January 1, 2026 • 16 mins
Anney and Samantha ring in the new year with Christina and Maya, and chat about New Year's traditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff I never told you a production of iHeartRadio,
and we are back with the actual New Year Happy Hour.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It is right now twenty twenty five as we're recording it,
and we are jumping into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you are listening to this when this comes out,
Happier Year, I hope that you all are well.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Lisa, Dad, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And we're so happy that you're listening to us. And
we would love to hear from all of you about
your traditions, your hopes for the year, so.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Please keep this coming.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
As mentioned in the previous part about Christmas traditions with
Christina and Maya, we went into the office, we went
in into the studio to record this. Maya made these
delicious non alcoholic cocktails for us. I had kind of
a dark and stormy situation. You had an espresso Martini situation.
(01:17):
So we were sipping on these and we were just
chatting about traditions, and we got really into Christmas traditions
and then we realized, well, we didn't even get to
the New Year's ones.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I mean, we did kind of talk about previously, the
in between part of Christmas and New Year's and for Maya,
her daughter's birthday ends up being in between that, so
it's always interesting what do you do? How does that
go about?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, yes, and we would love to hear from anybody
that has any thoughts on that as well, either as
a child with that birthday like that or as a
parent with a child with a birthday like that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But so let us just jump back in to pass Annie, Samantha, Maya,
and Christina in the studio talking about New Year's traditions.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I am interested in what you're planning to do for
New Year's. I don't do New Year's too much. We
will The biggest things we do is try to stay
up till the actual midnight, clink a glass, and go
to bed like that is and sometimes not even that,
like we're just going to bed. But what were your traditions?
What will be your tradition?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, growing up, it was always pretty much that, like
we got to stay up and we had our Martin
Ellie's as kids. Oh even now today, I'm like, give
me the Martinelli's.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
It's like the Martin Ellis was just hit the spot.
It was sparkly. You just felt so cool.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, like you have it in a little champagne. Yes,
we got in the champagne flute and clink the glass
and you stay up you watch the ball drop. It
was so much fun. I actually really loved New Year's
looking back, it was a lot of fun. So we'll
probably do the same thing. I know, Like my husband
has a lot of siblings and they all live in
the area. So usually either like Christmas or New Year's
(03:08):
will do like a big sleepover and we'll stay up
together and hang out, do food and like desserts. And
then either we do that like with the family or
at our house just the three of us.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And yeah, I love that, Christina, Will you be in
Pennsylvania for this?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
So usually, yeah, I'm in Pennsylvania for Christmas time, but
I always come back to Atlanta for the past like
five years to do New Year's here. I'm kind of
like U, Samantha, like I stay up late. I stay
late anyways, though that's not that special. I try to
watch the ball drop, but I find it hard to
find the ball drop. Every year I try to find
the ball drop, and it's like a fake ball drop
(03:49):
or an off brand ball drop, and it's you have
to like pay for it and like have a whole
app and.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Like the woes of like came cord cutting it, like
you don't just get the.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Ball seriously, But no, I think I try to watch
stuff in TV. I usually try to hang out with
friends and do like the champagne and food wise, even
like I I want to do more, like maybe eat
something specifically. Develop new traditions would be nice. Oo time will.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Tell time Hotel Annie, you have a very specific tradition.
She developed her new tradition when we first started doing
the show together and right before COVID.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, yes, well, I had admitted to Samantha, I I
used to do New Year's pretty big. Yeah, I used
to do it up, but I admitted that I just
find it kind of a real mess, like going out
in the city. People are doing all kinds of things,
and it was just it was just becoming a thing
(04:46):
where I'm like, I think I'm over this part of it.
