he's come to develop a lot more empathy.
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I've seen it. We're like, I'm always joke.
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I'm like, we've learned, we're learning.
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And and I really think that that's what it's, I think that's
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what it's about about to be human.
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We all make mistakes, we all do. But it's definitely.
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But if you're learning as you go and realize that's bad behavior
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or how dare I do, I mean, I look back at a lot of things being
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God, I can't believe I said that or I did that.
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I Oh yeah, I'm very ashamed of a lot of things I've said in my
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lifetime, but I don't say them today.
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Right. So and so, yeah.
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And so when you have a current sitting president who just can't
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let it go, it's. Like it didn't surprise me how
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he, you know, that that that it wasn't something nice or like
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I'm sorry for even like I'm sorry for your loss.
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It wasn't nothing like that. It didn't surprise me coming
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from him. Well, he blamed, I think.
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He blamed it on being, oh, he's a liberal.
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That's, you know, I mean. Right.
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And that was before we knew that the son had right was involved.
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And it was. He has a long history with drugs
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and alcohol and we could, I'm sure we've all had somebody in
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our lives that has been addicted to drugs and alcohol and we know
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what that is like as the family members trying to navigate that
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and get them help. And you know, it's a lifelong
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thing and that's the conversation.
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Before he even knew what was what had happened, he had
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commented. That's the conversation Logan
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and I have a lot of because one of the conversations we get in a
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lot about is a genetic lottery. Oh, well, they were born into
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wealth, you know, so they, they, yeah, you're right.
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They got, they got the running start.
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You know, they, that the person born into wealth has the running
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start, but then it also turns to tragedy like this too.
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So you can't just say, well, just because they're, they're
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wealthy, they're better off or they, you know, those, those
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different things. I've I've never believed that
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because having, you know, there was this great Cosby Show
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episode where Theo's like, you know, I'm rich and he goes, no,
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the parents go, no, we're rich. You're poor.
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And I, you know, not to bring Bill Cosby into it, but I'd
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always love that. I always love that line was
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like, and so I enjoy when I've watched nepo babies or whatever,
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you know, and they talk about their parents or whatever,
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they're like, my parents are rich.
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I am not, you know, I'm not. And so which?
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Isn't like Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's son, is it Chet?
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Didn't he have drug and alcohol problems?
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Chet. Has had issues.
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I mean they have Colin who's been very successful as an
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actor, but but no, they all the some of these famous families
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just because you have wealth and and now we don't know the inner
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workings of everything. We don't know, but we know
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nothing about their their personal lives.
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Like, you know, but it I'm learning just because you have
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money does not mean that mental health wise you're any better
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than anybody else. Great.
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And this is a very sad situation and and again, stand by me a few
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good men. He's an incredible director and
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incredible writer and incredible performer and Hollywood
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definitely lost to you know, Rob Reiner is a is a big deal,
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right? And and a tragedy.
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When it's a tragedy, it's even more so.
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Yeah, it's difficult all the way around, no matter how you look
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at. It but mental, but that also
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brings back the question of mental health.
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I mean, it has to be available for everybody.
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You cannot. And it's just, I don't, I don't
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know how you solve it because both both sides are really not
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interested in solving it or at least they they refuse to
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compromise to solve it. Right, because the same with
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drugs and alcohol. I mean, we need more treatment.
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We need more mental health treatment available to everyone,
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whether that's facilities or counselors, well, whatever that
19:25
might be, but there just isn't enough at this stage of the
19:28
game. But.
19:28
I think from a political standpoint, I think what what
19:31
gunks up the wheels on anything, Let it let's say it's universal
19:35
health or whatever, you know, whatever the situation is.
19:38
I think when they negotiate, they try to stuff shit in those
19:42
bills that have nothing to do with what they're trying to
19:44
solve. And so one of one side of there
19:46
goes, Nope, that's that's I'm not bargaining on that.
19:49
And then and then it just never gets done.
19:51
And it's like, I wish we could break it down.
19:53
Like this bill is about mental health.
19:56
You know, it's not about illegal aliens.
19:59
It's not about this. It's not about that this we're
20:02
trying to solve this one issue. But of course they try to cram
20:05
stuff into each of those bills. We're like, well, Nope, I'm not
20:07
going to compromise on that. So, yeah, so mental health is A
20:12
and and I think again, social media, it has exact, you know,
20:16
has. Yeah, has not helped, has not
20:18
helped in that. Situation, no, it's probably
20:21
made it a lot worse. I think so, especially for young
20:23
people. You know, we've talked about
20:25
that on last week. 'S their whole value is based on
20:28
what people think about them on social media.
20:29
The likes and it's an algorithm and it's designed.
20:32
It's just a slot machine basically in your hands.
20:35
Like it is designed to keep you engaged in it.
20:41
You know, for a slot machine, it's, it's designed to keep
20:43
taking your money from you. Like it has an algorithm, a slot
20:46
machine has an algorithm. It's no different.
20:48
So. Now, what's really changed, even
20:49
maybe from, you know, maybe not physical bullying these days,
20:52
but online bullying, Yes, if you know.
20:54
So when you and when you and I were kids, they just walk up and
20:56
punch you, OK? Oh yeah, it was like, I think I
20:59
could put in lockers, I mean. I could take the hit nowadays,
21:03
right now that no, now they won't touch you, but they're
21:05
going to go online and say, you know, his hair is all jacked up
21:08
or you know. I mean, it's worse now.
21:10
Now they're telling them to kill themselves.
21:12
Yeah, well, well, even, I mean, I God, I just had a friend, a
21:17
morning show, Mel and Winston over there in Denver.
21:19
I've known him for a while. I know.
21:20
I've known Mel forever. And they they on their morning
21:23
show page, they had to take down the rest in peace, Rob Reiner,
21:27
because someone underneath says he deserved to die.
