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Shawn & SamCat are back in studio together and gearing up for the holidays! In this fun episode they talk about their Thanksgiving family traditions and debate the best sides to go along w/ Turkey!
We are back in the booth. I'm Sean Booth and hopefully you guys are having a fantastic day. It is Thanksgiving week. Maybe you're traveling right now in the car. Wherever you're headed, your final destination, we hope that you get there safe. Maybe you're headed to Fort Wayne, indiana or Washington DC. Maybe you're going to North Dakota I wonder how many North Dakotians we have listening to this podcast. I bet not many, but if there are, we love you. We appreciate the support. We are here in Nashville, tennessee, and we are back for episode 27 and she is back to my left in the hot seat. She is wearing parachute black pants, because the real dad is not it?
Speaker 3You're off. Oh, for one next.
Speaker 2We've got some boots. Pull up those pants a little bit, let me see how high those things are. Okay, ankle boots they look like kind of witches boots.
Speaker 3Oh, they are cowboy boots and they are booties.
Speaker 2Okay, booties, oh for two. And she's got her side's chick shirt with stuffing with corn with green beans Very timely. And a cowgirl hats. Nope, wow, that was bad Booth, welcome Turkey.
Speaker 3Cat, here we go, gobble, gobble baby. These are called tailored trouser pants. Parachutes are okay. Parachutes are like what MC Hammer wore.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, these are not that.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, can I take back Turkey Cat?
Speaker 3Turkey Cat.
Speaker 2Sure yeah, I want to go with Gobble Cat.
Speaker 3Gobble Cat. Okay, I like both of those, I'll take both. I've been called worse Gobble.
Speaker 2Cat is back. She's been on the road.
Speaker 3CMA.
Speaker 2Awards. Sam Cat won a CMA Award last week. Everybody yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, no, I didn't personally win a CMA Award, but maybe one day. But Old Dominion did. So it was a very, it was a very fun event. It was a very fun night. It's always fun to win and the guys got to perform with Meg Maroney their current single, which I have never been a part of an award show where my artist was performing. So that was a new experience for me. Yeah, not much different than if they weren't, but it was exciting to see kind of like the inner workings of what's happening backstage. I'd never been a part of that before. So all good, All good things to report Life is good.
Speaker 2I love the CMA Awards because it's like one big giant concert where you get to see the best artists in the industry all playing one night. It's like if there's a concert to go to, I feel like that's the one. And we also saw Meg Maroney play a little show downtown in this like private hotel party thing, which was cool. She's killing it, and Old Dominion your team. So you won the award too. I'm surprised I didn't give you some hardware.
Speaker 3No, but I do have to say it did feel cool, like they gave us a shout out in their acceptance speech, which I feel like artists don't necessarily have to do that, but it is a different experience. I've been watching the award shows my whole life, but when someone gets up there and they're like, you know, I want to thank my wife, I want to thank God, I want to thank my management and they're like, and I want to thank my team Feels different when you're part of the team.
Speaker 2Hell yeah.
Speaker 3I love the great seats. I was like way out of my, out of my league there, which was, I mean, I loved it. I was front row for the Jimmy Buffett tribute. That was awesome, and Jelly Rolls acceptance speech lit the entire arena on fire. You couldn't even hear what he was saying when you were there. I had to go back and watch it online to hear the end of it when he was like I don't know where you're at in life, baby. After that, people were standing hooting, hollering. I was going to run through a brick wall. I couldn't even hear what he was saying. But I do think that he has an incredible story and people love him and I was just happy to be a part of it. I was caught on camera. So shout outs, all you guys.
Speaker 3I got your DMs of the video of your TV getting me dancing after Old Dominion 1. That was not my intention. I purposely. I saw the camera on them. You know, like when they're announcing the nominees, obviously you can see the cameras like on the guys and I'm sitting in the same rows, I'm so I'm like okay, don't be weird, Sammy, they win. I stand up. I clap politely like I'm at a golf outing like, oh my God, yay. And they walk away and I can see the camera go with them to follow them to the stage. Then I did a little dance. What I did not account for was there was a camera above me and it was zoomed right in on me. The amount of people that sent me a little clip of me dancing like an idiot in between a million celebrities. And there's me in my fashion over $26 outfit with a cooler full of two bottles of tequila and a couple of coronas. She didn't fit in, but man, was she having fun?
Speaker 2That's awesome, always good time. I missed it, but I wanted to look at the or watch the Jelly Roll speech and even I couldn't even hear it through the phone and the camera because of the fans going crazy from jail selling drugs to. I mean, he's the most famous guy in Nashville, I think right now the most popular guy. I've done a bunch of charity events with him, dating back three or four years. I never knew who he was. A lot of people didn't know who he was and now any charity event that I go to, he is there for Jelly Roll. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 3I mean he is a nice guy. I wouldn't claim to know him personally. I panicked and called him Mr Jelly. That was not on purpose, I just like. I was like oh, thank you, Mr Jelly. I don't know because I'm an idiot, but he just laughed it off, offered me a joint, which was nice of him, and I don't know. I just I like when I like redemption stories and I think that everybody kind of does, which I feel like plays into his popularity, I think people kind of like identify with him. This guy was a quote, unquote, nobody, and I'll look at him. If he can do it, I can do it too.
Speaker 2He is the loser's winner.
Speaker 3Is that what he calls himself, or is that what you call him?
Speaker 2No, I've heard that before. I didn't come up with that. I don't know if he calls himself that, but that's what I've been told. Anyways, that's fantastic, and we were just talking about it. A lot of disappointment, maybe, or just different sides of entertainer of the year.
Speaker 3Yeah, entertainer of the year is the biggest award of the night I have mixed emotions about. Lainey Wilson was crowned the CMA Entertainer of the year for 2023. Do I love Lainey Wilson? Absolutely? Do I think she's badass? Yes, do I think that she has had a year that will set her apart for the remainder of her career? Yes, she said in one of her speeches that at the end of the year, she will have done 186 shows this year. That is a lot of traveling. That is a lot of shows.
Speaker 3I think she is something that country music was missing, which I feel like is why she's been so accepted with open arms. And I think, above all else, she's a great role model. I mean, I want to be like it's about time, because I feel like there's been plenty of role models in country music, but I feel like she's the newest. What you see is what you get. She's not one of those fake people that you meet them backstage and you're like, oh my God, because those exist and I am happy for her, but I do sometimes I get nervous. That's a little premature for her, because I don't want her to be a flash in the pan. I want her to have a long, successful career. Entertainer of the year is huge. People work their whole and I'm not saying that she hasn't worked her whole life, that's. The other thing is a yes, you might think she's an overnight success, but she's been here for 12 years. For a while Bust in her ass.
Speaker 3So, when you think of it like that. Is it premature? I don't know. And she said country music is finally embracing me back or finally loving me back, which I feel like was equal parts sad but also kind of eyeopening. I'm sure she's been told no a million times and now she's finally been told yes. So who am I to say that she doesn't deserve it? But then when you look at the other people in the category which were.
Speaker 3Morgan Wallen, zach Bryan, I think Carrie Underwood was even in it. I don't know Just people that have astronomical numbers. Like Morgan Wallen has broken billboard record after billboard record. Zach Bryan is just like his own entity and almost like an independent artist vibe and I don't know it's. Listen, I'm glad that I'm not the one who has to choose it. I feel like it is an industry voted event. So it's the people who are on the ground, like boots on the ground, that vote on this, which, you can argue, becomes political because it does. But I don't know. I mean, I'm obviously happy for her, but I just I hope this isn't like the end for her.
