Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Oh peace, it's sunny Sue on Ihdurasione night.
Speaker 3: So hey, everybody, Happy New Year, And Stephanie and I
are in studio recording on New Year's Day. That's how
much we love you guys. We got up, drove into
the studio. Kaylin's here, we're recording for you.
Speaker 1: We don't give a fuck. No, we're we're all about it.
We're just like New Year's Eve, New Years Steve. We're
coming in doing our job. We're not gonna leave people.
You know now we need to listen to on New
Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: We guys gave we gave you guys a best of
last week because we were off two those those really
three because we also posted one on Thursday, right old school.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but we we didn't want to leave you
this week, Oh we sure didn't. Plus it's post Christmas,
so we don't want to have to. Here's what would happen.
Too much content? You know, next week we'd be like
what how what was Christmas? I don't remember too long ago?
And then we'd also have to talk about our New
yeark crazy New Year's Eve because we're partiers, right, So
that would just be too much too much goodness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not going out tonight until like one am.
Speaker 1: Just say, you know, okay, so what okay, So you
slept in this morning? I act so the night, you know.
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you about my my Christmas travels. I
went to Chicago with the kids, had a nice time,
but just been back like two or three nights now.
And my sleep always gets screwy, you know when when
I'm in Chicago, especially when i'm traveling, Well, it's already
screwy when I'm here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's you know how it is.
Speaker 3: We talk about can't sleep through the night, sometimes wake up,
wake up too early, blah blah blah. So my my
sleep's been up.
Speaker 1: In them gummies. Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: So I went so last night, had like made dinner
for an Italian like Natalia's got like three or four
friends and a kitty cat staying in our house.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you're getting some like a dry run
with a kitty cat. Right, how's it going. It's going good.
I mean it's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't really see the cat. It's and it's it's
in the room. It's in the guest room. So she's
got a friend that's staying in the only like tonight
and tomorrow night beause it's New Year's staying in the
guest room right last night tonight. Then she's got you know,
her friends staying in her room. So last night I go,
I go to so we I make dinner, steak dinner
for her and the girls. We have a nice time,
they go watch a movie. I'm like, I'm going to
bed nice and early tonight and get a good night's sleep.
Of course, I don't fall asleep until like close to one,
and then four o'clock I'm sound asleep. I hear, that's
what I hear. Sure, sure, Uh oh smoke alarm. Oh no,
Now I'm in this house. We've only been in this
house for you know, since May. So it's a rental.
I know that there's smoke alarms in every room, but uh,
you know, at the other every house I've lived in,
I've known if it was a hardwired smoke alarm or
if it was a battery one right, right, And for
some reason, I was always the one in the middle
of the night getting the ladder out and trying to
get the thing down because the thing would go off
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: For some reason, for some reason, and you know.
Speaker 3: My ex would just have his earbuds in and sleep
through the thing, and I had to go and you know,
and then eventually, you know, I would take the thing
off or it was hired hardwired, and I wouldn't know
what to do with it. And then he would get
up and he'd smash it with something, or I'd get
the battery and change about no matter, would you know.
This is over a course of twenty years, right right,
So that's how I dealt with fire for for smoke alarm,
for smoke detectors.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I.
Speaker 3: Hear the chirping going and I look up, I see it.
It's right above my bed. It's like is it because
then you don't know is it in your room?
Speaker 1: Is it in the hall. It's so loud sometimes that.
Speaker 3: If it's in the hall, it sounds like it's in
your bedroom, right, right, So it's chirping like every sixty
seconds something like that.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Then it stops and I'm like, okay, maybe these are
a new kind of smoke detectors where just kind of
alert you for like, you know a little bit, and
then it goes away for a couple hours. And then
it comes back again and goes mn chirp, don't forget
change the battery. Like I'm thinking it's something like it's.
Speaker 1: A nice Smoke detectors would not be nice. Why do
they have to do that?
Speaker 3: Yes, And I don't understand why do smoke detectors go
off in the middle in the early hours of the
morning or the middle of the night. I have never
had a smoke detector go off just in the middle
of the day, all of a sudden. It's all been
while you're sound asleep.
Speaker 1: Have you ever Do you think that's smoke detectors?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I think, Do you think they hate you? I think so.
Speaker 3: I used to think that this person I was married
to was cursed and it was just, you know, a curse,
a curse, you know, But I guess not.
Speaker 1: Smoke detector curse. I'm lot of that. Yeah. Well, it's
followed you from house to house, so it's probably you. Yes.
Speaker 3: So so now I'm thinking, okay, okay, everybody else in
the house is asleep. I'm wide awake Phil, me and Phil,
and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, what should I do?
Speaker 3: I just go back to sleep and just deal with
it when I get up later, or do I get
up right now and try to figure so I google
what does it look like if it's because if it's hardwired,
I don't I don't know what you know. I know
how to change the battery, but if it's hardwired, I
don't want to fuck it up because before in the past,
you know, Adam would rip the thing and then the
wires would be hanging and then we have to call
an electrician and I don't want to do that. It's
a rental, so I'm trying to anyway, I'm googling what
does it look like if it's hard wired, What does
it look like if it's a battery? Then I go
get the little step ladder that's only got two steps,
which is not high enough.
Speaker 1: I go into the garage.
Speaker 3: I go and get the big long ladder. It's six
the six foot ladder. Bring it into my room four
point thirty in the more, trying to be quiet because
all the kids are sleeping. Get into my room and
do the ladder. You know that the one that's going
off is in your bad definitely is in my room,
because I as soon as I.
Speaker 1: Walked in the kitchense do you know that? Because have
you had the thing happen where it's coming from somewhere
in the house, but your ear gets all fucked up,
so you're like, yeah, I don't know, like I'm trying
to listen. I go stand underneath every smoke detector in
the house to go, is that the one that's chirping right?
Then it doesn't chirp, and then to use it. As
soon as you go back to your room, at chirps
again and you're like fuck yes. Then you run from
room to room just going okay, I'm gonna just stand
here until I hear a chirping noise and then you're like, no,
it's the other room. Then you go to the other
room and it tricks you, and I know it's the bathroom, right,
and also the other.