So that year we met up and I got mac
and cheese. So now every New Year's Eve, I eat
mac and cheese and I have usually I have a
Goster champagne that night and then one the next day,
(05:06):
and I watch I choose the movie that I think
was my favorite movie define the year, and that has
to be the last thing I watch. And then I
want to choose a movie that I want to define
the next year, and that will be the first thing
that I watch.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And then I make a soup that's black eyed peas,
colored greens and pork because I love soup. But I
my mom used to do the whole feast, and I'm like,
I'm just yeah, I'm just by myself. I need this,
but I try to stay in like New Year's is
actually a holiday where I've become kind of hermit, Like, yeah,
leave me, b.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Go have your fun celebratory times.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think the first time you did that. We decided
both of us that we were going to be by ourselves. Yeah,
because this is again like this is when I figured
out why everybody was having a roaring twenties party and
I can't figure it out because it's twenty twenty. I
was like, why, proposician. I was very confused because again,
I'm not going to go out and it just did
not register. But that's what I was like, really confused.
(06:00):
So we decided both of us would dress up, so
she was in a Spider Man onesie and I was
in a Panta suit and we cheers each other via
a photo and that's exactly like I'm like, yeah, you
know what, I think this is better because going out
and getting dressed seemed so.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Like in the cover an bar, it's always drinks down the.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Door, the battle cops out there, and then like you home, yeah,
trying to get like and that one of the big
things was like the uber cost or the lift ride
they had like gone up so much the price that's
not worth going out you and then trying to be safe.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah I'm not doing one person. You end up spending
like one hundred something at the least.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Just going three miles down the road or.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The drinks and the everything. Yeah, but be responsible, be responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We want to be responsible, but it does it's kind
of comes to the point where you're like, I think
I'm good. Yeah, And part of that is definitely COVID.
Like when everything did get shut down, it felt nice
to have an excuse to.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Not be out.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And then you're like, you know, I don't really need
an excuse. Yeah, I'm good, we's stay home. I'm stay home.
But you know, I'm thinking because you talk about y'all
did a lot of big family things that takes a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yes, yeah, have.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Y'all like taken some of that responsibility on or what
are you telling to trying to take those responsibilities?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I have.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
There have been years where we have a smallish house
and we have a bigish family. Yeah, So even with that,
we've still hosted.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We've hosted some things. I just I like to host.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I don't like the cleanup from the afterward, but
I do like the like during piece of it. So
I've done a few different things to like accommodate for
like I don't have a huge house with a big
dining room, but we can do like like we're a
game couple, so we'll do like game nights and like
connected to a holiday. So we did like Easter this
(07:58):
past year, and we have a big lawn but not
a big house, so we were like, we have the
perfect house for So we did that and that was
really fine with all the kids, all the nieces, adults, Yeah,
I want adults, are adults. Adults are out there too.
Real eggs are plastic plastic eggs because then you can
fill the candy.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
One real egg in a plastic egg is the move.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I need to get back to like dyeing the eggs.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I used to do that my family. My dad loved
loved having kids over to die eggs, and it made
me very angry because I am not very artsy, and
so my siblings would put all these cute little pictures
and mine would just look like crap, and I'd be
very upset about this, and then I would crack as
many as possible to eat them. But yeah, I had
a lot of bitterness towards crafting apparently, uh in traditions.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
But I've taken on some of them. So and then
Christmas time I've done We've done like a dessert party,
so it's like not so much food, like everybody brings
a dessert like cookies or high or whatever, and then
do games. And then we've done a New Year's thing
also game centric, so that makes it like then people
can sit on the floor or like you don't have
(09:08):
to have like a setup. And the same way if
you do like Thanksgiving, you know, you know, or Christmas,
it's a.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Little more casual.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Quould go to game.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Recently we have really been liking my husband and I
have been liking this game called fire Tower, So it's
really fun. It has these little gym pieces.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Have you heard of it. I've heard of it. I've
ever played it though.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
It's fun, and the whole time we're playing the game,
we always say this one word that they have all
throughout the book, which is orthogonal, and we just think
it's so funny because it's like we've never used this
word before, but it's like they say it like a
hundred times in the rule book because it's very important
to the game. It basically means in all directions except diagonal. Okay,
(09:52):
So the idea of the game is like you have
these four fire towers, like when you're like a watch
in a forest and you're trying to protect your tower
and burn the other person's tower, so that the operative
the game is to, you know, be the last fire
tower standing. And you're using these fire gyms which represent
(10:14):
fire to on an offensive play to get somebody else's
fire tower to burn down, and then you're trying to
defend your own. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, Christina, have you been taking on something? Well, you
travel a lot, so.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, So when I go home, my mom she'll do
like a Christmas dinner. I try to help with that,
like maybe I'll make it the salad or just help
with anything, like help with the mashed potatoes. That's always fun.
