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Embracing the Holiday Spirit, Greene Jumps, Real Science News and More | S14E6 · Live! with Fefe and Freddy

• 0:25
  Music. Hello.
• 0:31
  Good evening, good evening, good evening.
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  Hello hello hello to the wind. It says like 3 times that I have
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  lost connection but. It said the same thing on my end
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  before we started. So if it's.
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  Saying the same thing on your restream thing.
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  It may not be. That's what I'm that's what I'm
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  thinking. If it's if it said the both
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  thing like the same thing to both of us but I didn't lose
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  connection anywhere else. That sounds like it's a restream
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  thing. OK.
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  So if either of us go down. Not our fault.
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  Like the last couple weeks, especially with the the new
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  thingamabra over here bringing the Internet to the room, I have
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  not really had any problems. In fact, I have streamed TV in
• 1:31
  here pretty well now because it used to like stop completely.
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  And so anyhow, welcome to live with Fifi and Freddie.
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  If you're new here, welcome. Frequently the Internet likes to
• 1:49
  go out on me, but it seems like tonight the Internet is being an
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  equal opportunity hater and going out on both of us so.
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  Or it's just a restoring thing? Oh yeah, that too.
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  And over there, looking like the rich uncle that's going to be at
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  your. I'm the I'm the eccentric uncle
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  that like gets invited to the things.
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  What everybody thinks is, you know that way, but nobody
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  actually addresses it. They're like he is different.
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  He lives with his friend. Right, his friend of many years.
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  You know your Uncle Frank and his friend.
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  Right. Yeah, and I am what most people
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  will tastefully or tastelessly have tomorrow, a Turkey.
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  I feel like we'll get into that. Never mind.
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  But I won't. I won't.
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  Today we have a show packed of, you know, I think last the last
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  40 days, 50 days have been kind of hard hitting.
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  Last show we, we took it a little lighter.
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  Let's bring it a little lighter, you know, 'cause tomorrow let's
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  get into the holiday spirit. Kind of Some political figures
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  are jumping ship. Find out why sounds like good
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  news to me, but we have additional news that you might
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  enjoy so I'll be into the the the gig gig gig gig gig gig.
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  Quick question, what are some ways that you enjoy showing
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  gratitude? I almost want to say like what
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  is your love language? But I didn't want to like.
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  I mean, I think there's some overlap on that.
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  Like, you know, like, I mean, for me, everybody knows that
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  one, like one of my love languages is food, whether it's
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  going out and sharing a meal with people or whether I'm
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  cooking or whatever. Like that's, that's always a big
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  one for me is, is. Food.
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  So gratitude through food then? Absolutely.
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  Like if, and it's like it's a, for me, it's a, it's a, It's a
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  way to to, you know, like if someone helped me with something
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  or, you know, whatever. It's like, no, here you, you
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  know, you did this. Come over.
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  I will make you dinner. Though I am a very bad friend
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  and never take you up on that. This is correct.
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  This is correct. Oh, it's a feather.
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  I'm. So used to hair being in my
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  mouth I was like what is that? This may come off by the after
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  show, so my. Beard is already coming off
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  because I had to use a a cream instead of the the water based.
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  So that's right, it's. Going to fall apart it's fine
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  we'll do it together. Ways of showing gratitude.
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  I think gift giving is a way of showing gratitude.
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  But I feel like I'm well, apart from you.
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  I like order things and then they don't come in the right
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  way. So only with you.
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  I, I think nobody else has told me that they have not received
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  the correct I, I. I still have my I still have my
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  barren moose. It's it's over here on my wall.
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  I, you know what, intentionally next year I should just buy you
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  something that goes with it 'cause now it's like not odd
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  because isn't, isn't it supposed to be like they're supposed to
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  be in threes or like an odd number or something?
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  And possibly. I don't know that's that's not
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  my department. But anyhow, I think practical
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  gifts most of the time. But if I find something that
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  like reminds me of you that I think that you would enjoy, I'm
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  that person. I do the actually, I do the same
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  thing if I'm like out and about, especially like if I'm at
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  Goodwill or something, I'm like, oh, this is totally like
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  Felicia, I will grab it because you know.
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  Yeah. That's don't be offended if I
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  like get you something from Goodwill because everything I
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  own, I mean. But hey, previously owned it's
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  sometimes they get if anybody sees any coach purses or any
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  costumes. I have seen several costumes at
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  Goodwill. You laugh, you can laugh all you
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  want, but you may have even said, oh, I love that costume
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  and I. Found it at Goodwill.
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  Oh no 100%. Trust me I I am.
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  I am that guy 100%. This feather is gonna drive me.
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  It's a one rogue feather that's just Oh my.
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  God, it's like not staying with the rest of them.
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  It's just saying, hey, girl, yeah.
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  So we have four people. It says, where are you?
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  Are you in the chat? Are you talking to us?
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  You love. They're not, not that I can see
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  you. That's OK.
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  I recorded myself getting ready today.
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  Friday. The bundle of hair above my head
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  is from Marissa of Wigs of a Kind.
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  She's got some good stuff out right now.
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  This season, yeah. I am not wearing a wigs of a
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  kind wearing because. I mean, but if you want to get
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  Freddy a Wigs of a Kind wig, you could purchase it and tell
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  Marissa that it's for him. You can absolutely.
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  And I feel like I need a pink wig.
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  I don't have a pink wig. I have like a hot pink wig which
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  didn't really go. That one that I wear all the
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  time would go great with that. Stop trying to steal my shit.
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  I mean send it over here. Let me see if it fits.
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  If you want to support our show, please send us a message.
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  Please. It's the holidays.
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  We have children in our houses, both of our households, and the
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  adults are starving because the children.
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  You're right, the kids aren't there.
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  Everything. The kids eat everything.
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  I care for the I care for the kids, but they eat all of the
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  food before I can get to it. My pigs eat better than I do.
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  Oh, that's right, too. He's not talking about the
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  children. No, the actual book, yeah.
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  How was your weekend? You know, my weekend was kind of
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  busy, but it was OK 'cause I, I, it was, it was, it was OK.
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  So my daughter's 16th birthday was on Saturday and.
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  I almost text you about SO. All right, so all right, so
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  turning 16, right? So the, the one thing she wants
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  to do is go get her driver's license.
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  You know, she's been practicing whatever.
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  So she goes in the morning and fails.
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  So of course she's bummed about that.
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  Then we get and, and mind you, it is like it has been raining
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  all day, like it is, it is just pouring, right?
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  So we gather up a gaggle of her friends and we go see the second
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  Wicked movie. And I of course, am spoiling.
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  I'm I'm OK at this point. If you don't know the story,
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  it's 20 years old. It's not fucking new, so.
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  There's people that are of the new that have not.
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  Still, the play is 20 fucking years old.
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  The book was from the 90s. So at this point it's not really
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  spoilers like I have. If you don't know it like
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  that's, that's on you for. But yeah, I, I literally as soon
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  as it started, I started crying. Yes.
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  And without really giving anything away I anything that
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  has to do with animals, regardless of whether it is real
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  or CGI, whether it is made-up animals, whether they are
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  fantasy animals, whatever the fuck it is, I struggle with
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  that. You lose control.
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  So I start yeah, the from go. I was bawling.
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  So after that we get home and of course what she wanted for
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  dinner were my Thai pork skewers and sticky rice.
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  Which is all well and good, except again, it is raining and
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  these are made on the grill because otherwise it it they're
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  not. You can't really not make them
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  on the grill because it's weird. So.
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  About like one of those griddle things.
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  Doesn't get the same flavors you've got right at the IT it
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  it's you can like you could, I guess technically do them
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  inside, but they're like so in between like raining, we
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  literally pull the like the grill over.
