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Gravy Meltdown, Cat Traps, and Googling Things We Regret · 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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So how was your Thanksgiving? Oh, it was great.
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We went to Oregon, went to Megan's families ranch out near
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Arlington and Condon. It's it's called Clem Clem
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Oregon. And so we did a, we did kind of
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a Megan went a day a day ahead of me because her mom and dad
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were there. And so her and her mom cooked up
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the big feast. And then because we have the
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dogs, I left Thursday morning and, and I know it's kind of
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sad. I literally went had
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Thanksgiving and then I drove back.
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Oh. My goodness.
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Well, their their farm's about an hour and a half away, so it's
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about an hour. And a half.
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That's not bad, yeah. It's about an hour and a half
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away, so. But yeah, so, you know, I mean,
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it was actually, it was pretty subdued for the most part
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because we had Megan, her mom and dad, and then we had her
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brother John, John who was there.
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That's it. We didn't have any, didn't have,
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didn't have Kyron, didn't have Logan, didn't have any, you
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know, didn't have John has a a daughter.
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Ava didn't have Ava didn't have any any kids.
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Oh, watch the watch the Dallas Cowboys win.
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So that was the good thing about the weekend, right?
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Against the Chiefs, which was even.
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Better so. Yeah, well, they're, they're on,
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they're on. They're going to the playoffs.
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They're on a huge, they're on a huge run right now.
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So Congrats, if you're a Seahawks fan, that that's that's
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awesome. So yeah, yeah, our.
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Thanksgiving was a little bit larger than yours.
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I think we had, I want to say thirtyish people.
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Oh my gosh. Because we invite my daughter in
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law's family. So I was like my mom, my
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brother, his kids, my immediate family and then my daughter in
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law's family. So like her mom, her dad, her
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Grant, her Nana, her aunt, her aunt's kids, her sister.
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I think that I think that was it.
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Hopefully I didn't forget anybody because if they hear me
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forget them on the podcast, they might be upset.
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So so yeah, we had a house full. My son Matthew made it up from
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San Francisco. No issues, no issues with flying
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with the airport. So that was he was thankful for
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that and he got to meet his niece for the very first time.
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So that was super cute. Oh, that must have been the
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best. Yeah, so, so, yeah, it was a
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pretty good Thanksgiving. Of course, my gravy, my I, I
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have to make ham gravy from scratch because my grandma did.
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But it never, ever, it's either too thick or too runny.
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Like it's, I cannot, I cannot master this.
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And it's going to be the death of me, this gravy like I, I
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don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've done all, I've read
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everything everybody says about tips and tricks on how to do
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gravy and make it just perfect. But none of them, none of them
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are working for me. So anyway, that's that's really
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all I have to. It's called camels.
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They make. They make little jars of gravy.
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They do, yes. They make little jars of gravy
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and you need, you just need, you know, it's it's time for the
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psych psych out. Well.
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I don't do the Turkey gravy from scratch.
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I buy like Costco has, like the Kevin's Turkey gravy in the box.
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Yeah. And I just get that now.
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Like, I can't I Turkey gravy's even worse for me.
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You know how you take the drippy?
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So this is from the Turkey? Pan yeah, this is from the ham.
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So we do a ham and a Turkey, and so this is from the ham.
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We put some water in with it when I cook it, and then all
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that good stuff in the bottom of the pan, and I use that for the
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gravy. Well, that's what my grandma
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used to do. And so, you know, you put in
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some cornstarch with the cold water and then you put it in and
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whisk it up. And but yeah, it never, it never
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works out. Never.
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I think the most amazing thing I was mentioning to Megan, I think
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the most amazing thing about all the preparation and then really,
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honestly, truthfully, you eat for like 2020 minutes or
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whatever and and it's done basically.
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Right. And you know, like there's stuff
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the day before. So I'm making the pumpkin pie
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the day before. I'm boiling the yams.
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I do them with butter and ground sugar and marshmallows.
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Yeah, yeah, Megan does too. So yeah, they did all that.
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Stuff. Yeah, they can't.
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Yeah, they did that. So I always I so as so as I
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enjoyed because remember I just I just dropped in for dinner.
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I. Just popped in and out.
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I just got my. 20 minutes you didn't.
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Even do the dishes you didn't do.
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Nothing. No, I know, I know so but but
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yeah, so it it was nice to be low key.
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Yours sounds like way more of a party.
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Yeah, I mean, it was a little bit more low key than usually.
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Sometimes we play a game afterwards and so this time we
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didn't really sound did. Did anybody?
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Does anybody besides you cooking?
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Does anybody else help or is it just you?
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Oh yeah, everybody brings stuff. Which really helps.
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So it's nice you have like almost a potluck type.
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Thanksgiving, too. Yeah, but I'm doing the Turkey
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and the ham and the gravy and one pumpkin pie, and then I have
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to do the yams because Shaylee likes them how I cook them.
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So we can't, we can't farm that out to anyone else.
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But like, like Haley's aunt brought the mashed potatoes and,
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you know, stuff like that that really helps.
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So I'm not having to cook every single thing.
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Dish for 30 for 30 people. So yeah, and and and, yeah, but
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that, I mean, that's. So where do you get the tables?
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We have the big Costco tables, OK.
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We have like 5 of them, like a live broadcast table.
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Yes, yeah. But we have five of them that we
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have to store and we have a whole bunch of chairs that we
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have the little hooks on the wall and.
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So we have all these chairs. That we stack up and so we have
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to. Load them out.
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Load them back in and I have I used to have I just bought this
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year the electric like buffet chafing dishes.
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I had the ones with the little whatever the stuff is that you
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light and put under him, the old kind of chafing dishes anyway to
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keep food warm because my brother is always notoriously
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late, which he has twins. I, I get it.
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But you know, your food starts to get cold after 30 minutes or
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so. And so I decided that I was
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going to buy these buffet chafing dishes.
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And so we've been using those and then I found these electric
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ones and I'm like, oh, and we use those for the first time and
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they worked out really well. So.
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So yeah, it is like a full on spread.
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It's like 3 Costco tables deep lined up against our living room
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wall. And yeah, it's crazy.
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So then we have tables and chairs set up for people to eat.
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We basically have to like move our living room furniture like
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the couch and chairs. It all gets moved and arranged
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so that everything fits. And your mom comes to this too.
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Yeah, she never. Everybody so both sides of the
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so both sides of the family come.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, not everyone like Jay's
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sister, she does her own Thanksgiving with her family.
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So it's not, it's not everybody like we have at Christmas, but
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it's just. A different so you so
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Thanksgiving and Christmas you've got why I'm curious why I
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guess why are you the destination place is it?
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Because when? Nicer house or?
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No room years ago. So when my grandma passed away
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because she would host Christmas for like my mom, my brother,
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like that side of the family. And then my dad would just come
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to our house because both of his parents were dead and he didn't
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really, you know, have a place to go.
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And so once my grandma passed away, we only had Jays grandma's
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or mom's house to go to. And then she got to the point
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where she was having some knee and back issues.
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And so then it just became everybody just comes to our
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house. And then once Jay's sister moved
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up from Texas and then she has her house and got remarried.