Speaker 3: Well yes, yes, because yes, because I walked out of
my bedroom, I closed the door, and it's you know,
contained in my room. But the other the other fucked
up thing is in the past, it's always been on
high vault you know, high vault ceilings and you can't
reach it, you know, like that kind of stuff, or
you know, just been just been way out of reach.
At least these ceilings are not that high. So I
got the ladder I get a button of the ladder
and it's chirping and I I look at it and
I like, unscrew it. And then I see like a button.
Of course I can't see. I'm blind. I don't know
if it's a so I think it's a reset button.
Maybe if I hit reset it'll stop.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was a test button. It was a
test button. Alarm.
Speaker 3: The fire alarm goes out throughout the whole house. Oh no, yes, yes,
And immediately the phone rings.
Speaker 1: It's Sonny.
Speaker 3: He's like, what the hell is that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I'm like, go back to sleep. Then then I go
in the garage. I walk out in Italia's like getting
a glass of wash. She doesn't even say a word,
she just gets a glass of wire.
Speaker 1: I go.
Speaker 3: She sees the ladder and I'm like, sorry, go back
to sleep. She's like, m goes back to sleep. So
so I, yes, it was the test but it stopped.
And then I unplugged it. It's still chirping in my hand.
I take it to the fucking garage, leave it in
the garage, goodbye, go back to sleep. Okay, But then
I didn't go back to sleep. Then I do this
thing where you're trying to go back to sleep now
because we got to do the podcast. I'm trying to
fall back, trying to get another couple hours, go back
to sleep. Finally fall asleep. I don't know what time.
But then you know that second sleep where you wake
up and then you go back to sleep and then
it's harder to get up the second Yes, yeah, that's kept.
So the alarm kept going and I'm like, snooze, snooze, snooze.
Next thing I know, it's like, holy shit, I got
to be there in ten minutes. Oh no, yeah, that
was my that was my morning.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah, you want me to take
a little break.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you though, that my smoke detector in my
house is right by the fucking kitchen, so like the
thing is constantly going off from all the smoke. Yeah. So, yes,
I've been making steaks a lot. Last year I got
really good at making steaks. So my processes I have to,
you know, go get to step ladder, put it out,
unscrew the thing, hide it in a back room, cook,
come back out, put it up, screw it back in.
So I'm constantly doing that over and over again.
Speaker 3: So yours is hardwired. Yes, oh no, it's got a
bat let's.
Speaker 2: I think it must have a battery because I screw
it out and I put it in another room, right,
So yeah, so.
Speaker 3: It must be that's so funny. Yeah, smoke alarms go
off kitchen too. Sometimes the technology would be better. You
would think something and they got to figure it out.
Like just do a chirp, chirp chirp for like an
hour and then give the person a chance to get
a ladder, to wake up, to have fucking coffee, take
a walk, get some fresh air, do something.
Speaker 1: Relax a little bit, get up, cite themselves up, figure
out where it's coming from.
Speaker 3: Yes, come on, it's a whole, it's a it is asha.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So did you okay, so you went for Christmas? Yes?
So about Christmas?
Speaker 3: So we went to Chicago to Wendy's meet the kids.
Speaker 1: And when did you fly out? We flew.
Speaker 3: We flew on Monday, the day before Christmas Eve, okay,
and then came back.
Speaker 1: How are travel conditions?
Speaker 2: You know? It was?
Speaker 1: It was okay.
Speaker 3: There was a dude on the way back. It was
so obnoxious. We were we were in the seats on
the way back, The three of us and it was
two in too or whatever, and uh, this guy had
the aisle and uh, I don't know somebody it was
Natalia study me. Oh he was like sitting he was
in the I don't know. We asked him if he
could we could switch. You know, it wasn't gonna be
any skin off of his back. It wasn't like he's
not sitting next to the window like you know some
people want to be. He was in the aisle. It
was just like, can you just switch the aisle seats
right so that we could be next to each other.
So he just he's just like he was just like
just you know, doing bus stop noises, you know, like okay,
you know, like you know what I mean. He made
it up in Chicago.
Speaker 1: When he made that up.
Speaker 3: She was like, she was like, Jackie, don't be doing
all those bus stop noises when I asked you to
do something, you know, funny stop. Yeah. But so yeah,
we had a We flew out on Monday, flew back
on Saturday, and I just had a couple presents flown
for the kids to open, but I kept most of
their gifts at home to open at home, So just
little things for them and then Wendy got like two stockings,
so we went out and stuffed the stockings for them,
which Sunny didn't even know we had a stocking until
the day before we left. Oh No, stocking was still
sitting there and I was like, by the way, Sunny,
did you even go through your stocking? And he goes,
what's stocking? Like you're stocking over there?
Speaker 1: Anyway? God, what kind of stuff did you find for it? Well?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 1: I mean when I was in.
Speaker 3: Chicago, usually I like go to the Manget like nice,
but you know, I was in Chicago's the night it
was Christmas eve Day, you know, got him like shaving cream,
you know, went to Walgreens, right, you know whatever, So
I got them each ook like a couple gifts just
to open. But we did this white elephant. Okay, I
love a white elephant, yes, but okay, so I've never
really I've only done it once with like coworkers, so
I've never done a family white elephant thing. So I
kinda get how it works, you know, And Wendy's never
done it really either. But you know, one of the
like Nicholas's wife, suggested we do it because we I
would buy for my nephews and their wives and their kids,
and all my nieces and nephews, and my nieces and
nephews are over the age of twenty five at this point, right, right,
So and my kids are eighteen so and there's little
kids in the family. So we said, let's just buy
for the little kids, and let's just all of us
do White Elephant, like there's only eight of us or whatever.
Speaker 1: So we perfect, okay, perfect. I was like, yeah, this
will be fun. I was looking forward to what was
the price limit?
Speaker 3: So she sent the nick's wife, Andrea set the price
limit to like seventy five to one hundred.
Speaker 1: That's so funny, I was thinking. Yeah. I was like,
I was like, probably one hundred dollars. Yeah, since it's
just for the adults.
Speaker 3: Since it's just for the adults, right, and Sunny in
a TI, which they're adults, so okay, so it's like great.
So then I was like, well, I also have to
get Sonny and Italian to bring a gift too, so
I gotta buy three White Elephant gifts. So I put
a lot of thought into it because it's a mixed crowd.
