Xmas Shopping, Teacher Gifts and Cookie Exchanges

Have you ever been chased out of a crowded mall by festive chaos, only to find salvation in the aisles of TJ Maxx? That's precisely where our holiday shopping misadventures took us, leading to a trail of laughter and shopping bags filled with questionable impulse buys. Join us as we recount the hilarity of navigating both physical and online shopping arenas, where tech-savvy marketers seem to have a sixth sense for our abandoned carts.

What’s the secret to the perfect teacher gift—gas cards or yet another mug? We're tackling this age-old question while reflecting on the joys of cookie swaps and ornament exchanges, where the only thing more plentiful than the treats is the laughter. Marketing ploys from companies like Dr. Squatch bombard us with texts for quirky soaps, while we muse about how tiny virtual cashiers might nag us to complete our online purchases.

From Christmas brunches filled with delicious chaos to the nostalgic aroma of peppermint treats, our holiday traditions are a comedic ode to family and festivity. We're sharing stories of gift-giving surprises, like proposals hidden in stockings, and the evolving tastes of our younger family members who now pine for Starbucks gift cards. Whether it's dodging questionable restaurant decor or reminiscing about the joy of holiday baking, our tales promise to bring a smile to your face and a chuckle to your holiday season.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:20

Welcome to hey. Real Quick with Amy and Marty. So we're a couple weeks out from Christmas.

Speaker 2 0:28

Yeah, 14 days.

Speaker 1 0:30

Crazy. So the last time we recorded I was going to Opry Mills.

Speaker 2 0:36

How was that I?

Speaker 1 0:37

did attempt. I saw the exit, I turned around, went back to where I live and then went south down to Franklin and did a little bit of Christmas shopping.

Speaker 2 0:49

But I never made it.

Speaker 1 0:51

I will not be in that place before Christmas. It was just like you know, the little like clover leaf exit kind of thing. It was just all. It would have taken me 40 minutes to get into the parking lot, probably, so yeah.

Speaker 2 1:09

So you just gave up.

Speaker 1 1:10

I gave up on that dream of going there yeah, good idea. Yeah, I mean I would have saved a little money because they have outlet prices, but at what emotional cost? You know what I'm saying you're gonna have a good call therapy on the other end of that. So really it's gonna even out. Um, but even the few other places I've been like, you think, okay, man, okay, I got this, I got that, only a few more things or little things to get whatever, and then you get to the line oh, yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 1:41

And it's not even just like normal stores, it's like everywhere. And then sometimes I'll be like, well, I'll go on my Amazon app in the line and be like, well, I got that. Actually, I'm only buying these two.

Speaker 2 1:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:56

If it's that bad, you know.

Speaker 2 1:58

Yeah, I've bailed.

Speaker 1 1:59

Especially TJ Maxx Woo, it looks like you're about to ride Space Mountain. Sometimes, when you get in there, you're like, oh no, no, no, I changed my mind, I don't need any of this.

Speaker 2 2:08

TJ Maxx is bonkers.

Speaker 1 2:12

Yeah, it's bonkers all the time.

Speaker 2 2:14

I don't hardly ever go there, but every now and then, for whatever reason, maybe I'll go. Robin will be with me.

Speaker 1 2:22

Yes.

Speaker 2 2:23

Every time I walk in that store I'm just like nope. I look around for about 40 seconds.

Speaker 1 2:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:28

Maybe 45. And I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, half of it's on the floor. Nothing's where it should be. No, no, the men's section is this hodgepodge. It's like there's a basketball and a little refrigerator and a bunch of shirts.

Speaker 1 2:46

And 17 types of nose hair trimmers. Yeah, yeah, a couple of wallets, that's it.

Speaker 2 2:52

Yeah, a lot of random gifts to take to like a what do they call that at Christmas.

Speaker 1 2:58

Oh, white elephant gifts, whatever, yeah, dirty Santa, whatever that kind of stuff yeah.

Speaker 2 3:02

And then a bunch of stuff that was in style in like 1998, 2004.

Speaker 1 3:07

Polo and Chaps and a couple other brands are at Nautica. They're still going strong there.

Speaker 2 3:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:13

And I'm not dissing those brands, they're good brands.

Speaker 2 3:15

Yeah, but some of that stuff looked like Chris the patterns is still like from my yearbook.

Speaker 1 3:20

Yeah, you know what I mean You're like. Can we change it up? Are the color combos or something?

Speaker 2 3:25

Especially the men's. It looks like half of it looks like crisscross wore it.

Speaker 1 3:30

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:32

Like I didn't even know, they still made Starter.

Speaker 1 3:36

Starter.

Speaker 2 3:37

Jack, I thought they finished. Members only. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 3:50

Like.

Speaker 2 3:50

I think we came back around, but then it just got kind of stuck like an old record with a you know, scratching or something.

Speaker 1 3:53

Just yeah, it doesn't take long in there? Yeah, not me either but the line at tj maxx. Yeah, oh, you will check yourself again with that purchase and be like well, and all the best stuff is like that whole like you gotta you got to get to the number.

Speaker 2 4:04

You're going to spend 25 more dollars.

Speaker 1 4:06

Yeah, Cause you're like, I do need five mini OPI nail polishes that I probably won't ever wear. And yes, the dogs need something too.

Speaker 2 4:16

And oh yeah.

Speaker 1 4:17

Yeah, man, I know man it's. And then I'll grab a diet Dr Pepper. And then I'll grab a Diet Dr Pepper and do I want this bag of gummies? And how long has it been here? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and then register six is open. Register six.

Speaker 2 4:35

Yeah, yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 1 4:38

Yeah, it's not my favorite Register five Like with the big numbers.

Speaker 2 4:42

Yeah, like we couldn't figure it out without a light.

Speaker 1 4:45

They're big numbers yeah, like we couldn't figure it out without a light. They're huge numbers, yeah.

Speaker 2 4:47

And they light up.

Speaker 1 4:48

Yeah.

Speaker 2 4:49

Over here cattle.

Speaker 1 4:51

Yeah, yeah, it's weird, but yeah, the lines are crazy.

Speaker 2 4:55

Now you don't have to go shopping Because just while I go on my phone I get a message it's like well, 25% you got you get to stuff now with like time limits yeah, I didn't even know I was gonna be under pressure. Yeah, until I checked my phone yesterday I was sitting at the house spoiler alert, never happens sitting in the house I was probably doing stuff and then, uh, I look at my phone I get get a text from Dick's Sporting Goods. Yeah, I got three hours.

Speaker 1 5:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:27

I got three hours to shop. I didn't know I had to go shopping. Then I'm like I get $50 off. I know, I got to put the dogs up, I got to get in the car, I got to go not find something Right, exactly.

Holiday Treats and Gift Ideas

Speaker 1 5:41

Yeah, I got to walk around, I got to regret it and then drive back home. Yeah, but all that stuff makes you they're good. Yeah, like I'll get it from whatever it is lands in or whatever. Like they have a 50 percent off sale every two hours. It's always 50 percent off. I think they'll like send somebody with your package and just like bring it to your house. But then it's like oh, did you forget something?