21:30
Oh. God, so they're like then they
21:32
so they responded like, hey man, we took this down because but
21:35
it's just the cruelty of the world, right?
21:38
I mean, really, I mean, would you again, would you have that
21:41
courage to say that somebody's face?
21:44
You would not, you would 9. Times out of 10, these people
21:47
would not. They're cowards.
21:49
They're cowards. They're cowards.
21:50
Keyboard courage. That's what we called.
21:53
It coward, cowardly, you know, and I've learned if I don't like
21:56
something, I keep scrolling like, OK, you know, not not my,
22:00
not my thing to get great. Great, because it's not going to
22:04
do one bit of good if you chime in or say whatever it is you
22:07
think you need to say or put your opinion in there.
22:12
It doesn't matter. You're not going to sway
22:14
anybody's minds. You're not going to.
22:15
You're not going to change things.
22:17
It's just going to make you look either opinionated or dumb.
22:20
Or then you get it, then you just get it.
22:22
I mean, you just get attacked. So it's not like me.
22:24
I'd rather just post pictures of my dogs, talk about this
22:27
podcast, talk about Richard Page, superheroes, things that
22:31
you know. Fun stuff.
22:34
Just the fun stuff. Fun stuff.
22:36
Dallas Cowboys being the worst team in the league right now.
22:38
Hey, about side of that, we're good.
22:39
Isn't that normal though for the Dallas?
22:41
Yeah, they're always mid. I, you know, they're the good
22:43
news. They're never the worst, but
22:44
they're always mid so. But hey, give it up to the SO.
22:46
Funny because they have so much money.
22:49
They have New York. They have.
22:50
Yankees of football. Yeah, they are.
22:52
Oh, they've got the and they've got the talent.
22:54
I mean, it's not like they don't have the talent.
22:56
They, you know, but Nope, they can't get it done.
22:58
But hey, the Seahawks are having a great season and I think that
23:00
that's they are, you know, so it'll be kind of cool to see.
23:02
We'll see what happens. Well, this week, Rams, that's
23:04
going to be, if you get past the Rams, Seahawks is going to, you
23:08
know that they might, they may go all the way, but Rams are
23:11
going to be a tough team to beat.
23:12
Yeah, they are. Yeah, I know.
23:14
Yeah. OK, well let's jump into fun
23:18
Christmas stuff. Let's get into happier stuff
23:20
since we've kind of went down the dark rabbit hole of all the
23:23
other stuff we just talked about.
23:24
South white lights or multi colored lights?
23:28
What do you prefer? I I like the multi colored now
23:31
Megan's got the white. Lights me too.
23:33
It's. Got the white light?
23:35
Yeah, Megan's got the white lights.
23:37
And before we go into lights, happy birthday.
23:39
I you know that you moved your head.
23:40
Now that you now that you moved your big head, I could see.
23:42
Happy birthday. Oh.
23:43
Thanks my big head. Yours is.
23:45
Happy birthday to Michelle. Thanks.
23:48
Yeah, the day that we are recording this podcast, it does
23:50
my. Birthday.
23:51
It is your birthday hand. I have been shouting on
23:54
Facebook, which I don't do shout outs to Yeah so.
23:58
I haven't been on Facebook yet so.
23:59
There's a little memory page, you know, with your, our photos
24:01
and different things like that. But yeah, you know.
24:03
All kinds of photos. It's a rarity that I do a
24:05
little, you know, birthday shout out.
24:07
So you got a montage. So just like Casey Case and long
24:11
distance dedication Michelle and Yakima.
24:14
Yeah, OK, well, I'm a white light girl, just like Megan.
24:17
Because I think for me though, it's just because everything has
24:19
to match. Yeah, I think that's where she's
24:22
at a lot of. Yeah, we're probably on the same
24:24
page with that. OK, fake or real tree?
24:27
We so Megan varies every year. One year we had a Christmas, one
24:32
year we had a Christmas ladder and from the road.
24:35
That's cute. No, and from the road it looked
24:37
like it looked. I mean it's like a tree.
24:40
So so she varies it. This year we have the fake tree
24:44
up. Last year we had the real tree.
24:46
For me growing up on the Grand Rond, of course I'm going to go
24:48
real tree if I can have it. Right.
24:50
But but but fake is the easiest to to maintain and.
24:53
Yes, so we have fake trees, but that's is because my husband is
24:57
allergic to pine trees. Didn't know that.
24:59
They found that out when he was really little and they cut down
25:02
a tree and stuck it in there and he was.
25:04
Cabin and all that. No, he like was like almost
25:08
dying, like his throat was closing.
25:11
Yeah, he's fine out in the woods.
25:13
It's just if it's in a small, you know, building or.
25:18
Room or whatever the case might be, is it the pine?
25:20
So we can't have like pine. Like it's the SAP I think if I
25:24
remember. Right.
25:25
OK. So not the not the smell of pine
25:28
or any of that. No, no.
25:30
So. So we have never had real tree
25:33
as long as I've been with him. But growing up, that is one of
25:37
the very few memories, good memories I have.
25:39
Growing up is once in a while we would go up sledding in the
25:42
mountains and take hot chocolate and cut down our Christmas tree.
25:46
And so. Yeah.
25:47
And of course it was usually around my birthday, so that made
25:50
it special. So.
25:52
I love that. No, that was as a kid growing
25:54
up, that was the best. My my foster dad would go out
25:56
and get up down the tree. So on the on the grand run, we
25:59
definitely had a real tree always, every single year.
26:02
And yeah, that and so right now, yeah.
26:04
So Megan, we, we bounce back and forth.
26:05
We got the fake, we got the real.
26:07
And then the ladder comes out too.
26:09
Once in a while. Once in a while, yeah.
