Holidays, Teenagers and Hilarity!

Have you ever wondered how to balance the madness of the holiday season while raising teenagers? Well, kick back, grab your favorite holiday drink, and join us as we share our experiences, sprinkled with some fun and joviality! We’ll tell you all about our upcoming festive party, the craziness over Thanksgiving, and even a peculiar encounter with a neighbor over our teenagers nocturnal escapades!

Who knew halftime shows and Thanksgiving could blend so seamlessly? We didn't either! But we found ourselves reminiscing about Dolly Parton's halftime show, discussing the surprising Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader uniform worn by Dolly herself. And of course, we couldn't ignore the trials of setting curfews for teenagers during the holiday season. We’ll share our tales of a late-night ER visit, and the importance of setting boundaries for our children, all while keeping our wits about us!

To round off, we journey down memory lane, talking about the charm and nostalgia of Bubba's restaurant, the ongoing changes in Snider Plaza, and our Christmas shopping plans with some potential holiday travels. So join us and share in our laughter, and who knows, you might just pick up some nuggets of wisdom on managing the holiday season with teenagers!

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Transcript

Chatting About Parties, Holidays, and Neighbors

Speaker 1 0:00

This episode brought to you by KidBiz and the Biz. To learn more, visit KidBizUSAcom. And Kathy L Wall State Farm Agency Learn more at KathyLWALLcom. And Stuart Orango Oral Surgery Learn more at SAOeralsurgeonscom. Welcome to the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson and I'm Nellie Shudeau, and today we're just chatting it up. We're chatting it up, we're catching up. We got a lot to talk about. Our party is tonight. Just want to remind you, for the 100th time Exactly, to make that trek over to Preston and Royal tonight, please come.

Speaker 2 0:39

As we said before, it's really man-friendly, which we like it's going to be liquor and you know manly meats and such.

Speaker 1 0:48

It's going to be a lot of fun. I think they're going to have a guitarist tonight and a bar. We're going to have lots of drinks and food, door prizes, they said.

Speaker 2 0:56

Well, plus, it's really fun to just celebrate the holiday Like it's time oh. I know you know, don't you feel that way, Like I was driving? Every when I drive at night, I always drive down our street all the way down Westminster to look at all the lights.

Speaker 1 1:09

I do and I'm like I love the lights. Well, I need to go drive around and just go check out some of the other decor. Yeah, Beyond Westminster.

Speaker 2 1:16

Yeah, your snowflakes aren't up yet.

Speaker 1 1:18

I'm not sure that they're going up. It's, you know, I don't know who's going to put them up the guy that put them in last year's in college. So he's not around and you're not willing to risk Sean's life. No, there's no, we don't do ladders anymore.

Speaker 2 1:32

I see one of those gutter commercials where it's like are you? Cleaning your gutters.

Speaker 1 1:36

It's the same idea.

Speaker 2 1:37

It's a man up on a ladder.

Speaker 1 1:39

Well, there's a house not too far from us. Last year I don't know when it was they had this, this pretend guy stuck up on the roof and it literally looks like he's dangling from the roof. That is funny and he's hanging up Christmas lights and apparently people really thought it was real and they're like can I help you?

Speaker 2 1:56

Or?

Speaker 1 1:57

what can you know? It's different things. And somebody told me about it and I drove by. I was like, oh my God, that looks legit.

Speaker 2 2:03

That's very Chevy Chase.

Speaker 1 2:05

It's so funny. We'll have to go drive over there and see if he's still around.

Speaker 2 2:09

I still haven't driven by the, you know the crazy Christmas house on Southwestern which I want to see. I like to see it in progress.

Speaker 1 2:17

The progress of it. Yeah, I wonder if he's even started.

Speaker 2 2:21

Of course he started that guy. That's his whole. He has a whole house just to have Christmas decorations.

Speaker 1 2:26

I know it's like a museum. I've never been in there, but my friend has.

Speaker 2 2:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:30

That lives a couple of doors down. Well, so last week was Thanksgiving. How did that go?