Speaker 1 6:06

Oh you were looking, there's something still in your cart, do you want it? It's like there's a tiny little cashier person in your phone Like, oh, excuse me, did you mean to put this in the bag? Did you mean to pay for it?

Speaker 2 6:16

Yeah, I don't like I'm surprised, I haven't like gotten a knock at my door. Yeah, and somebody had been like sorry, you left three things in your cart.

Speaker 1 6:27

Yeah, I'm from. Nike or wherever you still haven't answered our 12,000 texts.

Speaker 2 6:32

Yeah, I don't like the ones. I think I looked at something you know when you're scrolling as you do Per usual, and it was like a wallet company and I don't even carry a wallet. So I don't even carry a wallet, so I don't even know why I was looking at it. Maybe, they had an Alabama one. That was probably it, and I don't know. They like tracking device or whatever. You know, a car can run over it and your cash doesn't break. I don't know.

Speaker 1 6:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:58

But they look cool. They're a hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 7:02

Oh.

Speaker 2 7:03

But the kicker is now when you go to click on something. So I'm like, oh, that's cool, I'll at least look at it.

Speaker 1 7:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2 7:10

So when I click on it it does the whole. Well, you get 20 percent off your order if you put in your email address and I'm like, but you can't like, go to the website.

Speaker 1 7:21

No.

Speaker 2 7:22

Without putting in your info. Yeah, so I'm like, well, if I like it, I'm gonna want 20 off, right, I don't want to look at it yeah, so I'm like sure you can have my what's my phone number gonna hurt oh, I can always opt out or unsubscribe, or can? You.

Speaker 1 7:39

I've opted out 17 million times and every day it's like ding, yeah, yeah no, dr squatch, yeah, don't know yeah I don't need the lord of the rings soap, yeah, I do have the star wars.

Speaker 2 7:55

Yeah, they're. They're pretty bad about text messages. I've opted out so many times yeah. If you don't know what dr squatch is, it's yeah. And if you don't know what, Dr Squatch, is it's? Soap shampoo deodorant.

Speaker 1 8:05

Right.

Speaker 2 8:11

Branded for men with things like Marvel and Star Wars and now Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 1 8:14

Oh, now they have a whole women's section. Oh really, yeah, I like that and it's at.

Speaker 2 8:16

Walmart.

Speaker 1 8:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2 8:18

It's in the stores, or Costco or wherever, or Target, yeah, their marketing is brillante, yeah.

Speaker 1 8:25

Or Target yeah, their marketing is brilliante, yeah. But yeah, the whole like, oh you know, I'll just run to the store and get this. I mean, unless it's a little teacher gift or something which you know. I get that. What do we?

Speaker 2 8:39

okay, yeah, teacher gifts.

Speaker 1 8:40

Let's talk about it.

Speaker 2 8:41

All right.

Speaker 1 8:42

They don't want another mug. I've heard.

Speaker 2 8:44

All right. First of all, your kid has, let's say, say they're in middle school and they have six or seven classes.

Speaker 1 8:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 8:50

We're just rocking a homeroom, right, we're just doing homeroom teacher. You don't get all seven teachers, something right? That includes PE. What if you teach study hall?

Speaker 1 9:01

I did, but I do something really small. I did a little bitty ornament you get everybody something I did this year. Yes, oh my gosh, yeah, yeah. But I mean I get it on the cheap and then I put a little bit of candy at the bottom.

Speaker 2 9:17

Yeah, I just figured everybody. I did an ornament this year. I just figured everybody does homeroom and does a little more for the homeroom teacher Because everybody's got a homeroom class it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 9:26

I don't think it matters. My one friend who's a teacher was like you want to get the teacher gift? Get them a gas card. You know what I mean, Even if it's five or ten bucks for gas or just like Kroger or Target or something, because they got mugs. They got this and I know I did an ornament but it was cute.

Speaker 2 9:43

Get them something they don't have. That says like best teacher ever with like an apple on it like a mug, it'll be the only one they have.

Speaker 1 9:52

Can you imagine they must just go through and be like okay, we got to donate these.

Speaker 2 9:59

Yeah, so teacher gifts Robin as a joke, I guess got me a best teacher ever mug the year I homeschooled.

Speaker 1 10:07

That's brilliant. Which?

Speaker 2 10:08

even then I was like this is not true.

Speaker 1 10:11

Yeah, it was the only teacher they had. Yeah, teacher by default. Yeah, best COVID teacher? Yeah, I don't. Yeah, teacher gifts Like okay, you've been to no cookie swap, I, I'm not in one of those this year robin had one hosted one oh, wow, okay so which?

Speaker 2 10:35

basically, we de-dogged our house because we have two dogs yeah, do you want these cookies with dog hair? But well, they all have dog hair in it, so so I hope you enjoyed them. No, so we, you know run a vacuum.

Speaker 1 10:48

Yeah, yeah, swiffering, yeah it was like three passes. Oh yeah, Because you have big dogs and we had to keep them in the basement the whole time.

Speaker 2 10:56

But yeah, she did a cookie swap, slash ornament exchange. So everybody brought cookies and ornaments and it was a lot when they all it was only like two hours, so me and the boys were in the basement oh, wow like locked away yeah and then we got the okay, like it's okay to come out yeah when we come out and we saw the cookies and we're just like, oh my god, it was a lot a A lot of cookies.

Speaker 1 11:23

Yeah, oh, wow, yeah.

Speaker 2 11:26

So she took a bunch to work.

Speaker 1 11:28

Yeah, ooh, she's popular.

Speaker 2 11:30

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:32

I mean she's popular anyway. But when somebody brings in like Christmas goodies, all right, let's talk about that for a minute.

Speaker 2 11:38

What Christmas? Christmas goodies Okay.

Speaker 1 11:41

From the top yeah.

Speaker 2 11:46

So cookies. Right, okay, from from the top. Yeah, so cookies right like that's a labor I love. You're like this is.

Speaker 1 11:50

That's my favorite thing about christmas, yeah christmas cookie, also snack wise. I don't know food, I don't know what I'm gonna commit myself to make, but I'm think I'm gonna make something for a few neighbors, whatever. But one of my neighbors used to make the stuff it has like popcorn, peanuts, m& pretzels and it's like and I'm not a huge white chocolate fan, but it's got white chocolate. It's like in little clumps, oh that is good, yeah, like you just grab a hunk of it and eat it.

Speaker 2 12:17

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:18

It lasted about four minutes in our house when they'd bring it over. Oh my gosh, it's so good.

Speaker 2 12:24

She made sorry.

Speaker 1 12:27

Yeah, tell me, I need ideas Some little sprinkled cookies whatever, and you got the Hershey's Kiss right in the middle. Love those.

Speaker 2 12:32

And then she made Oreo balls with white chocolate around them what yeah, those go in the fridge. And then she made, like a cookie casserole, what I think it's like, basically like a blonde brownie thing, but it's got tons of like Christmas M&M's in it. Yes, oh my gosh, that is gone. Yes, I guess it is Every night after supper.

