November 26, 2025 • 18 mins
Heather and Terry keep it low-key for Thanksgiving, but when it comes to holiday decor, the Dubrow’s don’t mess around.
Hear how they deck the halls, what their family traditions are, and why they prefer a pressure free Thanksgiving for the family.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I'm Heather Dubrow. Then I'm Terry Debrow, and we're going
to keep this between us, but not really really, Hey, babe,
how was your day?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It was arduous, for lack of a better word.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Okay, it was challenging, challenging.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I had a lot of post ops by the way.
You know, post ops are tough for me because I
do very difficult surgery, and you know, that's the time
to see me and complain.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So it's like, especially before the holidays, what is it about?
There is a phenomenon that right before it's like nighttime,
and you're never going to be able to get a
hold of a doctor right on Friday afternoon or at
the holidays, that whatever ailment you might have becomes a
(00:51):
thousand times worse.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, in the old days, you know, when I needed
to do as much surgery as possible to gain as
much experience and so on and so forth, I would
be very busy the week of Thanksgiving, and then variably
Wednesday night, I get the call, Oh does this patient
going to the er? Oh what's going on? They're worried
about something, and you know, big mistake. Now, I basically
(01:14):
just don't operate the week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh why would you?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Why would I?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, let's talk about let's talk about Thanksgiving. Oh we
are the holidays are here? Can I believe that? Did
this year fly by? Do we say this every year?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Did we say it every year? But you know something
about Daylight Savings time? This year it felt like we
it fast forward us into the holidays. Soon Daylight Savings
time happens, it's dark early, and now it's like summer's gone.
I hate daylight.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sunce I know you do that. I also think that
this year has been very funky in a lot of ways,
and people want the holidays to come. What I noticed
is as soon as Daylight Savings happen, all the holiday
decorations went up.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Although I must say Beverly Hills is particularly beautiful holidays.
If you have the opportunity just to drive into Beverly Hills,
up and down the streets and walk around, it's like
Disneyland in real life. It's a gorgeous place.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you know Dior stole my theme this year, which
is should I tell you? Well, I have two different things.
I'll tell you about them. I have because we have
two different apartments. But in one of the apartments I
did like a chic gingerbread theme, and that is what
Door is doing.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh really mm hms, already up? What theme are you
doing in our apartments this year?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just told you No, it's the other apartment. Yeah,
I'm not telling you yet. You're gonna have to everyone's
gonna have to wait and see the reveal.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, you should do on your Instagram, like, you know,
you could show these squares of this year, that year,
this year, that year. You should show four or five
or six of the themes you've done over the last
five years. It's pretty amazing what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So go check out my YouTube channel at Heather du
Brow and you're gonna see that very thing.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can see the highlights of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I actually just counted down my top few Christmas Day cores.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Wow. Yeah, are you doing elaborate thing the way you
always do this year too?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes. Sometimes sometimes I have a theme theme and sometimes
it's loose theme. This year it's a little looser. Like
one year I did Hollywood and I had this idea
instead of ribbons on the trees, I did film, like
strips of film going down the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Train yea, and it was very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But this year. One apartment is chic gingerbread and the
other one you're gonna have to wait and see. But
I love it. I think it's so beautiful. It can't wait.
And I have my daycore up before Thanksgiving because I
wanted up as long as possible, and I like when
the kids come home from college for the house to
be decorated.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But usually it takes your group two to three weeks
to decorate for the holidays. No, no, how long does
it take up?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's like a three to six day install, okay, but
sometimes it might be three days and then they finished.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well in the giant house it used to be sometimes No, no,
not really amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay. So people want to know about our plans for
Thanksgiving this year?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I am so excited about Thanksgiving this year because it's
just the six.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Of Us music music to my ear, I have.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To say, I am thrilled.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, well, the.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Six of us two dogs in a cap. So do
you remember that phenomenal chef Chris that we had when
I had the sleepover party? Yes, when Gretchen and Emily
came over.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It was very good though. Yeah birthday did he make
dinner too?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Just breakfast for us.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But he is catering our Thanksgiving and the twins birthday,
which is just a few days before thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
To be there and Thanksgiving, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's awesome. So we are catering Thanksgiving. It is just
the sixth of us and I am so excited. And
what's funny is half of our kids love Thanksgiving food
and half don't.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I don't like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It, I know. So I we're doing some typical things.