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And so things have kind of changed.
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But that's where it originated was we were the only one that
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had the house and the ability to post it.
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And in order to keep that alive, like a lot of it for me is
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keeping it alive for my grandma like that.
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She would be proud that I've kept it alive.
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And our my kids really like it. Even though they're adults, they
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like it. Like my aunt and her son stopped
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in to visit. She makes these amazing roles
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that she brings me every year. And then his kids get to see
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everyone. So it's kind of people just drop
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in and out kind of thing on Thanksgiving.
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So yeah. See that?
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That's the nice thing when you come from a broken home, you
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don't you don't see any of. These people.
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I come from a broken home too. Anytime.
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I mean, yours is a lot more broken than mine.
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But yeah, yeah, so, so yeah, for us, for us through the years,
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it's kind of been interesting because like the last two years
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we went to cousins in The Dalles, OR.
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I love cousins, their food is delicious.
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Yeah, so, so we met her family in the Dallas, OR and had and
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then had Turkey dinner. You know, we'd have nothing to
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clean up or any of that. You just buy it basically.
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And then and then four years ago we went to Baker OR my my foster
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sister Kathy, which was just an amazing time there.
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So for us, it's always been kind of bouncy, bouncy ball like in
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terms of Thanksgiving. And even when I was younger with
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Pokey, with Pokey and Logan and, and myself, it was always, we
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were always somewhere different. We weren't, I mean, there was
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some Thanksgivings. We'd be together.
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There's you know, and we, you know, kind of kind of bounce
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around. I think I remember, I think one
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of my best memories is as a teenager, like being 1819, my
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buddy Randy and I, my best buddy Randy, we, we would just drop by
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people's houses just to eat dinner.
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So, so that was so we did like 4, We did like 4 Thanksgivings.
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Just going to say, how many dinners did you?
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Get. Yeah, well, because, well,
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you're 18 years old and you're thin as can be and you can
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handle it. So.
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So we would go. And so he and I and.
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And he kind of comes from a very similar background in terms of,
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you know, his family wasn't around and all that.
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So we kind of went to, you know, people's houses and so it was
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kind of, it kind of cool that way.
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When I was in Bakersfield, people were always nice.
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And they said, Oh, you want to come?
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And so I, I mean, I've, I've had some thanksgivings with some
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very unique people that, that, I mean, it was basically what you
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call what 1 offs. Right, because you don't keep
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having Thanksgiving with the same people, right?
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Right. You're just kind of.
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There was one year where Cheryl, Cheryl and Jen, yeah, Cheryl and
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Jen. I mean, it just varies.
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Yeah, yeah. When the boys were really
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little, yeah, we'd have to bounce from like my grandma's
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house and then Jay's grandma's house.
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And when you have two toddlers, it's.
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It makes for a long day for them and for us.
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And yeah, if. You're if you're doing all that,
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but but again, I mean for me, and I don't have we talked about
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this, that Thanksgiving's my absolute favorite holiday.
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I think you mentioned it briefly in a past podcast so.
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Yeah, It's, it's, it's just just for me, it's one of those things
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where I, it's, we're, I'm, we're, I'm just grateful.
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So to me, it's like, even even as a, as a kid, I Thanksgiving
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is my favorite because I feel everything, everything else for
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me is take, take, take, take, Gimme, Gimme, me, me, me, me,
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me, me, me. And so this is the one holiday
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where I feel like that, you know, you really should be
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thankful. And then the hilarity as you
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break into Black Friday, Cyber Monday, small town Saturday.
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I mean, you know, so it's like you, you, you should be
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thankful. And then suddenly greed takes
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over. Yeah, yeah.
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So. All the Christmas shopping and
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buying, yeah. Yeah, how's your, how's your,
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have you even started your Christmas shopping?
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Yeah, we started some and we ordered some on Cyber Monday, so
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we did order some stuff. But yeah, you know, we start
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this year though. It's just, it's just really
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weird. I usually I'm really good about
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knowing what I'm going to get certain people.
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And this year I have, I've been horrible, but I don't know what
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it is. But I don't, I don't know.
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I've just. Well, the night, well, grandbaby
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gets first. Well, yes, yeah, we have her.
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We have her big, big guest bought and some of her stocking
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stuff and then yeah, yeah. It's amazing how the four in the
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back seat now get grandbaby first, then maybe if we got some
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stuff leftover you might get some crumbs.
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Well, and The funny thing is for the kids, they have the little
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sour patch and the boxes. They've like the Christmas ones
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and and they have the ones that are the blue Raspberry that are
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the coal. And then they have the red and
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green ones in the other box. And so every year like a
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different kid gets the coal for the year is the joke.
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And so this year I figure I'm going to give all 5 of them the
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coal and give a grandbaby even though she can't eat them but
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her parents can't so. Right.
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Which is hilarious. Which is which is hilarious.
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Funny, yeah. So, so for us, I mean, I don't
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know what you're doing for because you got, you have 4
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adult children now again. So for Logan and Kyron, for me,
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gosh, the last whatever years it's just been cash.
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Like I just give them cash. I don't know.
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We still do. We still give your kids cash.
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No, usually they we do. So we do a vacation and then we
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do their stockings and then now because they're all adults, we
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draw names and so that. Way you do so, you do a secret.
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Yeah, yeah, we do like a Secret Santa and then that way and the
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like, price point is under $100, you know, nothing big.
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That way each one of us gets to open something is kind of why we
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do it. But other than that, it doesn't
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have to be anything spectacular, but you could put things in your
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list. We we, we have an app that we
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use to draw names because, again, Matthew's in Matthew's in
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San Francisco. So yeah.
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And then you put like things that you might want in your
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little list and people can either.
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So that's choose from. It or not choose from it.
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Oh so so for a Secret Santa, so it's a secret.
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So it's a Secret Santa app? And yeah.
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I had told you so so it's so funny.
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Really quick about to get on track, tell the story.
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I I barely got here in time for this podcast.
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So normally when I come, you know, I've already played with
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the dogs. And so now I've arrived and
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Barkley. Oh, now here comes Bodie.
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So they're, they're all, they're all going to chime.
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In I warned you, I told you, you know, it's like they're so used
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to me coming home and playing like immediately.
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And so now it's like I started, started the podcast and now
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Barclays like not having any of it.
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Now he's upset. That's enough.
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So I knew it was going to be, I knew it was going to be crazy.
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So no, I like that, that, that. What's the name of the app for
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the Secret Santa app? I'll have to look.
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I'm not sure if it's like drawing names or what it's
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called. So yeah.
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Let me go get I told you it was going to happen that way.
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He's like he's going to give me so much lattice.
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What'd you do with him? What's that?
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He's upstairs. I'm like, did you put him
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outside? What'd you do with him?
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I put him. I, I did, I, I put him, I put, I
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put him. Well, he's upstairs and we have
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a, we have a, we have a gate, basically.
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So like a baby, he's upstairs barking.
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He's. Still up?
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Yeah, he's still, He's still up. He's still up there barking.
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So it's hilarious. It's just.
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Hilarious. So yeah.
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All right. Well, since we're having issues
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with animals, I wanted to update you on the cat that we were
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trying to trap. I have an update on that.