Speaker 2 2:35

It was really fun. It was very much a Charles party house the entire week and we sort of had open house and had people coming and going and we just kind of winged it. Yeah, you know, it was fun. We did get a complaint from a neighbor.

Speaker 1 2:48

Oh, we always have a neighbor who complains about Charles. Did they call the?

Speaker 2 2:50

police. They didn't this time. Okay, good.

Speaker 1 2:52

Oh, they did before. No, yeah, they have several times.

Speaker 2 2:56

And I kind of understand. I understand it's annoying when you have they have young kids, we have older and older kid, so I understand. But the thing is they're not the quietest people and so I never. I'm like why are it? Like it's 11 o'clock, it's okay if it's he's sitting in the hot tub with some friends, you know, like playing a little music, Like you can't really complain about that.

Speaker 1 3:14

Well, you know it's funny to me. I think it's so easy to not understand what you're in for when you don't have teenagers yet, but when you do have teenagers it's a very different world. You know, they're not all like cute and innocent and playing their little Legos or Barbies or whatever. They are kind of wistrous. Well, they are.

Speaker 2 3:31

I had to get used to the fact that there are so many cars on your street and my street. We're both on Westminster but on different blocks, and you know the people across the street. They have Four kids, I think, maybe five, I don't know, but they have so many cars, oh my goodness. And I get that initially used to bother me and then I was like they have kids who were teenagers. Now they're all in college. But like the kids are teenagers, they have to drive and you kind of realize that that everybody needs something different, just like I realized there are kids on on the block who are bouncing on the trampoline Like shrieking at the top of their lungs, which I'm far beyond you know, but that's okay.

Speaker 1 4:04

Like that's what they do. There's some shrieking on my block as well. Yeah and it, it, yeah, it's. It's kind of loud sometimes.

Speaker 2 4:10

Yes.

Speaker 1 4:13

But you know, it'll be interesting if you live there long enough to see these kids become teenagers and then you can be the one that calls the cops. Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2 4:21

I'm just gonna stick around just to bug everybody.

Speaker 1 4:24

Well, I'm glad that they called you instead. I just feel like you should have that rapport with your neighbors, like please don't call the. Please if my kids are being rowdy. Just call me directly, I'll take care of it.

Speaker 2 4:33

Well, I think, at a certain point our lovely University Park policemen are like really you know, Like, like you got to think about it. You have to think about what you're calling about. Like when people are like there's accidents or all this kind of stuff happening and you're, like my name is doing my easy. I know, I think they're a little bit like I.

Speaker 1 4:50

Would imagine I really wish that that they would share some of the phone calls that they get. I bet they're so funny.

Speaker 2 4:56

I'm sure I'm picturing kittens and trees and all kinds of stuff from Hallmark movies, because that's where we live. Mike, I dare, I, dare you. Why don't you make a call this week to the University Park police and say, mike Kitten stuck in a tree?

Speaker 1 5:12

Well, when we had a chief Mathis from UP on he said that somebody one time called him for the score of the HP game.

Speaker 2 5:20

Oh, that's hilarious. I remember that. That's it. I mean yeah, this is what they do. Speaking of games, uh-huh, did you watch Dolly Parton?

Speaker 1 5:27

I did, I did. I didn't want to miss that that was. There was so much buildup to it. You just kind of felt obligated. Plus, you know it's our team, dallas Cowboys, so you just kind of had to watch.

Country Music and Halftime Shows Discussion

Speaker 2 5:36

I have to say we were all sitting around watching it. He didn't know what to think. We were like, well, that's awkward. Like I think that was the comment that I was like well, that describes it. Like I love her and I Love that. Like I was dying to see her. I'm not a big football fan, but I wanted to see Dolly Parton. It was a little hard to mesh together Country music and a halftime show and that's not her fault, that's what she sings but it was a little. A little hard to like See those things fitting together. How did you feel about it?

Speaker 1 6:08

Well, you know, I had no idea what she'd be wearing, but I was not expecting the DCC uniform.