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  We set up an umbrella so that I'm like under the umbrella and
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  I'm like, well, hopefully it doesn't rain too badly while I'm
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  making dinner. Her friends, they had a
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  slideshow party. Oh, I remember we talked about
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  this before. And this.
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  Is very popular. One of them did Disney Princess,
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  a Cliterary analysis. Mm.
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  Hmm. Mm.
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  Hmm. You heard me.
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  Yeah. And so basically ranking like,
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  Disney Princess from like, yes. He makes me feel funny in my
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  pants, too. Not so much, right?
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  Guess who the top three were? Princesses or.
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  Princess, Princess. Oh, top three.
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  I don't. Are there that many?
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  Yeah. Oh well, of course you know,
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  because now you've seen the slideshow, right?
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  She didn't even get some of the like the good or it was Disney.
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  It was either Disney might have been Disney men, not necessarily
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  Disney Princess, but Disney men. Does this include the whole
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  franchise now or classic? An animated animated.
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  Classic Disney before all the people got bad at.
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  Yeah, none of the live action or whatever animated.
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  So Disney men top three for a 16 year old?
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  What? Nope.
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  Oh, what? Prince Eric?
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  Nope, Prince Eric is not on the top.
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  I'm sorry. What about that guy from
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  Tangled? Nope.
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  OK, so I struck out. OK, top 30.
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  God, I'm. Afraid and I quote Daddy Mufasa.
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  Daddy Mufasa was #3. And he didn't even.
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  Oh, he would have won the pat. Little Daddy.
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  Simba, get out of here. Was first alternate.
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  Who won? The Pat what?
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  OK, number one, number one on this girl's like top.
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  I can't remember. It was 10 or something.
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  Disney men that like really get her motor running.
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  Milo Thatch from Atlantis. Skinny little guy, Glasses.
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  I was like, I, I was like, well, that's great and all, but you
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  know, he's a bottom. Really.
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  Oh, yeah, I, I was, we were dying.
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  We were like what the fuck? I should have Mufasa.
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  Yeah, he was number 1. He outranked everybody.
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  Well, some girls have a type. And I was like, I get it, but
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  you're gonna have to familiarize yourself with pegging, I think
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  with this guy, which there's nothing wrong with that, but
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  you'd have to like. She I was about to say girl
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  might have to be the top. Right, which is fine.
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  We're we're all for it. But like, I'm like Milo is Milo
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  is a bottom, honey, Milo is a bottom.
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  Our daughter did Disney characters on a gay scale.
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  Uh huh. Does she consult?
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  No. Oh no, that's rude.
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  OK. Like some of them we had to kind
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  of we were like, I don't know if that's accurate because she said
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  like Missus incredible or Elastigirl was like totally
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  straight and we're like no, I don't think though, like no, but
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  she. Like hints at?
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  There's some parts of the movie where she hints at.
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  I think that she and Mr. Incredible would be the swinging
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  couple at the end of the bar. Correct.
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  That would take you home like when that.
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  Role-playing thing when she like shows.
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  Up right, like when she's drunk, she'll kiss girls.
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  Like she might not be like, technically, you know, but so
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  yeah, there it was. It was interesting.
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  And then like another friend did like normal things.
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  I don't understand these. They're all so weird and we
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  ended up. Normal things that they don't
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  understand, like Wi-Fi. Why?
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  How does my phone connect to Wi-Fi?
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  How does my phone know to connect to Wi-Fi or the
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  Internet? Oh my.
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  God, there. There were some other things too
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  that like we were just like, what?
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  And then we ended up completely binging the series.
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  Just been born with Internet. I know we watched the series,
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  Boots. I have not heard of that.
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  It's actually really good. It's on Netflix, really, really
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  good. And she was like, our daughter
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  was just like here, just watch one episode because she's
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  already seen. She'd already seen like most of
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  it and she was like here, just watch one episode.
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  It's really good. We ended up binging all 8
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  episodes. Oh, with all of them.
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  No, they all went home except 2. And at one point our daughter's
• 18:38
  like you guys don't have to stay if you don't want to.
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  You can go home. It took like it took three times
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  basically to convince her like other two friends to like leave.
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  Finally. It was interesting.
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  Her communication style. Right.
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  It was interesting. And then we did like more
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  decorating and stuff, which the house will be like pretty close
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  to being finished by the time Friendsgiving comes around on
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  Saturday. I did not get around to doing
• 19:09
  Christmas, but the front door is decorated.
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  That's about that. There you go, that's a start.
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  We. Don't we don't decorate for like
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  Thanksgiving 'cause I think that's stupid.
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  Oh true, we have some fall stuff but that's it.
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  But I am definitely gonna deck the halls around here pretty
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  soon. For those that keep posting like
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  it's not Christmas yet, girl, there's like leaders not giving
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  us hope. So like Christmas gives me a
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  little hope. So.
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  Right. Like, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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  go ahead and decorate. So and then like last night we
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  had like she had like a like a appreciate the arts thing at
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  school where like the dance team did a thing, the orchestra did a
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  thing, choir did a thing. And then, like her, her theater
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  class did a thing. It was interesting.
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  It was very short. Thank God.
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  It was like less than an hour, so we were like in and out,
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  which was really nice. I feel like things with, and I
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  mean this in a loving way, things with children sometimes
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  just need. Yeah, no, had this been any
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  longer, it would have been like, OK, we're done.
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  But thankfully it was like it was, it was just like it was
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  under an hour. So we got to go and be like,
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  yay, good. Job.
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  And then today I was literally running around like a crazy
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  person trying to get like, oh, we won't after that.
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  Last night we actually went to Fry's 'cause we had to finish
• 20:39
  shopping and we figured if we went later, it wouldn't be as
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  busy or crazy. So we were like shopping at
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  10:00 last night. It wasn't too bad.
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  No, it actually wasn't too bad, actually wasn't too bad.
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  And then I had to get up this morning and go to like the Asian
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  market. And I had 'cause I had to get a
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  couple more sort of specific things like condensed coconut
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  milk, which you can't just find anywhere and.
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  That's odd. Condensed coconut milk.
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  Condensed milk, Yes. Coconut milk.
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  Yes. Condensed.
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  Coconut milk I come from, I come from another place that culture
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  runs rampant. And so then you just go to a
• 21:22
  place where you can buy these things.
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  Where can you find condensed coconut milk in Gilbert?
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  No, not here, not here. I meant in California, we have
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  places that we actually could just go.
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  Like you wouldn't be looking for it like that, Yeah.
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  Well, I knew where it was. It was.
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  I knew exactly where I could find it.
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  I. No, I, I know, but I'm saying
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  Arizona, hi. Can we get a little bit more?
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  But my, my, my 24 LB Turkey is now sitting in its dry brine
• 21:57
  getting ready for Saturday and food prep starts to.
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  Do a dry brine. Yes, yes, I do a dry brine.
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  It actually makes it moisture. Moisture.
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  OK, I'm. Cool and I have like I have my
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  list of like all the things that I'm gonna start doing like
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  tomorrow and then Friday and then the last things on Saturday
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  I. Was supposed to finish cooking.
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  Tonight. Oh wow, we'll do that tomorrow.
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  I guess we'll be up early, so. What are you making?
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  A lot of things I'm making the mashed potatoes, I'm making my
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  potato salad, not potato salad with raisins or whatever the
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  fuck people like to bring. Yeah, don't.
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  I'm not a big fan of like the potato salad with like the huge
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  chunks of celery in it because I don't know.
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  I don't. Like celery, I don't like potato
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  salad. I like potato salad, Mac and
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  cheese. It's just going to be me busy
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  and then the other people are bringing whatever.
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  I'll let you guys know what that's like.
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  That happens 'cause I'm afraid, yeah, I don't think certain
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  things should be a casserole. So my alternative that I think I
• 23:48
  saw I sent the video to someone is those.
