December 24, 2025 • 54 mins
Welcome to the Quiet Please holiday special and our last episode of the year! Mel and Kira share some of their favorite holiday traditions, reflect on 2025, and talk goals for 2026 – from Mel’s co-ed soccer league aspirations to Kira improving work-life balance. Check out the pre-sale for our new merch line and get something for the Shusher in your life before we run out!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, with Mel Reed and Kira Dixon, is an
iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports
and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back
(00:24):
to Quiet Please, our Christmas episode, our New Year's Resolutions episode.
This will be our last time chatting with you guys
for the year. We'll have a nice rerun for you
next week. But Mel, we have made it to the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We definitely have.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's gone quick, but it's also been a challenge at times.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But why not meant to say that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
No, you said it after taking in this big breath.
It was like, you know how it is.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's because we're we're on on the East coast, you're
on the West coast. It'll be back next year, the
Colorado Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But there, I know. I think next year we need
to do well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I know we say this, I shouldn't we be saying this,
but I'm want to put it out there. I think
we should do at least one in person.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We have to. Yeah, I wonder how it would be
to record in person. I almost feel like we would
have to relearn how to do that because I'm so
used to our cadence online. It would be I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's more body language stuff, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think it would be perfectly amazing. We're amazing and
everything we do, but we should.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We definitely will will make that as a priorities. It
will definitely do at least one in what do you
call it, in person person recording. Oh, and you can
have much design your office as well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, we got to talk about what's going to be
in your new podcast background.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know, Kira, to be honest with you, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Okay, I want cool things like yours, because I actually
I forget how much. Now i've started packing stuff up,
I've renished how much cool stuff I have like that,
and I just don't have the house. You probably have
some amazing I've never known that I know, and I
just just Soulheim stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I never put that on the wall.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I packed everything away soon as I get I've never
taken anything out stood in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, can this be? We're going to get to our
New Year's resolutions part at the end of the pod,
but one of them write this down should be you
actually getting stuff out of the box and putting.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It on on the wall for the pot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
If anything's going to get you to do it, it'll
be that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, all right too, I will. I promise, I promise.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did you write it down in heads? Mentally? Which means
I forget about it? Yeah, it's okay, don't worry. I'll
remind you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I know you will. I know you will.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You make me accountable. You know I'm here for you.
We all have our strengths I need. Yeah, that is
not my strength, that's the way.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I know, I know. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But you you make me laugh and make me happy
about life. And I make sure that you follow up
on the email. That's great, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I actually have a lot of people that text me
about following up on stuff, as you can quite imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes, you have, you have. You know. I think it's
great that you have recognized this about yourself and you've
surrounded yourself with people that can help where you might
need some areas of you know, needing a little bit
of extra attention. I've definitely got better.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
If we'd have done this maybe two or three years ago,
it might have been a bit of a nightmare because
I still had that athlete mindset of you know, it's
only me in this world.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And so I've definitely improved.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It is on my list of things for next year
is to be it's not be so much procrastinator and.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Get back to people.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm the busiest and busy person you never met. So okay,
well we'll get to our resolution section.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, a little bit before we do that, I just
want to say a huge thank you to the response
to the merch. It went off crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We've had a lot of interest.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But so while things are still out going and and
have a look online. And like we said earlier, the
more we sell, the better stuff that we can get
you next time. So log on and check it out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. Yeah, we decided to just stick with the krew
neck and the hat this time around.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes, I mean everyone can wear a crew neck and
a hat on.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, but like maybe we can do m rugs.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I knew that was coming. Bubble hats, beanies hat, a
hat with a bobble on it. Oh, like a Beanie
like with the little puffs.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Uh yeah, I like that. Perff in your world, it's
just jef. It's Jeff Well, one of my brothers. But no,
it's no, it's a little hat with a bobble on it. Okay, yes,
all of the things, all of the things, all of
(04:49):
the golf towel, beer mugs eventually be a stein.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yes see, then I could put that out there. I
just want my whole thing to just quiet please stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, so never know. Oh you know what else is
on the quiet Please merch which we didn't talk about,
is so the designer that helped us with our stuff,
I sent them a link to our show just so
that they could watch it and see some stuff. I
never said anything about the lips that are hanging behind
you in the shush, and he himself took that and
(05:22):
put it on all of our designs and I loved that,
so it ended up staying. So it's on the right
side of the hat, so if you're right handed down
the line, you'd be able to see it on the
side of your head. Wait, no, did I mess that up.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
If it's on the right side of the hat, I
don't think it matters if you right or left handed.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's still on the right side of the hat. Yeah,
I don't know, I'm saying. But if you're setting up
for a golf shot.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, you're talking for a golf swing. Yeah, yeah, okay, sorry,
that makes more sense. Sorry, I thought you were just saying,
but if you're left handed, it's on the left side. No,
it's still on the right side.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, if you're left handed, you can't see it down a.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Golf I didn't notice we were hitting golf balls right now,
so that's.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
What I was getting to that. But you're already left
thinking at me. Okay, but yeah, if you're if you're
left make sure when you order it for the left
handed hat. We did not accommodate for that this time around,
So I'm sorry to the lefties out there. Sorry Hattie,
Sorry Pally, Sorry Hattie. But yeah, okay, yeah. This sweater
(06:19):
is a little It's got these little uh fuzzies on it,
and I think I have one stuck to my eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But the sweater is cute, so it's fine. It can
stay anything for fashion.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I don't know why I've just saw this, but I'm
getting I'm getting eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Marco bladed, Are you really?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah? I've had it b for like seven months and
I'm getting it done next week.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, I want to full report because I's going to
fink about doing that for well, I don't know. Do
you need it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You can't need it. Yeah, one of my eyebrows. My eyebrows, Okay, people,
please don't you man. My eyebrows are so so different.
It's always been different as a kid. One sticks up
like literally used to stick up, and the other one
is just like the other one's like fine, it's thick
and it thrives. This one as soon as I plucked
it back in two thousand and four, just never really recovered.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So it's very millennial thin.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But break now thin eyebrows again. Alex Earl. Alex Earl
is like thin eyebrow Champion.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh she's just broke up with the boyfriend and she
they broke up.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, drama, I was.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I was in a deep dive that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was in the comment section so deep on He
posted for the first time in a while, or at
least since she's been on Dancing with the Stars, and
his caption was what did I miss And all of
the comments are every single episode of Alex on Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, no, I had a deep dive about it
and a drama she's going to get a really hot
new boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
She's cool. Shit. I like her as long I know
she's like an influencer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I think she's done and I like her. I think
she's cool. I love how real she is, Like I
know she doesn't get ready, but she's very real about
how hungover she gets, very real about how.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
She's just a party girl.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's amazing. Oh god, I would thrive in that if
I was born nowadays. I know, well, probably not.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Maybe it was probably for the best that some of
that stuff didn't end up on the internet. Yes, I
should say so. So. I don't know if you followed
some of this discourse online, but there's a kind of
a backlash to the traditional influencer right now, especially the
type that show how much stuff they have and how
much money they have, and you know, the comment section
(08:39):
has turned from oh my god, how amazing to literally,
I can't feed my family or I can't buy groceries,
and there's this fatigue of you know, I don't want
to see you restock your fridge with one hundred perrieres
because I'm just trying to buy groceries. Alex does a
good job of being like, this is just my life.
(08:59):
But I'm not throwing into your face how much stuff
I have or this abundance. Right, let's unbox my new shadel.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
No, I agree with you, and I hate how they
do the tappy thing, you know when they go and
they go, I can't do it except out nails.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, I just tapping in twenty twenty six, although I
have done many a tap to be like, let's be wrong. Yeah,
but I feel the stuff that you like.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm like this as well, and I've this is where
we you know, Agent set, Love and Live amazing because
they generally will bring me stuff like hey, you know
this brand, want to do it?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm like, well, I have to try it first.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I would never like and that's genuine like I never
would be like, hey, actually, guys, this this stuff is
actually sick. If I hadn't and I generally didn't think
that anyway, Like I'm not one, I'm not an influencer,
but two, if a brand does want to come to me,
I have to make sure that I genuinely would use
that brand.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm not just going to just like get clicks and
likes for it if.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I don't believe it and That's what pisses me off
with influencers is that I have a girl who I
used to know through my ex and she's an influencer,
proper influencer, And I'm like, bro, you are influencing shit
every single day, Like you cannot be using these products
every single day.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, And I'm like, just.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
As a business, yeah, yeah, but you're You're not an influencer,
but you have influence. And there's a there's a really
key difference there because if I'm following you and you
actually post something because you have so much credibility in
these specific areas, I know that that's a quality thing.
