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EPISODE 27: Turkey Trot or Turkey Rot: A Mom O’Clock Thanksgiving · It's Mom O'Clock

• 0:00
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• 1:12
  Speaker B: Hello. You guys, stop. Is it Mama Clock yet? I'm going crazy. Heck, yeah.
• 1:20
  Speaker A: It's Mama Clark somewhere.
• 1:42
  Speaker B: We're here.
• 1:43
  Speaker A: Are we?
• 1:44
  Speaker B: I'm here. I feel good.
• 1:47
  Speaker A: You look good. You know why I know you're good?
• 1:50
  Speaker B: What?
• 1:50
  Speaker A: Because you don't ask me what we're wearing. You just show up, and you show.
• 1:55
  Speaker B: Up ready to go in a.
• 1:57
  Speaker A: In a nice, appropriate, ready for action type of outfit.
• 2:02
  Speaker B: I was actually thinking if I. If I wasn't me and I was somebody else and we were doing this podcast, but you actually really hated, like, my style. Like, you kind of created me, so, like, you can't really hate me.
• 2:16
  Speaker A: Creating you is crazy.
• 2:18
  Speaker B: But, like, what if you really didn't like what I was wearing? Like, I mean, would you say I.
• 2:22
  Speaker A: Have to your face?
• 2:24
  Speaker B: Yeah, but it. But if you. If it was every time you just, like, really, like, tore somebody.
• 2:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. I would sit you down and say.
• 2:30
  Speaker B: Hey, you need to change.
• 2:33
  Speaker A: Yeah. Like, your face, your abs.
• 2:35
  Speaker B: You need to change your entire being. And then I will talk to you.
• 2:38
  Speaker A: Yeah. And then you can come on my show. Okay. Her show.
• 2:41
  Speaker B: Her show.
• 2:42
  Speaker A: My show. No. So serious, though. You're. You really. You really don't need me.
• 2:50
  Speaker B: I will always need you.
• 2:52
  Speaker A: I do your makeup in 30 seconds.
• 2:54
  Speaker B: It's fantastic. I know, but we still would, like, a glam squad.
• 2:58
  Speaker A: I know. If you want to be our glam squad, I would love nothing more than for someone to come and do my makeup every time.
• 3:05
  Speaker B: Would you, though? I feel like you don't really like getting your makeup.
• 3:08
  Speaker A: Yeah, you're right.
• 3:09
  Speaker B: She's spitting lies.
• 3:11
  Speaker A: I'm spitting lies. Maybe you do know me better than I know myself.
• 3:13
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 3:15
  Speaker A: I don't know if I like myself today.
• 3:18
  Speaker B: I'm cozy and comfy. I love myself.
• 3:20
  Speaker A: You do? You, like, look cute right now. I don't know why I'm staring at myself.
• 3:26
  Speaker B: It's Mama Clock.
• 3:27
  Speaker A: It's Mama Clock. Your favorite zoo girlies.
• 3:33
  Speaker B: I was watching Giggly Squad. Please tell me I really don't want this, but do I give off Hannah Burner vibes?
• 3:42
  Speaker A: Oh, okay. Nothing against Hannah Burn. What's her name?
• 3:45
  Speaker B: Hannah Burner. Yeah, Burner, I think.
• 3:49
  Speaker A: I don't know.
• 3:50
  Speaker B: I think my hair does, because her hair is always a mess, and I feel like my hair is always a mess.
• 3:56
  Speaker A: You think you're giving Hannah? I don't know. Okay, well, do you think I'm giving Paige?
• 3:59
  Speaker B: I mean, I feel like you're always giving Paige.
• 4:00
  Speaker A: I love that. Listen, unpopular opinion. I love them. I think they're great together.
• 4:06
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 4:07
  Speaker A: I personally don't think Hannah's that funny. Oh, I think Paige is more funny than Hannah. But Hannah's the comedian.
• 4:14
  Speaker B: Hannah is the comedian. I. I think she's funny.
• 4:17
  Speaker A: You do? Well, she's your vibe.
• 4:19
  Speaker B: She's my vibe.
• 4:20
  Speaker A: Maybe you do give Hannah.
• 4:21
  Speaker B: Oh, I don't want to give Hannah. Oh, that's not what I want.
• 4:25
  Speaker A: Oh, okay. But I don't think she's that fun.
• 4:27
  Speaker B: I don't think she's that funny. But I. I do agree they're better together. Like, Hannah's on her own tour. I don't know.
• 4:32
  Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, people obviously think she's funny. She's a comedian.
• 4:34
  Speaker B: I mean, she's unpopular.
• 4:39
  Speaker A: I feel like. Yeah. I mean, some people are just better together.
• 4:43
  Speaker B: Yeah, we're better together.
• 4:44
  Speaker A: We are. Yeah. I hate myself alone.
• 4:48
  Speaker B: I don't want to be alone. This is our Thanksgiving episode.
• 4:53
  Speaker A: Happy Thanksgiving.
• 4:54
  Speaker B: Happy Thanksgiving.
• 4:55
  Speaker A: Happy Turkey Day. I have to say, I love Thanksgiving because I do feel like it's a family day.
• 5:00
  Speaker B: Family day.
• 5:01
  Speaker A: It really gives family aside for Christmas, you know, the whole holiday thing. Thanksgiving truly is a time to be thankful. I'm not trying to be, like, you.
• 5:09
  Speaker B: Know, cliche, but let's talk about what we're thankful for.
• 5:12
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 5:14
  Speaker B: Okay. I'll go first. I'm thankful for a lot of things.
• 5:17
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 5:17
  Speaker B: I'm just coming off a weekend with my. My family.
• 5:20
  Speaker A: Your side?
• 5:21
  Speaker B: Yes, my side. Like, I think people forget that, like, besides the d', Annunzios, I also have a family.
• 5:26
  Speaker A: No, I honestly forget that you have a family as well.
• 5:29
  Speaker B: But so we had our annual family reunion, and I have cousins from Canada, Boston, New Jersey, and we all come together and it's so, so nice just to, like, see old cousins and so.
• 5:40
  Speaker A: When'S the last time you saw them?
• 5:41
  Speaker B: A year ago. So we try to do it once a year, like, actually all.
• 5:45
  Speaker A: But do you keep in touch?
• 5:46
  Speaker B: Like, yeah, like, we keep in touch, but, like, not, like, talk regularly. Right. So it's nice. I didn't even know that there are fans of the show. Some of them, like my older cousins, they all watch. They all. And it's funny because it sparks up conversation. Like, my one cousin.
• 6:03
  Speaker A: Did they bring it up to you?
• 6:04
  Speaker B: Yeah, they were bringing it up to me. And my one cousin was like, on our live. Oh, we have to talk about our lives.
• 6:09
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. We went live.
• 6:10
  Speaker B: We went live. It was so fun.
• 6:12
  Speaker A: People actually watched it.
• 6:13
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think we should do it again.
• 6:14
  Speaker A: 100%. We had a really good first come around, I think.
• 6:18
  Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, I think we're going to do it again while we're in Florida. Yeah, but. So she was watching my live and she was. We were talking about breastfeeding on our live. If you didn't. If you didn't hear it. And one of my cousins. So these are my, like, second cousins. So they're older. They're my mom's first cousins. And one of them breastfed their baby.
• 6:36
  Speaker A: No.
• 6:37
  Speaker B: Till four years old.
• 6:39
  Speaker A: Holy shit. Like, but, like, so they were eating. So they would eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then just go on the booze.
• 6:47
  Speaker B: The title. Yep. On the bus. Four year old walking up to a boob.
• 6:53
  Speaker A: I don't believe it.
• 6:54
  Speaker B: I it and to God.
• 6:57
  Speaker A: So what do you say in response?
• 7:00
  Speaker B: I said, I'm gonna eat this shit up on the podcast.
• 7:03
  Speaker A: Wait.
• 7:03
  Speaker B: But like, she's like, proud. Like, it's like a.
• 7:05
  Speaker A: So they go to school, come home, and. And the baby's like, mom, I'm hungry.
• 7:08
  Speaker B: I guess I actually, I didn't get to sit in. First of all, when I'm talking, when I got to see my family, I also had three babies running around. I didn't even get to have, like, full conversations. So when I say that I visited, it was like a moment visit where Rock was.
