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Thanksgiving Dinner is Expensive These Days | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  Dee, is it? Is it Wednesday?
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  It is. OK, it's Wednesday.
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  Now hold on. Coffee with Kenny going to look
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  a little different this morning. How you doing?
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  Good. Morning.
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  Good morning. OK, this is like a sorority
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  house here. It's just us three that live
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  here and we all do our own deal. Kim takes Kim takes care of, I
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  guess she goes grocery shopping. That's her deal.
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  Dee, I do the laundry. Dee folds my laundry.
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  So, Dee, I'm very thankful on Thanksgiving weekend that you
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  fold my laundry. Do you have anything to say for
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  yourself? Thank you for folding my
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  laundry. Well, you're welcome, and that's
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  an easy job. Yes.
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  OK, Kimberly. Yes, I'm very thankful for you
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  loving me. You're everything to me.
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  You really are. I just don't know what's coming
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  next. What do you?
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  Mean you don't know. I don't know what you're going
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  to say. I want you to know I love you
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  and I'm thankful to you, all right?
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  But there's more. I know there's always more with
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  you. OK, conversation at hand now.
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  I done told you all how thankful I am.
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  I'm thankful to Dee, I'm thankful to Kim.
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  It's Thanksgiving weekend, so I just listened to a conversation
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  between these two and went grocery shopping yesterday, and
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  our Thanksgiving tomorrow is going to be about 40 people.
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  My wife has done an incredible job keeping the family together
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  because the family kind of split up.
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  Everybody went everywhere for years.
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  Now you've got the family coming together.
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  Easter, my God, there must have been.
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  That was fun. How many people were here for
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  Easter? I don't know, 60, That's our
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  family. Kim's family and my family, they
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  all splintered. They went everywhere.
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  And then in the end, there was nobody left.
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  Well, the leader over there, Kim, she wants the family back
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  together. And I and I agree.
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  And this, the new generation, which used to be the kids, now
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  they got kids. And now, now, now we got it
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  going on. Now they're going to be 40
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  people here tomorrow. This coffee with Kenny is about
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  how much money are you going to spend on Thanksgiving, OK?
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  Dee said. It is ridiculous the amount of
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  money we spend on Thanksgiving for one meal.
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  Now, before we interview Kim, Dee's right.
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  We're making all this food now. Listen, everybody's bringing
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  food. Everybody's bringing food.
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  It's what we do in Jefferson County.
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  Like if you're, if you're having a party here in Jefferson
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  County, we're a bunch of rednecks.
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  If we're having a party, we have the place.
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  You bring your beer, BYOB, bring your own beer.
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  If people are real wealthy, they supply the beer.
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  So Dee said it would be way easier for everybody just went
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  to eat on their own for Thanksgiving because the amount
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  of money we spend on Thanksgiving.
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  So now the interview starts. How much money did you spend at
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  the grocery store yesterday? $686.
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  Say that again. $686 but some of it was for our house too.
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  I had to go grocery shopping. Yeah.
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  But when you have a big family like that and everybody brings
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  everything, you don't have to make everything.
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  Yeah, who's bringing what? Every Jacob and Brooke are
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  making the turkeys. I picked up the ham.
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  I make the mashed potatoes because they're hot and
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  dressing. Hold on, let's have Dee Dee.
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  What did you make? Hold on that 11 LB ham was $110?
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  Holy moly, say that again. That 11 LB ham at Honey Baked
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  Ham was 110. Dollars.
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  Is that on top of the $600.00 at the grocery?
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  Store. Yes, Sir.
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  OK, hold on now we're at 7 now we're at $800 it.
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  Never used to be that way, so hopefully those food prices are
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  going to come back. OK, hold on.
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  OK, so right now you spent six what?
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  At the grocery store? 6 what 686?
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  She spent 686 and went and bought $100.
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  What? How much?
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  $10. Ham a what?
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  Ham, $110 a hundred. And $10.
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  HAM 68780 OK, we're at 8. We're at $800.
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  Dee, thank you for telling me that.
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  She would have hid that. Why?
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  What am? I going to hide.
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  No, it's just funny. Why it's?
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  It is what it is carried. It in so you.
