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Keep the Magic In Christmas | Episode 10 · Sincerely American

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  We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas.
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  We wish you a Merry Christmas. And a happy.
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  New Year, God, no one ever needs to hear me say.
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  We did pretty good though. I am actually the worst singer
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  to ever exist because not only is my voice bad like I have a
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  bad voice, I have no tone, I have no rhythm like I I can't
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  play an instrument like I was born musically challenged.
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  I can carry a tune. And I can't dance either.
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  Nothing to do with music like but I'm like actually very good
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  at drawing an art but just no musical talent.
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  I used to take, I remember in school we used to take those
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  like personality tests or the the psychology of your brain or
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  whatnot. And I always would get that like
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  creative answer. Every single women are creative.
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  Yeah, they are for sure. Well, anyway, Merry Christmas
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  Eve to all of our sincerely sisters, and thank you for
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  tuning in during the holidays. We love you guys.
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  This is a Christmas episode. We're going to be talking about
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  the secrets of Santa. Yeah.
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  So don't be listening to this with your kids.
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  It's such an amazing time of year.
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  The only sad thing about Christmas for me is that it's
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  over after this. Like I get upset about that
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  because I just love like the month of December, like my
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  daughter's birthday, which has like so many good little
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  memories and everything. She's our little Christmas baby.
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  And then like, obviously the holidays are such a special time
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  of year for so many reasons. The lights, the songs, the
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  decor. I always get Simon is actually
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  Christmas. I'm like, oh, it's over.
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  I know. That's why I'm glad that I put
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  my tree up early this year. Like my husband encouraged me to
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  put it up early. So we've had it up for two
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  months. So now I'm like ready for
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  Christmas and I'll be like ready to take it down.
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  I feel like when you put it up just for like a such a short
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  amount of time, you don't want to like take it down and then it
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  ends up being January. It's still up.
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  So I don't know. I'm glad that I put it up a
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  little early to celebrate and I love Christmas.
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  But I will tell you, the older that I've gotten, the more that
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  I'm starting to like Christmas Eve more than actual Christmas
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  Day because I love setting things up.
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  I love wrapping the presents. My dad does not know how to
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  wrap. So I have to wrap like my mom's
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  presents, my sister's presents and everything.
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  And I don't have children yet, but that'll be fun too, like
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  putting out the milk and cookies.
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  Brooks Sadly not at the my sister.
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  She's sadly not at the age with Santa and things like that
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  anymore, but she still gets into Christmas so I love watching her
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  like put on her Christmas PJ's and like my mom getting
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  everything set up and it's just, it's such a fun time.
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  I love it. Well, it's so funny because Vivi
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  just turned 3 and this is the first year she's kind of
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  starting to understand things. So we did.
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  Our Elf on the Shelf is named Charlie and we told her that
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  she's watching you. Did Elf on the Shelf?
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  Yeah, we did Elf on the Shelf this year and we told Vivi that
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  he is watching. I just called Charlie.
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  Is she that he is watching and that Santa is coming to town and
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  you won't get presents if you're bad?
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  And she is kind of understanding it and she is singing like a lot
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  of the Christmas songs and everything.
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  So I'm excited and we're doing some fun thing with my family.
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  Yeah, do. You guys do like a Christmas Eve
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  service or anything? I love the night Mass.
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  I think we're doing that on Hot or Not at midnight Mass, but oh.
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  We put it on. The yeah and I do like the the
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  candlelight mass as well. I.
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  Love the candlelight mass. It's.
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  It's really a beautiful time of year.
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  So do you. Remember that one Christmas?
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  Speaking of Vivian, we for like her birthday.
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  We got you a Christmas tree and put like pink bows on it for
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  her. I think we need to actually tell
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  that story. That is a hilarious story.
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  So Vivian's born December 16th and so this was her first
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  birthday party that we did. And it's funny because like
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  she's not in preschool yet. So it was just basically all of
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  my friends and family that came into town.
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  And at the time we were living in this adorable little
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  Georgetown house. And so we did like a pink
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  Christmas themed party for her. It was a pink party.
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  Everyone had to wear pink, but I just just envision because we
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  had this, you know, in our little living room, like we we
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  can put up a a video of it. But yeah, I just envisioned that
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  I wanted this Christmas tree for specifically for her birthday
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  party and as and Cameron and I to put pink bows on it.
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  So I think Drake was like busy with my dad doing some stuff and
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  then my mom was out. Like it was just a hustle before
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  this party. And I think it was the day
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  before Cameron and I went to go get a Christmas tree together.
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  So we show up at this like random Christmas lot in
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  Virginia, like in the middle of nowhere and we we go and like we
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  go around, we pick out our tree. It's like pouring down rain.
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  It was pouring rain. The guy put the tree up, but I
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  guess he did a shit job putting up the tree.
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  Yeah, he like, right. Normally when you wrap it around
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  the tree you do have like that band inside your car, but it
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  made it to the point where we couldn't shut the door.
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  That's what it was. So we could not shut the door,
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  but we didn't realize that until we had already left the lot.
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  And we were so tight on time to get this tree up and get it
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  decorated that Cameron and I drove like about 45 minutes back
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  to Georgetown with an me holding the car door closed.
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  And remember, people kept honking at us over and over
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  again, like your door is open. We're like, we know obviously
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  Cameron would like make a turn. I was like holding the door
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  closed. It was like literally coming.
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  You're. The best part?
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  I was on a work. Zoom Cameron has to get on some
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  freaking work. Zoom.
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  Yeah, they're like introducing a new client and I'm like, no
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  camera, mute the entire time. Don't let this be indicative of
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  my work ethic, you guys. I am a very hard worker, but I
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  was working hard for Jamie at this time.
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  You had to get on Zoom to show yourself, though.
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  She was like, on Zoom, driving. You see me in the back holding
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  our door closed. It's pouring rain and all these
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  people are honking at us and the door, the wings open and I have
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  to grab a check. We're on the highway, you guys.
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  They're like Cameron, is there anything you would like to add
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  to this meeting? Like I, I think you guys are
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  pretty much covered it. No, no, you give a Kamala Harris
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  answer. You're like, I'm so proud of the
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  work that this client has done in this difficult season of
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  treachery. Throughout this time I was like
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  I. Really love the mission I.
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  It was a word salad, Kamal Harris, and everyone was just
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  like, oh. I remember just so vividly in
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  the fact I think you had to go into like a Whole Foods or
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  something. There was a homeless man trying
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  to get into the car while you were gone.
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  And I was on Zoom on my phone with like connection in and out
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  was like, if Jamie doesn't come back right now because there was
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  something wrong with the car where it wouldn't lock.
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  So I just had to like, keep the doors.
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  Oh, and then don't even get me. Sorry.
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  The other part of the story is we went to some ranky dank gas
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  station and Cameron put like diesel in Drake's car.
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  I put. Diesel.
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  It was something like it was the wrong gas and like I swear that
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  car had so. Many No, I never put the wrong
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  gas in. It I there was something wrong
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  with that gas station? I guys I normally I've I'm
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  pretty like self-sufficient with that.
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  If I put I don't think I put diesel in it.
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  Maybe I put cuz my beamer takes like premium so maybe I
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  accidentally put like premium in it.
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  I. Have no idea but there was a lot
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  of chaotic factors like. That.
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  Tree looks adorable. I know.
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  God bless. Drake was like something's wrong
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  with my car. I was like no idea what that is.
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  It's like literally, if you go into that car, you guys, it's
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  like Drake's name, my name, Jamie's name, and that's.
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  It maybe Sam's and Walker and Walker.