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So which I told the story, I think not last podcast, but the
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podcast before about this cat. Yeah.
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Well, we trapped her and then we discovered she had Kitty
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somewhere. We had to release her back until
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we could find the kittens. Well, I was getting coffee and
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before Thanksgiving and I saw her, which the coffee girls, we
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bought them food and they've been feeding her.
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I saw her and I kind of parked and watched where she was going
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and she went into the bushes right along 40th Ave. which is a
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busy, busy Rd. here in Yakima. And I'm thinking, Oh my God,
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once these kitties, if that's where they are, if they start
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walking, they're going to be roadkill.
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So we have to find them. And so the next day I went and
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got some tuna fish and parked by where she kind of went into the
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bushes and set the tuna fish down because you want something
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really smelly that's going to get them to come out to see if
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her kitties were old enough to be walking.
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And sure enough, not even 5 minutes later, she pokes out of
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the bushes and here comes 2 little kitties.
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They poke out of the bushes. And as I'm sitting there,
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because I'm kind of waiting, thinking, OK, there might be
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more, let's see, sit here and wait a little while.
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And there had been some other canned food like Friskies that
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that was in that area. So someone else was feeding her
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because that's not the brand the coffee girls had.
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I just thought it was maybe the ladies from Biomart because they
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also know about her. And as I'm sitting there waiting
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to see if more kitties are going to pop out of this Bush, a car
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pulls up next to me. Well, it's the lady that's been
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leaving the Friskies food. So we meet each other and she
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has three other kitties. So there were five kitties from
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this litter. She was able to catch 3 like
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right before I like found where they were.
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So she has three. So then we go on Monday and
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Shaylee catches one of the kittens and we are there all
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day, like all day. And Monday we are trying to
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catch because we cannot trap the mom again until we have these
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kitties. So we catch the 1:00 and we go
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back early. It was early Tuesday morning,
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like 7:00 AM because it's supposed to rain later on
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Tuesday. And we figure, you know, they're
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not going to come out in the rain.
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And so Shaylee gets there at 7:00 AM and she finally catches
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it. She's sitting outside in the
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cold waiting to catch this little Kitty out of the Bush.
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And she finally catches it at about 11:30.
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But this one, this Kitty was a little more scared, a little bit
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little more street smart. It was, it was a little more it
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would see us and go. So it probably would have
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survived a little bit longer on the streets than some of the
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other kitties. But so yeah, we finally grabbed
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that one and now we have been trying to trap the mom, which my
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fear was if we released her, she would be smart and not go into
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the trap. And that is what is happening
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now. Now we cannot get her to go into
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the trap. We've tried all the tricks.
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You know, you put you put sardines and mackerel.
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You do like kitten sandwich, you do all this stuff and she will
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not even go near the entrance of the trap.
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She tries to get the food from the other side of the trap
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because she's smart, which is probably how she's survived for
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so long. And so finally yesterday I had
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to go get a drop trap, which that's kind of like the one
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where, you know, you have like the stick and you pull the rope.
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I had to go get a drop trap from one of the ladies in the rescue
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that we foster for. And now I got to go.
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I'm going to have to sit out there in the cold or me and
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Shaylee is probably going to take two of us.
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We're going to have. To set up this drop trap.
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And once she goes under there, we have to like pull the rope
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real fast and run over and, and if we don't get her, that means
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she'll probably know this trap. So fingers crossed we can trap
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her within the next couple days. That is, that's our goal.
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Now that we have this drop trap, Hopefully we can we can catch
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her and and and get her, get her all, get her a home.
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I don't know, something we'll figure out.
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Something so you got so you do have the kitties.
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Though we have the two kitties, yes?
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And then and then the other lady has the three kitties.
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The other lady has the three and she had already, she had already
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found homes for them. Otherwise I probably would have
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taken all five of them. But she already had homes all
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planned out and found for them. So yeah.
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So interest. So, I mean, does Mama Kit, does
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Mama Kitty know that they're gone, I guess or?
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I think so. She's going back to the same
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Bush, but she's not staying there, staying there.
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So and when we we played kitten noises to try and get her to go
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into the trap and she came out running and I felt so bad.
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I'm thinking, Oh my God, she's probably looking for her babies.
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But but we had to try and get her out and get her into the
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trap. But obviously she didn't go
21:24
anywhere near the opening of the trap because she knows.
21:27
That she's super smart. Yes, I am like, Oh my God, just
21:31
just go in the trap because. She's well, that's why she,
21:35
that's why she survived for so long.
21:37
Yeah. And with one eye, you figure she
21:40
has one eye, She has one injured eye that we think is from a
21:44
blunt force trauma. It's not an it's not an eye
21:47
infection or respiratory infection, which a lot of cats
21:51
get. So she either got it from
21:53
whoever dropped her off, or she got it while she's been living
21:56
on the streets. So.
21:58
So yeah, she's surviving with one eye and taking care of five
22:02
kittens. It's crazy.
22:03
Poor little. Kitty, I hope you.
22:05
I hope you get her. Yeah, me too.
22:06
Me too. Fingers crossed, anyway.
22:10
So yeah, that's our that's our cat story.
22:13
A great reminder really quick that those are listening all all
22:16
one of you that to make a donation to your favorite your
22:20
favorite animal shelter or your spay and neuter or pet rescue.
22:25
There's so many great so many. Well, I mean, there's so many
22:29
great organizations for everything, for everything, you
22:31
know, veterans and foster kids and you name it.
22:35
But and and it I've been rounding, I've been rounding up.
22:39
So when I've been at the store, anytime I've been and I said,
22:41
oh, would you like to round up? I always round up, you know,
22:44
and, and it's funny, I had a Co worker go, I don't do that.
22:47
Like, whoa, OK, why? I just thought it was
22:50
interesting. I just thought it was
22:51
interesting that they just. I didn't want.
22:54
To I don't know, I was like, I didn't touch it.
22:56
I didn't touch it. I'm like, I'm not touching it.
22:59
But I was talking. I was oh, oh, oh, today they no,
23:02
they were talking today. And this is 1 where I would not
23:05
drop any names. But they go, they go, I don't
23:08
get, I don't understand giving Tuesday, you know, so.
23:13
So I was like, oh, OK, I better, you know, and I was like, oh,
23:15
don't you like, you know, don't you round up?
23:19
Nope, I don't do any of that. OK, I'll I'll just keep on
23:21
walking here, but. Obviously, she's a very.
23:24
But they're a very generous person, so I was kind of.
23:27
Oh, I was going to say, obviously they have no clue
23:29
about nonprofits and giving. No, I like how they're.
23:32
Generous so I don't understand, but they did not they did not
23:36
seem to like giving Tuesday like like they were like, what's the
23:39
big deal with giving Tuesday and like whoa, OK, so you know, but
23:43
I've but I've seen them do stuff.
23:47
Great. So I've seen him a food drive.
23:49
Yeah, yes, food drive. Different things.
23:51
So I I thought it was interesting.
23:52
So yeah. And then and then it was like
23:54
when I talked about rounding up, she acted like I was like most
23:57
disgusting human that ever lived.