26:11
You just rotate, at least do something like every year or
26:14
something different. Megan is very, very Christmassy.
26:17
I mean the whole upstairs is decorated, so she means.
26:20
Yeah, that's how our house. Is yeah, she's got and the
26:22
outside is all decorated, so yeah, she's hard.
26:25
She's hardcore Christmas. Yeah, yeah.
26:28
Which the outside of our house, I should take a picture of it
26:31
because it is a lot. And we discovered Shaylee was in
26:35
helping with marching band. She was checking over the summer
26:38
and she discovered that the house across the street from US,
26:40
the one of the girls lives in that house.
26:42
They kind of figured out where each other lived.
26:44
And the girl across the street, which their house is only one
26:47
story. Our house is 2 stories and she
26:49
said and their house is newer so they don't their trees aren't as
26:52
full in their bushes. Our house has been around for 20
26:54
years. So our trees are pretty pretty
26:56
good size and she said that her dad comments that our house is
27:01
his nemesis because he can never do his Christmas lights as good
27:06
as ours. Yeah.
27:08
He just doesn't have the house size.
27:11
House size, yeah, Yeah. So I just thought that was
27:15
funny. And so now I use that to get my
27:17
husband to do more outside. I love it, I love it.
27:20
Remember the neighbors? We got it.
27:21
We got to be the neighbors. Well, you have it like so Megan,
27:24
like we have, we don't have any necessarily trees, but we have
27:26
some bushes and stuff. So she's got yeah, we have like
27:28
1 tree out front that's got lights in it.
27:30
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, she does those kind of
27:32
those different things. Yeah.
27:33
But she's got, she's got a drink.
27:35
An elf out there. I don't know, she got an elf out
27:37
there. Which my husband put up the
27:41
forever lights, OK, that go like right up against the house.
27:46
We we also have the icicle lights, but these are the ones
27:48
that stay up and then you control them with the app and
27:51
you could change them. Oh wow, your colors you want
27:54
whatever sequence you want. So wow, for Valentine's I could
27:58
make them red and pink. For the 4th of July.
28:02
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
28:03
Halloween. You could do orange and black,
28:05
Yes. Oh yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
28:07
OK. Yeah.
28:08
So those just went up this year. So we'll see.
28:12
You win, you win, you win. We'll see.
28:16
We'll see how these fare for the year.
28:18
I mean, this is the first time they've gone up.
28:21
So I mean, they look really good with the rest of our lights.
28:23
But we've also had to add, like I said, the icicle lights, it
28:26
can't just be them up against the house because it's just not
28:29
enough light, at least for my husband.
28:32
So. So yeah, we'll see how they look
28:35
when it's just them, so. You basically want to land a 747
28:38
at your place. I mean, pretty much, you know,
28:40
if I could have a spotlight out there.
28:42
That's right. That's right, if you get true
28:44
exactly like oh we can just just use Michelle's house to land
28:47
this planes. Actually, it's like that, yeah.
28:50
It's hilarious. So do you have any special like
28:55
Christmas traditions that you would do like with Logan growing
28:58
up or anything? Not necessarily I'm trying to
29:02
think of Megan has any I did learn the first year it was I
29:05
did learn a lesson the very first year we were dating is
29:09
that stocking better have something in it.
29:10
So the first year I got her some presents, but I didn't get
29:12
anything in the stocking. So her did she get?
29:14
You stocking stuff or? I think she did.
29:16
And then Kyron was like, he was 5 or 6 at the time, and he goes,
29:20
mommy, mommy, why didn't you get anything in your stocking?
29:24
And I'm like, mother humbug, mother humbug.
29:28
So I learned the lesson too. Damn kid.
29:31
Yeah, no. Well, it's like I've got, you
29:33
know, I had to learn. I've had to learn.
29:35
I've learned a lot from Megan. So it's one of those.
29:37
Did you get stuff for pokey stocking or is this?
29:41
I don't recall getting never. Gotten.
29:44
For adults, I didn't. I didn't.
29:46
So I mean for Pokey, no, I don't recall ever getting.
29:48
I don't think we only put Logan stocking up great.
29:52
Which usually we would only do the kids.
29:54
Stuff we never put recently. Until the kids got bigger.
29:57
And then one year my husband bought me stuff after I said
30:00
we're not buying stuff for each other stocking, you know, like
30:02
it's not right. And then he bought me stuff.
30:05
And then I was pissed and so now we just buy each other stuff
30:08
because I know if I say don't buy stuff, he'll still buy
30:11
stuff. So.
30:11
It's gonna do it. Yeah.
30:12
So yeah, we. So yeah, we definitely.
30:14
Now the little mistakes I've learned I definitely have
30:16
corrected with like OK, there there's always stuff in her in
30:19
her stocking. So yeah.
30:20
But but traditionally, I don't think necessarily she has any
30:23
traditions. I don't.
30:24
I don't recall even with my awesome foster parents, I don't
30:26
recall any necessarily traditions that we had to do.
30:30
With the kids, we would take them to go pick out a Christmas
30:33
ornament every. Yeah, that's sweet.
30:36
And then the hope was that when they turned 18 or moved out,
30:40
then they would have these 18 years worth of ornaments for
30:43
their own Christmas. Tree I love.
30:45
That so far Benjamin has been the only one that has taken his
30:48
ornaments. I guess that is stable enough or
30:50
wants them, I don't know, maybe the other.
30:52
He's got a little family. He does, yes.
30:55
So, So yeah, we did that. And then, of course, every year
30:58
they have to go see Santa, even as adults now.
31:01
I just made them go do it this year.
31:02
Yeah, I love that. So which I'm sure they hate it,
31:06
but they still do it just for me, so I appreciate it.
31:10
Yeah, no, I love. I love.
31:10
Stuff like that. It's nothing like Major.
31:12
Yeah, good visit, good visit to Santa.