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  So literally when you go into Drake's car and you turn on his
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  car, this is how much Cameron's driven Drake's car around.
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  It's Drake and then Cameron's like iPhone populate second and
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  then it's Walker's third and it's mine last.
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  Yeah, we were doing something like a couple nights ago and
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  Jamie and I were talking about where we were going.
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  I was like, wait. Drake has my location too,
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  though. Like, I'm just like a part of
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  the family at this point. If he needs to know where
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  Jamie's head, most likely Jamie's standing right next to
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  me. Well we literally have a group
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  chat. Drake and the Wives.
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  Yeah, that was. Like, literally Cameron's like a
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  second wife. I know you know, before I got
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  married to Pat, I was like the designated second wife to like
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  every function. Imagine going to like Mar a Lago
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  not having a date like going with Jamie and Drake, that's
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  what. You you definitely have like
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  third wheel but. I've so many times I'm like,
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  Drake looks so good right now. I'm like count, count your
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  blessings, but. You run on the air mattress in
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  Vivian's room. You guys, we've done a lot to
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  get this. To get this podcast up and
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  running this this New Year's and Christmas, this is like such the
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  craziest time you guys. But to get this up and running,
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  I was like living in Vivian's room the size of a closet.
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  We'll put up a picture of that. As well.
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  Yes. Oh yeah, my home.
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  Yeah, literally. It's it's crazy.
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  OK, going back on to schedule, what are your favorite Christmas
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  movies? Oh my.
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  Gosh, Well, I love the holiday. I think I've told the girls that
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  before. I love that.
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  It's like one of my favorites. I'm pretty sure my dad named me
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  after Cameron Diaz. I think you.
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  Look like Cameron Diaz. I love Cameron Diaz.
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  Gorgeous. I love Kate Winsley, I like Jack
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  Black. I just love that movie in
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  general. That's great.
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  I love the English Cottage. I love the LA Home.
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  I just love the plot of it and it's like a realistic ending.
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  It doesn't show them like getting married or like
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  forcefully like moving in right away, but like they're just all
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  enjoying themselves, like for Christmas and the New Year's.
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  And I don't know, I just love that I'm trying to.
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  Watch that movie. I haven't watched it this year
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  yet and you're right, I love that.
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  Movie. I love that movie.
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  What are those movies? Hallmark movies.
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  Oh yeah, I love Hallmark movies. Actually, I'm very basic in that
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  way, like the Princess switch. I know you've never seen that.
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  It's what the Nessa had. Never been on the Hallmark
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  Channel? I love that movie.
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  I don't know why I love that movie.
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  It's like a children's movie and I love it.
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  I don't know, the classics. Maybe like I'll see like the
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  Grinch, come on, or like Home Alone.
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  I haven't seen him forever. I'll just always be running in
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  the background. I feel like the clip of like
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  Donald Trump and what's his name, the little boy forgetting.
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  I don't know but London Tipton from London Tipton from Suite
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  Life with Zack and Cody married him in real life.
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  Isn't crazy, I know, but I always see that clip and it
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  makes me laugh. I know I do love that.
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  I love now the best part like we always talk about like the
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  nostalgia a lot of people have the best.
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  It's not the best part of being a mom and being like dramatic,
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  but a great part I love about being a mom is now showing
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  Vivian. All these movies, like we
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  watched Rudolph, we watched the Great.
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  Oldest one with the clay. Oh yeah, yeah, I love the one
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  with the clay. Yeah.
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  Clay, Oh my God, is so cute. And that is cute.
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  And Rudolph is like so adorable. The little how they.
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  Yeah, you're right, it's Clay. And then they do a little
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  finger. Yeah.
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  My favorite these used to be. So much better.
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  Like the new like CGI just sucks and it's so dull and ugly and I
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  love the old Grinch too, like the artwork.
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  I only watch. I don't watch the like the one
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  where they dress. I found that one creepy to be
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  honest. I like only the cartoon.
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  Jenny Humphrey is in The Grinch. Yeah, but I don't watch.
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  Like a little Whoville. Yeah, girl, I only watch like
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  the old, old school. One, I love the old school ones
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  as well. There is so much nostalgia.
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  What are your favorites though? Like just based off of Vivi's?
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  Like do you like the Rudolf 1? Yeah, I would say that's my
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  favorite. And then you're right about the
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  holiday. I think that's my.
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  That's my all time favorite. That's the one that I like
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  rewatch over and over. I don't think there's any other
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  Christmas movie I rewatch as much.
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  Yeah, I love that. OK, What are your favorite
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  traditions for Christmas? Oh my gosh.
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  Well, I love going. We go over to my saying
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  neighbor. That's like an understatement.
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  They've known me since I was like a kid and it's so funny.
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  We'll go over to their house. Like when I say we me and my
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  entire family and like their kids are Brooks age too.
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  So all the kids will be running around.
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  It's just so fun. And then like all the adults are
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  just like drinking and snacking and playing board games.
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  And I love that. And we do that on Christmas Eve
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  and we stay there until probably like 12 or 1:00 AM.
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  And then it's like literally just a short car ride back to
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  our place. And so we do that every single
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  year. Sometimes we'll wear sweaters,
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  but that's probably my favorite part of Christmas.
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  I just love Christmas Eve night. And then when the kids were
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  younger, my dad used to like knock on the door pretending to
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  be like Santa. And he used to like drop off all
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  the presents and like have a card from an elf and be like,
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  here's like your pre like Christmas presents or whatever.
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  Like thank you for being good. Excited for you to open your
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  presents that we wrapped like from the elves.
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  And then they would all have like matching PJ's in it and
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  stuff. It was so cute.
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  I do miss when they were like a little bit younger.
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  Now my sister's like getting older.
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  But yeah, I love that. And then I would just say like
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  watching people open the gifts that I got them.
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  Like, I know that's not a tradition.
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  I'm a huge gift giver. I that's like my love language
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  is like sitting there, you know how like when you cook for
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  people, especially me, you're like waiting to see what I'm
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  saying. Like that's what I'm doing.
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  I would say I'm actually like a really good gift giver too.
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  Like I cater it to like what people like.
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  And so when they're opening it, I'm like, what do you think?
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  What do you think? Like give me that validation.
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  I don't know if that's a tradition, but that's what I
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  love to do. What about you?
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  OK, mine is like I'm I'm big backing right now.
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  Mine's like a lot of food focus things.
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  One my mom's best friend shout out Shannon.
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  She makes the best gingerbread cookies.
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  Like out of this world gingerbread cookies.
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  I don't. Think I've had them in so long.
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  Yeah, she makes these like, I can't.
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  They're just luscious and beautiful.
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  And she used the frosting she puts on it.
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  It's just out of this world. So she always drops off those
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  cookies. And obviously, now we know the
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  recipe because she was nice enough to send it.
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  So sometimes I'll make them myself.
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  And I love that we always put that out for Santa with a glass
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  of milk. And I'm so excited now because I
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  had younger brothers just like you have a younger sister.
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  And so I love keeping, like, the magic of Christmas alive.
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  And now it's so exciting being a mom and like Santa is going to
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  be a I'm excited about that. And then I also love typically
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  for Christmas, we're French Canadian.
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  And so I love that we keep a little bit of the culture alive.
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  We always make tortier, which is meat pies and they're very
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  delicious. I love that.
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  And I also let my mom, it's, I saw the cutest TikTok the other
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  day where it's like growing up realizes that all the magic of
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  Christmas was actually your mom, dad, especially your mom.
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  Let's be honest, putting that together.