• 7:23
  Speaker A: I'm picturing like, no bathrooms.
• 7:25
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah. We were in a little cottage.
• 7:27
  Speaker A: No food.
• 7:27
  Speaker B: It was like a cottage. Vienna kept looking for Goldilocks. And three bears. She truly thought, oh, my God, that Goldilocks was going to come out of the woods.
• 7:35
  Speaker A: And three bears.
• 7:36
  Speaker B: She was waiting. She'd wait. Mommy, do you think Goldilocks is coming yet?
• 7:39
  Speaker A: A throw up.
• 7:40
  Speaker B: Yes, she's coming soon.
• 7:41
  Speaker A: So everyone was in one cottage.
• 7:43
  Speaker B: We were in a little cottage. Me, my husband, three kids, and my mom.
• 7:47
  Speaker A: Is there a bathroom?
• 7:48
  Speaker B: There was one bathroom. There was bunk beds. There was like a little.
• 7:52
  Speaker A: Is it actually in the woods?
• 7:53
  Speaker B: Yeah, it was in. It was like glamping. You would die.
• 7:57
  Speaker A: I would pass away.
• 7:58
  Speaker B: But I am proud of myself. I'm proud of my kids. I'm proud of my family. We came out alive and it was fun and we did it.
• 8:04
  Speaker A: Did you hike and shit?
• 8:06
  Speaker B: Well, we said we were hiking, but think about bringing three kids on an actual hiking trail. My family did hike, and we stayed back at the. We went on, like, the trail to the lake and pretended it was a hike and looked for bears and rabbits.
• 8:19
  Speaker A: I mean, there are bears and stuff.
• 8:21
  Speaker B: Yeah, there's bears. We didn't see any, but, like, we could have.
• 8:24
  Speaker A: Yeah. So what do you. You're.
• 8:26
  Speaker B: We were talking about thankful. Yeah. So I'm just thankful. I'm thankful for my family. But I. And I asked my kids what they were thankful for on the way here, and you know what they both said simultaneously? Rocco. And I was like, you know what? I'm fucking thankful for Rocco, too. And you know why? Rocco was not planned. Right. So, like, he was an accident, baby. Whoopsie. And I'm so thankful that we have him now because I don't know if we would have had that third kid. Well, I would have begged and begged and begged for a third. But, like, we're so thankful for our family baby. Like, he's such the family baby.
• 9:02
  Speaker A: I feel like. I mean, it was meant to be. Like, that's why I think things happen for a reason. He brought your family full circle.
• 9:06
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 9:07
  Speaker A: Or you would have been walking around just, like, empty inside.
• 9:10
  Speaker B: Yeah. And I actually read this thing where it said, I actually don't really want another baby. I just want my babies to be babies again. And I think that resonated with me. I really think that I'm good. You are. I think also Christmas shopping for three kids is really hard.
• 9:30
  Speaker A: Maybe holiday season is growing.
• 9:31
  Speaker B: Holiday season is really making me stressed.
• 9:33
  Speaker A: But, like, it is tough also.
• 9:35
  Speaker B: Like, just like I said, it was my family in a little cabin this weekend, and we were on top of each other. And, like, it was like a. It was a loud, happy Family. Like, I wanted. I wanted that big family, and I feel like three is big. Three is.
• 9:48
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah. When you hear people say three, that's when you're like, oh, my God. You do think about. If someone says, I have two kids, you're like, oh. But when someone says three plus, you're like, oh, my God. You do. You have a. Yeah. Definitely. Having that third baby definitely makes your family bigger.
• 10:03
  Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, I think the third. I think the third crosses the line of, like, okay, now you're. Now you have, like, a bigger family.
• 10:09
  Speaker A: Yeah. Five is a lot.
• 10:10
  Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm really thankful for that. I'm so thankful for my husband for being the provider and letting me, like, be able to be home with my babies. Like, that is just. I'm so grateful for that. I'm so, so grateful for you. Yes. Don't make me cry.
• 10:30
  Speaker A: Oh, my God, I'm gonna cry.
• 10:31
  Speaker B: I'm so thankful that you got me out of, like, this, like, bubble that I was in. We're not crying. And, like, I am. I'm so. You are. Yes. And then she ugly cries. I'm so.
• 10:47
  Speaker A: That's the nicest thing anybody has ever said to me.
• 10:49
  Speaker B: I am, like, I feel like, this new part of me, and, like, I'm so thankful for this podcast. I'm thankful for my husband and your husband who lets us do this. I'm very thankful for your husband, for being the gap between my husband and my Venmo account. I literally have to text Mike sometimes, being like, you gotta talk to him, please.
• 11:11
  Speaker A: I need money. And he does.
• 11:12
  Speaker B: He's our financial advisor and also my sounding board.
• 11:15
  Speaker A: So. Yeah, that means so much to me.
• 11:18
  Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm. I just. I don't know. Like, I feel like this podcast really has just made my life better, and it's because of you.
• 11:28
  Speaker A: I love you so much. You really don't know. You don't know how much you're appreciated until, like, sometimes people just need to hear it.
• 11:36
  Speaker B: Yeah, of course. And I just talked about last episode.
• 11:39
  Speaker A: No, literally just going off of what you just said, like, just on a serious note, I see it. Like, I see. And you are always, like, this amazing human from the second I met you, but I see, like, a different light in you. And I feel like I tell you often, but not on a serious level. Like, not that you needed this because you were amazing prior to this, but I just feel like this really brought out, like, such a different side that you needed at this time in your life.
• 12:06
  Speaker B: Yes, I do. I. I Truly.
• 12:09
  Speaker A: So I'm thankful for that, too. Like, I live off of people feeling good about themselves and just feeling happy, and then I kind of think about myself afterwards. And I am thankful for the fact that you could say that out loud. I really am.
• 12:24
  Speaker B: Oh.
• 12:25
  Speaker A: And I don't think you realize, like, how thankful I am for you. And I know this is cliche, because you just told me you're thankful. Seriously, like, you don't know what you do and did for me and how much. Like, maybe not on a daily I say this, but, like, in the back of my mind, how much I think of what you say to me or what you did for me or what you. Or the advice you have given me or just being that outlet for me. Because I feel like it's hard to find someone like you in someone's life, and not everybody has a you. So for that, I'm thankful that I have.
• 13:03
  Speaker B: Oh, that is really, really, really sweet.
• 13:05
  Speaker A: And, like, I just feel like for that, like, I have. I have you with you. I have your mom, and I have your husband, and I have your kids, and I have just, like, someone to grow old with, and there's no escaping it. Like, you're not one of those people that are gonna come and go.
• 13:22
  Speaker B: Right.
• 13:23
  Speaker A: You're stuck with me because I'm stuck with you. And I can't explain.
• 13:26
  Speaker B: Like, I love that for us.
• 13:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. And, like, this. Like, this is what I. Like, you know, I needed this. Like, you know how much I needed it.
• 13:35
  Speaker B: Absolutely.
• 13:35
  Speaker A: And I'm absolutely thankful for this whole experience. And I can't wait to just. I sit every day and I look at things, and, like, I was watching Dance with the Stars last night. I'm like. I talk about that. Yeah. Like, I want to just be. I want this to help us grow to a level of sitting on our couch one day and being like, we fucking made it.
• 13:52
  Speaker B: Yeah. And I. I mean, I have really high hopes for us.
• 13:56
  Speaker A: Me, too.
• 13:56
  Speaker B: I really do.
• 13:57
  Speaker A: And I'm really thankful for that. And what else am I thankful for?
• 14:02
  Speaker B: I mean, I forgot to mention, I'm so thankful for my fucking mother.
• 14:05
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah. That's, like, a given.
• 14:07
  Speaker B: I would not be the person I am. I would not do the things I do. I would not be able to do anything, honestly, like, comfortably leaving my kids doing this if it wasn't for my mom and Cassandra and the village that I have for my. My babies.
• 14:22
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 14:22
  Speaker B: So I'm thankful for all that. And my friends. I love all my friends.
• 14:25
  Speaker A: And what else? I mean, there's so much to be thankful for. And it really. You take life for granted until like you have a day like Thanksgiving and you talk about it because life just goes by and you just forget all the things.
• 14:38
  Speaker B: You don't just like, sit down and.