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  So the plate that I'm referring to is what is it green bean
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  casserole. I don't like how the green beans
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  are just sitting in like basically a wasteland of
• 24:10
  mushroom soup basically. And so I like what is the, I
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  don't know what it's called, but it's crunchy and it has green
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  beans. And instead of that, can we
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  like, I'll send you the, the video when I find it, but you
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  put the you don't, It's not a casserole at all.
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  Like can we ditch the casserole? I don't want to see green beans
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  floating and it, it's just too much for me.
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  It's gross. So yeah, I let's see if that
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  shows up here. If it doesn't, then I'll let you
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  know. But I can't cook everything.
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  Do you if you if you were to do a Thanksgiving, would you cook
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  everything? Hi, you're gonna be here on
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  Saturday. Yes.
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  I I am literally making everything.
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  I showed you my menu. I am literally making everything
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  I am making eat Turkey. Like I am.
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  Making a ham. Live tomorrow with dinner.
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  You would have made everything already.
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  I would have if I was cooking. If I was having a traditional
• 25:28
  Thanksgiving like tomorrow, most of my stuff would have been
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  prepped to buy today with the exception of like the Turkey,
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  the ham, and a couple other things.
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  Yeah. So like to to give you, to give
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  you an example, right? So Friendsgiving is on Saturday.
• 25:48
  Tomorrow I'm going to be making the cranberry relish.
• 25:52
  I'm going to be making the chocolate potted Clem.
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  I'm going to be making the pumpkin mousse, and I'm going to
• 25:58
  start the spiced pumpkin cupcakes with the toasted
• 26:04
  marshmallow buttercream. And then Friday I'm going to
• 26:08
  make the vegan stuffing, all of the pies, and I'm going to start
• 26:13
  the meatballs. So all I have to do on Saturday
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  is plug the crock pot in for the meatballs.
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  I'll be, you know, ready to go, basically.
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  So Saturday means I do the Turkey, I do the ham, I do the
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  mashed potatoes and the sweet potatoes and the green beans and
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  the Mac and cheese. And I have a method to all of
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  these things. So yes, I'm literally making
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  everything. I just got tired in the last
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  couple years. I don't want to.
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  I only do this like once a year, and we have so many people
• 26:53
  coming. I'm like, you know what, it's
• 26:54
  fine. I'm just gonna, we're gonna,
• 26:56
  we're gonna do it and I'm gonna go all out.
• 26:58
  And it's gonna be delightful for Christmas then.
• 27:03
  I make lasagna for Christmas because it is our son's birthday
• 27:06
  and that is what he wants, so that is all we ever fucking eat
• 27:10
  on Christmas is lasagna. I don't like lasagna.
• 27:21
  I'm not a I'm not a big like pasta person, lasagna is not my
• 27:25
  thing. But.
• 27:27
  But I did manage to find a lovely recipe for a good like
• 27:32
  bolognese ragu and like last year lasagna was really really
• 27:37
  good. So I'll probably just redo that
• 27:39
  again this year. But lasagna is not my thing and
• 27:44
  he'd be fine with like fucking frozen lasagna from Costco.
• 27:47
  And I'm like, no, do it. If I'm going to be forced to eat
• 27:50
  this shit, then I'm going to make lasagna that is not frozen
• 27:57
  Stouffers or whatever the hell it is.
• 28:00
  If I have to eat this shit on Christmas, then I'm going to
• 28:04
  make the fucking lasagna. Got it.
• 28:07
  Because. Anyhow, we'll get to that in a
• 28:12
  minute. Got you worked up for nothing.
• 28:18
  Oh my, you. Brought up Christmas.
• 28:28
  Sensitive subject over here. Mark that down, writing that
• 28:32
  down, but yes, very much so. I don't even know where that
• 28:37
  came from. I didn't put my thumb up, but
• 28:39
  OK, good for you. Paula and I are going to the
• 28:43
  bunkhouse tomorrow, not the. Bunkhouse usually does like
• 28:47
  Thanksgiving for folks. Oh, really?
• 28:50
  That's cool. I had to know that.
• 28:52
  And welcome back, Paula. Oh, and Paula.
• 28:59
  I already said hello to yeah. Laura, I'm fine.
• 29:03
  We're good. I knew what I was thinking.
• 29:04
  I don't know what you're saying. Carry on.
• 29:11
  This weekend out, we had on Friday another one of those
• 29:15
  parent nights out and I don't know if this is just me, but
• 29:21
  like the kids are gone, but then like you're so exhausted that
• 29:28
  you're like, well. You don't want to do anything,
• 29:29
  you just sometimes it's nice to just have the quiet like.
• 29:34
  Yes. Monday, like Monday, Monday
• 29:38
  night, my my partner was with like one of our other partners.
• 29:42
  And I'm like, I'm just going to take it this night to do nothing
• 29:48
  because it's going to be a very busy few days and there's going
• 29:55
  to be a lot of shit going on and my social battery is going to be
• 29:58
  like in the negative. So like I have the night so I
• 30:04
  can do nothing and I'm going to do nothing.
• 30:08
  I get it. I get it.
• 30:10
  It was so lovely. So we absolutely did nothing and
• 30:15
  it was the most lovely nothing time ever.
• 30:20
  No screaming, no hollering, no, in fact when I was getting ready
• 30:27
  I had to like mute it because somebody was screaming at the
• 30:31
  top of their lungs for what I can tell, at no apparent reason.
• 30:37
  So, so I feel like we're encouraging folks that are, if
• 30:46
  they're thinking about parenting, we're encouraging
• 30:49
  them that for you, don't rush it, don't put go for it, don't
• 30:57
  whatever. Make sure you're ready.
• 30:59
  You never will be, but make sure you're ready.
• 31:03
  Saturday we didn't really do much, but it was raining.
• 31:07
  I enjoyed the rain, but I think I got to a point where life,
• 31:15
  life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, go, go, go,
• 31:18
  go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And I think that I was in
• 31:23
  sensory overload and like the kids were just top pains.
• 31:35
  And what I realize is, you know, even though we, I, we got the
• 31:42
  quiet, I was not ever alone. And not to say that I don't like
• 31:50
  the people that I live with, but I just, I feel like especially
• 31:58
  this time of year, I find, I think I do recognize that I do
• 32:02
  get very emotional. I do get very like what is it?
• 32:07
  I get over stimulated very easy because there's so much rush.
• 32:13
  There's at work, there's so much rush because we're trying to do
• 32:17
  so many projects between the like we have two days here,
• 32:22
  here. Can you get you?
• 32:24
  Can you get this done? Can and you, you know, like this
• 32:29
  should like probably take like a week, two weeks, but but here we
• 32:33
  are trying to shove stuff into like a week and 1/2 when that
• 32:37
  extra like two or three days. Like you know, the things that I
• 32:42
  talk about is like affording everything for the holidays.
• 32:49
  Luckily we got everything pretty much at a fair price.
• 32:55
  I think the longer you wait, the worse the pricing gets in some
• 33:02
  instances. And so we did that very early
• 33:05
  on, but I just like, I don't usually cry, but I just like let
• 33:14
  out a good cry on the couch. I don't know where it came from,
• 33:17
  it just. Sometimes it's needed, sometimes
• 33:21
  you just got to release. And so it was and I was like, I,
• 33:27
  I think what I need 'cause my nails were coming undone and
• 33:32
  whatever, I got my nails done. Oh, thank God, because if you
• 33:37
  were going to come up here on Saturday, we're looking all like
• 33:39
  scraggly and shit. We're going to have issues.
• 33:42
  It's very on brand. Be like.
• 33:44
  Look how nice. So I'm going to come with all.
• 33:47
  This We have standards in this House.
• 33:49
  They may be low, but there's still standards.
• 33:54
  But I feel like Sunday was like the reset of the week.
• 33:59
  Gavin Neilston started getting shit together.
