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70. Yule Love It!
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Blessed Yule, dear friends! We’ve got that end of the year energy, and we’re leaning in hard - so join us! Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Blessed Solstice!
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Hosts: Christina Bell & Molly Wilde
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Recording Challenges and Beverage Preferences
00:00:25
Speaker
we're gonna play a fun fun game called can we record an episode before molly's computer dies oh shit yeah you haven't plugged in or what i forgot to plug it in oh because i have adhd i am at 30 right now oh i think you'll be okay Yeah, because it's like a brand fucking new computer, basically. Yeah. ah When I hover my um mouse pointer thing over my battery, it'll tell me how many hours I have left.
00:00:57
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Mine does not. It just gives me a percentage, but that's okay. Okay. That's okay. Mine's at 100%, and it says five hours and 53 minutes. Nice.
00:01:08
Speaker
Yeah. Mine probably wouldn't last five hours, but we don't need five hours. Nope. One hour would would suffice. Yeah, usually, usually indeed. I've got me a cherry Coke. Ooh, yummy. You got a tall one.
00:01:21
Speaker
Yeah, I like these tall cans. They're fun. um I really only chose it because it there was no regular Coke. There was only Coke Zero or Cherry Coke. And I used to go in for Coke Zero. And now it literally just tastes like chemicals to me. Yeah.
00:01:39
Speaker
Yeah. I love me a Coca-Cola classic Coke. Yeah, I have to say so do i Yeah, honestly. For a long time i was on the fence and I didn't really care.
00:01:52
Speaker
and granted, if a Pepsi is handed to me or if that's all there is, I'm going to drink it. But like, yeah, I think I typically would at this point select a Coke over a Pepsi. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I will. It's the classic, like, is Pepsi okay? Like, question mark, when you want a Coke, but they don't have it. They only have Pepsi products. Yeah, yeah. yeah Yeah, that's, ah that's me. It's like, yeah, it's fine. Yeah, and sometimes i get the ones... Pepsi, it's just like, meh.
00:02:25
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Yeah, I'll get the waitresses or waiters, servers, whatever, that say... If I say Coke and they'll say Pepsi and I'll be like, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:37
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Literally. um i recently, I was asking Jim, like, what the hell is the flavor of a Coke? Like, yeah what is that flavor? And he was like, it's cola. And I'm like, what the fuck is that? Yeah, exactly. What is that? It's man-made fucking construct. I know, but I looked it up. um Hold on. Does it come from ah something that makes cocaine? coke No, so like it used to have cocaine. That is true.
00:03:05
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But hold on. I got to find it because there was like a good breakdown of
00:03:15
Speaker
Okay, here we go. Of course, it's the AI overview, but this is what i had looked at previously. ah Natural cola flavor is a complex, sweet, spiced, and citrusy taste from plant-derived essences like citrus oils, orange, lime, and lemon, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sometimes extracts from the cola nut or cocoa leaf.
00:03:42
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huh um And so... I believe it actually is both. It's not or it's and the cola nut and the cocoa leaf. So that's why they gave it the
Coca-Cola's Secret Ingredients and Urban Legends
00:03:53
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name Coca-Cola.
00:03:56
Speaker
So, yeah but like all of those, of course, there is a a secret ingredient. There's a secret like recipe um that like Coke literally keeps locked up. Yeah. um But it is those ingredients, I believe.
00:04:15
Speaker
Interesting. But the combinations or or the like... Proportions. Proportions is probably what they keep under lock and key. um But yeah, it's phenomenal. And and actually, as I look at that... Oh, and this other list says a tangy bite from phosphoric acid.
00:04:34
Speaker
Yeah, which is what? I don't know, but I think it's probably the thing that makes it eat whatever. like when you Have you ever heard people say like, ah i had a really grimy dirty windshield and i poured a can of coke on it and it ate away all the grime oh my god like it's that's probably what ate all the grime and but you know but it was always told in the context of like this is why you should never drink a coke yeah like it's literally chemicals that will eat you from the inside out yeah but like That's also, you know, Mormon propaganda, in my opinion. The funny thing is I've not heard of anything related to a windshield, but like I have heard that people use Coke to clean their car engines.
00:05:15
Speaker
Yeah. Well, you know what? I've seen people use ketchup to clean the bottoms of copper bottom pans. ah So maybe chemicals just exist and we are allowed to put them in our bodies sometimes. Yeah.
Winter Solstice and Yule Traditions
00:05:32
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Yeah. Anyway, ah looking at the combination of flavors, I was going to say, like, it's no wonder that this this drink always gives me, like, a Christmassy kind of vibe.
00:05:46
Speaker
Which drink does? The Coke. Just plain Coke? Yeah, plain Coke. Okay. Like, the citrus and cinnamon, vanilla,
00:05:57
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ah spices, what is it? Yeah, cinnamon nutmeg, coriander, vanilla caramel in the acidity it's honestly yeah that's very christmasy frankly so
00:06:14
Speaker
there you have it there you have it indeed and i'm like actually reading about phosphoric acid now but nothing goodness or nothing is it is it uh anything we should be afraid of No, not really. says it's a weak mineral acid used widely in fertilizers, detergents, rust removal, and as a food additive for for tang in sodas, etc. Acting as an essential phosphorus source for plants and flavoring adjuster in foods. While generally safe in food amounts, because it's like lesser, yeah concentrated forms are corrosive and dangerous to skin, eyes, and lungs.