• 14:40
  Speaker A: Like, be like, I'm thankful for you. Like, people don't say that.
• 14:42
  Speaker B: It's so nice to actually sit down. I challenge everybody to just actually say, even if it's cliche, to do it around the table. Like, don't just do it like in the car, right?
• 14:51
  Speaker A: Send a text.
• 14:52
  Speaker B: Send a text to it. Tell someone you're thankful for them. Say it out loud. Do it. It feels good.
• 14:57
  Speaker A: Yeah, it really does. And like, I feel like I, I talk always. I always am just talking. So I feel like in my head maybe I say like all the things I'm thankful for, but I don't say it out loud. Like, I feel like this past year and a half has been so hard for me. And I mean hard on all, all aspects of my life. And I just feel like my husband truly has been there for me through the good, through the bad, through the ugly, through the sad, through, like, I need help through like all the conversations. And he's been like, my back, like, I. I've been able to like bounce off of him on a good day, on a bad day. And it's hard to find somebody who sticks around for moments like this. Like you get married and you vow to like, through sickness and through health, through all the things. What is that saying? I can't even think. Like, through death do us part. And like, I just feel like you need somebody in life that will just stick around for all those emotions of your life.
• 15:59
  Speaker B: Right?
• 16:00
  Speaker A: And for that I'm thankful for him. I'm thankful for my son who has shown me the love I've never experienced. And I didn't know it would come in this way. And people say it and it has. And I'm so thankful for him. I mean, I'm thankful for the love Bama gives me my dog. Like, I just feel like he brings like such short spurts of love for me. And I am reminded of the love I do have inside of me. And I mean for my family, you know how much my family means to me. Like, I'm thankful for my sister in laws, my brother in law's my brother, my dad, my mom. Like, and it's so cliche to say, but like, my mom does things for me in a way that I don't know, I need in my life. My dad, is that phone call that I'm like, I need help and he runs my brother. Is that, like, short, short notice advice? I'm like, what do I do for this? And he gives me an answer. My sister in law validates me. My other sister in law, like, gets me out of the house. You know what I mean? Like, my mother in law, like, takes care. Helps me, takes care of the. For Gia. For me in short notice. Like, there's so many different things in life that you're so thankful for and you don't realize, you know, as the. As the days go on and like, the friends you have in your life that you're so thankful for. Like, I have, you know, I don't want to name them all because there's so many that I'm thankful for. But, like, just that, like, it's just life, being alive, like, breathing. You forget, like, when you're having such a bad day, when I'm having such bad anxiety, I forget that, like, I'm breathing, so there's no need. Like, yesterday I was so nervous about going to the dentist. Can you imagine? And my dad's like, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. I walked out of there in 30 minutes and I was like, why was I so worried? Like, life take life for granted. You take life for granted and really do.
• 17:40
  Speaker B: I mean, everybody does.
• 17:41
  Speaker A: I mean, I could talk about being thankful forever.
• 17:43
  Speaker B: Yeah. I am so. I really am so grateful for a lot. I also. I am. You were talking about your dad. I am also really thankful for my dad because he, even though he's not around a lot, he has shown up.
• 17:54
  Speaker A: Like, he stepped up.
• 17:55
  Speaker B: Yeah. Like, he comes once a month. My kids have a relationship with him. Like, they truly love Pop Pop, and I'm thankful. Like, that's their only grandpa. So I'm thankful for that.
• 18:05
  Speaker A: Yeah. Are we just going to cry this entire episode? I think so. Yeah. Like, you just, like, you don't realize how much people meet you even when you have kids. Like, and you see, you see your people in a different life through your kids. Like, I. I mean, I could talk about everybody in my life and I don't want anybody to get offended because I'm not talking about them more.
• 18:25
  Speaker B: But, like, please don't.
• 18:27
  Speaker A: Please don't. It's not that. Like my dad, for instance, like, you know, I have such a soft spot for my dad. And, like, just seeing, like, us leaving.
• 18:37
  Speaker B: Oh, your house. Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker A: Like, I just. I just. You see people in, like, such a different light. I don't even want to Talk about it, Mar. There's just so much to talk about and I'll get emotional and I want to like, harp on it, but I want to have more kids because I love watching my family through my son's eyes. Like, the way he sees my brother and my. And Nicolette and the way he sees like my mother in law and even Graham. And like the way he sees my dad and my mom and my friends. Like, he. Like you when, like when you walked through the door, like he came running to you and he was like. Like the way he sees people. Like, you just have to be thankful that you have people in your life that can give you that.
• 19:18
  Speaker B: And I, I'm.
• 19:19
  Speaker A: And thankful for the people that aren't here too. You know what I mean?
• 19:22
  Speaker B: And like, I'm thankful for the innocence of our children. Like, if you look at a baby, they're so innocent.
• 19:27
  Speaker A: I know.
• 19:28
  Speaker B: I just want to like, keep that as long as we can.
• 19:31
  Speaker A: I know this world. I look at Gio sometimes and I'm like, I can't believe he's going to be like a teenager one day. Because right now the love he has, it's like, I understand why people want more and more kids. Because you want that baby to just keep.
• 19:48
  Speaker B: Honestly, there is nothing. As a mom, I think the number one thing is watching your kid. The bond between your kids, like the sibling bond is unbreakable.
• 19:59
  Speaker A: I know.
• 20:00
  Speaker B: It's so sweet. It's just like, it's so genuine. And like. And I was watching them in the bath yesterday and like, they were just playing, like, and they were just. They just like truly love each other. They're like best friends and they're all so close. So it's just so. It's even more special.
• 20:15
  Speaker A: I know.
• 20:15
  Speaker B: And I just like can't wait to watch them grow up together. Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker A: I mean, like, I just. I envy you already having the three kids. Cause I'm like, I still have to go through the motions, but I know.
• 20:27
  Speaker B: Can I envy you?
• 20:28
  Speaker A: I know. You're so insane, but I know. I just, I hate the fact that life gets in the way for some people and including myself, that you forget to be thankful for what you do have. And you're like ungrateful for what you don't have and what you want. And listen, everyone has aspirations in life and you want what you want and that's a good thing. Like, that's like dreams and goals. But I just feel like talking like this makes me remember, put it into perspective.
• 20:58
  Speaker B: Also, it's so easy to be Going through the mundane life and just, like, forgetting, like, I. I dreamt of this life for so long. Like, I have to take a step back and, like, I'm living it.
• 21:07
  Speaker A: Like, you're living it.
• 21:08
  Speaker B: This is my dream, and I see.
• 21:10
  Speaker A: It from my perspective. But you might not see it from your perspective. Like, I look at you, and I'm like. And I haven't even known you for as long as some people have known you, but I see this light in you that I'm like, you have come full circle. Like, you have finally. And I. I mean, I've known you since you had your first kid. So it's like, I've seen you. I just seen you accept your life full circle and, like, for where you are. And I just feel like it really puts my life into perspective. And I'm like, I'm so thankful that I can look at you and be like, things are okay. Things are going to be okay. Do you ever, like, look at somebody and you're like, yes. You know what I'm trying to say?
• 21:44
  Speaker B: Yes. And I can think about that. Like, I could think when I was in the. I was up to. I don't even know how to say it.
• 21:52
  Speaker A: Like, I was struggling over your head.
• 21:54
  Speaker B: And over my head. Three babies in a bubble. It was Covid. All these things. And, like, I can look back and, like, I survived that. And, like, I feel like that was probably, like, the hardest part of, like, motherhood for me when they were all so young. And, like, now I'm on the other side. And, like, we have this podcast, Like, I'm so grateful for this life that.
• 22:16
  Speaker A: Yeah. And I just feel like even looking at our grandparents, like, you ever, like, look at your grandparents, and you're like, you lived, like, 95 years of life.
• 22:28
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker A: Like, no wonder why you're, like, past being worried because. And it makes you feel good inside because you're like, life is okay.
• 22:36
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker A: For anybody struggling and anybody who feels, you know, like, they don't have a good life, just, like, look at the person in front of you. Don't. Because I have a problem looking outside of my bubble and being like, what do I need to do?
• 22:49
  Speaker B: Right.
• 22:50
  Speaker A: But days like this, I remember what's inside of my bubble and who I have now and the things I have now and the things I have coming.
• 23:00
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 23:01
  Speaker A: Be thankful for that.