We're a big mashed potato household.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Look, I love potatoes for lunch.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Do you have a family recipe?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I think the one thing that is kind of a
newer edition. My sister is like a pro mashed potatoes.
She discovered it. It's very well known. Cream cheese. It's
really good in there is like weirdly so good.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Where are you on the sibling line?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I'm the youngest.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Are you the youngest? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't know how to have picked that.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
No, me neither.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
That's probably good, good thing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I do am the youngest, But I think the youngest
of two is very different than the youngest of like
four or four. My husband's the youngest of five. Oh yeah,
and it's different, like the youngest of a two sibling
family and like a large sibling family, very different.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm trying to think I'm not technically the youngest,
but I'm also not. Uh it's that weird liney or
adoptive thing like.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, but I was older.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So so Christina, does your family, live the rest of
your family and live near your parents or are they
all gone everyone?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
My sister, my sister lives in Flora to Oh, she
doesn't usually come up for Christmas. They go down there
and they visit around December and whatnot. But it's like
I have two brothers back home in Pennsylvania in that
area at least, and yeah, we all get together. Also,
being raised Catholic, it always meant church on Christmas Morning,
(12:18):
which I got to say was my least favorite thing
to do.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't Yeah, who wants to go to Christmas?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah, I've played with my toys. I want to play
with my toys.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I've definitely been to a Christmas Eve service because we
are Baptists, okay, and I think I feel like they
tend to do Christmas Eve service. I think I'm sure
they do a Christmas Day service too, but I think less.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
People go to that.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I didn't thing you can do either for us too.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We did plays and gift exchange in our and like dessert,
yeah meal times in our church.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Were you Baptist as well?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We'll call it country Baptist.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, Southern Baptist.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No no, oh, no, you're like something else and.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I think like the way they named it was like
foot washing Baptists. Yeah, it's a little different. It's a
little different. Go listen to the trauma trauma episodes.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Explain any parts.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, I need to listen to that because I'm very like.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They didn't handle snakes. Okay, they didn't handle snakes. I'll
tell you that. They didn't believe in tongues necessarily, but
they were very loud, so not Pentecostal, not necessarily, No,
no pithecostal. They would definitely say that Southern Baptists were
not real Christians.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Sometimes whoa, whoa.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, all right, Yeah, that's adding to my list of you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Get to know. Well. I love this. I'm excited to
come back and revisit how these holidays have gone. Uh,
because of course, you know you're about to leave. Is
this snowy right now in Pennsylvania? Oh? Yeah? Do you
miss the snow?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No? I hate it. It gives me anxiety, mostly for driving.
Like as a kid, I was always worried my parents
would get in a car accident. Oh, oh my god,
it never happened. Really. I used to live in like
a long driveway with a big hill. You would go
like slide down the hill sideway.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Sometimes part of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It's like in the south west, like near Pittsburgh. It's
like an hour from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Okay, any how far is Harrisburg from that?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
It's like, I think it's like four at three four hours.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Okay, it's in like a totally opposite direction.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Kind of not the furthest though, Like it's it's a
very drivable distance. But yeah, I don't miss the cold.