00:06:56
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Yeah, just like you shouldn't eat concentrated lemon oil but or put it on your skin. Yeah, it'll burn the fuck out of you. Yeah, but like you can add a tiny bit of it to your food.
00:07:09
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So same goes for the phosphoric acid, I guess. Yeah.
00:07:17
Speaker
Anywho. Oh, my lordy. Okay. o So yeah we're like trying to decide about talking about Yule or the new year. And we've probably done both of these topics already. but yeah we i mean, we have technically like we have. Yeah.
00:07:33
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Like it's it's for sure. So yeah, like, but it is the season. And literally, when we release this, it's going to be on Yule. It's going to be on the 22nd.
00:07:44
Speaker
Okay. I'm pretty sure that's Yule. yeah most of the time it is the start of fuel yeah yeah it is like or the 21st because the 21st is the solstice right and that's the thing yule and the solstice are practically the same thing yule date 2025 oh
00:08:07
Speaker
oh it does fall on the 21st but it is always like a range of dates you know yeah it's sort of like the same as like the new moon or full moon or both yeah really but like you know you kind of got like a little bit of a buffer on either side of it um oh and in my opinion people can disagree with me yeah i have that wicca calendar app on my phone oh yeah and um they're
00:08:38
Speaker
date range for Yule is December 20th through 25th so we got five whole fucking days of partying man I've never seen it that wide of a range I've usually only seen it like like but it would be like from the 20th to the 22nd yeah know well like for us Ostara and Litha and Mabon they've got twentieth twentieth to for all of those so that's three solid days right but yule has five solid days and i'm like that's cool i'm happy with that yeah well i guess i guess they also sort of blend it with christmas so that would probably explain why but yeah that would make regardless yeah like it is technically the same as the solstice so
00:09:30
Speaker
uh that is why that's why it's not the same exact date every single year right because it you know it depends on literally the cosmos um but god you know what it's such a fucking relief that we are less than a week away from the solstice and then after that it's only gonna get brighter mm-hmm Like, my God.
00:09:54
Speaker
It seems so strange because we're still like, we're again, it is it's the beginning of winter, but then it's also like marking the leg ah starts to like back time, the, what's it? The countdown for for winter to be over. Yes.
00:10:12
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It's like like the rebirth of the sun God, if you will. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Like actually, literally, actually, literally, according to Wicca. Because the death of the sun god is Samhain.
00:10:27
Speaker
Right. So, yeah. That's like the ultimate dark period. Oh my goodness. Sorry about that. Your chair is so silly. Yeah, I just leaned back and bam. Yeah, and then it's like forward. Now that's me forward now. more Amazing. Yeah. yeah um the The period between Samhain and Yule...
00:10:51
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is like really fucking dark yeah but you know what's really funny is like I I've i've swear I've sworn I swear that I remember it being dark at five o'clock like in like at the peak of you know solstice or whatever yeah and um it hasn't gotten that dark yet at five o'clock yet so I've been like this is a relief it doesn't feel like as dark as it should be right now Let me look at because like, here we go talking about weather and stuff. But yeah, tomorrow, more or tomorrow evening, the sunset here 417. Yeah.
00:11:37
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four seventeen o or but that's what i mean like it's it's not going to get because it that's the thing when the times of the sunset times and dates or jesus not dates the sunset times every day like slow down the closer you get to the longest day of the year or night of the year yeah um and a technically like It's like a pendulum swinging. Yeah. It always goes the fastest in the middle. And once it reaches the end, it slows down and then it's still slow and it starts its swing back the other direction. So like, it's not going to be much earlier by the time Yule comes around next week. It's not going to be...
00:12:26
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uh much earlier than 4 17 it'll probably be like 4 15 or something um but it says sunset for me is at 501 huh but it's still not like really that yeah at that point you know yeah because you've still got like what do they call it like astrological twilight or astronomical twilight i'm not sure what that's called There's a website that I love looking at.
00:12:56
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um i think it's called like day and time or something like that. But it literally shows like a, like a graph of daylight versus nighttime hours, depending on your location. And it'll be even like, you know, even my tiny village, I'll type in my town and it'll show me specifically for my town. You know, and I became familiar with it because of Cecilia Blumenthal.
00:13:23
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Who's that?
00:13:26
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Bitch. What? Who
Holiday Festivities and Gift Preparations
00:13:29
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lives on Svalbard, an island close to the North Pole. oh cecilia bloomberg that i talk about all the goddamn time i just don't fucking remember her name and you know i'm bad with names i know but it's okay crazy because i talk about her all the time anyway doesn't matter she references this website a lot because it'll show um it shows the chart like the graph of like daylight hours versus night time hours yeah and it'll show like
00:14:01
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like a fucking table of like dates and the times of sunset and sunrise. Uh, and because of where she lives, there are periods during, ah they call it polar night and, ah technically polar day, but it's, they call it midnight sun. Yeah.
00:14:27
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When they don't have any sunsets ever. and those graphs, not graphs, those tables with the times will say no sunset, no sunrise.
00:14:40
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ah You know, it's like the sun is out all the time or the sun is down yeah all the time. That makes sense. But it also shows ah the stages of twilight.
00:14:51
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Which technically Twilight applies to Dawn as well. um But it's like just the like basically the percentage of light that you can get. Yeah. Based on the sun's position.
00:15:03
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And like there's like three different stages of Twilight. It's really interesting. ah um But it basically starts.
00:15:14
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Just about right around or before sunset. And yeah, it's, I don't know. It's fun to look at. I don't know. I like it as much as I like looking at maps for some reason.
