Gifts, Giggles, and Festive Fiascos!

Ever wondered who gets the unique responsibility of deciding when Thanksgiving graces our calendars? We kick off this episode by unraveling that mystery and sharing a few of our own holiday blunders that have left us chuckling for years. From the chaos of a late Thanksgiving to the quirky debates over perfect gifts—should you go for what they want or what you think they'll love?—we've got stories that'll tickle your funny bone. Who knew that giving fishing rods as Christmas gifts could lead to such a hilarious misunderstanding?

Next, we're hopping on a nostalgia train filled with memories of childhood antics and Christmas traditions gone awry. Remember the thrill of sneaking a peek at presents or the chaos that ensues when you forget to label them? We certainly do, and we're sharing all the giggles with you. And if you've ever had a cat that couldn't resist the lure of a glistening Christmas tree, you'll feel right at home with our tales of feline festive fiascos. Whether you're a holiday hero or a baking bandit, there's a laugh waiting for you as we reflect on the humor and warmth of holiday chaos.

We also take a detour through the winding roads of healthcare and personal wellness journeys, spiced up with some suggestions from trusted medics and even a debate on probiotics versus yogurt. Our escapades aren't confined to holiday hilarity, as we sprinkle in some chatter about a solo Disney trip and our latest TV binge, "The Bear." With our blend of banter and humor, we're setting the stage for a good old-fashioned celebration of funny mishaps and shared laughter. So, get ready to share your own stories because we promise anonymity and a hearty laugh in return.

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Amy, Kitty & Stacey

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

All right. Ooh, look, I got that. Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation to the top, I don't need an invitation.

Speaker 2 0:25

Well, hello and welcome to another episode of Three Cocktails In. Hello Amy, hello Stacey, hello Catherine. We're feeling so formal this evening. Yes, very, we are only a few. We are getting very, very close to Christmas. Are you guys ready? No, no, this seems to be the consensus.

Speaker 4 0:53

Like everywhere, it's because Thanksgiving was so late this year.

Speaker 2 0:58

Okay, here's the question One who decides that? Who like? Who's the who's the keeper of the calendar that decides? Because I always thought that it was always the third Thursday.

Speaker 3 1:12

The third Thursday. Why was it the?

Speaker 2 1:15

third this year.

Speaker 3 1:16

I don't know.

Speaker 4 1:20

Was the first. That wouldn't have made sense. That would have made it earlier.

Speaker 2 1:27

I mean the third Thursday would have been.

Speaker 3 1:32

The 21st? Yeah, a week earlier, I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:36

Yeah, I mean it's been on the 23rd before, so I don't know why that seemed too early.

Speaker 3 1:42

Well, maybe it's always the fourth Thursday Because the first was on a Friday. You know, if the first was on a Thursday, it would have maybe been the 21st, I don't know. I don't know We'll have to Google that shit.

Speaker 2 1:59

Yeah, I guess we do have to.

Speaker 4 2:00

Google it, bts feed that in the chatter. Yeah Right, why is it? But who decides? Yeah, whatever the reason, I'm feeling a week short of getting my christmas stuff.

Speaker 2 2:18

Yeah, organized yeah, we always. Yeah, I don't know, I mean each year, we were always thinking about I'm going to do this differently next year. And you know what is that saying?

Speaker 4 2:31

best laid plans, or something yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions that's right.

Speaker 2 2:42

So, you know, because we're always wanting to make the holidays perfect. We've talked that we that was one of our topics in the past we're always wanting to make the holidays perfect and they're never going to be perfect. In fact, I'm guessing that we probably pull up some stories of when there have been some pretty significant fails and mishaps. Yes, so maybe it's better to laugh at those things and maybe you can laugh at them a little bit easier when it's hindsight. But I don't know, I can definitely think of a few. We've never had big, you know, big crazy like you ruined Christmas moments in my life. Life, you know, I don't know, have you guys? No, it's hard to ruin it is hard to ruin.

Speaker 4 3:34

I do feel like when the kids were little, I feel like that there were a number of christmases where I had to be like the interpreter of intention oh, what does that mean?