Get like turkey. We're gonna have turkey. But like, no
one in our family likes stuffing.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
No, I don't like stuffing. I don't like sweep tails
that much.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Nope. But everyone likes pie. Yeah, and we're gonna do steaks.
I haven't you know what? He just sent me the menu.
I need to go look at it. But so we're
doing Thanksgiving. I always do you know those? Uh, they're
Christmas crackers. They look kind of like TUTSI rolls their
paper and you twist them and you snap them open,
and they have a crown and a little joke and
(05:45):
a fun fact and a like a little chatchke like
a toy or something. So we always do those. I
pretty much do those for.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Every do we have servers and things like that?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah? Do you like leftovers?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I used to. I don't, but I don't like them anymore.
I think I've become too germophobic because I don't know
how long they've been sitting out before they were putting
the refrigerator. And now, you know, I just think of
them as like a Petri dish. You know, what's the
number of colony forming units for square centimeter bacteria in them?
(06:22):
That's going to cause a colonization to infection in my
body leading to sepsis.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And this is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Hypothesis crisis antibiotics and then ultimately potentially death.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, do you have what are your growing up memories
of Thanksgiving? Because you had kind of a complicated household.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I lived in a you know, a mixed household with
step kids, and.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What did you guys do on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We tolerated each other. I think my mom would make
a turkey and green beans and that was it. It
was nothing special about No, I don't have any memories
associated in a positive way with Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Roy, yep, do you now that we have our family?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, well it's Heather de Bro's world. I mean, if
you don't have positive memories of living in Heather de
Bro's world, you're not not able to enjoy life in
general because you throw these These events are like major fun,
high life events with amazing food and it's fantastic. So
thank you very much for me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I I mean, we always had my mom loves Thanksgiving
like she loves it and she is such a good cook,
and so she would make a lot of it. My
aunt would make whatever, and we were always together with
the two families and my grandmother. Yeah, so that was
always really nice. Yeah, she always made great pyes, all
(07:51):
those things. We'd hang with our cousins, So that was
always really nice. And I one of the things in
particular that I really like about Thanksgiving that my mom
used to make, and I've done it not for Thanksgiving
but for Christmas a couple of times. I like hot
mulled wine. So Williams and Noma has the mulling spices,
but my mom used to make it and you take
red wine and you heat it up and you put
(08:14):
like these spices in there and there's like nutmeg.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You're going to do that this year, right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So I see it on the counter.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I bought it because I wanted to make it again.
But do you like that?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Do you remember when we were in London a few
years ago with the kids, Yeah, he was five years
ago for Christmas and we were at a Christmas fair
and we bought some of that. I think that's true.
That's what reignited my thing. But I remember, you know
how your old factory senses, your sense of smell like
takes you back to a thing. I remember my mom
(08:46):
having a big bowl, big silver, beautiful bowl with the
hot mold wine, and that smell reminds me of Thanksgiving
and the holidays in general.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I guess, yeah, No, I like Thanksgiving now I don't.
I don't like going over some distant relatives house with
all a bunch of people I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Know who are Well, that's back to you don't like parties.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't like party. I can't do if I have
to do Thanksgiving that, I don't think I could do
that again ever in my life, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now, but we don't. We're usually just with either like
near relatives or whatever. But I am just very excited
that because it's Kat's first year home from college, that.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's just usquch is, what do you do at What
are we doing after the Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What do you mean we're just going to our respective
rooms and bugging out?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What do people do you do thanks?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They watch sports, they watch football or you know. I have, Well,
so I bought a lot of games, but I'm saving
them because we're going on a little trip between Christmas
and New Year's with the family, and so I'm saving
my games for them, which I'm very excited about that trip.
But for Thanksgiving this year, you know what, I don't.