I don't miss the snow. It is a little bit
nice to go back and see a little bit of snow,
but I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of snow happening
there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'm seeing a lot of videos like, yeah, and it's
cold here right now. But I'm so glad we got
to have this time together, right. We do need to
do this more often. That means coming out of the house,
so that's also a fear of mine. But we need
to have more of these get together. Thank you so
(15:00):
much for coming on, y'all.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yes, and thank you for the drinks.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, always welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I drink it so quickly. It was so delicious.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I'm going to have to try that one.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Maybe a half because it's the late afternoon.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yes, yes, Well until next time, hopefully we all have
wonderful holidays. Everything goes fantastically save holidays and listeners.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We hope that.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You have a great holiday as well. Whatever you celebrate
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Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff I never told you a production of iHeartRadio,
and we are back with the actual New Year Happy Hour.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It is right now twenty twenty five as we're recording it,
and we are jumping into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you are listening to this when this comes out,
Happier Year, I hope that you all are well.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Lisa, Dad, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And we're so happy that you're listening to us. And
we would love to hear from all of you about
your traditions, your hopes for the year, so.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Please keep this coming.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
As mentioned in the previous part about Christmas traditions with
Christina and Maya, we went into the office, we went
in into the studio to record this. Maya made these
delicious non alcoholic cocktails for us. I had kind of
a dark and stormy situation. You had an espresso Martini situation.
(01:17):
So we were sipping on these and we were just
chatting about traditions, and we got really into Christmas traditions
and then we realized, well, we didn't even get to
the New Year's ones.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I mean, we did kind of talk about previously, the
in between part of Christmas and New Year's and for Maya,
her daughter's birthday ends up being in between that, so
it's always interesting what do you do? How does that
go about?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, yes, and we would love to hear from anybody
that has any thoughts on that as well, either as
a child with that birthday like that or as a
parent with a child with a birthday like that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But so let us just jump back in to pass Annie, Samantha, Maya,
and Christina in the studio talking about New Year's traditions.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I am interested in what you're planning to do for
New Year's. I don't do New Year's too much. We
will The biggest things we do is try to stay
up till the actual midnight, clink a glass, and go
to bed like that is and sometimes not even that,
like we're just going to bed. But what were your traditions?
What will be your tradition?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, growing up, it was always pretty much that, like
we got to stay up and we had our Martin
Ellie's as kids. Oh even now today, I'm like, give
me the Martinelli's.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
It's like the Martin Ellis was just hit the spot.
It was sparkly. You just felt so cool.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, like you have it in a little champagne. Yes,
we got in the champagne flute and clink the glass
and you stay up you watch the ball drop. It
was so much fun. I actually really loved New Year's
looking back, it was a lot of fun. So we'll
probably do the same thing. I know, Like my husband
has a lot of siblings and they all live in
the area. So usually either like Christmas or New Year's
(03:08):
will do like a big sleepover and we'll stay up
together and hang out, do food and like desserts. And
then either we do that like with the family or
at our house just the three of us.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And yeah, I love that, Christina, Will you be in
Pennsylvania for this?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
So usually, yeah, I'm in Pennsylvania for Christmas time, but
I always come back to Atlanta for the past like
five years to do New Year's here. I'm kind of
like U, Samantha, like I stay up late. I stay
late anyways, though that's not that special. I try to
watch the ball drop, but I find it hard to
find the ball drop. Every year I try to find
the ball drop, and it's like a fake ball drop
(03:49):
or an off brand ball drop, and it's you have
to like pay for it and like have a whole
app and.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Like the woes of like came cord cutting it, like
you don't just get the.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Ball seriously, But no, I think I try to watch
stuff in TV. I usually try to hang out with
friends and do like the champagne and food wise, even
like I I want to do more, like maybe eat
something specifically. Develop new traditions would be nice. Oo time will.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Tell time Hotel Annie, you have a very specific tradition.
She developed her new tradition when we first started doing
the show together and right before COVID.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, yes, well, I had admitted to Samantha, I I
used to do New Year's pretty big. Yeah, I used
to do it up, but I admitted that I just
find it kind of a real mess, like going out
in the city. People are doing all kinds of things,
and it was just it was just becoming a thing
(04:46):
where I'm like, I think I'm over this part of it.