Speaker 4 3:48

yes, so, um, I'm sure my ex won't be listening, but on the off chance he is. I know you're gonna laugh about this because we did laugh about it. But, like when the girls were in like fifth or sixth grade, kevin got it into his head that he wanted something for him to do with the girls as they were getting older. So he was hell bent and he bought them all fishing rods, rods and wheels, had the whole thing all rigged up. Now we got a sixth grade girl, a fifth grade girl, like a first grade girl, they might have been even even slightly older because he was so excited to give him the presents and the girls opened it and they were like, thank you, they didn't want a fishing rod, they never used them. They were like used them. They were like what that? What dad? We wanted an iPod.

Speaker 4 4:50

You know, it was like not reading the room correctly, and so I felt like I had to jump in and say oh, your dad was just so excited to have you guys on the boat with him and he just really thought this would be, you know. So I felt like I was the interpreter of intention. What was the intention behind it? I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 5:10

Yeah, so it the thing that can kind of be puzzling at times is when you're gifting. When you're gifting something to someone, are you gifting them something that you want them to have? Are you gifting them something that they want them to have? Are you gifting them something that they want? And this this brings up the whole christmas list topic, which I despise. I don't think that people should create a christ. Here's what I want you to give me for christmas and I. There won't be a surprise at all, because everything under the tree will be exactly what I told you to give me, in the size and the color that I want, right? So I think that's super sweet that he wanted to give them something that would then create family memories. Everybody could go out and fish, fish together and have some great. I think that's really, really sweet.

Speaker 2 6:03

I think, that's really really sweet. But also it would alleviate some guilt about him wanting to go fishing if he brought the girls along. You think that's why he gifted the fishing rods Was to alleviate his guilt for going fishing.

Speaker 4 6:25

Um, I I think that it might have crossed his mind that I still want to go fishing. Maybe if I brought the girls along, yeah, it could be fun. Not, I mean, if you wanted to spend more time with the girls and make memories. Yeah, it wouldn't have been the gift would not have been given him fishing rods.

Speaker 3 6:46

Right, it would have been what they wanted to do. Give them what they wanted to do. So did they ever did they ever use them and go? No, never, not once, nope.

Speaker 4 6:56

Never. Let me take that back. The older two went with him once and since that time he was able to use them when the boy cousins came. There was always a boy cousin that wanted to go fish from the shoreline. He regifted two of them to younger nephews so and those nephews loved it, absolutely loved it, because he hit them when they were like eight, when this was like a grown-up gift that they were getting, and he did little tackle boxes for the nephews that had some like grandpa special lures that he could pass on. Those boys loved those that he could pass on.

Speaker 3 7:52

Those boys loved those. So to me that's kind of a read the room sort of thing. Yeah, I go back and forth on, just like what kitty said if you, if someone makes a list and tells you what they want, they're at least going to be happy with the gift. You know and and I think it's still a surprise you know you don't know that you're going to get what you say you want it. You know when you do you say, oh yeah, I got just what I wanted. So I go back and forth on whether that's a good idea or whether you know you can. You know how happy you can be with something that someone else picked out for you. You know what I mean. I think some people are just really poor gift givers. I could be one of those people sometimes. You know you just can't think of anything and you just get something you would like, right. So I can see both sides where you know you don't want something you don't want.

Speaker 4 8:51

So if you get something you did ask for, it's nice the girls and I have come to an understanding because I like you, kitty, I don't want a list. Actually, I mean, as I think I said last year, you can give me a list. The odds of me getting you anything on that list are significantly smaller than you'd like. But now what we've figured out is I get I'll say okay, any Christmas wishes, and then I'll get something and they'll say use this for inspiration. So you know, like I could use a new pair of shoes for work. I kind of like these and I'm like are you asking for these? Nope, I'm just showing you kind of what I was thinking and then I'm free to go get you know whatever. I like that balance, yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 9:49

Or also like specifying a category, like you know, kitchen-related or perfume or jewelry or you know. So you've got a category, but then the person is able to pick something in that category. I like that as well. So well, this go ahead.

Speaker 4 10:14

Oh, I was just going to say my kids ask me and I've gotten a little bit smarter in these last few years, few years. So I now say things like um, my router and wi-fi is not working all the way out to where I'd like to do the podcast. Could somebody with some tech savvy figure out how to make it work? Do I need a booster? Do I need a new modem? I'm like talk about experiences. I would like to experience them. I'm like talk about experiences, I would like to experience tech support. Yeah, without hiring someone. And I think that as we get older, we don't need more stuff, right, but we all know there's stuff that we don't quite know how, or we need to upgrade and we don't know the. You know, if you've got somebody in your life that knows how to do all that stuff, yeah, what a perfect gift.