(10:09):
I don't do that thing where I need everyone to
be sitting together for six hours or else. I just
I don't feel that way. I'm so excited that all
the kids are home, and Max and Nikki's birthday was
on Monday, so we got to have dinner with all
of the kids then, and then tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so
(10:29):
we get to be with the whole family twice. As
far as I'm concerned, if we could just sit at
the table, play music, have dinner together, and have like
just a nice conversation. I like hearing our kids talk, right,
I think they're just at such interesting ages and stages
(10:49):
of their life. And I feel so grateful, and then,
you know, sometimes I do have the family go around
the table and say what they're grateful for, but one
of our kids really gets embarrassed and doesn't like to
do that, so I no one has to do it
if they don't want to anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh, really, you're not going to even try it?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No, I'll try it, but we can voluntary. It's a
voluntary thing, and we usually give toasts. Yeah, right, and
then I find that again. You know, recently we did
an episode about parties and activations, and it's nice having
conversation starters. So those little crackers, the Christmas crackers, the
Thanksgiving crackers that we do, they have jokes in them
(11:30):
and questions in them. So that always lends itself to
a fun table conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Right. When do we decide on the Secret Santa thing?
It's usually things, and we do that also.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So we have a tradition in our family where on
Christmas Eve we do Secret Santa, just with the six
of us. Because one year, many years ago, all the
kids said that they wanted to buy each other and
us presents, right, and it was too much, right, and
so we decided Christmas Eve Secret Sanna, everyone gets one gift,
(12:04):
and then on Christmas Day it's you know, obviously us
giving them gifts and whatever Santa brings, Yes, cause Santa
always brings one special gift. If you don't believe in
magical things, magical things don't happen. I still tell them that,
So we decide on the Secret Santa poll is always
(12:26):
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
They make such a big deal out of it, and
they weirdly try and usually do figure out who has what.
I never know, but they do. How did they know?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And then they constantly are asking you questions. So you
didn't get cat, right, So they're trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And by the way, Secret Santa has gotten. Nobody wants
who you right, nobody wants noone wants me.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
They think I'm complicated, But the truth is I should
be the easiest because I just like sentimental things for.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That unless it's from me, unless it's from you. By
the way, I so we're talking gifts for a second.
I am so stoked. And I've sent you some evidence
of this today and maybe even last night. The Internet
has accepted that lab diamonds are as good as real diamonds,
palla f and you luljah. Okay, real diamonds are over, baby.
(13:22):
I'm so glad because these major jewelers have decided there
is no reason to spend any money on a real
diamond because it's exactly the same as a lab diamond.
It's one tenth of the cost, and you know the
processing is much better. Nobody's being injured blood diamonds and
so on, and so can.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I ask a question? Yeah, is Van Cleef using lab diamonds?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It is Cartier using lab dimons. But you're paying with
this is Bulgary no us. You never get Gia SERTs
with graph no diamonds.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, but you never get Gia SERTs with those because
they're not using high quality diamonds. They're too small, right.
Van Cleef is not about the quality of diamonds, and
whether they're lab or real has nothing to do with it.
You're buying Van Cleef just like you're buying Ferrari. You
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Interesting, Well, this is what I mean. I get it.
I've you keep sending them to me, so I.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Get I tell you, every guy in the world, so happy,
every single guy. The plans on getting married in the world.
I know should be completely stoked because now one of
the most expensive things that you would buy in that
stage of your life as just as eighty percent off.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Forevermore begs the question will things change? Meaning so, if
diamonds aren't a precious commodity anymore? No what and you
never were, by the way, but apparently you can. You can.
They can create in a lab all the gemstones. Yeah,
you know, emeralds and rubies and whatnot. So I wonder
if then, you know, being betrothed or something. Maybe it's something,
(14:59):
maybe it turns into something different.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, but I'm glad because it was always
a scam anyway. People would act like, oh, it's a
great investment. Diamonds are the worst investment. There's no such
thing as you know. You buy something on day one
and it's worth X, and then it's worth one tenth
x on day two.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He hates diamonds.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I hate diamonds. Diamonds are dead, baby, Okay, I'm so
happy about it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So basically, you're telling me I'm getting lab diamonds for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You can have whatever lab diamond you want.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, listen, because you've sent me so many of these
things I do understand, and I get the idea. One
of the gals on there was saying, look, if you
grow a rose in a hothouse or you grow a
rose in the ground, there's still both roses. One's not
better than the other, which definitely resonated with me. But
(15:53):
this is what I think about the lab diamonds. So
when they're growing them in a lab, it's just like
you know, mining them from the you don't know what
you're getting, so they still have to be graded. But
I think then the jewel cutter becomes even more important
because it's how you cut a stone that makes it
beautiful and brilliant and sparkly. So those artists are still important.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Great, but that still doesn't make it more or less.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What I'm saying you still you can't. My point is
you still have to go to someone good to get
the lab diamond because you want a good cut was
my point. It's definitely cheaper, it's awesome. I'll let you
know what I get for Christmas. I'm glad we went
from stuffing and sweet potatoes to lab diamond. Yes, is
there anything for Thanksgiving? That's a hard yes and a
(16:42):
hard no for you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I don't really care. I's not my favorite meal anyway,
I'm not that picky about it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Do you know we have had noboo cater Thanksgiving for us?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh? Yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Huh. I am like you. I actually don't like Thanksgiving food.
