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Happy Hour #201: New Year's Traditions · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to stuff I never told you a production of iHeartRadio,
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  Speaker 2: and we are back with the actual New Year Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 3: It is right now twenty twenty five as we're recording it,
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  Speaker 3: and we are jumping into twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: If you are listening to this when this comes out,
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  Speaker 2: Happier Year, I hope that you all are well.
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  Speaker 3: Lisa, Dad, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we're so happy that you're listening to us. And
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  Speaker 2: we would love to hear from all of you about
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  Speaker 2: your traditions, your hopes for the year, so.
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  Speaker 1: Please keep this coming.
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  Speaker 2: As mentioned in the previous part about Christmas traditions with
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  Speaker 2: Christina and Maya, we went into the office, we went
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  Speaker 2: in into the studio to record this. Maya made these
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  Speaker 2: delicious non alcoholic cocktails for us. I had kind of
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  Speaker 2: a dark and stormy situation. You had an espresso Martini situation.
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  Speaker 2: So we were sipping on these and we were just
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  Speaker 2: chatting about traditions, and we got really into Christmas traditions
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  Speaker 2: and then we realized, well, we didn't even get to
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  Speaker 2: the New Year's ones.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we did kind of talk about previously, the
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  Speaker 3: in between part of Christmas and New Year's and for Maya,
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  Speaker 3: her daughter's birthday ends up being in between that, so
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  Speaker 3: it's always interesting what do you do? How does that
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  Speaker 3: go about?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and we would love to hear from anybody
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  Speaker 2: that has any thoughts on that as well, either as
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  Speaker 2: a child with that birthday like that or as a
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  Speaker 2: parent with a child with a birthday like that.
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  Speaker 1: But so let us just jump back in to pass Annie, Samantha, Maya,
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  Speaker 1: and Christina in the studio talking about New Year's traditions.
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  Speaker 3: I am interested in what you're planning to do for
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  Speaker 3: New Year's. I don't do New Year's too much. We
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  Speaker 3: will The biggest things we do is try to stay
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  Speaker 3: up till the actual midnight, clink a glass, and go
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  Speaker 3: to bed like that is and sometimes not even that,
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  Speaker 3: like we're just going to bed. But what were your traditions?
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  Speaker 3: What will be your tradition?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, growing up, it was always pretty much that, like
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  Speaker 4: we got to stay up and we had our Martin
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  Speaker 4: Ellie's as kids. Oh even now today, I'm like, give
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  Speaker 4: me the Martinelli's.
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  Speaker 5: It's like the Martin Ellis was just hit the spot.
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  Speaker 5: It was sparkly. You just felt so cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you have it in a little champagne. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: we got in the champagne flute and clink the glass
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  Speaker 4: and you stay up you watch the ball drop. It
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  Speaker 4: was so much fun. I actually really loved New Year's
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  Speaker 4: looking back, it was a lot of fun. So we'll
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  Speaker 4: probably do the same thing. I know, Like my husband
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  Speaker 4: has a lot of siblings and they all live in
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  Speaker 4: the area. So usually either like Christmas or New Year's
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  Speaker 4: will do like a big sleepover and we'll stay up
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  Speaker 4: together and hang out, do food and like desserts. And
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  Speaker 4: then either we do that like with the family or
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  Speaker 4: at our house just the three of us.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I love that, Christina, Will you be in
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  Speaker 3: Pennsylvania for this?
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  Speaker 6: So usually, yeah, I'm in Pennsylvania for Christmas time, but
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  Speaker 6: I always come back to Atlanta for the past like
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  Speaker 6: five years to do New Year's here. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 6: like U, Samantha, like I stay up late. I stay
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  Speaker 6: late anyways, though that's not that special. I try to
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  Speaker 6: watch the ball drop, but I find it hard to
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  Speaker 6: find the ball drop. Every year I try to find
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  Speaker 6: the ball drop, and it's like a fake ball drop
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  Speaker 6: or an off brand ball drop, and it's you have
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  Speaker 6: to like pay for it and like have a whole
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  Speaker 6: app and.
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  Speaker 5: Like the woes of like came cord cutting it, like
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  Speaker 5: you don't just get the.
