Weisman Family Christmas Special 2025

The Weisman Family Christmas with Brad, Jess, Catherine and Carson

The room is buzzing before the mics even warm up—tree debates, cookie takes, and the joyful chaos that only a family Christmas special can deliver. We invite you into our living room as we swap stories about real trees versus fake, the power of a good holiday soundtrack, and why Christmas Eve still hits like magic. If you’ve ever argued over which movie starts the season or whether peppermint deserves a permanent spot in the freezer, you’ll feel right at home.

We move from traditions to taste—Plow Farms popcorn while picking the tree, the Colors of Christmas album during decorating, and Andrea Bocelli on repeat when the house finally quiets. The kids put in their votes for advent calendars, school news segments, and those TastyKake cookies that somehow disappear faster than the beef and lobster on Christmas Day. We revisit the greatest gifts—PS5s and Starter Jackets, Ataris and Pianos—and consider what rising wish lists say about what we value now: time, tools, and the chance to make something together. There’s even a hopeful plea for a 3D printer, because creativity is a gift that keeps giving.

Beyond the fun, we sit with what matters most: gratitude for health, faith that centers the season, and the steady warmth of being together. Not everyone gets these moments, and that awareness deepens the meaning of the ones we do have. From Christmas Vacation and Elf to Carol of the Bells and the Post-Thanksgiving music rule, this is a cheerful, honest snapshot of a family finding rhythm, laughter, and purpose in December.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Kicking Off The Family Special
• 1:28 School News And Kids’ Segments
• 2:57 Favorite Christmas Traditions
• 6:33 Real Tree Talk And Scents
• 8:28 Holiday Foods And Breakfast Debates
• 11:43 Movies We Rewatch Every Year
• 15:58 Christmas Songs And Albums
• 19:33 Best Gifts We’ve Ever Received

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:14

All right, here we go. Oh my goodness. Can you believe it's been a full year since I was crazy enough to have my family come into the studio? Hugo, I can't believe I'm actually doing this again. This is the third time. No, it's not the third time. It is. Is it the third time? See, look, they argue with me right away. I didn't even get the intro started, and they're arguing with me right away. So this is the third time, okay, that we're having the Wiseman family Christmas special episode of the podcast. And it's always very stressful. I'm actually more stressed when you guys come in than when I'm here with other people. Um, so welcome, family.

SPEAKER_01: 0:50

Thank you. Thanks for the new set of headphones. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty nice.

SPEAKER_00: 0:56

Yeah, we we have them if you'd like those.

SPEAKER_02: 0:58

They're funny.

SPEAKER_00: 0:59

So yeah, so the Anna and uh was it Anna and Elsa? Anna Nelson. Anna and Elsa, yeah. Okay. So let's get right into it. The uh this is our Christmas show. And you know, I this time I actually prepared. I went on, I did AI, believe it or not, and I actually put in here, you know, questions that you would ask your family on a Christmas podcast, which I'm sure there's tons of people that do that. So we came up with lots of things. So let's just go through some of this stuff because it's fun, kind of fun. Is there anything you guys want to say right away? Is there anything at all?

SPEAKER_02: 1:30

No, you don't have anything.

SPEAKER_00: 1:31

You have nothing to say, okay. Not a big one.

SPEAKER_02: 1:33

I didn't prepare for this.

SPEAKER_00: 1:34

You didn't prepare for this? Nope. Oh man, here you go. No preparation for the guests. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01: 1:40

You literally told us we shouldn't prepare.

SPEAKER_00: 1:42

I did say don't prepare. That's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_01: 1:44

Carson is on the news at his school. Yeah. That's true. So am I?

SPEAKER_03: 1:48

Okay, that's true.

SPEAKER_02: 1:49

Oh, yeah, you say it's sunny or every day.

SPEAKER_00: 1:53

So what do you so tell me why you're on you're on the news at your school? You're you're on it?