31:14
Randy, my best friend and I in high school, we had a a few
31:17
years spree where we would make that our tradition.
31:19
Tradition is go visit Santa as adults.
31:21
So and I would both sit on Santa's lap and get pictures
31:23
back in the day. I'll have to pick.
31:26
I've got the pictures in my photo album somewhere where we
31:28
where we did it. But yeah, so Logan was never a
31:31
big. He just not did not like, I
31:34
mean, he didn't, he just was not Santa guy.
31:36
So we so I think it's so funny. We have a picture of him on
31:40
Santa where he's like maybe nine months old.
31:43
He's got he's got candy cane in his mouth and he's trying to get
31:45
to his mother. And then, and then he hated
31:49
Logan, hated the Easter Bunny. Oh well, the Easter Bunny is
31:53
creepier. But but he never.
31:55
But Logan Never was never, never at four years old goes I'm going
31:59
to go see Santa. He just never did.
32:01
So we only have the one Santa picture and the one Easter Bunny
32:04
picture and that's it. And then when he asked for the
32:07
truth, I just gave him the truth and Pokey lost her lid.
32:12
She goes, what the hell did you do?
32:15
You know what? What did you do you?
32:16
And I said, well, he just asked, I mean, so.
32:19
How old was he when he asked, I think.
32:20
He was the usual, like first, first grade, you know, I mean,
32:24
he was. Yeah, that's young.
32:26
Usually they start asking around like 9.
32:28
No. Some kids.
32:30
Yeah, some kid. Some kid at school probably said
32:33
something and then. He came home because and I just
32:35
didn't lie to him. I said no, you know, you're
32:36
right. But but he was now I will defend
32:39
this, the decision. He was never into it anyway.
32:42
Right. So it wasn't it was never a if
32:44
he was into it hardcore, then I probably would have been
32:46
differently. But he never he never made like,
32:49
Oh, I got to go, you know, he never, he never said let's go
32:52
see. I mean, he just never did.
32:53
So yeah. And and again, he, you know, he
32:58
was, he was like your kids. He he had a good childhood in
33:01
terms of he got, he got, he got to make up for the bad
33:04
childhoods we had. Yes, which I would tell my kids
33:08
when, you know, as they got older and they're like, uh huh,
33:11
Santa. I'd be like, hey, if you believe
33:14
you'll get something from Santa so you zip it like.
33:18
Right. Especially because they had
33:19
younger siblings. So I had to be, you know, zip
33:22
it. You two older ones were older.
33:25
So they had to like, pretend yes.
33:27
Of course, and it's really the, it's really the fun even even I
33:29
know people make fun of like Elf on the Shelf, but I mean.
33:33
God, I am so glad we're done. Here.
33:37
No, here's the problem. Here's the problem.
33:39
Because I did mornings, we would do mornings and you know, we'd
33:43
have to be, I'd have to be up at 3:30.
33:45
And so a lot of times I would forget about moving the damn elf
33:49
or making him do something, you know, different.
33:52
And yes. And so I would have to text
33:54
Matthew frantically being like, Oh my God, I forgot the elf, you
33:57
know, just do something. So because you have to, you
34:00
can't just move him. You also have to have like this
34:02
elaborate thing that he's doing. Yes.
34:05
And so it just becomes complicated because then you
34:08
have to try to figure out each time, OK, well, what is he going
34:10
to be doing this time? What is what am I going to make
34:13
him do this time? What am I?
34:14
What am I? Also, if you have children, make
34:16
sure they're not listening to the pod, this podcast.
34:18
We're going to find out the Santa's not real enough on the
34:20
shelf. So.
34:23
Santa's everywhere. What are you talking about?
34:25
I'm surprised, you know, I'm surprised.
34:27
I'm surprised that no one has not written a book about Elf on
34:30
the Shelf with A Hundred Way 101 Ways, you know.
34:33
Oh, there probably is. We just probably haven't seen
34:36
it. There's all kinds of like stuff
34:38
on Pinterest. Yeah, there's.
34:39
A great, I feel a lot of super creative elf on this, you know,
34:43
And of course, going back to our morning show, didn't we have
34:45
Kenny the elf? Yes, yes, that was super fun.
34:50
Yeah, see, we had Kenny the elf and so little stories like that
34:54
so. Yeah, he just moved around
34:57
Yakima. Yeah, he moved around.
34:58
Yeah, he moved around. Yeah.
35:00
He had a bigger area to move around.
35:04
OK, so Logan, what did Logan want us to talk about?
35:07
You said that he So I have a. Sent you things that really.
35:09
He sent you a message. We'll go these.
35:12
Quick Yeah, he said #1 He disagreed.
35:14
He says Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
35:16
We've already nullified that because we've already.
35:18
Established that. Yep.
35:19
Yeah. And he goes anyways.
35:21
You guys should talk about your top favorite holiday movies or
35:24
songs. Which we did kind of hit on
35:27
movies a little bit. Yeah, Miracle on 34th St.
35:31
More Express. Favorite but I really mine is
35:34
more like the TV show like the the classic claymation.
35:37
Yeah, Rudolph. Rudolph.
35:38
The Little Drummer Boy is my favorite favorite.
35:41
OK, yeah, yeah. So favorite songs.
35:44
You should know what my all time number one favorite Christmas
35:48
song is. Well, I know what it is, and I
35:51
can even say right now, well, because we're trying to avoid
35:53
Wanageddon, so it's last Christmas by Wham.
35:56
So I do know what Wanageddon is. Yes, that would be a number one.
36:00
Where are you? Christmas #2 and then #3 would
36:04
be a Little Drummer boy for me, so it's a good one those.
36:07
Would be like so me. I'm definitely more
36:09
contemporary. Wonderful Christmas time by Paul
36:11
McCartney. Love that one.