Speaker 1 12:53

our boys would be like can we have some of that casserole? Yeah, casserole.

Speaker 2 12:56

I think that's what it's called.

Speaker 1 12:58

I love it. Also, I like the savory stuff, like I don't know. If you remember this, I think our grandmother, one of our grandmothers used to make it the pecans that are like spicy, that like not the like sweet ones that are like candied, but like pecan halves and like you mix like hot sauce and like Worcestershire and like spices and then you bake them and they're kind of like savory spices and then you bake them and they're kind of like savory. My mouth is watering right now.

Speaker 2 13:24

I'm going to make some of those.

Speaker 1 13:25

Yeah, a little bit of barbecue sauce.

Speaker 2 13:27

That sounds good yeah.

Speaker 1 13:32

Because I probably didn't like that when I was like a kid?

Speaker 2 13:35

No, but now that's what I want? I don't. I'd rather have that than sweet stuff.

Speaker 1 13:37

I didn't want it till you said it. Now I want it. I got to go to Costco buy pecan halves. Surely I could get a huge thing of pecans. They have Kirkland pecans, don't they?

Speaker 2 13:43

I'm sure they do.

Speaker 1 13:44

Can this be sponsored by Kirkland pecans, because I need enough of the block, but yeah, that Also that.

Speaker 2 13:52

What was the little Danish, the little white?

Speaker 1 13:55

Christmas cookies wedding cookies.

Speaker 2 13:57

Was that Christmas or wedding?

Speaker 1 14:00

I think they had them at both.

Speaker 2 14:01

Oh.

Speaker 1 14:02

Do you mean?

Speaker 2 14:02

like they were very dense but they had like a powder that got everywhere. I think it's called Christmas cookies, Like a white Cheeto, I mean wedding cookies.

Speaker 1 14:10

Had a little bit of nuts in it too.

Speaker 2 14:11

I think so yeah.

Speaker 1 14:12

Yeah, wedding cookies, I think.

Speaker 2 14:17

Or we had them at Christmas, I don't know.

Speaker 1 14:19

I mean any kind of hot chocolate man. We've talked about that, but yeah.

Speaker 2 14:24

Speaking of snacks, which this is something I don't do. Robin will do it Eggnog.

Speaker 1 14:30

Oh yeah Ben loves eggnog.

Speaker 2 14:33

I call it eggnog because I'm not going to drink it.

Speaker 1 14:37

Yeah, it does not look. It looks like old milk. Yeah, I don't want it, randy likes it. Yeah, I don't want it, randy likes it.

Speaker 2 14:44

Yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 1 14:45

What is it?

Speaker 2 14:46

I don't even know what it is.

Speaker 1 14:48

Well, it's definitely milk, because I'm lactose intolerant, so we know I can't have it.

Speaker 2 14:54

I'm just going to look, it's just milk eggs.

Speaker 1 14:58

So here's what's in it. It's also known as milk punch, which I'm going to punch somebody who says that it's also known as milk punch, which I'm going to punch. Somebody who says that Sweetened dairy-based beverage traditionally made with milk, cream, sugar, egg yolk and a whipped egg white, which gives it its frothy texture, gross.

Speaker 2 15:21

Sometimes people add brandy, rum, whiskey or bourbon and maybe now we know why I would have to have all those other things before I drink eggnog I don't, I don't uh, I don't uh.

Speaker 1 15:32

No, I don't enjoy it. I don't want to watch someone else enjoy it. Yeah, I don't like looking at it, yeah robin got me the little marty the moose glass one year from christmas vacation.

Speaker 2 15:42

Yeah, and she even put so. She that and she put some eggnog in it and I tried to sip I had a little eggnog. Mustache Wiped that off poured that bad boy down the sink and I was like nope.

Speaker 1 15:54

Yeah, no. What about malt spices? Do you ever do that? Like where you like, get some apple cider and you add all these spices to it.

Speaker 2 16:02

Tastes like potpourri. No, I'm just kidding, I'm drinking apple cinnamon.

Speaker 1 16:07

Yeah, I like cider and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 16:09

Yeah, cider that's good.

Speaker 1 16:11

Also, this is from the 70s and 80s. For a while it was called Russian tea, but it's called friendship tea. It's made with like tang and lemonade and instant tea and sugar and people put it in little like ball jars and you take a couple tablespoons and then put hot water in it and stir it up. I've given that to my neighbors before mom used to make it I do not remember that, but it sounds good though yeah, so I'd probably like it now the cookies.

Speaker 1 16:38

I love the cookies, I love the. So our next door neighbor, actually just two days ago, gave us homemade cinnamon rolls. She makes them every year. From scratch From scratch man In a little like circle, and then she puts them in this cute little bag. It's got a red ribbon at the top and those also lasted about 18 hours and they're like legit.

Speaker 2 17:06

I don't even see how people do anything from scratch.

Speaker 1 17:10

No.

Speaker 2 17:10

I can't, even my brain can't even comprehend, like where to start.

Speaker 1 17:15

Yeah, I don't do this from scratch, but I do. Monkey bread is what they call it.

Speaker 2 17:19

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 17:20

Every Christmas morning. So it's like the frozen biscuits or the canned biscuits, and you cut them up and you put them in a bunt pan. Is it a bunt?

Speaker 2 17:29

or a bonk.

Speaker 1 17:30

This cake has a hole in it. That's my big fat Greek wedding for anybody playing along.

Speaker 1 17:35

And then you take like butter and probably sugar and brown sugar and you melt all that and you pour it over the top and then you bake and it's like a big old cinnamon roll where you just pull it oh and cinnamon, and you just pull pieces off and you dip it in your coffee and then you get a huge headache in about an hour and a half and you're kind of irritated because you haven't eaten real food then you take two Advil and do it all over again. Yeah and then I used to make a grits cheese sausage egg casserole, which is really good.

Speaker 2 18:05

Do you only do that at Christmas? Christmas, that's so weird.

Speaker 1 18:10

Sometimes I make it the first day of school too. I don't know why. I don't know.

Speaker 2 18:14

Just to entice people to go to school.

Speaker 1 18:16

You can do it here. Here's some eggs and cheese.

Speaker 2 18:19

Here's something you're not going to have the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 18:23

Wait till Christmas.

Speaker 2 18:25

Tomorrow it's a Z-Bar.

Speaker 1 18:27

Yes, so I don't know, but I do love the Christmas goodies.

Speaker 2 18:33

Yeah, I don't make anything, I just eat it. I don't know where to start with any of that. Rob makes like a croissant Christmas morning, I think. It's like a big, like basically a croissant with croissant rolls, croissant rolls, crescent rolls, whatever I don't know something bready and then eggs, either sausage, bacon, cheese, and then just throws a bunch of fresh fruit. Oh my goodness, it's good.

Speaker 1 19:03

I want to come to your house on Christmas morning.

Speaker 2 19:05

It's very brunchy.

Speaker 1 19:06

Yeah Well, you're going to sit around in your pajamas. Yeah, that's what. Yeah, I want to come to your house on Christmas morning. It's very brunchy.

