Cranberry Sauce Still Shaped Like The Can? Absolutely

The first cool breeze hits and suddenly our kitchens feel different. We’re talking chili that sticks to your ribs, soups that steam up the windows, and the polarizing truth about pumpkin: some of us love it, some of us won’t touch it. From the great cracker debate (saltines vs. oyster) to whether sour cream, ranch, or even a spoon of Miracle Whip belongs in the bowl, we unpack how simple choices turn into rituals that define the season.

We also explore why certain foods only feel right now. Pancakes that say “family’s here,” Christmas-morning breakfasts that ground the day, and cranberry sauce that absolutely must slide out of a can with perfect ridges. Turkey or ham becomes a philosophy, not a protein, and we admit that nostalgia is the secret ingredient in Nana’s chicken and dumplings, dream salad, grape salad, and the fried potatoes that taste like childhood. These aren’t just recipes; they’re anchors—quick flights back to a table we loved and a feeling we need.

Then we pivot to the culture around the season: how Black Friday morphed from midnight sprints to tiered drops and Cyber Monday clicks, why some of us crave the chaos while others cherish quiet, and the Halloween watches that set the mood. There’s even a surprising take on a new sequel that’s shockingly kind to faith. Cozy, candid, and full of flavor, this conversation is a reminder that fall food feeds more than hunger—it restores. Jump in, argue your toppings, and tell us your non-negotiable fall or winter dish. If this episode made you smile, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so more people can find the show.

Transcript

Welcomes, Third Chair, And Setup

SPEAKER_03 0:44

Oh man, I'm tired.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

The stairs got you?

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Oh, just all day.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Oh, just everything.

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Yeah, before service. I was running. Just running. Well, we you know.

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Good job, man. Thanks. Head banging. A man. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Al Most Brothers podcast. In third chair today.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

What?

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Richard Randall.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Yes. Paternity.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

He's on that's what I said.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

Oh, I thought you said maternity.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Your maternity.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

That's all I got is a big sigh for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Yeah. I appreciate it. I feel loved. So no, I didn't say maternity. So for this episode, you know, the weather's starting to change.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

The weather outside is right for me.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

The weather outside is weather. So it has gotten to the point to where fall food is now the cravings are now starting to hit. Yeah. So we wanted this episode to just kind of be a relaxing, nice fall episode.

Fall Foods And The Pumpkin Divide

SPEAKER_03 2:29

Yeah, and the problem is most fall foods I'm not a huge fan of. Really? Yeah, like I don't like anything pumpkin. So that is and I think spice and all that.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Everything pumpkin is amazing.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

I'm not a not a pumpkin. What is it? Why not? I don't know. I just don't like the flavor of pumpkin.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

That's crazy. So no pumpkin pie.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

The only pumpkin thing I like is the weirdest thing, is like salted baked pumpkin seeds.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

Which I guess they don't really taste like pumpkin, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 3:00

No, they taste more like a sunflower seed eater type, you know, something like that. But I don't like I don't even like carving pumpkins.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

The the insides of them are nasty and just no. Yeah, I don't like doing that. Yeah. But uh everything pumpkin, man, I think is just the just great.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Yeah, yeah. And it's I mean, it's a big, I mean, it's popular for a reason. Lots of people do.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

So really, I didn't know that about you.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

Yeah, my brother, he'll eat a pumpkin pie like by himself.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Jamie makes a really good pumpkin pie. Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

And then like, oh man, it's just it just I do, I do, however, love soup and chili weather. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

So yeah, and this is the only time I will eat chili during the year.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

Uh that's nonsense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Well, like from October till February, March, depending on how early it starts getting warm. I just can't, I can't do it, man. It's it's tough. It's yeah. So chili's definitely on on the top of the radar.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Well, chili is one of those things with my gallbladder out that I pay when I eat it.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

So it's like it's like, is this worth it? Yeah. Is it worth it? So are you gonna eat at the chili cook-off?