It's not my thing. I like Thanksgiving, but I don't
like the food. But the year that we I think
we had no boo cater to Thanksgivings in a row
and two years in a row. And I remember it
was Cat that was disappointed that there was no turkey
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, I don't know. If we're up to me, Thanksgiving
would be like the cheese Store. I could do a
thousand different kinds of sandwiches and chips from the cheese store.
By the way, you in the audience, if you haven't
been to the Beverly Hills cheese Store, it's the greatest
sandwiches in history.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But that's not the vibe. Like, honestly, that's what we
should do.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Super Bowl or something.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
No, but or like Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yes, the cheese cheese store, we should do that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean that's a great idea. Yeah, but for Thanksgiving,
Like I want to put on a dress, I want
to sit down with the kids.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, you want to eat kind of as possible, sort
of clean, you know, have some you know what I'd
love to have that We never have chicken, it's some
beautiful chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Or having turkeys.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, you're right. Turkey's okay, yeah, turkey meat. I wouldn't
mind having fries. Onion, onion rings, Thanksgiving onion ring. All
roads lead to onion rings. Okay, well you know I'm
going tonight for dinner.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Where you going?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Bird streets?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Oh you good?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Onion rings, barb sauce.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right there it is Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We're
so grateful for all of you. We love your comments.
I love reading what you guys have to say about
the show. Keep them coming. We've been inspired by so
many of you for topics on the show, so keep
it coming. We love hearing from you. Thank you all
for your support, and we wish you and all of
(18:40):
your families a beautiful Thanksgiving and an amazing holiday season.
I'm Heather Dubrow. Then I'm Terry Debrow, and we're going
to keep this between us, but not really really, Hey, babe,
how was your day?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It was arduous, for lack of a better word.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Okay, it was challenging, challenging.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I had a lot of post ops by the way.
You know, post ops are tough for me because I
do very difficult surgery, and you know, that's the time
to see me and complain.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So it's like, especially before the holidays, what is it about?
There is a phenomenon that right before it's like nighttime,
and you're never going to be able to get a
hold of a doctor right on Friday afternoon or at
the holidays, that whatever ailment you might have becomes a
(00:51):
thousand times worse.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, in the old days, you know, when I needed
to do as much surgery as possible to gain as
much experience and so on and so forth, I would
be very busy the week of Thanksgiving, and then variably
Wednesday night, I get the call, Oh does this patient
going to the er? Oh what's going on? They're worried
about something, and you know, big mistake. Now, I basically
(01:14):
just don't operate the week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh why would you?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Why would I?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, let's talk about let's talk about Thanksgiving. Oh we
are the holidays are here? Can I believe that? Did
this year fly by? Do we say this every year?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Did we say it every year? But you know something
about Daylight Savings time? This year it felt like we
it fast forward us into the holidays. Soon Daylight Savings
time happens, it's dark early, and now it's like summer's gone.
I hate daylight.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sunce I know you do that. I also think that
this year has been very funky in a lot of ways,
and people want the holidays to come. What I noticed
is as soon as Daylight Savings happen, all the holiday
decorations went up.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Although I must say Beverly Hills is particularly beautiful holidays.
If you have the opportunity just to drive into Beverly Hills,
up and down the streets and walk around, it's like
Disneyland in real life. It's a gorgeous place.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do you know Dior stole my theme this year, which
is should I tell you? Well, I have two different things.