Speaker 2 19:09

Yeah Well, you're going to sit around in your pajamas? Yeah, that's what you do. You just kind of eat all day.

Speaker 1 19:12

Yeah, you wake up. There's no like brushing of the hair.

Speaker 2 19:17

No.

Speaker 1 19:18

I mean you're in those fleece, elf pajama, pants or Snoopy or whatever you rock, and Mandalorian, whoever, yeah, till or Snoopy or whatever you rock, and Mandalorian whoever, yeah, till, like four. And then you're like well, I guess we're going over to grandmama's so we should shower and you know whatever.

Speaker 2 19:32

I guess we got to change. Yeah yeah, you're just grazing and then looking through wrapping paper for a Lego piece.

Speaker 1 19:40

Exactly Did I put that gift card in the trash, I don't know. Do you want to go check it? You know. Card in the trash, I don't know. Do you want to go check it?

Speaker 2 19:46

you know what I mean. That kind of thing, yeah, and I I know I'm getting old now because I clean oh, I have that trash bag as people, people are like look, I got this.

Speaker 1 19:54

I'm like great, give me the paper yeah, right, and you don't want to lose stuff yeah it's helpful, I do think yeah, and you know you're old.

Speaker 2 20:02

Also, when you go like I'll be going through the trash, but then I I have to get, I have to ask permission to do it because I'll be throwing stuff away, and I'm like do you want to keep this bow, or is this special? You know right, I don't know.

Speaker 1 20:16

I don't know. Well did it get wrinkled?

Speaker 2 20:19

Refolding tissue paper. Can we just burn all this? Why do I have to ask?

Speaker 1 20:25

Oh man, oh man, the tissue paper. Yeah, it's a lot. I have to say, though, I'm weird and I don't wrap it, like you know, crazy beautifully, but I like gift wrap.

Speaker 2 20:38

I like.

Speaker 1 20:38

wrapping too, I like to wrap a present and I have given up on the bows they don't stick. What you just do ribbon. No, I do nothing't stick. Let you just do ribbon. No, I do nothing. Oh, you just do wrapping paper. I just do wrapping paper, that is genius because see we do ribbon, or robin does ribbon, stack it up. She's so good, well she worked at a boutique.

Speaker 2 20:59

So, like they, that's what they did all time. But yeah, we would wrap all that and then we have to load it in the car to go to Auburn and then I'm like oh man, I would get in trouble like set something on some ribbon like squish all the oh yeah.

Speaker 1 21:17

They don't stick even if you don't take them out. You know what I mean, what do?

Speaker 2 21:21

you mean, don't stick, take them outside Bows, or oh you're talking about like the ribbon.

Speaker 1 21:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah, take them outside, bows, or oh you're talking about like the ribbon.

Speaker 2 21:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah, curling ribbon, yeah, six inches, yeah, like on.

Speaker 1 21:31

Elf.

Speaker 2 21:32

Elf, yeah, we watched that the other night. I think it's on every day.

Speaker 1 21:36

I think it is. I know we have it on DVD, but I could just like hit record or or just quote it. Yeah, we could just talk it out, we could act it out. Let's get some spaghetti and some syrup and a two liter.

Speaker 2 21:48

Is there sugar and syrup? Then yes.

Speaker 1 21:52

Yes, yeah, it's a good one. But yeah, that's what we do usually is brunch and then the rest of the day. It's just kind of like whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 2 22:07

So what do your kids want?

Speaker 1 22:10

well, my kids are not sorry.

Holiday Gift Giving and Stocking Traditions

Speaker 2 22:11

What are your? 24, 21, 17, they're still your kids.

Speaker 1 22:15

I know now I got a son-in-law so they didn't really ask for much. I got out of my daughter and her husband that they like.

Speaker 2 22:24

Here's a couple places we'd like gift cards for was it stuff like leftover from the wedding registry they didn't get and they just like transfer it to Christmas?

Speaker 1 22:32

No, stuff they like, like either workout stuff or, like you know, like a clothing store, probably stuff that like they'd like. But they're like trying to save money and stuff I don't know yeah. And then I got them a little something.

Speaker 2 22:44

Yeah, and then I got them a little something.

Speaker 1 22:46

Just in cash. Just in cash. And you know I've got an extra stocking now Josh is now, oh yeah. So I'll probably have a, you know a little stocking or something.

Speaker 2 22:56

Stockings are hard.

Speaker 1 22:58

Mine end up being all candy. These people that are like and then they have a $25 item at the bottom and it's like cooler than the actual, like you know stuff they wrapped up for their people? I don't know.

Speaker 2 23:09

Well, that's, I did that one time. Well, that's how I proposed to Robin. It's her wedding ring. You did Her wedding ring was in her stocking.

Speaker 1 23:20

You're never going to live up to her stocking.

Speaker 2 23:21

I know I was like that's the best stocking you're ever going to get.

Speaker 1 23:23

Yeah, I don't think I get anything in my stocking.

Speaker 2 23:29

You don't get anything. Sometimes.

Speaker 1 23:36

I mean, it's not like my husband.

Speaker 2 23:38

nobody gives me nothing, that's just not what I'm saying, but the stocking just gets ignored. The stocking.

Speaker 1 23:42

I'm a little bit like Kristen Wiig on the. I got a robe you know SNL Like, and I got a little bit like Kristen Wiig on the. I got a robe you know SNL Like and I got a robe. I don't think I usually have something in my stocking.

Speaker 2 23:56

No See, that's what we said we're going to do this year?

Speaker 1 24:00

Make the stockings. Well, we said what do your kids want?

Speaker 2 24:04

Well, me and Robin said, because we said we're not going to do gifts, but we got out of that. We got out of that by saying, well, we'll do stockings.

Speaker 1 24:14

Here's a hundred dollar gift card in your stocking.

Speaker 2 24:16

No, we're doing 50 bucks.

Speaker 1 24:17

Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 2 24:18

So you have $50 to put in the stocking. Yeah person in the world to buy for Like hands down.

Speaker 1 24:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:28

Like I'd never know what to get her. You're right Because if I think of something it came yesterday from Amazon and she ordered so.

Speaker 1 24:38

but then I'll, whatever I'm shopping looking for something I'm like, oh, that's good yeah.

Speaker 2 24:43

That ain't going in a stocking.

Speaker 1 24:45

Yeah, it's in like a box or something you know, right, and.

Speaker 2 24:47

I'm like, so you have to get something small, oh, also something they want. Yep, and it's got to fit in a stocking.

Speaker 1 24:55

Yeah, yeah, have you already gotten it?

Speaker 2 24:59

I got like two rinky dink things. Probably ain't even going to go in the stocking.

Speaker 1 25:03

Oh, okay, it's going to be all stretched out.

Speaker 2 25:05

Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 25:06

Your boys are older though. Like what do they want? Like they're almost 15, and what? 12, 13? 15 and 12.

Speaker 2 25:12

Yeah, Braxton turns 15 three days after Christmas, so he gets the merry birthday.

Speaker 1 25:18

So he just loads up.