SPEAKER_03 4:07

I don't know, maybe. I might. I'm hoping there's some other stuff there.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Which it's hard at our house with chili because Jamie likes all the extra stuff in it. Tomatoes, onions, peppers, that sort of thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:19

And I do too, but I don't make it that away because nobody else likes it. So I like tomatoes.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

And then you have like people like it soupy, people like it thick, you know. So it's it's a very it's gotta be a thick.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

It's got when I make chili, yeah, you know you ate some chili.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Yeah, okay. And see, I I like it thick, but I like it to start a little less thick and then I add the extra stuff in it. So I add a lot of crackers in mine.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

Yeah. I like oyster crackers. What do you think? Oyster crackers or saltines?

SPEAKER_01 4:47

I I think either. Either. Yeah. But I like I don't know. I like saltines more because I feel like they don't I don't know. I don't know. I'm an oyster cracker guy. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mind oyster crackers.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

What do you put like okay?

SPEAKER_01 5:01

I love it. I love this, dude.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

So the chili debate of what you put in it as you make it. Cheese, obviously, crackers, of course.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

I put MiracWhip in mine.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

No, I absolutely not.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

So what? The kids will put ranch. People put ketchup, people put mustard, like people put some weird crap in chili. What do you, what do you anything? No.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Not really weird stuff like that. Like, I I'll do I'll do a little bit of sour cream. I don't think that's weird.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

Yeah, that's good. Ketchup? Yeah. For years that's how I ate it. And then I remembered.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Which I guess tomato kind of goes to.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Mirkwip. I mean, it sweetens it up a little bit, makes it a little creamy. It's good. Try it.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

I can't. I can't. You can't.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

I got faith in you. You can do it. Oh. You can put pumpkin in your mouth. You can have pumpkin's good, man. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah, nothing really weird. Just hot sauce, cheese, crackers, and sour cream is usually my go-to.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

My kids love ranch. Like they'll eat ranch until.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Well, I know people like baked potatoes with ranch on it. I don't do that either.

SPEAKER_03 6:07

Yeah. I like ranch on a lot of stuff. I've never eaten chili, but but I love like uh clam chowder and and load of potato soup and that kind of stuff too.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

So it's like it's such a hearty, just good, easy, home cooked feel to it. So soups and chilies are really good this time of year. Um which for me, my sweet tooth is crazy. So this time of year is really hard for me because all the cookies are, you know, like it's it's tough. I know at your house it's what the it's the Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Christmas tree got Jennifer got three boxes last night.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Jeez, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Like they're out. I mean, last year she froze some for just to keep them.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Yeah, because they don't sell them all year round. Right. Yeah. That's just insane. It's a little much, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

Yeah, she's nuts.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Yep. So it's it's you know, and it's the smells of fall, the candles and those things that just takes you. Yeah. Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Well, and I love a good breezy day.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:09

Not like tornado weather, right? But just today, it's just a beautiful light breeze blowing. It's just like I could get in the hammock and stay there, man.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

It's just selling a porch with some coffee. Yes. That's why I like mom's porch, so it's it's screened in, yeah. So you don't have to worry about bugs. Right, right. And it's just so nice to sit out there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Makes me want to go get in my hammock right now.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Which hot coffee this time of year is is just it hits perfect. Which I drink hot coffee all year round. But if I'm like going through a coffee shop and it's hot outside, I'll do uh iced coffee.

SPEAKER_03 7:43

Yeah, and I'm not a I'm not a hot coffee guy ever. And it's the only time of the year that when it gets really cold.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

Not now, but like winter, is I'll drink hot coffee some. But even then, I like I prefer an iced coffee.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

But do you do do you at y'all's house, do y'all do the hot dogs after? Like, do you do chili one day and then the hot dogs? We have. Like that's usually what we do.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

Yeah, because you'll do that's a that's a twofer.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yep. Yep. Yep. That's a buy one, get one fruit right there, is what that is. Yeah, that's what we do, is we do now. If we if we cook a big pot of chili, we'll do chili a couple nights and then we'll do chili dogs.