• 23:02
  Speaker B: For that.
• 23:03
  Speaker A: Because, I mean, I hate to sound gory, but it's like, life could be over in a matter of a second.
• 23:08
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker A: And I'm so thankful that I have the people in my life to carry me through. That's what you need.
• 23:15
  Speaker B: We have a lot to be thankful for for Thanksgiving. We also are very thankful. We are very blessed.
• 23:22
  Speaker A: I'm thankful for Rebecca.
• 23:24
  Speaker B: I'm thankful for Rebecca. Fucking Rebecca, our social media girly.
• 23:28
  Speaker A: I mean, she pushes us through everything.
• 23:30
  Speaker B: Seriously. But I was saying before that we are very blessed because we are also in Florida for Thanksgiving.
• 23:37
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. How thankful are you that we get. We have family.
• 23:41
  Speaker B: How thankful are you that we both married into families that do Florida and.
• 23:45
  Speaker A: We could do Florida and we could be together.
• 23:47
  Speaker B: Right? Are we gonna talk?
• 23:49
  Speaker A: I. Probably not.
• 23:50
  Speaker B: I hope.
• 23:50
  Speaker A: I'll probably see you at the pool like you. We don't exist together.
• 23:57
  Speaker B: So funny.
• 23:57
  Speaker A: I'm just thankful to actually, like, you anticipate, like, going and packing and doing all the things like you almost don't want to go. And then we should be thankful for the fact that we can do that.
• 24:06
  Speaker B: Right? So. Yeah, well, we're. We are thankful for that. But also we can complain.
• 24:10
  Speaker A: We can. We absolutely can complain. I'm going to complain to the day I die. Are you kidding? I don't know how to live unless I'm complaining.
• 24:15
  Speaker B: Right. Should we talk about the struggle of packing?
• 24:19
  Speaker A: Oh, you wait till you go upstairs in my guest room.
• 24:22
  Speaker B: I, like, don't. So this is the first year.
• 24:24
  Speaker A: Like, I don't even know what you do.
• 24:26
  Speaker B: This is the first year where we have. I. We have to buy five tickets because everyone needs a seat now.
• 24:32
  Speaker A: Yeah, because everyone's over two.
• 24:33
  Speaker B: Everyone's over two. So we have three across and two. So we have like one tooth abc.
• 24:39
  Speaker A: So what will be the seat in?
• 24:41
  Speaker B: I think it'll be Joey window Me. No, no, no. Vienna Rocco window me. Middle Vienna isle. And then Joey dad aisle and Joey middle. And then Joey will want to be with Dad, I think. And then. But honestly, it's just going to be everyone on top of me, literally. But I am like, I have. I have crafts. Like, I didn't. I didn't pack the. Their individual travel bags yet. But I have to do all the things because wifi doesn't work. Maybe. So you have to download the episodes first if they're watching their iPad. Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker A: Free kids.
• 25:21
  Speaker B: I have to pack all the snacks. I have to pack the still bottles. I have to just make sure everything. Just when we're on the plane, when we get to Florida, I could go to Target. I could buy it.
• 25:31
  Speaker A: Whatever you want. You have to have individual.
• 25:33
  Speaker B: I need to be prepared for that flight because there's unforeseen things. I've heard horror stories right now at the airport.
• 25:40
  Speaker A: No, I'm dreading. I know. Cancellations. You could be coming. Going to the airport and coming home.
• 25:45
  Speaker B: Please, please.
• 25:46
  Speaker A: I know.
• 25:47
  Speaker B: So just.
• 25:48
  Speaker A: Your kids are at good ages. Joey can handle himself.
• 25:51
  Speaker B: Yeah, I hope. I hope. I'm just. I just want. I. There's nothing worse than that screaming kid on the plane.
• 25:57
  Speaker A: No, nothing worse. Like, no matter what.
• 25:59
  Speaker B: And it's not like you can control it. And when they're in it, like, especially if you have a toddler and they're in, like, a tantrum that you just can't get them out, it's like, I'm so sorry for every other person on this flight, but I can't do anything. And you fucking Sally, offering my kid a lollipop's not gonna happen.
• 26:14
  Speaker A: No, but you are thankful for the.
• 26:16
  Speaker B: People that are trying.
• 26:17
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker B: At one time, Rocco was screaming.
• 26:20
  Speaker A: I remember this was recent.
• 26:21
  Speaker B: Last year, the last time we flew, this old grandma was like, I'll take him. And Joey was holding him. She took him. She took him out of Joe's hands and. And was, like, bopping him. He screamed even harder, but it was actually helpful because then he wanted to go back to daddy. So that might be a hack.
• 26:41
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker B: Like, so, like, I was busy dealing with Vienna, and Rocco wanted nothing to do with dad but also wanted 10 times worse. Nothing to do with this random lady. So the random lady took him, screamed his head off even more, and he wanted dad.
• 26:53
  Speaker A: So he calmed down.
• 26:54
  Speaker B: So he calmed down when he went back. So then that helped me because thankful.
• 26:57
  Speaker A: For the old lady.
• 26:58
  Speaker B: But it was crazy. It was so crazy.
• 27:00
  Speaker A: Oh, my God. Like, I don't know what my problem is. Like, I don't know how you do that. Like that. I don't know what scares me. Like, I just feel like my body would react.
• 27:10
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker A: To having three children.
• 27:12
  Speaker B: I also have. I have anxiety on the flying. I'm going to take a Xanax, and I hope I'm not zonked out for.
• 27:18
  Speaker A: To not be able to take care of your children.
• 27:20
  Speaker B: But, like, yeah, like, I will.
• 27:21
  Speaker A: Where are you at Xanax.
• 27:23
  Speaker B: My mom.
• 27:23
  Speaker A: Oh, perfect.
• 27:25
  Speaker B: So I will. I will be having a drink in a Xanax and, like, pray for us.
• 27:29
  Speaker A: Pray for us. No, I mean, we are so thankful that we can be in Florida for Thanksgiving.
• 27:35
  Speaker B: Yes. And we really. I don't take that for granted. Like, that is. We are lucky for that. And. But also Thanksgiving with kids. Also, we have about 40 family members going to Uncle Jimmy's going to uncle Jimmy's and 15 of them are under five. So.
• 27:53
  Speaker A: Yeah. Gio can finally play his cousin.
• 27:55
  Speaker B: Yes. He could be at the kid table. We get that, like, coloring turkey tablecloth. All the kids color on it.
• 28:03
  Speaker A: Because last year Gio was like, crawling.
• 28:05
  Speaker B: Yeah. He was a baby baby, right?
• 28:07
  Speaker A: He was.
• 28:08
  Speaker B: Oh, no, he'll seven months. He'll be. He'll be like running with the kids. Yeah. So fun.
• 28:12
  Speaker A: So fun.
• 28:13
  Speaker B: So fun. It's so chaos. It's.
• 28:15
  Speaker A: I love it.
• 28:16
  Speaker B: It's.
• 28:16
  Speaker A: And like, we have older. We have like 8 year olds who can, like, take care of.
• 28:20
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker A: Who are running around.
• 28:22
  Speaker B: Right.
• 28:22
  Speaker A: Wait, I'm so excited for that. That now that Gio can, like, play with the cousins.
• 28:25
  Speaker B: So fun.
• 28:26
  Speaker A: So fun. He's gonna be the youngest one there. No. Yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker B: I mean, there's babies. Oh, Joyce's babies. There's so many babies. He's like the oldest one.
• 28:37
  Speaker A: No, he's literally the little one. There's low. There's Kaden.
• 28:41
  Speaker B: There's so many. There's others. Oh, there's Britney's baby.
• 28:46
  Speaker A: Oh, Gia.
• 28:47
  Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot.
• 28:48
  Speaker A: Who am I missing? There's one more.
• 28:49
  Speaker B: We are staying in the same house for one night. Are we? We are. Yeah. We will overlap.
• 28:53
  Speaker A: Oh, my God, I'm so excited. So we're. I'm also thankful for Michael's aunt and uncle who are having us. Michael's Nona, who is also having us for a week. And yeah, we're gonna overlap. Maybe we should do our live then Aunt Donna and uncle Stephen will get a kick.
• 29:06
  Speaker B: Oh, Aunt Donna could be on it.