There's you know, Samantha and Andrea, the wives that are
I could easily buy like lip gloss for it. They'd
be happy with the eyelash what you know, what I
mean facial cleanser that they're happy with that shit. But
then there's the dudes Anthony and Nicholas that like to
tinker in the garage and you know, and then then
there's Sonny in Italia that are you know, living the
dorm life. So I'm trying to think of Okay, so
I get like, I get like Wendy tells me about
these pillowcases silk called bliss Blissy on Amazon. I heard, yeah,
they're like so I got one of those that was
fifty five dollars for the silk pillowcase.
Speaker 1: They get one of those.
Speaker 3: I get, uh, I get what is it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I got this projector thing for for dorm, you know,
like something that the kids like you could put like
like you're on Mars or like at the Galaxy. It's
just like the whole room lights up. So I got
that thinking maybe like Sunny or his cousin Matthew might
like that. He's a younger dude. Whatever I get, and
then I get uh, and then I get oh, I
get like keels like facial you know, wash and perfect, right, Okay,
So I get three nice put thought into it and
get those things. So we do the white elephant. We
pick our numbers out of the hat. I'm number four.
So people are opening their gifts. They're getting pretty good gifts,
you know, fun things. I open my gift. I got
a utility flashlight to Keiths to keep in your car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now is there stealing and trading?
Speaker 3: There is trading, okay, but I'm like.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody want to steal your flashlight?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: You know what else I got? I got a cooling
mask thing that like massages your eyes, okay, and it
cools your like does a thing for your eyes. I
got that as well. I got so I got the
pillowcase was an extra just in case. I don't know,
I just kind of got it maybe for me or
something or I you know, just because it was it
was cheaper than the price point. So then I also
got the mask whatever.
Speaker 1: So I got.
Speaker 3: So I bought all these. I get a utility flashlight
to keep in your car.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I don't think a utility flashlight is
in the seventy five to one hundred dollars. Rang No
and we said, we said, unless there is no joke.
We were like, no joke. Gifts like nice, you know,
something nice. It's like the one everybody, that's your what
you're getting for your Christmas present?
Speaker 3: Right, That's what I took home. And because I didn't steal,
because Natalia got what she wanted, Sonny got what he wanted,
my nephews and nieces got what they wanted. Wendy really
liked that face mask, and she's like, if anybody fucking
steals this from me after all the hard work I've
done for breakfast and dinner, and like cause she's you know,
putting all right, right, She's like, I'll fucking kill you, guys.
Speaker 1: That's just the spirit of Christmas, right, I know, I
know nobody was going to touch that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh yeah, that's what I got.
Speaker 1: Wow. And next year.
Speaker 3: Oh and then it ended in a big argument between
my niece and my nephew screaming at each other because
of the rules.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They were like talking about.
Speaker 3: The rules, well you said this and that you can't
steal the everybody just walked away and they just the
two of them just stayed there screaming at each other
all the rest of us just went to go eat
our bagels and cream cheese.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait, so you did it in the morning. Yeah,
we did.
Speaker 3: So we did Christmas Eve at Bob Chin's Okay food restaurant, right,
which is which we took.
Speaker 1: We talked on the phone this week. Yeah. Which I
was remembering was when Wendy got food poisoning last year Christmas. Yeah,
and then was out of commission and you had to
do everything.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so we did because it's an Italian tradition
for the seafood whatever, and they that's what they like
to do every year. This year, Whendy's like, I'm not
she ordered steak or something. She's like, I'm nicking seafood.
Speaker 1: I ate it.
Speaker 3: It was delicious.
Speaker 1: So we did that. Crazy because I was telling you
about my friend who she and I like to go
out for oysters, my friend Cecily, not Cecily who co
hosts on my other shows, but my other, my Jewish
mom friend, Cecily, and we would always go out for oysters.
And then one day, not with me, she had oyster
somewhere and got sick from it. She got like food poisoning,
and then she was like, I cannot eat oysters anymore.
And I was like, well, okay, but I can. How'd
I get hurt? Exactly? Like we go to this place
called King's Fish House, And I was like, but we
could still go to King's, right, And She's like, yeah,
but I can't order oysters. And I'm like, okay, but
I can't. No, you can't, Yeah, the same thing, haven't.
I still did?
Speaker 3: Yes, And Suzanne got allergic all of a sudden in
her like mid thirties to shellfish and now she's like yeah,
And I was like, yeah, but I what do you
want me to go?
Speaker 1: What do you want to go to? You for dinner?
Speaker 3: You know, like skill get seafood. Yeah, yeah, but I
can still eat it. You can get the tempora.
Speaker 1: Exactly. There's other you can go, get a a right
of something, right, yeah, because seafood is my favorite thing.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, okay, okay, and we're back. Yes, okay.
So that was Christmas Eve, so Christmas then Christmas Day?
Would did you do this gift exchange in the world?
Speaker 2: So what?
Speaker 1: So we so we wake up, oh yeah on Christmas morning?
So you did your white elephant, right, and then they
had an argument. That's so sad.
Speaker 3: Well, so we know we yeah, everybody comes over at
like eight thirty, not like nine o'clock at the doorbell.
Everybody starts piling in the kids, you know, so and
everybody comes in their pajamas. It's a lot of fun.
And then the kids, you know, all the gifts are
under Wendy's tree for everybody, so everybody and we like
Wendy and I went to Coffin's Deli and Chicago, which
was delicious to get the bake and the corn beef
and the pastrami and the fresh bread for the whole day.
So we just have a big brunch, yes, all day,
all day. Yeah, it was great. And so yeah, we
opened presents in the morning and then we did the
white elephant and then uhlight got my flashlights. Yeah yeah,
in case of an emergency.
Speaker 1: So then you came back home. Yeah, and then Saturday
and then you gave kid and then you did more Christmas.
Speaker 3: Well, the kid the presence came throughout the time we
were gone getting you know, shown like getting delivered and
I wrapped them. But we there's only like a couple
because they really sent like kind of their bigger gifts
to Chicago. Okay, So and Sunny Sunny's getting his getting
like a little like turntable thing for him in his dorm.
And I got him like a couple albums which was
sent to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Natalia got a camera, so right in Chicago.
So back home, there's only like a couple like, you know,
snowboard sunglasses for him and like a couple of tops,
you know, And that's it.