Speaker 2 6:14

I was not, that was a bit of a shocker.

Speaker 1 6:15

I was like no. Yeah, no, she didn't she really showed up in that. That it was. It was entertaining to me. She's always been so over the top and makes fun of her whole look and everything, so I thought it was funny.

Speaker 2 6:27

Well, I had to pull out the picture of Charles from when we went to Cowboy Stadium when he was a Cub Scout and I made him take those pictures with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Oh my gosh and it's just hilarious. It's literally like little seven-year-old Charles and boobs and I blew it up really big and I told him.

Speaker 1 6:43

I was like you need to bring this to college, like next semester.

Speaker 2 6:46

You really need to have this on your wall because it's so funny.

Speaker 1 6:49

Just to make sure that everyone knows he's from Dallas.

Speaker 2 6:52

Texas. That's how we do things here.

Speaker 1 6:55

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Speaker 2 9:50

any crazy Thanksgiving stories that happen.

Speaker 1 9:52

Well, you know, just like you were saying, it was a big revolving door of kids in and out, both Blake's friends, alexis's friends. It was a lot of fun but there was some late night coming ins, goings with Alexis and you know they're so used to making their own hours. No-transcript back to curfews and all.

Speaker 2 10:08

It is actually, isn't it? I didn't know how to enforce that. I just I don't know, you know.

Speaker 1 10:14

According to her friends, some of the parents are enforcing it and that's causing a rebellion within their home, I think.

Speaker 2 10:21

Well, what is your idea of a curfew for Alexis now? What would you think was?

Speaker 1 10:26

reasonable. I really didn't give her one. I'll just say that you know, two, 30 or four was a bit late. Okay, A couple of nights.

Speaker 2 10:34

Oh, that would be, that's late. That's late. Yeah, maybe like two, two maybe, yeah, two bags, you know, but four, no, yeah, we're gonna have to. I would have a heart attack.

Speaker 1 10:42

That was just one time. Yeah, we're gonna have to dial that in during Christmas. That you know. Very long extended break that they're about to have Exactly. Because homie can't handle sleepless nights like that.

Speaker 2 10:53

For over a month. Homie can't handle when they come back.

Speaker 1 11:00

Oh, and there was one ER visit along the way. Okay, you're gonna tell me who.

Speaker 2 11:04

I'll tell you later. Oh my God, I'm guessing it was Sean. That was a late night too, did. Sean like cut his finger off or something. No, but he has done that before. Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 11:14

We were having a fondue party back in the UPPA days yes, preschool Association days. It was a progressive dinner and he got a little overzealous cutting up oops, cutting up the chocolate fondue, uh-oh, and so the knife kind of went in the wrong place, my friend Elaine was like on a beach vacation and her friend was on a sea dew and chopped off the top end of her finger. This was recent.

Speaker 2 11:37

God, Recent and was like do you? Guys know any surgeons and I thought to myself can you imagine, sorry, can you imagine you're in the ocean and something like that happens? No, Like you can't find it. No, you can't. Okay, no like how much Like this, much oh.

Speaker 1 11:52

God.

Speaker 2 11:52

Like an inch. That's like an inch. Yeah, I know, I know I would be like, oh my.

Speaker 1 11:57

God, where is it? And you're freaking out. That really freaks me out. Now, the older I get, the more worried I am about random accidents, especially if you're out of the country or out of town or in the middle of the ocean, Like I mean. Stuff can happen.

Speaker 2 12:10

Yeah, we've been on some crazy vacations, like to row a ton, like all kinds of crazy places, and I think about what we did and going out in boats and not knowing where we were. Or I went to some strange person's house to get lobsters in Ecuador and I'm like, am I going to die?

Speaker 1 12:26

At least it wasn't crabs. Exactly.

Speaker 2 12:28

So that's in your favor, oh God.