Speaker 2 11:08

Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 11:10

It's a great idea, good idea, yep.

Speaker 2 11:15

Well, so this is a topic where I actually had a fail or a mishap. This was many years ago and and I'd actually forgotten about it, and I can't remember if it was before Bill and I were married or if it was really early in our marriage. But we were going to my family's for Christmas and I don't know what was going on that year, but he and I said that we were not going to exchange any gifts at all. I don't know if we'd maybe just bought our house or I don't know what it was, but we said no gifts. We were gifting, bringing gifts for everybody else, but no exchange between each other. So we get there and it's time for gift opening with my family. We're all sitting around and giving everybody gifts and there's this whole pile of presents in front of me from Bill. I had followed the instructions. I had nothing for him. I felt like shit. I actually was in tears. So it's like why did you thank you, but why? We said you know, it was one of those moments.

Speaker 4 12:31

I felt horrible, yeah what would you do in front of the whole family? Yeah, of all things, your whole family which makes. Well, I don't know if it would be worse in front of his family.

Speaker 3 12:48

Yeah, yeah, I don't know in front of his, I don't know. But so have you ever done that since, or do you always just get each other something?

Speaker 2 12:55

we've never, we have not, we have not had a no gift christmas, and so we usually have a little bit of conversation around like you know, how many gifts are you getting? But, yeah, we, yeah, we have not had that happen since, but I mean I could. I could almost say that ruined Christmas for me. Oh, really, yeah, you felt that bad about it.

Speaker 4 13:25

I felt that bad. Were you also mad at him?

Speaker 2 13:30

A little bit yeah yeah, which is a very conflicting feeling, because you're mad at somebody for doing something for you.

Christmas Mishaps and Memories

Speaker 4 13:41

Yeah, awful, yeah Happens, um, I, I have the routine every year. Almost every year happens to me all the time, to the point where the girls know to ask Um, I forget that I have a present for one of them and we're opening things up, and they're all opening them and in early days I used to think I was so smart and they'd always want to shake their stuff. I never even put their names on the gifts because I thought I could remember size and everything. That was a fail. That was a huge fail when one of them would open it up and they'd go huh and I'd go oh, no, that's your sister.

Speaker 4 14:28

Yeah, they like that a lot when they're little. But every year they'd finish opening and I'd sit there like this and go and I'd look at all the different piles and I'd look what they open and they go who's did you forget, mom? And then I'd have to sit there and think where the hell did I hide it? Because I know I bought something for them and then it was well, now I don't have it wrapped, I don't have any wrapping paper. What am I going to put it in? So I mean, it was every single year I forgot at least one. And then, you know, one year I was totally convinced I got it all right. I nailed it. Everybody got their gifts. Yep, february found one in my closet and went ah, get, here, was that one that was supposed to go to so-and-so. So I just walk in the room I'm like, oh, merry Christmas. We knew you forgot one, mom.

Speaker 4 15:26

We knew you forgot one every single year oh no yeah, I had to get really good at hiding stuff because they were really good, I'm sure, at finding.

Speaker 3 15:40

Yeah, I'm sure some that I put under the tree or hid or whatever got found and opened. You know, opened and then tried to re-tape, kind of thing.

Speaker 4 15:52

Stacey, you did that all the time, though, to your own presents, didn't you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yes, I never did. I never opened a present early you didn't.

Speaker 3 16:04

How could you? You know, I would do like the end of a box and see if I could figure it out. I wasn't dumb enough to like, unwrap it and think it was gonna fit together you know, perfectly, but I would try to yeah, try to sneak a peek at stuff yep, I did not do that well, I actually I asked bill this question too, if he could think of any mishaps from his childhood or at any time, and he he remembers vividly that.

Speaker 2 16:36

So Bill has three older sisters and so the closest in age to him, when they were at home together because the other two were that much older that they went off to college and Bill was still in middle school Bill's mom would bake cookies somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas and package them up and put them into the freezer and then bring them out right before Christmas and Bill and Nancy would start taking cookies out of the containers in the freezer and Bill's mom didn't know until she would go to bring the Christmas cookies out. And there are like three left.