36:14
Do they know it's Christmas? Band-Aid is probably my absolute
36:17
favorite with the all the rock stars in that one.
36:20
And then I like Merry Christmas Darling by the Carpenters,
36:24
because Karen Carpenter has the most amazing voice.
36:26
And I did turn Logan. Logan got my dad 100 list and
36:29
Karen Carpenter's in there and he goes she was she's amazed.
36:33
You know, she's amazing. So.
36:34
Yeah, I think my husband had a crush on her growing up so.
36:37
Did Oh, OK yeah, so and then I like Burl Ives, like holly
36:41
jolly. I mean, I I really like the
36:44
classics when it comes down to, you know, and then of course, I
36:49
love happy holidays. Merry Christmas In Sync, and as
36:54
much as Mariah Carey gives a lot of All I Want for Christmas, I
36:56
think that's a great song. I'd love that.
36:58
I do like that one, you know, especially if I don't hear it a
37:01
whole bunch, then I like it so, but.
37:04
We we were fortunate that in the ease there was a great Christmas
37:08
album with the Eurythmics, Bryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen on it.
37:11
Remember, Santa Claus is coming to town.
37:13
So we have some great ease Christmas songs that we grew up
37:17
on. So and I, I enjoy that.
37:20
And then what was the? Was there a Weird Al one where
37:23
the atom bombs are dropping? Yes.
37:26
Oh my gosh, yeah. Was that the only one he had or
37:30
did he have a whole album? I don't.
37:32
Know if he had a whole album, but I just remembered that the
37:33
atom bombs were dropping and then there was one song that was
37:38
hot one year and it was by the power station or whatever it's
37:41
called, and it was called Dear Mr. Jesus or something like
37:44
that. We had a little girl.
37:45
Yeah. And I just remember, I remember
37:47
the Christmas shoes. Remember that song.
37:51
That one's a tearjerker. But I don't remember the Mr.
37:54
Jesus one. Usually.
37:55
I can remember the tearjerker ones because as we're playing
37:57
and I'm trying not to cry. Oh, they're called.
38:01
Oh, it's called power source. Oh, not.
38:04
For that and it deals with child abuse.
38:08
So. But it's a but, yeah, me, you
38:11
know, me real dark on that stuff.
38:12
OK. But it was, yeah, a little, you
38:15
know, it's kind of like Suzanne Vegas.
38:17
You just took Christmas from like half, you know, like Sam.
38:20
So no, but I right now, right now my, one of my stations is
38:23
the Christmas station. So I, I, I listen to it a lot
38:25
during the holidays when I'm wrapping presents, different
38:27
things like that. So I, I really love the, I love,
38:30
I love Christmas music. So it's one of my my first.
38:33
Place I love Alvin and the Chipmunks yeah I think that song
38:36
made like the the top ten like worst Christmas songs and I was
38:40
like what no. That's that's great.
38:42
Christmas song. I still have the record.
38:44
What do you? Yeah, that's a, that's a good
38:46
one. I mean any of them for me and
38:48
and even. I want a hippopotamus for
38:50
Christmas. And even when we do the
38:52
Christmas station, it is just the the great classics because
38:55
that's really there's, you know, there's probably 150 great
38:58
Christmas songs. Yes, least favorite and then I
39:01
get some hate on this, is Brenda Lee rocking around the Christmas
39:04
tree. That is like.
39:06
I have to turn it. That's the classic of all.
39:09
I know, but I don't know you know what it is about it.
39:12
But I'm just like. So you can't have.
39:14
To turn it on SO. You can't go for grandma.
39:15
Got ran over by a reindeer. Elmo and Pass.
39:17
No, I do like grandma got ran over by a reindeer.
39:19
That is a piece of, that's a piece of, that's a piece of
39:22
coal. The cassette of that one, no.
39:24
It was like grandma got ran over by a reindeer.
39:28
That made the top ten worst ones.
39:29
I know that one. I've got to put for me, that's
39:32
my #1 because, you know, I think it was the trauma of the
39:36
Wallaces because they would listen to that piece of crap.
39:38
And so I'm like, OK, this is just, you know.
39:41
Well, that's why. That was but yes.
39:43
But yeah, we do, you know, you know, Merry Christmas.
39:48
Trust me. But you can sing.
39:50
You can sing along to them all. Yeah, I do.
39:52
I do have a question for you, though.
39:54
So I wrapped Megan's presents. So Megan over the weekend,
39:59
wrapped all the presents, got the tree up, da, da, da.
40:01
And then yesterday I wrapped. All of her presents.
40:04
And then I'd asked her, she was going out, she was leaving to go
40:06
to a dinner. And I said, hey, by the way,
40:08
don't try to move your presents around too much because I don't
40:11
want you to know what they are. And she looked at me and she
40:14
goes, she goes, why? She goes, I know, I know you got
40:17
me everything on my list. And and then and then she left
40:21
and I and I, so I thought, so I thought to myself, am I being a
40:26
OK, So. So I can't.
40:27
Well, she doesn't listen to the podcast.
40:28
You don't have to worry. So yeah.
40:30
Well, OK. And we've talked about, I think
40:32
in the past, but I don't know which episode, but you mentioned
40:34
that you always get what's on the list.
40:37
Yeah, we've talked about that. And so this year, so this year
40:42
you did the same. You got everything on the list.
40:44
Is what you're saying. OK And then how was her tone,
40:48
though? Was it like it was sarcastic or
40:50
was it? Like it's kind of like my wife
40:52
is hard to read sometimes because because it's one of
40:55
those things where, OK, so she's very like she doesn't, I have to
40:59
explain this right. It's not that she doesn't
41:01
appreciate gifts because she does.