• 29:07
  Speaker A: Yeah, she'll get a kick out of that night. I'm so thankful that we have family members. I mean, I hear horror stories about, like, in laws of yours that you can't stand. Like, I'm thankful that I have in laws that welcome us in with open arms. She's like, what do you need for groceries? What do you guys need for breakfast? Like, people don't do that.
• 29:22
  Speaker B: Yeah, same. I'm so glad that my in laws, my denunciative family, I love them so much. I mean, they are my family.
• 29:27
  Speaker A: Yeah, but people forget you have your own.
• 29:29
  Speaker B: Right? But I think Thanksgiving with kids is like, it's like a. You want to, like, feed them and like, get them happy and fed and then like, you want to just like, drink, Drink.
• 29:43
  Speaker A: I'm just going to drink.
• 29:44
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 29:45
  Speaker A: I'm just going to have wine in my hand. That's all.
• 29:47
  Speaker B: Our. One of our cousins used to make this Deadly sangria. It was like her thing.
• 29:50
  Speaker A: Oh, I heard about this.
• 29:51
  Speaker B: And we would all drink it and we would just get so, so up and it was so fun. We'd play games, we played beer pong. I want to bring back beer pong. I want to bring back.
• 29:59
  Speaker A: We were there without kids, obviously.
• 30:01
  Speaker B: Yes. I've been going to Florida for the last 12 years. 12 years.
• 30:06
  Speaker A: So was there ever a time where there were no babies?
• 30:08
  Speaker B: Yeah, 12 years ago no one had.
• 30:11
  Speaker A: Kids because who was the first Thanksgiving.
• 30:13
  Speaker B: In Florida Kids was epic. Because we would lay out all day.
• 30:17
  Speaker A: Yeah. And then everyone was just on vacation.
• 30:19
  Speaker B: It's vacation. It was great. Oh, I hope I can.
• 30:22
  Speaker A: What is better?
• 30:24
  Speaker B: The 12 years ago or now it's different. But honestly the warm and fuzzy of family and babies are. Will be always.
• 30:30
  Speaker A: I love watching the cousins together. It's my favorite thing.
• 30:32
  Speaker B: Watching, watching 12 toddlers run around is like.
• 30:36
  Speaker A: I mean I'm so thankful that I have my nieces and my nephews, Savannah, Nicholas and Claudia. Like I'm so thankful for a growing family.
• 30:44
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker A: I want my sister in law to sister in laws to push out more babies. I'm like. Because I just want more cousins and more cousins and more cousins.
• 30:50
  Speaker B: Same sister in laws push out more babies.
• 30:53
  Speaker A: Yeah, I just like want that so far. Yeah. I love family too. I just, you know, I love family. I just love fudge family. But listen, there's fudgeing hard shit that goes on in family and I'm thankful for family that sticks around right through it all. And I could tell you to fuck off and then you're still going to get coffee the next day.
• 31:13
  Speaker B: Exactly.
• 31:14
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker B: Yeah. And right now we're just talking about all the happy family. But like we all have our shit.
• 31:18
  Speaker A: That's just people who don't have family. No, it's people who just like go to their parents house for Thanksgiving. It's like the three of them.
• 31:24
  Speaker B: Yeah. I one time, one year we didn't go to Florida. So we had Thanksgiving at my house. Okay.
• 31:30
  Speaker A: I didn't know how to.
• 31:32
  Speaker B: If a turkey would fit in my.
• 31:34
  Speaker A: Like does the turkey fit in my oven?
• 31:37
  Speaker B: I don't even actually cook turkeys in this kind of oven.
• 31:40
  Speaker A: Yeah. I'm so confused. Do they go on the grill?
• 31:43
  Speaker B: Like I literally had no idea what I was doing. Thank God for my sister in law, my mother in law.
• 31:49
  Speaker A: Why did Nicole come over?
• 31:50
  Speaker B: Yeah, this was. This must have been.
• 31:52
  Speaker A: She still lived in.
• 31:53
  Speaker B: We didn't have kids yet. This was.
• 31:55
  Speaker A: No, you said Vienna had rsv.
• 31:57
  Speaker B: Oh, Vienna did No, that was not this year. Vienna was in the hospital for Thanksgiving one year. That was the.
• 32:04
  Speaker A: That was like two years ago.
• 32:05
  Speaker B: Two years ago. Yeah.
• 32:06
  Speaker A: That was so scary.
• 32:07
  Speaker B: That was scary. This one that I'm talking about. It was before kids. We must have just got our house. And I don't know why we weren't in Florida.
• 32:14
  Speaker A: But Nicole still lived here.
• 32:16
  Speaker B: No, Nicole never lived here. Nicole has lived in Rhode Island.
• 32:19
  Speaker A: She never had a house here?
• 32:21
  Speaker B: No, she's lived in Rhode island for like 20 years.
• 32:24
  Speaker A: Cause she went to school there.
• 32:25
  Speaker B: Mm.
• 32:26
  Speaker A: Oh.
• 32:28
  Speaker B: So anyway, I did not make the turkey, but everybody else brought the things to me. I am like, not. Obviously everyone knows I'm not the cook, but do you know what I am helpful for on Thanksgiving in Florida? I rally the kids.
• 32:40
  Speaker A: You do?
• 32:41
  Speaker B: Out of the kitchen.
• 32:42
  Speaker A: I helped. I helped last year.
• 32:43
  Speaker B: Yes, you did. And I am like the camp counselor. Like, I. I make the games. I did a talent show. I was emcee on the talent mic.
• 32:51
  Speaker A: That was fun.
• 32:52
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker A: Yeah. I was like the introducer.
• 32:54
  Speaker B: Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah, we both did that. And all the kids were in matching johnmies. It's so fun. And so I.
• 33:01
  Speaker A: We all wear matchy jammies. I can't wait.
• 33:03
  Speaker B: It's so fun. It really is. But yeah, I am not. People don't have that. You have to realize. Are you helpful in the kitchen? What are you gonna make? Yeah, well, it's nice.
• 33:11
  Speaker A: Usually I'm with mom.
• 33:12
  Speaker B: Right.
• 33:13
  Speaker A: So she, like, can't step on mom's toes, like when she's cooking in the kitchen or Nona. But I feel like, because they're not there this year.
• 33:19
  Speaker B: So hard.
• 33:20
  Speaker A: I. Oh, they're not.
• 33:21
  Speaker B: Wait, your mother in law's not gonna be there?
• 33:22
  Speaker A: No, and neither is my sister in law.
• 33:24
  Speaker B: Oh, they're not coming.
• 33:25
  Speaker A: No.
• 33:26
  Speaker B: I didn't know that.
• 33:27
  Speaker A: So I feel like I'll have to step in and make something. Totally. I mean, I don't mind, but I usually help clean up.
• 33:33
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker A: But I feel like at this day, it's easier for me to like, help with the kids.
• 33:38
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 33:39
  Speaker A: You know, but also it's really hard.
• 33:41
  Speaker B: When it's not like, your kitchen or like your immediate family. Like, people. People know what they're seeing.
• 33:46
  Speaker A: And Uncle Jimmy be doing this. Like they don't want sometimes, like, coming. I understand. Like, you don't want people for you not to be in the kitchen. But I mean, you got to like, step back and like, people don't have cousins like this or family members like this. Like, I'm so Thankful for that. That I like. And again, I take it for granted. I'm like, I mean it's literally New.
• 34:07
  Speaker B: Jersey comes to Florida for Thanksgiving. We have.
• 34:10
  Speaker A: We have a couple section by the pool. And like, we have a.
• 34:13
  Speaker B: We have a whole.
• 34:14
  Speaker A: We take over.
• 34:15
  Speaker B: We take over the entire pool. Sorry for all the Floridians out there.
• 34:19
  Speaker A: Oh my God. They can't. They hate to see us coming. Especially me. I bombard one year we got in.
• 34:25
  Speaker B: Trouble because we saved so many seats. They're like, you can't see save all these seats. I'm like, I'm sorry. A party of 30.
• 34:31
  Speaker A: Like, unless you wanted to be on top of you. No, totally. So, so fun.
• 34:37
  Speaker B: But do you drink pina coladas? What's like your like tropical drink?
• 34:42
  Speaker A: Strawberry daiquiri. I guess if I don't. If I have a stomachache that day.