00:15:25
Speaker
Okay. I have a question for you. If you're done. Yes. You have a question. Yes. um You haven't been caught up in the Marcos recently. Have you?
00:15:36
Speaker
I've not been good at it. No. Okay. What's up? They're doing something. like on the solstice and I don't know exactly what it is because I haven't quite caught up yet okay but it's not a it's not an in-person gathering it's something else and I don't know they're calling it like hag sis or something stupid I don't remember I don't remember but like I it was something to do with hag something okay and I was just like um
00:16:10
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interested in finding out what it is and i and i thought i would bring it up in case you were interested in finding out about it too um if i yeah i mean is it like a is it like a could it be like a virtual gathering kind of thing because i knew they were doing card exchanges yes um which i want to participate in but i know it's like late now and i don't have cards it doesn't matter they're talking about people sending stuff out late anyway ah sorry yawns my god but yeah like hags this something like that i don't remember exactly i will have to go figure it out and let you know but okay yeah um i want to i want to do it but except for the fact that i'm going to be at a family christmas gathering on saturday which i believe is the day of the solstice sunday is
00:17:06
Speaker
but i think they're doing something on saturday they kept talking about saturday like maybe saturday night you know okay i don't know you know what i do know is huh uh our girls the witch bitch amateur hour is doing a like last hurrah patreon live stream of watching the entire twilight series tomorrow night and saturday ah ah oh god and i honestly might join it in oh my god i'm thinking about it how do you do it do you watch it through their so like these um they're not streaming the movie they're they're together they're gonna be together at macy's house and they're gonna watch it on their on her tv and With the live stream facing them so that we can see them. Okay. And then like, they're basically setting it so, like, they do a countdown of, like, when to press play. Okay.
00:18:07
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And then we can all watch it together.
00:18:12
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my God. Yeah. And it's fun because apparently neither of them have seen the last two movies. Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So they're going to be, like, in real time reacting to those movies yeah that's gonna they put their schedule out on patreon um and i really think i'm gonna join in because honestly why not it's uh they're going out with a bang nice yeah oh so that might be what i do
00:18:47
Speaker
this weekend but i'll see i'll see if i can find out uh what the hagstest situation is especially if it's a saturday night thing because by that point the twilight craziness will be over but yeah the you know it so but yeah so what the party planning simp cap Oh yeah, they ah they I listened to that as well, but it's in the description of that where they put the times of what each time they're going to start. a
00:19:28
Speaker
Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. I think it's amazing. I love that they're doing this. Okay. It's going to be fun. I don't know how much I'll be able to
00:19:45
Speaker
partake because no Saturday I won't be able to at all because we'll be at Christmas between like new like I'll be getting ready from around 9 or 10 a.m. m until I don't know when we're leaving so I'm kind of sad about that wonder if they're going to figure out a way because I don't think there's a way to to watch their ah to watch their live streams afterward yeah i think they currently have them i think they have they used to be able to on facebook but since they've been doing them on youtube i don't think you can no but they should still be in the patreon well that's the all that there is in the patreon is the link to youtube they live stream from youtube they don't do anything through patreon anymore i don't think it offers that oh yeah they can't live stream in patreon they can only live stream using a youtube link that they post in patreon
00:20:44
Speaker
But I don't know. i feel like they're going to I hope they're going to try to figure out a way to save these. i'm But yeah.
00:20:56
Speaker
Anyway, ah but I was going to say i was going to move into Christmas plans. So your Christmas celebrating is basically to happen on Saturday. I assume you're also going to celebrate on Christmas Day.
00:21:10
Speaker
Yeah. For just the three of us. Yeah. At home. um but like the family the big family celebration with john's family is on saturday on saturday that'll be cool and i volunteered to make a fruit salad which i have done in the past right because they're always you know they want everybody brings something and yeah essentially because we have a long drive it doesn't make any sense at all to try and cook something and then bring it because then it's cold by the time we get there right um
00:21:43
Speaker
Et cetera, et cetera. And so yeah I've done the fruit salad before and it was seemed to be a hit. And this year i decided I am going to do, it's going to be probably more simple.
00:21:58
Speaker
i don't know. I'm going to have bananas, apples, grapes, and strawberries. Yum. And there's a lot of green and red in there. and there's banana. Ooh. The flesh of the apple is almost the same color as banana, right?
00:22:15
Speaker
And the strawberries are red and the grapes are green. and But there's a lot of, I think there's probably a lot of white. So I was like, i bought a packet of the green jello mold stuff. Green jello mix. I'm going to sprinkle it all over that stuff and make it more green.
00:22:36
Speaker
To balance out the red of the strawberries and the red skin of the apple. Nice. See if I can make it more festive looking without making it taste terrible. Hopefully it won't taste terrible. It's like ah it's like a lime jello, isn't it? Yeah, it's lime jello. That should go in really nicely. It's literally just the powder of it. I'm not making it. Right. But it's going to have lime flavor. So I think it shouldn't taste bad.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah. And it'll maybe hopefully color things some green. Yeah. And I was going to say, it's making me think of that ah on TikTok slash social media in general, that Midwestern mom. Yeah. ah She does all those like ah Minnesota salads that aren't really salads. ah ah And all of the like,
00:23:30
Speaker
fruit salad, quote unquote. things that she makes that actually contain like mini marshmallows and stuff. Yeah. Like you could probably get away with throwing some mini marshmallows in there. Dude, that's a good idea because here's what I should here's what i did. placed another online order for the grocer and I put all the fruits in there and I also put in all the ingredients to make the Christmas wreath cookies.