23:58
I'm like. OK, so it's not really that much
24:02
money. What do you think about it, the
24:05
rounding out in the grand scheme of things?
24:07
But once you get a whole bunch of people doing it, then it you
24:10
know that makes a. Difference and I, you know, and
24:12
I get it that, that with, you know, a lot of I mean, again,
24:15
you got to know who you're giving your money to.
24:17
I mean, I guess, I guess what you know, I know, I know my son
24:22
Logan would disagree with me because let's say it's yolks or
24:24
whatever, or rose ours or whatever.
24:26
Well, they make millions. So why are they asking me when I
24:30
go through the the line to round up or give, you know, cat, you
24:34
know, and I'm like, well, I you're not going to you're not
24:37
going to beat the corporation man.
24:39
Like no. So, so, so it so if Subaru or
24:43
whoever's doing a food drive, I'd rather give at the local
24:46
level, you know, and I do. And I fully understand that this
24:50
this stupid ass CEO is making, you know, 30 million a year.
24:54
I get it, I get it, But I don't want.
24:56
But I'm not interested in punishing people.
24:59
Right. For one guy that that you know.
25:03
Great, because if we all had that mindset, like Logan, there
25:06
would be none of these programs or nonprofits to help anyone or
25:10
anything for that matter, so. Well, Logan wants to help
25:14
everybody. I mean, I think.
25:15
The in place, yeah. Yeah.
25:17
So I mean Logan, I mean that's, that's where Logan and I have a
25:20
lot of conversation is it's not that he, I mean he wants, you
25:23
know. He just wants the the
25:26
corporation to pay their fair share, but that's not realistic
25:29
right now. Well, he won't.
25:30
Well, it's not even just it's not even remember he is, you
25:33
know, he is way once where he you know, and so it's like he
25:39
thinks, I mean, in his mind, the government should give you a
25:41
house, should give you a stipend.
25:44
Yeah. So he's so, you know.
25:46
Oh, what is it? Oh, what is it called?
25:47
Universal. Universal income.
25:50
Universal income. Ubi.
25:53
Yeah, that that should just be an automatic.
25:55
Right. I mean, other countries have a
25:57
lot of that stuff, so. Yeah, I've talked about that
26:00
quite a bit and I've, you know, I've tried to, you know, if you
26:03
want to go there, you're more than welcome to go there.
26:05
So, but these are the conversations we have.
26:08
But yeah, I mean, I, I feel when it when we talk about those kind
26:12
of situations, it's like I'd much rather give my money to A
26:15
cause locally. Yeah.
26:17
And and I hope that it gets to the right, the right place.
26:20
I would much rather so I don't know about you, Michelle, but
26:24
it's like, I'd much rather I just like Salvation Army's out
26:30
there bell ringing, right? You know, I, I don't, I like to
26:34
give. I don't like to be accosted.
26:38
Oh. So, so I was at Walmart
26:41
yesterday and there was a probably an older gentleman out
26:43
there, but he had Flyers and I think it was probably maybe
26:46
doing a toy drive or whatever, but he was stopping people.
26:50
And it's like, I, you know, I don't have a problem buying a
26:53
toy or doing those things, but I just, I don't like stuff in my
26:56
face. And there's and, and, and, and
26:58
the the good news is there's so many great people on the planet
27:02
that that's their gift. Like that's not my gift and my
27:06
gift is not to to go up to strangers and go give me 5
27:09
bucks. Right.
27:10
I was going to say that's that's how he's getting donations and
27:14
getting like the sales people of the world basically.
27:17
Yeah, there are those people that are good at that and those
27:20
people that aren't. And that's basically kind of
27:22
what he was doing being. Yeah, and it's amazing.
27:25
To get donations. And amazing and I have a lot of
27:28
respect. I would much rather do it.
27:31
It's, I guess maybe even maybe you can understand Michelle.
27:34
It's so much easier doing it from a radio station station
27:38
standpoint for me. So it's like you and I are out
27:41
doing a Turkey drive or we're out doing a pet food drive
27:44
because we're Rick and Michelle. Hey, it's Rick and Michelle from
27:46
the bull out doing that drive. Does that kind of make sense?
27:50
Yeah. You know Super Sam, I mean you
27:52
and I have done a lot of charity in our.
27:54
Time. Yes, we have.
27:54
Yeah, A. Ton of charity but I always like
27:57
it. I guess I just like it from the
27:59
radio side of things and I just don't like Virgil Wallace going
28:03
and asking. I don't know why it is.
28:05
I have AI have a hang up about who I you know.
28:09
Well, I think. I think it's childhood.
28:11
That's childhood. Yeah, I was going to say, I
28:13
think there's a lot of pieces to that puzzle, why you are, why
28:18
you think that way or why you're programmed that way now.
28:21
And I think a lot of it has to do with your childhood.
28:24
And I think part of it is because we we can see and know
28:29
the impact that we can make as like Rick and Michelle compared
28:34
to just, you know, like you said, Virgil Wallace or we have
28:38
a great, we have this, this literal microphone and we yes,
28:42
and we can use it and get it out there and spread the word, get
28:46
more donations. Whereas Virgil Wallace you are
28:49
just a bell ringer in front of Walmart and nobody would know
28:53
who you were unless you said oh word or they recognized.
28:56
You right, right. So the nice thing about, like
28:58
you said, about doing something for radio for a fundraiser is
29:01
you got the tent out there, you got the vehicle out there, you,
29:04
you, you also have some giveaways.
29:05
Everything behind you. Yeah, yeah.
29:07
And so and so, so people will walk up to you and go, hey, what
29:10
are you guys doing out here? And then you could explain, oh,
29:13
we're doing a toy drive and like, oh, that's cool, I'll get
29:15
a toy. I'll come back right.
29:17
So or, or or they go a lot and go out there or they go out the
29:20
side door. So either way.
29:22
Or if you're just standing in front of Walmart with a flyer
29:25
without all that stuff. But.
29:27
I respect that you. Are going to have to go up to
29:30
people and be like hey, I'm I'm doing this for blah blah blah
29:33
blah blah toy drive. Can you donate a toy or whatever
29:37
and so that piece you would not want to do?
29:40
But no, because I, I think too, it's like I want to, I, I, I
29:46
give all the time, right? But I want to give what I want
29:48
to give great. You don't want to feel guilted.
29:52
Right at the. Time or on the spot be like,
29:55
yeah, do you? You need to donate now,
29:58
otherwise you're going to look like a bad person.
30:00
Thank you. And and how often do we carry
30:02
cash anymore? I don't carry cash anymore.
30:04
Nobody does, you know, so, so when I do see the bell ringers,
30:07
I mean, I try to come back out with a couple bucks, but it's
30:10
not always, you know, So sometimes I'm hoping they're
30:13
gone, which at Walmart they were.
30:16
One day I was coming out with 2 bucks and then they were gone.
30:19
I was like, oh, OK, they're gone.
30:20
I'm surprised they don't have the like the little card reader
30:22
squares where you could just like surprise tap your debit
30:25
card. Yes, tap your debit card on the
30:28
bucket. Oh that would be great.
30:29
But that'd be fine. I'd do that.