Speaker 2I guess you know I think it's just going to be the beginning. I think that's probably part of why she's voted as the entertainer of the year. It gives her more spotlight and, like you said, a fantastic role model. Everybody loves her. She has a great story as well. This puts her on the map at even a larger scale, which is great for country music. I think she, like you said, is fantastic and deserving and I don't see any problem with it. I'm also like she's on Yellowstone. That's pretty talented right there.
Speaker 3Oh really.
Speaker 2One of those other guys are actors, so I'm all for Lainey Wilson, love her.
Speaker 3Big fan.
Speaker 2Big fan.
Speaker 3Bell Bottom, country, baby.
Speaker 2That's right. What do you got going on this week, gobblecat, where are you headed?
Speaker 3This week I'm headed to Fort Wayne, indiana, rosemont, illinois and St Louis, wherever St Louis is, missouri. I have three shows in three days. It'll be a quick little bus trip. I leave tonight and I'll be back Sunday morning.
Speaker 2What about Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3Thanksgiving oh yeah, we're talking about next week. I'm hanging out, I'm going to try and not travel. I travel literally every week. So my parents are going to come into town for a bit. I'm going to do a little friendsgiving as well, and I'm going to watch my brother play some hockey and I'm going to eat myself into a coma.
Thanksgiving Traditions and Favorite Sides
Speaker 2There we go and relax. Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions, usually as a family, or now is it kind of changed for you that you're in Nashville?
Speaker 3We're not big Thanksgiving, traditional people.
Speaker 2You gotta get ramped up for the big one.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, but also my brother's played hockey our entire lives. I was a gymnast and it is a winter sports. Those are winter sports. So there's always a hockey game to be had on Thanksgiving and or the day after. So it's just kind of a break from school and from work and for us to come together and eat. But I wouldn't say that we ever really went balls to the wall for Thanksgiving, and I don't. Now, as an adult, I don't eat either.
Speaker 2Yeah, what about you? I love Thanksgiving. I think it's probably my second favorite holiday.
Speaker 3That's a bold statement. Yeah, what?
Speaker 2are your traditions then? Growing up, we kind of celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas together on our dad's side of the family, because our grandparents would travel down South after Thanksgiving. So we call it thanks mess I believe that's from Seinfeld's, if I'm not mistaken and we have a thanks mess poll that my uncle Brian puts in his house, and so that's our big holiday. Because we don't do Christmas together, we get everybody there and we also do that fun game of where you give gifts and you get the. You gotta pick a number, but it's all real shitty gifts.
Speaker 3Like a white elephant.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like whatever. Like I will literally be running out the door and find something that's broken, or like one year I just like grabbed egg carton out of my refrigerator with like three or four eggs like stupid funny gifts, and then you just keep going around the room. So whoever's got the last number gets the pick of everything.
Speaker 3Right, you can either pick the a new present or you can pick something that someone's already opened. See that I get tricky when it's like real gifts, like if someone opens, you know, a laptop. Yeah.
Speaker 2And there's always like one decent one which kind of feels like a laptop compared to all the other ones that everybody will try and get. But I don't know Thanksgiving, just football. The Cowboys are on everything's given, yep, so you gotta love that. And then, obviously, the food.
Speaker 3Wait. So then hold on. I gotta go back to this present thing because I feel like obviously it's pretty popular during the holiday season, but it's. I think it's hysterical when you play it with your family. But do you have a go-to gift that you give, Like it?
Speaker 2changes every year.
Speaker 3Okay, so you don't have a go-to Okay.
Speaker 2No, like I try and be as stupid as possible.
Speaker 3What does stupid as possible mean?
Speaker 2Like you, literally, I literally put two raw eggs in a cart and my like little like cousin got it Like 10 years old. Thanks An avocado One year I gave a life-sized cardboard cut out of Paris Hilton that I used to have in my bedroom.
Speaker 3That is embarrassing on so many levels, but okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, paris Hilton.
Speaker 3Who got that Wait?
Speaker 2who got that? My uncle.
Speaker 3Does he still have it? He's still in his bedroom right now.
Speaker 2No, I don't know who ended up with that.
Speaker 3It's in his man cave.
Speaker 2And then the best part is is that every year, whatever gift I get, I always leave it at my uncle's house.
Speaker 3Yeah, so he just collects it.
Speaker 2So he collects it and it's like I just hide it. And one year, I think, I had like a walking boot. Somebody gave like their old walking boot after they broke their leg and I literally put it in his grill and it was there all winter and spring and then he opened up his grill in the summertime. It's like a walking boot in there.
Speaker 3Thank God it wasn't hot out, that would smell like ass.
Speaker 2Yeah, so Thanksgiving's the best. Also, we also always are used to always run in the Manchester road race in Connecticut. It's one of, like the biggest road races. It's like five miles.
Speaker 3Oh, your turkey trotters yeah. Yeah, for sure Sorry Dre.
Speaker 2No, no, you're like one of the people on the sideline that are just handing out beers to the boys.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, listen, I'll get up and go to the turkey trot.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3And I will have an iced or, I'm sorry, an iced a hot beverage in my hand that may or may not contain alcohol, and I will support you from start to finish, but I am not trotting my ass anywhere, whether turkeys are involved or not.
Speaker 2Well, some years I mean not this year, obviously, because I'm sober, but we'll take the beers when we're running, chug them.
Speaker 3Are you going home for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2No, can't obviously.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're about to pop. Is anybody coming to you guys, or are you guys just gonna do your own thing?
Speaker 2We're gonna do our own little friendsgiving thing at the house.
Speaker 3At yours.
Speaker 2Yeah, nice.
Speaker 3Yeah, do you have a good hosting home?
Speaker 2That's decent.
Speaker 3Open concept.
Speaker 2It's open concept.
Speaker 3So the real question is if you're doing a friendsgiving and you're hosting, does that mean you're in charge of the turkey?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 3Ooh, that sounds dangerous.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 3I hope you have a house win the days over.
Speaker 2Probably going to text a nice catering company.
Speaker 3I was gonna say are you gonna reach out, outsource this?
Speaker 2That's what I always do, like I've done the last couple of years Christmas Thanksgiving one year and I like to get it catered in.
Speaker 3Okay, all of it or just the turkey?
Speaker 2I've done both. It's just so much better Okay.
Speaker 3I get the turkey part, but I am judging you for the sides, because Thanksgiving, let's be honest, is all about the sides.
Speaker 2Side's chick.
Speaker 3Big side's chick. I think that I personally believe and I would run on this as a presidential platform that turkey at Thanksgiving is simply just a vessel for you to use to get sides into your mouth. Of course, nobody's favorite part of Thanksgiving is the turkey Nobody's. And if they are, you should be careful.
Speaker 2Well, let's get into it then. Final four, top four sides on Thanksgiving we're gonna get Andrew in here as well. We wanna get everybody here because we're all kind of from different parts of the country. I'm from Connecticut, we got a Michigan boy, yeah, and we got a Texas.
Speaker 3That's a Texan, but yeah, and we got a Texas, and we got a Texas, we got a Texas.
Speaker 2So let's see growing up. If our sides are any different, I'll kick it off.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Number four I am going with mashed potatoes. A nice creamy white mashed potato Can't go wrong. You can't really mess it up. That's it. It's just that simple.
Speaker 3Is it from a box? Are you doing like real potatoes?
Speaker 2I'm going real potatoes on that one.
Speaker 3That's awfully bold for someone who's gonna cater to Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Someone else would do the hard work.
Speaker 2Yeah, mashed potatoes, what do you got down in Texas.