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  I carried it. I carried the ham in.
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  Yes. I just pay the bills.
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  That's my job. I'm I'm like the dad of the
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  whole I'm like Michael Jackson. I have an entourage and I just
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  hand money out. I love doing that.
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  I love doing that. OK, so our.
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  Only other option. So we're at $800 right now for
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  food and we don't even, we don't even bring in the food.
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  I am bringing the. Food.
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  OK, what are we bringing? Let's go again.
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  I'm doing ham, mashed potatoes, dressing and cranberry sauce.
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  That's what I'm making. OK.
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  And everybody else is what? Who else?
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  They're bringing all the vegetables, the desserts.
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  OK, hold on, Dee. Soda Dee's been slaving.
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  Dee, I see you made some pumpkin pies.
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  I can't wait to get into those Dee.
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  Makes every I mix that. And what else do you make Dee
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  all of? Sweet potatoes.
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  Sweet. Oh, I love sweet potatoes, by
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  the way, everybody, Mark Martin says sweet potatoes are rocket
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  fuel. Sweet potatoes is rocket fuel.
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  But Kim Wallace? Kim Wallace, what do you add on
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  to your sweet potatoes? We put.
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  Syrup. No.
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  What do you add on to it? Oh, sweet potato or syrup?
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  When we go. Round sugar, and that's good.
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  Marshmallows. Yeah, that's good.
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  Yeah. That's when I go to Texas
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  Roadhouse. But you know but.
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  Listen, you're the best. But I'm a party.
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  Planner. No.
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  Yeah, you're the best. We're just getting This is just
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  coffee with Kenny is about what everybody does for Thanksgiving.
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  So right now we're at $800. Yeah, no problem.
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  But part of that is for our house, for us to eat.
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  Yeah, OK. But still, it's a lot of it's a
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  lot of money because that's the way the grocery prices are.
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  Yeah. And they've been, I used to go
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  to the grocery store and spend 2 or $300.00 and it would take us
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  a month because we don't go to the grocery shopping every week.
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  Right. But now it's, it is like seven,
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  $800 if I go for a month. Yeah.
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  So somebody, somebody here a while back, said Wallace.
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  You always going out to eat. It's cheaper.
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  I go up, I go up to Twisted Tavern, I go to Cybergs, I go to
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  Chili's. I spend, I don't know, 18 to
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  $22.00. If I would have to do that here,
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  we it'd be ridiculous. Hey can I show that?
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  You can show the kids have seen it now I'm not completely.
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  Done. OK, hold on.
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  Come here, Come here. Show everybody what you've done.
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  I am definitely. Turn some lights on.
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  A party planner. So everything I do is just all
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  about my kids. Yes.
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  All about my kids, OK? Turn the light on there so we
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  can see what's up. See over there?
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  Turning the lights on. Don't forget to turn that light
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  on. Oh, that pretty.
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  We got one out of there. Looky here.
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  Looky here. What gave you this idea?
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  Oh, I saw. It somewhere.
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  You saw it somewhere? Yeah, I did.
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  You want to turn? Hold on.
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  Well, hold on. This is what?
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  Hold on. Come here.
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  This is what happens when you have a, you know, a nice home.
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  Mark Martin. Mark Martin told me, Herman, he
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  got rid of that big house in Florida because he he drive up
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  to it. Mark's watching this, Mark said
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  I him and Arlene and Matt got rid of that big home in Spruce
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  Creek because every time he'd go up there be a light out.
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  So now, now she's freaking out because that light's out, but
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  all the other lights are on. Are you, are you thankful for
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  all the other lights? Sure.
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  But you just mad at that one light.
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  Well, it just needs. To be done.
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  Hold on. We're going to turn the light on
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  here. I got to get down here, Chris.
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  I'm not going to hold on, hold on, hold on producing this show
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  this. Is crazy, we got to figure.
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  Out something that was right. OK, Kim, this is going to be the
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  end of coffee with Kenny. Yes.
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  What a job you have done. What a job.
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  Hey, come here. Stand right there.
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  OK? You are the love of my life.
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  Please explain this to everybody.
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  They might they might want this idea.
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  OK, go ahead. They're supposed to look like
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  little snowmen, but each stack is each of the kids gifts.