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  And my mom just always did. She just such a fantastic job.
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  You know, a lot of people like do Christmas tree decorations
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  for the aesthetic and ours is very cute, the one my mom does
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  every year. But I love that all the
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  ornaments have so much meaning, like the ornaments that we've
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  gotten over the years or little art projects that we've done,
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  these little cute ones. And she always just does such a
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  great job and like our skirt of our tree was like sewn by my
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  mom's cousin. I had a bunch of photos of her
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  when she was young. I love seeing docking my entire
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  life. So I was sweet.
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  I loved coming home and my mom like did all of our Christmas
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  decor and it just is so nostalgic for me so.
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  I love that. I love the personalization
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  aspect. My great grandmother still has,
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  like all of my art projects or like school photos.
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  Where, like, do you remember the ornaments where it would be like
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  a photo of you that you could hang?
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  Yeah, I love. That yeah, we were making fun of
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  Smith because he had like a funny one, like in a Penguin,
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  like I always like point to it because it's like a picture of
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  him, a Penguin. And now he's like 21.
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  He's like, stop. I know.
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  But you'll always see them as like I always call Brooke my
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  baby sister. Like you'll always see them
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  probably as like your baby brother.
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  Smith was with us the other night when we were doing.
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  Fox, he was, Oh my gosh, God bless him.
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  But he was such a big supporter of you.
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  It's so it's so good. To see that, Yeah, it's so cute.
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  All right, you guys Speaking of Santa Claus for that I have no
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  words. This is just a general trend
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  that I keep seeing on TikTok and I saw it last year and I've been
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  seeing it again. Come on to our page.
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  Let's just play one of the Tik Toks that I saw.
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  I don't feel comfortable lying to my children.
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  And I want them to know that, you know, the gifts weren't
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  free. You know, somebody had to, to
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  work for them. And and I guess lying is the
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  main issue for me. So basically these people are
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  taking the magic out of Christmas by saying that they
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  don't do Santa Claus for their kids because it's lying.
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  What is? What is your thoughts about
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  this? I just don't.
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  It's not a crime to want to add magic to their Christmases.
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  I feel like this is what's, it's kind of like the same energy in
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  a way where like you're not letting your kid dress up for
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  Halloween. The same thing.
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  It that's what it's giving to me and it's just like, I don't
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  know, I there's no crime in like wanting to create like such a
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  fun environment for them around the holidays like Thanksgiving,
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  Christmas, Halloween, Easter, like the Easter egg hunts, even
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  though like the true meaning of Christmas is obviously Christ.
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  Same thing with Easter, but it's fun to let them go on an Easter
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  hunt. It's like you during this time,
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  like, I don't know, you want to give them something special and
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  like make it fun and make it all about you guys so you can bond
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  and like have amazing moments together.
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  So I'm just not for this at all. I think it's insane.
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  My mom, I like I said she just so had this magic around
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  Christmas in our family and I was like low key I'm exposing
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  myself. I was like that kid that
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  believed in Santa Claus like way too long.
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  Me too. Like I was probably like 12
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  before I figured it out. I think that this is horrible to
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  be honest. I think I look back at the
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  memories I have where I couldn't even sleep, sleep that night and
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  I was listening. I really believed that Santa was
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  landing on our roof with the reindeer.
• 16:48
  And I thought I kept hearing the reindeer and I would go on and I
• 16:51
  just, it was so exciting. It was truly one of the
• 16:54
  highlights of my childhood. So to me, it's like so sad that
• 16:56
  someone would view that as lying.
• 16:59
  It absolutely is not. There is a period in your life
• 17:01
  with this childhood innocence where you create your own world.
• 17:04
  Like, are you going to? And that's why.
• 17:05
  Like God has just such a soft spot for children too because he
• 17:08
  loves like the innocence of like them believing in their prayers
• 17:11
  and everything. And I feel like that same
• 17:13
  innocence translates into like them believing in Santa almost.
• 17:17
  Like is there a single person who's like, I'm so angry my mom
• 17:20
  and dad lied to me about Santa? I've never heard a sing No.
• 17:23
  I mean in this day and age, I'm sorry.
• 17:24
  I'm sure there's some liberal that is has trauma about Santa,
• 17:27
  but like it's just so stupid. And then kids also like they go
• 17:31
  out and believe like there's fairies in their garden.
• 17:34
  I remember I would go for searches to find the leprechaun
• 17:36
  of my grandpa and I thought there was a real leprechaun that
• 17:38
  I would set up a trap. Loved watching like Tinkerbell
• 17:41
  and like that fairy show too because I was I was so into that
• 17:45
  and would read books about it. I'm I'm with.
• 17:47
  You and so like if your child comes up to you and it's like
• 17:50
  mommy I saw a a fairy flying around are you gonna go that's
• 17:53
  absolutely not real and you should never believe that like
• 17:56
  OK OK Grinch like yeah, I I just don't believe in this it's.
• 18:00
  Like not, it's not for them to be in the real world yet.
• 18:03
  Like you want to maintain and preserve that innocence and and
• 18:06
  then believing in something bigger than themselves.
• 18:09
  And I and I love that and. And I love like when I finally
• 18:12
  did discover that that Santa wasn't real, like I said, way
• 18:15
  too late exposing. I was like that kid that lived
• 18:17
  in a little bubble. I look back at that and I'm so
• 18:19
  thankful. Like, you know, we were talking
• 18:20
  last episode about like all the kids of technology.
• 18:22
  I'm thankful my parents preserve that bubble for me.
• 18:24
  It has been great, like even leading into adulthood that I
• 18:27
  just had such like a beautiful childhood in that way.
• 18:29
  I remember when I finally discovered that Santa wasn't
• 18:31
  real. I love then helping my parents
• 18:33
  with my brothers because that was part.
• 18:35
  It's almost like the tradition where then you get to like the
• 18:38
  keys are handed over to you and then you get to help out with
• 18:40
  your siblings. And I'm sure you've done that
• 18:42
  with Brooke. And now I get to do that as a
• 18:43
  mom. So I think that this has just
• 18:45
  been a tradition in like Western Christian cultures for yeah,
• 18:49
  it's for a long time. Like, what are you going to,
• 18:52
  like, put somebody in jail because they told their children
• 18:54
  about Santa? It's like, why are you?
• 18:57
  I don't know. Yeah.
• 18:57
  Like you said, don't be a Grinch.
• 18:59
  Like, stop taking the magic out of it and stop finding things to
• 19:02
  be mad at. You're looking at the life,
• 19:03
  like, half empty instead of the glass half full.
• 19:06
  And it's like, just let people live their life.
• 19:08
  Well, also it's like now with the era and age of social media,
• 19:13
  it's like a way to come on and create. 2 signal.
• 19:15
  Yeah, how you're such a great mom because you're.
• 19:18
  Holier than that. You're holier than now and you
• 19:21
  have a new the old age of parenting is behind us.
• 19:24
  And I'm so much more sophisticated and I'm
• 19:27
  approaching this smarter so I don't traumatize my children.
• 19:31
  I'm like massive eye roll, like, Oh my gosh, like I and like I
• 19:35
  said, anyone who complains that they're traumatized because they
• 19:38
  believe in Santa, like they need help.
• 19:40
  Yeah, we're not going to put a trigger warning on this for you.
• 19:43
  Yeah, well. Your trigger warning trigger.
• 19:45
  You don't have trauma that your parents pretended Santa was
• 19:48
  real. OK, I actually sang to Cameron.
• 19:52
  I'm like last episode we were chatting so much we forgot to
• 19:55
  even do our questions. I didn't.