So that year we met up and I got mac
and cheese. So now every New Year's Eve, I eat
mac and cheese and I have usually I have a
Goster champagne that night and then one the next day,
(05:06):
and I watch I choose the movie that I think
was my favorite movie define the year, and that has
to be the last thing I watch. And then I
want to choose a movie that I want to define
the next year, and that will be the first thing
that I watch.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And then I make a soup that's black eyed peas,
colored greens and pork because I love soup. But I
my mom used to do the whole feast, and I'm like,
I'm just yeah, I'm just by myself. I need this,
but I try to stay in like New Year's is
actually a holiday where I've become kind of hermit, Like, yeah,
leave me, b.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Go have your fun celebratory times.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I think the first time you did that. We decided
both of us that we were going to be by ourselves. Yeah,
because this is again like this is when I figured
out why everybody was having a roaring twenties party and
I can't figure it out because it's twenty twenty. I
was like, why, proposician. I was very confused because again,
I'm not going to go out and it just did
not register. But that's what I was like, really confused.
(06:00):
So we decided both of us would dress up, so
she was in a Spider Man onesie and I was
in a Panta suit and we cheers each other via
a photo and that's exactly like I'm like, yeah, you
know what, I think this is better because going out
and getting dressed seemed so.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Like in the cover an bar, it's always drinks down the.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Door, the battle cops out there, and then like you home, yeah,
trying to get like and that one of the big
things was like the uber cost or the lift ride
they had like gone up so much the price that's
not worth going out you and then trying to be safe.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah I'm not doing one person. You end up spending
like one hundred something at the least.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Just going three miles down the road or.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The drinks and the everything. Yeah, but be responsible, be responsible.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
We want to be responsible, but it does it's kind
of comes to the point where you're like, I think
I'm good. Yeah, And part of that is definitely COVID.
Like when everything did get shut down, it felt nice
to have an excuse to.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Not be out.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And then you're like, you know, I don't really need
an excuse. Yeah, I'm good, we's stay home. I'm stay home.
But you know, I'm thinking because you talk about y'all
did a lot of big family things that takes a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yes, yeah, have.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Y'all like taken some of that responsibility on or what
are you telling to trying to take those responsibilities?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I have.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
There have been years where we have a smallish house
and we have a bigish family. Yeah, So even with that,
we've still hosted.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We've hosted some things. I just I like to host.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I don't like the cleanup from the afterward, but
I do like the like during piece of it. So
I've done a few different things to like accommodate for
like I don't have a huge house with a big
dining room, but we can do like like we're a
game couple, so we'll do like game nights and like
connected to a holiday. So we did like Easter this
(07:58):
past year, and we have a big lawn but not
a big house, so we were like, we have the
perfect house for So we did that and that was
really fine with all the kids, all the nieces, adults, Yeah,
I want adults, are adults. Adults are out there too.
Real eggs are plastic plastic eggs because then you can
fill the candy.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
One real egg in a plastic egg is the move.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I need to get back to like dyeing the eggs.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I used to do that my family. My dad loved
loved having kids over to die eggs, and it made
me very angry because I am not very artsy, and
so my siblings would put all these cute little pictures
and mine would just look like crap, and I'd be
very upset about this, and then I would crack as
many as possible to eat them. But yeah, I had
a lot of bitterness towards crafting apparently, uh in traditions.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
But I've taken on some of them. So and then
Christmas time I've done We've done like a dessert party,
so it's like not so much food, like everybody brings
a dessert like cookies or high or whatever, and then
do games. And then we've done a New Year's thing
also game centric, so that makes it like then people
can sit on the floor or like you don't have
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to have like a setup. And the same way if
you do like Thanksgiving, you know, you know, or Christmas,
it's a.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Little more casual.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Quould go to game.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Recently we have really been liking my husband and I
have been liking this game called fire Tower, So it's
really fun. It has these little gym pieces.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Have you heard of it. I've heard of it. I've
ever played it though.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
It's fun, and the whole time we're playing the game,
we always say this one word that they have all
throughout the book, which is orthogonal, and we just think
it's so funny because it's like we've never used this
word before, but it's like they say it like a
hundred times in the rule book because it's very important
to the game. It basically means in all directions except diagonal. Okay,
(09:52):
So the idea of the game is like you have
these four fire towers, like when you're like a watch
in a forest and you're trying to protect your tower
and burn the other person's tower, so that the operative
the game is to, you know, be the last fire
tower standing. And you're using these fire gyms which represent
(10:14):
fire to on an offensive play to get somebody else's
fire tower to burn down, and then you're trying to
defend your own. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, Christina, have you been taking on something? Well, you
travel a lot, so.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, So when I go home, my mom she'll do
like a Christmas dinner. I try to help with that,
like maybe I'll make it the salad or just help
with anything, like help with the mashed potatoes. That's always fun.