• 34:48
  Speaker B: My kids like Miami Vice, which is strawberry daiquiri and pina colada.
• 34:52
  Speaker A: So good.
• 34:52
  Speaker B: Yeah. Without alcohol.
• 34:53
  Speaker A: But no, I'm putting fucking alcohol this year for sure. I know. I have to like. Jill has to like swim this year now. He's not going to just like sit.
• 35:02
  Speaker B: You have to have a floaty for him.
• 35:04
  Speaker A: I know. This is the thing. I don't go in the pool. So this is the best part about Florida dad plays.
• 35:09
  Speaker B: Yeah, I love watching the dad's play. Although I was thinking it would be really fun to be. So my thing is like, Joey's going to golf a couple days, right?
• 35:18
  Speaker A: Yeah, Michael's not golfing.
• 35:19
  Speaker B: Oh, that's nice for you.
• 35:21
  Speaker A: He'll golf, but I'm gonna.
• 35:23
  Speaker B: You're gonna tell him he can't.
• 35:24
  Speaker A: Yeah. You know what it is?
• 35:26
  Speaker B: Joey already shipped his.
• 35:27
  Speaker A: But this is the thing. Like, you are staying with Nicole. So like, you'll have Nicole and like, and like, listen, I'll have Brittany and I'll have. When we're at Nona's house, which I'm sure, like, that's when he's golfing. Yeah, I'll be by myself every other year. Well, it's my. I know, but are we gonna have a car? Like, this is the thing. Usually it's my mother in law, my sister in law and all the kids. Like, I don't care what he.
• 35:49
  Speaker B: What he does about what car we're gonna rent. I was like, get a minivan. See it? Let's try it.
• 35:53
  Speaker A: I just like, I wanna like, I. You have to remember, like, I am not. If I was staying with you guys would be a little bit easier.
• 35:59
  Speaker B: But I'm not like With. Yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker A: Like, I'm gonna be by myself.
• 36:03
  Speaker B: You don't have to defend yourself for not letting your husband golf. I get it.
• 36:06
  Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, Joey would never listen to you. I mean, my husband won't listen to me either. No, but. So he'll guilt me into golfing.
• 36:11
  Speaker B: I'm sorry. So my thing is, if he does golf, which he will like, I want him to enjoy the things like he likes.
• 36:16
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker B: But, like, I also then want a.
• 36:20
  Speaker A: Day where I don't want. See, I don't want the tiffer tat. I want to, like, be a family, like, hang out together.
• 36:26
  Speaker B: Well, I would like that too. But if I am going to go tiffer tat, I want to. But I, like, want to be there, like, because I love. And I love watching my husband in the pool with the kids. I do love that. But I want to be incognito. Maybe like a giant, like, sunglasses. Like, my kids not know that I'm there and I'm just like, so up the uva. But, like, also, like, watching daddy throw Joey, like, in the pool. But I don't want to be bothered.
• 36:48
  Speaker A: Yeah. Like, no one talk to me.
• 36:49
  Speaker B: I don't talk to me. I'm not here, but I'm watching.
• 36:51
  Speaker A: You're going to be bothered for sure. No, I mean, obviously, like, our husbands are going to golf and stuff. I just, like, I'm the type that, like, I haven't been going for 12 years. I don't know the ins and outs of Florida.
• 37:02
  Speaker B: No. I one time I tried, like, I will be lost. I will. From our house to Nona's. I was like, I don't know where I am. I've done this 12 years. I'm like a blind. Also in the airport. It's funny when I. Oh, yeah. I know nothing with my husband. I could be fucking blind.
• 37:18
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 37:18
  Speaker B: He takes care of the. The. He holds the tickets. He holds everything that we need to get on the plane.
• 37:25
  Speaker A: I still, like, if I think about, like, get walking to the airport, like, where do I go first?
• 37:28
  Speaker B: Yeah. What do I do?
• 37:29
  Speaker A: I don't even know.
• 37:30
  Speaker B: I have no idea. And it's really funny because I went to Charleston, South Carolina. Yes. I travel by myself all the time for a full year. I'm like, I can do it. I am capable. But if Joe is there, I am a fucking deadbeat dad. I know nothing.
• 37:46
  Speaker A: Same. I know not one thing, but I love it. So it's amazing.
• 37:49
  Speaker B: Also, do you want to know the scariest thing in the whole entire world?
• 37:52
  Speaker A: No, I don't Actually, no.
• 37:55
  Speaker B: My three kids, they don't have passports. They have nothing. They don't need anything to go through the airport if it's a domestic flight.
• 38:02
  Speaker A: Well, Dave, Michael's business partners just told us that their au pair took their kid through the airport. And they didn't even.
• 38:09
  Speaker B: Like that's what I'm saying.
• 38:10
  Speaker A: Like, someone could be stolen.
• 38:12
  Speaker B: I could take Gio and you could take Rocco. Might. That might be a good idea.
• 38:16
  Speaker A: It might be a good idea.
• 38:16
  Speaker B: And we could fly and they wouldn't know.
• 38:18
  Speaker A: No, they don't check.
• 38:19
  Speaker B: So anybody can.
• 38:19
  Speaker A: They don't check if that's your kid.
• 38:21
  Speaker B: Nobody. Anyone could take kids across the country.
• 38:26
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 38:27
  Speaker B: That doesn't make any sense.
• 38:28
  Speaker A: I know. Don't forget your passport, though, because if you don't have a real id.
• 38:31
  Speaker B: Oh, I know. We already went through it. I have my passport. Joe just expedited his. He has his. Because we don't have real IDs. But our kids don't have passports. I'm going to bring birth certificates.
• 38:40
  Speaker A: My son has a passport.
• 38:40
  Speaker B: I know, but you were going to go to Italy.
• 38:42
  Speaker A: No, we went to Bahamas.
• 38:44
  Speaker B: Okay. You've been places my kids have.
• 38:45
  Speaker A: Your kids need passports.
• 38:47
  Speaker B: Yeah, Next thing on my list anyway. But isn't that crazy?
• 38:51
  Speaker A: Yeah, I know I just talked about.
• 38:53
  Speaker B: This, but, like, Joe and I are going to be like, through the airport. Three kids. You know what my thing is? They're probably like, if you're going to go through the airport and travel with kids, you could take them.
• 39:00
  Speaker A: Yeah, take them. If you're able to do that, take them.
• 39:03
  Speaker B: Cuz like, who wants to do that?
• 39:04
  Speaker A: Right, Right, exactly.
• 39:07
  Speaker B: Are you checking a stroller?
• 39:09
  Speaker A: I don't know what the fuck we're doing.
• 39:12
  Speaker B: I'm gonna gate check our stroller.
• 39:14
  Speaker A: I mean, we have to. We need a stroller in Florida.
• 39:16
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, but I need both attachments. Oh, my God, I need so many attachments.
• 39:20
  Speaker A: I remember when we stayed with you the first year, no kids. And, like, I was walking. You just had no kids. And I. Yeah, you had Joey.
• 39:26
  Speaker B: Oh, we drove. We surprised.
• 39:28
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 39:29
  Speaker B: Nicole. Yeah. That was fun.
• 39:30
  Speaker A: That was fun. And we walked around. See, like, stay. Like when you have people, like, imagine you just, like, staying at Nona's house with your kids and, like, your husband golfing.
• 39:38
  Speaker B: Yeah. No, what would you do?
• 39:39
  Speaker A: I'd be like, someone needs to come get me.
• 39:41
  Speaker B: Right, right. But I will come get you.
• 39:43
  Speaker A: I know you will. Nicole would come get me too.
• 39:46
  Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. We'll come at you if he golf.
• 39:50
  Speaker A: How much time do you have left, hon? What else do we have in our Trazil?
• 39:58
  Speaker B: Well, do you know what? We have a game. A game.
• 40:01
  Speaker A: Okay, go.
• 40:01
  Speaker B: Are you ready?
• 40:03
  Speaker A: Wait, did we talk about, like, turkey trots?
• 40:06
  Speaker B: This is what we're talking about.
• 40:07
  Speaker A: Oh, right.
• 40:08
  Speaker B: Now, if you married. Let me.
• 40:10
  Speaker A: I'm sorry.
• 40:12
  Speaker B: Scenario.