00:23:59
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yeah. And And if you don't know what we're talking about, you have to go listen to the Patreon. Yeah, go subscribe to our Patreon for our second bonus episode. We did go into depth about these. Yeah.
00:24:12
Speaker
And I also purchased the things that I would need in order to make the lime green jello molds with the pineapple and the cream cheese. So I could make both.
00:24:23
Speaker
I could make them. And I think I might make them for us for Christmas. Ooh. So not and and not take them to the yeah house on Saturday. So yeah, that way it's a little more special for us at our house.
00:24:36
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. um Anyhow, so I have marshmallows to make that the Christmas wreath cookie. Yeah. And I could potentially throw a few in there.
00:24:48
Speaker
that's what Are they mini marshmallows that you got? Yes. Okay. Perfect. Yes. Because that's what it that's what the recipe called for. was a 10 ounce bag of mini marshmallows. Yeah.
00:24:59
Speaker
yeah And I could always just go buy some more this week when i if I need more. Yeah. That's a cool idea. ok Hell yeah. I'm glad that I contributed.
00:25:13
Speaker
And ah on that note, actually, guess what I got? What? I got the fudge recipe. You didn't tell me. i know. You bitch.
00:25:25
Speaker
You bitch. What? When did you get it? but That night. Oh my God. The thing is, i I was expecting she would um just take a picture of her recipe book and send it to me. ahha But she literally like typed it out in paragraph form. So I'm going to have to like convert it to recipe style. For ease of following. Okay.
00:25:52
Speaker
And then I'll send it to you. Okay. Yeah. But it it is, it's, um it's not, it doesn't seem overly complicated. It just requires a lot of precision of timing and stirring.
00:26:05
Speaker
Yeah. so like, it's the kind of thing where you're going to want to be able to post up in front of the stove aha wearing oven mitts because apparently it'll pop at you.
00:26:17
Speaker
That makes sense, though. Yeah. All of that makes total sense to me. Yeah. So I'm going to I think I i am going to try it.
00:26:27
Speaker
Not a double boiler. No, not a double boiler. You don't need a double boiler to melt the chocolate. No, no. You're melting. you You actually start not going to go into full detail, but you're going to you start with like pure sugar and sweetened condensed milk.
00:26:41
Speaker
Okay. And you mix the chocolate in with that, but I'm not going further into detail than that because okay this is, it's not a secret recipe, but I am gatekeeping. Okay. It's my mother's famous fudge recipe that is literally the best in the world. Got you. So, you know.
00:26:59
Speaker
I am so excited. Okay. I am so excited too. I'm nervous. i want to I think I'm going to try to do it on Sunday because it would be helpful to have at least moral support.
00:27:13
Speaker
And Jim will be working, not working on Sunday. Okay. So I'm just like, at the very least, I'll be like, able to like fall back on his moral support, but also might be able to like ask him to like grab me stuff when I need it because I'm afraid of moving away from the stove.
00:27:33
Speaker
Yeah. So I might try that. I might try to make that. Yeah. see I might too. I might. yeah I'll tell you what I've been, I've been feeling more motivated the last few days to do things. And so I'm excited for this two week break.
00:27:51
Speaker
Nice. Because I feel like I can get a lot done. i feel Are you done after this week? or wednesday's your last Tomorrow is the last day. Fuck yeah. Wait, so you get the whole two weeks. You don't get a week and a half. Oh, God, yes. I know. I know, bitch. Why did I just sound like I was having sex? Oh, God, yes. Oh, God, I am an idiot.
00:28:18
Speaker
Anyway. You are not an idiot and don't do that because I'm going to start getting I'm going to start getting after you the way you get after me when I say condescending things about myself.
00:28:30
Speaker
Okay, that's fine. That's what we should be doing. That's what we should be doing. You're not an idiot.
00:28:37
Speaker
Anyway. arm
00:28:43
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Yes. What was I going to say? Fuck.
00:28:48
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i oh Oh, fudge. Jim and I are doing stockings for each other. oh And just before we started recording, I was putting everything that I have gotten so far for his stocking into his stocking.
00:29:03
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Are you hiding the stocking until the night before Christmas or what? Yeah, it's in my room. Okay, it's hiding in my room. um I have no idea. i have no idea what he's doing.
00:29:17
Speaker
but Where are you going to hang them? We're not gonna hang them, I assume. I think we're just gonna stick them under the tree or some shit. Okay. Or come out holding it and hand it straight to him.
00:29:30
Speaker
We don't have a mantle or anything. Right? Neither do i But I have a bookcase. I've still gotta to like get stuff. well I've gotta get stuff, actually like purchase it, and then I have to like wrap it for gifts under the tree. yeah so you know my ikea bookcases
00:29:52
Speaker
yeah black wire type ones yeah yeah yeah so i just like tookck took a really pretty ribbon and i tied um my kiddos stocking to cute corner of the bookcase love that yeah love that I am because he is not going to listen to this episode before Christmas day. i'm going to tell you not the big gift. Well, I've already, i think I've already told you the big gift. If this comes out on Monday, how do you know he's not going to listen to it Because he doesn't listen to our podcast very much. Okay. No, i but I'm fine with that. But the way you made it sound was like that he actually does listen to it a lot and that he's, he's listened to it before, but there's like a
00:30:42
Speaker
0.1% chance he will listen to this episode before Christmas Day. So um like I've already told you like the big gift that I got for him.