• 34:01
  But but also you still have those two days.
• 34:04
  And I don't know, people that run places should know that.
• 34:14
  Like the two days before a holiday is like scribbling in a
• 34:18
  notebook kind of day. Those are like if I get it done.
• 34:24
  Right. I mean, the, The thing is with
• 34:26
  like with going shopping last minute, whether it's grocery
• 34:29
  shopping, whether it's gift shopping, whatever it is like,
• 34:31
  you know that if you're going last minute, it's gonna be busy.
• 34:36
  So if you go in and you're a Dick, that's on you.
• 34:40
  Like I always assume that if I'm gonna go.
• 34:42
  To the store that it's. Gonna be a little bit.
• 34:44
  Crazy. And I'm just like on the road.
• 34:47
  Oh yeah. Like I don't.
• 34:50
  OK, so last year or the year before, I got yelled at in the
• 34:57
  store 'cause I took a shopping cart or something and somebody
• 35:01
  was like that, that was my cart, you asshole or something.
• 35:04
  They they yelled at and I was like, people are whoa.
• 35:10
  I was like, happy holidays, you know, and like.
• 35:15
  There's no reason for it. Like you're the one that waited
• 35:18
  till the last minute. So like you should know that if
• 35:24
  you're waiting till the last minute things are going to be
• 35:26
  crazy. Like don't be a Dick because you
• 35:29
  made choices like. Also, everybody, you don't know
• 35:33
  what battle people are fighting. I don't care what you look like,
• 35:36
  what you sound like, who you are, but you do need to treat
• 35:40
  people with respect. So today was an emotion because
• 35:45
  we realized that one of the babies lost a stuffy.
• 35:52
  And I know that if you're a parent and you have bought like
• 35:57
  your child's first stuffy and they, you know, the terror that
• 36:02
  it brings, right? Luckily, we've handled it so
• 36:07
  far. I don't hear any screaming today
• 36:12
  now anyway. But the first stuff our our
• 36:21
  youngest is kind of the first child that I like raised from
• 36:25
  scratch per SE. And so, you know, the stuffy
• 36:31
  kind of like I was telling Freddie, I feel like I was being
• 36:35
  the stuffy. It was, it was, it was like
• 36:40
  sentimental and all this other stuff.
• 36:42
  So and. Here I thought your husband was
• 36:44
  climbing on like rooftops and shit on top of houses you like
• 36:47
  left it on the roof and I was. Like, well, I had to go back
• 36:49
  because I posted it in a neighborhood group after you
• 36:51
  said that you were like on the roof.
• 36:55
  And I was like. That's what that's like you, you
• 36:57
  put like you left it on the roof and I'm like the roof of.
• 37:00
  Well, and then I was like, no, what were you doing on the roof?
• 37:02
  On the roof? And and then as soon as you said
• 37:07
  that to me, somebody commented on that neighborhood, a little
• 37:10
  group in on my post and said on what?
• 37:15
  And I was like fuck OK so now it says on the car roof and so
• 37:23
  which? Means it fell off as he was
• 37:25
  driving. Yes.
• 37:27
  So you never know. Sometimes people like send you
• 37:33
  things or they find it and say look, this stuffy in particular
• 37:38
  is a Jelly Cat and I. Don't know what the fuck that
• 37:43
  means. But they're trending on social
• 37:45
  media now. I bought it way before it was
• 37:48
  trending on social media and apparently the one that is is
• 37:54
  continued by the company and worth about $300 now.
• 37:58
  So if you find it, sell it and let's split it.
• 38:02
  I'm just kidding. Anyhow, Speaking of the
• 38:10
  holidays, let's jump into the teal.
• 38:14
  Yes. So my tip tonight is less a tip
• 38:31
  and more of sort of discussion because we we don't, we were
• 38:34
  like, let's keep this light. A lot of people are going to
• 38:37
  have to deal with bullshit family stuff tomorrow.
• 38:40
  People are going to be stressed. So we're just going to like,
• 38:41
  we're just going to keep this. Chill.
• 38:43
  So this, that and again, This is why I do all the cooking 'cause
• 38:49
  then I can at least be sure that if something like Waldorf salad
• 38:53
  shows up on my like table. Then it ain't.
• 38:55
  My doing. Oh, I told you about that,
• 38:58
  didn't I? Like the the the first
• 39:00
  Thanksgiving that my partner and I were together, her partner
• 39:03
  like some chick that he was trying to also see like brought
• 39:06
  fucking Waldorf salad. I was like what the fuck?
• 39:12
  And she, too, was white. Oh yeah.
• 39:16
  Oh yeah, yeah. So, so I wanted to just sort of
• 39:20
  talk about like, like holiday favorites and whether it's
• 39:24
  Thanksgiving or like Christmassy stuff or whatever, Hanukkah,
• 39:27
  whatever holidays like what are your favorite things, whether
• 39:32
  it's music or food or media. Like for me, it's like right
• 39:37
  after Halloween, like we're sort of officially in the holiday
• 39:40
  season, You know, this is. So do you start Christmas music
• 39:44
  November 1st? If I have the choice, yes, I'll
• 39:48
  play it in my car. I have no problem with that.
• 39:52
  I have a problem with that because.
• 39:57
  Whatever, then you don't have to play it in your car.
• 40:00
  I I always kind. Of feel.
• 40:02
  I love it like. I always, I always kind of it's.
• 40:09
  So I. Always, I always, it is, I
• 40:11
  always, I always feel like a, like a bad gay because like
• 40:15
  Halloween is, is great and all, whatever, but I'm a slut for
• 40:19
  like Christmas. I am.
• 40:21
  And like Halloween, we never really do much.
• 40:26
  Like we had a movie night like this year, like we never really
• 40:28
  do much 'cause it's like I dress up all the fucking time.
• 40:33
  You know, we do cosplay stuff, we, you know, whatever.
• 40:35
  So it's like, it's not like, oh look, I get to dress up and, and
• 40:39
  like half the people you see dressing up.
• 40:41
  I'm like, you're just doing the same thing you always do.
• 40:44
  So it's like whatever. So for me though, like that,
• 40:47
  when you, when you get into like the holiday season of like
• 40:49
  Christmas and, and the winter holidays, I love all of it.
• 40:54
  I love the lights, the sparkle, the music.
• 40:58
  I love all of that shit. Like I I really, really.
• 41:01
  Do. The smells like and it's not it
• 41:08
  sucks 'cause it's not what it used to be.
• 41:10
  It is really like they've really leaned into the consumerism and
• 41:14
  all of that bullshit, which I don't like.
• 41:17
  I hate that. I hate the consumerism.
• 41:20
  I hate the capitalist bullshit and I hate the entitlement of
• 41:25
  children because and the fact that like essentially parents
• 41:34
  have to bribe them with gifts in order for them to like be good.
• 41:37
  I'm like that's I, I hate that idea.
• 41:40
  I hate it. I hate it.
• 41:41
  But. Sometimes it works.
• 41:44
  I hate, I hate it so much. I hate it so much.
• 41:47
  Like if you can't figure out how to get your kids to be good
• 41:51
  without bribing them, that's a parenting issue.
• 41:55
  If you have to be like I'll get you this iPad if you don't hit
• 41:58
  your brother or whatever, like like that's.
• 42:02
  Oh no, that's not what I meant. Like I'm like, I can't, I'm like
• 42:09
  my, my partner deals in early childhood.
• 42:11
  Like I know that anyway, but the rest of the shit I love I do.
• 42:17
  And like I will 100% start playing Christmas music in my
• 42:20
  car. I will start, you know, we
• 42:23
  start, I, I, I would like to start decorating right after the
• 42:27
  Halloween decorations come down. We pull all the like.
• 42:30
  We basically swap them in the storage.