Speaker 3 17:27

Oh yeah, my brothers did that all the time. That's one thing I never did. But my brothers did same thing. They'd go find them and have half of them gone by Christmas.

Speaker 4 17:38

I don't think my family ever froze any.

Speaker 3 17:41

We just made them last minute Mom.

Speaker 4 17:46

I think she just made so many and always had them out on the counter, so it was never like I got a gorge on them, sort of thing. It was like okay have a cookie.

Speaker 2 17:58

If they were there, I'd be gorging on them.

Speaker 4 18:01

They wouldn't last like you and all your rolos from the halloween candy so good oh, I ate.

Speaker 4 18:11

I ate so many of those yeah we've had some walking fields over the years baking cookies, like you get a recipe and you think it's okay, but then you find another one and you think, oh, this will be better and it's awful, and you've just wasted time, ingredients and the cookie is bad. I did that with lemon cookies. A few years ago. We discovered a lemon, a recipe for a crinkly lemon cookie that we really liked, and thought, oh, I'm not going to use a box mix, I'll make them from scratch. Oh, ew.

Speaker 2 18:49

Not good. I don't think anything from scratch is good.

Speaker 4 18:56

Really Hmm.

Speaker 2 19:04

Okay, well, okay, really. Um, okay, well, okay. I should maybe reel that back a little bit. Um, so let's, let's talk about like a cake, like a birthday cake. Oh yeah, I'm buying the box. I've made birthday cakes from scratch and they suck.

Speaker 4 19:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was only one cake that I like that well, I mean, other than like a carrot cake or something like that, you know, and to make them really good they all have to have oil, and that's what the box mix has Oil, you know, one egg oil and water. So I find that anything that I make bake from scratch that's cake like that has oil in it usually comes out okay, yeah, but there's a, there's a one pan chocolate snack cake and you just put everything in the one pan, put it together and that's really good.

Speaker 3 19:54

That's a betty crocker one I bet yeah, yes, yeah so do you watch the reels um where, like the cat or the dog, just ruins the christmas tree?

Speaker 4 20:13

oh, you know what I mean I thought you were talking about putting their paws in the cookie dough, oh no, I've seen a couple of those. Ew, that's gross also.

Speaker 3 20:21

Yes, I just think they're funny when the cat jumps in the tree and then it knocks over and then they scurry away and I just I don't know, I just think it's funny. You ever happened? No.

Speaker 1 20:33

Harriet didn't bother Dogs never get into trees.

Speaker 4 20:38

Really, I remember hanging the non-breakables around like the bottom foot of the Christmas tree, the cowbells, the plastic things, because their tails even if they weren't in there, they were wagging their tails all the time. They were always knocking something off of the tree, for sure, yeah, their tails all the time. They were always knocking something off of the tree, for sure, yeah. What about the post christmas fight, getting your new christmas tree down and through the house without dropping every single needle? And you know, every year, every year, it was a battle as to how we were going to take it out, what a mess we were making.

Speaker 2 21:23

the sap on our hands, the yeah, yeah and what a good feeling it is then to to have that out and, you know, start the new year with clean. Well, also the damn lights that you go to put on the tree and inevitably don't work. And then you have to go and buy a new. Yeah, string a whole new one.

Speaker 3 21:48

I know, yeah, it's been a long time since I had a real tree. I love a real tree, I love the smell of it, but I think the last year I got a real tree. Um, we brought it in and a couple days later some kind of glittery bug hatched out of the tree and was everywhere. And yes, and I never I have no idea what they were little little fly and fly things, you know. They lasted a day and then they all, you know, like all over the presents, all over everything. Oh, that's so gross. I know it is a major christmas fail. It is a fail. It is a fail, and I think that's one of the last ones we had, just because that was so gross.

Speaker 4 22:36

So anyway, and it didn't last very long we took it down early yeah, the first christmas tree, the real christmas tree that I bought here living in this condo. It lasted about four days before it was tinder because it was so dry. You know, my place is so dry there's no way to regulate. I would have had to have like five humidifiers pointing on that tree the whole time. It was just kindling. It was so bad. So unfortunately I have my white tree and thank you to everybody who posted pictures of their trees.

Speaker 3 23:15

I know it was fun yeah.