00:30:55
Speaker
you You have to tell me again because I don't remember. Tickets to see John Mulaney. Oh, okay. I forgot about that. But he knows about it, right? He knows about those. And that's also like a birthday slash Christmas combined ah gift for him. Okay. So, um but yeah, he does know about that.
00:31:14
Speaker
um But the, like, creative gift, shall we say, that I am making for him is actually...
00:31:27
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ah i'm I'm making like a packet of coupons for like excursions to various stores that he loves to go to. And also like excursions to go look for trash on the side of the road.
00:31:42
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hey and um like like movie nights for like DC or Marvel movies because those are his favorite and they're like they're like my least favorite but but like just I don't know it's not anything huge and big and major but like I'm I thought of the idea and I think it's gonna be funny and cute and so i'm excited about it um yeah very thoughtful as well
00:32:15
Speaker
I try to be, i try to be. um but yeah so I was actually, that was the other thing that I was working on before we got on and recorded was ah literally typing up the verbiage for those coupons so that I can print them out at my office and then ah put them together in a little booklet. Yeah.
00:32:42
Speaker
Yeah. So that'll be fun. But yeah, so that's that's one. That's one thing that I'm just like, this will be cute. Hopefully.
00:32:54
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um Yeah. Woohoo. And it's not it's not something I've ever really done before. Like I've like I've thought of it before just in general. Like, oh, like a coupon booklet is like cute, but like never really like had somebody who would be into receiving one. Okay.
00:33:14
Speaker
And I feel like he would be entertained by it at the very least. Oh, sure. And at the very most, take full advantage. And appreciative.
00:33:24
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oh yeah. He's never not appreciative. Like, he is the most, like, gracious, like... great gratitude full gratitudinal gratitudinal um person i don't even know what the right i know the right yeah version of that word it is most full of gratitude yeah um yeah he's he's Like, it's the kind of thing where he he doesn't need coupons to be able to to, like, get me to do these things, you know, like take him to these stores or whatever. But, like, it's fun to be able to cash them, you know? Yeah.
00:34:04
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So. Awesome. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. So, yeah. Fun times. Oh, I got to tell you. Oh, yes. um What I got Julie for Christmas. o ah she's gonna laugh i hope she laughs i hope okay um do you remember the i want to say third grade school picture of my child uh not specifically okay i'll i'll try and explain it and maybe you'll remember it okay
00:34:44
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He was wearing a peach, like, with white striped shirt, but he had the crazy big eyes. He made the big eyes. Oh, yeah. you remember that? So it was kind of funny. It was kind of funny looking and... and um Yeah. And we were like, do we do retakes? I don't know. Do we? in And then it was just, somebody was like, no, just leave it. It's funny. was like, okay. So we didn't do retakes, but I was looking through like an email i got from the, the picture company uhu and you could order stuff with the picture on it. Right. Yeah.
00:35:22
Speaker
okay so i got her a big fleece throw really fuzzy you know yeah super soft with that picture on it huge and at the bottom i i titled it crazy eyed blank yeah with his name yeah that's so cute does she particularly like that photo i I don't know if she's even seen it. Or she's probably seen it, but I don't have any recollection of whether she's said anything and specific about it.
00:35:57
Speaker
Okay. But I just thought it was funny. Because it is. Because on a humongous blanket like that, it's going to be extra funny. Yeah.
00:36:07
Speaker
Yeah. That's going to be... I can't wait. Is it just one... uh one copy of his face or is it like no it's one large that's that's even better even better yes that's incredible and she like you know she's always cold so she always needs a blanket so it it could either lay on her bed where she could see it like and appreciate it or could just have it on her all the time because she loves my kids so much yes
00:36:39
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So I think she's going to like that. Oh, I love it I think she's going to like that gift. Oh, my God. And I'm going to be
Nostalgic High School Memories
00:36:45
Speaker
jealous because I'm going to want that. like You should have gotten two of them and kept one. They were kind of pricey. And it was ah it was a sale, though, and that's why I did it. It was still over $50 for that blanket.
00:37:00
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that's I mean, that's not a terrible price for a whole blanket, but yeah. yeah That is a lot still. yeah That makes me think of... So, like, okay. Yesterday, after work, or after everything, because like i had appointment I had an appointment after work, and then I had to pick him up at his parents' house because he was helping with them helping them with some stuff ah after his IOP meeting.
00:37:28
Speaker
um so we didn't get home until like eight ish and actually it was because we had to also start with target on the way home um but when we got home he showed me ah this notepad that he had kept all the way from 2004 that was like he calls it the journal of insanity And it was a notepad that he shared between his, ah like him and his coworkers when he worked at the local video store in his town when he was like 16, 17 years old.
00:38:10
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And each of them like wrote little journal entries of like what they did on their shifts throughout the summer of 04. Okay. okay And so like, it was really cute to be able to watch or to to like read that and like,
00:38:25
Speaker
get like a glimpse into like his life at that time. But then it inspired me to go through like one of the storage boxes I have of my old like high school shit. Nice. And so he and i we looked at some photos. I had like a couple of photo albums and I showed him all of my high school yearbooks.
00:38:48
Speaker
That's awesome. And in one of them, i think it was my sophomore yearbook. Um, the kid in the photo next to me, next to my photo was making an insane face.
00:39:04
Speaker
i need a picture of this. i will, I will find, i will dig it back up because we did put them all away, but I will dig it back up and I will show you. Okay. Because it was crazy. It was like, it was like this.