Speaker 2 25:19

Yeah, he likes, I guess, 15-year-old stuff. You know Sports, he likes shoes. I guess 15-year-old stuff, you know Sports, he likes shoes. Yeah, you know anything basketball, okay, yeah. You know basketball shoes, nike, mm-hmm, I guess you know money, whatever, yeah, and then Carter's hanging on to that. Well, he still likes Lego.

Speaker 1 25:42

Oh yeah, Our kids like Lego. I could probably still get a Lego set and everybody would be like thanks for buying the Lego set. You know.

Speaker 2 25:48

Yeah, braxton still likes Lego. I like Legos or Lego. Sorry, but yeah, not like they used to be. Yeah, yeah, used to.

Speaker 1 25:58

They're like, I want these three sets or whatever, and now they're like I guess this one. It gets harder as they get older.

Speaker 2 26:05

Yeah, I don't know what kids want nowadays. You know what I'm saying, like in general.

Speaker 1 26:12

Yeah, it's a little jarring that a lot of kids are like I want Starbucks gift cards.

Speaker 2 26:24

And you're like you're 10.

Speaker 1 26:26

You're not old enough to have a latte, or whatever.

Speaker 2 26:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:29

Or, like you know, I don't know Stanley Cups or my nothing against Stanley Cups. They're great cups.

Speaker 2 26:37

Yeah, robin's got some.

Speaker 1 26:38

Yeah, my daughter's got one, whatever.

Speaker 2 26:41

But yeah, what do you want for Christmas? I want to be 40.

Speaker 1 26:43

Yeah, I need some face serum. No, I do, but you don't.

Speaker 2 26:49

Yeah, when I drop off when we drop off at the middle school every girl that gets out of their mom or dad's car. Usually it's the mom dropping them off and the kid gets out and I can't tell if it's the mom or the kid. Right Because they're both wearing the exact same thing.

Speaker 1 27:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:07

They're both carrying a Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 27:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:10

And a Lululemon bag. She either just went shopping or her lunch is in there, I don't know which one. And when I go to the high school, every kid comes across the parking lot. The boys don't. They're just messing with their hair and they got their head down, maybe looking at their phone, but they're doing the hair thing and just shaking their head a lot.

Speaker 2 27:30

They don't really do this stuff, but every girl that walks across either has like a Celsius or like some kind of energy drink oh wow or just like a venti iced coffee. They're just like walking into high school with a Starbucks.

Speaker 1 27:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:48

I woke up probably seven minutes before I had to be at school.

Speaker 1 27:52

How are you doing?

Speaker 2 27:53

Rolled out of bed.

Speaker 1 27:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:55

And got there right when the bell rang. And they're like you went to Starbucks.

Speaker 1 27:59

When we were in school we got up showered.

Speaker 2 28:03

If we had time, like girls, did probably, but like we wouldn't have gone, did probably but like we wouldn't have gone to a starbucks, I wouldn't have gone to 12 before I got to school yeah, you're spending 75 a week on coffee.

Speaker 1 28:15

If that's your daily thing, you know what?

Speaker 2 28:16

I'm saying and you're a teenager, yeah, are you?

Speaker 1 28:19

running a company in the middle of the night. That's what I don't get. It's like where is the money coming from for all this? Like ulta and yeah, you know, like it's? It's weak.

Speaker 2 28:29

They are on their phone.

Speaker 1 28:30

Because it's not even phones anymore. Everybody's already got them.

Speaker 2 28:34

Yeah, I don't know what you get.

Speaker 1 28:34

I don't know what the big ticket item is A yacht I don't know Starbucks franchise. Right, he wants a lake house and a boat. I don't know yeah in a boat.

Speaker 2 28:44

I don't know, it's weird.

Speaker 1 28:45

So do I but you know, yeah, but did y'all used to do the back? When our kids were little, our school always did that pancake breakfast, santa pancake breakfast.

Speaker 2 28:59

I don't remember that. I don't remember elementary school.

Speaker 1 29:03

When your kids were little.

Speaker 2 29:05

Oh, when my kids were little, oh, I bet y'all did because our kids went to oh when my kids were little.

Speaker 1 29:08

Oh, um, I bet y'all did cause our kids went to the same elementary for a little bit.

Speaker 2 29:12

I guess, oh yeah, like the little the kids would sing which something oh yeah, they'd have some they'd have pancake breakfast with bacon and I'd be like we're gonna go all get sticky and get some flu germs, and then we're going to watch them butcher this Christmas song, yeah, and then we're going to be out.

Speaker 1 29:27

But they loved it. Our kids loved that. I was like, wow, okay, yeah, pancakes, the simpler days. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 29:37

Yeah, pancakes, it's not even monkey bread.

Speaker 1 29:38

It's just a box of pancake mix. Let's do it. I do like pancakes with bacon. I will case with bacon. I will say I do not like eating in cafeterias as an adult that styrofoam plate that's gonna go flying out of your hand. I didn't like with syrup loaded up with syrup. Well, that's the most dangerous, scary thing you've ever seen when you see a seven-year-old and it's just, it's like just a little bit of wind from the heating unit you know catches that you know stuck in their hair anyway.

Speaker 2 30:05

Sorry well I remember when our boys were at it was Creve Hall Elementary.

Speaker 1 30:10

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 30:12

And you know you'd always get that like random. So-and-so's dad came to eat with him on Friday.

Speaker 1 30:19

Oh with a luncheon and then you're like.

Speaker 2 30:21

So then the next week, or whatever I'm like, you want me to come eat with you next week?

Speaker 1 30:28

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 30:29

And, man, you get that. Not a guilt trip, but it was a heads up.

Speaker 1 30:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:34

But I'd always go Chick-fil-A. Whatever, take them, I ain't need no lunch or food.

Speaker 1 30:40

I ate my share of rectangle pizza in the 80s.

Speaker 2 30:42

Yeah, I was weird eating food I brought in.

Speaker 1 30:45

Yeah, it's just, you're in a yeah, lots of people are coughing and sneezing.

Speaker 2 30:51

Everybody's got something coming out of the nose. There's stuff everywhere.

Speaker 1 30:55

People are yelling there's a traffic light, monitoring the noise.

Speaker 2 30:59

I don't know A lot of close talkers, are you so, and so's dad. Yeah, you got to back away from my chicken sandwich.

Speaker 1 31:06

And they're so sincere and they're so cute. Yeah, but it always smells kind of like. It smells like hot steamy rolls.

Speaker 2 31:17

It doesn't smell like Christmas. I can tell you that.

Speaker 1 31:22

It smells like rolls.

Speaker 2 31:24

It smells like real monkey bread. Yeah, like if a real monkey bread. Yeah, like if a monkey made bread in a jungle, if monkeys and bread were in the cafeteria.

Speaker 1 31:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to do that and they'd be like so excited. Oh they're so excited, your kids jumping up and they're like is that your mom? Yes, my mom, and they stand by you. And now like there are certain things or have been hey, do you want us to come to that? No, you don't have to come. Well, I know it just said parents can come, if I know. But we're good, we don't.