I'll tell you about them. I have because we have
two different apartments. But in one of the apartments I
did like a chic gingerbread theme, and that is what
Door is doing.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh really mm hms, already up? What theme are you
doing in our apartments this year?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I just told you No, it's the other apartment. Yeah,
I'm not telling you yet. You're gonna have to everyone's
gonna have to wait and see the reveal.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well, you should do on your Instagram, like, you know,
you could show these squares of this year, that year,
this year, that year. You should show four or five
or six of the themes you've done over the last
five years. It's pretty amazing what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So go check out my YouTube channel at Heather du
Brow and you're gonna see that very thing.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You can see the highlights of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I actually just counted down my top few Christmas Day cores.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Wow. Yeah, are you doing elaborate thing the way you
always do this year too?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes. Sometimes sometimes I have a theme theme and sometimes
it's loose theme. This year it's a little looser. Like
one year I did Hollywood and I had this idea
instead of ribbons on the trees, I did film, like
strips of film going down the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Train yea, and it was very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But this year. One apartment is chic gingerbread and the
other one you're gonna have to wait and see. But
I love it. I think it's so beautiful. It can't wait.
And I have my daycore up before Thanksgiving because I
wanted up as long as possible, and I like when
the kids come home from college for the house to
be decorated.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But usually it takes your group two to three weeks
to decorate for the holidays. No, no, how long does
it take up?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's like a three to six day install, okay, but
sometimes it might be three days and then they finished.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well in the giant house it used to be sometimes No, no,
not really amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay. So people want to know about our plans for
Thanksgiving this year?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I am so excited about Thanksgiving this year because it's
just the six.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Of Us music music to my ear, I have.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
To say, I am thrilled.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, well, the.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Six of us two dogs in a cap. So do
you remember that phenomenal chef Chris that we had when
I had the sleepover party? Yes, when Gretchen and Emily
came over.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It was very good though. Yeah birthday did he make
dinner too?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Just breakfast for us.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But he is catering our Thanksgiving and the twins birthday,
which is just a few days before thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
To be there and Thanksgiving, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's awesome. So we are catering Thanksgiving. It is just
the sixth of us and I am so excited. And
what's funny is half of our kids love Thanksgiving food
and half don't.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I don't like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It, I know. So I we're doing some typical things.
Get like turkey. We're gonna have turkey. But like, no
one in our family likes stuffing.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
No, I don't like stuffing. I don't like sweep tails
that much.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Nope. But everyone likes pie. Yeah, and we're gonna do steaks.
I haven't you know what? He just sent me the menu.
I need to go look at it. But so we're
doing Thanksgiving. I always do you know those? Uh, they're
Christmas crackers. They look kind of like TUTSI rolls their
paper and you twist them and you snap them open,
and they have a crown and a little joke and
(05:45):
a fun fact and a like a little chatchke like
a toy or something. So we always do those. I
pretty much do those for.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Every do we have servers and things like that?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah? Do you like leftovers?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I used to. I don't, but I don't like them anymore.
I think I've become too germophobic because I don't know
how long they've been sitting out before they were putting
the refrigerator. And now, you know, I just think of
them as like a Petri dish. You know, what's the
number of colony forming units for square centimeter bacteria in them?
(06:22):
That's going to cause a colonization to infection in my
body leading to sepsis.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And this is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Hypothesis crisis antibiotics and then ultimately potentially death.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, do you have what are your growing up memories
of Thanksgiving? Because you had kind of a complicated household.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I lived in a you know, a mixed household with
step kids, and.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What did you guys do on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
We tolerated each other. I think my mom would make
a turkey and green beans and that was it. It
was nothing special about No, I don't have any memories
associated in a positive way with Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Roy, yep, do you now that we have our family?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, well it's Heather de Bro's world. I mean, if
you don't have positive memories of living in Heather de
Bro's world, you're not not able to enjoy life in
general because you throw these These events are like major fun,
high life events with amazing food and it's fantastic. So
thank you very much for me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I I mean, we always had my mom loves Thanksgiving
like she loves it and she is such a good cook,
and so she would make a lot of it. My
aunt would make whatever, and we were always together with
the two families and my grandmother. Yeah, so that was
always really nice. Yeah, she always made great pyes, all
(07:51):
those things. We'd hang with our cousins, So that was
always really nice. And I one of the things in
particular that I really like about Thanksgiving that my mom
used to make, and I've done it not for Thanksgiving
but for Christmas a couple of times. I like hot
mulled wine. So Williams and Noma has the mulling spices,
but my mom used to make it and you take
red wine and you heat it up and you put
(08:14):
like these spices in there and there's like nutmeg.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You're going to do that this year, right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So I see it on the counter.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I bought it because I wanted to make it again.