00:39:16
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for reference because this is not a video format
00:39:24
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ah for because a video format
00:39:35
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wait what grade was that i think like 10th grade oh my god that is so funny but but if i was that kid's mom i would smack him upside his head
00:39:48
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oh my god and it made it into the yearbook oh my god okay so like for people who are um well nobody's seeing this because we're not recording a video but for those who are who want to know what face i just made picture like a slightly tilted downward one eye closed in a weird way like a week hung out Yes. su <unk> like Like a wink with their eye with your face turned to the side and like the cut out. Yeah. It was just funny. was so fucking funny.
00:40:27
Speaker
Oh my god. And the way that you did it was just hilarious too. So that helped me laugh even more. but like But like it was funny because like I like turned to the page where I knew my photo was going to be and he finds it. And then he sees that and he's just like, he's my favorite.
00:40:50
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I like that guy.
00:40:55
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Of course. Oh my God. Oh, that's great. Oh, la wow and it was makes makes me feel not so bad about my kids picture with the crazy big eyes oh my god no just be warned that this will continue into well into high school that's okay this year he wore his like his windbreaker jacket in the picture i'm like why would you do that why at least i think he looks fine
00:41:29
Speaker
Yeah, nobody seemed to give a crap. And I was just like, but it's stupid. It makes me You pick out these nice outfits for these kids to wear in their pictures and then they do that. It's like, what the And then they ruin it.
00:41:46
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Yeah, I get it. dont know It's tough to be a kid, man. but It's a little less tough to be a 15 year old. Oh my God.
00:41:58
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anyway It was a lot of fun to be able to show him though. Like, like my friends from high school.
00:42:12
Speaker
and like my exes and stuff sorry i'm still laughing at that face you made i'm glad i'm glad that it was that entertaining i'm very glad it was that entertaining oh my god it's like really it's making me want to go through all my yearbooks and find like somebody making a crazy face that i never saw before you know what i can't believe huh that i've never actually gone through any of my yearbooks with you when you've been here Yeah, I never have thought of that. so yeah see You saw mine, didn't you?
00:42:45
Speaker
don't remember. I feel like you saw and took them I know I've seen some stuff. I know I've seen some stuff that you, um, like, you know, i know ah you showed me the letters from my father. Yeah.
00:43:00
Speaker
Um, the little st i love love note things that we used to pass each other in school. Yeah. That were all folded. So fucking weird that I couldn't figure out. And I was afraid I was going to rip them. Um, But also, like, I do remember going through photos of you from high school because I have so many saved in my phone of your guys' is like homecoming photos and stuff. Oh, yeah.
00:43:26
Speaker
Oh, yeah. but Those are my photo albums. You took pictures of those. Yeah. Yeah. I love those photos, man. Oh, my God. um I don't remember yearbooks, but it's been so long. Yeah. I don't know. It's, I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking of you taking out my photo album then and not the yearbooks. Cause I kind of felt like you saw those, but yeah, regardless. Like, I mean, it's like the way that I always forget to show you the letters that you sent to my parents ah that, um,
00:44:03
Speaker
you had like written in like that fancy cursive writing dude it's not fancy at all it's just normal person so neat no dude i mean maybe i tried to make it look neater because i was writing to them but like yeah it's just normal my normal cursive handwriting which is like the thing is that like i like it just a i don't think i've seen you write in cursive since we've like reacquainted each with each other like i think you've only ever written in print um and b like i don't think anybody really writes in cursive anymore so like it just always looks strikingly nice so i always thought that my that my handwriting was not fancy or neat at all so when you say that to me it makes me like what the hell well i mean why that's why i keep wanting to show you different That's why I keep wanting to show it to you to be like, see, I will say that as I've gone through the years working who's like where I work, um we have to fill out every single day. You know how I have work sites where I shuttle the kids back and forth to places. We have to document every place and like how many kids are on the bus and what time and bu blah, blah, blah.
00:45:26
Speaker
So I'm writing down all these different places like and I'm doing it as fast as I can. But I've come up with a style of printing that I really like now. It's just like I like how my handwriting looks now and I can look at it as a whole on a piece of paper and be like that looks kind of cool. Like it's no longer like does it doesn't look adolescent to me anymore.
00:45:50
Speaker
You know what I mean? i totally get you. I totally get you. Oh my god. Yeah. Oh, that's hilarious. Just thinking about it. Because like my handwriting, I mean, it looked at a lesson when I was a teenager because I was a teenager. And like it has evolved over time. It's gotten, it was pretty rounded when I was in high school. um And it's gotten a little spikier.
00:46:11
Speaker
Or actually really, I should say a lot spikier in adulthood. And spikier and like simultaneously ah smoother and sloppier at the same time um depending on the day cannot perceive what the hell you even mean when you put all those three things together as a description i'm just like what it's like but smoother and it's like smoother like the letters do connect but not in like a proper cursive way they just don't connect because i'm moving my hand too fast on the page. I could say like that's kind of what i've what I've been doing as well.
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah, but it's also like, I mean, it depends on the day, really. Like, it depends on, you know, and it depends on what my ADHD is doing. Like, if I'm able to focus on writing, I can make it look really nice. But like, if I am distracted, or I'm like, anxious at all like or anything like that like my handwriting just looks fucking stupid and bad but it's just it's very inconsistent which is crazy um but uh what was i gonna say i don't remember oh we were speaking of the yearbooks yeah um that we were looking at last night we were also looking at all the like notes that my friends wrote yeah and
00:47:34
Speaker
Their handwritings are crazy. i was like, ah my handwriting was the best out of everybody that I knew. Frankly. my god. But their handwritings were crazy. Like, so different. So crazy. And also, holy shit, it didn't occur to me how bad of spellers they all are.