41:02
No, but she feels like that if I just go to the store and just
41:07
buy a bunch of crap to put in her stocking, she doesn't like
41:10
that. Well, no, because you're not
41:13
thinking about, you're just going to the store and buying a
41:15
bunch of crap. You're not actually right
41:18
thinking about us and what maybe you we might want or what you
41:24
think we might want instead. It's just like a throw shit in
41:28
the cart because I need to fill the stocking kind of thing,
41:31
right? And that's what we don't like,
41:33
right? And we want you to think about
41:35
us and put the effort into thinking about what we might
41:38
actually want in our stocking. That's what she wants you to do.
41:42
But it but it's one but number one.
41:44
And she says she isn't. She says she's the easiest
41:46
person. Everybody whoever says are the
41:47
easiest person to shop for is a liar.
41:49
They're the. They're the worst.
41:51
I don't care what they say. I don't care if she hears this.
41:54
They are the worst of all. Anybody, whoever says, oh, I'm
41:57
so easy to shop for it, you're a liar.
41:58
Anybody listen to this podcast who says that you're a liar?
42:01
I know a liar to shop for it, that's why I make.
42:04
Because because those people are the kind of personalities when
42:06
you go, oh, I what about this? No, what about this?
42:09
No, what about this? No.
42:11
It's kind of like every person says, what do you want to what
42:13
do you want to eat? What do you want to eat?
42:15
You know, well, no, right. And then the minute you go,
42:17
well, how about tacos? No.
42:19
What about? What about?
42:20
No Well. No.
42:22
Right. That's how I mean Megan and I
42:24
are the same person, basically, is what you're saying.
42:26
Well, I've I've always, OK, so I've always said this about
42:29
married people. We all come in different rappers
42:32
because you're all married to the same person.
42:34
So when you're sitting there going, oh, that grass is greener
42:36
over there. Trust me, it's dirt.
42:39
It's the same brown grass. OK, so your dilemma with these
42:43
presents is what now? I just was curious because to
42:47
me, I immediately went because again, back to my childhood
42:50
trauma, it goes back to like, oh, I failed.
42:53
I didn't get. Right, we have to please.
42:56
Everybody. Basically.
42:58
I didn't do enough or she's not going to be happy with what I
43:01
got, or even though it's every, even though it's everything on
43:04
her list, your brain immediately goes I failed.
43:09
Which and haven't you mentioned that, OK, I think you have on a
43:12
past podcast that you get everything on the list and then
43:16
you'll also get a couple extra. Things that aren't on the list.
43:19
There's some U turns. So that's what you did this year
43:22
too, right? I'm assuming.
43:23
OK, well, it's not like then. It's not like you got everything
43:25
on the list. Then she got a couple extras.
43:28
She always gets everything on the list plus.
43:31
Well, I mean. Plus.
43:33
Most people only get one or two things on the list, so like she
43:38
should be happy if she gets everything on her list.
43:40
I don't think she's ever been unhappy, but I But then I think
43:43
to myself maybe, maybe one year I just don't do.
43:46
I don't get anything on our list.
43:47
But then you're going to be in trouble because you didn't get
43:50
anything on the list. Because then it's going to be
43:53
like, it's going to be like, well, I don't need this.
43:54
What's this? Why'd you get this?
43:57
For it's a. What is this?
43:58
Yeah, it cuts up. Didn't you?
44:00
Didn't you go off the list? Why did you get me all this
44:02
stuff? This stuff wasn't on the list.
44:05
Yeah, they're what are you going to do it?
44:07
She doesn't listen, but there she doesn't listen.
44:08
But there is a couple good U turns on there that you know,
44:12
but right, it's like now do you guys put a price limit?
44:17
Jay's always going to outdo you, right?
44:20
We'll see. Here's where Jay gets off easy
44:22
because remember I said, which I said on a past podcast, so us
44:26
because all our kids are adult kids now, we draw names for
44:30
Secret Santa, and that includes Jay and I.
44:32
And then we don't, we only get stuff for each other's
44:35
stockings. And so see, he gets off easy and
44:38
doesn't have to worry. I mean, he only has to worry
44:40
about my birthday now, but yeah, so whoever.
44:42
Well, your birthday is in December and and it is
44:45
absolutely more and and I learned being married to Pokey
44:48
who was born the day after Christmas, that that December
44:51
birthdays get the shaft. Yes.
44:54
So it was so funny. Being married to Pokey was like
44:56
it was had nothing to do with Christmas.
44:58
It's like son of a bitch, the day after Christmas everybody
45:01
brings some birthday presents. And do not wrap our birthday
45:05
stuff like Christmas right. Exactly.
45:07
Oh no, she no. And it drove her nuts because
45:09
her grandparents, who did have money, would, would ignore her
45:14
birthday. Well, they, you know, she gets,
45:17
she'd get, she'd get money for. Christmas Day after Christmas it
45:19
sound like it was Christmas. Nope.
45:21
And it used to drive her nuts. And so I, that's one of those
45:23
things I learned about her was like, hey, you gotta, you know
45:26
you gotta. Yeah.
45:28
So. Yeah.
45:29
So. Yeah.
45:29
So I get I get that so good for. Hey, good for Jay.
45:33
But you have a lot of kids and you've got.
45:35
Grandma. We now.
45:36
Yes, which, yeah, she did get a lot of.
45:39
Well, of course she did. It's Christmas.
45:40
She's not even a year old yet, but yeah, which my best
45:46
birthday. And this is how sad like
45:47
December birthdays are. I mean, and it's probably
45:50
because, you know, my childhood wasn't great too, but so my
45:53
parents were still married during this time.
45:55
So I had chicken pox because my birthday is what, a week before
45:59
Christmas, a little over a week. So I had the chicken pox.
46:03
I think it was like 5, five, 6:00-ish.
46:05
I had chicken pox over my birthday and Christmas.