(10:34):
I know that you actually stand by it, and because
you have influence, I will be influenced then into buying
whatever it is. Yeah, and I hope that I have
that as well in certain areas. I have legit credibility
in whether it be golf, for beauty or travel because
that is my life. So I don't know. It's a
(10:55):
weird balance because it's like we have we do have
these great social following that we've worked really hard to build,
and there is a part of you know, I do
want to monetize it. It's a part of life. That
I want to be able to take advantage of that,
but in a way that's still building a community and
like not.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yea, I Icky, I know it's a weird thing. Yeah,
it's a very it's a very weird thing. And like
we've spoke about this before. I'm very it's actually funny
me and Carly. So for those of you who don't know,
Carli actually works at social media but gives me zero
help in my social media, which is just great. But
we actually had to sit down the other day and
we spoke about my pillars and all that stuff, and
(11:33):
so she is going to bit she's actually going to
try and help me.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We'll see how long that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, if I would say, the pitch to Carly is
the better your stuff does, the more you can bring in,
the better for the read fam.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, and the podcast and it all just works in
you know, one big kind of community circle. So yeah,
we've definitely because I'm pretty shit on social media. But
I also think I've said this to you before. My
life is like not I don't know, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Don't say that your life is interesting and you are interesting.
I know exactly where you're going to go with that,
but I think that that's the most like we millennials
have this weird block. I have this as well, this
like weird shame block, or we think like, oh, this
is an interesting blah blah blah. I posted uh like
ten photos of food that I made for myself a
(12:21):
couple of weeks ago. I remember that, just like and
I said, it was non aesthetic food that I cooked
for myself. I got so much engagement from just taking
pictures of lunch and not editing it, not trying to
make it look cool or aesthetic. Just this is what
I eat today. And my DM's full of can you
(12:42):
send me this? Can you send me this recipe? Lah
la lah lah. Yes, that's not interesting, that's just my life.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well yeah, so like I'm going to make myself countable now.
So I'm cooking Christmas dinner on my own for our friends.
So I'm actually going to film it because I'm going
to do Oh can I see what I'm doing?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, okay, let's soft launch it here.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Okay, soft launch it. I'm gonna do nice roast chicken.
So I'm going to do a traditional So I'm gonna
do roast chicken. And I'm also gonna do Beefunnington. I
love be fine funny. Actually I'll go with the stars. First,
I'm gonna do a porn cocktailed to start.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's very British.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah I had one and my party is last week.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, but like, did you have like iceberg lettuce in
the bottom?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right, yeah, yeah, but the same thing. It's not the
same thing. So mine was ship continue No, no, no,
porn cocktail star, iceberg lettuce.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Iceberg lettuce.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Then I'm gonna do roast chicken and the beef Wennington,
and the sides are going to be like British, like
pigs and blanket. Then I'm going to do like Parsing's carrots,
the standard. I'm gonna do roast potatoes. I'm gonna do
Brussels sprouts, and then like a little bit of like
broccoli and obviously gravy, so yeah full.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And then I don't know what to do for dessert yet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I might just a trifle, a trifle or a Christmas pudding,
but Christmas pudding is disgusting, so I don't really on that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
To make sure it doesn't have a saggy bottom. Make
sure it's Paul Hollywood worthy.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oh okay, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So yeah, I might film that and then put the
real together of me doing the Christmas dinner because it'll
be quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Maybe miber not. I love that. Okay. How do you
do your Brussels sprouts? Oh? Okay, so I part boil them, and.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Then I while they're part boiling, I do like preshetto
like a curb some proshetto, preschetto.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Presto, preschetto predo. No, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Wait, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What's the bacon thing, prejudo. Okay, I cut that out. Presheto. Well,
it's poor chetta preschetto.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Anyway, so different, Okay, tomato and I'll i'll like fry
some of that off and then love that. I'll once
they've part bored a little bit, I kind of put
them in with the puscetto into this.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I can't take you when you say that it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's not wrong. It's right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Okay, you put it and then I put it in
and roast for about twenty minutes and it's and then
at the end I'll put a bit balsomic glaze on it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Ooh, that's delish. Yeah, that's delish. I have to admit
I do not like a roasted potato. And sorry, this
is reminding me of the the excellent line from Pride
and Prejudice when mister Collins says, and to whom of
my fair cousins can I compliment the cooking? I've never
(15:37):
had a more exemplary vegetable. As she's talking about the
roasted potatoes. How do you know that? Because I can
recite the entire all of Pride and Prejudice? But do
you know that was filmed in Derby with Ker and
I in it? Shut up? Is it really in Darby? Yeah?
Is mister is mister Darcy's listen in Derby? It's Kedleston Park.
(16:03):
It's where I used to play golfer. It's Kenderson.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
If you actually look closer, you can see the golf
course in the background. Look watch it again.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Shut up. Yeah. So I'm playing there and I was like,
wore all these TV.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Cons we needed this is Yeah, it was kind of
something for me. Yeah, it's down the road for me. Okay,
we're we're not now.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm going to Derby.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, Kendison Park is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So yeah, Pemberley that's in the movie It's Pemberley. Are
the shades of Pemberley casts polluted?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
For Okay, I'm trying to gain follow his care.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Okay, so if you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Get up, okay, roasted potatoes? How do you do roast potatoes?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Which I do not think that they are an exemplary vegetables.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I like a.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Mashy Okay, So I put it underneath the meat for
really hot. So when I first put the meat in,
I'll put them really hot for about thirty minutes, and
I stick the roastes underneath that beforehand the roasties. Yeah,
And I take the roastes out and then I'll wrap
them up. I'll spin them up in a bit of
duck fat ideally, and then I'll just wak him in
towards the end of the meat for about thirty forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh maybe I would like your roasties.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, I ever cooked in the last couple of times,
so hopefully I can do bad next time we cut
into them with no potato left.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But hmm, so can we go back to your microblating
your eyebrows?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, please? It hurts, doesn't it. I don't know. I've
never gotten it done. I've always thought about it, so
I can't wait for your full report.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Dude, it's gonna be It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You're gonna look different. Eyebrows are a huge part of
your face.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I know, and I hate my brows, so it can't
be anywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So what they are now?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
My eyebrows have these like little points. I try to
get rid of them, but they have these little points.
I call them my houses. So whenever I get them done,
I'm like, can you get the rid of the houses
right there? I meant to have that. No, but I
want a smooth arch, not as weird pointy thing. My
face is as expressive as it is. I don't need
to be looking like Corolla Deville.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I don't think you would ever look like Corella Deville.
Oh I do want to look like her when I'm older.
That I do want like my one of my best friends,
Kelly has like as she's in her.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Forty's love you Kelly forty two?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I think one of my best friends, her hair's like
dark and curly, but she's got this one gray stripe
and it's so cool, Like I actually love it, and
I'm like, I want that so bad?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Is it natural?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, it's a natural just one gray stripe head. Yeah,
it's really cool. So yeah, I want to look like
her when I'm when I'm older.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I am getting some what my hairstylist describes as sparkler's here.
She goes, ooh, some sparklers. So it's my little gray
hair that's coming in right here. Yeah, maybe you'll get it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I want to be full gray. I cannot wait to
be like ashy gray.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't think that would look.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I would love it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Imagine the top one with an ash gray look. Dude, sixty,
my top ten will come my tope to come back.
If I'm going gray, it'll probably come back to so
I can whack it up in the top one again.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hopefully it'll be back in fashion by then.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Everything comes back. We need that.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We need, not necessarily skinny jeans, but we need tighter
jeans back because I don't like getting baggy jeans.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I think skinny jeans are on their way back. Gen
Z has been posting about how they discovered skinny jeans.
No you didn't discover how to hear you? Yeah, loser,
I know, direcking.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The big belts coming back, the tight top.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I think that one we can forever. I know that
that makes you really sad.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It does maybe. Actually I missed my polo top, my.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Really dollar jeans color. Dude got so hot. Lesbians go off.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's a fun ride. It was fun. It was that
it was well. As we wind our way down for
the holidays, I know that people I love to hear
about some of our family traditions for Christmas. Mel I
know you've got some fun stuff planned with Karl and Kai.
What are some of your family traditions looking like for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So we do have We've actually start to make some
family traditions of our own, which is very sweet. I
mentioned before that we do stay at home now at
Christmas because because we don't want to be traveling anywhere,
so we will go to the pub for a couple
of years, and then with Kai obviously, and then we
do homemade pizzas.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So that's our new tradition.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So we just make homemade pizzas in the pizza oven
and Kai makes his own pizza, and then.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We sit and watch a movie. I put out the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Whiskey for Santa, which miraculously goes in the morning, and
you're the mince pie and the carrot for Rudolph and
then Yeah, we just wake up in the morning, open
presents and then I'll start cooking.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's a mince pie, just a meat pie.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No, it's like a fruit. It's a mince like a
mince fruit.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's just cut up fruit. Is disgusting. I can't stand them.
Where do you go to mince pie in Florida? World Market? Yeah?
World Market?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Actually Target has now a section of MS food and
they do it there suspenses food.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I usually bring them over, but I didn't this I
just bought shortbread over. But usually I bring them over,
but I didn't this time. So what is your tradition.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, I've mentioned this before, but both Andrew's families and
my families are very close by. So usually on the
twenty third we'll go down to Andrew's family and well,
we do a lot of games, do a lot of
running around outside sports, American things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Are you a games person?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I do love games. I love board games. I love
running around, like a field day type of day. No,
not for you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, Carti's family's games people and me and my brother
in law John, who obviously have had married into the family,
have this common feeling and games is not for us,
but we will do it for the family. But I
can't stand it, which is a bit sad.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Actually, do you play like Settlers of Katan or anything?