00:47:51
Speaker
oh Or were, I should say. I'm sure they've improved over time. uh might be surprised to find out maybe not hopefully one of them misspelled her own middle name shut up i'm not kidding what was the middle name it was supposed to be angela she wrote anglia are you sure it's not angelia i am 100 sure um
00:48:23
Speaker
So she transposed the L and the E. Yeah, it like made me want it made me wonder if she actually had dyslexia. Her handwriting was meh, but like her spelling was atrocious.
00:48:35
Speaker
She probably was dyslexic, yeah. Well, I don't know. Is it dyslexia when you put an A in the word being? i don't know. She wrote it B-E-A-I-N-G.
00:48:48
Speaker
Weird. I don't it's okay like I don't I don't anyway continue what were yours what you were about to say I was I was just gonna say that the song there's actually a song called Angelia and it was by oh shit my has been so bad lately I don't even i can't even hold on a minute But I thought, oh, that's funny. Maybe she was like referencing that song. But no, not the way you said she spelt it. Nope.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah, it was a song that was out. Richard Marks. M-A-R-X. um When I was in high school. Angelia. A-N-G-E-L-I-A.
00:49:39
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. And the what i the little blurb that you heard me sing is actually how he sang it. Okay. Anyway.
00:49:50
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Yeah.
Christmas Spirit and Year-End Reflections
00:49:53
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All right. So we have been all over the place with the, with the topics. I don't even know what time it is. But it's probably fine and Nobody cares. I know. ah yeah we're We're doing it as more of like a bonus episode than a normal episode. but Yeah. And frankly, I feel like that's that. Honestly, it feels right for the energy, like the end of year energy. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I mean, it's all there's holidays. There's lots of stuff going on. It's like. Right. Exactly. hmm. Mm hmm. It sense. Yeah. It's all good.
00:50:27
Speaker
yeah and i thought there was something else that i wanted to talk about but i like totally must have lost it at this point yeah that's all right it'll come to you but regardless it is that end of your energy and it feels nice i think you had said ah the other day that you were feeling more in the christmas spirit than usual yeah and i concurred with that feeling And like, it's nice because like, I like to be in the Christmas spirit. Like this is, you know, yeah I'm not a Grinch person. Like right I like Christmas and I want to enjoy it, but like this year it feels even more so. And maybe it's because I'm not living alone right now.
00:51:12
Speaker
You know, maybe that's part of it. Yeah. Him being around helped you get your Christmas tree up and. yeah like helped me to decorate it and everything and like you know just generally being around and helping me like not feel down on myself like last year last year christmas turned out to be fine um but like i was worried leading up to christmas because it was the first time that i knew like i had nowhere to be and like nobody you to celebrate with and like i was a little worried and um
00:51:47
Speaker
Then you know it worked out that like our friends on Marco like gathered to all together simultaneously watch the Muppets Christmas Carol. And we were all Marco-ing each other at the same time watching it.
00:52:04
Speaker
And that was fun and cute. I enjoyed that. um But like yeah, like this year, i don't know. It's nice. We still don't know what Jim's family...
00:52:16
Speaker
is going to do. um He hasn't heard anything about whether they are inviting us to any portion of Christmas. um And like, hopefully it'd be, it'd be great if they did. But I also told him, i was like, it's, it's kind of fine if they don't like, i I would like for them to, if they're, you know, able to, but like, it's okay if they don't, because like,
00:52:45
Speaker
we can make a plan to just celebrate together yeah for sure and like i'm actually hoping that i'll get an opportunity to make the uh christmas roast that i love to make ah um delicious fucking pot roast so good yeah like pot roast and mashed potatoes and Probably some stuffing because frankly, like, I mean, I loved the Thanksgiving meal that we had, but like, I felt like I didn't get enough of Thanksgiving food.
00:53:22
Speaker
Not because I'm like, you know, I was, I ate plenty. It was a very good so portion, these plates that we had, but like Thanksgiving to me is the kind of holiday where you keep going back for more.
00:53:35
Speaker
Yeah. You know? And I'm like, oh, like I really want some stovetop stuffing. and some can-shaped cranberry sauce yeah
00:53:48
Speaker
um and like oh you know what i want to make is on christmas morning i want to make those pigs in blanket and maybe i'll put some runes on them cool like we did last year that's awesome um but yeah like i i don't know i'm feeling good about it Like no matter what happens. So we'll see. Yeah. I like usually try to avoid having Christmas music on in my bus because they play it for like two months straight, you know? Right. Yeah. And um this year I put it on like probably, you know, a couple of weeks ago.
00:54:32
Speaker
And I've been good with it. And like, it seems like the one radio station that's been playing only Christmas music has been mixing it up a little bit more than I can recall from previous years. Like there's been more different songs that like different versions of songs that I really haven't heard much or at all.
00:54:51
Speaker
And that's been refreshing because it's like why I got sick of it is because the one station I thought I had been listening to in the past would just play the same like 10 or 15 songs like over and over right that's what it seemed like and i just got so sick of it m i was like oh this one again like oh yeah yeah yep i get it yeah but this this station has been the one that i told you to put on when we were back in michigan like once we hit like right and we were close to michigan or yeah michigan i was like oh put put on 100 100.3
00:55:28
Speaker
um because they're they've been playing only only Christmas now for since probably November 1st because I think that's when they do it yeah but I was really vibing when we were driving back and particularly when I was driving and I was ah handling the radio stations yeah i was I was vibing with the Christmas stations yeah I know I know you were I was feeling it and it was like partly the weather too that was sort of feeding into that Like, even though it was, like, sketchy as hell weather, like, it still was just, like, putting me in the mood because it was snowflakey.