SPEAKER_03 8:18

Well, and that's because my kids are starting to eat like grown men now. Yeah. So a lot of times we don't have leftover chilies. So we'll have hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

It's like, all right, chili dogs with no chili. So just hot dogs then. Yeah, you know. Chili free. Yeah. Oh, the chili.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

So hot dog.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Yeah. And and we'll do that, or we'll do uh, what is it, chili fritos or frito pie, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. We usually do it.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

It's real good and easy. You know, you just throw chili on the panel.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

Something about this time of year and pancakes.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

Really? For me, yeah. It's a weird one.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Yeah. And I think it had a lot to do with like that was kind of one of the staples in our like when our family would get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, we did breakfast. It would always be pancakes. Right.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

Yeah, because that's one of y'all's Christmas deals, right? Yeah. I've never been invited, but I didn't, I've heard about it.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Yeah, we do every, yeah. Every Christmas we do breakfast together as a family. That's cool. So no matter where kind of where we're at for um for Christmas Eve, that Christmas morning we do we do breakfast together all together. So um, yeah. So we do that. Man, I was thinking about another one. Oh gosh, what was it?

SPEAKER_02 9:33

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

It was I know, right? It was another like fall winter food. Man, but I can't remember. I'll think of it later. It was a good one. It was oh, oh yeah. It was it was this is the only time of year. Thanksgiving and Christmas, depending on on what we're doing, where we do like turkey and or ham. Right. I almost never get it any other time of the year. Yeah, we don't feel every time we eat turkey.

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Yeah. Unless we do like the lunch, the like Cajun turkey lunch meat. But to just bake a turkey.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Or like uh I like jellied cranberry sauce. I love cranberry sauce, yeah. And it's on and I love it.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Always. Yeah, but I never get it except for this time of year. Why? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You can have it anytime. Yeah, and I never think about it. Right. And I'll pass it up at the store and be like, hello, my old friend. Hello, darkness, my old friend. And just keep on going. It's like, I yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's because I want to wait, because it's like a like a treat. It's like, okay, it's that time of the year. We're gonna have it in February just to mess you up.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

Yeah, just like I'm gonna bring it to a to a dinner. Yeah, like a family dinner.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Like, who brought the crank, the jelly cranberry? Thank you, whoever brought it. Yeah, I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03 10:51

It's but you do like real cranberry, cranberry sauce, right? No, no, we do the can. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Yeah, I like the can. I don't like I don't mind the cran, like the real cranberry, but I want the jellied can. Yeah. Slice it up. Right.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

It looks like stuff that doesn't look like cranberry at all.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Shakeside of the can. You have to like jiggle it out. Yeah, it's so good.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

And then we still eat it when it looks like that.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Oh, I'll I've there's one year where we had like an extra can in the fridge, and I just popped the top and ate it with a spoon.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

That's not that's that's not good.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Straight out the can. Straight out the can.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

Little tin flavor.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

Just, you know, just hit the spot.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

My mom makes this stuff called dream salad.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

It's a dessert, and she only makes it at Christmas time.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

And it's got like cottage cheese and red jello and and pecans, and I don't know what all is in it. It's just like everything but the kitchen sink, but it is look forward to it every year. It's just so good.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

And it's only Christmas. Only Christmas. No, that's not Thanksgiving. Nope, she won't crack it. She won't do it. She won't do it.

SPEAKER_03 11:53

Won't quite do it. Well, it's not a cheap dish to make, apparently.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

And and that, I think that's got a lot to do with it. My sister's the same way with like grape salad. It has to be a special occasion. Yeah. Dang it, man. Yeah, it's so good.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

I've had her grape, it's it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

But it is. It's a that's a$60 dish, you know, and it's like I get it.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

And it's a lot to put into a dessert. You know, it's not like an entree. You put$60 in an entree, you you kind of get it. But uh put that into a dessert.

Soups, Sweets, And Cozy Vibes

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Okay, you got you got one thing that you can have in front of you. You can only pick one and every other food goes out, you know, for specifically for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Okay. Just one. What is it? And who makes it? Because it it may it may change from this person to this person.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

I can only choose one?

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_00 12:49

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Well, I would say you're baked beans, but that's a summer thing.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

I appreciate that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

It's the wrong time of year.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

So uh your mom's potato salad and Tracy's potato salad. They're both equally really good. Yeah. But again, that's summer. I'm gonna think about that. You got one?