Speaker 1Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Mashed potatoes just raw. What do you mean raw Raw Like no gravy, no, nothing, just.
Speaker 2We'll get to the gravy. But I'm just like a mashed potato is its own, yeah.
Speaker 3But like he's saying you're just gonna eat it plain no butter, no salt, no mashed potatoes. Like how do you dress this up? You just slab on mashed potatoes and move on.
Speaker 2I'll tell you at the end of my final four how do I eat everything.
Speaker 3Oh apparently there's secrets about mashed potatoes, andrew, what's yours?
Speaker 1I'll go with. My grandma used to make a key lime like Jell-O salad or key lime pear Jell-O salad, and as a kid it was like my favorite thing. I haven't really been home for Thanksgiving, probably like six or seven years, so I haven't had it in a while, but as a kid I would die for this thing.
Speaker 3All right, I gotta be honest. I think I would have listed 100 other items before a key lime Jell-O salad as your top four favorite Thanksgiving items, but we are just full of surprises over here.
Speaker 2I bet you, if you Googled top 100 Thanksgiving sides, that would not make the list.
Speaker 3I would be willing to bet a lot of money on that I'm happy to be niche.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right.
Thanksgiving Side Dish Favorites
Speaker 3Hey, good for you, man. Michigan's weird. I love it. My top four. I feel like I'm gonna go with a corn casserole. Big corn girl love cream corn a variation. I mean I don't know what goes into it, but I know it's probably 18% butter.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3And I'm okay with it. I love it Creamy.
Speaker 1Corn.
Speaker 3And I feel like you mix it in with all the other shit on your plate. Perfect Chef's kiss.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was talking yesterday with a buddy about cream corn that he makes. He sent me the ingredients and the recipe. I don't think I'll do it, but love it.
Speaker 3Love the idea of it. I'll be your caterer as well.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, number three.
Speaker 1I'm going with gravy, that's my side, that's not a side.
Speaker 3It doesn't count, dude, it doesn't count, that doesn't count, that's a condiment.
Speaker 2That's a condiment side.
Speaker 3You okay, no, no, let me tell. So you just eat gravy by the spoonful.
Speaker 2Well, like you said, a vessel which is turkey.
Speaker 3No, no, so that's a vessel.
Speaker 2That's a vessel then. Okay, then I'll put it in the vessel category. I'll change it. I'll go to rolls. I got rolls.
Speaker 3Okay, I'll take that, I'll accept that.
Speaker 2I will eat 36 rolls when I sit down for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3But again plain Little little white. Hawaiian, little Hawaiian rolls.
Speaker 2What's that? They're called Hawaiians.
Speaker 1Yeah, like little Hawaiian rolls, I mean, I Coated in butter, dude. Yeah, oh, side of the art, salted everything Salty garlic, butter gravy, that's my third. My in-laws do like a. They'll put like gravy in a roll and it is insane.
Speaker 3Inside the roll. Yeah, Like in the or like as part of a sandwich it's kind of like.
Speaker 1You ever seen those TikTok videos where it's like a chocolate filled croissant?
Speaker 3Yes, no, I haven't, cause I am 33 years old. But yeah, you haven't seen any of those you know what I mean.
Speaker 1It's a bakery. I know what a croissant is. Yeah, where they put like or like a donut, where it's like filling in a donut Totally, they'll put just like a little bit of gravy in the roll.
Speaker 3Life changing. Yeah, it's good. It's not a bad idea. I'm into it. It's very good. Look at you with your unique responses today. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1I know which two are boring, but Okay, are you cooking at your house? I've cooked a couple of times, but mostly like Lily will take over that, all right.
Speaker 3I need a wife, sounds nice. Anyways, number three I'm a big casserole girl, apparently, but I'm gonna go green bean casserole.
Speaker 2Ugh.
Speaker 3Love it Because it's got like the French onion soup, or not. French onion soup, what is it? The cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, whatever you mix in with it, with, like a love, a little jalapeno crisp on top Amazing, and it's fake. You're faking yourself to think that you're really eating vegetables, like, at least one thing on my plate is green. Still not good for you, but it's delicious.
Speaker 2Green beans are tough Really.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't feel that way about green beans. I feel that way about carrots and peas and ham, but you know green beans.
Speaker 2What about ham? You do ham on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3Ugh, ham is the Satan food. What I will never eat. Ham. It's cold, it's jiggly, it smells. Do not get it next to me. I don't care if it's hot, I don't care if it's on a sandwich. No, ham. Okay, I didn't announce ham. No, don't even bring it near me. I can't even smell it.
Speaker 2Some ham and mustard, yeah.
Speaker 1Oh God, that makes me want to throw up right now. It's so funny that people have like everybody has that thing.
Speaker 3Yeah, my ham.
Speaker 1Yeah, yours is ham. Everybody has their like. I will. What's yours?
Speaker 2The first time I ever ate a tomato I threw up.
Speaker 1Really. Yeah, do you still not like tomatoes?
Speaker 2I've gradually will accept them on a sandwich every now and then, but yeah, I will never just eat a raw tomato. Yeah Me neither I refuse olives, Ugh same.
Speaker 1Lily will, just like I, go to the store and buy jars of olives and she just eats them and I hate every second of it.
Speaker 2I've probably had three olives in my entire life Same.
Speaker 1And every time I wanted to throw up.
Speaker 3I can't even with their. You're like so you won't even taste them. They're just mixed into this. Yes, I will. The only thing I will taste is the olives. Yeah, dude, it's so. It tastes so bad, it's based. Olives are basically just for people who love like mouthfuls of salt. Like I don't understand. I do want to be a martini girl, like dirty martini, with blue cheese stuffed olives. I would love to be that girl, it ain't it?
Speaker 2Nope, nope. Number two can we do desserts in there?
Speaker 3Yeah, throw it in.
Speaker 2That included. I didn't say that's a side.
Speaker 3It's part of the meal.
Speaker 2All right, I'll go pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving is so good. No whipped cream, no ice cream, no, nothing Throw a little whip on there and you don't really have to do much to cook a pumpkin pie. Right, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 3Well, they also like provide them already made in the store, which is simple.
Speaker 2Yep, I'm going pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3And even the shitty in-store pre-made pumpkin pie still pretty good.
Speaker 2Pretty good, so probably better than when I'm cooked.
Speaker 3I would. I mean, I think it depends, Maybe yours yeah, but I think you know you can't go wrong. It's kind of hard to mess up pie.
Speaker 1It is.
Speaker 3I think I'm also not a big pie gal. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I. It's okay, I'll eat it, but I'm going to choose the rolls and the gravy over. I don't feel like I never make it to dessert because I gorge too much on the first half.
Speaker 2Okay, you go for seconds and thirds.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, and like a sandwich and then like some sort of like creative turkey. Yes, I will do that all day, to the point where then I cannot eat dessert. So I feel like I don't really like venture into pie. That make me weird.
Speaker 1Yes, okay, so yeah. My number two is Coors Light. All right, I'm kidding, I'll go Green Bean Casserole as well.
Speaker 3Nice.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3What's your secret ingredient, though?
Speaker 1because everybody makes it differently. I have no idea. Never made it. It's got to have, like the little French onion frilly crunchies on top, sure.
Speaker 3The crisp.
Speaker 1The crispiness, that's what takes it overboard, that's what's like gets you through the finish line.
Speaker 3Yeah, killer, my, uh, mine is cranberries. My number two is cranberries, just cranberries. I love sliced cranberries. I love actual cranberries of cranberry sauce. I love drizzling it on top, I love putting it on a sandwich and I think that you do yourself a disservice if you don't break off a little piece of cranberry with each bite that you take.