Speaker 1 12:33

Yeah, it was a crazy break, but lots of fun too. Well, and what about the tree? What'd you do for the tree? We decorated it on Sunday. I put it up a couple of days after Thanksgiving and didn't decorate it until Sunday, and the kids helped this year They've never helped before, never been interested, and they both wanted to help this year.

Speaker 2 12:49

Well, we put up our tree. We got it on Saturday, so Charles had his friend from Shanghai and it was his first Thanksgiving, his first Christmas experience, everything. So we showed him everything you could imagine and he was taking pictures of the food, looking at Dolly Parton, thinking, oh, is this how they do it in Texas?

Speaker 1 13:08

And that is not normal.

Speaker 2 13:11

And it was so fun. But we didn't decorate till Sunday, after Charles left and he was a little mad at me. He was like I wish I could have been there to help and I thought to myself why didn't I do that? I just, I just didn't have it in me After all, the guests and the revolving door, like you said.

Speaker 1 13:26

It is exhausting. And then to be expected to, you know, put up all the decorations, it's just a lot, especially if you don't have a team of people like Jennifer Houghton at Turtle Creek Lane Exactly.

Speaker 2 13:37

So I'm dying to see. I have not. As I drive up and down the street, I have not been to the Southwestern house with a big Tex head on top of it.

Speaker 1 13:44

I haven't either. Now I'm gonna do that tonight, yeah.

Speaker 2 13:47

I might do that too. I like to see it in progress. I like to see how he does things, because I mean, it's his, it's like his job and he starts so early and he's very methodical about it and I can see nobody could work for him.

Speaker 1 13:58

Probably not, Because it's like no, this Santa goes there. That's the wrong Santa face. You know, it would be cool if there was like a time lapse video of the whole process. That would be fun to watch.

Speaker 2 14:07

You should tell him that.

Speaker 1 14:09

Yeah, that's actually a great idea it is Well, let's drive by in the next few days and see what's going on over there. So are you sad?

Speaker 2 14:16

that we don't have kids to go sit on Santa's lap anymore.

Speaker 1 14:19

No, I actually stopped doing that a while back and Sean was disappointed because it was such a tradition. But he's like it's just so much worth we're talking about the North Park Santa act, because you can't go to any other one.

Speaker 2 14:31

You have to really work hard. No, but we lost our North Park Santa.

Speaker 1 14:34

I know he just passed away just a couple of months ago.

Speaker 2 14:37

That makes me sad because he was really young, I know he was only 70. And.

Speaker 1 14:41

I would have sworn. He was 70 when we first started going to him.

Speaker 2 14:44

I would too, but I think it's just the white beard.

Speaker 1 14:46

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:47

You know, that's a little hint out there. If you don't want to look old, don't grow a long white beard.

Speaker 1 14:52

That does not help with the aging process.

Speaker 2 14:54

And a white man of hair. It doesn't work. No, not at all.

Speaker 1 14:57

That the new one looks really great and so I think it'll be fine. And for those people that want to work really hard for their picture with Santa, yes, but they did improve the process some, because you used to have to go really early before them all even opened and go get in line for the number, and then your number wasn't usually until later in the day, so you could go home and come back or you could hang out at the mall all day.

Speaker 2 15:23

I don't really remember doing that. I guess we just stayed.

Speaker 1 15:26

I wonder what you did. Yeah, it was like when Alexis was really little. It was such a pain in the booty to go do all that.

Speaker 1 15:33

But, yeah, more power to you. Anyone's out there doing that this year. So you know, park City's people used to come out weekly back in the day and then they kind of went down to once a month, but one of my favorite things to read in it is the Skull Duggery of the week. Yes, and Nellie and I both have it pulled up on our phones right now. There's actually a radio station it was probably like KEGL that would make fun of the Highland Park crime report each week and the way the things they would say were so darn funny. So Nellie's picked out a couple that she wants to discuss.

Speaker 2 16:05

Well, I just like I like that there was a public drunk arrested. I love that it sounds like it sounds so old-timey Like I feel like that makes me think we should put stocks up in Snyder Plaza. Yeah, If you're a public drunk, you go in stocks.