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  Speaker 6: Ball seriously, But no, I think I try to watch
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  Speaker 6: stuff in TV. I usually try to hang out with
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  Speaker 6: friends and do like the champagne and food wise, even
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  Speaker 6: like I I want to do more, like maybe eat
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  Speaker 6: something specifically. Develop new traditions would be nice. Oo time will.
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  Speaker 3: Tell time Hotel Annie, you have a very specific tradition.
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  Speaker 3: She developed her new tradition when we first started doing
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  Speaker 3: the show together and right before COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, well, I had admitted to Samantha, I I
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  Speaker 2: used to do New Year's pretty big. Yeah, I used
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  Speaker 2: to do it up, but I admitted that I just
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  Speaker 2: find it kind of a real mess, like going out
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  Speaker 2: in the city. People are doing all kinds of things,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just it was just becoming a thing
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  Speaker 2: where I'm like, I think I'm over this part of it.
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  Speaker 2: So that year we met up and I got mac
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  Speaker 2: and cheese. So now every New Year's Eve, I eat
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  Speaker 2: mac and cheese and I have usually I have a
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  Speaker 2: Goster champagne that night and then one the next day,
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  Speaker 2: and I watch I choose the movie that I think
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  Speaker 2: was my favorite movie define the year, and that has
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  Speaker 2: to be the last thing I watch. And then I
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  Speaker 2: want to choose a movie that I want to define
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  Speaker 2: the next year, and that will be the first thing
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  Speaker 2: that I watch.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And then I make a soup that's black eyed peas,
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  Speaker 2: colored greens and pork because I love soup. But I
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  Speaker 2: my mom used to do the whole feast, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, I'm just by myself. I need this,
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  Speaker 2: but I try to stay in like New Year's is
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  Speaker 2: actually a holiday where I've become kind of hermit, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: leave me, b.
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  Speaker 1: Go have your fun celebratory times.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think the first time you did that. We decided
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  Speaker 3: both of us that we were going to be by ourselves. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because this is again like this is when I figured
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  Speaker 3: out why everybody was having a roaring twenties party and
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  Speaker 3: I can't figure it out because it's twenty twenty. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, why, proposician. I was very confused because again,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go out and it just did
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  Speaker 3: not register. But that's what I was like, really confused.
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  Speaker 3: So we decided both of us would dress up, so
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  Speaker 3: she was in a Spider Man onesie and I was
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  Speaker 3: in a Panta suit and we cheers each other via
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  Speaker 3: a photo and that's exactly like I'm like, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I think this is better because going out
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  Speaker 3: and getting dressed seemed so.
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  Speaker 6: Like in the cover an bar, it's always drinks down the.
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  Speaker 3: Door, the battle cops out there, and then like you home, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get like and that one of the big
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  Speaker 3: things was like the uber cost or the lift ride
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  Speaker 3: they had like gone up so much the price that's
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  Speaker 3: not worth going out you and then trying to be safe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I'm not doing one person. You end up spending
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  Speaker 5: like one hundred something at the least.
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  Speaker 3: Just going three miles down the road or.
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  Speaker 5: The drinks and the everything. Yeah, but be responsible, be responsible.
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  Speaker 3: We want to be responsible, but it does it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of comes to the point where you're like, I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. Yeah, And part of that is definitely COVID.
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  Speaker 3: Like when everything did get shut down, it felt nice
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  Speaker 3: to have an excuse to.
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  Speaker 6: Not be out.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're like, you know, I don't really need
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  Speaker 3: an excuse. Yeah, I'm good, we's stay home. I'm stay home.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm thinking because you talk about y'all
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  Speaker 3: did a lot of big family things that takes a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, have.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all like taken some of that responsibility on or what
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  Speaker 3: are you telling to trying to take those responsibilities?
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  Speaker 6: I have.
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  Speaker 4: There have been years where we have a smallish house
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  Speaker 4: and we have a bigish family. Yeah, So even with that,
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  Speaker 4: we've still hosted.