Speaker 2I am in 100% agreeance on that.
Speaker 3Are you a weirdo that has to have all their food not touching?
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 3Or can you mix it all together?
Speaker 2That was my number one.
Speaker 3I like that you started shaking your head. Yes, when I said are you a weirdo? Before I finished the sentence.
Speaker 2Yes, I am a weirdo.
Speaker 3But uh, you know some people. They're like I can't have my food touch on my plate and I was like Thanksgiving is your worst nightmare.
Speaker 2You can't have your food touched, especially at Thanksgiving. Just get out of the house.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm not into picky eaters. I know that's ironic for me to say that. I just really almost threw up on camera over ham, but like grown adults that are picky eaters are get out of here. Yeah, I don't have time for you.
Speaker 2Well, my number one is in fact cranberry sauce. Okay, I'm not the sliced, I'm walking cranberry sauce out of a can.
Speaker 3Oh nice, yeah, I'll just eat it straight.
Speaker 2Love. Cranberry sauce out of the can is so good and, like you said, I will put that on everything, my entire plates. That's why I had gravy as a side. Give me cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy on a roll. I'll just scoop that roll into my mouth and do that for about a hundred and fifty different times.
Speaker 3I was going to say 10 hours on on repeat, so wait a minute.
Speaker 1The plate thus far is yeah.
Speaker 3Sources and carbs.
Speaker 1Yeah, potato, so like when you are making your plate it's going to be turkey potatoes and then sauce.
Speaker 2And cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Sources and what else did I say Gravy?
Speaker 3Gravy. You just have like a bunch of liquids and then a roll.
Speaker 1Do you not get all the other stuff? Do you just not like it, or is it just not in your top four?
Speaker 2I usually, yeah, my plate will be a bunch of turkey, a bunch of mashed potatoes, Rolls, cranberry sauce, gravy and, yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 3Okay, you're missing the most important stuff.
Speaker 2That is the most. Look at your shirt right now.
Speaker 3Okay, mashed potatoes cranberry sauce macaroni roll potatoes greens what do you mean? Look at my shirt. My shirt is actually the opposite of everything you're trying to prove.
Speaker 2You guys do macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, Bake mac and cheese oh that's my number.
Speaker 1My number two is like a cheesy potato.
Speaker 3Wait, we're number one baby, or my number one, sorry.
Speaker 1My number one is like cheesy potato casserole with corn flakes on top.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, cheesy potatoes. How did I forget about cheesy potatoes?
Speaker 1I know right.
Speaker 3I am un-American. I do love it, but I can't back out on my number one now because I do feel like it's just disgusting and I'm also someone who eats this year around, which I feel like it's a very Thanksgiving forward side and that is stuffing.
Speaker 2I fucking love stuffing, sausage stuffing.
Speaker 3My grandma makes some with like some I don't know. My dad sent me the recipe last year. I made it for the first time and it was pretty delicious. I was on FaceTime with like three of my aunts they were trying to walk me through it which was chaos because I was intoxicated, but it came out awesome and I have to say if you don't like stuffing, I don't like you.
Speaker 2I'm a newly stuffing guy. What I didn't know Within, like the last five years, six years, Did you just not have why, I don't know?
Speaker 3Did you just not have good experience with it?
Speaker 2No, I just didn't. I think again, if it's on its own it's like decent. But I'll throw that on the plate as well.
Speaker 1It's really got to be. It's a risky side because, done wrong, it's really dry and bad.
Thanksgiving, Family, and Food
Speaker 3Okay. So that is what I was thinking, like maybe you just had a bad experience with it. Because I do have to say, like how we were saying, pumpkin pie can't really go wrong. You can buy it at the store like or you can eat cranberry out of can. You can mess up stuffing and you can ruin it for someone, true, that's why I don't flunk around and when I'm invited to a Thanksgiving, I make the stuffing, because then I know it's going to be good. Immediately I'm like, oh, I'll make the stuffing. You guys do remember.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Don't sign me up for the turkey. That scares me Too intimidating.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1Samcat making stuffing as a side in like August.
Speaker 3Oh, I do, I do, I do, I do, I make stuffing year round, yeah.
Speaker 2Because I wonder what's the market like for stuffing Sales has got to be completely non-existent from January till September.
Speaker 3Okay, but I'm also saying that, like they can bankroll the sales that they have in the month of November to last them until the next November.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like the Halloween stores.
Speaker 3I also don't think that there's just like a stuffing company, like I don't know that that's really out there. But I do like that you're concerned for them, yeah, but yeah, I keep them in business. It's kind of like when you're driving down the street and you see an Arby's and you're like who the fuck is keeping them in business. You know, like I really want to know, please present yourself who's keeping Arby's in business? Long John Silver's who's keeping them in business? I've never even been there in my life. See, this is a drug front.
Speaker 2I'm not even joking. Cracker barrel, all of our grandmothers are keeping them in business.
Speaker 3Bro, I've got a crackle Cracker barrel. Cracker barrel smacks dude. Yes, When's the last time you've been to a cracker barrel?
Speaker 2With my grandma a few years ago.
Speaker 3Yeah, Dude, it's good and everybody's like nice there. I didn't, I don't know, don't, don't shit on cracker barrel Arby's like, who's going there When's?
Speaker 2the last time you went to an Arby's I'm probably when I was 20 years old.
Speaker 1maybe Roast beef has to be the grossest meat. Roast beef has to be grosser than ham.
Speaker 3No, I'll eat roast beef just like straight out of the package, but I cannot even make eye contact with ham. Damn hey ham hate it I didn't. I'm not saying that it makes sense, it's just yeah, don't call me ham cat. That's actually the first one that I'm going to say it. Nope, I don't know. I don't really have a lot of foods that I'm like, I have a visceral reaction to, and ham is one of them, and I say it proudly. I don't care if it's weird.
Speaker 2I own that. Are you a football family guy from Michigan, like after going outside tossing the ball around your buddies playing tackle football, everything's giving.
Speaker 1Yeah, there was, like there was always that like crowd that does like their turkey day like game or whatever, and it's like 8am and they're playing football in like the neighborhood and I never participated. We'll go, I'll go out and like, if it's not snowing, like maybe throw a ball. I honestly haven't been home. We're going home next or this week, we're home for Thanksgiving and it's the first time that I'll have been home for that holiday and like probably five or six years and I've got little nephews now they're like four so I think this experience will be far different than previous.
Speaker 3Why'd you? Why'd you stay here? Did you stay here? Did you go to your wife's family?
Speaker 1Well, my wife and my parents, like our families, live like five minutes away from each other.
Speaker 3Of course they do, andrew. Of course they do.
Speaker 1So we actually just like, well, we can just kind of pop back and forth. It's great. But I don't know. I lived in LA for a while and all of college. I just never really was going to go home because it's a quick weekend. Yeah, then you're going to go all the way. Yeah, I'm not going to go all the way to Michigan for three days.
Speaker 2To go back for Christmas.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3I do find it interesting that you kind of do it reverse. I feel like a lot of people kind of gloss over Thanksgiving, especially as you get older and life is pulling you in different directions. You're in college, three days home, the price of travel, where I feel like Christmas, everybody kind of gets an extended period of downtime and that is when a lot of family things happen.
Speaker 2Yeah, but you guys just like put your thing down, put it in reverse. They're like get me out of Connecticut, it is too cold. We want to go down south.
Speaker 3Listen, they're correct. Yeah, they're right. Good for them. Can I go?