SPEAKER_02: 1:57

Yeah, I'm on it.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57

CT, it's called? Yeah, it's CT TV, it's called. CT TV. Wow, cool. A lot of T's in there.

SPEAKER_01: 2:03

And he provides what do you prefer?

SPEAKER_00: 2:04

And what do you do?

SPEAKER_01: 2:04

Joke of the day.

SPEAKER_02: 2:05

I do like joke of the day, the sports news, um, the word of the day, and random fact of the day. Mine's better.

SPEAKER_00: 2:14

What is yours, Catherine? Do you still do it?

SPEAKER_03: 2:16

Um, just a lot of fun. There's just a lot going on. We have the 10 days of giving, and the teachers are really loud. All you say is and sunny. Yeah, but I'm still there.

SPEAKER_00: 2:24

Okay. All right, so we're not gonna argue on the podcast. We're gonna keep going.

SPEAKER_01: 2:28

Maybe Carson could end with a joke. Yeah, maybe you could end with a joke. Do you have a joke? Please don't.

SPEAKER_02: 2:32

No, I don't have a joke.

SPEAKER_00: 2:33

Okay, no joke. Sorry, sorry. So here's the thing.

SPEAKER_02: 2:36

What is what I don't have a joke.

SPEAKER_00: 2:37

What is your favorite Christmas tradition and why? Carson, you go. Favorite Christmas tradition and why?

SPEAKER_02: 2:44

Probably like getting the Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_00: 2:46

The real tree.

SPEAKER_02: 2:47

Yeah, the real one.

SPEAKER_00: 2:48

Okay, so why why? Is you just you like doing it?

SPEAKER_02: 2:50

Yeah, it's just like fun going out there, getting popcorn from the place.

SPEAKER_00: 2:55

Where do we go?

SPEAKER_02: 2:57

Plow plow farms.

SPEAKER_00: 2:58

There we go. A little plug for plow farms. Okay, so that you like the real tree thing?

SPEAKER_02: 3:02

Yeah, I like it.

SPEAKER_00: 3:03

You you you wouldn't want an artificial one?

SPEAKER_02: 3:05

No. Because it doesn't have that smell. Oh, that's the smell. It's the smell. But we did get that candle that smells in our basement now.

SPEAKER_00: 3:11

Yes, that's true. For the fake tree in the basement. We have that. Jess, your favorite tradition and why. And mommy, you we know that mommy is a huge tradition. Oh, yeah. Right? Everything's tradition. Oh yeah. Yeah, you don't do anything without tradition.

SPEAKER_01: 3:24

It took a lot to switch to platforms.

SPEAKER_00: 3:26

Get your mic up there a little bit so I can hear it.

SPEAKER_01: 3:28

It took a lot because that wasn't where we originally went to, and that wasn't tradition. It wasn't tradition. I do enjoy going there now.

SPEAKER_00: 3:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 3:34

I like uh lots of things, but I enjoy when we get to go look at Christmas lights. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 3:40

We haven't done yet.

SPEAKER_01: 3:40

That's today. That's today. We're doing that today.

SPEAKER_00: 3:43

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 3:44

Oh, and I do enjoy our advent calendar where we can. Oh, yeah, that's my favorite actually.

SPEAKER_00: 3:48

The advent calendar?

SPEAKER_02: 3:49

Christmas tree and the advent calendar.

SPEAKER_00: 3:50

Okay. So those are your two favorites then? Two favorites. Catherine, your favorite tradition and why?

SPEAKER_02: 3:55

I like going to sweet ride and getting the Christmas flavors of ice cream because I love ice cream.

SPEAKER_00: 3:59

What are the Christmas flavors?

SPEAKER_02: 4:01

Oh, I uh Santa's Milk and Cookies is the one I get. I don't remember what the one I was called. Peppermint, peppermint something, right?

SPEAKER_00: 4:08

Oh wow. Cool. Very cool.

SPEAKER_02: 4:09

Peppermint fudge, I think.

SPEAKER_00: 4:11

Peppermint fudge. That sounds good.