Speaker 1 16:19

Or, like you, have to wear the Scarlet Letter on your chest. Yeah, that does kind of sound like the Scarlet.

Speaker 2 16:25

D for a drunk in the neighborhood. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 16:28

OK, that's embarrassing, but it was at 3.37 in the morning. It was probably somebody we know. I sure hope not.

Speaker 2 16:34

Was it Sean? Let's blame everything on Sean. To that, oh my god, the ladders, the public, drunk everything.

Speaker 1 16:40

Oh my gosh, Sean Such a mess. What else can we talk about on here?

Speaker 2 16:45

Well, the poor Bubba's guy, the manager, who took some money and put it into his account and it was a fraudster and he transferred it. I mean, that just sounds like something you know, like somebody comes in and they're like, hey, if I do this and you do that and we'll do it this way, and you kind of do it without thinking, yeah, you know, I know it was $4,000 though, but I have a question for you Is Bubba's called Bubba's Cook's country?

Speaker 1 17:07

Not that I know of. Ok, because that's what it says. Is that what it?

Nostalgia for Local Establishments and Christmas

Speaker 2 17:09

says yeah, and I'm like, I just called Bubba's, I've never heard that Me too. That's all I know it as.

Speaker 1 17:14

I hope.

Speaker 2 17:14

Bubba stays, no matter what happens to Snyder Plaza.

Speaker 1 17:17

It cannot, they cannot, change a thing about that.

Speaker 2 17:20

No.

Speaker 1 17:20

It's just so nostalgic and just feels legitimately old and it's just awesome and.

Speaker 2 17:25

I like the crowd that comes in because it's a crowd from all over Dallas. It's not just a local crowd, right, and everybody's dressed up in, like their Sunday best on Sundays Having their bright. I really like it, you know.

Speaker 1 17:35

Yeah, and they're just so nice in there. There's such nice service Like. I ordered a whole bunch of stuff for the coaches. A whole bunch of us went in together to coaches pre game meal or something, and I was super, super hungry and they brought me a couple of rolls out so I could eat wise.

Speaker 2 17:50

There's not a single healthy thing at Bubba's.

Speaker 1 17:52

There's not one.

Speaker 2 17:53

There's no side of fruit, nothing. Could I have a salad with that fried chicken?

Speaker 1 17:59

No, or if it is, it's fried and covered with all sorts of stuff. Yes, so gravy, and it's just part of the fun.

Speaker 2 18:06

I guess it's real southern, southern cooking. That it is, and I'm with you I can't go away and Burger House cannot go away. No.

Speaker 1 18:13

Or coobies.

Speaker 2 18:14

Yeah, I was worried about that because they were shut down for some remodeling and I thought they were going away. And I love coobies. Does it look any different? I haven't been in ages.

Speaker 1 18:23

No, they can't change that place. No, they can't. You know the cuckoo clock on the outside.

Speaker 2 18:27

Exactly, that's nostalgic too. We have so many cool places right here we do, but I am excited about the new places. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not opposed to breathing some fresh life into Snyder Plaza.

Speaker 1 18:38

Yeah, you know well, we were driving through last night and we were heading towards Ramble Room and I was like, wow, that does not look like Snyder Plaza at all. I'm Blake, because you know he's a teenager. He's like it's not mom, it's Hilltop Plaza. Correcting you, of course. I'm like, well, okay, I guess you got a point there don't you?

Speaker 2 18:56

But look how we started to love Ramble Room, like those are the kind of places you think, oh, why are they moving in? And then you're like maybe there's an option. You know other than you know Penny Pomodoro and you know Mexican food and everything else.

Speaker 1 19:09

It is nice to have choices, yeah. That is for sure, and as long as it's not some big chain. I'm good with it, agreed so anyways, yeah, there are lots of new things coming in, and that one building that was where Peggy Seuss was, it's progressing.

Speaker 2 19:24

Well.

Speaker 1 19:24

I mean it's pretty big. I don't know what's going in there, but have you started your Christmas shopping Barely?