Speaker 1: So that that was our Christmas. Yeah. Well I have
a little white elephant story too, yeah, which is that
I love a white elephant party and we do it
at a Hanukkah. We have like a Honkah party at
a friend of mine's house and it's a bunch of us.
There were like thirty five people there for this little party,
and so I bought I bought some good good a
couple of fun press So our limit it's like fifteen dollars,
fifteen to twenty dollars. So I found this thing called
it was just a funny white elephant gift that was
called hander pants, which are basically underpants for your hands,
and they're and they're like fingerless gloves basically, but they
look like underwear, which I thought would get a good laugh,
and it has funny like uses for it. It's like
for the elderly, for blogging for I don't know, it's
like it's like funny casey. It's like something from like
Mad magazine, you know. So I got that. But then
I also got a microwave popcorn popper. It's hard to explain,
but it's like you put it in the microwave and yeah,
it was like a good gift. I spent horror like
I you know, a couple of them. I spent a little.
They were all in the range, but they were like
I got like some fun stuff. I got a thing
for like a movie night, which is like a it
looks like a movie theater popcorn tin. It says like
like it's the movies, and then it's full of like
red vines and like movie snacks and like, yeah, so
there are some good stuff in there. Did you dive
into the candy? I didn't. So this was for for
to wrap the big exchange. So my number was kind
of early, which many people. There were like thirty five
people there. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that kind of white elephant. I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's super fun.
Speaker 3: That's fun.
Speaker 1: Except the problem is that the thing that I opened
was Yiddish refrigerator magnets. So I got like the bump
that did you get it? I got it. I'm happy
to bring it to you. So it's like, you know,
the saying poem, like you know how you make like
poetry on your refrigerator with me little magnetic words, but
it's all Yiddish words of that, so I get It's
basically like kind of a joke present, right. So then
the whole time, every time somebody was gonna like steal
or get a new gift, I was like, these are
still these, nobody stolen, these, these are up for grabs.
And then I just kept doing it until it got obnoxious,
which was probably fast, but I just kept doing it.
The whole time. I was like, don't sleep on the
Yiddish refrigerator magnets. Come on, nobody have not been stolen.
It's okay. You can take them if you want them,
you know, And every it became funny where people would
just be like I don't want the refrigeraid, no, thank
you on the refrigerid and magnets, and to be like, okay,
if you change your mind, they're right here right. Look,
so it was kind of you got stuck with them.
I got stuck with them. Nobody stole them. I never
had any Listen, I feel like I was the one
the most excited about this white elephant thing, and I
got screwed the worst, that's what. Yeah, yeah it hurts me.
I shopped. I spent so much time and energy shopping
for like the perfect white elephant, something to make you laugh,
something that's really useful, something that will get stolen absolutely,
and what happened. Yeah, I get screwed. You got the screwed,
totally screwed. It sucks. There was this funny there was
like this ugly Honka sweater that people were stealing like crazy.
Everybody want for some reason. The person that opened it
was like okay, but then everybody was trying to steal it.
So things can only get stolen three times, yeah, and
then that then it's locked. Okay. So the things that
were good, we're just getting like gift cards, right, yes,
Target twenty dollars gift card, and then that would get
stolen three times and then locked and then but it
was a really fun night.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was See, that's the thing it's it's
for fun. Next year, we're going to do a Secret Santa.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do.
Speaker 3: That's a better idea, yes, for the because then you're
focusing on one person and writing. Now it's like, and
you know, we can call I know that there's an
app to do it.
Speaker 1: Did you know that?
Speaker 3: Like that, you can do an app that'll do the
Secret Santa thing for you.
Speaker 1: We do it on the Do you know that the
real end page has a Secret Santa? Yeah? I know
they do it every year, so yeah, they do it.
They do it, randomize it that way. That's cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like one of us, you know, maybe me or
Auntie Wynn, you will just I think we'll FaceTime. We'll
put everybody's name in a hat FaceTime, everybody pull their
name up. They can see who they get and then
tear it up and have a good day, right and
then yeah, so I don't see who they got and
that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's a great idea. Yeah, you know,
and then you can have wishless like people can go
around each other's wishless and see what you want. Yeah,
or you could just surprise them. I don't know. Yeah,
do you have any Caitlin, do you have any White
Elephant experience to weigh in?
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, we did one this year. Actually, oh, there's
probably I don't know about twenty people in the maybe
a little I think about twenty people in the White Elephant.
And I picked out mine, which was a It was
a Lego set of plants, right, which normally I was like, okay,
well I can like build that with the girls, but
it was it related to a bit that we've done
on the water Cooler. Okay, Matt Fondelier built this like
Lego plant one time and we all acted like we
weren't interested, and after it turned out kind of sad.
So I opened it and I saw this Lego plant
set and my mind immediately went to, Okay, we're gonna
do a bit on water cool and nobody else is
gonna want this. And I turned to Chris, and Chris
and I just like made eyes. We were like, yeah,
we both know exactly what we're gonna do with this.
So I spent the entire time happy with my Lego
plant set that nobody else wants. I even had the
chance to steal, and I was like, and there was
a really cool, like video game thing that someone got
and I was like, no, I'm gonna keep my lego
plant set. And then the fucking last person came and
stole my lego plants set. O wow, and I was
so bummed about it. And I ended up getting a
Bluetooth speaker that we already have.
Speaker 1: Ah. Oh damn, it sucks.
Speaker 3: That sucks. See, I don't know about this white elfant racket.
Speaker 1: It's fun if it's just an extra thing, like yeah,
this was just at a silly party where it was
something to do and I look forward to it because
it's stupid. Yeah. I wasn't that mad about the magnets,
but it was the idea that like I didn't get
to participate right off the bat. I was like, I
picked like sixth you know. So it's like, well so
now I've picked, and I know for a fact no
one's going to steal it. So now I watch everybody
have a good.
Speaker 3: Time exactly, you know, right yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now so Christmas morning, so I got okay, I
wanted to bring this up and then I don't really
want to hear about Kalin's Christmas, which I think is
more important because he has young kids and I feel
like that's where the magic is it is it has
changed so much, and you and I have been recording
for so long that, of course we've been recording since
our kids were little kids, and it was super magical
and you could surprise them stuff and they all believed.