SPEAKER_02: 4:12

Peppermint.

SPEAKER_00: 4:13

Yeah. You know my my favorite tradition is? Um the podcast. No, just kidding. Um, that album that we listen to every year.

SPEAKER_04: 4:22

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 4:22

While we're while we're doing the tree, when we're decorating the tree, there's an album that we do that has Peebo Bryson and um has all those people. It's called The Colors of Christmas, I think. Is that right?

SPEAKER_02: 4:31

Yep, that's a good one. Yeah, I never had traditions. The colors of Christmas, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 4:34

Yeah, it's a good it's a good one. We all talked about this. Real tree or fake tree. Hugo, real tree or fake tree?

unknown: 4:39

Uh real tree.

SPEAKER_00: 4:40

Real tree, there we go. I figured that much. What's your favorite holiday food, Catherine? Favorite holiday food.

SPEAKER_03: 4:48

What's a holiday food?

SPEAKER_00: 4:49

Like something that you eat at the holidays.

SPEAKER_03: 4:52

I don't I don't understand what you mean. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00: 4:54

What's your f like because we normally have like you'll either have ham or we'll have different things or we'll do different things.

SPEAKER_03: 5:00

We'll pass that one. I like cookies.

SPEAKER_00: 5:03

You like cookies? That's a holiday food.

SPEAKER_03: 5:05

That is uh what's your favorite cookie? Anything's your favorite cookie?

SPEAKER_00: 5:10

Favorite cookie.

SPEAKER_03: 5:11

I don't anything. I like cookie. Okay. As long as they're like good.

SPEAKER_00: 5:16

Okay. Oh, so you don't like bad cookies? Oh, okay, that's weird. All right, so Carson, favorite holiday food, dessert, drink, whatever it is. What is it?

SPEAKER_02: 5:27

Those cookies that grandma gets. What are the tasty cake? Tasty cake.

SPEAKER_00: 5:30

The tasty cake. Catherine, please do not do your eyebrow eyelashes while we're doing the show. Did you see that? Did you see? Oh my god. She was doing her eyelashes while she was doing on the show. So, um, yes, so yeah, the the the cookie. You know what I'm talking about? You know that Hugo, the bucket of cookies from Tasty Cakes.

SPEAKER_02: 5:47

It kind of looks like a flower.

SPEAKER_00: 5:48

Yes, yeah, it's got like a like a snowflake. Jess, what's your favorite food?

SPEAKER_01: 5:53

I don't really think of Christmas and think of food.

SPEAKER_00: 5:57

Mommy never thinks of cooking.

SPEAKER_02: 5:58

I only think of like giving. Mommy eats nuts and bags. Like there's family and giving it.

SPEAKER_01: 6:04

What's your favorite food?

SPEAKER_00: 6:05

My favorite food for you know, those cookies are definitely up there on the chart. Um, I think, you know, we always do well, Christmas, Christmas Day. I think it's the day we do the the the beef loin uh with your parents. And I think we do a lobster tail, right?

SPEAKER_02: 6:20

Oh yes, the lobster.

SPEAKER_00: 6:21

The beef and lobster tail, yeah. It's a good time.

SPEAKER_02: 6:23

I don't really remember like food that we eat on Christmas. I just remember like beef. I like eating the rolls.

SPEAKER_03: 6:28

Oh, the rolls. And I like them when we eat like Christmas morning breakfast because like it's a lot of things. Oh, yeah, you make French. No, no, no, no. I don't really like French toast that much. But you like the other stuff. No, I like like the day after Christmas.

SPEAKER_00: 6:40

Oh, a day after Christmas.

SPEAKER_03: 6:42

Not the one, not the French toast that you meet.

SPEAKER_00: 6:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 6:44

I love the French toast that you make.

SPEAKER_00: 6:45

I don't Okay, I appreciate that, Carson. Yeah. He'll probably be getting more gifts this year. Um what's okay? I think we know what our favorite holiday movie is.

SPEAKER_03: 6:55

Christmas vacation.