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Yeah, I do. And and that's something that you don't think about. I never eat potato salad during the fall. Yeah. It's like it just doesn't, I don't know. But yes, uh, my Nana's chicken and dumplings. Like specifically her chicken and dumplings. Right. I've had a lot of people's, and they're they're fine, they're great, they're awesome. Hers are just something special.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

That's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

And I've got I've got a couple cousins that they get pretty close. Uh Denise gets pretty close, but it's just I would I would get rid of every other food on the planet to just be able to have that. And the number one, it's great, but number two, just the feeling I get like it just hits a spot in your soul where it's and that's where a lot of like that's where comfort food comes from.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

It's it's it's a lot of the nostalgia that comes with that. Yeah. And uh so I I I really think it's my mom's dream salad. I mean, it's because it is Christmas. That like that. And I wonder if that has a lot to do with it.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Yeah, as it's just that because yeah, I'll get that maybe on like on Thanksgiving, but definitely Christmas. So one of those times. So I think that has a lot to do with it.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Yeah, we link our emotional response to food, yeah, is a thing. Yep. And that's I mean, that's why people get addicted to food because of the memories that go along with it.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

I think a close, a close Sega's probably mom's fried potatoes.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Those are good.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

They are, and that's and same, same. That's my childhood. Like we had that no matter what the meat was, that was always part of it. Every meal. Just because I mean, one, you can get a whole big bag for ten dollars and that lasts the whole month, but it it is something that I instantly feel at home, I feel safe, I feel comfortable. It it just yeah, it really does.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

It it just kind of my brother makes fantastic beer bread. You ever had beer bread? I I couldn't tell you the process of how it's made, but uh it's a thing. It's like fried bread. No, it's baked, but it it it beer is one of the ingredients, but obviously it bakes out. But um, I don't know, it's just a really fluffy, very good bread. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

My sister makes good fried bread. That's what I thought you were. It's really good.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Yeah. Is that like cornbread and you fry it?

SPEAKER_01 15:22

Is that kind of No, it's regular regular bread, I believe. And yeah, and she just fries it, and it is just really good. So it's just little bite-sized breads, and it's good. And my mama Peggy, so uh she lived across the street. Uh my buddy Karen, it was her his mom, and she made fresh bread. So like the whole neighborhood could smell it when she was making it. And that I remember going over and she'd have slices for me, and that just had a spot in my heart, too, you know.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

I got I told you I've got that homemade sourdough bread from that vendor over there at um Discovery, whatever it is, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Pretty good? It was really good.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Okay, yeah, and I love sourdough bread, but it was really good. Homemade.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Yeah, Miss Pat made some friendship bread last year.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

I've never had that, I don't guess.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

She said it's like a 18-hour process. Holy shit. So she doesn't make it very often, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

I would imagine not.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Yeah, it's really good. Really good.

SPEAKER_03 16:24

That sounds good.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

So make sure if you listen, hit us up, let us know what your favorite fall/slash winter food is. Foods. Yeah, yeah. I used to really like hot chocolate, but I don't I'm I'm not a big I don't do I don't do too much of that.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

Okay, so talk about hot chocolate. Do you go big marshmallow or mini marshmallow?

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Ooh.

Traditions: Breakfasts, Turkey, And Cranberry

SPEAKER_03 16:44

Because now they've got even minier than many, right? Like the little tiny ones.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I like the minis because then you get a little bit every drink. Right. Instead of just kind of one.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

That's the way I am. I like the minis also. And I don't I won't drink it fast because I want the marshmallow to melt in the chocolate sum. Yeah. Yeah. And now I want some.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Yeah. But I don't do I don't do a lot of hot chocolate anymore because I'd I'd just rather have coffee.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Yeah. Well, we used to go uh trigger treating in uh Kulin, where my mom lives, and there was a specific house they set their garage up every year, and it was basically you walk in there and they'd have just all kinds of treats and stuff, and you could hang out, and you know, it's basically like a break spot.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

You know, you hang out, walk, or you know, you've been walking all night. So anyway, long story short, they made homemade hot chocolate. And it was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yeah, I bet.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

What is the oh gosh, what was her name on the Santa Claus, the little elf, and she made that's what it was. Yep, and she made uh the the hot chocolate. They look like the best hot chocolate in the world. Like, I want to try this hot chocolate, Miss Judy Lady. Judy Elf. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

So well, Sandy's short. Could she just make us some hot chocolates?