30:31
I, I mean, it's, it's again, again, it's not about not
30:34
giving. I'm more than happy to give.
30:36
But it's like, yeah, it's and I, I got, I got a great story to
30:41
tell you. So many years ago, I was coming
30:45
back from Bakersfield in the middle of the night.
30:46
And so coming up to from Bakersfield to here is a 13 hour
30:50
drive. Oh God.
30:51
And so I was driving straight through.
30:53
And so I was, I think I was in like a Redding, CA somewhere in
30:57
the middle of the night. It's one or two in the morning
30:59
and I'm outside and I'm outside of a 711.
31:01
I just gassed up another round of gas and there's this this guy
31:04
out there that goes, hey, man, hey, you got 5 bucks.
31:07
And I gave him 5 bucks because as I drove away, I thought
31:11
number one, it was icy roads, it was winter time.
31:13
And I thought, well, if that was Jesus testing me, I passed the
31:16
test. Yes, you did, because you.
31:20
Did, because I don't know about you.
31:22
One thing I do believe in Michelle is good karma.
31:26
Oh yeah. I believe in karma and so, you
31:29
know, if you are, I really believe if you are a rat
31:31
bastard, I don't know when or where it's going to get you, but
31:35
karma will get you. It will.
31:37
I believe. I truly believe so.
31:39
So to me, it's like, yes, you know, I round up or I give when
31:43
I can. Now do I give everything I got?
31:47
Well, probably not. You know, I don't know about
31:49
you, Michelle. I don't give everything I got.
31:51
No, we give what we can or even more than we can, but we try to
31:57
do our best. I mean we also have to survive
31:59
on as correct. I mean live day-to-day, pay our.
32:03
Bills. Yeah, yeah, I'd love to.
32:04
I'd love to like, you know, give my entire savings account to
32:07
somebody. But but then I'm then I'm
32:10
destitute. Yes, yeah.
32:11
So so to me it's. Like to be reasonable, Yeah,
32:15
About our giving. Right, So so many ways.
32:18
Find the Find a place to donate and to make a contribution.
32:22
Yep, definitely. All right, I wanted to ask you,
32:25
do you know what the word is It fletching?
32:29
Hopefully I'm saying it correctly.
32:31
It's FELCHING. Do you know what that means?
32:36
I. I I well I've heard the term
32:38
fletch before, or fletching I mean when, what context I guess.
32:43
Well, OK, so my girlfriends were texting yesterday about this
32:47
word because they didn't know what it meant either.
32:51
And so they had to Google it. And the reason that we're all
32:55
wondering what this word is is because it's RFK junior text
33:03
that Olivia Nunzi that girl he was having an affair with this
33:08
this word. So it's a it's a sex act of some
33:12
I don't I don't know. And so my friends.
33:14
Google it. Yes.
33:16
My friends googled it and then they were texting about it.
33:19
How? Like now they're grossed out and
33:22
they can't not see this and now I'm scared to Google it.
33:26
So I was hoping you knew what it was so you could tell me what it
33:30
was. I don't want to Google it and
33:32
have this pop up on my phone screen and scare me or I don't
33:37
know. Well, let's see.
33:40
Well, this says it's the fins attached to the rear of an arrow
33:43
or crossbow, so I don't that must be OK.
33:47
Fletching, right? Fletching.
33:48
Yes maybe do like fletching sexual act I don't know.
33:53
I don't know how you would Google this.
33:57
Yeah, hang on Fletching, I'm. I'm scared.
33:59
I know. I mean, I didn't know what Riz
34:03
meant, so you know. No, you don't want to know I.
34:11
Didn't know it. Oh thank goodness I did not
34:14
Google it. Oh God.
34:16
Yeah, yeah. I don't even want.
34:18
I don't I I, I OK, I don't want to talk about on the podcast.
34:26
It has to be bad. It has to be bad.
34:29
It's bad. You you could just text me.
34:33
I will text you. Hang on.
34:34
OK. Hang on.
34:35
Oh, God. Not while we're not.
34:37
While we're doing the podcast. I don't want to add it because I
34:40
don't want to see it now. It might be traumatized.
34:45
Oh, no. Oh gosh.
34:50
Oh, felching, felching. It's.
34:51
Called Oh, is that how you say it?
34:53
OK. Belching.
34:54
I figured I was like pronouncing it wrong.
34:56
But yeah, it's OK because fletching has something to do
34:58
with bows and arrows and stuff, OK?
35:00
10I. Figured it was yeah.
35:03
Fell. Yeah, there's there.
35:05
Yeah. Thank you.
35:06
So yeah, I there you go. I just sent.
35:13
It to you? Oh no.
35:15
Yeah, I mean, I would be embarrassed to even talk.
35:18
About oh gosh, Oh no, no, my God, I'm so glad I did not
35:25
Google that Right. So.
35:29
So we joke. About that, hey, you know, we
35:32
could talk about anything on this podcast.
35:34
There just places I don't want to go.
35:36
That's crazy. Well, at least now, now I know
35:40
what it means. And I have.
35:42
Curiosity killed the cat. And I am by no means a prude,
35:47
OK, but neither. One of us are so but.
35:49
When I see that I'm like, OK, I don't know if that I'm not going
35:52
to discuss that in the presence of, you know, even if even if I
35:55
enjoyed that, I'm not going to discuss that in the company of
35:58
people. And and to our one listener
36:01
that's listening, sorry. Yeah, they don't want to hear
36:03
none of this. It's probably a family member of
36:05
what so. It's called, so if you want to
36:07
go Google it for yourself, if it's called felching, felching,
36:10
yeah. So there you go.
36:11
Yep, Yep. That's nasty.
36:18
Got it. OK.
36:20
All right, now next topic, Michelle, everybody.
36:23
'S I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna have RFK junior's like, face
36:27
that's gross in my mind. OK All right.
36:30
Yeah. OK.
36:31
Next topic I wanted to ask you if you started watching the last
36:34
season of Stranger Things. No, I know it's the I know it's
36:38
a big deal. I know it's a big deal.
36:40
And what are the are, aren't all the kids like 30 years old now?
36:44
I mean. Well, they are 10 years older
36:49
because the very first Stranger Things was 10 years ago.
36:53
Yeah, yeah. So, but my son and I started
36:56
watching it while he was here for Thanksgiving.
36:59
And so I, I had heard that, OK, so there's rumors about.
37:05
So this is the first half and then the second-half.
37:07
Drops in December 1's Part 2. Yep.
37:09
Right. So I had heard that there's
37:13
speculation that how it's going to end is that this is going
37:17
basically this is them playing AD and D campaign and it's not
37:22
it's not happening in real life. And I was kind of like that.
37:26
Seems like too simple. Would you be let down by?
37:29
That Would you be let down by that?
37:30
Because that seems like a even though it seems logical, like
37:35
that would make sense because, you know, DND is like a huge
37:38
part of stranger things and my own kids play DND.
37:41
So I unders I understand a little bit of it.
37:45
And so it it would make sense that that's kind of how it would
37:49
end, that it was them with this whole DND campaign.
37:53
But I feel like that's almost too easy of an ending.
37:59
Yeah, but do. You get what I'm saying?
38:00
Like. So I don't know enough.