SPEAKER_00: 6:56

Yeah. Yeah. Right? Christmas vacation. That's the that's tradition. That's a tradition. That's tradition.

SPEAKER_02: 7:02

We also like elf. Elf, and then my second, my third favorite is probably Grunch. Oh, Dad doesn't like Grunch. Yeah, I love Grunch.

SPEAKER_00: 7:09

Grinch is really good. Grinch is good. Elf. Um Yeah, I'm not a big home alone fan.

SPEAKER_03: 7:13

I like finding like random Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_00: 7:16

Like random ones.

SPEAKER_03: 7:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:17

Okay. Yeah. What's a random one that you find? Yeah, what's a random one?

SPEAKER_03: 7:20

Remember the one that we were watched? Well, I watched the one, but I watched it by myself, and then I thought that we watched it together, so then I got confused. But remember the one that we watched like the other day? Not Family Ston? Not Family Stoned. It was the other one. We watched it like we're like, I think it was after Thanksgiving. Got home from Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00: 7:37

Oh yeah, we watched the movie. It was a new one. Yeah, it was. It was a newer movie. I forget what it was. No, I forget what it was.

SPEAKER_02: 7:42

Oh yeah, the Jingle Bell Heist. Is that what it was? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:45

No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03: 7:46

That one was good. There was another one. And it was like, it was like the they were getting a divorce and then like Oh, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02: 7:54

Like when um it was snowing, the tree got on fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:59

I kind of don't remember this. Did we watch this? We did. And the kid wanted to be a fire.

SPEAKER_02: 8:03

Yeah, the kid wants to be a fire.

SPEAKER_00: 8:04

Oh, yes, I remember that one now. Okay, we're gonna move on.

SPEAKER_02: 8:06

But I don't know that name.

SPEAKER_00: 8:08

Too much on the movie. All right, no. So what about um think about the the there's everybody has a favorite song for Christmas, right? Um I think my new favorite song, newer, is the Ed Shear and Elton John song.

SPEAKER_02: 8:20

That's what I was just about to say.

SPEAKER_00: 8:22

That's is that your favorite? Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 8:23

I was just about to say that one.

SPEAKER_00: 8:24

Jess? Favorite Christmas song. Now, if you have to understand this, Hugo, my wife starts listening to Christmas songs in October.

SPEAKER_02: 8:32

Yeah. No, November. Like literally.

SPEAKER_00: 8:35

Sometimes I think it's October.

SPEAKER_02: 8:36

I think it's no, it's in November. It's November.

SPEAKER_00: 8:38

So she starts real early. The problem is, is I I get sick of them if I start that early.

SPEAKER_02: 8:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 8:44

Because there's only so many Christmas songs.

SPEAKER_02: 8:45

Yeah, there's not.

SPEAKER_00: 8:46

So I get sick of them.

SPEAKER_02: 8:47

Because there's like a lot of people that play the different ones, but they have like I don't think I've listened to like any Christmas songs the whole month of December.

SPEAKER_00: 8:54

None.

SPEAKER_03: 8:55

Yes, not really. I have in the car. In the car, yes, but not like by myself. Like I don't like choose till I mean me.

SPEAKER_00: 9:00

When do I start listening to Christmas songs?

SPEAKER_03: 9:02

December.

SPEAKER_00: 9:04

After Thanksgiving, that's right. After Thanksgiving, that is officially time to listen to Christmas songs. Um, so yes, so we talked about songs. So what uh Jess, you didn't tell your favorite song.

SPEAKER_01: 9:14

It's too many to choose from. Okay, but I do always pick what's my go-to Christmas album. I have to ask the Alexa.

SPEAKER_00: 9:21

What is it?

SPEAKER_03: 9:22

Oh, Andre Bacelli.

SPEAKER_00: 9:24

Andre Bacelli, yes, of course.

SPEAKER_02: 9:29

You're always like Alexa, play Andre Bacelli, Chris.