• 42:32
  So Halloween gets packed up and then before it gets put away,
• 42:36
  Christmas gets pulled out and then Halloween gets, you know,
• 42:38
  so we, we swap them, but we don't always get them up right
• 42:41
  away. But I totally would.
• 42:42
  Totally would. If I could definitely deck the
• 42:46
  halls. We we try I like that my partner
• 42:52
  also enjoys decorating 'cause I have been with partners in the
• 42:57
  past who either didn't like it or were indifferent and I.
• 43:06
  Hate. Minimize it.
• 43:08
  Yeah, it's like here's 1 little string of like whatever and like
• 43:13
  a tree and I'm like but. Oh, I broke that rule a long
• 43:20
  time ago, Yeah. I'm like, I I love decorating.
• 43:24
  I do. I love decorating.
• 43:29
  Do you have like, do you have good like go to like holiday
• 43:31
  movies that you watch? Like what are your like?
• 43:36
  Oh, it's the holidays. We're gonna kick it off and
• 43:37
  wanna watch this movie. I don't know for a long time,
• 43:49
  and this is because before I knew of a certain political
• 43:53
  standard that this person had, I used to watch all the Santa
• 43:57
  Claus movies with a certain someone.
• 44:04
  I still watch them, but I don't watch them with the same part as
• 44:11
  because he definitely killed that for me.
• 44:17
  But I will watch the whole series.
• 44:20
  There's I'm always the sucker for watching the long list of
• 44:28
  young girl goes to town, small town.
• 44:32
  We got it. Participates in some town
• 44:35
  function. We got a deal on the Hallmark
• 44:37
  Channel, so now we have the Hallmark Channel.
• 44:40
  Fuck my life. I'm gonna come over and watch
• 44:45
  the Hallmark Channel. Totally my vibe.
• 44:48
  I so my like my #1 go to like Christmas movie is white
• 44:57
  Christmas and I probably watch it like 5 or 6 * a season just
• 45:03
  cause and I I mean I'll watch it regardless, but that's always
• 45:06
  like my go to Love Actually is another one.
• 45:12
  Would it be weird? I have not seen that, I don't
• 45:14
  think. Really, It's actually a really
• 45:17
  good movie. The cast is great.
• 45:20
  Go find it. It's a good one.
• 45:23
  Noel. Have you seen Noel with Anna
• 45:25
  Kendrick? Mm hmm.
• 45:29
  I, I, I, I love that one. I love Anna Kendrick just in
• 45:32
  general. And like, I love this movie.
• 45:37
  I think it's absolutely fucking adorable, and I love that
• 45:41
  Shirley MacLaine is in it as like this sort of grumpy old
• 45:43
  elf. Like, I love that.
• 45:44
  Like, it's just another one that we've started.
• 45:48
  We started watching last year or the year.
• 45:52
  Before. Oh that's dumb.
• 45:57
  Is love hard? Have you seen that one?
• 46:02
  It's like kind of a catfish situation with like a dating app
• 46:08
  or whatever. And then this chick goes to like
• 46:10
  meet this guy who she thinks she's meeting, but it's actually
• 46:13
  not him. It's the brother who is like
• 46:16
  geeky or whatever. And it's just, it's fun.
• 46:19
  It's cute. It's like, it's just, it's, it's
• 46:22
  a, it's a cute movie. I, I recommend it.
• 46:24
  It's called lovehard. Go find it.
• 46:29
  It's a good one. And then of course, I still love
• 46:32
  all the like the the classic like stop motion ones like the
• 46:38
  Rudolph Finn and Kris Kringle and Frosty, all of that.
• 46:43
  Like I love those I do. What about Charlie Brown?
• 46:47
  Yes, the Charlie Brown Christmas special is.
• 46:51
  OK, I was gonna say, don't leave Charlie Brown.
• 46:54
  No, no, no, no. I love the Charlie Brown
• 46:56
  Christmas special. I I that's, that's, that's
• 46:59
  always like, that's like one of the OG like, you know, as you're
• 47:03
  growing up, like they always played it, you know, around the
• 47:07
  holidays and. For the kids, we have watched
• 47:11
  all the different versions of the Grinch.
• 47:16
  They seem to like the one that is.
• 47:19
  I think it's DreamWorks. Is that the one?
• 47:24
  It's a little more playful, I guess, so they like that one.
• 47:29
  I I'm I I like that one, but the original is always my like.
• 47:35
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 'cause you can't
• 47:38
  really beat like Boris Karloff as, as the, you know, narrator
• 47:43
  basically, of course. He has like the original music
• 47:47
  and so he can't fight that, can't fight that.
• 47:53
  Do you have like like go to things that you like to make
• 47:57
  around the holidays or for the holidays like food, desserts?
• 48:07
  So I like to eat desserts. I don't like to make the
• 48:14
  desserts. I I was it you that does not
• 48:17
  like eggnog? Or yeah, I'm not a fan of
• 48:19
  eggnog. I.
• 48:20
  Love eggnog? Eggnog.
• 48:22
  The texture is weird for me. That's what it was.
• 48:28
  I love eggnog. I picked up a Southern Comfort
• 48:33
  eggnog. It does not have southern.
• 48:35
  It has like the IT has like the hint of flavor, but it does not
• 48:39
  have eggnog. I mean, it does not have
• 48:43
  Southern Comfort in it. It says but if you.
• 48:48
  Accompany Brandon McGill says they are the dessert.
• 48:52
  Oh, OK, OK, I I might have to dolege and figure that out, but
• 49:04
  I love eggnog, I love hot chocolate and I make it the way.
• 49:10
  Oh wow, this thumbs up thing is. It it is very enthusiastic this
• 49:15
  evening. Yeah, I'm not even.
• 49:17
  My hands are like literally down here, so I don't know where.
• 49:23
  OK, I was going to say, oh, hot chocolate or hot cocoa.
• 49:34
  I buy the one that you bought many, many years ago.
• 49:38
  Keep that very much. When we run out, I'm like, oh,
• 49:42
  we need to get that baked. That's the.
• 49:44
  Good stuff. But I'm the only one that drinks
• 49:46
  that. I just want the world to know
• 49:50
  that Swiss Smith is not hot chocolate.
• 49:52
  You know, yeah, it's like. Paper dust.
• 49:58
  It's. Not acceptable.
• 50:03
  I always make my gingerbread cookies at some point, which my
• 50:08
  gingerbread cookies are. Which are amazing they're.
• 50:11
  Good. They're like a dark gingerbread.
• 50:14
  They're spicy, they're almost savory, but they have an orange
• 50:17
  glaze on them which kind of cuts that a little bit.
• 50:20
  They're like my favorite cookie. They are so good and the dough
• 50:23
  is amazing. Just the dough by itself is
• 50:25
  amazing. Do you do you like EDA?
• 50:29
  Like yes, the dough. Yes.
• 50:32
  OK, this is the best. Part yes for like for
• 50:39
  Thanksgiving. My bacon blanket Turkey is like
• 50:46
  the star of the show for like Friendsgiving.
• 50:52
  This. This fucking Turkey is
• 50:54
  ridiculous. I think we started that around
• 50:57
  the same time I. Started.
• 51:01
  I started making it before the pandemic.
• 51:05
  Oh, I made it well be before that 'cause somebody told me
• 51:11
  about protecting the Turkey and that's where I got it from.
• 51:14
  And I was like, OK, I'll protect the Turkey.
• 51:17
  And I was like so. My my Turkey has it's got a like
• 51:21
  a bacon blanket on top of it, but it also has over a pound of
• 51:25
  bacon butter on and. In it, garlic butter.
• 51:30
  Bacon, butter and. Last year.
• 51:35
  Bacon butter. Please explain too.
• 51:38
  I do. Last year somebody actually
• 51:41
  tasted my Turkey and they were like, how do you get the flavor
• 51:44
  all the way like through the meat?