38:02
I mean, I know of Stranger Things, I don't know enough
38:03
about it. So I do know isn't don't they
38:06
encounter creatures and different things?
38:08
Vecna, Yes. This horrible monster, Yeah.
38:12
Yeah, OK. So what?
38:13
So what kind of monster is it? Because so D&D is trolls,
38:19
magicians, Wizards. Sorcerers and make.
38:22
Sorcerers. I mean, it's, it's medieval
38:24
Knights, you know, trolls, different things like that.
38:28
Does this creature resemble anything that could be D&D?
38:32
It's it's almost like a cross between D&D and superheroes
38:37
because he has certain powers and kind of like scientific Y
38:42
they were him and L, which is 11 and all these other kids were in
38:49
this lab kind of situation and their that's how they have their
38:54
powers and whatever. So it's kind of like a mix of
38:58
just all they just like threw everything into the show,
39:01
basically superheroes and or or people with super powers and D&D
39:06
stuff. And so, yeah, it's just
39:09
basically a huge mix of that kind of stuff.
39:12
So I don't know. That was the big way back in the
39:16
80's. The big let down for Saint
39:17
elsewhere was that that the entire it was six seasons of
39:22
that hospital, right. And at the very, I'm not going
39:24
to spoil for it because it's from the 80s, but the little boy
39:27
is autistic at the very end. And it's a snow globe.
39:31
And you see that the the hospital and and and they end it
39:35
with these two people talking like, oh, he doesn't speak.
39:37
Duh, duh, duh, duh. You know, and then he's looking
39:40
at the snow globe, which has the hospital that had been the whole
39:42
60s, you know, So people have speculated that it was oh, was
39:45
this all in Tommy's? Yeah.
39:48
And just point well. When you think about, you know,
39:52
a lot of people, I remember, I remember Seinfeld was a big
39:56
disappointment because if they ended up in jail at the very
39:58
end. Sopranos people were so pissed
40:01
about that and. Don't stop, don't stop.
40:04
That's it. That's the end of that.
40:06
So, so there have been like these, the grand finales where
40:10
that and then Jerry, even for Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld said he
40:15
goes, he loved the ending. He goes, they were they were the
40:17
most wretched humans on the planet.
40:19
That's why they ended up in jail.
40:20
Like that's the end of it because they were so wretched.
40:22
As you know, I. Think you're not going to win
40:27
ending a show? You're not.
40:28
You're not going to please everyone.
40:30
You're always going to have somebody who's like, well.
40:32
You. So what I think, So what I think
40:35
about you, I think what's interesting about you, Michelle,
40:37
is you are hardcore in certain ways you are, you're hardcore.
40:43
So to me. You are too, especially if
40:45
there's. No.
40:46
Superheroes. But but not OK, so a great
40:48
example for me. It's like, it's not, I'll give
40:51
you a couple examples. I enjoy Star Trek or Star Wars
40:55
or superheroes da da, da. But I like like there's always
40:58
this like they go, oh, who? And when Hulk versus Superman,
41:01
OK. And then people get into fights
41:03
about this stuff. To me, it's like, well, I always
41:06
go whoever writes it, like whoever writes it, because
41:11
they're fictional characters. They're fictional characters.
41:14
And so I don't recall any time, even my favorite shows or
41:18
anything where I was disappointed because I'm like,
41:21
well, maybe that's what the that's what the author wanted.
41:23
That's what the writer wanted. So, so it's interesting.
41:26
So when I watch a movie where they they change the ethnicity
41:29
or gender swap somebody, I don't care because I look at it like
41:33
this. Is it a good story?
41:35
Did I enjoy the story? Now if it's a crappy story, it
41:38
has nothing to do with them being gender swapped.
41:42
It it has everything to do with this wasn't a very good story.
41:45
And for me it comes down to comes down to the story.
41:48
It just comes down to the story. So when people ask me what my
41:51
favorite, like let's say superhero movie, right?
41:54
Well, for me, The Dark Knight was Heath Ledger's Joker because
41:59
without the makeup, without the special effects, that was a good
42:03
movie. I didn't need Batman or Joker to
42:06
be in it to be. I mean, they they could have
42:08
been just normal people and that would have been an interesting
42:11
thriller. You know, I didn't need the
42:13
superpower part of it. Same with when people ask me
42:16
about my favorite Superman movie of all time.
42:18
Megan asked me her friend did you know for me 1978, I was 8
42:22
years old the first time I ever saw Superman.
42:24
Christopher Ree fly. But if you look at it, it
42:29
special effects, it doesn't even hold up today, like it's not
42:31
going to hold up. But no but but I.
42:35
But it makes me realize when I watch Margot Kidder, I watch
42:38
Christopher, I'm like, man, they're good actors.
42:41
They're good actors because the script was good.
42:45
So. So yeah, so you, but I know
42:46
you're hardcore. So it's like if they like it,
42:49
like if they marry off a character or they kill a
42:52
character, don't you get? Yeah.
42:54
That's that's why I had such a hard time with Walking Dead.
42:58
This whole new premise of killing off your main
43:01
characters, like what shows in history have done that
43:05
consistently like The Walking Dead.
43:07
And I think that's, but that's also why people loved it though.
43:12
Robert Kirkman, yeah, I love because it was a comic book
43:14
before it was ATV show. Robert Kirkman I will give you.
43:18
OK, so I did enjoy The Walking Dead.
43:20
Loved it. I will tell you once Rick left,
43:24
I because I don't know why, I mean, I even survived, you know,
43:27
Carl and all, I mean, the list goes on and on.
43:29
But for some reason Rick was my character.
43:32
Like I could, I could, you know, relate to Rick, right?
43:36
So I never got into Daryl Dixon. I mean, he's not.
43:41
Into any of like. That he's a cool side character.
43:44
Yeah, he's a cool side character, you know, and Negan
43:47
and all that, they were cool. But for me, Rick was the dude.
43:51
And once he left, I kind of watched a couple episodes and
43:54
then, OK, I'm good. And that was the end of it.
43:56
So I never saw the ending of Walking Dead.
43:57
I've never, like you said, I've never seen the, the, the other
44:02
spin offs. But I was die hard Walking Dead.
44:06
Logan and I were die hard Walking Dead until, until he
44:08
left, like, OK, I'm good. So I, so I mean, to some extent
44:12
now, I didn't know people are crazy because they'll go online
44:15
and just hysterical. I'm like, OK, I'm not.
44:19
There's nothing that I like that makes me that.
44:22
I think and which for Walking Dead, they did a brilliant job
44:27
of we got connected to these characters.
44:30
Even I like there was a few characters I cried when they
44:34
died. And these are fake people in a
44:36
zombie world that I am crying for.
44:39
And I would be I have to tell myself that like, girl, what are
44:43
you doing? These are fake, but you get so
44:46
invested and you love them so much and you're just rooting for
44:49
them to survive in this horrible conditioned.
44:53
And harsh world when Terrell offs that little kid yes, I mean
44:57
come on. I mean that's probably one of
44:58
the most traumatic things I've ever seen on TV.
45:00
Even though you don't see it, you're like look at look at the
45:03
flowers, look at the flowers, like oh, I'm like this kids
45:06
dead. I mean like, oh.