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  Speaker 5: We've hosted some things. I just I like to host.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like the cleanup from the afterward, but
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  Speaker 4: I do like the like during piece of it. So
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  Speaker 4: I've done a few different things to like accommodate for
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  Speaker 4: like I don't have a huge house with a big
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  Speaker 4: dining room, but we can do like like we're a
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  Speaker 4: game couple, so we'll do like game nights and like
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  Speaker 4: connected to a holiday. So we did like Easter this
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  Speaker 4: past year, and we have a big lawn but not
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  Speaker 4: a big house, so we were like, we have the
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  Speaker 4: perfect house for So we did that and that was
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  Speaker 4: really fine with all the kids, all the nieces, adults, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I want adults, are adults. Adults are out there too.
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  Speaker 4: Real eggs are plastic plastic eggs because then you can
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  Speaker 4: fill the candy.
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  Speaker 6: One real egg in a plastic egg is the move.
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  Speaker 5: I need to get back to like dyeing the eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I used to do that my family. My dad loved
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  Speaker 3: loved having kids over to die eggs, and it made
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  Speaker 3: me very angry because I am not very artsy, and
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  Speaker 3: so my siblings would put all these cute little pictures
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  Speaker 3: and mine would just look like crap, and I'd be
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  Speaker 3: very upset about this, and then I would crack as
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  Speaker 3: many as possible to eat them. But yeah, I had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of bitterness towards crafting apparently, uh in traditions.
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  Speaker 4: But I've taken on some of them. So and then
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  Speaker 4: Christmas time I've done We've done like a dessert party,
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  Speaker 4: so it's like not so much food, like everybody brings
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  Speaker 4: a dessert like cookies or high or whatever, and then
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  Speaker 4: do games. And then we've done a New Year's thing
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  Speaker 4: also game centric, so that makes it like then people
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  Speaker 4: can sit on the floor or like you don't have
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  Speaker 4: to have like a setup. And the same way if
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  Speaker 4: you do like Thanksgiving, you know, you know, or Christmas,
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  Speaker 4: it's a.
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  Speaker 5: Little more casual.
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  Speaker 3: Quould go to game.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Recently we have really been liking my husband and I
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  Speaker 4: have been liking this game called fire Tower, So it's
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  Speaker 4: really fun. It has these little gym pieces.
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  Speaker 5: Have you heard of it. I've heard of it. I've
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  Speaker 5: ever played it though.
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  Speaker 4: It's fun, and the whole time we're playing the game,
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  Speaker 4: we always say this one word that they have all
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  Speaker 4: throughout the book, which is orthogonal, and we just think
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  Speaker 4: it's so funny because it's like we've never used this
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  Speaker 4: word before, but it's like they say it like a
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  Speaker 4: hundred times in the rule book because it's very important
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  Speaker 4: to the game. It basically means in all directions except diagonal. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So the idea of the game is like you have
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  Speaker 4: these four fire towers, like when you're like a watch
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  Speaker 4: in a forest and you're trying to protect your tower
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  Speaker 4: and burn the other person's tower, so that the operative
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  Speaker 4: the game is to, you know, be the last fire
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  Speaker 4: tower standing. And you're using these fire gyms which represent
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  Speaker 4: fire to on an offensive play to get somebody else's
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  Speaker 4: fire tower to burn down, and then you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: defend your own. It's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Christina, have you been taking on something? Well, you
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  Speaker 3: travel a lot, so.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So when I go home, my mom she'll do
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  Speaker 6: like a Christmas dinner. I try to help with that,
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  Speaker 6: like maybe I'll make it the salad or just help
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  Speaker 6: with anything, like help with the mashed potatoes. That's always fun.
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  Speaker 6: We're a big mashed potato household.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I love potatoes for lunch.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a family recipe?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: I think the one thing that is kind of a
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  Speaker 6: newer edition. My sister is like a pro mashed potatoes.
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  Speaker 6: She discovered it. It's very well known. Cream cheese. It's
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  Speaker 6: really good in there is like weirdly so good.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you on the sibling line?
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  Speaker 6: I'm the youngest.
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  Speaker 3: Are you the youngest? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to have picked that.
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  Speaker 5: No, me neither.
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  Speaker 6: That's probably good, good thing.
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  Speaker 4: I do am the youngest, But I think the youngest
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  Speaker 4: of two is very different than the youngest of like
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  Speaker 4: four or four. My husband's the youngest of five. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and it's different, like the youngest of a two sibling
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  Speaker 4: family and like a large sibling family, very different.