46:08
And so this is my best birthday and Christmas though, like this
46:12
is how sad this is. So everybody had to come to our
46:15
house and I got everything that I wanted because everybody felt
46:19
sorry for me because I had chicken pox over my birthday and
46:21
Christmas. So I got like the little playset
46:23
kitchen and you know, Charles and everything.
46:27
But that's how bad like December birthdays are.
46:30
Is that was my that is my favorite birthday.
46:32
And I think I had one birthday party where more than like 1
46:37
friend came to. I think I had like, oh wow, one
46:40
party. I think I was probably in I
46:43
think 2nd grade and I want to say yeah, first or second grade
46:46
and like 4 of my friends came. And that was and that was.
46:50
That's that's the most, yeah, the most ever.
46:52
So yeah, yeah, it's just it just do not if you're going to, if
46:57
you're going to have kids, don't have them in November, December
47:00
or January. Yeah, because you can, because
47:01
you can decide, because you can decide that nine month window,
47:04
it's like. Yes, do not have them in those
47:07
three months. And you know, by February
47:10
everybody's getting their tax refunds, so they're good.
47:14
They can buy stuff. Well, Megan's hilarious because
47:17
she's the exactly one week for her birthday after Valentine's
47:21
Day. So you you got and, and again,
47:23
it comes down to I'm not interested in Valentine's Day.
47:26
There better be something at the birthday rather than Valentine's
47:29
Day. So yeah, Well, I again, I think
47:33
for us, Megan likes Christmas better.
47:35
I like Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is my holiday and
47:39
Christmas is definitely your holiday.
47:40
So I was just curious. So yeah, I mean, I know she
47:43
didn't mean anything by it, but I still got me.
47:45
It still got me thinking like, oh, and then you know, she goes,
47:48
it's not she doesn't like because I count up her presents.
47:53
Oh, you do. Well, I want to make sure she, I
47:55
I don't. Do you ever feel like, well, no,
47:57
you do it just a different way. I feel like I'm sure so do.
48:00
You do you give her a list. How does she buy yours?
48:04
How she gets a list? Here's the question.
48:05
She gets an Amazon list, so you. Know and then does she buy
48:08
everything on your list or? She does not.
48:11
She just picks a few and then you just don't have like a set
48:15
amount like or or a set dollar amount.
48:18
Nope, no, not. Necessarily, one year we spent.
48:20
Well, one year we did 50. No, well, we've now on some
48:24
years we've done it and I always break, I always break the rules.
48:28
So she's like, she doesn't do it.
48:29
We just don't do it. I mean, she's like, don't.
48:31
Like the whole don't buy things for stockings, Yeah.
48:34
One thing that she does great is her stuff is really sentimental.
48:40
So great. So some of my, so some of my
48:42
favorite gifts that I have the portrait of Phoebe, it's from
48:46
it's from Megan. There's a there's a a blanket
48:51
that's Barkley, Phoebe and Roxy that says my man's best friend
48:55
that's in the man cave. So she's really great at the the
48:59
photos that are on our wall because we have a, you know, a
49:02
bunch of photos of our so she went out and, you know, got used
49:06
to great camera to, you know. So she's got yeah.
49:09
So there's a dog we have a on in our house.
49:12
We have a dog wall. So that was one of the Christmas
49:15
presents where there is like all of our dogs and different photos
49:18
and different things like that. And, and, and she's and she's
49:21
mental enough is like for my birthday there, she got me a, a
49:25
new dog picture. But and it's so it had Bodhi, it
49:28
has Barkley as Roxy and then she always includes Phoebe because
49:32
you know, Phoebe's past. So it's those little things that
49:36
she's really good at. I will tell you this year
49:38
though, it came in the mail. Vinyl record.
49:42
I know what a vinyl record looks like, so I did ask for I'm
49:46
sorry. Richard Page is back in the.
49:48
There's I was going to say, Richard Page, let me.
49:50
Guess Richard Page. Yeah, he was in a group called
49:52
Third Matinee and there's a, there was red vinyl and a red
49:55
vinyl, you know, the colored vinyl.
49:57
Yeah. Anyway, so I'd ask for that.
49:58
And so not to say that that's what's up there, but I know what
50:01
vinyl looks like. But you're pretty sure.
50:03
And then, and then I was moving her presence around last night
50:05
and there was kind of A and I'm like, OK, this is obviously the
50:08
record player because guess what I don't have.
50:11
You don't have a record player. Well, no, because when Megan and
50:13
I got married, she got. That's right, she made you get
50:16
rid of. I forgot.
50:17
All the vinyl, I mean, I have a little bit of, I have a little
50:20
bit of vinyl, but not not hundreds and like hundreds and
50:23
hundreds. Notable comic book collection.
50:26
So, yeah, so I mean that's like, I mean what we have is I'll even
50:29
move it if I can show it is I've got.
50:31
Like, well, I have so a couple like I I think I have two
50:34
Carpenter records I can give you.
50:36
Oh, there you go. So like here's like, so here's a
50:38
Toto, which I love. This is my favorite Toto
50:40
element. See, so so it goes on.
50:42
It goes basically on the wall. Right.
50:45
So I have, I have Chicago, I have Toto.
50:47
So I have, I have limited vinyl records.
50:51
So my gut says she went out and got a went out and got a new
50:54
record player. Nice.
50:56
So that, yeah, so you can't hide that.
50:58
I'm like, OK, that's vinyl and that's going to be a record.
51:00
Player. Well, if it was on your list,
51:05
that's. What you got?
51:06
Yeah, well, the vinyl record. Oh no, I did put the record
51:09
player on there too, so. You don't even remember what's
51:13
on your. List well it's Amazon, it's
51:14
Amazon, so the list carries on for years.
51:17
So it's not like it's so it's the same list for years so.