SPEAKER_00: 9:32

Catherine favorite, favorite. Uh, of course, we're gonna switch to Catherine while she's putting her lip gloss on, but this is really real. Shows you what she does. Um, favorite Christmas song. Did you did you give me one?

SPEAKER_03: 9:42

I don't know. I don't like the Elton John one. I hate that one.

SPEAKER_00: 9:45

So you hate the one it plays too much.

SPEAKER_01: 9:47

Do you like the Michael Bublet? Oh, I do like Michael Bubly song.

SPEAKER_03: 9:52

Um, I don't really know. Oh, but my favorite, oh wait, I forgot. Oh my gosh. My favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells.

SPEAKER_00: 10:00

Oh. Is that the one? Is that what I don't know which one that is? The one that's like ding. Dong ding dun. Okay. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Yeah, kind of here's one for you. Coolest Christmas gift you've ever gotten so far.

SPEAKER_03: 10:15

I want to go first.

SPEAKER_00: 10:16

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03: 10:16

Um, okay, like this is kind of odd. But when I got like all the Disney princess Barbies, like every single one in that giant thing. And I'm just like every in like color order of their dresses.

SPEAKER_00: 10:26

It was in color order.

SPEAKER_03: 10:27

It was like, yeah, it was like every it was like, I don't even know. It was like all of them. It was like Aurora since hers is like pink or whatever, and then it just like went in the line. Oh, that's cool. Jasmine, Tiana, I don't know, there's just a bunch of them.

SPEAKER_00: 10:38

Very cool. I remember that picture of you holding all of them.

SPEAKER_03: 10:42

And like the one where I got like all the little art stuff. Like, remember when I got that little art like that. That little like that little like blue one with the the things you like take out that had the pom-poms in it, like all the stuff that you could do. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, the greatest.

SPEAKER_00: 10:56

Jess favorite gift.

SPEAKER_03: 10:57

And my phone.

SPEAKER_00: 10:57

From from beginning to now. Like not just you know, adult life, kids too. Kid life.

SPEAKER_01: 11:04

Oh, I loved. I remember when I was in fifth grade. I really wanted a starter jacket.

SPEAKER_00: 11:11

See, we I don't know what a starter jacket is.

SPEAKER_01: 11:13

They were just really cool jackets that everyone wore at the time, and they had your sports team that you started with. What was your sports team you were representing? It really wasn't your favorite team. No, you just had you just picked up by like color, just kind of looked good.

SPEAKER_02: 11:32

What was it?

SPEAKER_01: 11:33

I picked the Chicago Bulls.

SPEAKER_02: 11:34

And that was my bad choice. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_01: 11:37

Um, but yeah, that year we all I remember. Allie got one, Brittany, everyone had one. Very cool. So that was a big gift. Starter jacket. Um but then last year I think that was probably our best gift when we were. How did Momo get? Gifted. I don't remember. You have to ask her.

SPEAKER_00: 11:53

Okay, so what's your favorite gift, Course?

SPEAKER_01: 11:55

Wait, I'm still still talking about it. Oh, sorry. Oh, you're still talking about the starter jacket? Yes. No, I said last year. Oh, last year. Was our favorite gift as an adult when we were gifted um from a bit?

SPEAKER_00: 12:08

We got gifted uh Ireland family of the game.

SPEAKER_02: 12:11

Yes, yeah. That was an amazing gift. I feel like nannies would be the dog.

SPEAKER_00: 12:16

No, nannies a big gift.

SPEAKER_02: 12:17

There were lots of big gift left. So exciting.

SPEAKER_00: 12:20

All right, so Carson, the favorite gift.

SPEAKER_02: 12:21

Oh, mine's probably the PS5.

SPEAKER_00: 12:24

PS5. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01: 12:27

What was your favorite gift?

SPEAKER_00: 12:28

Mine, I think I mentioned this last year, was the Atari, the one year. Yeah, yeah. And Firefox, the remote control Jeep, was my favorite. I was probably like eight years old. Oh, the piano was a big one, too.