Excuse me, Settlers of Katan? Settlers I've literally never heard
of that. Oh my god, what is it? It is
an iconic family board game. I really knows what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's when you you can kind of build a world
and there's wheat and sheep and brick and oar, and
you have to kind of get as much as you
can to be able to build your little cities and settlements,
and you trade with people and steal from people, and
the person like Lemmings. What's the Lemmings?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's like a game that was like in the nineties Lemmings.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I can't say that I know what that is.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
No, okay, no, I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Kiara, I think you might like it. You might becoming
games person and you play some Settlers of Guitar.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, flipp is about as far as I get.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What about Monopoly Deal? Oh? I do like Monopoly. I
love a bit Monopoly. What about Monopoly Deal? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's the card game version of Monopoly. It is faster.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You would like that, okay, Okay, I might buy that
this year.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You won't, but I won't. Okay, So you play, you
play games. We play games, and then Christmas Eve morning,
we open presents with all of Andrew's nephews. Cute and
so we have like our family Christmas present exchange. Christmas
Eve from five to seven, we have dinner at Andrews
(23:41):
and it's seven up on the dot. We leave and
we go to San Francisco where all the Russians have
gathered for Christmas Eve, and that goes seven until what's
a British word for lighton to the night late? Okay?
I mean I don't know. I thought maybe there was
(24:02):
like a Donkey's Years version of like.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, no donkeys is different, I know, like a look in,
but that's more for a pub.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, whatever, because there's vodka and things of that nature,
so whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, are you drinking the vodka?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, okay, get go yeah, because ours is like homemade flavors.
You're having a shot of blood orange. That sounds saious.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, good okay.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Uh. Christmas morning, Andrew and I wake up in our
own house. We have our own little just the two
of us and Steve and Steve Yeah, Christmas morning, which
is cute. And then we get in the car and
go to my parents' place in Walnut Creek and we
have every year. My mom makes a traditional Russian bleani
brunch on Christmas Day, so it's our traditional. Our bleanies
(24:48):
are like a little bit thinner and it's a more
savory pancake. And you have that with sour cream and
caviar and salmon and herring and this like egg thing
that's and you make little towers from it, cut into
it like a case.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Really that sounds so good.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
My mouth is watering. You have that in champagne, and
then we open presents and usually we watch Home Alone
or James Bond.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Or okay, oh, James Bond. I love a Chains Bond.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, yeah, very cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love Christmas. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I love Christmas too. What sort of ornaments do you
guys have? Because I Andrew and I are talking about
how it's so great that we're both on the same
page when it comes to ornaments, because I love them
when they're reflective of your life. But some people are like,
they're very into it. Aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, so we buy a new ornament every year. We
have an aesthetic for sure, ours is very classic. But
then we have a bunch of ornaments, like we have
one of Kai's first foot prints, like we have like
wherever I've traveled, I have like I have a master
as well, and I have like a beaver crete one.
I have like a chef Ouers to go skiing one.
(25:54):
So like I have a bunch of different I have
like a cause banquet one.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It must be recognized.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I have like eagles helmet one. So we have like
a I have like a Derby County one. So we
have I like to pick up ornaments. That's kind of
my thing. Yeah, I like love an ornament.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I love an ornament when you're traveling. Yes, at the
gift shop you know something yeah yeah, yeah yeah take
to take with you. Yeah I have Yeah, I have
a Master's one. I have a Cyprus point one I
have from life and I have loved pizza ornaments. I
have a ranch dressing.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I almost bought one that's them this year. I almost
bought one. I didn't, But did you just hear my tie?
That was my stomach? Dude, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It's like really late for you. No no, no, no, no, no,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Because I was busy clean this bloody house because Carl
had an appointment once, so I was I was uncleaning
duty because we're showing the house, so like, yeah, so
it's just I have to constantly clean it, and so
I just missed out and then I and then it's
theas podcast time and meetings and stuff. So yeah, okay, well,
so yeah, that's my stomach. Before anyone makes a comment,
(27:11):
it was my tummy.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Your stomach on the bike. Did you like that? It's cool? Noo,
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thank you for bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
You could have just we could have just edited that,
and you've made a big deal of it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No, you said did you hear that? It was pretty
fucking loud. I mean we had to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, okay, this is my tummy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's this is life. This happens during real life.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So I'm eating water every five seconds.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Trick your stomach into thinking that's more.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So okay, uh, what's your selling your house situation going
to be?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Well, basically, we're not going to put it on the
market stuffter Christmas, but we did like a coming soon
and we had too much interest that we couldn't not
let's just show it because really that's yeah, yeah, yeah,
So we have started to show our house and plus
it's got all the Christmas stuff in and it's got
all the furniture in still because when we were going
to put in the market, we were going to start
(28:08):
getting rid of stuff. So we have like, yeah, we've
had quite a few showings.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Hopefully we get an offer, but we're not a massive rush, but.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Carlie's like freaking out when
I had an off. Yeah, I'm like it's been on
for like three days.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, but it is stressful, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It is quite stressful.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But it's just stressful because we have a toddler and
we keep our house relatively clean anyway. But we're kind
of having a lot of visitors in and out as well,
like because people want to see it before we go,
and we had you know, parties and fat couple family
members staying and so you've just got to constantly be
on top of it, and so the washing machine is
just constantly going.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And yeah, the real trick card be like hey can
I do this showing yees thirty minutes. People want to
come and see that exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Now, Yeah, no you actually can't, but yes you can, yeah,
because you have to be on top of it.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So so yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's where we're at with that. So hopefully we sell
it quickly. But yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's not in our hands anymore. So there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You're you going to play the golf over Christmas? Yes?
I feel like you're going to. Yeah, well, we have
this New Zealand trip coming up, so we are going
to play four rounds of golf in Tiadai Tara Dy
on the North Island of New Zealand. This is a
it's like the Pebble Beach of New Zealand but on
the steroids. Yeah. I've not ever been to New Zealand,
(29:31):
so I'm really excited for that. But g Hay and
her husband Actual are going to meet us for four
days and we're going to play some golf with them.
We're gonna have our little New Year's celebration with them,
and then we'll part ways and do adventure things. We
told I told g Hay that I was gonna go
helicopter fishing with Andrew and she was like, how does
that work? Do you like past? Is that a helicopter?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Was she about to ask the same question, now, is
it like hatty skin? They dropped you off somewhere and
then you just fish and then they pick you up again. Okay,
it's gonna be summer in New Zealand as well, right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yes, uh so I do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no
I did. I did know that, but I had scheduled
a really intense facial treatment thing that takes off like
a huge layer of your skin, because I was thinking, like,
that's it's a good time to do that when it's
wintertime because you're not as exposed to the sun. And
I was supposed to do that today and I realized,
(30:28):
I'm going to the height of summer somewhere and I'm
going to play be outside and burn my face off.
So I canceled that because.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I a chemical poo.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
No, it's called Morpheus. It's like a it's kind of
like micro needling.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh okay, I've got that one, so I hate it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I've never had it before. It's supposed to peel off
a layer of your skin and then collagen.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
So Cardie had it because Carlie said, have quite bad acne,
and it was a game change of her.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
She had like two or three rounds. It was amazing. Yeah,
she really.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Reacted well to it. So yeah, it was quite painful.
I needed facial big time. I had one the.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Other day for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was delight amazing. I know I need to get facial.
It's not one top less sopriorities at the minute.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
To be honest, you told me that you used to
grow up always playing golf on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Is that something that you Okay, yes, well, well we
used to go skiing.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
We used to go skiing every year, but the couple of
Christmases that.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
We didn't, we I would always wait my mum and
dad play golf with me, like I see this, which
I'm sure they could not think of anything worse than
playing golf on Christmas Day, but it sounds cold and
it was okay, So I got a brand new so
when I was about thirteen and my golf obsession was real,
like the height of my golf obsession, my mum and
(31:50):
I always wanted a tirelest umbrella super random because they
were really expensive, but like forty pounds back then, which
was quite expensive expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Got one for Chris mess and just so happened.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It was pissing it down all day and I literally
made my mum and dad played golf with me just
so I could use money umbrella.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh that's cute, I know. So yeah, they're like, god,
damn it, why did we get her this? Mate?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I used to practice on Christmas Day like you were
such a hard I know, well, I just thought no
one else would be, so I felt some weird one
up and everyone. So I used to go after opening presents,
I would literally go down the golf club and practice
till like dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I know, wow, I know I didn't do that. Maybe
that's why I didn't become a professional car for m.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, well that's what I used to do. But we
used to go skiing. That was kind of our big
holiday was skiing over Christmas. So yeah, we used to
always kind of which was amazing because every Christmas we
used to have snow and it was magical. And and
I also feel that then you're not bored like I
feel Christmas. You can get a bit bored. If I
love just sitting around and rotting on Christmas Day, I
(32:57):
struggle with it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Oh I love that, right?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Could you have a day on a sofa. Hell yeah, really,
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I mean I would like to get out for a
little walk, yeah, but then I want to not walk,
But then you want to want five James Bond movies.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely. My fitness levels go down during
the Christmas period. I don't have a ton of motivation,
and I feel like it's the what I mean, my
friend Jane's were talking about this. It's the one time
of year that after Thanksgiving, you just can't say no
to a beer. Like it's holiday. So like if you
mate goes, hey, do you want to have a beer?