51:23
I see. But and, and she always says
51:25
that she's, you know, like, OK, how many, how much comic book
51:28
stuff, how much superheroes, how much dogs, you know, right.
51:32
Different. Things like Cowboys.
51:34
I mean, she knows what I like, but.
51:36
Right. She feels like she's after after
51:38
17 years, she's kind of maxed. Right, all the Yeah.
51:43
And you know, like I always say, it's the, you know, you're just
51:46
getting people stuff essentially.
51:49
It's not, you know, making memories with them or anything,
51:52
so. Well, I just want she.
51:53
Obviously gets sentimental stuff, so.
51:55
She does. She's great.
51:56
She's great at that. And she, she really thinks it
51:58
through. But but to me, it's like, yeah,
52:00
I, I went online, I thought, OK, maybe I'll do an Alaskan cruise.
52:04
And then my jaw dropped when I saw how much.
52:07
The prices. Were, well, I just, I just, it's
52:10
just out of my range, you know, so I don't know about you guys,
52:13
but I don't go into debt for Christmas.
52:16
I I did for pink. I mean the big Pink trip to
52:19
Vegas. Rain.
52:20
But but I still had a lot of it already paid off.
52:23
I already had half of it already in savings.
52:26
Rain. So it was and so that I knew by
52:28
the time we went in September or whatever that I would get the
52:31
rest of the money because that was a $6000 trip.
52:33
So I already had like 3 grand in savings.
52:35
And so I already knew that and I and I had her go out on, I had
52:39
her go online and pick her package.
52:41
Oh, nice, because. I didn't because I did, because
52:43
she's picky like that. I don't want her to go.
52:46
Well, you didn't get me a place on the strip or why?
52:48
Why are we at the motel? Motel 6 off, you know?
52:52
So I said so I said you go online, you find.
52:54
Why are we in Old Vegas? Right.
52:56
What what she enjoyed, I mean, we've been to Fremont and all
52:58
that, same as so we stayed at the Park MGM, you know, we loved
53:03
it. And she had A and she had a view
53:04
from the strip. So we just did those.
53:07
But yeah, so anyway, thank you for solving that for me.
53:11
So. So is she happy or is she being
53:14
like, would you be happy if you got everything on your list?
53:17
Well, yeah, that's what I asked for.
53:19
Everything on my list and. You get it.
53:22
Great, and I'm trying not to be complicated.
53:25
But do you think it's predictable?
53:26
Like there comes a point to it like.
53:28
Yes, but it's, but I know that it's stuff that I want and that
53:31
I'll use. So it's it's about being
53:34
practical, like, OK, well, I don't want you to just go and
53:38
again, buy me stuff like you talked about, you know, filling
53:40
the stocking because you think you have to add something extra
53:44
or you have to buy something that's not on my list or
53:48
whatever it is when it's like, well, but it probably isn't
53:52
something that I will want or use.
53:54
She doesn't want me. To go around and just buy, you
53:56
know, if, if she got one thing that she wanted to hurt that
53:59
she's not like that. I mean, if I got one thing, if I
54:01
got her one present, but it was something she wanted.
54:04
Right. Like really wanted, yeah.
54:06
She'd be good with that, right? She'd be good with, she'd be
54:08
good with that. So.
54:11
You can't trade out an Alaskan cruise through the radio
54:14
station. Trust me, if I if I could, I
54:17
would. Oh my God, yes, absolutely.
54:19
What happened to the days when we did beaches?
54:21
Remember the beaches trip? Oh gosh.
54:22
Oh yeah, we didn't. You get to go.
54:24
On a trip we didn't. Yeah.
54:25
You went to Jamaica. Yeah.
54:27
Megan and I went to Jamaica because of of Town Square Media
54:29
back in the day. Those days are done.
54:31
Yeah, those days are long gone. Long gone.
54:35
Well, you'll just have to start saving your money for that
54:38
Alaska cruise and. Maybe next year.
54:40
You know how it turns out on the the Xmas.
54:43
Yes, yes. Which Speaking of Christmas, we
54:45
are going to be off the next two weeks.
54:47
I don't know if you knew this. I did not know this.
54:49
We're off. Oh, cool.
54:50
OK, we're off. Surprise.
54:53
All right, well, you know, it gives us time to spend with our
54:56
family and friends. Christmas, New Year's Plus?
54:59
Probably no one's going to be listening.
55:03
That's right. We've even, we even the radio
55:05
stations all literally voice tracks.
55:07
So it's like, yeah, I mean, well, it's funny.
55:09
At our radio station, you know, normally we have the nationwide
55:12
talent. They're all off, like there's
55:15
nobody like so well. Then what are you doing?
55:17
Did they just pre record everything?
55:19
They, well, they don't even record ahead.
55:20
They just, they just cut some holiday liners and you're
55:22
supposed to throw them in between.
55:23
And that's it. That's it.
55:25
There's not even like we're going to cut ahead.
55:26
It's just like you're some holiday liners.
55:28
Good luck. See you next year.
55:29
Oh my. Gosh, back in the day we used to
55:31
have to voice track out. So if we were gone like that
55:33
week, we would have to voice track that entire week.
55:36
No. Yep.
55:37
No. They're going to hold easy now.
55:39
If they segue song, So what? Wow.
55:42
Yeah, that's crazy. Well, Merry Christmas and happy
55:45
holidays and happy birthday, Michelle.
55:48
Thank you. Yes, Merry Christmas, Happy
55:50
Holidays, Happy New Year. Thank you so much for listening
55:53
to us. And hopefully, we'll still have
55:56
as many listeners into the new year, maybe even more.
55:59
All one of yours. Crossed.
56:00
Yeah, all one of you. Well, it's two.
56:02
It's Logan and Risa. There you go.
56:04
And my cousin Tara, 3. It's 3.
56:06
All right. Thank you.
56:10
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