Speaker 2Yeah, that's the other thing. Sometimes it snows on Thanksgiving. Same thing with Connecticut when we do our road race.
Speaker 1it's freezing, so cold. That's what I'm not looking forward to. I love it.
Speaker 3Wait, do you do the road race for, like, raising money or just for shits and gigs?
Speaker 2No shits and gigs.
Speaker 1I actually think I would get on board. I haven't been on a run in a long time, but I might run on Thanksgiving morning just so that I don't feel terrible about all the other consumption.
Speaker 2I thought you were going to say, just so you don't have to spend that much time with your family.
Speaker 1No, maybe a little bit of that.
Speaker 2You went for a run. It's the first time he's ran in five years.
Speaker 1He went for a run three hours ago. I don't know where he is.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, there, we have it Thanksgiving sides.
Speaker 3I'm excited now. I feel like I know you accused me of forgetting about Thanksgiving because I do love Christmas and I get it, but Thanksgiving is a day and Christmas is a season, so they're a little bit different. But I feel like this is the first time I've really thought thoroughly about Thanksgiving and now I'm excited.
Speaker 2Well, one of the best parts about Thanksgiving is that car ride home from Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2And then you can turn on the radio and then Christmas music begins and you get excited because then it's officially Christmas season the night of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3You can live in whatever reality you choose. To Us, happy people over here, we chose to spread joy for longer than I don't know the allotted time that you're giving Sam Catten spreading joy.
Speaker 2Those two words are just go hand in hand.
Speaker 3Yeah, they do. You should come to my house right now. It's lit. Literally, literally it's amazing and you walk in and you can't help but be happy, you can't help but feel joy, and then it just makes you feel better about going out into the world. Let me ask you a question, sir Grumpy Gills, over here and maybe I'm just overthinking, because I do that naturally but have you ever stopped to think that, like this is your last holiday season not being a dad, but you're not even going to make it through the whole holiday?
Speaker 2season because the baby will pop up in the middle of it. It'll be the last, maybe Thanksgiving, oh my God.
Speaker 3What if you have a Thanksgiving baby?
Speaker 2I would love that.
Speaker 3Okay, well, let's just push for that.
Speaker 2I would love that. Well, we just got back from the doctor as an hour ago and they went to check to see if she's dilated. And, andrew, I got to ask you another question here, sorry, okay. All good All right, this is a guy question. So when they say hey, you're dilated, what do you think is dilated?
Speaker 1What do you even mean? What?
Speaker 3is Jesus.
Speaker 1What is like, what is a lot of dilation or what is being dilated.
Speaker 2When you think dilated and they're like you're one centimeter dilated, cervix, right, that is right yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 2Well, you know, I thought maybe that, just like everything, just starts opening.
Speaker 3I do have to say I also saw a recent photo or not photo video that you posted on Instagram where you mentioned the word Braxton Hicks and then followed up with whatever those are, and I just want to take a second to clarify were you trying to be cute for the internet or did you really not know what Braxton Hicks were?
Speaker 2No, I know that they're contractions. I don't know the actual no.
Speaker 3Okay, so you knew that they were like contractions, or?
Speaker 2in the realm of regular contractions, sure, but I don't know what Braxton Hicks means.
Speaker 3Okay, All right, I just wanted to make sure that you knew like it had to do with childbirth. At least I know that.
Speaker 2Okay, Okay. Well, I don't know man the way you presented it. I was like oh Jesus, I don't know the difference between Braxton Hicks versus regular, do you yeah?
Preparing for a Hospital Stay
Speaker 3But I just and also I also want to go hold on, we'll get there. I also want to go back to how did you not know that you needed a hospital bag?
Speaker 2Yeah, I thought you just go in, I mean, every's Booth. Have you ever watched a movie? Yeah, they grab a bag, but people are making it seem like you need a. Did you see all the comments? They're like putting 20 listed items on there. I'm like what do you need besides clothes?
Speaker 3I guess. Well, you know a lot of things, but it also not everybody has a quick delivery, right. So sometimes it feels like you're kind of camped out in the hospital and I don't know if you've ever been to a hospital. But it's not cozy, that's not. I mean, I I saw them like pillows and snacks and phone chargers and things that's like a 10 foot long phone charger.
Speaker 3Right, cause you're going to. I don't know you're going to be sitting in a bed, you're going to be sitting on a cot, so you don't know if you'll be there overnight. You don't know how many nights, you don't know. You know it's like a let's prepare for the worst and hope for the best. I feel like, is what a hospital bag is. Have I ever had a child? No, am I speaking out of my ass? Yes, but from what I can gather, it's kind of like well, what would you want in a waiting room? Cause you're essentially in a waiting room. You're not giving birth, right? So I guess I would be like a good mindset for you to pack your bag Now for Dre. I don't know people who have given birth should help her, because I'm sure, there's a whole different list.
Speaker 3It's a whole different list, it's a whole different experience. I could pack a bag thinking that I knew everything, and then you get there and you're like why did I pack like this? You know what I mean. Like you get out of the birth and you're like okay, so if I have another kid, let's scratch these nine things and add I don't know a hair tie. Why don't I bring a hair tie when I was going to go give birth? That seems important.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, I guess I was just thinking that I would just run in the hospital. I'd be in my clothes, I live like 10 minutes from the hospital and I'd just be hanging out until the baby's born, like sleeping in a chair and then getting up and going home with the baby. I don't know how much you need. Like am I going to be showering there at the hospital? You say, like some people there for a few days?
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2So they just have like a shower in the room.
Speaker 3Sean, have you ever been in a hospital?
Speaker 2I've been in the hospital rooms without showers.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah, that's also possible. I just yeah, man, it could be. You could be there for 30 minutes Like Drake and Sneeze, and the thing could pop out. We don't know. That's. What I'm saying is that you have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Maybe you won't shower for three days, I don't know. You don't have any friends that have their wives have given birth that you could ask.
Speaker 2I mean everybody's different right. Every situation is different.
Speaker 3Like.
Speaker 2Charlie was there with V. They were literally there for like a few hours basically.
Speaker 3And that is best case scenario, baby, she just swat that thing out.
Speaker 2Love it.
Speaker 3But that's not always the case.
Speaker 2Somebody was like, which I might do, though, you should get a blow up mattress from Amazon. I was like, oh, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 3I will judge you if you do that, but you know what you do. Dre is going to be giving birth to your child and you brought a blow up mattress so you could be relaxed.
Speaker 2No, I mean she can't pop on the blow up mattress with me.
Speaker 3Oh, okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's going well. It's a whole big thing.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean I think that the hospital experience is life changing, for obvious reasons, but also just I think I've a lot of my guy friends that have witnessed their partner give birth.
Speaker 2They come out of it just like a completely different perspective, Right, and I hope that you have that too in a good way, of course, but also like what did our dads bring to the hospital when we were born?
Speaker 3Bro, I don't know. I was inside my mother like camping out Nothing. Okay, what does that have to do with anything? Now Like okay, so just because they had a sufferable experience with that.
Speaker 2you have to have that experience. No, what I'm saying about this whole bag thing is that it seems like it's being it's a very dramatic thing where everybody is like, oh my God, what do you have in your bag? You got your bag ready, bag this bag, that, and I thought you just bring, like maybe another set of clothes and that's it.
Speaker 3And you could.
Speaker 2Yeah, but hey. Now I have a list on my Instagram, if everybody wants to check it out, a list of hundreds of things. I'm going to go with phone charger. I'll bring my laptop Right Watch some movies on there. Four Set of clothes.
