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Monday Mini: Meet the SMNTY Team! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephan.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: I never told your production of I Hire Radio and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to a new Monday Minie. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I said new. I guess just all of our money.
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  Speaker 1: Minda's unless they repeat it our new, aren't they? And
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  Speaker 1: you never know? You never never know? Um. And because
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  Speaker 1: it is holiday season and if you're wondering, this is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of December one, just to put this little
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  Speaker 1: time stamp on and what we like to do every
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  Speaker 1: now and again, it's just remind you of the amazing
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  Speaker 1: people behind our show. And so we wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: a reintroduction of our team and slash introduction because we
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: do have a new team member that's been around for
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  Speaker 1: a while now, which is really said that we waited
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  Speaker 1: this long. Sorry, I'm gonna blame this on quarantine slash,
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  Speaker 1: pandemic slash, you know all the new variants, right Annie,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and time just losing meaning because we did
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  Speaker 1: actually have a we were fortunate enough to have an
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  Speaker 1: in person meeting with our whole team back in July,
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  Speaker 1: right right, But it doesn't feel like it was that
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  Speaker 1: long ago. So while we start, you know, myself and Annie,
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  Speaker 1: but we wanted to introduce you to our new executive producer,
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  Speaker 1: Maya Maya. I'm here. Can you introduce yourself for our
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  Speaker 1: amazing listeners? Please? Yeah? Absolutely, my name is Maya now
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  Speaker 1: Cole Howard. I just got married in August, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: new names and things, very exciting. Um. But yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the executive producer for Sminty and I've been with iHeart
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years. And yeah, just actually it's
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  Speaker 1: actually this is a be store. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: off on a little tim In my notebook the other day,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed I had some notes from an old podcast
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  Speaker 1: convention that I went to before I worked at my Heart,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess you guys were our panelists, Like Sminty
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  Speaker 1: was on a panel at work it and I like,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading through some of the notes I was
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  Speaker 1: taking from the panel and now here we are all
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  Speaker 1: working together. I think that was like in seventeen or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. So that's like really funny and cool
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  Speaker 1: and so that's, uh, that's who I am, and I
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  Speaker 1: like it. And also on Mike with us, that's how
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  Speaker 1: I say it. I always want to say on here,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that's not right on Mike with us
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  Speaker 1: as our amazing producer. You already know her, but we
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  Speaker 1: just go ahead and to a reintroduction as she is.
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  Speaker 1: You're sitting here, Christina with the cat in your lap,
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  Speaker 1: so you're looking at a little like awesome power. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know. The way I'm hutting him is like, yes, hello, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, Christina. It's so happy to be here. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is my first episode I've been on, So
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  Speaker 1: so happy. It's only taken a year I've been It's
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  Speaker 1: almost my one year anniversary producing Sminty, so thank you
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  Speaker 1: for having me. Been a year seriously in January. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I started last January, mid January, but I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: pick up the show maybe until February ish from Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: So almost a year though, for sure. So I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: decided I have to do a special episode anniversary episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah we should. We We totally should.
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  Speaker 1: We could do evaluation about how you feel about us
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  Speaker 1: or anything, but that could be yeah, like a reverse evaluation. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, these are the things that annoy me.