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  Speaker 6: Totally.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to think I'm not technically the youngest,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm also not. Uh it's that weird liney or
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  Speaker 3: adoptive thing like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I was older.
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  Speaker 3: So so Christina, does your family, live the rest of
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  Speaker 3: your family and live near your parents or are they
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  Speaker 3: all gone everyone?
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  Speaker 6: My sister, my sister lives in Flora to Oh, she
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  Speaker 6: doesn't usually come up for Christmas. They go down there
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  Speaker 6: and they visit around December and whatnot. But it's like
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  Speaker 6: I have two brothers back home in Pennsylvania in that
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  Speaker 6: area at least, and yeah, we all get together. Also,
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  Speaker 6: being raised Catholic, it always meant church on Christmas Morning,
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  Speaker 6: which I got to say was my least favorite thing
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  Speaker 6: to do.
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  Speaker 5: I don't Yeah, who wants to go to Christmas?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've played with my toys. I want to play
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  Speaker 6: with my toys.
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  Speaker 4: I've definitely been to a Christmas Eve service because we
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  Speaker 4: are Baptists, okay, and I think I feel like they
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  Speaker 4: tend to do Christmas Eve service. I think I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: they do a Christmas Day service too, but I think less.
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  Speaker 5: People go to that.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't thing you can do either for us too.
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  Speaker 3: We did plays and gift exchange in our and like dessert,
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  Speaker 3: yeah meal times in our church.
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  Speaker 5: Were you Baptist as well?
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  Speaker 1: We'll call it country Baptist.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Southern Baptist.
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  Speaker 4: No no, oh, no, you're like something else and.
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  Speaker 3: I think like the way they named it was like
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  Speaker 3: foot washing Baptists. Yeah, it's a little different. It's a
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  Speaker 3: little different. Go listen to the trauma trauma episodes.
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  Speaker 6: Explain any parts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I need to listen to that because I'm very like.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't handle snakes. Okay, they didn't handle snakes. I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you that. They didn't believe in tongues necessarily, but
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  Speaker 3: they were very loud, so not Pentecostal, not necessarily, No,
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  Speaker 3: no pithecostal. They would definitely say that Southern Baptists were
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  Speaker 3: not real Christians.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Yeah, that's adding to my list of you.
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  Speaker 3: Get to know. Well. I love this. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 3: come back and revisit how these holidays have gone. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: because of course, you know you're about to leave. Is
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  Speaker 3: this snowy right now in Pennsylvania? Oh? Yeah? Do you
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  Speaker 3: miss the snow?
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  Speaker 6: No? I hate it. It gives me anxiety, mostly for driving.
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  Speaker 6: Like as a kid, I was always worried my parents
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  Speaker 6: would get in a car accident. Oh, oh my god,
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  Speaker 6: it never happened. Really. I used to live in like
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  Speaker 6: a long driveway with a big hill. You would go
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  Speaker 6: like slide down the hill sideway.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes part of Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 6: It's like in the south west, like near Pittsburgh. It's
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  Speaker 6: like an hour from Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, any how far is Harrisburg from that?
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  Speaker 6: It's like, I think it's like four at three four hours.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it's in like a totally opposite direction.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of not the furthest though, Like it's it's a
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  Speaker 6: very drivable distance. But yeah, I don't miss the cold.
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  Speaker 6: I don't miss the snow. It is a little bit
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  Speaker 6: nice to go back and see a little bit of snow,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of snow happening
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  Speaker 6: there right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing a lot of videos like, yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 3: cold here right now. But I'm so glad we got
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  Speaker 3: to have this time together, right. We do need to
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  Speaker 3: do this more often. That means coming out of the house,
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  Speaker 3: so that's also a fear of mine. But we need
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  Speaker 3: to have more of these get together. Thank you so
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  Speaker 3: much for coming on, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and thank you for the drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, always welcome.
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  Speaker 3: I drink it so quickly. It was so delicious.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to try that one.
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  Speaker 3: It's really good.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe a half because it's the late afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Well until next time, hopefully we all have
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  Speaker 2: wonderful holidays. Everything goes fantastically save holidays and listeners.
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  Speaker 1: We hope that.
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  Speaker 2: You have a great holiday as well. Whatever you celebrate
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  Speaker 2: our don't We would love to hear about your tradition. Yes, yes,
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