• 40:13
  Speaker A: If you married into a 5K Turkey Trot family, I apologize on your behalf.
• 40:18
  Speaker B: I think that if I married into a 5K Turkey Trot family, I would get divorced.
• 40:23
  Speaker A: No. Give me your best run right now.
• 40:25
  Speaker B: My best run?
• 40:26
  Speaker A: You just, like, run in place.
• 40:27
  Speaker B: I don't know how to run. Rocco was running the other day. I was like, he's running like me.
• 40:32
  Speaker A: I think he has not made fun of school. I'm so scared.
• 40:37
  Speaker B: No. So I've never ran a day in my life ever. Like, outside. I've never ran, ever. I can honestly say that I've never smoked a cigarette. And I don't think I've ever ran.
• 40:47
  Speaker A: Never smoked a cigarette is crazy. I can't believe you never smoked a cigarette.
• 40:50
  Speaker B: No, but I never ran.
• 40:51
  Speaker A: Do you wanna smoke a cigarette in Florida?
• 40:53
  Speaker B: Yeah. At the cigar bar. Find me there.
• 40:55
  Speaker A: Oh, I love it there. You're not gonna go there.
• 40:56
  Speaker B: I know. I don't have a sitter.
• 40:59
  Speaker A: Wait, is Nicole not bringing her girl?
• 41:01
  Speaker B: No.
• 41:01
  Speaker A: She did last year.
• 41:02
  Speaker B: Did she? Darla.
• 41:03
  Speaker A: What's her name?
• 41:04
  Speaker B: Dylan. She did, yeah. She did.
• 41:08
  Speaker A: Yeah. We should bring somebody for all of our kids.
• 41:12
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 41:13
  Speaker A: Anyway, go Turkey Trot. Not for me. Although, like, I would do it. You would? I would do it.
• 41:20
  Speaker B: I wouldn't.
• 41:20
  Speaker A: My husband would literally do that every morning for 365 days out of the year.
• 41:24
  Speaker B: I think you married a turkey trotter.
• 41:26
  Speaker A: That doesn't turkey trot. He would turkey trot. Did. Did your family turkey trot? They played sports.
• 41:37
  Speaker B: My girlfriend's family.
• 41:38
  Speaker A: I do love that. Like playing kickball the morning of Thanksgiving or something.
• 41:41
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That's fun. I would fuck with that.
• 41:43
  Speaker A: Me too. I would fuck with that.
• 41:44
  Speaker B: I just would not fuck with an organized 5k people to it. No. All right, so we're gonna play a game called Turkey Trot or Turkey Rot.
• 41:52
  Speaker A: Rot.
• 41:53
  Speaker B: I want to rot.
• 41:54
  Speaker A: I want to rot.
• 41:55
  Speaker B: I love rotting.
• 41:56
  Speaker A: I want to rot like a freaking orange.
• 41:58
  Speaker B: I think rotting is like a guilty pleasure of mine on the couch.
• 42:01
  Speaker A: You absolutely love to rot. It's fine. I love to rot. But I get anxiety rotting. So it's like, is it worth rotting? I can't stand myself.
• 42:10
  Speaker B: That's really funny. Okay, wait.
• 42:11
  Speaker A: Remind me to tell you Something after we stop this.
• 42:14
  Speaker B: Okay. Turkey trot or turkey rot. Okay, I'm going to read a scenario and you have to decide if it's a turkey trot, which is, like a wholesome, fun loving thing that, like, maybe you wouldn't do, but, like, if you think it's wholesome, or turkey rot, which is, like, right away. Okay. Matching family outfits for dinner.
• 42:39
  Speaker A: Turkey trout.
• 42:41
  Speaker B: You think that's cute?
• 42:41
  Speaker A: Yeah, we're doing it this year. We're not matching, but we're coordinating.
• 42:46
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 42:48
  Speaker A: The Holden on Zo family will make fun of me. Go ahead.
• 42:50
  Speaker B: Go. What are you wearing?
• 42:54
  Speaker A: Nothing crazy. Just like. Just like, looking cute as a family. Do you know that we're bringing the dog, too? This is what is giving me anxiety. Like, Bama being in a new place. Also, I'm not doing that.
• 43:07
  Speaker B: Well, you are.
• 43:08
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker B: So. All right. Your aunt bringing a surprise vegan stuffing.
• 43:15
  Speaker A: Rot, rot, rot. Ro.
• 43:19
  Speaker B: Your husband falling asleep during the parade.
• 43:23
  Speaker A: Oh, I love the Thanksgiving parade.
• 43:25
  Speaker B: Oh, I do love that. My husband would totally fall asleep during the night. Yeah.
• 43:28
  Speaker A: I mean, he's absolutely gonna do that.
• 43:29
  Speaker B: So rot in hell doing a turkey trot. 5k voluntarily.
• 43:33
  Speaker A: Rot. I want you to rot so hard.
• 43:36
  Speaker B: Making kids go around the table and say what they're thankful for.
• 43:39
  Speaker A: Aw, Trot.
• 43:40
  Speaker B: I love that. My kids like to do that, too.
• 43:42
  Speaker A: Yeah. Every day I do that. What do you mean? I do that 365 days of the year.
• 43:46
  Speaker B: No, at dinner. We do not what we're thankful for. But what was the best part of our day?
• 43:50
  Speaker A: Yeah. Highs and lows.
• 43:51
  Speaker B: Highs and lows. Crafting with glitter right before dinner. Bad idea. Now putting the kids table outside. That's a great idea.
• 44:06
  Speaker A: I love that.
• 44:06
  Speaker B: I think. Do we do that?
• 44:08
  Speaker A: Can I ask you real quick side note?
• 44:10
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 44:10
  Speaker A: So if you're. If you're inside and your kids are outside, do you feel like someone's, like, has to have eyes on your kid? Like, we're not talking about, like, you feel like they're safe. Like someone. Someone's going to be watching the kids.
• 44:22
  Speaker B: In the scenario of our Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah.
• 44:24
  Speaker A: Like, if I, like, leave you inside and outside and I'm, like, eating inside, like, I want to have.
• 44:29
  Speaker B: Yeah, I want to have eyes.
• 44:30
  Speaker A: You're gonna say, like, can you watch Geo?
• 44:32
  Speaker B: Or would you, like, vocally say it?
• 44:33
  Speaker A: Yeah. Do you think, like, someone's just gonna be watching him?
• 44:37
  Speaker B: I'll probably. I would probably assume someone's watching, but never assume.
• 44:41
  Speaker A: I can. I. I never assume.
• 44:43
  Speaker B: No. Rocco will be, like, running.
• 44:45
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 44:45
  Speaker B: But thankfully every or every pools are fenced in.
• 44:49
  Speaker A: Not Nonas.
• 44:51
  Speaker B: Nona's pool's not fenced in. No. Oh, that. No.
• 44:54
  Speaker A: Door has to be locked.
• 44:56
  Speaker B: No.
• 44:57
  Speaker A: Terrified.
• 44:57
  Speaker B: Oh, you're giving me anxiety.
• 44:58
  Speaker A: Yeah, it's so bad.
• 44:59
  Speaker B: Don't. This pool doesn't have a fence.
• 45:01
  Speaker A: We used to have to put a gate cuz. Nicholas.
• 45:04
  Speaker B: Okay, do you have. Do you have any other like scenarios? Because I ran out of turkey trots and. Turkey trots.
• 45:12
  Speaker A: Why are you acting so innocent right now?
• 45:14
  Speaker B: I don't know. My nose is so stuffy.
• 45:18
  Speaker A: I know, me too. I know. This is the time of the year. I hate it.
• 45:22
  Speaker B: I hope it. I hope it's not like that on the plane. There's nothing worse when your ears popping. I know. I'm not.
• 45:27
  Speaker A: I'm not looking forward to it. You know, my husband will bring in the concoction, so it's fine. No, but like at the end of the day, like I'm not. I'm not turkey trotting. So don't talk to me.
• 45:35
  Speaker B: No, but I also like to eat really early.
• 45:38
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 45:38
  Speaker B: Do you like to eat early? Like in Thanksgiving, 2:00pm or. Yeah, we eat like 3:00pm yeah, eat early.
• 45:44
  Speaker A: The saddest part about going to Florida though is I'm missing. I have FOMO from my aunt's house here.