Of course I'm going to go another.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So you're wearing a hat that says vitamin G Vitamin
G baby. Oh, isn't it shop's best?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Touchhups best. But my biga is in full flow and
I'm embracing it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You don't have a beer gut you get? You have
probably the normal what somebody gets bloated from having a beer. Well,
I don't have to initiate the person. Don't just have
a b they do. I Okay, whatever the bloating get
from six beers doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, Well I'm thriving.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's my thriving time of year, all right, So what
you need as resolutions?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So I feel like I have the same ones every year,
never quite successful. So I would really like to be
as healthy as I can mixt years. As listeners of
the pod no, I have been on quite the health
journey this year with figuring out what's wrong with me
(34:43):
or if anything's wrong or if it's just in my head.
I feel like I've gotten better. I'm really good on
certain vitamins and supplements and actually lifting weights instead of
just ankle weights as I was shamed for at the
beginning of this advent. Sure, so I want to continue
to make that a priority and really do create stuff
(35:08):
around that on the road, because that's when I fall apart.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, it's difficult on the road, though, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I know, but that is our reality, so I need.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
To Yeah, I found I find it difficult on the road,
but I have learned to like prioritize it a bit,
like even if I do have to get out forty
five minutes earlier and try it, like you do definitely
feel better doing it, Like there is a way, But
it is difficult and you get tired, and you do
long hours and all this stuff and what we do
is quite energy draining because it's such a you have
(35:39):
to be so switched on mentally, don't you all the time?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So I feel you. Ye, So you're just going to
be healthier. So that's fine, that's fun for you.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So obviously we're moving. I want to I want to
get back into my football. I'm going to join I've
already looked at it. I'm going to join a co
ed soccer league.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I love that. Yeah. So it's like, you know what,
just make content around there. Yes, well, yeah, come with me.
Look at my football beats my co ed soccer league.
I picked up a drink from a local place called Starbucks'.
That's a alley line. Hallie always says that.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
So yeah, I'm going to do that, and yeah, I
just I think the reason that we're moving to Colorado
is to we're outdoorsy people anyway, but it's quite difficult
here in Florida. You're quite limited on the outdoor stuff
that you do.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Unctually.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Have a boat and you enjoy fishing, which I don't.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So already got my ski pass, so I will be
doing much more of that this year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
What's the mountain that you're going to ski, are you
going to bump around?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So yeah, I usually get the Epic Pass, which is
like Aspen and Baby Creek and all that. So I've
just done an Icon pass, which is more like Winter
Park Copper Copper Copper Copper Mountain.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Having a seizure, I think.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So it usually happens when I'm live on air certa
least I'm doing it where we.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Can edit it out. Do not edit, no, do not
edit that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
So yeah, so I've got that, and I've just done
a week day one because I probably won't get on
weekends anyway. So just basically exploring our new Humbler Bode
and just be a bit more outdoors and the things
that I actually enjoy. So that's one of mine, is
to be healthy in a different way. Like I found
the lifting, and I find keeping fit easyer the most.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Not directing that anyone, but I think to be like
not necessarily just lifting and think that that's I want
to be fit in like hiking and more snowboarding and
co ed football and things like that. So that's one
of my newest resolutions, to just explore a new place
of home.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
And it's also getting to catch up on stuff that
you've had to sacrifice for years. Exactly, a professional bathroom.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Great point, Yeah, exactly. So I'll probably snap my achille
or something.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, So we'll see how that goes. Okay, And it's
a good place to meet people. We need to meet people,
so I mean, I'll talk to a break wall, but
it'll be nice to actually meet new people. To make
a friend would be great. It's hard to make friends
as an adult, so hard because I just can't be
bothered because okay, this is this is my thing being older. Right,
(38:27):
I have my core group of friends and I've wisely
chosen them over the years. And obviously I've had my
lifelong friends and then I've got my new friends that
I've learned along the way.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
But I think as an adult.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
You just you can't be bothered with the bullshit of
like small talk and like am I really going to
get on with me?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
And so it has to be someone pretty special for
them to be in my circle now. But yeah, hopefully
we meet some cool people and hopefully they will get
an interview to get into my circle.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
But you probably make a lot of mom friends or
parents friend.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, we'll make a lot of friends I think, but
like actual people that I generally want to like meet
up with on a weekly basis will be probably the
biggest challenge. And I think that that does. I think
it's going to be easier having Kai because, as you said,
you know, he's going to go into school and we'll
obviously meet parents and all that kind of and hopefully
they'll be in the same things that we are because
of where we're living. But it's difficult. It's really tough
(39:24):
as a as an adult.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
I'm in my cutting stage.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Yeah, I I.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Was going to get to that. Well, I was. I
was doing that at your age. My age. Yeah, you're
like to say four. Yeah, I'm like not that much
younger than you.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
No, I know, but I was cutting people at like
thirty four.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Mm. Yeah, I'm a big cut the fat person.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Oh you you tell me, I'll tell you half why.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I think it'd be nice if they start hearing from
me then, you know.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I just think just ad laundry on the podcast people
would love that.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, I don't know. I I think that at this
point in life, if you're not showing up in a
meaningful way, it's kind of like what are we doing? Like, Yeah,
we're not You're not add anything anymore to my life
because of that, I don't want to add anything to
your life now. Her feelings, you're great, but we're good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh that was a millennial piece out there, though.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I am who I am. You know what Cassette, our manager,
said to me one time she's had a conversation with
her therapist. I always loved Cassette starts conversations with Well,
my therapist said love love. Yeah, that's always great stuff.
So I get therapy through Cassette. Okay, so she said,
imagine your friendships as a theater. And sometimes your friends
(40:47):
are in the front road, chearing you on. They're at everything,
they're the most supportive. Sometimes they move to the mezzanine.
They're kind of in and out. They're you know, supporting,
but they're texting while they're watching. Sometimes they're you know,
way in the nosebleeds. And sometimes they don't even go
to the show. And that's okay, And everybody kind of
changes seats and not everybody's always in the front row.
Sometimes they move to the mezzanine. Just punds on what
everybody's lives are doing. And that's fine, very true. It's
(41:09):
good analogy. It is.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Very true, very very true.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
So yeah, those of you that aren't going to the show, sorry, yeah,
your tickets are out. Tickets are out. I have another one,
another neoge resolution. Please. Have you heard of substack?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
So it's a it's a like a social media platform
and app that's more for writing. So theoretically, let's say
you were a subscriber of mine on substack, and if
I write a newsletter or some sort of essay or something,
you would get any email that alerts you to this.
You could read it and it would be about something
that you care about. So, you know, you would probably
(41:52):
subscribe to one that was about life in Colorado or
you know some I don't know whatever. So it's not
like you're interested in or or have some similar experiences with.
So I was thinking that that would be a good
outlet for me because I love to write.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I can imagine being a good writer. Actually, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Journal. No, I've tried, but there's nothing like thinking about
all your shit and then looking at all your shit
and it's just now it's there for somebody to potentially
come across it and read it. Yeah, do you journal? No?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Actually, when I was playing golf. I used to journal,
not regularly, obviously, I used to go through ways, but
you know, if I was like going through a bit
of a bad mental spell, Yeah, I would literally in
the morning before because I'd be like, oh my god,
I'm going to shoot a hundre and two today. Obviously
it's not going to happen. But I would literally write
down all the things that could go wrong. And it's
somehow freed me out, really because I was like, that
(42:57):
just sounds so ridiculous, and even if that did happen, like,
who gives a shit? Really, Like, if that's the worst
thing's gonna happen to me, is me top the foot
the top of my golf ball and then shoot eight
one hundred and two like whatever. And it's just somehow
I probably shouldn't Now I say that I probably should journal,
but I.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Just I just.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I just can't be bothered.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's very time consuming. It is, in yeah, I mean
it is.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
But I mean the amount of times that you know,
you scroll through Instagram, you probably could journal like two
or three sentences of every day, can you.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
So yeah, that's true, that's true. But Instagram's more important.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Instagram's way more important. I have to cash up on
things that I've missed out when I've been asleep.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, so I guess it kind of plays into an
overall goal of being better about my content pillars and
creating ware of a community online and having a direct
link to people that could relate to me that you know,
I can share these things about my life or my
story or experiences and maybe that could help somebody. So
(43:55):
that's something I would like to do in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Very good, Very good. I would like to be a
bit more organized.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
You want to be more like Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
I want to set like a certain amount, like I
want to do my to do list before Again, this
is the transition from an athlete. So I used to
do that and now I don't do that when I
probably should because my life, in a weird way is
even more chaotic than it was as an athlete, because
I've got a lot of things going on and if
I don't write it down, I obviously forget. So I'm
going to be better at that. And I will listen
(44:32):
to your voice notes and I will reply to the
same with you, Cassette.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I will reply to your emails.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
You know what helps me. I find that if I
am just going willy nilly through my day, I forget
so many things. I drop the ball. I get overwhelmed
with the amount of stuff that I need to do.