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  Speaker 1: Samantha stopped doing this, thank you very much. Stop seeing okay,
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  Speaker 1: never a good point. More yes, more singing, Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: figured out that. Yeah, especially I don't violate any of
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  Speaker 1: the on air stuff because I never remember the actual
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  Speaker 1: tune or the words. So I'm like, this is the
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  Speaker 1: best way to sing a song, right, making up things
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  Speaker 1: to a tune that doesn't really exist but in my
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  Speaker 1: head it does. Why not it works for our circumstances
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  Speaker 1: and not violating any copyright laws. It's always good on purpose. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll say that's on purpose, on purpose, not because I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember what it is or what they say pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, it is the holiday season, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be fun if each of y'all would tell
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  Speaker 1: us your favorite holiday tradition, whatever it may be, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even your favorite holiday memory. Any And I've already
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  Speaker 1: kind of gone down this way, but we're gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: it up again, and any I want an answer from
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  Speaker 1: you as well. But Maya, can you tell us something
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  Speaker 1: to put you on the spot. Don't like bringing it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a half favorite holiday tradition or a
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  Speaker 1: favorite holiday memory? I have a lot. I'm like a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big holiday person. I do quite enjoy the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: This year, um where we've been in our house for
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  Speaker 1: about a year, so this year we actually like really
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  Speaker 1: got into decorating. Last year, we were just getting settled
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  Speaker 1: in and like kind of rushing and everything. But this
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  Speaker 1: year we're like really going out decorating. We got the tree.
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  Speaker 1: We cut our first tree down ourselves, and we didn't
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  Speaker 1: go a rogue into like some random forest, but we
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  Speaker 1: went to a tree farm and cut down our own trees.
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  Speaker 1: So that was really cool and I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely going to be a new tradition. I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: that process. I've always been a real tree person, so
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  Speaker 1: I've always grown up with like fresh trees, so that's
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  Speaker 1: definitely like a tradition of just like having the fresh tree.
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  Speaker 1: But this cutting the tree down thing was like very cool.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was in like a Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: or something nice. So that was amazing. Yeah, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: got questions because we used to do this too when
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  Speaker 1: I was growing up, but I was never actually like
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  Speaker 1: I would pick out the tree and then go sit
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  Speaker 1: in the car because this was when it was actually cold,
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  Speaker 1: and which is a little bit different because right now
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  Speaker 1: at sixty eight degrees in Atlanta. But did you go
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  Speaker 1: with tools and actually chopped down this tree or did
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  Speaker 1: they provide you with things? Yeah, So we went to
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  Speaker 1: a farm in Gwynnette County, so I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what town, just like a small town outside of the city.
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  Speaker 1: And they had saws, so you you know, you drove up,
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  Speaker 1: you parked, and they're like, do you want to pick
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  Speaker 1: out a tree or do you want to cut a tree?
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  Speaker 1: And we're like, let's cut the tree. And we got
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  Speaker 1: a saw and a wheelbarrow that's like the size of
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. It was more like a net and
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  Speaker 1: two legs with wheels on it, and there was just
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  Speaker 1: rows and rows and rows of trees. It was really
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  Speaker 1: awesome and so we got to you know, they provided
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  Speaker 1: us with the saw and we cut it down ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they also came clemented me on my perfection of
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  Speaker 1: sighing and how straight and clean it was, so I
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  Speaker 1: was pretty impressed. I did mostly cutting myself. My husband
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  Speaker 1: did a little bit of the cutting, but I did
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  Speaker 1: mostly cutting myself. So you may have like, like professional
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  Speaker 1: lumberjack ability, what is a tree services, But I'm like
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: it lumberjack because that just feels like right for me. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's just such a like a title for like lumberjack
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  Speaker 1: sexual and that they lumbers, is that the thing I
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: don't know. Obviously, I don't know much about it. But
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: that's how the references in my head. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: where I am. Thank you, TikTok. I'm not on that
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  Speaker 1: side of TikTok yet. I think I've missed that one.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't made it over the lumber sexually. Well, I'm everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not telling you, I'm everywhere on this TikTok. But Christina,