• 45:48
  Speaker B: Oh yeah. Well, let's talk about that. So it is very hard.
• 45:51
  Speaker A: Like, where do you go for Thanksgiving? How do you decide?
• 45:53
  Speaker B: Thanksgiving's not like you do dessert. You do like, it's like a hard thing to split.
• 45:58
  Speaker A: To me. Everybody's family for Thanksgiving goes to one place. It's like not Christmas Eve or Christmas where people like delegate. Yeah. Thanksgiving's like for my family, it's every other year. So like cousins, like my cousin Gina will do Thanksgiving on my aunt's one year. The next year she'll do her in laws. Like, to me, Florida's always Thanksgiving. But it has been since I met Michael. Thanksgiving to me was so fun. Cause it was my aunt's house and.
• 46:20
  Speaker B: It'S like all your cousins, which I understand for me, obviously Thanksgiving, I feel, I do feel like I'm.
• 46:25
  Speaker A: And there's so many fun traditions that I used to have with my family that like we don't do anymore because I'm in Florida.
• 46:29
  Speaker B: Right. But like Florida is a tradition that you started with your own family.
• 46:33
  Speaker A: True.
• 46:34
  Speaker B: Which is honestly my kids are so. They're at this age where like they know they're going to Florida for Thanksgiving with their cousins. They are so excited. They're like Suitcases are packed. They're, like, ready to go.
• 46:46
  Speaker A: So, like, she has no idea what's coming.
• 46:47
  Speaker B: Yeah, but, like, it's. It. This is making traditions. Like, I remember.
• 46:51
  Speaker A: Like, I'm starting new traditions. Like, what's one tradition back in the day that you used to do, I mean, feel like you've been doing this forever. Like, you grew up with this family.
• 46:58
  Speaker B: So, I mean, this was. This really was. Like. I'm trying to remember my first Thanksgiving in Florida. I was young. We were young. We were just, like, young. I probably wasn't even married. No, I definitely wasn't married. We just would. It would be all the cousins. We'd go out, we'd go. We'd go to 5th Ave. We'd drink Thanksgiving Eve there. Or how about Thanksgiving Eve in your hometown?
• 47:23
  Speaker A: Did you do that? Oh, my God. That used to be the best day of the year because we would all come home from college and we would go out for Thanksgiving. We would be freezing. I would be in a minute skirt, and it would be like seeing everybody was like a high school reunion. So fun.
• 47:36
  Speaker B: Speaking of high school reunion, my high. I'm flying home from Florida to go to my high school reunion, which I'm excited.
• 47:42
  Speaker A: You see everybody all the time.
• 47:43
  Speaker B: I know, like, we have the same. We have all our high school friends, but it'll be fun to, like, see random people.
• 47:47
  Speaker A: Yeah. I used to this one tradition. Thanksgiving e. Thanksgiving. We, me, my cousin Sal, and my cousin Michael used to go to.
• 47:59
  Speaker B: Papa.
• 48:00
  Speaker A: Not Blockbuster, Best Buy. And because it was like the start of Black Friday and we would go there at midnight on Thanksgiving. It would be so much fun. We used to do that every single year. We would get something on, like, for a deal. But obviously we did that. Now everybody has, like, a significant other who's engaged, who's been together forever, who's married, who has kids. Things are different. You have your own family. And now I understand, you know, but it is nice.
• 48:24
  Speaker B: It is nice to make, like. Yeah.
• 48:25
  Speaker A: Get the crew back together.
• 48:26
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 48:26
  Speaker A: It's like the one time of the year where you get every. Everybody has to be. It's holiday. Where else you going? You know? You have no other plans.
• 48:32
  Speaker B: Yeah. Except for the nurses and the police officers.
• 48:37
  Speaker A: Thank you for your service.
• 48:38
  Speaker B: Thank you for your service.
• 48:38
  Speaker A: Yeah. Those who have to work on holidays.
• 48:41
  Speaker B: Tough it also teachers. Teachers have it hard to fly to in our family because they're. They're only off, like, it's a really quick trip.
• 48:49
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 48:50
  Speaker B: They can't take these. Right. But worth.
• 48:53
  Speaker A: I mean, I forgot to say this, like, I'm thankful that I'm a stay at home mom.
• 48:56
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 48:57
  Speaker A: I am absolutely thankful for that. And I take it for granted sometimes because you go through struggles on a daily basis, you know, raising your child, who screaming behind. Yeah. And I'm thankful enough that my husband can provide, like you said. And I could stay home.
• 49:12
  Speaker B: I mean, and you could go to Florida.
• 49:13
  Speaker A: That is my big. That is my biggest thanks. Because who gets to do that?
• 49:19
  Speaker B: No, I'm very thankful for our husbands.
• 49:21
  Speaker A: Thank God you do the same shit as me. What would I do if you were working? I would die.
• 49:25
  Speaker B: I would die. That's why I made you quit your job.
• 49:27
  Speaker A: You literally made me quit my job. Meanwhile, we don't see each other during the week. Besides, for this day, I literally made.
• 49:31
  Speaker B: You quit your job.
• 49:33
  Speaker A: I feel like just to wrap this up.
• 49:36
  Speaker B: Yeah, wrap it up, baby.
• 49:38
  Speaker A: Thanksgiving is such a day to really just sit down and kind of recoup in your head of what you're thankful for and why are you here? You know, why you, why you? Why are you living this life like you have a family that you're growing and you have these people around you, like, enjoy that?
• 50:00
  Speaker B: Because.
• 50:02
  Speaker A: People don't have it.
• 50:04
  Speaker B: People don't have it.
• 50:05
  Speaker A: And people that don't have that is something huge to be thankful for. And Thanksgiving shouldn't be the only day that you do that, so.
• 50:11
  Speaker B: No. And it's sad that it is. Well, it's sad that, like, it comes to light because of Thanksgiving.
• 50:18
  Speaker A: Right.
• 50:19
  Speaker B: But I mean, I guess it's good that we can talk about it. Yeah.
• 50:22
  Speaker A: I mean, there's so much to be thankful for. It's not even the good, like the bad. The bad that you have to go to to get to where you are, you should also be thankful for also.
• 50:29
  Speaker B: Yeah, I'm also. I. I really am thankful for just the basic needs that we have. Like fucking water, water, clothes, just everything, like toilets, toilet paper, all of it.
• 50:40
  Speaker A: People are wiping their asses with leaves. If you are, let me know. I'll send you toilet paper.
• 50:46
  Speaker B: Yeah, same. I, I really. We're gonna have an episode of, like, Christmas and giving. But I am. I really want to do some serious donating.
• 50:54
  Speaker A: We should. Mama Clock donates.
• 50:55
  Speaker B: Yes, we're gonna do that.
• 50:56
  Speaker A: We absolutely should.
• 50:57
  Speaker B: Yes.
• 51:01
  Speaker A: Okay, so I'll see you in Florida.
• 51:03
  Speaker B: That's the next time I see you. Yeah, I see you on Live in Florida. Yeah. Come check us out.
• 51:08
  Speaker A: I love you. Thankful for you.
• 51:10
  Speaker B: What color are your nails?
• 51:11
  Speaker A: I'm keeping this.
• 51:12
  Speaker B: Are you oh, I'm gonna go Florida. Color.
• 51:15
  Speaker A: Oh, are you? I don't have time to get my nails done, so.
• 51:17
  Speaker B: Wait, am I gonna go Florida color?
• 51:19
  Speaker A: Please don't.
• 51:20
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 51:21
  Speaker A: It's Thanksgiving in Florida. You can do that.
• 51:24
  Speaker B: But I like. Are we gonna go to the beach? Yeah. I don't know us if we never.
• 51:30
  Speaker A: Go to the beach together, though. Like, we never see each other apart. Who are we kidding?
• 51:35
  Speaker B: So funny. What kind of car should I rent?
• 51:39
  Speaker A: Minivan. For sure.
• 51:40
  Speaker B: How funny would that be?
• 51:41
  Speaker A: I want to rent a minivan. You gotta rent a car seat. I hate this.
• 51:44
  Speaker B: We gotta rent.
• 51:45
  Speaker A: Oh, but I'm thankful.
• 51:48
  Speaker B: Love you guys.
• 51:49
  Speaker A: Okay, love you. Bye.