SPEAKER_03: 12:40

That was a piano was a big gift. I thought that was a birthday gift, though. Yeah, I thought that was a big one. It might have been birthday.

SPEAKER_00: 12:44

No, it was Christmas because the white bear came from there. Wow. All these gifts. Here you go. Favorite Christmas gift.

SPEAKER_04: 12:50

Oh, I had a little cool airplane.

SPEAKER_00: 12:52

A little airplane? Oh. Very cool. That was a fighter jet. A fighter jet, of course. Of course. That's really cool. Um, okay, so if you could ask one present this year, what would it be?

SPEAKER_02: 13:05

I don't want the present. I don't really want anything. I just want like a 3D printer.

SPEAKER_00: 13:10

A 3D printer.

SPEAKER_02: 13:11

3D printer.

SPEAKER_00: 13:12

Whoa, that sounds serious. You know what, Hugo, he could make us things for the studio then. I could. I couldn't get shelves. Yeah, exactly. Jess, what's your what's your uh gift or you would love to have?

SPEAKER_01: 13:24

I have no gift. I mean, as an adult, it's hard to come up with gifts. I just like to get them for the kids. I mean, when you're I mean, fortunately, you know, I feel blessed that if we, you know, this the year goes on, if we need something, we can go out and get it. And it's Christmas. I don't really have something that I'm you know.

SPEAKER_00: 13:43

Yeah, I get that. I get that.

SPEAKER_01: 13:44

I like when you buy some random kitchen items because they are Oh, you got some coming.

SPEAKER_00: 13:52

Yeah, you got some coming.

SPEAKER_01: 13:54

That I don't know that I need, but as the year goes on, I find, yeah, there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00: 13:58

She'll get these gifts, Hugo, for Christmas for me, and it's usually like a kitchen thing. It's usually like a gadget, right? And then she gets it, she's like, Why'd you get me the gadget? That's exactly how she sounds, right? That's how she sounds. And and then all of a sudden she starts using these gadgets, and then her mom wants one, and then everybody wants one. Yeah, it's funny. So, Catherine, uh, what's the gift that you would like to uh what would it be this year if you had a choice?

SPEAKER_03: 14:24

No, I don't really want any like that's not true.

SPEAKER_00: 14:27

I do mean that's be a real thing. She goes, she goes, I don't really want okay, I better stop.

SPEAKER_03: 14:33

Well, like I do, but like I can't really think of it. I don't really have anything I really, really want.

SPEAKER_00: 14:38

Sweats makeup, skin products.

SPEAKER_03: 14:40

There's no cat.

SPEAKER_00: 14:42

And the couch. She wanted a couch.

SPEAKER_03: 14:44

I get you want a couch. Stop literally a little bit. Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right. But you like a lot of facial products. I just no, I don't really have that much stuff.

SPEAKER_00: 14:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 14:53

I just want clothes. Clothes, okay. I want two pairs of shoes, and that's it.

SPEAKER_00: 14:57

Okay. Well, that's good. Those are good. Those are good. All right, cool. Um question, you know, when the county. You know, it's funny, a lot of people will do Christmas Eve or they'll do Christmas when it comes to opening the gifts. Or there, you know, sometimes Christmas Eve is the bigger celebration than Christmas Day. Or vice versa. Hugo, what's yours? Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

SPEAKER_02: 15:17

Well, um, I grew up doing Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_00: 15:20

Christmas Eve, okay. Yeah. What about we we actually do both.

SPEAKER_04: 15:25

Yeah, we do both.

SPEAKER_00: 15:26

But I think growing up, it was Christmas Day for us. It was Christmas. That was the big that we went to other people's houses and stuff and and family, but for me, Christmas Eve is I like Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_02: 15:36

It's fun. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 15:38

Christmas Day is fun.

SPEAKER_03: 15:39

No, Christmas Eve is so like so like peak, let me tell you why.

SPEAKER_00: 15:43

One at a time. One at a time.

SPEAKER_03: 15:44

I was talking.