But do you like that?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Do you remember when we were in London a few
years ago with the kids, Yeah, he was five years
ago for Christmas and we were at a Christmas fair
and we bought some of that. I think that's true.
That's what reignited my thing. But I remember, you know
how your old factory senses, your sense of smell like
takes you back to a thing. I remember my mom
(08:46):
having a big bowl, big silver, beautiful bowl with the
hot mold wine, and that smell reminds me of Thanksgiving
and the holidays in general.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I guess, yeah, No, I like Thanksgiving now I don't.
I don't like going over some distant relatives house with
all a bunch of people I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Know who are Well, that's back to you don't like parties.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't like party. I can't do if I have
to do Thanksgiving that, I don't think I could do
that again ever in my life, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now, but we don't. We're usually just with either like
near relatives or whatever. But I am just very excited
that because it's Kat's first year home from college, that.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's just usquch is, what do you do at What
are we doing after the Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
What do you mean we're just going to our respective
rooms and bugging out?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What do people do you do thanks?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They watch sports, they watch football or you know. I have, Well,
so I bought a lot of games, but I'm saving
them because we're going on a little trip between Christmas
and New Year's with the family, and so I'm saving
my games for them, which I'm very excited about that trip.
But for Thanksgiving this year, you know what, I don't.
(10:09):
I don't do that thing where I need everyone to
be sitting together for six hours or else. I just
I don't feel that way. I'm so excited that all
the kids are home, and Max and Nikki's birthday was
on Monday, so we got to have dinner with all
of the kids then, and then tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so
(10:29):
we get to be with the whole family twice. As
far as I'm concerned, if we could just sit at
the table, play music, have dinner together, and have like
just a nice conversation. I like hearing our kids talk, right,
I think they're just at such interesting ages and stages
(10:49):
of their life. And I feel so grateful, and then,
you know, sometimes I do have the family go around
the table and say what they're grateful for, but one
of our kids really gets embarrassed and doesn't like to
do that, so I no one has to do it
if they don't want to anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh, really, you're not going to even try it?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No, I'll try it, but we can voluntary. It's a
voluntary thing, and we usually give toasts. Yeah, right, and
then I find that again. You know, recently we did
an episode about parties and activations, and it's nice having
conversation starters. So those little crackers, the Christmas crackers, the
Thanksgiving crackers that we do, they have jokes in them
(11:30):
and questions in them. So that always lends itself to
a fun table conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Right. When do we decide on the Secret Santa thing?
It's usually things, and we do that also.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So we have a tradition in our family where on
Christmas Eve we do Secret Santa, just with the six
of us. Because one year, many years ago, all the
kids said that they wanted to buy each other and
us presents, right, and it was too much, right, and
so we decided Christmas Eve Secret Sanna, everyone gets one gift,
(12:04):
and then on Christmas Day it's you know, obviously us
giving them gifts and whatever Santa brings, Yes, cause Santa
always brings one special gift. If you don't believe in
magical things, magical things don't happen. I still tell them that,
So we decide on the Secret Santa poll is always
(12:26):
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
They make such a big deal out of it, and
they weirdly try and usually do figure out who has what.
I never know, but they do. How did they know?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And then they constantly are asking you questions. So you
didn't get cat, right, So they're trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And by the way, Secret Santa has gotten. Nobody wants
who you right, nobody wants noone wants me.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
They think I'm complicated, But the truth is I should
be the easiest because I just like sentimental things for.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That unless it's from me, unless it's from you. By
the way, I so we're talking gifts for a second.
I am so stoked. And I've sent you some evidence
of this today and maybe even last night. The Internet
has accepted that lab diamonds are as good as real diamonds,
palla f and you luljah. Okay, real diamonds are over, baby.
(13:22):
I'm so glad because these major jewelers have decided there
is no reason to spend any money on a real
diamond because it's exactly the same as a lab diamond.