Speaker 3Snacks.
Speaker 2Yeah, but again snacks. Yeah, I guess snacks.
Speaker 3You're not going to get hungry.
Speaker 2No, we get hungry, but they have food there.
Speaker 3Yeri no, no, no food.
Speaker 2I know, I feel like it's had have gotten a little bit better by now, right? No, yeah, snacks is a good one.
Speaker 3Okay, I was like I don't know about that.
Speaker 2But we could order Uber Eats.
Speaker 3Sure, yeah, I'm sure that's perfectly sanitary. Yeah, you know, I don't know, I've never delivered a baby, yeah. I don't know that that's allowed either.
Speaker 2Yeah, throw a service vest on him.
Speaker 3I've met Walter and he would not be well behaved in that vicinity. No, he would pull things out of the wall and probably out of Dre, which is not good.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Let's just keep him at home.
Speaker 2He would wait. So what are Braxton, hicks?
Speaker 3Braxton Hicks are almost like false alarm. False alarm. It's like you feel the pain of a contraction, but it's not actually like you're not in labor, you're not delivering, your water hasn't broken. It's not go time, baby. It's the pregame, it is the pregame.
Speaker 2What is it doing? Give me some more details.
Speaker 3I mean, I just feel like it's false labor pains, is it not?
Speaker 2What do you mean? False, like you're imagining them.
Speaker 3No, I mean like you're not in labor. Like I just said, am I wrong?
Speaker 2Let's see here Everything you need to know about Braxton Hicks. Let's see here Wondering if you're experiencing Braxton Hicks, feeling contractions hang tight. They may be Braxton Hicks, which are different from true labor contractions. These are your body's way of preparing for labor and they're perfectly normal in your second, third trimester. What are they? It's the tightening of the pregnant person's uterus anytime before they're actually in labor. Think of them as training for the main events. Sometimes known as false labor, false alarm, braxton Hicks contractions are known to send many people to the hospital thinking their baby's on the way.
Speaker 3Here's the thing about me is I feel like if I ever were to give birth I have heard so many people go to the hospital early because they have Braxton Hicks and they think they're in labor that I would overdo it and just like accidentally give birth at my house because I'm just stubborn like that. But I'd say I nailed it, Did I not?
Speaker 2Pretty close.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like a false alarm Go time. I feel like it's like a warm-up lap, like, hey, buddy, this is happening, whether you're ready or not. Here's a little surprise, here's a little dabble.
Speaker 2Yeah, she had them real bad a couple days ago. We had to call the doctor and then we went in there today and then they checked out. She has dilated a little bit, so we're getting there.
Speaker 3How are you feeling? I feel like you're getting a nervous stretch in right now.
Speaker 2No, I'm good, I'm excited. I want the baby here now. We just got in the outfits like their first little hospital outfit with their names, so we ordered them at the same time and only the girl one came in.
Speaker 3Maybe that's a sign. That's what I thought. I think you're having a girl. Yeah, I don't know if I've said that I think you're having a boy before, but I think you're having a girl.
Speaker 2That's what everybody seems to be saying now. They're all changing. At first it was all boys, and now it's every single girl.
Speaker 3I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Only time will tell. Maybe you'll have it this Thanksgiving. Have it.
Speaker 2That was rude.
Speaker 3Have them.
Speaker 2Have them they.
Speaker 3Them they it be her.
Speaker 2Yeah, we'll let them. They choose their gender when they come out. Okay, just kidding. But yeah, it's almost go time so I'll get my bag ready and then and now you know what Bryson Hicks are. Yeah, but Christmas will be so much cooler this year with a little baby. Not as fun, obviously, because the baby's not going to know anything. No, but just to have a baby on Christmas is pretty cool. Start watching the polar express with them the real good movies, you know the creepy ones.
Speaker 2Yeah, and then by next year one they should be walking, talking a little bit.
Speaker 3Yeah, now they'll be more alert, like they'll be more aware and like be able to absorb information around them. So I feel like again the magic of the Christmas season that you love to shit on because it shows up too early. I bet you next year, when your kid loves seeing lights and sparkles and Santa and all this, you'll be singing a different tune.
Speaker 2Listen, I don't have a shit on it. I just think it's more special when you make it a shorter season, not shorter season, the right season. You don't overdo it. By the time you're sitting around a Christmas tree for two, three months, you're like all right, this is good Two, three months.
Speaker 3Who said two or three months you?
Speaker 2No, I didn't. You've had a Christmas tree up for how long.
Speaker 3Literally yesterday, okay, okay. So what's what an extra week? No, you're really getting your butthole clenched over a week.
Speaker 2How long do you have it up?
Speaker 3until I come back from Texas and I will get New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
Speaker 2You take it down on New Year's Day.
Speaker 3Hell yeah.
Speaker 2I don't believe that.
Speaker 3You're annoying me today. Okay, what am?
Speaker 2I supposed to be. You want me to?
Speaker 3video it for you because I love a New Year's Day clean. Wake up, take all your Christmas stuff down, new Year, new you. Yes, I always rearrange my furniture on New Year's Day, deep clean everything and I get ready to rock and roll into the New Year. All right, Sorry, my one week extra. Having my Christmas tree up is really razzling you.
Speaker 2It is. It's unacceptable you know what.
Speaker 3There have been studies that show people who put up their Christmas trees early are happier. Sorry, I'm happy.
Speaker 2Scientific studies.
Speaker 3Okay, people much smarter than you and I, I figure that out Interesting. I also just feel like why do you care? Why do you care? You're like oh, I can't be happy for too long, so I have to make it shorter.
Speaker 2Not the argument. Scrooge Not the argument. What's the best Christmas song?
Speaker 3Oh, best Christmas song? That's a good question. Best Christmas song? I don't know, because I feel like it listen. Christmas music is something that I would agree with could not be elongated out, so when do you start that? I mean, I listened to Christmas jazz in the morning and that absolutely gets me riled up for the day. I feel like waking up and sitting in front of the Christmas tree drinking some coffee, listening to some like oh, there's nothing better than chestnuts roasting.
Speaker 3Oh, I love Frankie Mickey Blue Eyes. I'm probably going to go home and listen to that now. I just love the cozy feeling that all of that encompasses.
Speaker 2Yeah that's great.
Speaker 3But I don't know what my favorite Christmas song is. I think it just changes.
Speaker 2I'm going to start going away for Christmas with the family to a colder, snowy place. That's what I want to do. I want to spend every December in like shit I don't know Colorado, maybe, somewhere where you wake up and there's feet of snow. You can go skiing, you can go.
Speaker 3Oh you rich, rich, huh.
Speaker 2Rich, rich, that's not rich, rich.
Speaker 3Skiing in Colorado for Christmas is not rich, rich.
Speaker 2Sure, I don't know.
Speaker 3Hey, you and I have different definitions of rich.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3You ever been skiing? You ever been snowboarding in Colorado?
Speaker 2Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun, it's expensive, it's all right, maybe spin Little place called spin.
Speaker 3I was just there. Also expensive, but beautiful, yeah, all right. Well, I didn't realize that you were going to go off and get rich, so congratulations to you and your family. Yeah, that'll be fun. Thanks, you're going to get matching ski uniforms? Oh, that would be cute.
Speaker 2I did see a video of a little baby snowboarding. The dad's just like holding the kid by its armpits and this thing is just right between his legs. It's a little girl. It's the funniest thing ever. Just a stoic look on her face, I think probably around one year old.