Speaker 2 23:21

Yeah, that was fun. We still have. So the the photo that I posted, I was sitting in. It was the wee hours of the morning one day and I was sitting so looking kind of up like this, and I realized that. So bill all of a sudden took it upon himself to get the tree out of storage downstairs, which we always leave up and we leave the lights on it. So he brought it up and just set it where it normally goes. So it doesn't. It still doesn't have an ornament on it, it's just sitting there with the lights on it and there was there was a year, maybe five years ago, that we never we, we just left it.

Speaker 2 23:56

We didn't put an ornament on it, and I think it was because none of us were here during the day to see it. We'd come home at night. It's dark and it looks pretty because it's got the lights on right. So we figure well, it looks pretty. We were all too lazy to put an ornament on it but we are gonna put ornaments on this weekend there you go.

Speaker 3 24:18

When you decorate it, do you put ornaments just on the you know three-fourths that you can see, or do you put stuff in the back?

Speaker 2 24:25

well, and it and ours sits in front of our big windows in the front and even though it that back side is facing the window, nobody from out there can see it so yeah, I don't, yeah, three quarters of the way around it.

Speaker 3 24:38

Yeah, pretty much yeah.

Healthcare and Medical Recommendations

Speaker 2 24:44

Yeah, it'll be here before we know what you guys sew. Get your shopping done, get your recipes I'm doing mine this weekend.

Speaker 3 24:52

I'm bound and determined this weekend.

Speaker 4 24:54

Well, my weekend starts tomorrow.

Speaker 3 24:58

Oh yeah, there you go. Well, that's, that's perfect, because then you get weekday shopping. Have you ever heard my um opinion on? I wish that the weekends and the evenings after five o'clock were solely reserved for working people to shop. You know, if you're retired, go in the morning during the week, because that's when we can't go. Yeah, I know, I'll see. You know what I mean. Yep, I'm just so busy with everybody that could have gone all week. There you go.

Speaker 4 25:33

Well, I tell you, it works out really well for, like, hair appointments and nail appointments to be able to go in on a Thursday afternoon instead of Saturday morning, sort of thing. But the bummer thing is you know every doctor's appointment or something like that doctor, dentist, whatever. I don't ever get to take a day off of work for that.

Speaker 3 25:56

You go do it.

Speaker 4 25:57

Yeah, I get to do that on my weekend. Yeah, it's fine. I started off my day today at the dentist. I went to the dentist today too. Did your teeth hurt for a while A little bit? Yeah, I did too yeah.

Speaker 3 26:13

Yeah, gosh, we must be on the same schedule. I go next Thursday. Oh, look at us, I know, are we good?

Speaker 2 26:21

the picture of health yes, I also had an appointment with my endocrinologist this morning oh my god, how was that good good. Um, I really like him. He is freaky smart, which I mean we would hope that our doctors are, but he's just really good about explaining things. So I started seeing an endocrinologist because I have osteoporosis. So to just catch everybody up, because I think we talked about this at one point a year ago, when I went to the doctor, I measured a little bit shorter than I had in the past.

Speaker 3 26:59

And you don't have a need to spare.

Speaker 2 27:01

Correct and so I was the one who drew it to my doctor's attention and I said what do we think about this height? And he looked at it and he's like, hmm, we might want to have a bone scan done. So did that? And it came back like with this flashing, this patient has osteoporosis Loud and clear, so off I go to the endocrinologist. So I've now been on estrogen, progesterone, a specific medication just for osteoporosis. Testosterone, a specific medication just for osteoporosis. Um, ramped up vitamin d, ramped up calcium I'm popping pills all day long. Uh, my thyroid, because I have hypothyroid. So, anyway, labs, all looked good today, so that's good. But he's just really great about explaining. All looked good today, so that's good. But he's just really great about explaining how all of these things work together and he's like dialing it in like okay, so now, what time of the day do you take? Oh my gosh, yeah, levothyroxine, and when is that in relation to the osteoporosis medication? And I'm like, well, let's see.

Speaker 3 28:18

I remember Every day or every day, yeah, on the days I remember.

Speaker 2 28:25

Yeah, but so he like laid it all out. He said so you take this one right away, and 30 minutes later you want to take it. And I'm like, okay, I got to get serious about this now.