But if I take five minutes of the night before
to write myself a general timeline of things that I
want to get done and when I want to get
(45:01):
them done, what they are, and I build my day
in a bit of block scheduling. Yeah, then I wake up,
I've got a plan. This is my time to take
this thing to FedEx, this is my time to catch
up on the pod. This is my time to prep
for next week. Then all of a sudden, I've had
a generally successful day and then just not put pressure
(45:22):
on it because things changed about the day. But if
I've written it down, it has a lot more chance
of actually happening.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm with you. That's wanting to
be better at and just not being on my phone
as much. I do a good job with Kai, like
I very rarely sit around Carl on my phone, but
me and Kylie definitely we can get away from as
if we're not too careful.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
So I definitely want to limit my screen time.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
No, I feel like I'm a real adult these days.
So that comes with I got to act like that.
What am I doing with my life? That's my other wife? Yeah, yeah,
what are we doing here? Yeah, I've spent ten years
grinding you can relate to what At a certain point
the grind kind of stops and you've done all this
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stuff to get yourself to this place. So what are
we doing with that? What are my life goals? What
do I actually want to get from this grind? Not
to say that I need to figure that out in
twenty twenty six, but I would like to start thinking
about Okay, I don't know that I want a grind
it forever.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I know, I do feel like that's the American way though,
Like I've noticed a massive cultural difference living here than
in the UK. Like the UK, we have a lot
of days off and a lot of holidays and a
lot more time.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You can have a lot more time PTO with work.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I can't believe how hard you guys work, like it
is twenty four to seven. Like I will get emails
from people on the weekend. I'm like, bro, yeah doing
not that that it's important, but I'm like, bro, what
are you doing I'm like, you don't need a response
right away, but I don't know. I feel like you
guys just culture are so different, Like you guys need
to just have a step back, go to a big
arden and just chill sometimes not reply to people.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I know. I say that as my One of my
resolutions is to be like more like Kim Kardashian I
did and respond immediately. It's unlikely, though, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
It's just not real life, so she has like a
whole staff, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, but there are plenty of times when I'm just
letting things fall through the crafts that would take me
two seconds and why why am I doing that?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Sorry, it's fine, good little work out, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Don't worry about it. Let's end on some podcast resolutions.
What do you want to see with the pad in
twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
I said before, I would like me to do at
least one in person. I think that would be pretty cool.
I'd like to get the audience a bit more involved,
like what do you want us to talk about? What
subjects you want us to talk about? You know this
is your podcast as well. I think that that would
be really cool. Is to get you guys, our very
devoted listeners into the podcast a little bit more, tell
us what guests would like on and things like that.
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I think, to really elevate it to where we think
it could go. I think that that would be a
really good, insightful help is from listening to our listeners.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yeah. I think that's a great one. My goal would
be for us to do an in person recording with
an audience. Oh, that would be cool, like around one
of the majors or around a golf tournament that we're
both at. For us to like sit on a stage
with the mics and have an audience and maybe take
questions in person and have it be more interactive.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, that would be That's really cool. Let's do it
well that Yeah, that's good on it? Yeah, she shush
of the week? You know, do you have one? Because
I was thinking maybe we just be happy.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Okay, good, you know it's Christmas, we don't need to
focus on bat.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
My shish of the week is everyone just needs to
take time off during the Christmas period.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Okay, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good name.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
And that was awesome as well, Kara, thank you. That
was really cool.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
But no, you're right. I think just Christmas.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Mary Crassler, Merry christ.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh wait, hold on, oh you know that? You know
that kid, the British kid that's in the back of
the car and his mom is filming him, and he's like,
I got a classic Parker in a Nativity player. She's like, oh,
what you get? Because I'm door holding number three. I'll
be holding doors. Get in there, I know.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
She's like, are you the shepherd? He's like, no better
than that, are you Joseph? No way better, I'm dornumber three.
I still love going to my nephews and niece's Nativity.
It was one of my absolute favorite, one of my
favorite times of year was just washing the kids just
absolutely cat just carnage, just trying to look for their
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parents and oh were you?
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Were you ever a native? I was a sheep once,
I was married once.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Actually can you believe that?
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Wow? Big role. I sang in the children's choir like,
I don't know that I was ever an aativity, but
we did have a choir situation. I think I may
have made maybe played a drum or. Tragically.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
It fascinates me the more and more you tell stories
and the more I tell stories. How opposite we have
lived our life in a weird way.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
You're a sheep and I'm being in a drum.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Yeah, I was marry. When I was married, I was
livid as well because I wanted to be Joseph.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
I was living it all makes sense, All makes sense now.
Maybe we had some inclination then.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Yeah, with the tea tawl on my head, I was
absolutely livid. I wasn't Joseph. Raging, absolutely raging. Hated it
to wear like a dress thing.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
It was horrible. Oh the words could have been a
wise man.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
I could have been a wise man. But I wanted Joseph.
I want to lead role. So when they said a
lead role, I thought, get in there. They said Mary,
I thought, fuck off, fuck off missus Richley funk off.
Are you going to be Mary? O?
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Oh? Devastated. I saw a funny meme the other day
that I said, it shouldn't have been three wise men,
It should have been three wise women showing up with
food prepared.
Speaker 4 (51:26):
For the week exactly, diapers and things that you actually
would have giving birth to Jesus in a manger again, blankets.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Not what was it? Mirth gold. Yeah, this like, I
don't want any things up for Jesus' trust.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Fun not practically needed. Nanny and Danny would be ideal,
right now, a night nurse would be great.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
A bress pump, a breast pump would be great, literally,
anything about what they brought, anything, but please go exactly.
Oh she would have been raging, would she? What are
you talking about? And maybe some bedding probably.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Likes sure, it's God's child.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
Yes, some more straw would have been great, you know,
no bedding.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Religious you're listening to this? Sorry, Like my.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Wife, it's Carli religious, she's very Catholic.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, whole family.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Yeah, well I think there's you know, different levels, like
Catholic is super cultural too, that's like a whole way
of life.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yes it is, well any of all these yes, so
yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Well, Merry Christmas, all the Susures out there, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
Mell.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
This has really been I'm super grateful for this. I'm
really god that we have been able to figure this
out and actually do this. I'm proud of us. I'm
very proud, and I can't say I've ever laughed harder
or had more fun doing a work thing than getting
to do Quiet Please you eight till next year. I
joined a Wed soccer team. Stories some great stories. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
Wait, Merry Christmas everyone, Mary, thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Thank you as always, hope everybody has an amazing holiday
and we will see you in twenty twenty six. Bye bye,
Thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back next
week with more golf aps and we want to hear
from you. Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts and
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(53:44):
is hosted by Mel Reed and Kira Dixon. Our executive
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Our producer is Jonathan Kerma.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
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to Quiet Please, our Christmas episode, our New Year's Resolutions episode.
This will be our last time chatting with you guys
for the year. We'll have a nice rerun for you
next week. But Mel, we have made it to the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We definitely have.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's gone quick, but it's also been a challenge at times.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But why not meant to say that?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
No, you said it after taking in this big breath.
It was like, you know how it is.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's because we're we're on on the East coast, you're
on the West coast. It'll be back next year, the
Colorado Girl.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But there, I know. I think next year we need
to do well.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I know we say this, I shouldn't we be saying this,
but I'm want to put it out there. I think
we should do at least one in person.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We have to. Yeah, I wonder how it would be
to record in person. I almost feel like we would
have to relearn how to do that because I'm so
used to our cadence online. It would be I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's more body language stuff, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think it would be perfectly amazing. We're amazing and
everything we do, but we should.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We definitely will will make that as a priorities. It
will definitely do at least one in what do you
call it, in person person recording. Oh, and you can
have much design your office as well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, we got to talk about what's going to be
in your new podcast background.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know, Kira, to be honest with you, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Okay, I want cool things like yours, because I actually
I forget how much. Now i've started packing stuff up,
I've renished how much cool stuff I have like that,
and I just don't have the house. You probably have
some amazing I've never known that I know, and I
just just Soulheim stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I never put that on the wall.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I packed everything away soon as I get I've never
taken anything out stood in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, can this be? We're going to get to our
New Year's resolutions part at the end of the pod,
but one of them write this down should be you
actually getting stuff out of the box and putting.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It on on the wall for the pot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
If anything's going to get you to do it, it'll
be that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, all right too, I will. I promise, I promise.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did you write it down in heads? Mentally? Which means
I forget about it? Yeah, it's okay, don't worry. I'll
remind you.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I know you will. I know you will.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You make me accountable. You know I'm here for you.