• 19:56
  Know you guys sorry. So, but we had a lot of great
• 19:59
  questions. We're gonna have to get through
• 20:00
  a lot more in our coming episodes because you guys have
• 20:02
  been writing in, as always, amazing questions.
• 20:09
  And we're going to try to keep them a little bit Christmassy
• 20:11
  themed here. And for those of you guys who
• 20:13
  have not written in a question or you want to write in another
• 20:15
  one, make sure you go to sincerelyamerican.com slash ask
• 20:18
  a question. We love to hear from you.
• 20:20
  OK, this is from Sam from New Jersey.
• 20:22
  I've been dating my boyfriend for two years, but we're not
• 20:25
  engaged yet. And we are doing Christmas apart
• 20:29
  with our own families. But my boyfriend is not very
• 20:32
  happy about this and says when we get married we're going to
• 20:35
  have to do Christmas and switch off of each other's families.
• 20:38
  So you might as well start now. What are your thoughts about
• 20:41
  this? Am I in the right?
• 20:42
  Well, I think that you should spend Christmas with your own
• 20:46
  family until that person becomes your family and there can be all
• 20:50
  of the promises in the world. But until you have a ring on
• 20:52
  your finger and you guys have said vows to one another, you do
• 20:54
  not owe that to a boyfriend, in my opinion, or a girlfriend,
• 20:58
  frankly. I think that until you guys
• 21:01
  become one and then therefore you have his family becoming
• 21:04
  your family, your family becoming his family, I think
• 21:07
  it's good to keep things separate, separated until you
• 21:10
  take that next step. I, I completely agree.
• 21:12
  I think this is part of that culture that we're seeing where
• 21:14
  people are treating like they don't have any value for
• 21:16
  marriage and get divorced me leave, but then they treat a
• 21:18
  girlfriend, boyfriend relationship like they are
• 21:20
  married. And I, I agree.
• 21:21
  I think until you have a ring on your finger, you guys aren't
• 21:23
  married and you're not family yet.
• 21:25
  And who knows if you're not married, there's a chance that
• 21:28
  you break up and don't get married and then you missed a
• 21:29
  Christmas If your own family. Obviously there's instances
• 21:32
  where someone might not be very close to their family or have
• 21:34
  issues with their family, which we're so against.
• 21:37
  Like I think unless there's something really really terrible
• 21:39
  you should be spending the holidays with your family and
• 21:41
  put aside a lot of the drama. But in most cases I do think
• 21:44
  until you are engaged I think you're 100% right and you should
• 21:47
  tell him. He's like, you should tell him
• 21:50
  if you want me to do Christmas with your family, then you
• 21:52
  better put a ring on it. Yeah, don't do wifely things on
• 21:56
  a girlfriend's salary. Make give him an incentive if
• 22:00
  he's going to want you to be there for his family's
• 22:02
  Christmases. So.
• 22:04
  All right. Next question we have Claire
• 22:06
  from Illinois. I'm a 16 year old and I was just
• 22:10
  at Thanksgiving of my family and of course it's going to be the
• 22:12
  same thing at Christmas where people are asking what I'm going
• 22:16
  to do after high school. I'm really interested in
• 22:18
  politics and culture, but I really don't want to go to
• 22:20
  college even though my parents keep pushing it.
• 22:23
  Did you both go to college? If So, what did you study and do
• 22:26
  you recommend it? Yes, I actually got my money's
• 22:30
  worth and my master's program rather than my undergrad.
• 22:33
  My undergrad was worth it just because, like I was AD 1 athlete
• 22:37
  at Louisville. It was such a fun time to be
• 22:39
  there and I was very close with my family.
• 22:42
  I was like an hour away and I went to college actually a year
• 22:45
  early. I graduated high school at 16.
• 22:48
  So it was really hard adjusting for me.
• 22:50
  So I was glad I was like with my family at that time.
• 22:53
  But it was a very like liberal leaning university and I'm still
• 22:57
  paying student loans on on education where I'm like, I
• 23:01
  could have done away with that. And then of course, when I went
• 23:04
  to Liberty University, it was just a completely different
• 23:07
  setting. They were incorporate
• 23:09
  incorporating a biblical values and references in every single
• 23:13
  assignment. I really do feel like that was
• 23:15
  more fulfilling. I think it just depends on the
• 23:18
  person though. And I think politics is really
• 23:20
  great because there's just so many different avenues you can
• 23:23
  take and especially without a college degree as well.
• 23:25
  There's grassroots efforts. You can be in front of the
• 23:28
  camera, There's fun, amazing. There's just so many different
• 23:31
  things that you can do and dabble in it and see what where
• 23:34
  your strengths are. Because there are things that I
• 23:36
  did starting out in politics that I wouldn't necessarily do
• 23:39
  now, but it gave me the tools necessary in order to do what
• 23:42
  I'm doing now. So I would just say evaluate
• 23:45
  your strengths and and play towards that rather than your
• 23:48
  weaknesses. And yeah, so I to answer your
• 23:52
  question about what I studied though, in my undergrad, I
• 23:54
  studied political science out of track and law and public policy.
• 23:58
  I thought I was going to go to law school still kind of
• 24:00
  thinking about it. But then I went and got my
• 24:02
  master's degree in national security just 'cause I was
• 24:07
  gravitating more towards that working in the White House.
• 24:09
  I really loved issues going over at DoD.
• 24:12
  I always just found that interesting.
• 24:14
  So maybe look at what you're wanting to study.
• 24:17
  And if you're not wanting to study anything at all, I would
• 24:19
  definitely pray about that. Talk with your parents and just
• 24:24
  go from there. Tis the season for a lot of
• 24:26
  these questions, but this is good.
• 24:28
  That means your parents care about you.
• 24:29
  I've, I, there's this culture where it's like, how dare my
• 24:32
  family asked me who I'm dating, what I'm doing with my life.
• 24:34
  I'm like, I'm sorry that your family's taking interest in your
• 24:36
  life and they care about you. I found that like a really
• 24:39
  interesting culture that people get mad at and I'm thankful that
• 24:42
  my parents always are asking questions.
• 24:44
  They're always my entire life. They've always been on top of me
• 24:46
  because they're wanting to keep me on track, which is it's a
• 24:49
  sign of having good parents and good family.
• 24:51
  Aside from that, I think there's I don't think there's A1 size
• 24:53
  fits all for this. I think it depends where your
• 24:55
  parents are at. If they want you to go to
• 24:57
  college, I would assume that they're looking to pay for you
• 24:59
  to go to college. So if they've saved up the money
• 25:02
  and that's an investment they want to do, then I think 100%
• 25:04
  you should follow what your parents are saying.
• 25:07
  I think that's a very undervalued, I guess, advice in
• 25:11
  this day and age that most of the time your parents are
• 25:13
  correct about a lot of things, especially when you're a
• 25:15
  teenager. Yeah, but you know what I'll say
• 25:17
  too, though, for my undergrad, like I because I had to take out
• 25:21
  a ton of student loans, like a ton.
• 25:24
  And if you're paying for it yourself, like, I would really
• 25:27
  reassess that. Yeah, I studied American
• 25:29
  history. I wrote a thesis.
• 25:31
  I got a great education there and I'm really appreciative of
• 25:33
  that. I think that there's also, you
• 25:34
  know, scholarships that you can do.
• 25:36
  You can obviously apply for public colleges that don't cost
• 25:38
  as much. So I do, I think it's not this
• 25:41
  advice is not a one-size-fits-all.