• 51:46
  And I'm like. For real.
• 51:54
  Because you can get like you can get getting flavor all the way
• 51:58
  through is actually tricky because it's such a big bird
• 52:02
  that even if you brine it, even if you do all the things like a
• 52:06
  lot of times like the outer bit will be really flavorful.
• 52:10
  But getting it through like all the way through can be a little
• 52:13
  bit tricky so. About this on Patreon, we'll
• 52:18
  compare notes 'cause I feel like that is not a problem I have, I
• 52:22
  have. I feel like your Turkey is kind
• 52:25
  of like right here with me. It better if I can be.
• 52:31
  And then of course, Christmas Day is the fucking lasagna.
• 52:34
  Because. What happened to Chinese food?
• 52:38
  Yeah, we can't do that anymore. Because when you have a child
• 52:43
  who's born on Christmas, like the actual birthday is
• 52:47
  Christmas, the morning is Christmas.
• 52:50
  So that's when everybody gets up, gets open presents, and then
• 52:53
  the rest of the day is birthday. So we do whatever the fuck he
• 52:57
  wants, which means fucking lasagna.
• 53:06
  Trying to figure this out. And he is a creature of habit,
• 53:09
  so you cannot change it. Like, yeah, they don't like
• 53:14
  change at all, which is why the year that we took them to
• 53:17
  Disneyland on Christmas Eve and Christmas, they bitched about it
• 53:20
  the entire time. Mm hmm, no way.
• 53:28
  Take me. Next time I that's what I'm
• 53:31
  saying. So another, another thing that I
• 53:35
  really love that I can only ever find, and even then it's tricky
• 53:39
  during the holidays, is peppermint ice cream, peppermint
• 53:42
  stick ice cream, good peppermint steak ice cream.
• 53:46
  Oh, I was gonna say there's some.
• 53:49
  There, Yeah, no, the good peppermint stick ice cream is
• 53:52
  tricky, but I now have an ice cream maker.
• 53:57
  I have a KitchenAid ice cream maker so I really want to try
• 54:03
  and make it myself. I'm going to try and make a
• 54:05
  custard base and then I'm going to try and make the peppermint
• 54:08
  stick ice cream myself because I can't.
• 54:14
  We even have like cute little like containers like pint
• 54:17
  containers and stuff for it so. I think you need taste testers.
• 54:21
  I'll be right over at I'll. Let you know you don't eat dairy
• 54:25
  though. I will make exceptions, I just
• 54:29
  have to have a bathroom really close.
• 54:31
  Cool, that's great for me. Love that.
• 54:38
  So for like for music. So the regular radio here, 99.9
• 54:43
  still plays Christmas music right?
• 54:47
  I haven't listened to the actual radio in years.
• 54:49
  I have no idea, but I have SiriusXM, I have the app and
• 54:53
  then I have it in my car. So I play like the Holly
• 54:56
  station, which has like a mix of like modern and classic holiday
• 55:00
  songs. There's a like a holiday
• 55:02
  classics one that has like all the like the classic stuff and I
• 55:06
  love like I I'm not a huge fan of a lot of the modern ones.
• 55:10
  Some of them I'm like, this is terrible.
• 55:14
  What's a Radio God Radio? What's a vinyl?
• 55:21
  Cassette but wireless. But the classic stuff always
• 55:28
  reminds me of choir. And you know the so that like.
• 55:34
  So. I will.
• 55:36
  I will sing Christmas songs in my car at the top of my lungs if
• 55:40
  I'm by myself. Like I have no problem doing
• 55:42
  that. So I don't know if Spotify or if
• 55:47
  XM has this, but I I'm always a fan of gospel no matter how
• 55:55
  spiritual I am not or or I am keep your rules.
• 56:01
  I'll keep the music. But the there is a a playlist.
• 56:10
  There it goes again. OK.
• 56:11
  What? Is this look at my hand was like
• 56:14
  this what it? It's just, it's, it's focusing
• 56:18
  on the thumb. It's just focusing on your
• 56:20
  thumb. It's like, oh, there's the
• 56:21
  thumb, got to do the thumbs up. But I love holiday gospel music
• 56:30
  if it's done right. There's some people that claim
• 56:34
  they're a choir and then but you know, there is the skip over
• 56:40
  button and I pay for premium. So I, I don't pay for commer.
• 56:44
  I don't listen to commercials between the music.
• 56:48
  So I love holiday gospel. Of course.
• 56:52
  The reason why I asked you if it's OK to play music on
• 56:56
  November 1st is because I'm part of the Mariah Carey propaganda
• 57:01
  of it's time. So I well, even before she
• 57:07
  started that, I always thought we could play Christmas music in
• 57:10
  July because I was always that person that was like Christmas
• 57:13
  in July, even had shows about Christmas in July.
• 57:19
  You can't stop me. And when like Halloween is over
• 57:25
  and like you're waiting between. Right.
• 57:30
  I'm like, they don't have good Thanksgiving music.
• 57:34
  And what would I mean, though I did send you that girl that is
• 57:37
  trying to make a song out of Thanksgiving and she's totally
• 57:42
  building this song. So that's but that's like one
• 57:46
  person out of goodness gracious. And it's about like getting
• 57:52
  together. I love those kinds of songs that
• 57:54
  you can bring into Thanksgiving. That is, we're getting together,
• 57:59
  we're showing love to each other, yadda yadda yadda.
• 58:04
  So I will say the one sort of stupid tradition that I
• 58:09
  absolutely detest is Whammageddon, because
• 58:13
  Whammageddon where like you lose if you hear last Christmas,
• 58:20
  which I hate that because it's just stupid.
• 58:25
  It's a stupid thing. It's like if you, if you are out
• 58:28
  and about and you hear Wemageddon, if you hear like
• 58:30
  last Christmas, you'd like lose or whatever.
• 58:32
  And I'm like, I hate that because the game I'm like, you
• 58:39
  need like I, I just think it's dumb because #1 it's a good song
• 58:44
  #2 we should be hyping up queer artists regardless of whether
• 58:48
  they're dead or not, and not turning them into who came up.
• 58:53
  With it. I don't know, it's been around
• 58:55
  forever, but I, I hate it. I'm like, no, hype up the
• 58:59
  fucking queer artist. Like don't it?
• 59:03
  Like it's turned into this thing where everybody's like, Oh my
• 59:05
  God, last. Christmas blah blah blah and.
• 59:07
  I'm like, look, the covers are terrible.
• 59:10
  All the fucking covers are terrible.
• 59:12
  But like why aren't like, we should be hyping up the queer
• 59:17
  artists and not being like, well this is if you hear this then
• 59:22
  you lose the holidays or whatever the fuck it is.
• 59:23
  Like how do you not know about Lammageddon?
• 59:25
  I don't understand that. I don't, I don't listen to the
• 59:30
  radio or pay attention to that now.
• 59:32
  It's all over social media and anybody.
• 59:37
  You maybe have literally talked about Lammageddon.
• 59:41
  Now you're talking about it. I don't even know what you're
• 59:43
  talking about. There needs to be what?
• 59:55
  More songs about. Stuffing.
• 59:56
  More songs about stuffing. Apparently the I don't know what
• 1:00:05
  is going on today, the thumbs up said right away.
• 1:00:09
  That's a good thing. But I love the holidays.
• 1:00:14
  I know that the holidays are not the same for everyone and I I
• 1:00:17
  know that especially for some of our friends, the holidays may
• 1:00:21
  not be the same as they have always been.
• 1:00:25
  Especially I've seen a couple of our friends that have lots that
• 1:00:30
  are posting memories of their past, their their loved one that
• 1:00:35
  passed. So let's celebrate with
• 1:00:41
  kindness, celebrate with grace. But yeah, shall we, shall we go
• 1:00:53
  into the news? Do it.