We all have our strengths I need. Yeah, that is
not my strength, that's the way.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I know, I know. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But you you make me laugh and make me happy
about life. And I make sure that you follow up
on the email. That's great, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I actually have a lot of people that text me
about following up on stuff, as you can quite imagine.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes, you have, you have. You know. I think it's
great that you have recognized this about yourself and you've
surrounded yourself with people that can help where you might
need some areas of you know, needing a little bit
of extra attention. I've definitely got better.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
If we'd have done this maybe two or three years ago,
it might have been a bit of a nightmare because
I still had that athlete mindset of you know, it's
only me in this world.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And so I've definitely improved.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It is on my list of things for next year
is to be it's not be so much procrastinator and.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Get back to people.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm the busiest and busy person you never met. So okay,
well we'll get to our resolution section.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, a little bit before we do that, I just
want to say a huge thank you to the response
to the merch. It went off crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We've had a lot of interest.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But so while things are still out going and and
have a look online. And like we said earlier, the
more we sell, the better stuff that we can get
you next time. So log on and check it out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. Yeah, we decided to just stick with the krew
neck and the hat this time around.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes, I mean everyone can wear a crew neck and
a hat on.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, but like maybe we can do m rugs.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I knew that was coming. Bubble hats, beanies hat, a
hat with a bobble on it. Oh, like a Beanie
like with the little puffs.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Uh yeah, I like that. Perff in your world, it's
just jef. It's Jeff Well, one of my brothers. But no,
it's no, it's a little hat with a bobble on it. Okay, yes,
all of the things, all of the things, all of
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the golf towel, beer mugs eventually be a stein.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yes see, then I could put that out there. I
just want my whole thing to just quiet please stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, so never know. Oh you know what else is
on the quiet Please merch which we didn't talk about,
is so the designer that helped us with our stuff,
I sent them a link to our show just so
that they could watch it and see some stuff. I
never said anything about the lips that are hanging behind
you in the shush, and he himself took that and
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put it on all of our designs and I loved that,
so it ended up staying. So it's on the right
side of the hat, so if you're right handed down
the line, you'd be able to see it on the
side of your head. Wait, no, did I mess that up.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
If it's on the right side of the hat, I
don't think it matters if you right or left handed.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's still on the right side of the hat. Yeah,
I don't know, I'm saying. But if you're setting up
for a golf shot.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, you're talking for a golf swing. Yeah, yeah, okay, sorry,
that makes more sense. Sorry, I thought you were just saying,
but if you're left handed, it's on the left side. No,
it's still on the right side.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, if you're left handed, you can't see it down a.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Golf I didn't notice we were hitting golf balls right now,
so that's.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
What I was getting to that. But you're already left
thinking at me. Okay, but yeah, if you're if you're
left make sure when you order it for the left
handed hat. We did not accommodate for that this time around,
So I'm sorry to the lefties out there. Sorry Hattie,
Sorry Pally, Sorry Hattie. But yeah, okay, yeah. This sweater
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is a little It's got these little uh fuzzies on it,
and I think I have one stuck to my eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh dear.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But the sweater is cute, so it's fine. It can
stay anything for fashion.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I don't know why I've just saw this, but I'm
getting I'm getting eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Marco bladed, Are you really?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah? I've had it b for like seven months and
I'm getting it done next week.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, I want to full report because I's going to
fink about doing that for well, I don't know. Do
you need it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You can't need it. Yeah, one of my eyebrows. My eyebrows, Okay, people,
please don't you man. My eyebrows are so so different.
It's always been different as a kid. One sticks up
like literally used to stick up, and the other one
is just like the other one's like fine, it's thick
and it thrives. This one as soon as I plucked
it back in two thousand and four, just never really recovered.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So it's very millennial thin.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But break now thin eyebrows again. Alex Earl. Alex Earl
is like thin eyebrow Champion.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh she's just broke up with the boyfriend and she
they broke up.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, drama, I was.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I was in a deep dive that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was in the comment section so deep on He
posted for the first time in a while, or at
least since she's been on Dancing with the Stars, and
his caption was what did I miss And all of
the comments are every single episode of Alex on Dancing
with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, yeah, no, I had a deep dive about it
and a drama she's going to get a really hot
new boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
She's cool. Shit. I like her as long I know
she's like an influencer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I think she's done and I like her. I think
she's cool. I love how real she is, Like I
know she doesn't get ready, but she's very real about
how hungover she gets, very real about how.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
She's just a party girl.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's amazing. Oh god, I would thrive in that if
I was born nowadays. I know, well, probably not.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Maybe it was probably for the best that some of
that stuff didn't end up on the internet. Yes, I
should say so. So. I don't know if you followed
some of this discourse online, but there's a kind of
a backlash to the traditional influencer right now, especially the
type that show how much stuff they have and how
much money they have, and you know, the comment section
(08:39):
has turned from oh my god, how amazing to literally,
I can't feed my family or I can't buy groceries,
and there's this fatigue of you know, I don't want
to see you restock your fridge with one hundred perrieres
because I'm just trying to buy groceries. Alex does a
good job of being like, this is just my life.
(08:59):
But I'm not throwing into your face how much stuff
I have or this abundance. Right, let's unbox my new shadel.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
No, I agree with you, and I hate how they
do the tappy thing, you know when they go and
they go, I can't do it except out nails.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, I just tapping in twenty twenty six, although I
have done many a tap to be like, let's be wrong. Yeah,
but I feel the stuff that you like.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm like this as well, and I've this is where
we you know, Agent set, Love and Live amazing because
they generally will bring me stuff like hey, you know
this brand, want to do it?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm like, well, I have to try it first.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I would never like and that's genuine like I never
would be like, hey, actually, guys, this this stuff is
actually sick. If I hadn't and I generally didn't think
that anyway, Like I'm not one, I'm not an influencer,
but two, if a brand does want to come to me,
I have to make sure that I genuinely would use
that brand.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm not just going to just like get clicks and
likes for it if.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I don't believe it and That's what pisses me off
with influencers is that I have a girl who I
used to know through my ex and she's an influencer,
proper influencer, And I'm like, bro, you are influencing shit
every single day, Like you cannot be using these products
every single day.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, And I'm like, just.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
As a business, yeah, yeah, but you're You're not an influencer,
but you have influence. And there's a there's a really
key difference there because if I'm following you and you
actually post something because you have so much credibility in
these specific areas, I know that that's a quality thing.
(10:34):
I know that you actually stand by it, and because
you have influence, I will be influenced then into buying
whatever it is. Yeah, and I hope that I have
that as well in certain areas. I have legit credibility
in whether it be golf, for beauty or travel because
that is my life. So I don't know. It's a
(10:55):
weird balance because it's like we have we do have
these great social following that we've worked really hard to build,
and there is a part of you know, I do
want to monetize it. It's a part of life. That
I want to be able to take advantage of that,
but in a way that's still building a community and
like not.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yea, I Icky, I know it's a weird thing. Yeah,
it's a very it's a very weird thing. And like
we've spoke about this before. I'm very it's actually funny
me and Carly. So for those of you who don't know,
Carli actually works at social media but gives me zero
help in my social media, which is just great. But
we actually had to sit down the other day and
we spoke about my pillars and all that stuff, and
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so she is going to bit she's actually going to
try and help me.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We'll see how long that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Well, if I would say, the pitch to Carly is
the better your stuff does, the more you can bring in,
the better for the read fam.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, and the podcast and it all just works in
you know, one big kind of community circle. So yeah,
we've definitely because I'm pretty shit on social media. But
I also think I've said this to you before. My
life is like not I don't know, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Don't say that your life is interesting and you are interesting.
I know exactly where you're going to go with that,
but I think that that's the most like we millennials
have this weird block. I have this as well, this
like weird shame block, or we think like, oh, this
is an interesting blah blah blah. I posted uh like
ten photos of food that I made for myself a
(12:21):
couple of weeks ago. I remember that, just like and
I said, it was non aesthetic food that I cooked
for myself. I got so much engagement from just taking
pictures of lunch and not editing it, not trying to
make it look cool or aesthetic. Just this is what
I eat today. And my DM's full of can you
(12:42):
send me this? Can you send me this recipe? Lah
la lah lah. Yes, that's not interesting, that's just my life.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well yeah, so like I'm going to make myself countable now.
So I'm cooking Christmas dinner on my own for our friends.
So I'm actually going to film it because I'm going
to do Oh can I see what I'm doing?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, okay, let's soft launch it here.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Okay, soft launch it. I'm gonna do nice roast chicken.