• 25:43
  And I think it's great, you know, hearing your experience
• 25:45
  with taking out student loans, if you felt like that, that was
• 25:47
  valuable and worth the investment for the most part, if
• 25:50
  you have to take out a lot of loans, I don't think it's worth
• 25:53
  it. That would be.
• 25:54
  Yeah. And I just got more life
• 25:55
  experience after just doing the work instead of I don't think
• 25:59
  school was the life experience that I needed.
• 26:02
  I think the jobs that I pursued, the internships that I took, the
• 26:06
  moving aspect of that growing up very, very quickly.
• 26:11
  I think, I don't even think it was genuinely, I know I'm
• 26:13
  repeating myself, the school aspect, but going off to school
• 26:17
  and like taking care of myself and making sure that was working
• 26:20
  at the same time and really building that like independent
• 26:24
  that I needed. That was the life skills that I
• 26:27
  needed to carry me to to what I was doing next.
• 26:31
  I don't necessarily think it was the education in the books, if
• 26:34
  I'm being honest. But if your parents have saved
• 26:36
  up a college fund for you and they really want you to go, then
• 26:38
  I would take. I would too.
• 26:40
  I would too. And listen to your parents.
• 26:42
  I think that that's always good advice.
• 26:44
  You'll that's something to a degree is something that nobody
• 26:47
  can ever take from you as well. So if they if they've given you
• 26:52
  that opportunity, I would definitely capitalize on that.
• 26:54
  OK last question, Katie from Tampa.
• 26:57
  I've been dating my boyfriend for two years and we are about
• 27:01
  to be engaged. He is perfect except for one
• 27:04
  thing, his parents. We do not get along at all and I
• 27:09
  have to spend a lot of holidays with them so I'm nervous and
• 27:13
  especially when we start having kids.
• 27:15
  Is this a reason to run from an otherwise healthy relationship?
• 27:19
  This is super interesting. Yeah, this is a hard one.
• 27:22
  It is because like we said for the other answer, I don't think
• 27:25
  it's A1 size fits all. I think it's good that you're
• 27:28
  even asking yourself these questions because you're being
• 27:30
  realistic about the dynamics that are going to play out in
• 27:33
  your near future, not only for yourself, but for your future
• 27:36
  kids, for your marriage. So I think it's good that you're
• 27:38
  recognizing this and actually contemplating this.
• 27:41
  I don't think this is necessarily like bad that you
• 27:43
  should be. It's a shame that you're even
• 27:44
  like asking this for this. I would learn the law of
• 27:47
  detachment to see if these are just little remarks and and
• 27:51
  messages that you can get past and maybe remove yourself from
• 27:55
  or if it's something that's just overly consuming.
• 27:57
  I just wouldn't let this consume you and like and for you to put
• 28:01
  all of your time and effort towards this.
• 28:03
  I would assess the values and the things that you have between
• 28:08
  you and your future spouse and weigh the pros and cons there.
• 28:12
  But that is a reality that you're going to face when you
• 28:15
  get married, that the parents will become your immediate
• 28:18
  family too. And that is something to
• 28:20
  consider. I think if the relationship is
• 28:22
  perfect besides this, I don't necessarily think it's a huge
• 28:26
  deal. I think you should stay with
• 28:27
  him. This is not uncommon.
• 28:29
  A lot of people, we have a lot of friends that don't like their
• 28:31
  in laws. Like I think that's not a super
• 28:33
  uncommon experience and I think it's, it's important.
• 28:35
  The relationship that you obviously have between you and
• 28:38
  your partner, I think takes priority.
• 28:40
  Obviously it's a bonus if you get along with the family.
• 28:42
  But I'm a big believer in this. I think always take the higher
• 28:45
  ground and be respectful of his parents, even if they are
• 28:48
  disrespectful to you. I think you always take the
• 28:51
  higher ground and then you have nothing to apologize for.
• 28:53
  And I like I said, I think this is common.
• 28:55
  It's not the end of the world. I think it's actually probably
• 28:58
  more common to not get along with your in laws super well
• 29:01
  than to get along with your in laws super well.
• 29:03
  This is not advice whatsoever, but I followed this woman.
• 29:06
  Who's the sprinkle Sprinkle Woman I.
• 29:08
  Don't know who that is. What?
• 29:10
  Yeah, Oh my gosh, no, the microcultures, our girls will
• 29:13
  know who the sprinkle sprinkle woman is.
• 29:15
  Where she, she got like a very similar question, but the
• 29:18
  mother-in-law was super overbearing, like getting
• 29:20
  herself involved in everything. And it wasn't like serious
• 29:23
  advice. She was just trying to be funny.
• 29:25
  She was like then overly involve her, call her at 3:00 AM telling
• 29:28
  her her son is acting up and see if she still likes you and wants
• 29:32
  to be involved. You know, I was like, that's so
• 29:35
  like unserious advice. Don't do this, but like involve
• 29:38
  her in everything, the curtains, the kids, the sun and see she
• 29:42
  she still wants to be involved. I don't know, that's funny.
• 29:44
  But I genuinely for this though, like I completely agree with
• 29:48
  you. Not uncommon.
• 29:49
  It's good that you're asking these questions.
• 29:51
  I would just remove yourself in a way where it's not consuming
• 29:54
  like your day-to-day routine. Like, yeah, learn the law of
• 29:57
  detachment. Yeah, center your life around
• 29:59
  your in laws. People will just center their
• 30:01
  life around like their problems. Or their problems.
• 30:04
  But they just thought that like hate consume them and it's like
• 30:07
  just acknowledge the reality. I don't get along with his
• 30:09
  parents very well, but I'm going to go and do my best every
• 30:12
  single time. And I'm not going to, like you
• 30:14
  said, let this take over my relationship in life.
• 30:16
  I would also suggest, I think this is important as well to
• 30:21
  have a discussion with your future husband about it and be
• 30:26
  honest in a respectful way because that is his family.
• 30:29
  But I think it's important to like be on the same page.
• 30:31
  And, you know, maybe he can help work out some of those issues
• 30:33
  that you have with his family and he can be aware of the
• 30:36
  situation as well. And so I think it's more
• 30:39
  communication is much better than us when it comes to this.
• 30:42
  OK, now headed into Hot or Not Christmas edition.
• 30:50
  OK, our first one is Bold Red Lip for Christmas.
• 30:54
  I'm going to go hot. I've always had like red lips,
• 30:58
  especially in the White House. I.
• 30:59
  Was about to say in. The White House.
• 31:00
  I used to wear a red lip every that.
• 31:03
  Looks so good on you. Day I loved it and then I
• 31:07
  started going like a little bit darker you.
• 31:09
  Should do that again. I know I loved it.
• 31:11
  There was something in the air with the bleach blonde hair.
• 31:13
  I had blonde blindness back then with my bold red lip.
• 31:17
  So good I. Love my leather jacket.
• 31:19
  No, I loved it. That was an era for sure.
• 31:21
  But I'm going to go hot, OK? For I like it for other people.
• 31:24
  For me, I don't know. I'm not as big of a fan.
• 31:27
  I'll do just not bold red. I don't think I haven't done
• 31:30
  that in a really long time. And to be honest, it kind of
• 31:32
  does sometimes give me like Taylor Swift vibes.
• 31:34
  And I'm sorry to offend any swifties out there, but I'm not
• 31:36
  a huge fan of her. But that's literally what I
• 31:38
  think of like her red cover with like her, you know, her iconic
• 31:42
  red lip. And so I don't know.
• 31:43
  I'm I'm a knot for me personally, but I do love that
• 31:46
  on you and you should do that again.