• 1:01:14
  Let's get into it first and foremost, I want to apologize if
• 1:01:17
  you're listening on the podcast. It looked like my microphone
• 1:01:22
  switched to the the webcam. I don't know how it did that,
• 1:01:28
  but you're welcome. If remember a couple weeks ago
• 1:01:33
  you said I sound like I was swimming and might have been
• 1:01:35
  when it does that, 'cause I was like, you don't change anything.
• 1:01:42
  I just sit here I and apparently do thumbs up and now I just did
• 1:01:48
  a thumbs up and it's not working.
• 1:01:49
  Oh, there we go. So anyhow, first step on this
• 1:01:57
  grandiose day this week, mark it down.
• 1:02:03
  The once Donald Trump supporter turned non supporter and marked
• 1:02:12
  as a traitor, this Marjorie Taylor resigned.
• 1:02:20
  Effectively that is January 5th, right?
• 1:02:24
  Because the, you know, the poor snowflake can't handle dump
• 1:02:29
  truck not liking her and marking her as a traitor and you know,
• 1:02:34
  yada yada yada, speaking up for her, her constituents, you know,
• 1:02:39
  you know, imagine that actually doing her job.
• 1:02:42
  Sort of. You know it's rough out there.
• 1:02:46
  Imagine if she were AOC and pretty much any other sent
• 1:02:52
  congresswoman or man of colour who isn't.
• 1:02:57
  Yay MAGA, I see you. She's doubling down also on her
• 1:03:06
  anti LGBT Qi. She's not changing.
• 1:03:14
  No, she's still a shitty. And her anti yes and her anti
• 1:03:19
  trans rhetoric. So I think she's gone, but she's
• 1:03:23
  not changed. No she's just mad because she
• 1:03:27
  spoke up about 1 fucking thing and Trump didn't like it so now
• 1:03:32
  she's all like Oh no I can't handle.
• 1:03:34
  That of like a toddler. It reminds me of like a toddler.
• 1:03:37
  Yeah, pretty much. Oh no.
• 1:03:41
  And then all of a sudden I do. This, I don't want to do this,
• 1:03:43
  I'm quitting, I don't want to go blah blah blah.
• 1:03:46
  She's still a shitty human. So I don't want to see people
• 1:03:49
  like be like, Oh no, I totally agree with her.
• 1:03:52
  No, you don't. And if you do, that's a problem
• 1:03:57
  because she's still anti LGBTQ, she's still anti trans, she's
• 1:04:03
  still fucking awful. So don't take this as she
• 1:04:07
  suddenly turned a new leaf. Like that's not a that, that's
• 1:04:10
  not a thing. Not a thing.
• 1:04:14
  Not really. Not a cool thing.
• 1:04:20
  No, she's right up there with like the George Santos we who
• 1:04:25
  has changed their lives for the better.
• 1:04:28
  No he hasn't. Not really just for the money.
• 1:04:33
  Just want you to realize that the world the Why can't I say
• 1:04:40
  this? The World Health Organization
• 1:04:42
  has helped make sure more than 86 million girls in high risk
• 1:04:48
  countries received the HPV vaccine.
• 1:04:53
  This. Is good.
• 1:04:53
  This is good news. Yes, this is really good because
• 1:04:56
  it is reducing the risk of cervical cancer.
• 1:05:01
  Some of the countries that were part of the program include
• 1:05:05
  Cuba, Pakistan and Rwanda. And this is also part of that.
• 1:05:11
  Like weird little thing that you know, RFK is like, that doesn't
• 1:05:16
  exist, right? You know, I just want you to
• 1:05:19
  know that cervical cancer is real.
• 1:05:24
  HPV is real. Yup.
• 1:05:27
  It's need to put that out there. If we have any folks that it
• 1:05:31
  think that it's not real. We're not here making stuff up.
• 1:05:38
  I promise, I promise you. Let's see.
• 1:05:44
  The Paris Agreement has spurred solar power as words get added
• 1:05:51
  onto the Paris Agreement has spurred solar power onto become
• 1:05:58
  the fastest growing source of electricity ever with no signs
• 1:06:02
  of slowing down with the biggest growth happening in developing
• 1:06:05
  countries like Brazil, who has increased its solar production
• 1:06:10
  by 70% annually since 2015 now. OK, so there's another is it the
• 1:06:19
  Finland or Poland? It's one of those people up
• 1:06:22
  there that has the the wind and the water reclaimed.
• 1:06:30
  And then there's some other countries that were like, yeah,
• 1:06:35
  we could do that too. So.
• 1:06:37
  And for a while, the US was on this boat.
• 1:06:40
  No, now it's all just a hoax. Oh, just like HPV.
• 1:06:47
  Oh, OK. Yeah.
• 1:06:49
  But this is actually kind of cool because the rest of the
• 1:06:51
  world, I mean not necessarily with us, but the rest of the
• 1:06:54
  world is jumping on the the solar powertrain, which is
• 1:07:01
  fantastic because number one, it creates jobs and it puts less of
• 1:07:08
  a strain on the land and the resources which can be then
• 1:07:14
  allocated for other things like farming and being able to find
• 1:07:19
  ways to better sustain the communities in some of these
• 1:07:22
  developing countries. So that's actually.
• 1:07:24
  What is this word? You said communities?
• 1:07:27
  Does that mean people get along and we do things together?
• 1:07:30
  Most of the time. Sometimes.
• 1:07:31
  I mean, regardless, there's still shit all over the world,
• 1:07:34
  but right now? We can make it a better place
• 1:07:38
  to. We're kind of at the bottom of
• 1:07:40
  that barrel. Reducing things like asthma.
• 1:07:47
  OK, we we're, we're too much in big Pharma's pocket.
• 1:07:50
  We don't wanna like. Oh.
• 1:07:53
  No, we can't. Anything that like costs money.
• 1:07:55
  Do you want me to pay $200 for an inhaler?
• 1:07:59
  An EpiPen is, you know, 300 even with insurance.
• 1:08:04
  Oh, shit, yeah. Wow.
• 1:08:10
  Yeah, I'm like, yeah, my inhaler.
• 1:08:14
  I'm like, some days I'm like, am I breathing?
• 1:08:18
  It's maybe not the best, but it's.
• 1:08:20
  Fine kind. Of I'll just we're trying to
• 1:08:25
  we're trying to reduce the pump so we don't have to go back.
• 1:08:28
  Oh my gosh, OK, that was very light hearted, very good, very.
• 1:08:38
  But as we go into the the holiday season, be careful if
• 1:08:44
  you're traveling be. Careful out there people.
• 1:08:51
  Are be careful if you are traveling while trans or queer
• 1:08:58
  because I have already heard of said incidents popping up all
• 1:09:05
  over the place. If if someone out there wants to
• 1:09:10
  do something good, see if you can help potentially a trans
• 1:09:16
  person with the cost of getting their name changed, all that
• 1:09:21
  stuff so they can you know, have I DS that match everything.
• 1:09:28
  That's a thing. Like it's important if you are
• 1:09:34
  traveling while trans. Be safe, don't poke the bear.
• 1:09:40
  I even say while driving so. Like it's everything out there
• 1:09:45
  is is a little crazy and traveling while trans is scary
• 1:09:49
  even at the best of times and right now is not the best of
• 1:09:53
  times. The folks that are having to
• 1:09:56
  deal with with family and things, even though you may not
• 1:10:00
  want to be dealing with family, remember that you are allowed to
• 1:10:02
  set boundaries. You don't have to talk about
• 1:10:06
  everything. You don't have to talk about
• 1:10:07
  everything, you don't even have to put up with shit.
• 1:10:09
  If you have people that don't want to acknowledge your partner
• 1:10:13
  that continue to dead name you, you are allowed to get up and
• 1:10:17
  leave. Most places have two to four
• 1:10:20
  doors. Like you do not have to put up
• 1:10:26
  with that shit. You don't.