Christmas Party Traditions and Gift Exchange

Speaker 2 31:55

We don't yeah, they don't want. I don't need you to come, and that's weird works for me works for you, but when you would go to those things you I didn't even get to talk to my kid because there would be like just watching people spit food. Yeah, yeah or there's that one kid that's just like constant, he's just like. So what do you do?

Speaker 1 32:14

my dad does this, what?

Speaker 2 32:16

where do you live? And you're just like well, I'm here to talk to my kid, but now I'm here for an interview right, this is like good morning america.

Speaker 1 32:23

You're. You should be an anchor somewhere, right? And you're like well, see you, buddy. It was good to sit by you and listen to your classmate. Yeah, talk. No, that's about what it is.

Speaker 2 32:35

Could you imagine if you went to a high school with a bag of Chick-fil-A and just walked in and was like hey, buddy, I want to eat with you.

Speaker 1 32:44

I cannot.

Speaker 2 32:46

They'd have to change schools.

Speaker 1 32:48

Oh, yeah, yeah pretty much right, yeah, just get a withdrawal form on your way out and there ain't no kid coming up to you like are you so, and so's that they're just gonna like. Oh my gosh yeah, cue the eye roll. Yeah, exactly, oh my gosh, how do we get on that? Oh, yeah, yeah, christmas stuff at school.

Speaker 2 33:08

Yeah, sorry, pancake breakfast.

Speaker 1 33:09

Yeah, but you know, I mean, your kids are out at elementary, so there's.

Speaker 2 33:14

I don't, I'm kind of glad.

Speaker 1 33:17

The Christmas holiday, whatever parties, the Valentine parties, I remember filling out the little you know.

Speaker 2 33:25

Valentine cards.

Speaker 1 33:27

Do you want to write this note for your teacher gift before we get out for the holidays? Do you want to write it?

Speaker 2 33:33

There was always a sign up, sorry, all right.

Speaker 1 33:36

I did love the. You signed up in August for that stuff too, yeah.

Speaker 2 33:38

Well, I did love the like. Your kids got excited, you know they had the parties and, like it was fun watching them enjoy it.

Speaker 1 33:46

Oh, I did not enjoy it. Polar Express, wear your pajamas, bring your hot chocolate.

Speaker 2 33:51

We're going to sit in a circle.

Speaker 1 33:53

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 33:54

We're going to have Polar Express Day.

Speaker 1 33:57

How long is that movie? I've never seen it. What, no, okay, that's crazy yeah.

Speaker 2 34:02

Yeah, you should watch it at least once.

Speaker 1 34:06

I've seen parts of it but never watched it.

Speaker 2 34:10

But now it's like Braxton's got exams in high school. He's like I don't even have to go Thursday because I got study hall.

Speaker 1 34:17

Yeah, they just come home.

Speaker 2 34:19

Yeah, they ain't no party, but I'll do not miss we're going to need some more plates, or if y'all can sign up for cookies or brownies or drinks. I'm like I thought at the beginning of the year yeah, right, we asked yeah, I thought we cut you a check. Yeah for no more questions.

Speaker 1 34:39

I already got my sign up genius reminder on my email.

Speaker 2 34:43

You I wonder if people now door dash that now, that's, you, just get it delivered to the school.

Speaker 1 34:50

Yeah, work smarter, not harder. What I'm saying is, if you're like, oh no, I forgot to send. Oh yes, what I'm on, door, dash these cookies from Publix to the elementary school.

Speaker 2 34:59

Oh my God, While I'm at work.

Speaker 1 35:02

If you ain't thought of that, you're welcome Because that is yeah, because that is yeah, that's genius. Yeah, mom or dad for the win on that. Yeah, last minute teacher's like we need some more juice boxes. Deedle, deedle, deedle, deedle, you know whatever, I don't know. R2-d2's bringing them, but yeah. So parties do you have a corporate work party you're going to?

Speaker 2 35:24

with your wife. Yeah, they're scaling back this year.

Speaker 1 35:29

They're party you're going to with your wife. Yeah, they're scaling back this year. Not going to have it on a rooftop downtown they usually do legit parties.

Speaker 2 35:35

They've done it at the Giotis Park soccer stadium a couple years ago. They've done it at the Nashville. What is it?

Speaker 1 35:45

Convention Center, the big convention center. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 35:49

They've done it at a few hotels downtown. It started out a convention center. Looks like a wave. It's crazy. Yeah, they've done a few hotels downtown. It started out a little smaller when she was first there.

Speaker 1 35:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 35:54

And then it started ramping up. But this year they're doing it at the office.

Speaker 1 35:58

Oh, just at her office. Yeah, I mean not in like. Not in the conference break room or something.

Speaker 2 36:03

Yeah, I mean it's not like the show the Office.

Speaker 1 36:05

Yeah, they have like a kind of atrium-ish. This is your holiday party, but they're not due.

Speaker 2 36:11

I don't think there's a band this year and I don't think there's a meal. It's pretty much just like hors d'oeuvres.

Speaker 1 36:16

Just hanging. Everybody dresses. It's a date night. Yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 2 36:20

You go meet that person for the hours last year. Okay, so there's that. I think we go out to eat before.

Speaker 1 36:32

Nice Okay.

Speaker 2 36:33

And then just go there and not be at home. I think that's it.

Speaker 1 36:38

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:41

I wear a suit. It's the one day a year I wear a suit and tie Same one.

Speaker 1 36:48

Same suit, same suit, same tie. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 36:51

Christmas parties are weird. Not weird, but just well, theirs sometimes were so big. So, you'd have all these tables in this giant ballroom, so then you'd sit over here and then somebody else's, and then tables are like half full.

Speaker 1 37:08

Yeah, oh, gotcha, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 37:10

So you're like am I being antisocial?

Speaker 1 37:12

No, no, sometimes it's.

Speaker 2 37:15

And I don't.

Speaker 1 37:15

Some people's emotional or emotional social tank is just not as big as other people's.

Speaker 2 37:20

It's good people watching, which I don't. I used to dance and stuff like that, like I don't do that anymore, I'm too old. I'm going to break a hip.

Speaker 1 37:26

Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 37:27

I'll watch other people.

Speaker 1 37:28

Yeah, get down.

Speaker 2 37:29

Yeah, or try to, and I will bring that up next year to them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 37:33

So you cut quite the rug last year.

Speaker 2 37:35

Should we tell them to play your song? No, it is fun.

Speaker 1 37:39

Yeah, that is fun. Do you ever do the White Elephant Dirty Santa G gifts anywhere?

Speaker 2 37:45

I don't think so.

Speaker 1 37:47

I think I mean youth groups. That's pretty popular, but some people do it with their friends or you know.

Speaker 2 37:53

Yeah, I don't think we do that.

Speaker 1 37:54

Some people buy really good stuff and you're like, well, that's going to be fought over. Somebody said well, some people brought air tags last year. I was like that's not a white elephant dirty Santa gift. Yeah, no, I mean, I remember fighting over a Snuggie the first year. Those blankets with the sleeves came out, those kind of came back.

Speaker 2 38:16

Oh really Well, now, they just now. It's like a oh, it's a plush Pull over, but it's a blanket, so-and-so blanket. I'm like that's a Snuggie dude, my kids got me that last year.