Speaker 4 28:36

Yeah, you got to set alarms on your phone, yep. So I also have thyroid medication, need to see an endocrinologist. I had an endocrinologist, didn't like her at all, but she got me referred to the surgeon who removed a year ago almost a year ago the right half of my thyroid Been. On medication since then trying to get it figured out. It's been pretty good the last couple of times. But I've been having the surgeon call the prescription in and do my labs but he doesn't have the time to dial stuff in and do all that. So I got a referral and the referral was back to the first clinic that I went to. I'm like I'm not going there.

Speaker 2 29:23

So through Amy you should go to this guy that now that you're out in Cheska again, maybe he's in your network.

Speaker 4 29:29

I could look. I could look I might have to, because I called, I got a referral from a friend who said I've been seeing this person for 26 years because endocrinologists also deal with type one diabetes. So you know, that's how I I came to learn of this person and I called right away and got a call, got the referral sent, got a call back back. Yeah, they can see me. August of 2025 that's nuts that's bananas.

Speaker 4 30:01

So I'm like, fine, I'll take it. And then in my head I'm like, the hell, I will yeah, that's a fail, that's a health care fail right there yeah, so yeah, I need to find somebody else because I I too, I'm taking thyroid medication, hrt. You know all the, all the things.

Speaker 3 30:20

You're way overbooked if you don't have a free appointment for.

Speaker 4 30:27

Well, I will say that this is part of the U of M, um, like down at the U sort of thing. So you know, I don't know, but it's just. I just want somebody, that somebody knows and thinks is good, instead of just luck of the freaking draw. Cause luck of the freaking draw did not. I was not impressed, yeah.

Speaker 2 30:53

Well, I really recommend him. I'll. I'll send you the impressed. Yeah, Well, I really recommend him. I'll send you the information.

Speaker 1 30:58

Thank you.

Speaker 2 30:59

Yeah, I'm going to say he's our age, maybe a little bit younger. I mean maybe a little bit. And I was actually going to bring this up because when I met with him three months ago, he said something that has been perplexing me. So we were talking about probiotics and cause. I said that I, I said that I take one, and he clearly didn't. And he didn't have a positive response to that. And I said what? What do you think about probiotics and prebiotics? And he said I wouldn't recommend taking them ever.

Speaker 2 31:37

So here's the thing there has never been enough research done on the benefits or the risks with probiotics and prebiotics, because your digestion goes through. Your system includes so many different phases of digestion that there's never been any studies that deal with how those affect your stomach, your upper intestine, your lower intestine, because they're all going to function differently. And I said well, that that seems like an opportunity for some pretty significant research. And he said, yep, if, if I were younger, I would love to do a research study on that, but I would never be able to get a grant at my age. Oh, interesting, that is interesting, and I've been thinking about it ever since. I'm thinking why, why wouldn't you as an experienced physician. Why wouldn't you give an experienced physician the grant money? Why wouldn't you give an experienced physician the grant?

Speaker 3 32:35

money Right, and it sounds like he's, you know, young enough to have years left of a career yes.

Speaker 2 32:41

Mm-hmm, yeah, well, that's what.

Speaker 4 32:45

I was wondering, because most of those studies take forever to do that. Maybe they figure an old person old once again, finger bunnings, old person, right? Um, hmm, that's interesting. You could retire in eight years if you wanted to. Maybe they want somebody with longevity. Yeah, I don't know.

Probiotics, Disney, and TV Shows

Speaker 2 33:07

I mean but you would think even getting eight years into a study and then passing it off to somebody would be better than nothing. Better than nothing. Meanwhile. Well, and this is part of the issues in the health system, meanwhile, there are all of these brands out there that are pushing pre and probiotics, and he his exact words. He said you're playing with fire if you're taking them wow, really.

Speaker 4 33:33

So what were you taking like besides? I mean, you know I've heard from I. I don't take any of those, but you know people push like to push yogurt and that's, that's exactly what he said.

Speaker 2 33:47

He said don't, don't take that shit. Eat a cup of yogurt every day and and, and that's way better for you, which is actually what you should be eating, also for your calcium, for part of your calcium intake. But yeah, I was just. It was, I mean, one of the I don't remember what the brand is now. It's a brand that I've seen before. I would buy it at Costco and um, it was just, you know, probiotic for, for women's health, basically, and I never felt any bad effects from it, but I don't really know that I felt any good effects from it either.

Speaker 3 34:32

So yeah, very interesting. Yeah, this is how we like to get off topic. Yeah, this is. This is just, you know, the reminder that you know our podcast. A lot of times it's just us having a conversation which is all it needs to be.