• 31:47
  OK, Christmas ham. OK, I actually do eat this at my
• 31:51
  grandparents house for Christmas so I'm just going to go hot.
• 31:53
  I really like it. I always think of that Grinch
• 31:55
  where they're cutting the ham. You know what I'm talking about.
• 31:58
  That looks so good. Yeah, I'm going to go hot as
• 32:00
  well. Why not?
• 32:01
  I like a Christmas ham. Tinsel on your Christmas tree.
• 32:04
  I have tinsel on my tree and I'm going to go hot.
• 32:06
  I know it's a little bit trendy, but I love the bows.
• 32:09
  I know the bows trendy too. And it's it's so fun to
• 32:13
  incorporate like meaningful ornaments as well.
• 32:15
  I'm just not at that age yet. Like I'm 25 putting up my tree.
• 32:19
  So I'm just going to put tinsel and bows on it now.
• 32:22
  And so I'm going to go hot. I'm more of an ornament person
• 32:24
  in general but I do like the bows but I'm not as much of A
• 32:27
  tinsel person in my opinion so I'm going to.
• 32:29
  I don't like hate it or anything but I'll be contrarian with you.
• 32:32
  Not OK. Colored Christmas lights.
• 32:36
  I'm going to go. Not for me, but I love seeing
• 32:39
  them at like restaurants or outside.
• 32:41
  Like if there's Christmas trees, like out in a square or like a
• 32:45
  certain part of town. I think it's like so fun.
• 32:47
  But in my own home, I'm going to go no.
• 32:49
  I'm going to go, no, I only like white lights.
• 32:52
  I remember my neighbor growing up used to do like really ugly
• 32:55
  and it bothered us on our street because like really ugly, like
• 32:58
  all these colored lights. I just like a very classic like
• 33:01
  beautiful white light. I think that's why Melania
• 33:05
  didn't have colored lights and Jill Biden did.
• 33:07
  You don't even get me started. Jill Biden's White House was so
• 33:10
  ugly during. Do you remember, like the
• 33:11
  dancing trannies and like the mouse costumes?
• 33:14
  They're like version of The Nutcracker that was whoa.
• 33:16
  Weird, like tap dancing? Yes, that's what I'm thinking
• 33:19
  of. And then you had the most
• 33:21
  beautiful, like ballet performance for like that
• 33:26
  Melania coordinated. And I, I think that these ballet
• 33:30
  dancers were like for from Russia or something.
• 33:32
  They were like real deal ballerinas.
• 33:35
  Yeah. And then you had like the random
• 33:37
  woke tap dancing with the fatties and the trannies.
• 33:40
  And I was like get like. This weird old guy I think thing
• 33:42
  on his head. This is not getting me into the
• 33:44
  Christmas spirit at all. It's going to make me want to.
• 33:46
  Drink A Nightmare for Christmas. Yeah, matching PJ sets.
• 33:51
  I think when the entire family does the same PJ sets, I'm not
• 33:55
  into that. And I my family has done that in
• 33:57
  the past, so I'm not judging by any means, but I like matching
• 34:02
  in the sense of like, I got my husband Skims pajamas this year
• 34:06
  and they're Plaid, but then I also got Skims PJ's, but mine
• 34:09
  have like mistletoes on it. So they're still like sets, but
• 34:12
  they're not like coordinating as much, you know what I mean?
• 34:15
  Yeah, I'm going to go hot. But you know my answer to that.
• 34:18
  Yeah, I know I did like the work around, but around.
• 34:21
  They have to explain. I'm gonna go hot as well.
• 34:23
  My mother in Winter Sangria.
• 34:38
  I'm gonna go hot. I actually really like this.
• 34:40
  I drink it on Christmas Eve like every year.
• 34:42
  Our neighbors, family friends will make it and she puts like
• 34:46
  cranberry and orange and. Wow, that sounds fantastic.
• 34:49
  It's so good. I've also seen these ones, like
• 34:52
  on Instagram reels that are white.
• 34:54
  Yeah. And I don't know what they put
• 34:55
  in it, what kind of liqueur, but I I'm going to go hot.
• 34:58
  But I'm going to go hot as well. I've never actually, I've had
• 35:00
  sangria like mainly during the summer.
• 35:02
  I didn't know about a winter one, but I love sangria.
• 35:04
  So I will definitely, maybe I'll do that this year.
• 35:06
  Definitely hot. OK, getting into the last
• 35:09
  segment of the day, of course, propaganda that we're not
• 35:12
  falling for Cameron. What are you not falling for
• 35:18
  this week? I am not falling for parasocial
• 35:21
  relationships. And this comes after Braxton
• 35:24
  Barrios and Alex Earl broke up. And I think that the public is
• 35:28
  way too invested in this breakup.
• 35:30
  I think I ask you this, what do you expect?
• 35:33
  Like, genuinely, these people are not married.
• 35:36
  They're young. Let them live their life.
• 35:38
  Let them have some privacy. The fact that these people are
• 35:40
  like in the comment section, like saying they're never going
• 35:43
  to find each other like, and other people ever again.
• 35:46
  And this person's going to down. Yeah.
• 35:48
  And it's like, why are you so? Overly.
• 35:49
  No idea what's. Going on go touch grass.
• 35:52
  Yeah, go touch grass. Go get invested in your own
• 35:55
  personal relationships. The fact that like, I think
• 35:57
  these people live vicariously through these like influencers
• 36:01
  as if they're like friends or like close have close
• 36:04
  relationships with like I wouldn't even have that
• 36:07
  commentary with a stranger, like like somebody that I don't know
• 36:12
  being I would never be in the comment section and saying stuff
• 36:15
  like that. And it's also like, this is not
• 36:17
  a divorce. You guys like, yes, these people
• 36:20
  publicize their lives for you, but there's these people go
• 36:22
  through seasons and it's like that they may have like a
• 36:25
  boyfriend and then, you know, their husband may come along.
• 36:28
  So I would just cut these strangers some slack.
• 36:31
  I would. I just like don't care enough
• 36:33
  about celebrities even. Like I was like, oh that's sad
• 36:36
  they broke up. But like I, I just don't.
• 36:38
  I've seen people. Like get a celebrity person.
• 36:40
  So overly involved, like posting videos of them psycho analyzing
• 36:45
  their relationship, like crying with her.
• 36:48
  And I'm like, this is this is like, you know, our Disney adult
• 36:52
  episode where she was crying meeting Mickey.
• 36:54
  I was like, this is giving some like weird like psycho obsession
• 36:58
  with people you don't even know. And I'm kind of with you, you
• 37:01
  know, there was never like a celebrity growing up where I was
• 37:04
  just like, dying to meet them. But.
• 37:06
  Also the fact where like. Get involved in that.
• 37:09
  This showed up on my TikTok page.
• 37:10
  Like she had to put out a whole video explaining her breakup.
• 37:13
  I'm like, I don't, I don't really feel like you need to do
• 37:15
  that. You're allowed to just break up
• 37:17
  and like keep things more fun. And I mean, that's nice of her
• 37:20
  because she probably like cares about her fans.
• 37:22
  I actually think she's a good girl.
• 37:23
  So I do too. But I'm just like, this is kind
• 37:25
  of weird that you have that we now live in a society where you
• 37:28
  owe people answers about your own relationships that people
• 37:31
  have, no. Idea and it's not a divorce like
• 37:34
  you publicize your life. I understand she wanted.
• 37:37
  Joint like divorce statements that go out with celebrities
• 37:39
  where they they collaborate on Instagram.
• 37:42
  Like this is such a weird time we live in.