00:56:07
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. And you know that we, we have kept that snow that we got since that day. Oh, really? We kept that snow and got more couple times.
00:56:20
Speaker
Oh. But not wolf terribly. Not like a ton, you know, just an inch or two, like, whatever. Uh-huh. And a dusting once or twice. And like, anyway, today, yesterday, it got up to like, like the low to mid thirties or something.
00:56:37
Speaker
Mid or maybe late upper thirties. I don't remember now, but today it was up to 50. So we are losing almost all of the snow. It's almost all melted now. Yeah. We got snow on Sunday um,
00:56:54
Speaker
It's basically all melted now because it's, ah it was in the 40s all day today. Tomorrow it's going to get up to like 57. Oh, that's really warm. But it's going to rain tomorrow. so that's kind of a bummer. Oh, so check this out, right? Yeah. Because you know how our weather usually floats over to you. So like yeah we experience it first, but it's always a little, little bit different. So for us, it only got up to 50, but it has been drizzly rainy off and on the entire afternoon.
00:57:23
Speaker
and it And the temperature is supposed to drop so much overnight and have like wind chills that there's going to be ice. Oh, no. And so there is a possibility, depending on how bad it gets and whatnot, that school will be closed tomorrow.
00:57:41
Speaker
boy. But so far, none that I'm aware of. Yeah. But a lot of people really were thinking that it might get that way. There was hints about it all over Hopefully, because I would hate for you to have to drive on ice like that.
00:57:55
Speaker
Yeah. But, you know, yeah, for us, it'll get up to 57 tomorrow. And then um Saturday, 37 is the high, but then it's 44 Sunday. So I don't think anything's really going to freeze.
00:58:11
Speaker
Wait, what did you say for Saturday? 44. No. Saturday at 37. Okay. um And then Sunday at 44. So, yeah you're going to be above freezing all that time. Yeah. So, I think we're not really going to end up with bunch much ice.
00:58:27
Speaker
But I did get a warning from my electric company saying, we're prepared for strong winds and rain Thursday night and Friday. Stay away from downed wires. So, we'll see. But... Anywho.
00:58:42
Speaker
Yeah. And I think... that i think that's our show yeah you think so yeah and i won the game what my battery did not die oh sweet naturally y'all would know if it had died am at oh i'm at 20 21 not bad not bad love it but should plug it in not bad not bad i love it but i should go plug it in um I don't usually play chicken with it like this. Right. so Yeah.
00:59:16
Speaker
But yeah. So that's our show. Yay. And I'm looking forward to Christmas and I am looking forward to getting out of this godforsaken year.
00:59:30
Speaker
I don't know what 2026 holds. But Channy's channey's making it sound like it's going to be pretty good for me. I hope it is. telling you. based on what we know about, you know, what you want for your life next year. yeah It better be good for you. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:49
Speaker
I haven't listened to Chani in a while, so I'm going need to refresh and get i got it caught up. Oh, man. Make sure your app is up to date because i my the app actually said like here's a thing for January or preview for January for 2026, but I said, but you need to, ah you need to update the app in order to see it. was like, okay. It was like, I was in the app that it said that it was hilarious. Okay. Yeah. So I updated the app and then I got a whole bunch of stuff and then it was like the year, not the year ahead, but like, you know what I mean? It was like, you know what I mean? yeah it's It'll say like,
01:00:28
Speaker
today and then this week and then next year yeah or whatever and it was like yeah there was that but then there was also stuff for each month of the year next year i haven't gotten into listening to any of that yet but there was an overview thing okay it was like it was was it was it ones that were personalized to your rising sign or were they just general no they were they were hell yeah so that is new because like She usually would do, she did those yearly ah readings by quarter for this year. And so maybe, i don't know if she did them by quarter again for next year and also but monthly, but like, or maybe she just replaced it with monthly. I'll look into it. Yeah. But I liked i liked listening to the ah readings further throughout the year. Yeah. um
01:01:17
Speaker
So, and they felt pretty accurate. Yeah. sweet like i listened to them at like all at the beginning of the year and then i re-listened to them like a month or two ago and i was like yeah this this feels right this feels correct cool i'll have but i because of course it is because astrology is real you guys yeah especially when you when it's done right like literally according to your rising sign instead of your sun sign Right. Right. Exactly. Exactly.
01:01:49
Speaker
but yeah. So. Merry Christmas. Blessed Yule. Blessed Solstice. I hope you and our all all of our listeners get everything they want for Christmas. You as well. Yeah. yeah um And we'll be back again next week.
01:02:11
Speaker
We're not really taking a Christmas break from podcasting. so we'll be back again next week and we'll be back in the new year um with some hot, fresh content.
01:02:22
Speaker
yeehaw and uh yeah you can check out our socials check out our patreon support the show we would be eternally grateful and um enjoy that content that's over there because we're silly geese for for sure um we have fun particularly this this last the second bonus episode for december was pretty entertaining let's just be real um They all are. They all are. But we laughed a lot this last time.
01:02:55
Speaker
So, yeah. Anyway, we love you guys. We are so grateful for you. And we'll see you next week. As I stifle another yawn. Oh my God. Yeah, it's time to go. gotta All right. We love you guys. Have a good night. Have a good day. Have a good Yule.
01:03:15
Speaker
You'll love it. I love it. Bye.