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  OK, so we got Mila. I know some look bigger than
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  others but they're the same. And there's our.
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  Smaller. OK, so do you think the kids
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  will be upset because some look bigger?
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  No, but they're going to keep track as they open.
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  And then it's we spent the same amount.
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  Same same amount and they have the same amount.
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  But some just boxes are bigger. Then they have their stockings
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  over there all. Right, let's look at this.
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  OK, Mila, that these are snowmen, Charlotte.
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  I don't have my jet buttons. On them yet?
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  Jade and baby Lila the newest one.
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  OK, go ahead. So nice stockings.
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  This looks very good up here. Oh, my God.
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  We got a big family. We got so many family members.
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  Look at the dogs. The dogs are over there.
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  And then we went to the kids Christmas tree here.
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  Then I had my nativity. A nativity scene.
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  Shouldn't we turn this on over here?
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  Come on. Well, you're going to light
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  everything up. How come that that ain't
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  lighting up? It will.
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  Let me light it up. Let me light it up.
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  Oh well, I still ain't got there.
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  We go look at there, huh? OK, now tell me about tell me
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  about the kids Christmas tree. We used to have 5 little trees.
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  They all had their own tree because Grammy would take them
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  out every year and they got their own.
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  They got their to pick their own ornament for the year.
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  Yeah. And so now Lottie's 8, so she's
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  got 8. Plus, Grammy bought all the
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  brand new baby ornaments when they were born, but so the trees
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  just kept yellowing every year, so we.
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  Because we had white trees in there, they.
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  Were so every year I was replacing at least one of them.
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  So I thought we're going to get one big tree.
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  So they here's what they did. They put their initial on the
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  back of the trees. Got it.
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  So these are all the. 5 grandbabies.
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  This is their tree and. Then we got new and you have.
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  To replace that one I got to put a battery in it.
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  It tells rhymes. It tells stories.
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  Stories. Yeah, it tells stories.
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  OK. A lot of mixed in there.
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  I hope you learned a lot. So respond right here.
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  How much money do you spend on Thanksgiving?
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  This one here, She's a trooper. She likes to keep the family
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  together. And hey Wallace, look at that
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  hair. How come you never say nothing
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  about my hair? Because.
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  I don't care about your hair. You don't care about my say say
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  she don't care about my hair. I don't.
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  She don't care about my hair. I leave it like that.
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  Well, on purpose anyway. I then respond right here.
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  Tell me all about how much you spend on Thanksgiving now.
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  It's worth it to Kim. It's worth it to Kim to spend
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  that kind of money because it it brings the whole family
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  together. Her job is to bring the whole
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  Sunshine family back together. That's that's her side.
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  Rusty's in the mountains. My brother Rusty's in the
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  mountains. Steven is down to Daytona with
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  Terracide, Mike and the other side of the family.
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  They're up in the other mountains.
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  They're up in Pigeon Forge with my mom.
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  Well, our family's so big that some of them do their own with
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  their extended family and stuff. So we've just always had
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  Thanksgiving for those that didn't have anywhere else to go
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  or whatever. And.
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  You know how? Sometimes our friends are our
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  family, too. So your mother, Dee Dee.
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  How many, brother? How?
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  How many? Whether of you, How many?
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  I'm the oldest of 10. Say that again.
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  I'm the oldest of 10 in a 12 year span, so we're all very
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  close together. Ten of us.
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  Yeah. OK, so when I joined Kim's
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  family, you'd go to get together, there'd be 100 people
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  there and and you didn't even try.
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  So they all, everybody kind of split through the years.
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  And it's Kim's job. She wants to bring the whole
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  family together. So if you want to spend $1000 on
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  Thanksgiving, that's fine with me.
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  I know, Hold on. And the.
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  Day ain't over yet. We we hold.
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  Hold on. Hold on.
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  What? What'd you say?
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  And the day's are not over yet. They're still Sam's in Costco.
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  Yeah, yeah. So we'll we'll get to $1000.
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  We're at 800 and we didn't bring half the food.
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  So respond right here. Is it worth $1000 for you to
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  keep your family together for Thanksgiving?
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  Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.