• 37:43
  Like the collaborate. Like we have so much respect for
• 37:47
  each other. Like obviously not you're
• 37:48
  divorcing. We have so much love and respect
• 37:53
  for one another. I'm like, OK, I'd rather you
• 37:56
  almost be like, yeah, it was messy AF.
• 37:57
  And I would much rather see the hearings of Johnny Depp and
• 38:00
  Amber Heard then see your collaborated post.
• 38:05
  That's bullshit. We love each other so much.
• 38:09
  Like, do you like I, like I said, I'm like just be honest.
• 38:13
  Like, yeah, we just don't love each other anymore.
• 38:15
  And like, I'm so against divorce, but like, just be
• 38:18
  honest if you are going to get divorced or don't put any
• 38:21
  statement out at all. Like I don't think you owe the
• 38:23
  world. I really don't think you owe the
• 38:25
  world. I don't think you do either.
• 38:27
  Personal information. No, There are some things that
• 38:30
  you should keep private. And I think as influencers, I
• 38:33
  think a lot of them built their brands off of that vulnerability
• 38:36
  and gaining that trust with their audience.
• 38:38
  But the audience should be far enough removed and have some
• 38:41
  respect for privacy in those moments.
• 38:43
  So these parasocial relationships, again, propaganda
• 38:46
  I'm not falling for. I think people are getting
• 38:48
  overly involved in strangers lives is like psychotic and
• 38:51
  weird. Yeah, I agree.
• 38:52
  OK, Mine is kind of controversial.
• 38:54
  OK, explain it. Yeah, the propaganda that I'm
• 38:57
  not falling for are atheists celebrating Christmas.
• 39:00
  And let me I'm not talking about the person who might not be,
• 39:03
  like, super Christian. I'm talking about the people who
• 39:06
  outwardly, like, hate Christians, call all of us
• 39:09
  Christian nationalists. They're raging atheists.
• 39:12
  They've made it their entire personality, like, OK, then you
• 39:15
  don't get to partake in our Christian culture, which is
• 39:17
  Christmas. And I would put Easter in this
• 39:19
  as well. And I know we've commercialized
• 39:21
  the holiday with like the tree in Santa Claus.
• 39:23
  But truly Christmas is the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus
• 39:27
  Christ. That's where Christmas
• 39:29
  originates from. And that is the point of
• 39:30
  Christmas at the end of the day. And we have the fun traditions
• 39:33
  that come along with it. But this is a part of Christian
• 39:36
  culture that all these like raging atheists like hate and
• 39:39
  condemn us all the time. And I'm like, OK, if you're
• 39:41
  going to going to be a raging atheist and like type of people
• 39:43
  that do the tik toks about how they hate like Jesus culture, I
• 39:47
  think. This goes beyond atheist.
• 39:48
  So I think this goes for any religion that doesn't see Jesus
• 39:52
  as our Lord and savior and then putting up trees and it's like
• 39:56
  they don't even know the true meaning of Christmas.
• 39:58
  It's then the name. It's like Christ.
• 39:59
  Yeah, I agree with. That so I don't understand why
• 40:02
  you're partaking in the traditions and there's a huge
• 40:05
  religious component there as well that you're just completely
• 40:07
  ignoring. And it's like, no, you shouldn't
• 40:09
  even be participating in that if you don't believe in it.
• 40:11
  I mean, it's almost like my Thanksgiving hot take where I'm
• 40:14
  like, if you're someone that's lecturing us about the US is on
• 40:17
  stolen land, then no Turkey for you.
• 40:19
  I know. Well, I'm like, if you're coming
• 40:20
  out and you're hating on Christians and you're not a
• 40:22
  Christian, then no Christmas for you.
• 40:24
  You can go being an atheist, in my opinion, I don't know, maybe
• 40:28
  this is judgmental, but it seems like kind of a miserable, very
• 40:31
  nihilistic life because they spend so much of their energy
• 40:34
  like hating on Christians. And like, I'm not talking about
• 40:36
  the person who may be like, you know, is not super Christian.
• 40:40
  Those people I'm not talking about.
• 40:41
  I'm talking about the people who actively hate on Christians.
• 40:44
  And we all know those like, radical leftist types then,
• 40:46
  like, I don't, I don't think you should be able to reap the joys
• 40:49
  of being a Christian in the beauty that comes along with it,
• 40:52
  which is obviously our profound faith in Jesus and our devout
• 40:57
  faith in God. God, but as well as our fun
• 40:59
  holidays that come with it. That's a part of our beautiful
• 41:01
  Christian culture we have. But yeah, that's my thoughts
• 41:04
  about that. Come for me.
• 41:07
  OK, Cameron, what propaganda are you falling for?
• 41:09
  I am falling for the saying getting older is a privilege.
• 41:13
  I think so many people when they're younger, they're so
• 41:16
  afraid of being older, like more responsibilities.
• 41:20
  They're, you know, maybe even like physical health.
• 41:23
  And I do think it's a privilege. And I think, you know, in light
• 41:26
  of like Charlie Kirk's assassination and the legacy
• 41:29
  that he left, he accomplished so much at such a young age, but he
• 41:33
  left this world too early. And I think a lot of people do
• 41:35
  like the good people leave this world too early.
• 41:38
  And I think it's just such a privilege that you get to grow
• 41:41
  up, you get to have life experiences, you get to learn
• 41:45
  lessons along the way in order to instill wisdom in your kids
• 41:48
  and people that you surround yourself with.
• 41:50
  And so I actually like, that's why I love, I know you hate
• 41:53
  birthdays, but like I do love birthdays.
• 41:54
  I love getting older. I love celebrating people.
• 41:57
  Like I just, I really do think it's like such a privilege and
• 42:02
  something that's overlooked time and time again, like as you get
• 42:05
  older, because I mean, you do have more responsibility.
• 42:08
  There's more on your plate, there's more travel, there's
• 42:10
  more birthdays and, and parties and baby showers.
• 42:14
  And like, sometimes you just have to sit back and realize how
• 42:17
  much like, how grateful that we are to like, be.
• 42:20
  I agree and other. Stuff like that.
• 42:22
  I will say this is I think a problem for culture nowadays
• 42:25
  because it used to be that we valued wisdom, them and age.
• 42:29
  And now I feel like everyone who's as people get older,
• 42:32
  they're just trying so hard to look younger, which is like this
• 42:34
  whole plastic surgery culture. Even like look at some of our
• 42:37
  celebrities like Madonna, who is I think almost 70 years old.
• 42:41
  She might be 70. I don't remember her exact age,
• 42:43
  but she's like wearing an outfit of a 20 year old and trying to
• 42:46
  do the dance and trying to do like all this plastic surgery to
• 42:48
  look like a 20 year old. And it's kind of sad because I
• 42:51
  think, like you just said, there is so much beauty that comes
• 42:54
  with age and a lot of that's wisdom and being smarter and
• 42:57
  being able. I think there's like an this,
• 43:00
  I've seen this before and this isn't a real word obviously, but
• 43:03
  I saw this word of like adolescent vacation of like
• 43:08
  adults in the. Peter Pan syndrome or Peter?
• 43:11
  Pan syndrome, stuff like that where like these adults are like
• 43:13
  pretending to be younger or following these trends of like
• 43:16
  I'm just a girl or like ignoring these responsibilities or just
• 43:19
  like I'm trying to think what? Else are not growing up.