• 1:10:29
  And in fact, I encourage you to not go go somewhere else.
• 1:10:33
  Like is it for me? I would have rather spent like
• 1:10:38
  the holidays alone, which I have done, then spend it with people
• 1:10:41
  that don't accept me for who I am.
• 1:10:44
  So boundaries are good. Boundaries are good.
• 1:10:49
  Boundaries are here. So.
• 1:10:52
  There there were. You set them where other people
• 1:10:57
  set them. No, you you are allowed to set
• 1:11:02
  boundaries. You need to look after your own
• 1:11:05
  mental health, not everybody else's.
• 1:11:08
  Honestly, fuck everybody else. It is not your responsibility to
• 1:11:11
  make sure everybody else is comfortable.
• 1:11:16
  Amen, Amen. Oh, what do we got coming up?
• 1:11:23
  So after the holiday I am back at Drink Me Tea Room.
• 1:11:29
  I do not have a flyer up yet. I was not in here.
• 1:11:32
  I was not in here. I was enjoying my holiday.
• 1:11:37
  They said turn off the lights. I said Boo Boo Boo will do
• 1:11:46
  Goodbye Winter Wonderland is the theme.
• 1:11:49
  I always love this theme 'cause I pretty much act like I'm Elsa.
• 1:11:57
  Great. But yeah.
• 1:12:03
  So come out, let's have some fun winter Wonderland themed prizes
• 1:12:07
  and as well as tasty treats and tea.
• 1:12:14
  They had like a peppermint something another last year that
• 1:12:19
  I kept going back forth. So if you don't drink it.
• 1:12:30
  I mean, that's not a threat to anyone, I'm sure.
• 1:12:33
  And then on the 7th is the Sugar Plum Showdown Holiday Bake Off
• 1:12:39
  hosted by Ben Havoc and myself. I'm super excited for this.
• 1:12:44
  It is $20 to enter. You're gonna bring a baked good.
• 1:12:48
  You want to make sure that there's enough to go around.
• 1:12:50
  I would say at least 20 servings.
• 1:12:52
  So like you can make mini cupcakes or like something that
• 1:12:55
  can be cut into slices. Whatever it is, however you want
• 1:12:57
  to do it doesn't matter. But there needs to be probably a
• 1:13:00
  good 20 servings or so. Or if you're not a Baker, you
• 1:13:02
  just want to come out and taste stuff.
• 1:13:04
  It's 5 bucks to come out and taste.
• 1:13:07
  Oh, there, that is me. You can vote for Taster's
• 1:13:10
  Choice. We're going to have some fun
• 1:13:11
  little pop up like holiday performances.
• 1:13:15
  Oh, I. Forgot about that.
• 1:13:16
  Yeah, it is an 18 over event. There's gonna be no alcohol, but
• 1:13:22
  there will be like mocktails that you can purchase and stuff.
• 1:13:25
  And all the proceeds are benefiting Drag Story hour
• 1:13:27
  Arizona. So make sure that you come out
• 1:13:30
  for that either come and taste, come hang out, come be festive.
• 1:13:34
  Enter like one of, you know, enter a, enter a baked good,
• 1:13:40
  whatever it is that you would like to do.
• 1:13:42
  And hopefully we will. See prizes for people that enter
• 1:13:45
  the Bake Off. Yeah, we got prizes.
• 1:13:49
  The location is going to be at the Ripple Phoenix Center, which
• 1:13:52
  is at 1423 W Indian School Rd. It's right at the corner of
• 1:13:56
  15th, 15th Ave. and Indian School.
• 1:14:00
  So come out and do that. It's relatively early.
• 1:14:03
  It's from 4:00 to 7:00 you'll. Be home just in time for a bed.
• 1:14:08
  So come out and do the thing and hopefully we will see you there.
• 1:14:14
  Hopefully, and then just till. 8:00 PM.
• 1:14:17
  Damn it, Felicia. I do a lot of things, but not
• 1:14:23
  this week. Took the week off and all of you
• 1:14:30
  can tell. Anyway, on December 11th at 8:00
• 1:14:35
  PM, we have sex trivia at Gracie's.
• 1:14:39
  It's a 21 and over event. Bring yourself, Bring your
• 1:14:44
  friends. Bring your friends and yourself
• 1:14:47
  if especially if you claim that you're a sex work.
• 1:14:50
  We enjoy those. Those are fun.
• 1:14:52
  For us, we enjoy those folks because they know everything.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah. Everything.
• 1:15:02
  It's it's a free event, you get to hang out and proceeds from
• 1:15:05
  every six on the beach. Sold goes towards one of the
• 1:15:11
  local LGBTQ plus organizations, so it's a good thing.
• 1:15:16
  It's not us 'cause we're not the organization, but you could
• 1:15:22
  support us on Patreon. You could, pretty sure it still
• 1:15:25
  counts as a charity. In here, right in here.
• 1:15:35
  Oh my goodness. I didn't write any last remarks,
• 1:15:38
  but I want to say that I'm grateful for, I'm grateful for
• 1:15:45
  reaching another year of life. I'm grateful for another season,
• 1:15:51
  another era of our show. I'm grateful to continue to be
• 1:16:00
  able to be employed and still be able to do this.
• 1:16:06
  It would be nice if we could be employed through this, but you
• 1:16:11
  know, things, things will work in the way that the universities
• 1:16:16
  fit. But I am grateful that for the
• 1:16:21
  people that are in my life and my small little circle, and I'm
• 1:16:27
  grateful for those that listen. We recently hit what was the
• 1:16:34
  number since we switched over to Spotify.
• 1:16:39
  It was like 2500 last year, but I think it's 25.
• 1:16:44
  Wait, hold on, let me not be a liar.
• 1:16:47
  I think we hit 25,000 downloads or something, maybe it was 250
• 1:16:54
  last year and then we hit 2500 this year.
• 1:16:57
  I'll look it. Up.
• 1:16:58
  I don't know. Whatever it is, but I'm grateful
• 1:17:03
  for those that listen. Even if you don't watch or
• 1:17:08
  participate in the live, you seem to come back and listen
• 1:17:14
  through the podcast. So I'm I'm grateful for that.
• 1:17:17
  I'm grateful for the folks that participate and help us on
• 1:17:21
  Patreon and come to our shows whenever we have them and our
• 1:17:27
  events. And so to 2025 had a weird vibe
• 1:17:36
  for me, but I, I think it brought this inevitable growth
• 1:17:45
  that, you know, sometimes it's very uncomfortable for us.
• 1:17:49
  And of course, last season I was going through.
• 1:17:55
  And so once you come through and get to the other side, then you,
• 1:17:59
  you figure out what's going on. But grateful that you have
• 1:18:02
  supported us through all things, whether it's been rocky or not.
• 1:18:10
  So with that being said, have a good start to your holiday
• 1:18:16
  season. You are in control of you and if
• 1:18:22
  somebody takes you out of control of what you are guarding
• 1:18:26
  you yourself, you find a way to remove yourself.
• 1:18:31
  Be safe, be with those that choose you.
• 1:18:35
  Like I said before. So with that, do you have
• 1:18:40
  anything to add? I don't know, I'm just, I'm, I'm
• 1:18:42
  like you. I'm grateful for all the things.
• 1:18:44
  I'm grateful for the folks that continue to support us.
• 1:18:46
  I'm grateful for my job. I am grateful for my partner and
• 1:18:50
  my family. I am grateful for all the folks
• 1:18:53
  that come up and spend Friendsgiving with us.
• 1:18:57
  Makes all the work and everything absolutely worth it.
• 1:19:04
  I'm grateful that I am still doing the thing, man, living the
• 1:19:11
  living the life. And with that, have a happy
• 1:19:20
  holiday and good night. Good night.