Speaker 1 38:25

I wear it every night when I get home. Yeah, it's amazing, but yeah, I think it should be not expensive and super silly.

Speaker 2 38:34

And you gotta have a price limit. Yeah, 20 bucks or less.

Speaker 1 38:37

I don't think people stick to those price limits.

Speaker 2 38:39

No, they don't.

Speaker 1 38:40

It's hard to stick to a price limit.

Speaker 2 38:41

First of all, there's no $5 price limit unless you just get a gift card, you go starbucks five below unless you get a five below. Yeah, this is true. That's what I told, because I'm saying robin's hard to buy for I said what we ought to do is go to a store yes, and you have to buy it. Target costco, walmart, whatever. Here's the limit. You gotta buy it today yeah, that's brilliant. I like that I like that because then it's it kind of takes the pressure off because you get on something that's not that good, it's like.

Speaker 2 39:11

well, I only had an hour.

Speaker 1 39:13

Yeah, I know people who do that at Walgreens.

Speaker 2 39:18

Oh yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 39:19

Anything at Walgreens because they got crazy stuff. And sometimes they do it on Christmas Eve like whatever's left, like for each other.

Speaker 2 39:26

I like that. It takes the pressure off. Yeah, I either want that it's kind of funny, I want that or nothing.

Speaker 1 39:31

Yeah, just give me some of that. Now I'll tell you this I don't like chocolate mint Mm-mm, but I like mint and chocolate. However maybe it's because I'm getting old the Ghirardelli little flat, individually wrapped chocolate peppermint bark.

Speaker 2 39:51

Oh, they're good.

Christmas Memories and Food Nostalgia

Speaker 1 39:54

I love those. Anybody listening wants to send them to me. I'm just kidding. I love those so much Just at Christmas, it's weird, I don't know. And then the rest of the year I'm like that's gross. Either pick chocolate or pick mint. Don't be crazy about it.

Speaker 2 40:07

Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 40:08

I'm like that's gross. Either pick chocolate or pick mint. Don't be crazy about it, but I love it.

Speaker 2 40:12

I also like those little peppermint.

Speaker 1 40:13

You're hungry, that's what the problem is Peppermint Brock's makes them, but also store brand does it too, but they're like the peppermint, but they're bigger than the round ones. They're like a ball, but they're kind of soft.

Speaker 2 40:25

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:26

Ooh, mm-mm I love those Don't grandparents have those all the time.

Speaker 2 40:30

I don't know the little, the soft ones.

Speaker 1 40:33

Maybe they do.

Speaker 2 40:33

It's like a peppermint ball and you go to chew it and you're like you're bracing yourself for a break, and then you're like that's it just dissolves. That's packing popcorn. I don.

Speaker 1 40:44

I love those, See Christmas candy. We're back on the candy.

Speaker 2 40:48

Back on candy Candy canes, I tell you this Candy canes, candy corn Well, I forgot the other one.

Speaker 1 40:55

Candy, candy cane, candy corn. My kid had that shirt that said we like candy canes, candy corns, Shoot what is it, and there was one other candy. Yeah, I don't know, shoot, what is it? And there was one other candy, yeah, I don't know, but things like not to be footballish, but like people make Buckeye balls, or they make, you know, those little cookies like Robin makes, or just Christmas goodies.

Speaker 2 41:21

Candy candy, corn, candy cane, candy canes and syrup.

Speaker 1 41:26

Yep syrup, basically Yep Well syrup. He didn.

Speaker 2 41:28

Yep, well syrup. He didn't say that, but yeah, anyway, yeah, I don't even like gifts. That's the kicker.

Speaker 1 41:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2 41:36

I don't want anything. Carter asked me the other day. He said Dad what? Do you want, or something like that.

Speaker 1 41:42

I was like well when you get older you just like watching other people open you want to watch your kids open stuff and be excited. Have fun, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 41:51

I just want to sit here, yeah.

Speaker 1 41:53

Have a cup of coffee.

Speaker 2 41:54

I said I just want to sit there and enjoy it, and he was like, yeah, like not do chores.

Speaker 1 42:00

Basically.

Speaker 2 42:01

Pretty much.

Speaker 1 42:02

Yeah, yeah, I like having some monkey bread, which I should not be eating. I have probably two cups of coffee that day, you know, because coffee is just kind of going.

Speaker 2 42:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 42:12

I like playing the Christmas music. I like the old school, I like the Bing Crosby. I like the Frank Sinatra, I like the Ella Fitzgerald, I like the Otis Redding, I like the Ray Charles, you know, yeah, whatever Burl Ives in there, you know old school like the classics, woo, love it.

Speaker 2 42:33

I saw a thing that said you know, in Christmas Vacation where he's upstairs in the attic.

Speaker 1 42:38

The Ray Charles, yeah, and the Ray Charles playing. Christmas is the time of year.

Speaker 2 42:44

They said if that movie was made today he would be watching home videos from like 1990, 1995 or something like that.

Speaker 1 42:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 42:55

I'm like okay well. I felt old when I woke up, but now I really feel old.

Speaker 1 43:02

Yes.

Speaker 2 43:02

Because when he's watching them it's like 1965 or something like that.

Speaker 1 43:06

Oh wow, that's the difference in years. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 43:10

Which we ain't even going to have home videos.

Speaker 1 43:13

No people will be like do we get pictures of your wedding? I don't know, they were on mom's old phone.

Speaker 2 43:19

Y'all look at this old TikTok. This is from 2024.

Speaker 1 43:22

It's sad.

Speaker 2 43:23

Yeah, it's not going to be like a video of everybody opening presents.

Speaker 1 43:30

It's going to be a video of like everybody opening presents. It's gonna be like a. I know snapchat. You gotta print some pictures or make a snap.

Speaker 2 43:33

You know shutterfly book or something, but you gotta have something I did see and I I can't stand when they do this good morning america, or something animal and they had, uh, you know, these are the greatest gifts.

Speaker 1 43:49

Oh yeah, top 50 gifts for a change this year.

Speaker 2 43:51

The hot trending gifts this year and one of them was a camera. I was like, yeah, I had that like 25 years. The little bitty, not the big SLR or whatever.

Speaker 1 44:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah, not a Canon or a Nikon.

Speaker 2 44:04

The little Canon PowerShot, the little bitty ones with a little screen on the back, and they're like, and these are great and they're lightweight and they're small, I'm like, yeah, we had them 20, 30 years ago.

Speaker 1 44:15

And your phone takes way better pictures.

Speaker 2 44:17

Yeah, they either broke or people just gave them to Goodwill and now he's selling them again.

Speaker 1 44:22

I know, or they sell those little printers that you can hook your phone up to and print little small, which I'm like oh yeah oh, that film or paper is not going to be a lot of money yeah, but they did it with polaroid.

Speaker 2 44:33

They're like polaroids back, like no, it's not and it's three dollars a picture.

Speaker 1 44:37

I ain't got time for that.

Speaker 2 44:38

Anyway it's shaking no polaroid picture. Yeah, take it.