So I'm going to do a traditional So I'm gonna
do roast chicken. And I'm also gonna do Beefunnington. I
love be fine funny. Actually I'll go with the stars. First,
I'm gonna do a porn cocktailed to start.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's very British.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah I had one and my party is last week.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, but like, did you have like iceberg lettuce in
the bottom?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right, yeah, yeah, but the same thing. It's not the
same thing. So mine was ship continue No, no, no,
porn cocktail star, iceberg lettuce.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Iceberg lettuce.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Then I'm gonna do roast chicken and the beef Wennington,
and the sides are going to be like British, like
pigs and blanket. Then I'm going to do like Parsing's carrots,
the standard. I'm gonna do roast potatoes. I'm gonna do
Brussels sprouts, and then like a little bit of like
broccoli and obviously gravy, so yeah full.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And then I don't know what to do for dessert yet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I might just a trifle, a trifle or a Christmas pudding,
but Christmas pudding is disgusting, so I don't really on that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
To make sure it doesn't have a saggy bottom. Make
sure it's Paul Hollywood worthy.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oh okay, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
So yeah, I might film that and then put the
real together of me doing the Christmas dinner because it'll
be quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Maybe miber not. I love that. Okay. How do you
do your Brussels sprouts? Oh? Okay, so I part boil them, and.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Then I while they're part boiling, I do like preshetto
like a curb some proshetto, preschetto.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Presto, preschetto predo. No, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Wait, it's not that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What's the bacon thing, prejudo. Okay, I cut that out. Presheto. Well,
it's poor chetta preschetto.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Anyway, so different, Okay, tomato and I'll i'll like fry
some of that off and then love that. I'll once
they've part bored a little bit, I kind of put
them in with the puscetto into this.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I can't take you when you say that it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's not wrong. It's right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Okay, you put it and then I put it in
and roast for about twenty minutes and it's and then
at the end I'll put a bit balsomic glaze on it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Ooh, that's delish. Yeah, that's delish. I have to admit
I do not like a roasted potato. And sorry, this
is reminding me of the the excellent line from Pride
and Prejudice when mister Collins says, and to whom of
my fair cousins can I compliment the cooking? I've never
(15:37):
had a more exemplary vegetable. As she's talking about the
roasted potatoes. How do you know that? Because I can
recite the entire all of Pride and Prejudice? But do
you know that was filmed in Derby with Ker and
I in it? Shut up? Is it really in Darby? Yeah?
Is mister is mister Darcy's listen in Derby? It's Kedleston Park.
(16:03):
It's where I used to play golfer. It's Kenderson.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
If you actually look closer, you can see the golf
course in the background. Look watch it again.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Shut up. Yeah. So I'm playing there and I was like,
wore all these TV.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Cons we needed this is Yeah, it was kind of
something for me. Yeah, it's down the road for me. Okay,
we're we're not now.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm going to Derby.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, Kendison Park is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So yeah, Pemberley that's in the movie It's Pemberley. Are
the shades of Pemberley casts polluted?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
For Okay, I'm trying to gain follow his care.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Okay, so if you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Get up, okay, roasted potatoes? How do you do roast potatoes?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Which I do not think that they are an exemplary vegetables.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I like a.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Mashy Okay, So I put it underneath the meat for
really hot. So when I first put the meat in,
I'll put them really hot for about thirty minutes, and
I stick the roastes underneath that beforehand the roasties. Yeah,
And I take the roastes out and then I'll wrap
them up. I'll spin them up in a bit of
duck fat ideally, and then I'll just wak him in
towards the end of the meat for about thirty forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh maybe I would like your roasties.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, I ever cooked in the last couple of times,
so hopefully I can do bad next time we cut
into them with no potato left.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But hmm, so can we go back to your microblating
your eyebrows?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yes, please? It hurts, doesn't it. I don't know. I've
never gotten it done. I've always thought about it, so
I can't wait for your full report.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Dude, it's gonna be It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You're gonna look different. Eyebrows are a huge part of
your face.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I know, and I hate my brows, so it can't
be anywhere.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So what they are now?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
My eyebrows have these like little points. I try to
get rid of them, but they have these little points.
I call them my houses. So whenever I get them done,
I'm like, can you get the rid of the houses
right there? I meant to have that. No, but I
want a smooth arch, not as weird pointy thing. My
face is as expressive as it is. I don't need
to be looking like Corolla Deville.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I don't think you would ever look like Corella Deville.
Oh I do want to look like her when I'm older.
That I do want like my one of my best friends,
Kelly has like as she's in her.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Forty's love you Kelly forty two?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I think one of my best friends, her hair's like
dark and curly, but she's got this one gray stripe
and it's so cool, Like I actually love it, and
I'm like, I want that so bad?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Is it natural?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, it's a natural just one gray stripe head. Yeah,
it's really cool. So yeah, I want to look like
her when I'm when I'm older.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I am getting some what my hairstylist describes as sparkler's here.
She goes, ooh, some sparklers. So it's my little gray
hair that's coming in right here. Yeah, maybe you'll get it.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I want to be full gray. I cannot wait to
be like ashy gray.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't think that would look.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I would love it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Imagine the top one with an ash gray look. Dude, sixty,
my top ten will come my tope to come back.
If I'm going gray, it'll probably come back to so
I can whack it up in the top one again.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hopefully it'll be back in fashion by then.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Everything comes back. We need that.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We need, not necessarily skinny jeans, but we need tighter
jeans back because I don't like getting baggy jeans.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I think skinny jeans are on their way back. Gen
Z has been posting about how they discovered skinny jeans.
No you didn't discover how to hear you? Yeah, loser,
I know, direcking.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The big belts coming back, the tight top.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I think that one we can forever. I know that
that makes you really sad.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It does maybe. Actually I missed my polo top, my.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Really dollar jeans color. Dude got so hot. Lesbians go off.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's a fun ride. It was fun. It was that
it was well. As we wind our way down for
the holidays, I know that people I love to hear
about some of our family traditions for Christmas. Mel I
know you've got some fun stuff planned with Karl and Kai.
What are some of your family traditions looking like for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So we do have We've actually start to make some
family traditions of our own, which is very sweet. I
mentioned before that we do stay at home now at
Christmas because because we don't want to be traveling anywhere,
so we will go to the pub for a couple
of years, and then with Kai obviously, and then we
do homemade pizzas.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So that's our new tradition.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So we just make homemade pizzas in the pizza oven
and Kai makes his own pizza, and then.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We sit and watch a movie. I put out the.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Whiskey for Santa, which miraculously goes in the morning, and
you're the mince pie and the carrot for Rudolph and
then Yeah, we just wake up in the morning, open
presents and then I'll start cooking.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's a mince pie, just a meat pie.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No, it's like a fruit. It's a mince like a
mince fruit.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's just cut up fruit. Is disgusting. I can't stand them.
Where do you go to mince pie in Florida? World Market? Yeah?
World Market?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Actually Target has now a section of MS food and
they do it there suspenses food.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I usually bring them over, but I didn't this I
just bought shortbread over. But usually I bring them over,
but I didn't this time. So what is your tradition.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Well, I've mentioned this before, but both Andrew's families and
my families are very close by. So usually on the
twenty third we'll go down to Andrew's family and well,
we do a lot of games, do a lot of
running around outside sports, American things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Are you a games person?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I do love games. I love board games. I love
running around, like a field day type of day. No,
not for you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, Carti's family's games people and me and my brother
in law John, who obviously have had married into the family,
have this common feeling and games is not for us,
but we will do it for the family. But I
can't stand it, which is a bit sad.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Actually, do you play like Settlers of Katan or anything?
Excuse me, Settlers of Katan? Settlers I've literally never heard
of that. Oh my god, what is it? It is
an iconic family board game. I really knows what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's when you you can kind of build a world
and there's wheat and sheep and brick and oar, and
you have to kind of get as much as you
can to be able to build your little cities and settlements,
and you trade with people and steal from people, and
the person like Lemmings. What's the Lemmings?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's like a game that was like in the nineties Lemmings.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I can't say that I know what that is.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
No, okay, no, I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Kiara, I think you might like it. You might becoming
games person and you play some Settlers of Guitar.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You know, flipp is about as far as I get.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What about Monopoly Deal? Oh? I do like Monopoly. I
love a bit Monopoly. What about Monopoly Deal? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's the card game version of Monopoly. It is faster.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You would like that, okay, Okay, I might buy that
this year.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You won't, but I won't. Okay, So you play, you
play games. We play games, and then Christmas Eve morning,
we open presents with all of Andrew's nephews. Cute and
so we have like our family Christmas present exchange. Christmas
Eve from five to seven, we have dinner at Andrews
(23:41):
and it's seven up on the dot. We leave and
we go to San Francisco where all the Russians have
gathered for Christmas Eve, and that goes seven until what's
a British word for lighton to the night late? Okay?
I mean I don't know. I thought maybe there was
(24:02):
like a Donkey's Years version of like.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, no donkeys is different, I know, like a look in,
but that's more for a pub.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, whatever, because there's vodka and things of that nature,
so whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, are you drinking the vodka?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, okay, get go yeah, because ours is like homemade flavors.
You're having a shot of blood orange. That sounds saious.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, good okay.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Uh. Christmas morning, Andrew and I wake up in our
own house. We have our own little just the two
of us and Steve and Steve Yeah, Christmas morning, which
is cute. And then we get in the car and
go to my parents' place in Walnut Creek and we
have every year. My mom makes a traditional Russian bleani
brunch on Christmas Day, so it's our traditional. Our bleanies
(24:48):
are like a little bit thinner and it's a more
savory pancake. And you have that with sour cream and
caviar and salmon and herring and this like egg thing
that's and you make little towers from it, cut into
it like a case.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Really that sounds so good.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
My mouth is watering. You have that in champagne, and
then we open presents and usually we watch Home Alone
or James Bond.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Or okay, oh, James Bond. I love a Chains Bond.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, yeah, very cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love Christmas. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I love Christmas too. What sort of ornaments do you
guys have? Because I Andrew and I are talking about
how it's so great that we're both on the same
page when it comes to ornaments, because I love them
when they're reflective of your life. But some people are like,
they're very into it. Aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, so we buy a new ornament every year. We
have an aesthetic for sure, ours is very classic. But
then we have a bunch of ornaments, like we have
one of Kai's first foot prints, like we have like
wherever I've traveled, I have like I have a master
as well, and I have like a beaver crete one.