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  Speaker 1: what about you? What is a favorite tradition or memory? Okay, so, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's perfect that Maya has a lot, and I actually
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of tradition. I come from a
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  Speaker 1: huge family back in Pennsylvania and it's a little too
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  Speaker 1: much to try to be all together on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: So one thing that we do do every year is
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  Speaker 1: a big family Christmas party. And um, I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of little cousins and like younger kids in my family. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so we have somebody dresses Santa and they all think
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  Speaker 1: it's Santa. It's amazing. And I thought it was Santa
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid. You know, It's been going
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  Speaker 1: on since I was a kid and still is and well,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: you know, COVID kind of messed it up. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it probably will happen again soon ish when it can,
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  Speaker 1: and um, that's a fun thing, you know. I always
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  Speaker 1: look forward to it as a kid, especially because you
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  Speaker 1: get gifts. You get like a little gift from Santa
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  Speaker 1: and then big emphasis on like godparents, so um godparent
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  Speaker 1: gifts and stuff like that, and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with everybody and eat food. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was sort of my favorite family tradition. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, I just try to see my family on
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: Christmas and uh, keep it pretty chill. Um. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's about it for me, though, Like I'm I can't
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  Speaker 1: really think of anything else. So that we do as
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  Speaker 1: a family. You know, we'll watch you know how they
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  Speaker 1: play um a Christmas story, We'll watch that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then yeah, Christmas Day, we just opened up a
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  Speaker 1: few things and that's about it. You know. I'm with you. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not very sentimental. And one of the things that
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: we talked about then the listeners know that I hate
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: the holidays. I am very much the grump of the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: It starts from my birthday on which is in September.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, everything's the worst. Why is this? Like why
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  Speaker 1: is it like this? And why am I like this?
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  Speaker 1: Both of those come into my head. So any and
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  Speaker 1: I were talking about our own traditions. I really had
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  Speaker 1: to dig from my own. I was like, I don't know,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: because me being sad, sack, you know, pessimist over here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really having to think. But but yeah, just being
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: able to have a moment, and I can think of
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: the emotions of just having a moment when everything felt good,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't necessarily anything that was abnormally special type
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  Speaker 1: of thing to me, you know. And I'm like, and
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  Speaker 1: and even for me, I had traditions. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: I've been trying because I try real hard. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be a normal, middle class human where
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to appreciate that this is about the holiday,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: the family and holidays and get together even though in
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: my head I would rather just be in my comfy
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: and sit on the couch and watch horror movies. But
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I try my damnedest to get it together. So yeah,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: but being with the family when there's no drama, it's
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: really nice. Yeah, yeah it is. It's still kind of
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: like a what is happening? Yeah, no, Annie, to you,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Now that I've given my sad sack holiday ideas perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I love the lead in um Well, briefly, this is
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: not a sponsor, but I did give my mom a
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: comfy because you got one, and it was a big
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  Speaker 1: hit and she actually wore it to like grill out
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: outside when I was for Thanksgiving and it was really awesome,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: which for anyone who doesn't know, it's just essentially a
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: big blanket that you wear. It's kind of like a
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: snuggy but giant, but giant to the point I love
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: like a popple doll. When we talked about this last year,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all know my Christina, because you're
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: kind of young. I don't know if they existed. Y'all
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: are younger than me, much younger. We discovered those and
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, cool, cool, cool. Uh that a
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  Speaker 1: popple doll? Do you know what I'm talking about? What
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: those are? No? Annie, why are you giving me the tally?
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  Speaker 1: It is essentially this like stuffed animal that was some
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: type of sports ball that turns out to be like
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: a creature, and it's not necessarily a teddy beer. I
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: think some of them like we're supposed to be dogs
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  Speaker 1: and lambs and it pops out to that and what's
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: called a popple, and I believe they still exist bet dubs.