Speaker 2 19:30

Okay, I have not at all.

Speaker 1 19:31

Okay. Well, the amount I've done doesn't really count. It's so so minuscule, Miniscule.

Speaker 2 19:36

Thank you Miniscule, I like that word.

Speaker 1 19:38

That's what I know. I actually have it as a priority to start tomorrow. Yeah, I feel the same way.

Speaker 2 19:46

At least online.

Speaker 1 19:47

I mean.

Speaker 2 19:48

I don't even know to get Charles. I really don't know they're really hard Aren't they. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 19:53

Like yeah, I almost missed the days when any toy would do Exactly.

Speaker 2 19:57

When you could get him a red bike, I'm gonna get him a red bike. They'll be like what the hell's that? I would love that or some red running shoes. Yes.

Speaker 1 20:05

Well, alexis, in normal fashion, has sent me an extremely large PowerPoint presentation with all of her items with links and it's like by category Really cool gifts, casual gifts, stocking stuffers. That's hilarious. It's hilarious, I know. Okay, well, get on it Now. When do you start it? Then, if you ask Blake, he's like I don't know. Yeah, and he did that last year too, he only wanted like two things, two things I didn't want to buy. Yeah, and had to, just because, I don't know, I overindulged my kids on Christmas. It's just what I do. Yeah, I like the detailed list from Alexis she's smart.

Speaker 2 20:39

It's pretty through with links and everything.

Speaker 1 20:41

So are you gonna be traveling?

Speaker 2 20:42

for Christmas, or will you be here?

Speaker 1 20:43

As far as I know, we're going to be here now. Blake has a upcoming lacrosse tournament in Vegas.

Speaker 2 20:49

Well.

Speaker 1 20:50

Henderson. Actually we fly to Vegas, go to Henderson for the thing, and it sounds like we may have some free time so we might be able to squeeze in some fun.

Speaker 2 20:58

No, I think that will be fun and I've wanted to take Charles to Vegas for years and Chris always says, oh, he has to be 21. But I don't think so, because Vegas is so like an amusement park. You know, just seeing all the fountains and seeing the nice restaurants and they've got rides on top of buildings and just fun stuff.

Speaker 1 21:12

I know, it's like a feast for the senses, for sure. So I'm the opposite. I have never wanted to take my kids to Vegas. I feel like that you should wait until they're 21. But here we are going to Vegas, and Alexis is not happy that she's, that he's going before her and that we didn't invite her.

Speaker 2 21:28

Well you, know you can send her to Choctaw because you can go when you're 18. I'm sure she loved that.

Speaker 1 21:34

Okay, I'll put that on the list for Christmas break Exactly. Oh, she's getting her wisdom teeth over taken out over Christmas breaks, so that will put her out for at least a week. So at least I'll get some sleep that week.

Speaker 2 21:46

Exactly, she can't go out, so there'll be no late night. No, that is not fun.

Speaker 1 21:52

No, it's not so.

Speaker 2 21:54

hoping all that all goes well, so did you? Have you gotten to see any movies and movie theaters lately?

Speaker 1 22:00

It's so funny that you have to specify in theaters.

Speaker 2 22:02

Well, you know what I'm saying the whole world's streaming and not in your living room or your you know.

Speaker 1 22:06

No, I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, I actually did the kids and I went and saw trolls. Okay, thanks, how was that? It was not good Okay.

Speaker 2 22:14

I would not, I would not imagine.

Speaker 1 22:15

Don't recommend it. I just feel like the first couple were super cute and loved them. Alexis is a huge fan of trolls.

Speaker 2 22:22

Is it?

Speaker 1 22:22

like trolls. Nine now. What is it? Probably no. I think it's the fourth one.

Speaker 2 22:25

Okay, but.

Speaker 1 22:26

I think on a series like that, once you get beyond one or two, but you're just in for trouble there's no reason to take.

Speaker 2 22:33

We're just some trolls Running around your garden.