Speaker 3Yeah, they start them young, Especially if the parents are super talented or my brother plays hockey, so I feel like a lot of his teammates. If they have kids or people that have played, they'll pick the kid up and put them on skates and can skate with them. Personally, I would never do that because I'm not a good enough skater to do so, but if you're feeling comfortable skiing down the mountain with your kid in between your knees, go for it.
Speaker 2Yeah, hockey changes subjects to a much darker subject. Do you see that guy who died? Did you see the video? That was one of the most disgusting videos I've ever seen.
Speaker 3That traumatized me, that is horrendous and just, I don't know, horrific. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what I think about that. I think that you shouldn't watch the video.
Speaker 2No, the guy just got arrested for manslaughter I think attempted manslaughter.
Speaker 3I don't know that. Listen, I don't know enough about the situation. I've only seen the clip. I wish I didn't. You never want to see a freak accident happen in general, but when you can't trust that it was a freak accident, I feel like it's even worse.
Speaker 2I mean that guy put his skate and leg up pretty damn high.
Speaker 3And aggressively, and aggressively and you know that you have skates on your feet- and you know you have skates on your feet.
Speaker 2You're also one of the dirtiest players in the league, they said. And if you were at home and you don't know, this guy was playing in a hockey game and he was basically just going down the ice and some other guy came flying in and did like a 360 kind of swirl through his foot up there and just sliced the guy's neck right open right there and he died.
Speaker 3And he was, I think, 29 years old.
Speaker 2Engaged.
Speaker 3Super young and I used to work in hockey, so I feel like that industry or that corner of the world is very small in general. So the people that I know that knew him I feel like make it way too close to home. It wasn't just someone I saw on the internet, it was like someone. I didn't know him personally and I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that like when it's just one degree of separation, all of a sudden it's like way too close for me so I can't, I don't wanna think about it. Honestly, my brother still plays hockey. Obviously there is a risk to anything that you do that's athletic, or even not just leaving your house is a risk. You just never wanna think about the possibilities because I feel like that's a dark hole to go down, but that is rough.
Speaker 2They gotta all wear neck guards going forward, right?
Speaker 3I mean, if I were to talk to you, I'd be like, yeah, tj Oshie, he plays in the NHL here and I feel like he's a pretty well-known player. He started wearing the neck thing shortly after that. I don't know if it will become required. I don't know if it will just be personal preference, I don't know.
Speaker 3I mean, they used to play hockey without helmets, without any face anything, so that's insane to me to think about the level of risk involved in that in general, but I think the safety precautions in sports across the board have grown immensely Like. If you think about my dad jokes about like when he played football it was like no padding in his helmet. It's like you see an old football helmet. It's like what?
Speaker 2Nothing Like your backpack over there.
Speaker 3Correct, and no wonder these guys have CTE and all this brain damage. So across the board, I think all sports are kind of really stepping up, which obviously anybody should appreciate. I think anybody who has an argument that it makes them soft is probably busy doing something stupid with their life. I don't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, for sure it's sad, a freak accident.
Childhood Memories and Neighbor Relationships
Speaker 3I mean, it kind of makes me sick. I like think about it. I don't want to talk about it anymore. I would like to move on, please.
Speaker 2Yeah, how about figure skating?
Speaker 3Are we just going winter sports now?
Speaker 2Winter sports.
Speaker 3I'm a pretty good figure skater.
Speaker 2Are you?
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say I'm good. Like I was saying before, I don't know that I would trust holding my child up and doing a lot of moves, but like I can skate around and do some spins, do a little scale, little airbasket down on one knee or one foot and like put my foot out.
Speaker 2I feel like that kind of translates over from gymnastics.
Speaker 3I just think like body, excuse me, body awareness does. But actually when I lived in Illinois, when I was growing up as a kid, in our blue house we had a decent sized backyard and my dad would build oh okay, got it. That was impressive, speaking of skill. My dad would build an ice rink in the backyard every year yeah that's awesome. So my brother obviously plays hockey. All of his friends would come over. Some of them played hockey. We would have tournaments. I was a fantastic goalie, not by skill but by luck.
Speaker 2I was gonna say we're gonna throw a Samcat in that.
Speaker 3Yeah, I was good at it because I was like flexible and quick and not the strongest skater, so you don't really have to be a strong skater to be a goalie. But I think that's where I mostly learned how to ice skate and that's like I don't know. Thinking back to that, it's like some of my fondest childhood memories.
Speaker 2I was just gonna say the person, the kid who has a ice skating rink in their yard. You remember that? I remember my buddy, peter Dennis. He had one in his yard that his dad made. I'm like that stuff right there that the dads do like that. Kids will remember that the rest of their lives.
Speaker 3It was so fun, so awesome and we would skate and then we had a hot tub. So we would skate, be freezing and then just jump in the hot tub, which I'm sure we ruined my parents' hot tub. Sorry, but some of my friends still to this day. When my parents sold that house they were very sad. We were the fun house, we had the trampoline, we had a dance studio, we were allowed to live at our house and I had. Some of my friends didn't have the same environment, so my parents were like the more the merrier. I got pizza rolls in the oven. We're doing it.
Speaker 2That's the best you have a pool back there too.
Speaker 3No, we weren't rich, sean, we were just creative.
Speaker 2You weren't rich, but you had an ice skating rink on trampoline.
Speaker 3Yes. But, no pool. I'm sorry. Do you understand the price difference and the two things that you just listed?
Speaker 2Oh no, you could get a nice above ground pool.
Speaker 3Sure, sure, sure, yeah, but what I'm talking about? No, we did it. We had a hot tub.
Speaker 2Yeah, but you're not rich. No, hot tub's more than a pool.
Speaker 3I wasn't checking my father's finances. I'm sorry. I'm just saying I was thinking like an in-ground pool, Like those are expensive.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, none of us. We didn't grow up rich either, but we all had those above ground pools. Yeah, those are wild.
Speaker 3Dude, I used to love spinning in a circle and making the tide go. You just coast through it.
Speaker 2Yeah, whirlpool.
Speaker 3I might just do that in my backyard now you should. I've thought about those little blow-up pools. When it's 3,000 degrees here in Tennessee, I'm like I could just sit in it. I have myself a cocktail in my backyard. I live next to some college kids. I'm sure they'd come join me.
Speaker 2Oh, that'd be great. Do they keep you up at night, or what?
Speaker 3No, they're nice boys. They're like in a. They're nice boys. They're nice boys. They're nice boys. I feel this to me like I'm a grandmother. They're in grad school. I live next to the campus, so they're older than 20-year-old, know-it-alls. So they are respectful, but they are funny, I do. I feel like it's almost a little nostalgic for me when I see them. They work out in the garage. They're not very quiet then, but I say that I'm equally as loud I have my windows open and I'm singing the greatest showman oh you're a school adult.
Speaker 3Yes, oh, 100%, they do. One of them called me ma'am and I almost passed out right then and there, but they also know. They don't know my job, but they know that I'm in and out a lot, so they look out for my house, for me. They're like nice.
Speaker 2Like I said, they're nice boys, they're nice boys, they're nice boys. Yeah, you should send over some treats to them, I do.
Speaker 3I bake for them. If I have extra cookies and stuff, I leave it on their front door. I mean they're good neighbors, whatever for their grill that I had. It's like pretty much the only neighborly relationship I have, so I'm happy with that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I feel like that's gone away. It makes me sad. It's the neighbor relationships.
Speaker 3I wish that that was more prominent. I also live in condos, which are not just like the tall and skinnies that look like apartments. They're like individually placed, but I am connected on one side to someone else. I don't know those people at all.
Speaker 2They're not nice.