Speaker 4 34:51

Yes, hang out with your friends, right? You probably have been thinking about do I need to take this probiotic at home? There you go. Now you know, kitty, your friend kitty, her doctor said you're playing with fire, right, exactly? And if this isn't why we're on the internet, I don't know why. Because a friend of a friend that I've never met said Exactly 100%.

Speaker 3 35:20

Well, it's just like everyone else. You know, googling stuff, I mean, who knows? You know what? I mean? It's just something put out there and you see some video and you just buy into it.

Speaker 2 35:33

100%, it's the same thing, yeah, it would be handy to have a doctor in your friend group, right? Why do we not have a doctor in our friend group?

Speaker 4 35:44

Christine's sister is a doctor. But Christine's sister is like no, you don't need that, that's crap, she's a doctor. That's what christine has always said. He's like oh, laura, laura, laura, would just you know, I'm like I probably like going to laura, I know yeah, exactly all right, hey, what do you guys? Um, do we have a shot? Do we have a shot?

Speaker 2 36:16

my friends, I had something funny. I had something funny that I wanted to share. I don't know that it's not really a shot, but this could be something funny to look up. So this showed up on Facebook today. The group is called Walt Disney World tips and tricks and this, this guy. It just randomly showed up in my feed, actually in my business page feed, and this guy and he looks very lovely, amy, I was almost gonna send this to you his post the guys name is Rory Hall, okay, so with me, okay. So he says, hey, not sure if this is allowed, so please delete if not. That's always a good sign.

Speaker 3 37:01

Always yeah.

Speaker 2 37:02

I'm doing a solo Disney trip and we'll be in the parks from 1217 and 1218. If anyone wants to meet up, tag along, ride rides or go get dinner Not looking for a date, just looking for Disney friends and then he's posted under that update. You all are hilarious. I'm reading some of these comments but I'm going to bed. Work comes early tomorrow morning. I will start reading and responding. Just bear with me If you are truly interested in meeting up either 16th and maybe at disney springs, whatever, whatever. I really didn't expect all of these comments. I jumped down into comment and they are hilarious, they are all over the board.

Speaker 2 37:57

Um, this one woman commented and she said hey, you guys, I went to school with this guy. He's the nicest guy ever. He's not creepy, he really does. Does just like to make friends.

Speaker 4 38:07

So I'm just like oh, this is good you know, there are so many things that get that show up on on instagram and reels and stuff, and they always you know it's the superimposed or the split or whatever and they're like I'm here for the comments and the comments just make me laugh so hard I know like that.

Speaker 4 38:29

You know, my mom used to do that watching tv, somebody, something would come on and I'd walk into the room and she'd be laughing so hard at something that there were like tears and I'm like what is going on? I am now my mother. I do the exact same thing, where I I've had the girls walk in on and they'll go what's going on, what, what is it? And I'm like I just crack myself up or you know, this is just the funniest thing. And you show them. They're like I don't get it. But, yeah, hysterical, I love the comments they are funny.

Speaker 3 39:02

Yeah, that that reminds me of an episode we had a couple couple weeks ago maybe about you know the guy the old man for rent. Yeah, something I could do. I should just put myself. I'll go on vacation with you.

Speaker 2 39:17

You know you have to pay you have to pay, but I'll go with you wherever yeah yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 39:27

Um, so I have a fail and, in keeping with theme, I have a fail and I have a shot for you. So in order for me to watch the women's volleyball tournament, I of course had to subscribe to Disney Plus so that I could get ESPN Plus. Well, with that, I also got Hulu, so I've been getting it for one month, so I am on Hulu all the time, trying to cram in as many shows. So the bear has three seasons. I had watched season one before when I had Hulu, but now I watched season two and season three and I love that show. Yep me, me too.

Speaker 2 40:12

Kitty, did you watch it? I started, I mean I, I think I watched one episode, oh, you have to go on, you have to go.

Speaker 4 40:21

This is one that your whole family would like, because you guys are such foodies Um, there were times when they talk and yell over each other that it did get to be a little bit much, yeah, um. But that is my shot. You, you guys, if you like restaurants, if you like a good family drama, if you like the creativity that comes with making food, um, in short spurts. You know it's, it's a, it's a series. Watch the bear on hulu. Now here's my fail. After I finished that series, I went back to only Murders in the Building, and you know, if you listened a year ago, how much I loved Only Murders in the Building. I had watched the first two seasons, so now I'm super excited to watch season three, four is there a fifth? Three and four for sure. I put on one episode where it's Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd Rudd, paul Rudd. I couldn't even get through the first episode. Oh, utter fail for me. It did nothing. I'm like. This is painful.