45:07
Yes, I know Jay's sitting next to me and that's what he said.
45:09
And I was like, they're not going to kill a kid.
45:12
And sure enough. Yeah.
45:16
Yeah. So I don't know.
45:19
And interesting even in the comic books because you can do
45:23
more graphic art in the comic books.
45:25
When Megan killed Glenn, it was it's growth.
45:28
I mean, if you seen the issue, it's growth because it's art.
45:30
I mean, it's art. So.
45:33
But yeah, even then I was like, oh shit, here we go.
45:37
Yeah. So.
45:38
So, yeah, I mean, you do become invested in in some of that.
45:41
Now, if it continues to tell a good story, I'm good.
45:44
But but like you said, once a character goes like, OK, now
45:47
it's, you know, that's not. That anymore and that's your, if
45:49
that's your character now, you're just like, right.
45:54
But there is a missing poster in Stranger Things with Elle's
45:59
picture on it, and it has a phone number on it.
46:01
And people called this this number, People called the phone
46:06
number and there's a recording. It's a recording of the Hawkins
46:09
Police Department, like saying that they're looking for Jane
46:13
Hopper. I was like, oh that is
46:15
brilliant, that. Is brilliant.
46:17
That's brilliant. I love that.
46:18
Of the show creators, yeah. So it's little Easter eggs and
46:21
stuff like that that make it fun too.
46:23
No, that's cool. No.
46:24
And I know and I know that this is it.
46:26
This is the the fifth season is the, you know, coming, you know,
46:29
And what again, what's gonna be the next big?
46:31
What's gonna be the next big thing?
46:33
I don't know, I saw somebody that because you know how we've
46:36
talked about movies just aren't the same at the theater anymore
46:40
and COVID kind of, you know, made that, destroyed that a
46:44
little bit or whatever. But I saw somebody who said,
46:47
well, maybe we just don't have anything good to write about
46:50
anymore or tell a good story anymore.
46:53
And I thought, I don't know if that's necessarily true.
46:57
I mean, have we told all the wonderful, great stories that
47:01
think so that we have to tell? I think it's I think it's much
47:05
harder to reach people today. Yes, I think one of one of the
47:09
things that's interesting, I think I was watching a YouTube
47:11
video about it. The movie star is dead.
47:15
Oh yeah, which we've mentioned that before.
47:17
Which is interesting that. Yeah, so just because Scarlett.
47:20
Johansson. Yeah, yeah.
47:22
I mean, yeah, that now they're banking on this big Avengers
47:25
movie with Robert Downey Junior coming back next summer, you
47:28
know, but but it it's almost impossible to do a billion
47:33
dollar movie anymore because because streaming is basically
47:37
like we've talked about this just, you know, like I'll wait
47:39
for streaming or I'll, you know, all these different things.
47:42
So it's hard to make an event like it.
47:44
So back in the day when we went and saw Harry Potter, those were
47:48
events or Spider Man or or Titanic, any of that stuff where
47:52
it was events, event viewing. Yeah, and now we've become so
47:56
cynical. We're like, I just wait.
47:57
I just, I just wait for stringing.
47:59
Unless you unless you really want to go see it yourself.
48:02
Right. I mean, which Wicked has done
48:04
amazing at the box office. So, yeah, the second one, yeah.
48:09
But people want to go and see sing the songs.
48:13
It's kind of no different than the Barbie movie, dressing up
48:16
and going to see that. Yeah, and I was just watching
48:19
but but they're saying wicked too because it did not get
48:22
better reviews looking for good. It's not going to make the
48:26
billion dollars. So yeah.
48:27
So the the true test will be Avatar which is coming out.
48:30
Oh. Yeah, Avatar is coming out here,
48:32
I think this weekend or next weekend.
48:33
And that's going to be the big test that can't, can't James
48:36
Cameron of all people, who's the billion dollar guy?
48:40
If he can do it, if he can do a billion dollar, then I'll
48:42
believe it. But they're saying we'll see.
48:44
We'll wait and see, but Zootopia too was number one last week,
48:48
so. Yeah, it's doing amazing.
48:50
That's. 500 million already. People are taking their kids to
48:53
see Zootopia, so yeah. So again, I think it comes down
48:58
to just the right story, the right everything.
49:01
Right. It was also Thanksgiving week,
49:03
so people probably had the time to be able to take their kids to
49:07
go to the theater. Yeah, because a lot of people
49:09
will watch football or they'll go to a movie.
49:11
And I've known families like that.
49:13
I've known a lot of families that will go and watch movies
49:17
for Thanksgiving. That's their big, like you said.
49:19
Oh, we're going to play a board game.
49:20
No, some families go do movies. Great.
49:23
Yeah, Yeah. So.
49:25
Well, we'll see. I'll keep an eye on let me know
49:27
what Stranger Things when it finally drops the second-half
49:29
and. Next month and.
49:31
You're going to be just disappointed.
49:32
To like, it'll have to be like. I'll have to spoil it for you
49:35
because I have to tell you the ending, whether I liked it or
49:37
didn't like it and what happened.
49:39
And I, you know, before we end the podcast, I am definitely one
49:43
of those people that that I have no problem being spoiled on
49:46
movies. I've never I'd love to.
49:48
You're not going to go back to watch Stranger Things, is that
49:50
what you're saying? No, no, no, But I, it's like,
49:54
it's like, so it's so funny is like when a new movie comes out
49:58
and I want to go see it, let's say it's John Wick or whatever
50:00
it is, I will go to the wiki Wikipedia page and they will
50:04
have the plot on the day of the release.
50:07
Yes, all the time, all the time. So then that spoils.
50:10
It. You can.
50:13
You can spoil movies. I don't care.
50:16
I think. I think, but.
50:17
Then so then what's the point of going like, OK, I know how this
50:21
movie is going to play out, so why?
50:24
I mean, yeah, like the actor actresses might be great in the
50:27
movie, but then why would? You I get the more I don't like
50:29
surprises. It's like if I really like, you
50:31
know, like you said, if I really like a character, I want to know
50:33
if they're going to die. Oh, for a great example Superman
50:36
movie you had Crypto the dog. And you looked to see if he was
50:40
going to die, didn't you? Yes, I did.
50:42
I mean, that's the dog though. I would have done that too.
50:44
So. So I I will not go to, I don't
50:46
go watch. Movies where dogs die.
50:48
So it's not what I do anymore, so I always will check that.
50:51
And and Oh my gosh. Well, there's these, there's
50:55
have you, I don't know if you've seen them, but there's these
50:58
movies called A Dog's Journey and A Dog's Path or whatever it
51:01
is where the dog gets reincarnated.
51:03
Yeah. Yeah, the kids Shaylee has
51:05
Shaylee has all three books. Oh, my God, I know they.
51:10
So I think they went to the theater to see the first one.
51:13
I think Jay took them because I was like, I cannot go see this
51:16
movie in the theater. There is no away.
51:20
And then I was home by myself, which was a rarity when the kids
51:24
were younger. And it was on, I think HBO or
51:28
one of those, this is before Netflix and all that kind of
51:31
crap. And I just happened to start
51:34
watching it. And thank God I was at home
51:36
because I went through like a whole box of Kleenex.