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  Speaker 1: But essentially it's what I say I am because if
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: you like huddle into a fool position, I look like
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: a big ball and then I pop up and I'm
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: like a weird like aking creature that comes out of it.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of trouble and visions like the
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: stuffed animals that turned into turned into pillows. I've seen that. Yeah,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: the pillows. Think, yeah, that was after. That was after
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I know. I know you want to have a lot
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: of listeners call and be like, oh my god, I
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: had this one. Yes you did, we all did my
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: my age. I mean, like if you're in the forties,
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: late thirties, typic like you know what I'm talking about.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, I'm getting because it was it was
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: a cartoon, all right, don't see. This is why I
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: say I'm all over the place, keep going an okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually a big tradition person. I know we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this before, and it's interesting because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the conversations you and I have about it, Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: we always are kind of negative. Not because um, I
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  Speaker 1: actually like the holidays, I think for reasons that maybe
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: aren't traditional reasons, but um, it's just usually we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about like emotional labor of the holidays, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: the most fun thing. And as part of that, like
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  Speaker 1: I do, I love my I have my holiday movie lineup,
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  Speaker 1: I have my music lineup, I have my sweaters, and
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: I actually do even though I complained about it in
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  Speaker 1: the episodes we did about emotional labor, Actually do you
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  Speaker 1: really like um Christmas trees? Uh? And I like the
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  Speaker 1: decoration and I put up mine and my tiny little
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: artificial one that has all of my like nerd or
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: an events on it. But I always do it after
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving because I don't want my mom to have to
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  Speaker 1: do it by herself, and so we always go after
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to get the tree. And last year it got
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: screwed over because the pandemic and we couldn't find trees anywhere.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: And then this year they were like, here's our Christmas
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: tree shortage, and it's funny you your story via as
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: we found a place where you could cut down your
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: own Christmas tree, and we vetoed it because we're all
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: very clumsy. We're we're gonna kill ourselves if we try
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: to do that. Um. So we ended up going to
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: home Depot and we met this guy. We got there
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: like right when it opened. We were trying to avoid people.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: We met this guy who was so funny, and he
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: immediately was like, don't you think it's weird that, like,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: we grow trees for seven years and then we put
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: them in our living room to wash them died. Don't
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: you think that's weird. It's like, you're an interesting fellow
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: and my soul mate. He went on and on like
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: he We kept trying to walk away and he kept
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: talking and he was really funny. Um. But it was
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: kind of exhausting because I just feel like I don't
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: talk to that many people anymore, and it's kind of
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: like a skill that's fallen out of practice for me.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: But he did not have a problem with it, and
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: he was telling me about how he thought the world
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: might be a simulation. I think he was like his
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: mother accidentally trapped him under the hood of his car,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: and he just kept going and going and it was
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: so funny. And my mom and I got home and
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: we kind of looked at each other. Oh, Yeah. Also,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: he tied the tree to our car and he was like,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be okay, and he jerked it around.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: It was like clearly moving along and he was like,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: how far do you have to go? So my mom
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and I got home and we looked at each other
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: and we were like, we're gonna remember this one. We're
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: gonna just those kind of stories like that where you
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you get to be with your family or whoever it
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: is that's important to you around this time and you
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  Speaker 1: create these kind of funny, weird memories around traditions that
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: you have. That dude, I look, they're kind of similar
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: and comforting every year. They're kind of new and interesting
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: every year as well. Yeah, that is that is fascinating
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  Speaker 1: this dude. I was saying my sould me until the
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: assimilation part was but it was it was, that's a
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: different conversation. It was very very funny because I was like,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: wait what And then we were moving on to a
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: different topic. Okay, and speaking Annie, because you did talk
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: about the having your own playlists, having your own movie list.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Do y'all have a favorite holiday movie that you must
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: watch every year? Maya's nodding yes, So what what is it? Honestly?
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  Speaker 1: Top five top five Okay, Elf is definitely up there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas story. I feel like Home Alone is definitely
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a holiday movie. I also I feel like there's a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Disney Channel movie that I can't think of right now
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  Speaker 1: that I always watch. Um they kind of like bleed
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in between like Halloween and then into Christmas. Definitely Harry
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  Speaker 1: Potter kind of like straddles the two. At least the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: first one. Source of Stone has like the Christmas at Dinner,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: so that definitely has the Christmas fields, and some of
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the other ones do too. Those are the ones that,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: off the top of my head that like, for sure,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I always watch Christina. Well, like I said, I think
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a Christmas Story, it would be like the only movie
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that I have to see once or in pieces because
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: they played twenty four or seven on the day, so
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I'll probably watch like half of it and
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: then two hours later watch the first half of it,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that is the one
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: movie I would watch. But I am more of a
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: TV show person growing up, so you know, there's so
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: many grid shows out there that have great Christmas episodes. Um,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: off the top of my head, like King of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Hill has some really good Christmas episodes. Um, kind of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: depressing ones, but it's so good. Yeah, shows like that.