Speaker 1 44:43

Yeah, no yeah, but I'm bad about taking pictures. I'm the opposite of your wife. Your wife has pictures.

Speaker 2 44:52

I like what takes the pressure off? She's taking pictures.

Speaker 1 44:54

You don't have to know, but you know she's not there on Christmas morning. Oh yeah, can we borrow Robin for a minute? We don't have anybody to secure these moments and film secure these moments in film or just get a camera for Christmas.

Speaker 2 45:08

Put it in stocking.

Speaker 1 45:10

I know. I thought, about getting the instant ones, but then you gotta get that stuff developed.

Speaker 2 45:14

You don't have to wind up with wedding cameras. Oh yeah, you can't see nothing on them.

Speaker 1 45:18

And then are you gonna go back to CVS and pick up the photos and they're like somebody's thumb is in it.

Speaker 2 45:24

I don't know who's doing that job now. Who's?

Speaker 1 45:26

at.

Speaker 2 45:26

CVS. What do you do? I develop?

Speaker 1 45:28

photos yeah.

Speaker 2 45:30

Knowing they got like three customers like man, he came in again.

Speaker 1 45:33

I got to do that, golly.

Speaker 2 45:35

Okay.

Speaker 1 45:36

Unless it's a passport photo. I don't think there needs to be a photo. You can still go in there and get your passport photos.

Speaker 2 45:44

And they need to calm down. In passport photos you have to go to like staples and then there's a form and there's like no smiling. Take your glasses off.

Speaker 1 45:50

Well, I'm gonna be smiling like an idiot when I get to the country with my glasses on.

Speaker 2 45:55

Y'all sell copiers and like printers and stuff. Just take my photo. Why does it gotta be all like? Yeah yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 46:02

But the face isn't the right size.

Speaker 2 46:04

Yeah yeah, I don't get it. They need to calm down then.

Speaker 1 46:07

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 46:09

Yeah, but remember you would go to pick up your pictures and there was so much picture traffic oh yeah, they'd be like oh sorry, they're not ready yet. We can't get.

Speaker 1 46:18

Yeah, we're backed up.

Speaker 2 46:20

It's probably going to be four more hours before we can get to yours.

Speaker 1 46:23

Right.

Speaker 2 46:24

And you just get that big old pack of pictures.

Speaker 1 46:26

Yeah, and you just get that big old pack of pictures.

Speaker 2 46:27

Yeah, at Eckerd's, remember that Remember those people that would go through them with their thumb. Oh yeah, let me see them and just be like, handle them like Bigfoot would. It's like, oh, these are good. I'm like, well, they're all destroyed now because they're bent and you got thumbprints all on everybody's faces.

Speaker 1 46:42

But I just came from a pancake breakfast with Santa. Let me see those pictures. Yeah, oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 46:51

Anyway.

Speaker 1 46:52

Anyway.

Speaker 2 46:53

Well.

Speaker 1 46:53

Merry Christmas. Take some pictures.

Speaker 2 46:56

Yeah, and just Some monkey bread. Yeah, if you don't want to make monkey bread, just.

Speaker 1 46:59

No.

Speaker 2 47:00

What did you say? Uber Eats.

Speaker 1 47:02

Uber Eats and Reese's Christmas Trees DoorDash, DoorDash. Yeah, I guess Uber Eats wouldn't do it. Doordash will bring you probably anything. They do everything right.

Speaker 2 47:14

They should just let people make stuff at home and ship it via DoorDash. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 47:19

Yeah, I got a pan of enchiladas. You want to come pick them up?

Speaker 2 47:24

Man, I wish I had some of my mom's chicken casserole. Get on DoorDash see if it's on there.

Speaker 1 47:28

I'm saying yeah, like the Etsy of food.

Speaker 2 47:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1 47:33

But it's just. But then you ain't got no health ratings.

Speaker 2 47:37

Eh, nobody cares, it's fun. Have you seen restaurants? Have you ever been in a restaurant? And then kind?

Speaker 1 47:44

of accidentally see in the back.

Speaker 2 47:46

Have you? Yeah, we used to go to. It's not called this anymore. We used to call it go to Mazatlan.

Speaker 1 47:52

Oh yeah, which.

Speaker 2 47:54

I think, means. What does that mean?

Speaker 1 47:55

Home of the deer or something like that, something weird I just thought it was a place in Mexico, but it means something with the deer.

Speaker 2 48:02

I don't know.

Speaker 1 48:02

We called it bouncy ball restaurant because they had a little gumball machine where you get a bouncy ball. Yes, I call it bouncy ball restaurant still.

Restaurant Hygiene and Food Memories

Speaker 2 48:09

Still call it that. Don't ever look at the ceiling.

Speaker 1 48:14

No, something might come out of it. There's like ceiling tiles, the rest of the place ain't that bad.

Speaker 2 48:19

But every time I'd go there I'd look in the ceiling and a few times we'd go to the bathroom and I'd just be like I told my kids I was like, when you're done, don't even wash your hands, just I'll get the door. We're all leaving here, nobody's washing anything. I'm not touching that sink. I straight up told them I was like you are cleaner than the sink, but it's crazy.

Speaker 1 48:43

We can't stop getting chicken tacos.

Speaker 2 48:45

Yeah, mom's got hand sanitizer. We ain't touching this sink. We ain't touching that soap. I don't trust it. It's like Fabuloso or whatever, I don't know. I don't even think it's real soap. So we go back to the table.

Speaker 1 48:58

But the food was great. I know. Let me tell you, the ceiling is still bad.

Speaker 2 49:04

Oh, I know it's like all discolored, it's all catty-womped. Why is it bent?

Speaker 1 49:12

And what's up there?

Speaker 2 49:13

Yeah.

Speaker 1 49:14

Oh, I can probably name a few things up there, but yeah, the windows are. Yeah, it needs a refresh. They need to close it for a couple of weeks and they need to. Yeah, let's replace the carpet too. I'm not a huge fan of carpet in restaurants. I hop. It smells like old carpet If you drop something when I see somebody pick something up in a restaurant.

Speaker 2 49:37

I'm like what are you doing?

Speaker 1 49:38

Yeah, just leave it.

Speaker 2 49:41

If you drop a fork, if you tell the people that work there something's on the floor please get it, because I don't want to touch it yeah, no, no, no, I'm not doing that, and then you see a little kid drop a sippy cup and then the parent just mid-sentence, just picks it up, sets back. So anyway, like I was saying, and the kids like slurping on it again.

Speaker 1 50:02

Yeah, well, that's some people's flu shot, I guess't know.

Speaker 2 50:06

Meanwhile, the table's three feet from the bathroom door and they're just like whatever. Okay, Droplets. Know what you're getting for Christmas Antibiotics and a camera Small. You can put it in your pocket and drop it on the floor. Okay, anyway, I gotta go eat monkey bread or something, because I'm starving. I'm starving, I want to go we can't record any more of these before eating before lunch.

Speaker 1 50:41

Yeah, I know, note to selves. Yeah, to all of us eat first all right y'all have a good one.