And you know, so spoiler alert, you know, hopefully your
kids aren't in the car, but believed in the magic
of Christmas. Of course, Sanna's real. We all know that.
But the thing is, everything's different now because we don't
do like Elf on the shelf, even though you complained endlessly,
oh you still do it.
Speaker 3: I found her, I found her in the box we ours.
Speaker 1: Is still exists, but it just stays in one place.
No I move it.
Speaker 3: I mean I don't do it every night, like when
they go to bed, but like if I'm walking past it,
I haven't moved this one in a couple of days.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. You don't. It's not like the
tooth Fairy where you're like, oh no, I haven't moved
it anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1: And we also have a snoop on a stoop, so
we have we keep we put our snoop out and
we put our.
Speaker 3: Elf Elfie cute, yeah, Elfie ulpha bah.
Speaker 1: Whatever we call it now. But it's just different, you know,
it's just different. We don't have to do any of
the stuff. And there's no we don't track Sanna on
the nor on the what do you call it, the
Nordic the app? The app, the it starts with an N.
There's a north yeah, the North Pole app. I don't know.
Yeah where you look at it online and you could
see where Santa is and like, so we don't do
any of that stuff. Now. There's good and bad. Okay,
I'm gonna look on the bright side, Kaylin. There's a
bright side to when your kids get older, which is
that it's more family time and the kids are more
into the tradition of it and they like to Like
we went to candy King Lane the night before, except
for it sucks now, so we just complained about it
the whole time because people don't they don't decorate their
houses anymore. Really, Yeah, we were like, honestly, our neighborhood
at this point is better for lights than candy King Lane. Wow.
It's just like there's just people trying to hawk their
you know, their stupid souvenir things on the side of
the road. It's just like constantly people going do I
buy this, I don't know what, like you know, a
little laser point that they make. No, it's like it's
like that cheap like little lights, like light up things,
you know that they everybody's like, hey, you know, I
don't know. It's just like the weird tourist thing and
the house half the houses are dark.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's that's sad.
Speaker 1: It used to be so I think it back in
the day, and you lived out that way when you
were young, Yeah, used to go there all the time. Yeah,
I think that literally people had to sign contracts they
think such of that neighborhood. They would like decorate your
house right, and part of that.
Speaker 3: Because I lived right really, I grew up really close
to it. Yeah, we used to go all the time
and used to you know, get your hot chocolate and
go yeaheah.
Speaker 1: We used to do that too. We would all pile
in the minivan when we had a minivan. The kids
were really young, so they would be in their like
sleeper pajamas and we would we would let them like
open the sun roof and like put their heads out.
They would take turns looking and like, I mean that
just ended a few years ago. My kids are seventeen yeah,
and at these twenty right, but it still was really fun.
Here's the thing, though, I still put so much pressure
on myself to make sure that everything is even, and
I keep I track it on like a document that
I call taxes on my computer. So no real snoop.
I do the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I go.
Speaker 1: I make our Amazon account so that you can't see
the browsing history. I blocked the browsing history for like
a week. I archive all the orders so nobody can
see that they're getting anything. But I get so crazy.
I'm neurotic, and I get like, oh my gosh, okay,
well Sadie's getting this, but then I need what's Elby's.
So then Sadie and Elbe we're both getting the shark
hair tool that I told you about.
Speaker 3: So many I after you told me that I heard
it like twice, and really getting it for their teenage daughters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, best gift they were. They lost
their minds, they lost their minds. Albie was just like,
no way, oh my god, no way, like getting a car, yes,
and she was so excited. And then Sadie was really
excited with hers, and they were both went and did
their hair immediately. But then it's like, okay, but what
do I get Xander? You know? So I got Xander
like an Urban Outfitters gift card plus one hundred dollars
cash that he could use on de pop, you know.
So he was really happy. The kids are really happy,
but it's me. Yeah, it's my problem. I'm like so
then by the time they're done, I got them so
many gifts that it's like, okay, there's still more because
I also do a bath and body works haul. Oh
you do, because I shop on the day that they're
having the sale and everything's like five dollars, So I
get like a bunch of stuff and then I individually
wrap each thing so that there's just like so but
by the time the work, we should be done, right
and it's like nope, still marking more soapy, you know,
and it's like oh hey. And then then I felt
bad because Sadie had already opened everything. Somehow, I think
LB and Xander ended up just getting more stuff than Sadie.
Just however it worked out. I thought I had kept
count and maybe she opened stuff in I don't know,
but basically it was like, oh, here's one more for Xander. Oh,
here's another one for LB. And pretty soon Sadie's just
sitting there, you know, Oh another one for Xander, another one.
Speaker 3: He hate when I know, I just I gave up
like this. I think it was maybe even last it
was either last year or this year. I just get
because there's also times where you know, there's things like
Natalia I put I you know, bought her something ahead
of time, like paid I don't remember something, and she's like,
it can be part of my Christmas present. Okay, Well,
harken back to a month ago when you asked me
to I don't remember what it was, but that's part
of your Christmas present.
Speaker 1: Me then reminding him it seems like not part of
the Christmas Now. I know, Hey, remember that thing I
got you two months ago because you said it could
be part of my Christmas gift? Well consider that just
opened and then. But the problem the thing is is
that I have Sonny.
Speaker 3: So Sonny doesn't really ask for anything or require anything
or and he even said he goes, I know Elexander. Yeah,
he's like, I know, I'm hard to buy for same
with Xander, like I got him his rose Bull tickets.
He's going to the rosebul Well that's huge. Yeah, got
him one ticket.
Speaker 1: That's one. So he has to go. Wait, he's he
has other.
Speaker 3: Friends got tickets sporadically too, through like the student Oh,
the Oregon Ducks are playing the Rose Bull. Yeah okay,
so they're all going together, but their seats are kind
of spread out.
Speaker 1: Pardon the chirping. Yeah. I just turn the heat back
and it's like freezing in here.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's I got ice box, it is, it's gotten cold.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So okay, so he's excited. Yeah he was. He psyched.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very excited. He's going tomorrow. He's super excited.
Speaker 1: But he already knew he was getting that. Yes, but yeah,
I know what I'm saying is that that something changes.