SPEAKER_00: 15:45

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03: 15:46

Okay, so basically, let me tell you why. Because like you get ready, you go to church, and then when you come back, it's like you're going to grandma and grandpa's house, and you're so excited because you're getting like presents there and you're playing games, and then like you're also like so like anticipating Christmas that you're just like really the adrenaline. Yeah. Yeah. I I I get that. That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_00: 16:05

And I think we talked about that the other day, uh, Carson. I said to you in the morning, I think as a kid, I always enjoyed Christmas. I always was more into Christmas Eve. Yeah, you said Christmas Eve. Because Christmas Eve, once you got there, you knew that when you went to bed, the next day it was gonna be great. Yeah. So Jess, what's uh what was your tradition? Or what you know, now we do both, but what did you do as a kid?

SPEAKER_01: 16:28

Same did both.

SPEAKER_00: 16:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 16:30

Christmas Day was always the day that I enjoyed for obviously as kids, getting presents, and but Christmas Eve, we could the same thing. We always had fun Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family, and then Christmas Day, mom's side of the family. So kind of like the same thing that we do.

SPEAKER_00: 16:45

Very cool. Very cool. All right, we're gonna wrap it up. Um couple things that I that I did want to say, and I think that's something that's that you were kind of alluded to a little bit, is that you know, we're we're very fortunate that we can actually have this conversation, that we can um look forward to these these gifts and these things that that we have. Um not everybody has that. Uh, we're very fortunate. You know, Hugo, you know, I know you and your family are very fortunate. You have three young boys and a wife, and we we uh live a good life. And I just want to say that, you know, we send our prayers and and thoughts and everything out to people that don't have all of that. And it's not really just about the gifts, it's about being with family, it's about being together, it's about being healthy that we're all still here and that we're able to enjoy ourselves as families. So we understand that. You know, the show is a fun show, and and like I said, we're blessed that we are here to be able to talk about the things that we are that we get. So uh wanted to put that out there. And then also um we did the favorite Christmas movie, we did uh opening of the presents, we did the movies. Is there anything else you can think of of what Christmas means to you, Carson? What does it mean? Or what what do you get out of it just besides the gifts and everything? You you like hanging with the family?

SPEAKER_02: 18:01

Yeah, I kind of like that. Like yeah, having all the family come over and yeah, Zach and Sadia coming.

SPEAKER_00: 18:08

And we have a new one, the baby, Amal.

SPEAKER_02: 18:11

And the other side, Ash.

SPEAKER_00: 18:12

Yes. Oh my god, we have another baby there too.

SPEAKER_03: 18:14

Yeah, yeah, Everly. I like being with the family, like especially when um Emma, Ellie, and like you know, Everly come over. And I like hanging out with them, they're so cute.

SPEAKER_01: 18:24

And uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 18:26

Okay, Jess?

SPEAKER_01: 18:28

Yeah, I think um family time. I love um our Christmas Eve Mass. It's very like peaceful way to go into the three days coming on. Um and Catherine usually is our altar server, which is special. And then it's just three days of family, which is yeah that's fun.

SPEAKER_00: 18:46

It's fun. It is a lot of fun. Hugo, anything about your family? Do you want to say anything? I know you're kind of far away, you don't have a microphone, but no, I'm just uh excited for it. You're excited for it. I bet your I bet your boys are too. Yeah, too. It's getting a little crazy in that house, right? It's amazing. All right. Well, thanks for coming out for another Christmas. I think this one went better than last year. There was hardly any talking last year.

SPEAKER_01: 19:10

Talking.

SPEAKER_00: 19:11

Uh, this year is much better. We have the proper equipment that's too. All right, awesome. Well, I want to thank you for being here for the whole year and being a guest on the or being part of the show as an audience. And I want to thank you for watching our family here tonight. Uh, really appreciate that. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, a happy new year, and we look forward to giving you lots of other great guests for the new year in 2026. All right, that's about it. Thanks for watching. It's every Thursday at seven PM.