Speaker 3They're not kind, I don't hear them, nothing they don't Like. One time she was walking out to check her mail and I said hello. She just didn't even acknowledge me and I was like okay. Yeah bad day, but the boys are on the other side. In there we have like a little we share a yard Okay, so we kind of see each other a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got one neighbor across the street from me. The guy just doesn't wave or say hi at all. He walks a little dog. He's this old guy and I'm like, driving by, a wave, a walk, I'll say what's up. He's never once acknowledged me.
Speaker 3Have you ever seen the, the movie a man caught, a man called Otto.
Speaker 2Yeah, is that what Tom Hanks?
Speaker 3Yeah, maybe he's a man called Otto. Maybe you need to be nice to him.
Speaker 2I only saw the first part.
Speaker 3I ugly cried in that movie.
Speaker 2He was also mean this is your neighbor not mean. No, he's not mean. Oh, he doesn't say anything. Oh, he's just not like. He just I don't know, maybe he's deaf and doesn't hear me say hello, maybe that is a possibility. Yeah, and then I got a couple kids to my left side who are like just little Nice boys, like young, like middle school. Okay, actually, boys running around and doing fun stuff. I'm like, yeah, that brings back all the feels.
Speaker 3I do miss. I hope that if I ever grow up and move to the suburbs and have a family and do the whole thing, that I have a neighborhood, feeling neighborhood. You know I'm saying like I know it's not English, but Bel Air court, where I grew up. I was, it was me, I was the oldest and there was all boys and then there was one girl her name is Natalie and she was like the bookend at the other end. I'm still in touch with all of those kids. Consider them my brother's, always at our house, back and forth. Baby sat them the whole nine yards and I just hope that my kids have that experience too.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3I don't want it. I don't want to accept that that is gone, because I think it exists. You just have to find it depends where you live.
Speaker 2We grew up kids on all the houses. We lived in a cul-de-sac. It was like a perfect little neighborhood. We played every day together outside baseball and girls be dancing in the garage and we played zap, which like laser or flashlight tag. At night We'd be outside till like 9 pm In the pitch black and then our parents would literally open up the doors and just yell for us to come home.
Speaker 3It was amazing.
Speaker 2I would never do that now, though Depends where I live don't say never but I'll put a tractor on my kid. Okay, I'll inject a psycho person those things that you inject the dogs with, where it's just like.
Speaker 3I don't know that you should be publicly proclaiming this to literally a global audience, when you're what a week away from having a child Be a bad idea for all the child trafficking.
Speaker 2Do you know Nashville is one of the biggest cities in the country of people getting kidnapped? Yes, is it because of the proximity to the highway right here downtown and they can get on and they can go north, south, east, west. That's what I heard.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're right in the middle and we are a direct. Yeah, I don't want to think about that either. Why are we getting so dark? But you know the thing that baffles me, which I feel like I try and be a very I try and be a very hard target at all times, because it is not the creepy guy in the dark behind the dumpster when you're alone, it's in the middle of the fucking mall parking lot, in the middle of the day. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like I think there's some sort of stigma or just something that I imagined or someone told me. I don't know if anybody else is on the same page as me, but I picture in like an unsafe situation. It's like nah, this is happening in the public's parking lot, course, and that is the part that scares me.
Speaker 2So that tell me, how you come across.
Speaker 3Well, I try to be alert, like I try to be a hard, a hard person to Capture, I don't know because just walking a zigzag in the parking lot?
Speaker 2sure yeah.
Speaker 3But I feel like there is a lot to be said about something I don't know. I'm not saying that it I could go missing today for all I know. But like being alert, being off your phone, being aware of your surroundings, having your hands free, being just I don't want to say alert again, but it's like you walk around like this all closed in and you're not paying attention anything around you, you get caught off guard.
Speaker 2You're an easy target, yes, so I just try and be a difficult target, yeah well, if you did go missing and you had a microchip in the back of your neck, I'd be able to find you.
Speaker 3I'm pretty sure that they would find the microchip on me and then I wouldn't have it.
Speaker 2Yeah, when they cut your head off, right chip would be gone.
Speaker 3Yeah, so we're gonna find my head. Yeah, please return to my parents, that'll be good.
Speaker 2Yeah, but I seen Documentaries of people just in the broad daylight. They're looking on surveillance cameras. It's like girls gone missing and then she's literally like walking back to her car and then a car just pulls up right next to. Yes, throw the ring.
Speaker 3Yes, and that's what I'm saying is that ultimately, you can't I Don't, I want to say childproof yourself. What is the word I'm looking for? Like you can't fully be Unabductible, whatever like. But I try and make it as difficult as possible. If what I can control, I'm gonna focus on that. But like, yeah, you get to your car and someone jumps out and there's three of them in one of you. I don't know what you can do, but you bet your ass I'm gonna fight like hell, yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, pack some heat with you. You got some spray.
Speaker 3I got spray, I got a little thing.
Speaker 2I got a thing that like if you a little bit everything from your dad, your dad Males, you're so I also have a non, a non lethal gun a non lethal yes a burner B Y, r and a okay it looks like a gun.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I don't know. I just try and be. Listen. I'm a single woman that lives alone and has to be, and I travel a lot alone.
Speaker 2I think too much information here. They could be listening right now. I. Dare you mother fuckers you live in a house with five big men.
Speaker 3My neighbors though, those nice boys, they'll take care of me nice boys are big boys.
Speaker 2You heard her.
Speaker 3They work out in the garage listen, you want to come into my house. I dare you, try me.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm a colleague hulking over here.
Speaker 3I got a shotgun in my house. Yeah, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 3I Should say that, but yeah, let him know.
Speaker 2You also have a laser in your house. You have grenades in your house.
Speaker 3You have a I got a bunch of knives. Yeah, you got nice, except for then. I think if that, if anything would ever happen, like what would I do? I'd fucking jump out the window and run away.
Speaker 2Oh yeah.
Speaker 3I'm not gonna sit around and see if I can hurt someone. I'd be like deuces.
Home Security and Ownership of Firearms
Speaker 2Oh, I would hurt him. I would dare somebody come to my house. I already have it. I've got it all mapped on my head.
Speaker 3I don't know if it's just like intrusive thoughts, but I have thought like, if someone gets in my house, what is my plan? Oh, I know exactly. My bedroom is on the first floor, so I feel like I have exit plans and then I have like, if you're fucked, this is what you should do.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I got a gun right next to my bed too.
Speaker 3I'm like well, mine's non-lethal, so I can't kill him.
Speaker 2Oh, mine's lethal.
Speaker 3Yeah, but I don't I. That makes me nervous because I'm a very clumsy.
Speaker 2Getful person when you have like a gun or guns in your house.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's can cause a lot and I know that that's like a huge taboo thing. People have a very polarizing opinion about guns in general. Um, I don't know that I have that. I think that if you're trained and you know what you're doing and you're comfortable with it, who am I to tell you what you can't keep in your house? Yeah, I don't feel comfortable, I don't. I don't feel trained, I don't feel like I know what I'm doing, so Mine's not lethal baby.
Speaker 2Yeah well, we'll get you trained up. We'll get you some lethal firearms. I'm good Gobblecat house.
Speaker 3I'm good, I don't need any of that, but thank you so much for your consideration.
Speaker 2All right. Well, whatever you do, don't mess with her. Don't come to my house. You ain't gonna make it past the front yard. And on that note, here we go. Happy Thanksgiving. We love you guys. We hope all of you guys have the best times with your family. Stay safe out there. Don't get abducted, oh my god. Monday A team on bread.