I was reminding and then I really want to hear
Kaylan's but this is ties in. I was reminding my
kids of when they were little and they were so
easy eat a shop for because they would see a
commercial on TV. This was back when you would watch
Tea the commercials and Nickelodeon and you know, and they
would see something. One of the things that Elbie was
dying for one year was this little fairy that springs
up in the air and like it's called a Torley
fairy thing and it twirls around and then it comes
back down and it was like nine dollars at CBS
and Elbe could not stop talking about this the fairy
and it. You know, so I got her that, and
I'll never forget. I have a picture of her in
her little nightgown from Children's Place losing her shit at
getting this fairy like what like, seriously, no different than
she acted with getting the shark hair the dice and
hair wrap to I mean, the same thing, no way,
thank you. And it was like, yeap nine dollars.
Speaker 3: That she would take a quick way because I got
a flying object story. Sure, okay, so that reminds me.
So I went on Amazon because I'm flying into Chicago
and I gotta get you know, Anthony's little kid. He's
got a seven year old and a three and a
half year old, and there's on as soon as you
open Amazon, like looking for gifts for seven year old.
There's these little balls that light up and you just
tak their bad you know, you know what I'm talking about. Okay,
So like they're they're there, you charge them, so they
got battery and then they they kind of just float
and you just play catch with them. They slow. So
I see them and I'm like, this is per because
I'm gonna get them a couple other things to each kid.
So I'm like, this is great. So I'll get one
for him, one for hurry, and I'm pink and a
blue one, and I get okay, get sent, I get there,
I wrap it. They show up after they so they
come over after Santa Claus comes and visits them, and
they come walking in the house. They're like, Auntie, Lynnette,
look what Santa got us?
Speaker 1: The floating ball?
Speaker 3: And I go, oh, did you both get one? And
Anthony goes, yeah, I both got one. I go, well,
now they got two each, motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: Oh no.
Speaker 2: It's a hilarious video online of like a bunch of
kids opening that like fairy but it's like a ballerina
on Christmas and it goes up into the air and
then lands right into the fire on the.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, how was your girls Christmas? It
was great?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very fun. The night before was that
White Elephant party that I talked about, and yeah, we
were tracking Santa on whatever that app is. And at
one point, you know, they were outside and they saw
like a plane way open the air, and so I'm like, look,
there's Santa. And so they lost their minds that they
saw Santa in the sky. Oh, they were screaming running
around the house. It was very very cute. And then yeah,
Christmas morning, woke up early and they opened do you
do the whole.
Speaker 1: Like make cookie the night before for Santa and put
out like carrots for the reindeer.
Speaker 2: They make reindeer food at school. Oh, so they put
that out and then we put out cookies and then
I think that's all that we prep and then they
go to bed and then Amy does this thing where
it's like a snow boot going into the house and
up to the cookies and the things. So they woke
up and they were very excited. Yeah they got they
got lots of lots of presents.
Speaker 1: So what did it? What kinds of stuff did you
get them? Because are you taking advantage of the fact
that they're young and easily impressed?
Speaker 2: Well, they they wrote a list to Santa, and they
each wrote three things and they were like three random
ass things. But we were like, okay, we'll get you that.
So we got them those three things, and then and
then we like, what were they uh it was one
of them was oh they wanted cell phones, Yeah, they
wanted it was the phone. I can't really remember which
one was on the list or which was the one
that we found for them. Yeah, I can't remember like
which was which, but at some point I just had
like Amazon open up and they were like looking at
it and they're like, oh, I'd like that. I like
that up that and then I wrote those.
Speaker 1: Down like a toy cell phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And so we ended up getting
like Santa got each of them four gifts, four gifts each,
and then two gifts for them to share, and then
Mom and Dad got them one gift. I found this
thing online that looked really cool that was like it's
like a video game console sort of. It's kind of
like a Wei but without the remote, so it uses
your body. Oh so like you know, it has like
fruit and ninja on it and you swipe with your
hands and you can have like four people play games
on it at once.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I that was their big gift for
mom and dad, and then they got you know, Christmas
is kind of like with them and they're kind of
almost still in the phase of like open it up,
next one, open it up, open it up next one,
you know what. So, like, the big hit on Christmas
was the toy cell phones because they like, they have
little games on them. You can take pictures with them,
so they were going around taking photos on their phone.
So that's what they really liked on Christmas.
Speaker 1: I remember those things. I remember getting the kids those
little leap frog I think they were these, I don't know.
It was some little electronic similar that they can play
little games on it that. Yeah, I think it was
a similar thing. My kids went crazy for them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got little walkie talkies for Riley and Leslie.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cy dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like they don't really work that great. You know,
they hear each other, by the way, it's not like
ones in the basement, the other ones on the third floor.
Speaker 2: Right, Walkee talkies is like a go to gift and
they never really turn out to be like we've gotten them.
I think walkie talkies like once or twice and they
kind of use him once or twice and then they
kind of forget about them and then they end up
in a in a bucket.
Speaker 1: Something you know, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean I got
a lot. I filled their stockings up. I went to
the Diso store, which is, oh yeah, what is that?
It's like a Japanese dollar store basically, now.
Speaker 2: What it is?
Speaker 3: It just opened in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. But there's like a lot of
random shit in there. So I got him some like
hair clips and some candy and some like. But you know,
it's like it's still even overwhelming, and they don't My
kids don't need all that stuff anymore, you know, at
this age it becomes like clutter, right exactly, like a
bunch of little things they don't have anywhere to put anyway. Yeah,
something that happened to I felt bad for Xander lost
his wallet. Okay, first of all, this kid, he's a sonny.
He's very responsible. He never loses stuff. He's the other
kids have all lost their house key at different stages.
He knows where his stuff is, so he for when
he got a new wallet for Christmas. Nice he had
put his gift card, so his Urban Outfitters gift card
in there, his cash that I had given him, and
he got another gift card from Sadie and Elbe got
him a gift card together, and then he had his
school id. Anyway, we don't know what happened to his wallet.
He went out with Elbe like a couple of nights ago.
They went to McDonald's and he had a McDonald's gift card,
so he knows he had it when he went. They
didn't go into McDonald's, they were in the drive through.