We're a big mashed potato household.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Look, I love potatoes for lunch.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Do you have a family recipe?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I think the one thing that is kind of a
newer edition. My sister is like a pro mashed potatoes.
She discovered it. It's very well known. Cream cheese. It's
really good in there is like weirdly so good.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Where are you on the sibling line?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I'm the youngest.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Are you the youngest? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't know how to have picked that.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
No, me neither.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
That's probably good, good thing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I do am the youngest, But I think the youngest
of two is very different than the youngest of like
four or four. My husband's the youngest of five. Oh yeah,
and it's different, like the youngest of a two sibling
family and like a large sibling family, very different.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm trying to think I'm not technically the youngest,
but I'm also not. Uh it's that weird liney or
adoptive thing like.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, but I was older.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
So so Christina, does your family, live the rest of
your family and live near your parents or are they
all gone everyone?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
My sister, my sister lives in Flora to Oh, she
doesn't usually come up for Christmas. They go down there
and they visit around December and whatnot. But it's like
I have two brothers back home in Pennsylvania in that
area at least, and yeah, we all get together. Also,
being raised Catholic, it always meant church on Christmas Morning,
(12:18):
which I got to say was my least favorite thing
to do.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't Yeah, who wants to go to Christmas?
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah, I've played with my toys. I want to play
with my toys.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I've definitely been to a Christmas Eve service because we
are Baptists, okay, and I think I feel like they
tend to do Christmas Eve service. I think I'm sure
they do a Christmas Day service too, but I think less.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
People go to that.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I didn't thing you can do either for us too.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We did plays and gift exchange in our and like dessert,
yeah meal times in our church.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Were you Baptist as well?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We'll call it country Baptist.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, Southern Baptist.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No no, oh, no, you're like something else and.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I think like the way they named it was like
foot washing Baptists. Yeah, it's a little different. It's a
little different. Go listen to the trauma trauma episodes.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Explain any parts.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, I need to listen to that because I'm very like.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They didn't handle snakes. Okay, they didn't handle snakes. I'll
tell you that. They didn't believe in tongues necessarily, but
they were very loud, so not Pentecostal, not necessarily, No,
no pithecostal. They would definitely say that Southern Baptists were
not real Christians.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Sometimes whoa, whoa.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, all right, Yeah, that's adding to my list of you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Get to know. Well. I love this. I'm excited to
come back and revisit how these holidays have gone. Uh,
because of course, you know you're about to leave. Is
this snowy right now in Pennsylvania? Oh? Yeah? Do you
miss the snow?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No? I hate it. It gives me anxiety, mostly for driving.
Like as a kid, I was always worried my parents
would get in a car accident. Oh, oh my god,
it never happened. Really. I used to live in like
a long driveway with a big hill. You would go
like slide down the hill sideway.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Sometimes part of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It's like in the south west, like near Pittsburgh. It's
like an hour from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Okay, any how far is Harrisburg from that?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
It's like, I think it's like four at three four hours.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Okay, it's in like a totally opposite direction.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Kind of not the furthest though, Like it's it's a
very drivable distance. But yeah, I don't miss the cold.
I don't miss the snow. It is a little bit
nice to go back and see a little bit of snow,
but I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of snow happening
there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'm seeing a lot of videos like, yeah, and it's
cold here right now. But I'm so glad we got
to have this time together, right. We do need to
do this more often. That means coming out of the house,
so that's also a fear of mine. But we need
to have more of these get together. Thank you so
(15:00):
much for coming on, y'all.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yes, and thank you for the drinks.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, always welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I drink it so quickly. It was so delicious.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I'm going to have to try that one.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Maybe a half because it's the late afternoon.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yes, yes, Well until next time, hopefully we all have
wonderful holidays. Everything goes fantastically save holidays and listeners.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We hope that.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You have a great holiday as well. Whatever you celebrate
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