SPEAKER_01 18:07

Oh, shout out to Sandy. Man, that's messed up.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Love you, Sandy.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Does Santa know you're gone? Yeah. Oh man. But yeah, that's that's about kind of my comfort comfort foods, you know.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Yeah. My uh the boys' grandma, she's passed away now, but she made homemade chicken and dumplings, like rolled out the dumplings and everything.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Yeah, that's what the nana did. So it would be watching her do it, and it's just man.

SPEAKER_03 18:34

Yeah, they were good.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

But she's getting to where she can't do it anymore, so she's kind of passing the recipe down.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

She knew that they were good. She would tell you like you haven't had chicken and dumplings until you've had mine, which I'm I like the confidence.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Yep. And they're not wrong.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

No, no, it was good. It was good. Jennifer makes hers out of biscuits. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Like canned biscuits.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

They're really good.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

That's enough of the chicken and dumpling debate.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

So good, man. So good. I love chicken and dumplings. What is something you cannot eat? Like you just feel like you can't eat during the winter or fall?

SPEAKER_03 19:08

Yams. Sweet potatoes. Really? I'm not a fan. And they look amazing with the marshmallows and everything in them. I'm learning so much today. I don't know. I think it's a texture thing. They just mushy and just I don't care for them.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Really? Yeah. But you like regular potatoes?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

Okay. I don't, that's not the same texture. They're not. No. And they're good. No, because a sweet potato has like a it falls apart a lot easier. For lack of a better word, a slimier texture. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

So it's true. And they're so good.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

Yeah. A lot of people love them. I just I can't.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Yeah. Something eat. It's hard for me. Man, what would something be that I can't eat?

SPEAKER_03 19:54

I've never seen you not eat something, so it's hard to.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

I I really, I really don't, and this may be a hot take. Because a lot of people like I don't like casseroles.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Like at all?

SPEAKER_01 20:06

No.

SPEAKER_03 20:06

I love casseroles.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

I think that's the perfect thing to make.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Yeah. Now I'll I'll every now and then I eat certain ones, but I remember like, man, I'll go, I could go for a good casserole.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Well, we're having tater tot casserole this week sometime.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

See that I don't because I don't like mushy tater tots.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

They're not mushy tater tots. You cook them before you put them in the casserole.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Yeah, but they're mushy when they get in the casserole. It's not true. Yeah, so that's true. Somebody made it wrong. Well, I'm sorry. Maybe. But yeah, that's something that's hard for me to eat. And and a lot of vegetables, a lot of green bean casserole, stuff.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

I like green bean casserole too. Yeah. And that's another thing you only get once a year.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

That's only a holiday thing.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yeah. It's weird, isn't it, that we kind of designate foods.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

Relegate these foods to holidays and nothing else.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

Cranberries and green bean casserole.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Turkey. Are you a turkey or ham?

SPEAKER_03 21:05

Ham, all the way.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

That's how I am. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

I've had a couple of deep fried turkeys that I really like. Yeah. But for the most part, they're dry and just gross.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

The great turkey and ham debate.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

Now I do like to take my cranberry sauce and smear over the turkey because it gives it a little more um, a little more flavor.

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A little more oomph.

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But I'm not a turkey guy.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Are you are you a are you one that'll that'll like just pivot and go like Boston butt on Christmas or Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_03 21:33

I have tried for years to get my mother just to do sandwiches on the holidays. Just so she can enjoy the holiday and not cook and clean. And she ain't having it. She won't even have it at somebody else's house. Yeah. Like I've offered to host at our house. Yeah. She's like, no.

Nostalgia Foods And Family Recipes

SPEAKER_01 21:47

That's what now we do. So we used to do Thanksgiving and Christmas together, but now we do I still want to do Christmas breakfast at my house. Yeah. Like that's a tradition. Now we'll go wherever you, you know, I I kind of leave it up to them. Like whoever wants to do Thanksgiving will come and be a part of that. But we want to do Christmas breakfast at our house. Like that's what we want to do. So we try to keep it that way. But um yeah, we we it's I'm not I'm a I'm a creature of habit, especially when it comes to tradition, family traditions like that. I love that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

Yeah, tradition. I mean, it there's a reason traditions are traditions because they're they're they're fun and they're ingrained and they're just something you look forward to. And I, you may or may not know this about me, love Christmas. Like it is my favorite holiday by a mile. Yeah, I love it. That's why we have it in November.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

That's what I was supposed to say. Y'all don't even celebrate Christmas, you celebrate November myth.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Like, mind your business.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Oh man. It's like y'all wake up on Christmas morning, like, what is today?