• 43:23
  They're just, yeah, they're not. And I think there's such a
• 43:25
  beauty in growing up. Like, I think I've gotten
• 43:28
  smarter as I've gotten older. I've accomplished more as I've
• 43:31
  gotten older. I think that I've grown into my
• 43:34
  face and my body more. And I'm like, really starting to
• 43:36
  be more confident. And I just think, yeah, as you
• 43:41
  get older, there's a lot of things that are overlooked.
• 43:43
  And of course, like, we look back at back at our younger
• 43:45
  days, there's these memes of like the average day in 2016
• 43:49
  where that person's like walking down.
• 43:51
  Yeah. And it was like, life was so
• 43:52
  easy. Was peak.
• 43:53
  Yeah. 2016 was peak for sure. But I do think that, like, the
• 43:58
  older that I've gotten and like, you became a mom and I got
• 44:00
  married and met Pat and like, there's just so many blessings
• 44:03
  that occur with getting older. So I say embrace.
• 44:06
  It and if we did learn from Charlie, life is not always
• 44:08
  promised. You live up every moment and he
• 44:11
  only got to live to 31, which is just so horrific for so many
• 44:14
  levels that we've talked about. But you know, life is a promise
• 44:17
  to you, so you should anytime you're turning a new age, you
• 44:20
  should thankful that you got another.
• 44:22
  You're around the sun. OK so the propaganda that I am
• 44:26
  falling for is low maintenance friendships and I.
• 44:29
  Agree. I think that there's different
• 44:31
  boxes that you can put friends in and there's some friends that
• 44:33
  are going to be like you and I were.
• 44:34
  We're sisters and we are the opposite of low maintenance with
• 44:37
  each other. Like, like, it's like Cameron,
• 44:39
  you better drop everything and fly out to DC and vice versa.
• 44:42
  Like if there's a crisis in our lives, we're there.
• 44:45
  And it's like the first call. And I'm so thankful I have that.
• 44:48
  But I don't think every single one of your friends needs to be
• 44:50
  that type of friend. And people are just like in this
• 44:52
  era where so many people like cut someone off because they're
• 44:54
  like, well, this friend for this.
• 44:56
  And I'm like, I, I just have expectations and know what this
• 44:59
  friend can do that and the positives that they serve in my
• 45:02
  life. And I know maybe the drawbacks
• 45:04
  of people as well. And I think when you live that
• 45:06
  way, instead of just being so harsh about every single person
• 45:09
  and just understand people's positives and maybe they're
• 45:12
  negatives, I think that's a better a way to go.
• 45:13
  And I'm just really appreciative in my life.
• 45:15
  I feel like I have a great group of like low maintenance friends
• 45:18
  where it's like, you know, I was up in New York and I saw a bunch
• 45:20
  of girls I hadn't seen in a while and it was like even a day
• 45:22
  hadn't gone by, you know what I mean?
• 45:24
  And I'm just thankful for that. Those type of friends where,
• 45:26
  especially in this era of phones, I think people like
• 45:29
  constantly feel like they need to be in contact with each other
• 45:32
  and you don't really need to be. It's OK to let a few months go
• 45:34
  by. It's OK to let a year go by and
• 45:36
  then you guys can get together, catch up.
• 45:38
  And it makes it even more exciting.
• 45:40
  I don't think there's like always a need to have like this
• 45:42
  constant communication going with people.
• 45:44
  And so anyway, I think I, I like a low maintenance friendship.
• 45:46
  I think they make your life amazing.
• 45:49
  And not every friend needs to be like this crazy best friend
• 45:51
  level. Well, and the older you get, the
• 45:53
  more you have to have low maintenance friendships, right?
• 45:55
  Because like kids are now coming into the picture.
• 45:58
  You have a spouse to take care of, you've got, you're
• 46:00
  travelling to see your family. It's like you want people around
• 46:03
  you who make your life easier, funnier, happier and better.
• 46:07
  And it's like, I get that from low maintenance friendships.
• 46:09
  There are times where Jamie's in California and we do have an
• 46:12
  entirely different dynamic. But when she's in California,
• 46:14
  she unplugs and she wants to be with her family and I won't hear
• 46:17
  from her for two weeks. That doesn't mean that like our
• 46:20
  friendship is. Left in the dust.
• 46:21
  I've ever gone two weeks about talking.
• 46:24
  I know, I just totally lied about that.
• 46:27
  Meaning like I cut back from instead of doing daily phone
• 46:31
  calls. But that's the thing, OK, Drake
• 46:34
  will go to work, Pat will go to work.
• 46:36
  I will be home and Jamie will be home.
• 46:38
  And we spend the entire day on the phone.
• 46:41
  Like I think we I will be folding laundry.
• 46:43
  It'll be dead silent, like just And Jamie is still on the phone.
• 46:47
  She'll be scrolling online. She's still on the phone.
• 46:49
  Totally different. But I mean like unplug in the
• 46:51
  sense of we're not doing that every single.
• 46:53
  Day we don't go like no contact for that week.
• 46:56
  OK, OK. I know it that looks that way,
• 46:59
  but like. No, it does.
• 47:00
  One time I went like 2 days talking to Jamie and I had like
• 47:03
  a mental check. No literally.
• 47:07
  But my yeah, not every relationship is like hours where
• 47:10
  I have like all of my emotional dependency for how I operate.
• 47:14
  But no, I agree, like getting back on on track here.
• 47:17
  Yeah, the older you get, the more you want people around you
• 47:20
  who are just going to make your life easier.
• 47:22
  And I have friends back home in Kentucky where like, I haven't
• 47:25
  seen them since like high school or like freshman year of
• 47:27
  college. But every year, like we'll go
• 47:29
  out to the bars or something together, like for Christmas and
• 47:32
  I'll see or Thanksgiving and I'll see them like once or we'll
• 47:35
  message on Instagram once just doing our daily check.
• 47:38
  And there's people I have on find my friends I've had on
• 47:41
  there since like 14 years old. And I haven't talked in like 8.
• 47:44
  Years. I love that we still have each
• 47:46
  other. Yeah, but I'm like, you're my
• 47:47
  girl. Like I'm going to like just
• 47:48
  check up and make sure you're home.
• 47:50
  Yeah, bitch, I know. Yeah, I love you.
• 47:52
  Are my Sims in place? Yeah, all my Sims in place.
• 47:55
  Yeah, like, Oh my gosh, that reminds me of when I try to call
• 47:58
  you on your flight and you were going over the North Atlantic.
• 48:00
  Oh, shit. Or something.
• 48:01
  Like where? Where were you going back?
• 48:04
  From that's when I was going back from Europe, I was in the
• 48:07
  middle of this over Greenland or.
• 48:08
  Something yeah. I was like, where the hell is my
• 48:10
  SIM right now? I was like scrolling.
• 48:12
  What is going? On That's so funny.
• 48:15
  Anyway, that wraps up our Christmas Christmas episode.
• 48:18
  Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
• 48:20
  You guys have a great Christmas holiday.
• 48:22
  We're so thankful that you guys tuned in.
• 48:24
  We love our sincerely sisters, and do not miss.
• 48:27
  We're doing our New Year's special next Wednesday and.
• 48:31
  We just hope Daddy Santa brings you lots of presents.
• 48:34
  Daddy Santa. Your husband, your husband.
• 48:41
  Have you seen those memes where it's like I sit on a bearded
• 48:44
  man's lap and tell him what I want for you to tell her
• 48:47
  husband? I'm like Pat doesn't have a
• 48:51
  beard but same. I wonder what my Santa's budget
• 48:54
  is? Yeah, yeah.
• 48:56
  Merry Christmas. We love you guys so much and we
• 48:59
  can't wait to see you soon. Bye.
• 49:11
  We'll see you every Wednesday.