It's one tenth of the cost, and you know the
processing is much better. Nobody's being injured blood diamonds and
so on, and so can.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I ask a question? Yeah, is Van Cleef using lab diamonds?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It is Cartier using lab dimons. But you're paying with
this is Bulgary no us. You never get Gia SERTs
with graph no diamonds.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, but you never get Gia SERTs with those because
they're not using high quality diamonds. They're too small, right.
Van Cleef is not about the quality of diamonds, and
whether they're lab or real has nothing to do with it.
You're buying Van Cleef just like you're buying Ferrari. You
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Interesting, Well, this is what I mean. I get it.
I've you keep sending them to me, so I.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Get I tell you, every guy in the world, so happy,
every single guy. The plans on getting married in the world.
I know should be completely stoked because now one of
the most expensive things that you would buy in that
stage of your life as just as eighty percent off.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Forevermore begs the question will things change? Meaning so, if
diamonds aren't a precious commodity anymore? No what and you
never were, by the way, but apparently you can. You can.
They can create in a lab all the gemstones. Yeah,
you know, emeralds and rubies and whatnot. So I wonder
if then, you know, being betrothed or something. Maybe it's something,
(14:59):
maybe it turns into something different.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, but I'm glad because it was always
a scam anyway. People would act like, oh, it's a
great investment. Diamonds are the worst investment. There's no such
thing as you know. You buy something on day one
and it's worth X, and then it's worth one tenth
x on day two.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He hates diamonds.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I hate diamonds. Diamonds are dead, baby, Okay, I'm so
happy about it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So basically, you're telling me I'm getting lab diamonds for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You can have whatever lab diamond you want.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, listen, because you've sent me so many of these
things I do understand, and I get the idea. One
of the gals on there was saying, look, if you
grow a rose in a hothouse or you grow a
rose in the ground, there's still both roses. One's not
better than the other, which definitely resonated with me. But
(15:53):
this is what I think about the lab diamonds. So
when they're growing them in a lab, it's just like
you know, mining them from the you don't know what
you're getting, so they still have to be graded. But
I think then the jewel cutter becomes even more important
because it's how you cut a stone that makes it
beautiful and brilliant and sparkly. So those artists are still important.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Great, but that still doesn't make it more or less.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What I'm saying you still you can't. My point is
you still have to go to someone good to get
the lab diamond because you want a good cut was
my point. It's definitely cheaper, it's awesome. I'll let you
know what I get for Christmas. I'm glad we went
from stuffing and sweet potatoes to lab diamond. Yes, is
there anything for Thanksgiving? That's a hard yes and a
(16:42):
hard no for you.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I don't really care. I's not my favorite meal anyway,
I'm not that picky about it.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Do you know we have had noboo cater Thanksgiving for us?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh? Yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Huh. I am like you. I actually don't like Thanksgiving food.
It's not my thing. I like Thanksgiving, but I don't
like the food. But the year that we I think
we had no boo cater to Thanksgivings in a row
and two years in a row. And I remember it
was Cat that was disappointed that there was no turkey
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, I don't know. If we're up to me, Thanksgiving
would be like the cheese Store. I could do a
thousand different kinds of sandwiches and chips from the cheese store.
By the way, you in the audience, if you haven't
been to the Beverly Hills cheese Store, it's the greatest
sandwiches in history.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But that's not the vibe. Like, honestly, that's what we
should do.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Super Bowl or something.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
No, but or like Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yes, the cheese cheese store, we should do that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I mean that's a great idea. Yeah, but for Thanksgiving,
Like I want to put on a dress, I want
to sit down with the kids.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, you want to eat kind of as possible, sort
of clean, you know, have some you know what I'd
love to have that We never have chicken, it's some
beautiful chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Or having turkeys.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, you're right. Turkey's okay, yeah, turkey meat. I wouldn't
mind having fries. Onion, onion rings, Thanksgiving onion ring. All
roads lead to onion rings. Okay, well you know I'm
going tonight for dinner.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Where you going?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Bird streets?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Oh you good?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Onion rings, barb sauce.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
All right there it is Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We're
so grateful for all of you. We love your comments.
I love reading what you guys have to say about
the show. Keep them coming. We've been inspired by so
many of you for topics on the show, so keep
it coming. We love hearing from you. Thank you all
for your support, and we wish you and all of
(18:40):
your families a beautiful Thanksgiving and an amazing holiday season.
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