Speaker 1 22:37

Yeah, I don't recommend that one, and then Sean saw Napoleon at the same time at Studio Movie Grill, and he was not crazy about his movie either. Yeah, I didn't hear.

Speaker 2 22:46

I heard that it wasn't that great. Yeah, I've worked with Ridley Scott and I know he put a lot of time into it and he turns out a lot of movies and there's just a lot of criticism about it, you know. Yeah, I'm dying to see Bradley Cooper in Maestro.

Speaker 1 22:59

I think that's going to be really good. Yeah, because Leonard Bernstein.

Speaker 2 23:02

I always loved his music and that's something I want to see in a theater.

Speaker 1 23:06

Well, I want to see people back in the theater. I just I miss that being like the norm, like you don't hear people say they're going to the movies very often anymore.

Speaker 2 23:15

And it's actually a fun thing to do with your family. It's a very fun thing, it's an experience you know.

Speaker 1 23:19

Like getting in the car and going up there getting your overpriced snacks and all that, and most of them have a bar and nicer food if you want that.

Speaker 2 23:28

Like the Inwood Theater. I like going to theaters like that.

Speaker 1 23:31

I have not been there in a really long time. They have such a great old bar. And just I don't know, it's just fun to go there and it's an experience.

Speaker 2 23:37

Another nostalgic place in the neighborhood, yes, and since they got rid of the one in Highland Park, that theater which I used to love.

Speaker 1 23:43

Very sore subject yeah, very sore subject yeah, that was such a beautiful place. Art Deca loved going in there.

Speaker 2 23:50

I guess people weren't going to the movies there that's my guess because of the parking.

Speaker 1 23:54

It's not as profitable as whatever's in there now.

Speaker 2 23:56

Yeah, it's all about the profits. Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 23:59

With them over there.

Speaker 2 24:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:00

So, yeah, I don't know, if I owned it, I would not worry about the profits for that space, because that was an iconic place to go. Part of the town square that it used to be the town square. If you go on their website, they refer to it as the town square.

Speaker 2 24:19

Well, it is the town square, and I always call Snyder Plaza town square. I really do. I think that's like our close little town square. It reminds me of places in Italy where they always have a town square with a fountain in the middle. You know, our fountain might not be like the Trevi fountain, but it is there and the Christmas tree is up and it's being lit.

Speaker 1 24:38

This Sunday, exactly this Sunday, and we're both going to miss it. Or you may be there for part of it, I might go for part of it.

Speaker 2 24:45

Like I said, I might be the old person wandering around just smiling at little kids like I remember these days. Oh, that's kind of creepy, I know. So watch out for.

Upcoming Neighborhood Party and Santa House

Speaker 1 24:55

Nelly, keep your kids away. Oh, and adopt dogs. I did hear they are for sure having dogs to adopt. I'm going to pick up all the free stuff and carry it around in a bag.

Speaker 2 25:05

Remember when your kids used to went like I got free pamphlets Like what are we going to do with these? Who cares?

Speaker 1 25:11

Yes, you come home with a bag of stuff that you did not need. See, I don't get there early enough for that. By the time I have gotten there in the past several years, the food and everything's closing down.

Speaker 2 25:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 25:22

So I need to be a little more strategic on that. If you want to eat the free food and see Santa and all that good stuff. Well, that's just one of the many things that we love about our neighborhood. Exactly, and we're gearing up for the holidays and we'll keep you informed about the crazy Santa House on Southwestern Exactly. And we really hope to see you guys tonight at the party. Yes, please come, it's not too late. If you didn't RSVP, it's OK, we'll cut you some slack, just pop in.

Speaker 2 25:48

Show up, pop in for some cocktails and appetizers, yeah.

Speaker 1 25:50

You don't have to stay forever, just come say hello Exactly, have a drink, have an appetizer, have a custom hat if you want. Yes, I know Nelly's planning on it Me and my calves, my cowboy hats. That's right. Well, guys, it's been another episode of the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson.

Speaker 2 26:10

And I'm Nelly Shudo, and we'll catch you next time.