The wallet's just gone. He came back home and by
the next morning he couldn't find it. We don't know
what happened. I think he probably got out of the
car and it fell out of his pocket, maybe and
somebody picked it up. Nobody. Oh, his bank card was
in there too, but I've been I was checking his
bank card to see if there was any activity on it. No,
but I had to to eventually cancel. And he was
just the poor kid. Yeah, and like that stinks. He
just got his gift cards and all that, so he
had everything in his wallet, so he lost all of it.
Oh my gosh. So but it's never happened before. He's
so responsible and he was so upset about it that
I was like, Xander.
Speaker 3: You know, what does he wear shorts that just have
the pockets?
Speaker 1: You know, guys, he was No, he was wearing I
don't know how it happened. I don't know if that's
even what happened, because no, he wasn't wearing I know
what you're talking about. No, he was wearing like jeans
with like deep pockets. Oh okay, But I don't know
if maybe what we tore apart. He was in Elbie's
car at the time, but we literally tore the car apart.
It's not there, it didn't fall into the car, it's nowhere.
Speaker 3: But he's so he didn't get out of didn't get
out of the car and eat there or right like
he was just in the car.
Speaker 1: We sat in front of our house and ate their food.
Then he came in the house and he knows he
had his wallet. When I know, believe me, we've done
all of the retrace your steps. We tore the house apart,
We've looked everywhere it's gone. So anyway, I already canceled
this bank card. I replaced the cash. I was just like,
it's not your fault. I don't want use sweating it anymore.
I'm going to replace the gift cards eventually. But I
just felt so it was such a bummer. Yeah, that
is a bummer. He lost everything, but it happens. It happens. Yeah.
Also another thing that happened was that our internet was
out for like five days, and it's so frustrating. So
it went out and then we have to call Spectrum
and go, hey, is there is there an outage? And
then yes, there's an outage in your area. Well, this
outage just went on and on and on. They couldn't
figure out what the problem was. And then at some
point I had called again. This was like the seventh
time I called. John was making jokes. He's like, how
many times did you talk to call Spectrum today? Like
maybe any new friends Spectrum. But I'm like, it is
unfathomable that they wouldn't communicate that there's a problem that
they can't fix right now. So eventually I had called
and they said, well, we're not having a report of
an outage, which they did two seconds later. But so
they're like, so we're going to schedule a technician to
come to your house. I was like, okay, but this
has been going on for three days, Like, we don't
need a technician. They're like, well, ma'am, that's the only
way that we can diagnose the problem. And I was like,
but the problem is not in our house. It's in
the neighborhood. Everybody is talking about it on next door.
Everybody's having the same problem, so it's not our equipment.
She's like, well, we still have to send a technician
to make sure to rule out. I'm like okay, I said, okay,
so make the appointment. She's like, okay, So it's for
eight o'clock tomorrow morning, between eight and ten tomorrow morning.
I'm like, okay, I go, but you got a painful it. No, no,
but I go. But you're going to cancel it because
you're about to get calls that there's an outage. Okay,
and then we'll cancel the next morning. So sure enough,
it goes back out. We get a notice your you're
there's an outage in the area. So it was intermittent.
It was going and coming coming back, going out. But
we'd have it for like forty five minutes at a time,
then it would be out for two hours, then we'd
have it for ten minutes, then it would be out
for four hours.
Speaker 3: Like it was just like, that's crazy. It was, that's maddening, maddening,
that's torture.
Speaker 1: I had to. I was doing coach coaching work for somebody,
and I who I couldn't do it online because it
was I was on like a Google doc. So I
was like, okay, I had to go to I had
to go to coffee bean. I sit at a coffee
bean like a loser and like do work. Okay. So anyway,
eight o'clock the next morning, there's a knock at the door.
I'm like, what, who's at our door? I go to
the door. I'm like who is it? Spectrum. I'm like why, why,
why are you here. He's like, well, didn't you make
an appointment? And I said yeah, but there's nothing wrong
with our equipment. This is it's going on in the neighborhood.
So he's like, well, I have to are you gonna
let me in? I go okay. So he comes in,
he looks at the equipment. He's like, yep, there's an
outage in your neighborhood. I'm like, no, shit, I know that.
I told them that. I thought they were going to
cancel the appointment. He's like, well, no, okay. So then
he goes. I was like, but we need to know
when I'm going to have consistent internet because we both
work from home. Yeah, John does editing stuff. Yes, so
there's a lot of that. We pay for the fastest internet,
right And by the way, you guys gonna give us
a rebate or something. After this is all said, Oh,
they're like, no, you have to call and ask for
credits for the and they'll credit you for only the
time that it was out. I'm like, okay, well I understand,
and they're like, well, ma'am, you're we're not charging you
for the time you didn't have internet. I'm like, yeah,
but what about the inconvenience of the time that we
couldn't do our job? Well, no, we don't. We don't
rebate you for that. I was like, okay, so every day,
of course, I'm like, well, at this point we should
just freaking switch to AT and T because how much
longer are we going to have to go without internet?
But you know, it's that thing where you're like, is
the pain in the act. It is a pain in
the of switching to AT and T worth it? I
don't know. Yeah, we've had internet consistently. We had it
all day yesterday, but like I kept waiting for it
to be out. But anyway. So the guy goes. So
the guys like, we're like, okay, can you tell us anything.
He goes, yes, it's it's something with a line in
your neighborhood. They're trying to fix it. There's trucks by
the way, yes, constant in spectrum trucks around, but they're
at the same they're at the same place. Then they'll
be gone, then they'll be back. I don't know. Maybe
they're off at seven to eleven grabbing a coffee. I
don't know what they're doing. But you asked them, but
we didn't I know, oh you did. Yes, I haven't did.
We hadn't gotten that far yet. But the guy's like, okay,
well who's I said, Well, it could.
Speaker 3: He's like, it could. I've seen us take two weeks.
I'm like, we don't have two weeks. He goes, Okay,
I'm going to give you the phone number of my
supervisor who's going.
Speaker 1: To be in tomorrow. He can he can tell you. Okay,
So he gives us this phone number. He goes, his
name's Justin. He starts work at ten am. You can
call him tomorrow. So ten am we're like white knuckling
at till ten am till we can call Justin. So
I had to go out. Oh well, I thought we
were recording yesterday. This was yesterday. Yeah, no, this was
day before yesterday, whatever it was. I was gone and
John tells me, yeah, So that phone number doesn't go
to any buddy named Justin. It goes to a David Martinez.