SPEAKER_03 23:02

Yeah, something going on.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Why? Yeah, like I suppose.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

I guess we can take the tree down.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

What? We're taking the tree down on December 1st.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Just pack it up, y'all. Pack it up. Like, man. It's a wrap. Absolutely. No, it's all unwrapped. Yeah. Yeah, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 24:06

And I've told you the reason for that, so I'm not gonna do it again.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah, it was probably nonsense then. Whatever. Mind your business. Like, we get too many houses to go to.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

We used to.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

Me and Jennifer used to be by ourselves on Christmas Day.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Yeah, the kids go.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

Yeah, we'd go eat Chinese and hang out. Because, you know, Chinese is the only place to eat.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

That is a big thing. That is a big thing in like, yeah, in like cities, is people eat Chinese on Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

So they don't celebrate Christmas Chinese. So write that down.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

That's something I could no. No, I don't want Chinese on Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

Well, I mean, we didn't eat it like a Christmas dinner, but it was the only thing open. Anyway, moving on.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Oh, Richie Rails.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

I know, I'm different.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

You ever do you ever do black Black Friday shopping? So that was deep press. Came from D. That came from your bones.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

Jennifer likes Black Friday shopping.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

I am thoroughly convinced that if I go to Black Friday shop, I will be in jail.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

That's Yeah, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

There will be charges pressed if I'm in Black Friday shopping.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

So you've never went?

SPEAKER_03 25:20

Twice.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

And both times I'm just like, I can't don't want to be a part of this. So it was because we had specific things that we wanted to get for the kids. So and Jennifer's like, I can't get all of it. Yeah. Like, well, it's stupid.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

So man, we used to we used to leave Thanksgiving early to go get in line and do it. Yeah, it's stupid. And I'm glad we don't anymore. So we stopped doing that about probably five or six years ago. Because we did. We would miss most of Thanksgiving because we would go, we would eat, we'd say out to everybody, and then we'd head out to Black Friday. Yeah. And it's awesome. You save a couple hundred dollars, but is it really worth it to lose out on the time with your family on the glad that Walmart stopped doing that?

SPEAKER_03 26:03

You know, they used to do four o'clock Thursday, you know, four o'clock Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday. That's not Black Friday.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Right. It's Thursday.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

And that's part of the the I don't know. It's fit, I don't know if it fixed the problem because Black Friday's not what it used to be.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Right.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

And I think it's because of the way they've kind of split it up now. Walmart's kind of the driving force to Black Friday, obviously, which now Amazon's really really doing some good stuff, but but it's changed. It's it's morphed. It's not what it used to be.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Yeah, they well, they stopped doing it on the one day. And it's smart, it's a smart business strategy because now you you could get one person in three different times instead of just at once. So they yeah, they tier it. Okay, here's what's coming out on this day, here's what's coming out on this day, here's what's coming out on this day, and then they do Cyber Monday.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

So it's and Cyber Monday is starting to get bigger than Black Friday.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Yeah, but well, it's it's more convenient. Absolutely. Two-day shipping. Yep, it's just it's easier to sit at your computer, do what you need to do. I still like going in person because I like the atmosphere. So, how you hate the atmosphere, I love it. Love it. Like the crape. I went to Black Friday one year and bought a DVD. That was all I bought. Just to be around it, just to be around it. I love it. Mom thought I was crazy because I took her with me. You are crazy. You're out of your mind. I just love it. Because it's the Christmas season kickoff, is what it is.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

The decline of humanity.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Gosh. I did see some ladies fight over some hand towels.