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  Speaker 1: I like to watch Christmas specials because other than that,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: like I don't really want to watch a Christmas episode
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: of a show in you know, in October or July
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: or something, so I'm more of a TV person. But yeah,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Christmas Story would be my one Christmas movie. If I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: had to choose one, I would say, Annie, I know
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you've got t thou you have five no bonuses, Annie,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: she wants to add these bonuses that she's like. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: would say, like, yeah, pretty much what everyone else has said.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've talked about this before, but yeah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we watched We usually watched the Santa Claus watch up
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol, which I love. And then uh, TV
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: episodes I do like, Um, I like the Supernatural Christmas
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: one because it's freaky. I like, I just discovered Wellington
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Paranormal as a Christmas episode and I love that. And
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: then I like a lot of the weird stuff we
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: do Savantha where it's not really a Christmas movie, but
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: it's like at Christmas. So Spider Versus probably number one.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I love that and I watched it at Christmas right
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: well yeah, like like uh, Maya was saying, Harry Potter
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: is actually one of mine as well as Christmas time
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they do a Christmas thing is super cute. I must watch.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I have told you this from last year. I watched
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of rom coms when it comes to Christmas movies,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: which is really weird because I am a cynic to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the core. But I love the holiday rom cons. And
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about Hallmark, which you would think I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: would add that in, but I've never watched those. I'm
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: talking about the holiday specifically. You know I'm talking about mine.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: It's not in your head. The Jack Black um Kate
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Winslet that I love that one about a boy, which
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is uh yeah, so it's way back with I was like,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: why am I watching these? But I love it and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I must watch it, okay. And I also have liked
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Love actually and I have a lot of people yelling
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: at me about this movie about how it's awful, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I still love it and I find it endearing. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: like English humor, okay, thank you, thank you, Maya. Um.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: But I also do the shows because a New Girl
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: has a lot of Christmas shows of Christmos episodes that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I watched, like, I must watch every single one of these,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and I will skip over to watch that Scrubs has
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a few that are really sad that I must watch
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: as well. I don't know, I'm like, Okay, I think
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the sad Christmas thing the thing, but I feel like
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it just makes watching these things. I try to get
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in the mood by watching these things. Do you feel
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like it helps y'all to get in the am I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the only one of our group that really just has
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a hard time getting into spirit, so I do too.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's not even that like I don't want to have spirit.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I recently thought I would be like and I'm sure
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you agree, Samantha, we would be perfect in a movie
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: about somebody who has no Christmas spirit who needs to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: find Christmas spirit. You know how every Christmas movie is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that we need like Santa to come find us and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: put it in us, the Christmas spirit. I feel like
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not like actively not seeking it out. I just
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: genuinely don't really feel very festive. Um. I appreciate the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: holidays and I like to see in my family, but
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I would be nice to have like
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: more traditions. I feel like it would be more fun.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I would love to make my own traditions eventually, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: when I settled down more or get like a house
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: where I can put a big tree, get a real tree,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: would be really cool. I've never done that, so that
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: sounds cool too. But yeah, I'm you know, I definitely
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: am lacking some festivity. But maybe one day, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: these things like good back to you don't have to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it's okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would say I've definitely
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: taken that route Christina, of like let me just make
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: up my own traditions. And like I found that, you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I grew up in a family that was like really
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: big about Christmas, but it was always later in December,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: like the last couple of weeks of December, and I've
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: kind of taken a different approach of like it takes
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: so much work to put all of these lights up
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: in these ornaments and like get it all together, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: like why don't just start, like you said, Annie, like
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: right after Thanksgiving, which we never really did growing up.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And so that's something that I've kind of incorporated for