It doesn't say anything about it being Spectrum. It's just HI,
you've reached David Martinez. Please leave a message. So he
left like four messages from for David Martin Tinas who
doesn't work for Spectrum, and you never returned a phone call.
Speaker 3: Shocking, shocking, These mother fucking bather fucking lying scattered ass wipes.
You know how many times I've gone through that, Stephanie,
I know your pain for years, for years. Electricity goes out,
like the spectrum goes out, both of them go just
you know, but there's.
Speaker 1: Nothing like thinking about the rest of the world to
make you just go okay, right, all right, Internet is out,
like cause I get really crazy about it with like
this is so ridiculous. How am I supposed to do
my job? And you know, and then I'm like, oh,
there was a plane crash, Like I'm like, all right,
we'll give it another day. The old internet outage. Right.
Speaker 3: Speaking of plane crashes, by the way, like I had
to travel when all these planes were crashing, and I
was odd left and right, there was every other There's
like three or four plane crashes.
Speaker 2: You didn't take a Boeing, did you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I did.
Speaker 3: I know he couldn't scary that.
Speaker 2: Those are all the all the plane that have been
happening for the past year.
Speaker 3: They're all bowing.
Speaker 1: They're all been bowing. When I flew recently, I forgot
where I went. I remember I or when I went
to New York. When I went to New York with
all be in January, I remember they said. The travel
person was like, okay, but just so you know, this
plane is a Boeing whatever. And I was like, that's fine,
yeah whatever the one was that they were. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's so funny because the night before we left, I
was talking to my nephew, Nicholas, who got his solo
license flying oh flew from one airport from one city
to another solo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went to flight school, I know. And we
were talking to him and we were talking about.
Speaker 3: Turbulence and he was like, I love when turbulence, he goes,
I just sit there and relax and like I bounce around.
He's like, the planes rarely, rarely, very very rare planes
are taken down by turbulence, he says. The most days
time is the takeoff and land landing. He says, landing
is basically a controlled crash, is what it is. So anyway,
he's telling us about the turbulence, and I was telling
him that I taught Sunny and Natalia to enjoy turbulence
since they were little, so now they're they're never afraid
to fly. They feel the same way about turbulence.
Speaker 1: They like it.
Speaker 3: And we're talking about him, like literally hours before we
get we get on the plane. It was the most
bumpiest turbulent ride from Chicago to LA that I've ever had.
We're all three looking at each other, I mean literally
is like and then the captain kept going, you know,
flight attendants, take your jump seats like you said it
like three times and studdying to me, sunning Itttalier look
at each other like did we just jinx ourselves? Oh yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1: Well on that note, let's say hi to our fabulous people.
We got Dick frolicking Kelly lot he Ta Merry Christmas.
Katie's rolling on e We should take a break from
that on the holidays. Ye do that tonight, Katie, Nikki
call your girls. Elizabeth Williamson. I just saw the cutest
picture of her family on Facebook. You're doing some stuff right,
miss Elizabeth Williamson. And Rita is rocking all those kids
in her basa nut which if you see the picture,
you know that's kind of hard because they're getting bigger. Polly,
we love your pancakes. Valerie hits out of the park, Katerina,
seriously check that Moler, Gabby and Missy New Year's Eve.
You're gonna be y shan Foshpey. Rebecca Nubin is so
cute and so nice. And Kelly Brandt will take you
place as you need to go. Alicia Askalante from the
Cityville Monte Leslie. Why why with the coughing, Sarah Sefano,
Aaron is a dirty Sanchez, Jennifer, get up, uh, Sandra,
It's not easy being green. Jacob, you're so growley and
Athena Athena kinshard. We love you, and we love your
lipstick and we love your everything about everything. Yeah, well
I'm sorry, we missed a couple shouts with Athena because yeah,
it's my fault, but we're going to make up for
it by telling you how beautiful you are. Every shout.
Also got some business shout outs Adam. I cannot tell
you how many cars Adam is getting for people that
listen to our podcast. I know I see online and
then sometimes people are like, is he really like good
for getting you a car? Yes, yes, and he's not.
There's no contract. You can just call him up or
text him or whatever, or go to his website and
just ask him some questions if you want. You're not
locked into anything he can. If he can help you,
he'll help you. It's free. If you're in California, he
gives a discount. He has a fee outside of our state.
But if he can send you a car from California,
you also don't pay the fees, so it's all easy. Yeah, anyway,
that's him. The Family Skeptical is a podcast about raising
kids without any kind of religion, so check them out.
Kelly Willman frieda Palm Springs and Palm Desert. Check that out.
They do holiday meet bills too, so well it's too
late for that, sorry, sorry fuckers. Go to the medium
dot com and listen to my friend whose name I
will not say but her but her medium name is
at Unbecoming Stories. I actually was reading past, going back
and reading some of her stories. Oh, she's so good.
Lourie Bishop is has her son's business, the Better Test
Prep Act Guide. It's it was designed by her son
who got a super score of thirty five on the test.
So he's gonna help you. Go to bit dot l
y slash Better test Prep or Instagram is better dot
test dot Prep. Also Christa Stroop is doing a shout
out for her friend who lost her son to suicide.
He was only twenty one years old, and she's trying
to break the stigma surrounding suicide and help fill in
the gaps in her community in Ohio. So go do
Chase Haley Project. H A L E. Y in there.
Chase Haley Project. Also Carrie Kibbler, Yeah, you know, the
holidays are tough for everybody, but especially lgbt Q. I
a youth, and the Trevor Project is here to help
with that. Yeah, it's a wonderful charity. I give them
money monthly. But Carrie wants to raise awareness for them,
so Trevor Project. Also our friend Basic Becky, great t shirts,
great passpads. Yeah, go to just Basic Beecky dot com.
And also Ferncandle such great gifts go to Ferncandle dot com.
She runs her business out of her home. She makes
delicious smelling soy candles like tobacco sage and lavender sandalwood.
And she's on Instagram at Ferncandle. And yeah, we'll do
the rest on Friday show. Okay, thanks everybody, Thanks guys,
Thanks everybody. Ye, your parent don't have it up. That
ain't going m