Hot Chocolate Rituals And Comfort Drinks

SPEAKER_03 27:29

That's and that's I mean, everybody has a Black Friday story.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

Man, Judy, Susan, like y'all, ladies, come on.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

And uh Jennifer's mom about got into a fight over, I think it was a cabbage patch doll when she was a girl. Yeah, it was just nuts.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

And then, I mean, we used to we used to Walmart, Best Buy, GameStop, and then now, yeah, now it's we go in middle of the day on on Friday.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

And it's good, like Malden Walmart is great, yeah, because nobody thinks of them. Yep. So you go, which, but there's a there's a flip side of that. They don't get everything that the super centers get. So it's kind of a gamble.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Yep. And people started figuring it out. So after a few years, they start migrating to Malden instead of Dexter and Kenneth. And you know, so it started getting more and more packed, but I love the tier now. So it's we'll go Friday afternoon, check some stuff out. We'll go Saturday morning, check some stuff out, and then we'll check online.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

But most of the time you can kind of get to what you need to and not get it on that day. So now they they've extended it out a lot more, so it's it's not so crazy. But I still love the well.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

Let me ask you this. We're gonna back it up a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Okay. Okay. That's what that's a reverse man. Going downstairs.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

What is your favorite Halloween movie?

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Trick or treat.

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It's a good one.

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Yeah.

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That's a classic. That's an old movie.

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I I think it just sums up Halloween perfectly in a movie.

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It's a cool movie. Yeah. And you were you're the one who introduced me to it. I'd never heard of it. Yeah. It was a really cool movie.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Yeah, I thought it was really neat how it was done. I thought it it captured so many different aspects of Halloween.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

And I really, really like it. Like we watched um, I forgot how much I love this movie. Um, oh gosh. It's um Johnny Depp had the headless horseman.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

Uh Sleepy Hollow.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

Sleepy Hollow. We watched that the other night. Never seen it. I forgot how much I love that movie. That was that's a good one. Well, you're a huge fan, so I've never seen it. It's good. Yeah. It's got a killer cast, man. No pun intended. Clever guy. Yeah, but that's cool. You?

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Uh yeah, I'm not a horror movie guy, so I don't I I just wanted to ask you. I don't want to be a part of this.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Black Phone 2 was great. Yeah. That's starting to become what I really liked about it as we're watching it. We're sitting there, you know, me and Jimmy had the date night, and we're sitting there watching it. And I looked at her and I'm like, this movie is shockingly pro-Christian. Shockingly.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

Really?

SPEAKER_01 30:13

It I'm just like it had some cussing in it. Okay. Nothing too, too crazy. But it was very pro-Christian. And I'm just like, wow. It was, it was, it shocked me at how much they put in there and how how how positive they were about Christianity. It was really cool. Really, really cool. And and it was just, I just think it was a great story. How did it compare to the first one? I think it was better in the first one. Really? Yes, I liked it. I liked it better in the first one.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

I liked the first one, so I'm looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

And I think the first one was very what I liked about it so much was it was a new concept. Like you never really heard about this con like like this type of thing. And the second one kind of turns it on its head, so it's not even like, okay, we're gonna do exactly what we did the first one, just make in a second one. So I like that about it. It changed it a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

So it's a sequel but an original idea. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

And not so much that it's a complete like you're going, this has nothing to do with what in the world. But I thought it was really, really good. And again, we we We we don't condone or say yes, watch it, don't watch it. You have your own convictions. If you're okay to watch it, watch it. If not, don't. But I l I I loved it, man. I thought it was really, really good.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

I'm excited to see it.

Casseroles, Holiday Plates, And Preferences

SPEAKER_01 31:33

I got the popcorn bucket. Did you really? Yes. Yeah, you sent me a picture of it. Dude, a working rotary on it. And then on the on the um talking part, you could push the button and it and it talks. Yeah. So it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 31:47

Well, you sent me a picture of you with the rotary phone. I'm like, what the crap?

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

Where are you at that you're just using her?

SPEAKER_01 31:54

It was cool. It was it was 30 bucks, and it came with a large, large, large popcorn's$15. Right. So 15 extra bucks. Yeah. So that's cool. Yeah. It is pretty awesome, man. It's pretty awesome. So it's up on the shelf. I rearranged my shelf. Up on the shelf. Put it on there. Yeah. So I like those. And and Jamie doesn't really like scary movies. She likes like thrillers. Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

I'm the same way, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

So cool. Um trying to get her to kind of watch some of them. Yeah, man. Well, I sure love you, man.

SPEAKER_03 32:24

Love you too.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Ty Ty. We miss you. Not that he would be saying much anyway, but Yeah.