Speaker 3 41:28

Yeah, I didn't like it either. I didn't get through many episodes of season one. Yeah.

Speaker 4 41:34

Oh, you didn't. I did like one and two, so I don't know if just my mood has changed that I'm not into that. But I'd love to hear if anybody else has watched you know all of them to to let me know how they're feeling about it.

Speaker 3 41:47

So all right that season, yeah, okay. I have one thing kitty looks so festive tonight for Christmas and I look like I have an old sweatshirt on and a wife beater. But I don't, I have on a T-shirt. This is something I got for my birthday yesterday, and so now I'm going to have to show you my boobs, because when I came down here I didn't know that it would be so low. But here's what I got for my birthday yesterday. Okay.

Speaker 2 42:17

We're ready, yep.

Speaker 3 42:21

Oh, you all love it. Yeah, Madison got me a Three Cacteals in t-shirt.

Speaker 2 42:27

Oh, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 42:30

I want one. I know I'll get you all. I'll get you both one and we should really start. I'm sure this will just take over the world.

Speaker 4 42:39

Right, Everybody, if you want a three cocktails in T-shirt.

Speaker 3 42:43

DM your size. Yes, right, dm me and I'll get you a T-shirt.

Speaker 2 42:49

We're going to need hats and big fingers and everything, no glasses.

Speaker 3 43:00

Yeah, the wine glasses to go. Oh yeah, I know I I'm using my um little plastic. It's plastic wine glass. From aruba we rode the octopus, which is a catamaran. We got drinks the whole time. We got a free club glass.

Speaker 2 43:15

So I think we could do drinks the whole time, we got a free club glass, so I think we could do a plastic, three cocktails in, yeah, and then, and then we can do this. What is this? What?

Speaker 4 43:25

what is this annoying af is what that is annoying amy, it doesn't bother me where did it okay?

Speaker 2 43:33

so I mean this could launch us into another episode, so maybe we can hang on to this for next time.

Speaker 1 43:40

Yeah.

Speaker 2 43:41

I just want to know where these things come from and how they take off.

Speaker 4 43:45

Mr Butterworth, though, with his nails of Home Depot. That's the best ever and I just love he is adorable. Yeah, I would like him to have a brother. I have no idea what you're talking about. The guy that does the he and his kids do the fake. You know coconut. They make coconut, oh yes, yes, kitty, you got to send her that one, if you have any?

Speaker 3 44:10

No, I've seen him, I just didn't know.

Speaker 4 44:19

I couldn't, I didn't remember that was his name. He was really funny alone, but then when he started adding his kids, it's, it is funny yeah he just did one where he was the influencer opening up his gift from home depot.

Speaker 2 44:31

No, no, I have nothing.

Speaker 4 44:31

He's got his nails taped to his fingernails With like blue painter's tape, so he'll do that on everything, of course. And then he did it in the parking lot and men are walking by and he's like hi, people looking at him in the car. It's so good.

Speaker 3 44:47

Yeah, so good. Yeah, he is funny, yep.

Speaker 2 44:51

There's so much fake goodness that there are so many things in social media that can make us laugh, because there's way more stuff that is hideous and awful and depressing and grotesque. So, so thankful for these things that make us laugh.

Embarrassing Stories and Laughter

Speaker 4 45:11

Yes, yep so to our dear friends. Yes, um, don't sweat the christmas and the holidays. If you have a fail, it's going to be a good story next year. Just keep that in mind. The biggest mistakes make the best stories, for sure.

Speaker 2 45:34

Yeah, send it to us and tell us about it, and then we'll share it and we can all have a good laugh.

Speaker 4 45:41

Yeah.

Speaker 3 45:41

We'll change your name. Yeah, we won't, we won't, we won't say names.

Speaker 2 45:48

All right. Well, next week we're getting a little easier, so it's yes, all right good night cheers, bye, bye all right, I got that.

Speaker 1 46:15

Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in. Brought a good time. Put some friends turn it up loud. Past 10 turning up.