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: myself because it just is fun. And then last year
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: my husband did this thing of like twenty five days
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of Christmas, so like every day he would come home
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: with something random, like a pair of socks or like
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a piece of or like something fun. And it was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: just like so much fun that I was like, you
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: know what, we should just do this all month long
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: because it just it's just a lot of effort to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: get into the spirit and then once it's over, it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: kind of sad. But if you drag it out a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: little bit longer, it's like, Okay, I'm ready for this
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to be over, you know. And so I think creating
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: traditions is always the best way to go. I love that. Christina.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Also the secret for Christmas tree get the tiny small
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: ones or Kroger that's the ones I get. So that's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: easily like I'm done with it and just throw it away.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But it's real and it does last real, but it's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: literally fourth of the size of the real the big ones,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and so like easier to decorate and you can just
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: put it up on the table and there you go,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. I did that every year when
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I lived in an apartment. That was what I did,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Like Whole Foods. That that's tiny Christmas tree and it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like a little you know, stand and a little bow
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: on it, and it's like you're done. I get the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: miniature sucks like socks, stockings, and the stockings. Yeah, I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: don't what I'm talking about. I just put socks, whatever works,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: whatever is easiest, whatever it does, stretch you out, like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that's that's the way. That's the only way. Oh y'all.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And it is December, and uh, this is as you
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: were talking about trying to extend it out, Maya. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: feel like you're a lot more organized than myself because
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I haven't even thought about doing anything Christmas
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a yet this is where I am, and then realizing,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: oh no, we're in December. I guess I need to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: do some of these things. If I want to do
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: some of these things depends on what things you're talking about.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I think my I really like your husband how he
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: does like five gifts or whatever. Um. I think I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: love gift giving, Like gift giving is fun and I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: love being thoughtful. It can be a little stressful, but um,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I love receiving them too, but I love giving them more.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So I think that's a great idea, is like little
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: gifts up until Christmas could definitely help with Christmas spirit
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, And sometimes it's just like a note
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: or like something really small, like it doesn't happen to anything,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and it's just more about like the thought and you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: putting a little effort into each day and makes it exciting. Yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I like that sounds fun. It's cute. I love it,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Like how adorable you are? My Yes, it makes life
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit more fun because I am honestly like
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit of like an existentialist and like you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: kind of lean towards the pessimism and I'm like, okay,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: how can I make myself just a little bit happier,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: especially when it's not as sunny as it usually is
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: today and you know, it's greyer and you know, the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: sad sets in the s A A D. Not going
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to say both whole thing. I'm so glad y'all are
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: able to come on and tell us and share with
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: us some of the things that y'all do or don't
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: do or try to do as we are as well. Um,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm so glad be on a team with yall. Yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they're awesome and hopefully we can all coming through together
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and hang out hang out outside of the computer face
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: times I was trying to. I think you succeeded, succeed Okay, great,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: great great. I did say that any not too long
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: ago as today. Maybe we should all get together soon
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and do a little holiday photo shoot as a team. Wow,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that's with Christmas sweaters somehow like Christmas sweaters and order
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: antlers or something. Yes, well I'm into it. I got
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: my sweater as ready as I said, I got it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I got hats, and I got those like light up things,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: so I'm ready to go. We can do this. Yes,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: thank you for being here, Thank you for being on
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the team. We would love to do this again. And yes, listeners,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: this is These are the people that make this happen.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Without it, none of us is here. Yes, yes, So
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: thank you Maya and Christina for everything that you do,
• 27:11
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• 27:14
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• 27:18
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• 27:23
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• 27:33
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