51:39
Like I was bawling. And this was the first movie
51:42
because it's a three series. There's three books, right?
51:45
Yeah. And so I'm like, oh God.
51:48
And yeah, I did not watch the second one.
51:51
The kids have watched all of them.
51:53
But yeah, I I can't. I can't.
51:55
So I've seen, so I've seen YouTube clip, YouTube clips of
51:59
it. So, you know, of, of really the
52:02
emotional moments, yeah, you know, and that's good enough for
52:04
me. And then it's like, yeah, I, I,
52:08
you know, same as one of my but but like, what is it?
52:11
Homeward journey or whatever Homeward bound.
52:15
I love those. Sassy and Chance.
52:17
Yes, love those movies, Logan. Logan loved those, as you know,
52:20
he. Loves that over and over.
52:22
Yes, yeah, yeah. So but you know, but again,
52:25
that's more of a they're talking.
52:27
So it's like I can, I can suspend belief.
52:32
That they're real. That they're just.
52:33
Yeah, I mean, I can suspend belief on that.
52:36
But for me, even even at the very end of the the first one
52:39
where I was like, oh, Shadow, he's too old.
52:42
He didn't make it. And he's like.
52:43
Peter. Peter.
52:46
Like, oh, son of a bitch and you're crying.
52:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's for me.
52:51
Any animal. It's so easy for me.
52:52
That's why I can't watch water for the elephants.
52:55
I can't see any of that. Even cartoons.
52:58
So yeah. Remember God.
53:00
Remember the land before time? I rewatching that with the kids.
53:07
This was years ago again when they were younger, but it was I
53:11
I was almost starting to ball. And keep in mind, you know,
53:14
we've seen the this movie as kids.
53:16
So it's like I knew this was going to happen.
53:19
I knew what was going to, you know, who was going to die.
53:21
I didn't tell the kids, but I'm trying not to cry because I got
53:26
Shaylee over here crying. I got Jackson over here crying.
53:29
And I asked the mom trying to keep it together.
53:31
So because these two are like bawling and I'm trying not to
53:36
cry because now the movie's going to make me cry.
53:38
Now my kids are going to make me cry because they're crying from
53:40
watching the movie. This is this is a domino effect.
53:43
Yeah. I'm glad, yeah.
53:46
I'm glad Walt Disney moved off of Dumbo and Bambi and like.
53:50
Why do they always kill the mom? Why is it always the mom that
53:54
dies? That's what that's what I want
53:56
to know. Why any of those things you
53:58
know, but but looking back. As except for The Lion King.
54:01
Right. Oh God, well, that.
54:02
And see that Mufasa, that God that.
54:04
Wasn't the mom? No, that's Mufasa.
54:06
That's that, you know, that's that great, that great father
54:09
son relationship. Shaylee when So she watched that
54:12
movie over and over when she was little and we'd get to that part
54:15
and she'd yell Fast forward it, Fast forward it.
54:18
We'd have to fat. This is a VHS tape.
54:21
We'd have to Fast forward through Mufasa dying until we
54:25
got to the end of it, and then she could resume watching the
54:28
movie. Yeah.
54:29
Yeah, Logan, that was one of his favorites cause what year was
54:32
Shaylee born? 2006 but we have all the Disney.
54:37
VHS tape. We had them on video cassette.
54:39
So Logan loved that. Yeah, he loved all.
54:41
He loved all that. But but yes, but for me, I I
54:45
recall so funny when we were kids, the movies that my foster
54:48
mom took me to 101 Dalmatians saw that in the theaters.
54:53
Also the Apple Dumpling Gang I. Don't remember.
54:57
That, Yeah. So that's Don Knotts and Tim
54:59
Conway, right? They're Disney movies.
55:01
Yes. But I think so.
55:03
I'm I. Think I was too young?
55:05
Yeah, you're probably too. But I'm all about bumbling
55:07
criminals, those, you know what I'm saying?
55:09
Those are those kind. Of Home Alone criminals.
55:11
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are, those are fun, so.
55:14
Like the fun bad guys? That's the the fun bad guys.
55:17
Yeah, the fun bad guys. So so before we go what what's
55:21
your favorite holiday movie of all time that you can think of
55:23
off top? Of it.
55:24
Oh gosh, holiday, holiday movie shoot, I'm trying to think.
55:30
I'll put you on the spot. Yeah, I'm trying to think what
55:33
do we usually what? Oh, Polar Express, that's a good
55:37
one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
55:39
For me, we just watched that. Yeah, that's a good Tom Hanks.
55:43
Love that. So it might shock you.
55:45
My favorite is Miracle on 34th Streets, but it's the black and
55:49
white version from 1939 with Natalie Wood, the OG version,
55:54
The OG version I saw when I was 8 years old with my foster
55:57
parents or on TV and just fell in love with it.
56:00
I actually own it. I actually, I mean, I own a copy
56:03
of it So and and I and they remade it in the 90s, right?
56:07
I've seen that one too, but I. Think so, yeah.
56:10
They remade it. I have only seen bits and pieces
56:13
of that movie. I haven't seen the attack.
56:14
Yeah, that's that's one of my favorites of all all time.
56:17
Just like I haven't even seen Is it a Christmas story with the
56:21
leg lamp and the yes. Ralphie, Yeah.
56:26
I mean, I have not seen that movie.
56:28
I've only seen. Little clips.
56:30
Of it. Yeah, that's a, that's a, That's
56:32
a fun. One, that's a classic.
56:34
That is a that yeah, that's, that's a, that's a good one.
56:36
You got to that. People got to.
56:37
Check. I think my favorite, like
56:38
Christmas are, is like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and
56:43
Frosty the Snowman, the Claymation.
56:45
Because you know, we would wait whatever night that was going to
56:49
be on TV, 8:00 PM on Friday night on whatever channel.
56:54
And cuz again, we didn't have we couldn't go back and watch this
56:57
shit. We had to catch it that day.
56:59
And so that was probably like my favorite.
57:03
The little drummer boy is is my favorite favorite.
57:05
I do. Oh wow, Little Drummer.
57:07
Boy, I don't. I've not seen the claymation
57:08
version of that. Of course I've seen.
57:10
Haven't I've? Seen, of course, Rudolph and
57:13
Santa Claus is coming to town, I think.
57:14
Yeah. There's a couple other and.
57:17
Then and then the animated 1 of Frosty always made me cry
57:21
because that's where Frosty melts and I did not guess that
57:23
was not cool, that that's not cool when you're 8.
57:26
No, no it isn't. It's not not cool.
57:30
No. Well, I guess we can end it
57:34
there. What?
57:36
What our favorite Christmas shows and Christmas movies are.
57:39
So we're going to. Play.
57:40
We're going to go play a game of DND.
57:41
We'll be back. Maybe you can tell us in the
57:46
comments what your favorite Christmas movie or Christmas
57:48
show is, or maybe one that we haven't seen.
57:51
We oh, we can have the die hard argument next.
57:54
Podcast that next week. We can start off arguing about
58:01
whether that is a Christmas movie or not.
58:06
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