I have like a chef Ouers to go skiing one.
(25:54):
So like I have a bunch of different I have
like a cause banquet one.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
It must be recognized.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I have like eagles helmet one. So we have like
a I have like a Derby County one. So we
have I like to pick up ornaments. That's kind of
my thing. Yeah, I like love an ornament.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I love an ornament when you're traveling. Yes, at the
gift shop you know something yeah yeah, yeah yeah take
to take with you. Yeah I have Yeah, I have
a Master's one. I have a Cyprus point one I
have from life and I have loved pizza ornaments. I
have a ranch dressing.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I almost bought one that's them this year. I almost
bought one. I didn't, But did you just hear my tie?
That was my stomach? Dude, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It's like really late for you. No no, no, no, no, no,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Because I was busy clean this bloody house because Carl
had an appointment once, so I was I was uncleaning
duty because we're showing the house, so like, yeah, so
it's just I have to constantly clean it, and so
I just missed out and then I and then it's
theas podcast time and meetings and stuff. So yeah, okay, well,
so yeah, that's my stomach. Before anyone makes a comment,
(27:11):
it was my tummy.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Your stomach on the bike. Did you like that? It's cool? Noo,
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thank you for bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
You could have just we could have just edited that,
and you've made a big deal of it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No, you said did you hear that? It was pretty
fucking loud. I mean we had to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, okay, this is my tummy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's this is life. This happens during real life.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So I'm eating water every five seconds.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Trick your stomach into thinking that's more.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So okay, uh, what's your selling your house situation going
to be?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Well, basically, we're not going to put it on the
market stuffter Christmas, but we did like a coming soon
and we had too much interest that we couldn't not
let's just show it because really that's yeah, yeah, yeah,
So we have started to show our house and plus
it's got all the Christmas stuff in and it's got
all the furniture in still because when we were going
to put in the market, we were going to start
(28:08):
getting rid of stuff. So we have like, yeah, we've
had quite a few showings.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Hopefully we get an offer, but we're not a massive rush, but.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Carlie's like freaking out when
I had an off. Yeah, I'm like it's been on
for like three days.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, but it is stressful, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It is quite stressful.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But it's just stressful because we have a toddler and
we keep our house relatively clean anyway. But we're kind
of having a lot of visitors in and out as well,
like because people want to see it before we go,
and we had you know, parties and fat couple family
members staying and so you've just got to constantly be
on top of it, and so the washing machine is
just constantly going.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And yeah, the real trick card be like hey can
I do this showing yees thirty minutes. People want to
come and see that exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Now, Yeah, no you actually can't, but yes you can, yeah,
because you have to be on top of it.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So so yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's where we're at with that. So hopefully we sell
it quickly. But yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's not in our hands anymore. So there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You're you going to play the golf over Christmas? Yes?
I feel like you're going to. Yeah, well, we have
this New Zealand trip coming up, so we are going
to play four rounds of golf in Tiadai Tara Dy
on the North Island of New Zealand. This is a
it's like the Pebble Beach of New Zealand but on
the steroids. Yeah. I've not ever been to New Zealand,
(29:31):
so I'm really excited for that. But g Hay and
her husband Actual are going to meet us for four
days and we're going to play some golf with them.
We're gonna have our little New Year's celebration with them,
and then we'll part ways and do adventure things. We
told I told g Hay that I was gonna go
helicopter fishing with Andrew and she was like, how does
that work? Do you like past? Is that a helicopter?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Was she about to ask the same question, now, is
it like hatty skin? They dropped you off somewhere and
then you just fish and then they pick you up again. Okay,
it's gonna be summer in New Zealand as well, right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yes, uh so I do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no
I did. I did know that, but I had scheduled
a really intense facial treatment thing that takes off like
a huge layer of your skin, because I was thinking, like,
that's it's a good time to do that when it's
wintertime because you're not as exposed to the sun. And
I was supposed to do that today and I realized,
(30:28):
I'm going to the height of summer somewhere and I'm
going to play be outside and burn my face off.
So I canceled that because.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I a chemical poo.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
No, it's called Morpheus. It's like a it's kind of
like micro needling.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh okay, I've got that one, so I hate it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I've never had it before. It's supposed to peel off
a layer of your skin and then collagen.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
So Cardie had it because Carlie said, have quite bad acne,
and it was a game change of her.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
She had like two or three rounds. It was amazing. Yeah,
she really.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Reacted well to it. So yeah, it was quite painful.
I needed facial big time. I had one the.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Other day for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It was delight amazing. I know I need to get facial.
It's not one top less sopriorities at the minute.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
To be honest, you told me that you used to
grow up always playing golf on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Is that something that you Okay, yes, well, well we
used to go skiing.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
We used to go skiing every year, but the couple of
Christmases that.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
We didn't, we I would always wait my mum and
dad play golf with me, like I see this, which
I'm sure they could not think of anything worse than
playing golf on Christmas Day, but it sounds cold and
it was okay, So I got a brand new so
when I was about thirteen and my golf obsession was real,
like the height of my golf obsession, my mum and
(31:50):
I always wanted a tirelest umbrella super random because they
were really expensive, but like forty pounds back then, which
was quite expensive expensive.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Got one for Chris mess and just so happened.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It was pissing it down all day and I literally
made my mum and dad played golf with me just
so I could use money umbrella.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh that's cute, I know. So yeah, they're like, god,
damn it, why did we get her this? Mate?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I used to practice on Christmas Day like you were
such a hard I know, well, I just thought no
one else would be, so I felt some weird one
up and everyone. So I used to go after opening presents,
I would literally go down the golf club and practice
till like dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I know, wow, I know I didn't do that. Maybe
that's why I didn't become a professional car for m.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, well that's what I used to do. But we
used to go skiing. That was kind of our big
holiday was skiing over Christmas. So yeah, we used to
always kind of which was amazing because every Christmas we
used to have snow and it was magical. And and
I also feel that then you're not bored like I
feel Christmas. You can get a bit bored. If I
love just sitting around and rotting on Christmas Day, I
(32:57):
struggle with it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Oh I love that, right?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Could you have a day on a sofa. Hell yeah, really,
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I mean I would like to get out for a
little walk, yeah, but then I want to not walk,
But then you want to want five James Bond movies.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely. My fitness levels go down during
the Christmas period. I don't have a ton of motivation,
and I feel like it's the what I mean, my
friend Jane's were talking about this. It's the one time
of year that after Thanksgiving, you just can't say no
to a beer. Like it's holiday. So like if you
mate goes, hey, do you want to have a beer?
Of course I'm going to go another.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So you're wearing a hat that says vitamin G Vitamin
G baby. Oh, isn't it shop's best?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Touchhups best. But my biga is in full flow and
I'm embracing it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You don't have a beer gut you get? You have
probably the normal what somebody gets bloated from having a beer. Well,
I don't have to initiate the person. Don't just have
a b they do. I Okay, whatever the bloating get
from six beers doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, Well I'm thriving.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's my thriving time of year, all right, So what
you need as resolutions?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So I feel like I have the same ones every year,
never quite successful. So I would really like to be
as healthy as I can mixt years. As listeners of
the pod no, I have been on quite the health
journey this year with figuring out what's wrong with me
(34:43):
or if anything's wrong or if it's just in my head.
I feel like I've gotten better. I'm really good on
certain vitamins and supplements and actually lifting weights instead of
just ankle weights as I was shamed for at the
beginning of this advent. Sure, so I want to continue
to make that a priority and really do create stuff
(35:08):
around that on the road, because that's when I fall apart.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, it's difficult on the road, though, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I know, but that is our reality, so I need.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
To Yeah, I found I find it difficult on the road,
but I have learned to like prioritize it a bit,
like even if I do have to get out forty
five minutes earlier and try it, like you do definitely
feel better doing it, Like there is a way, But
it is difficult and you get tired, and you do
long hours and all this stuff and what we do
is quite energy draining because it's such a you have
(35:39):
to be so switched on mentally, don't you all the time?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So I feel you. Ye, So you're just going to
be healthier. So that's fine, that's fun for you.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
So obviously we're moving. I want to I want to
get back into my football. I'm going to join I've
already looked at it. I'm going to join a co
ed soccer league.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I love that. Yeah. So it's like, you know what,
just make content around there. Yes, well, yeah, come with me.
Look at my football beats my co ed soccer league.
I picked up a drink from a local place called Starbucks'.
That's a alley line. Hallie always says that.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
So yeah, I'm going to do that, and yeah, I
just I think the reason that we're moving to Colorado
is to we're outdoorsy people anyway, but it's quite difficult
here in Florida. You're quite limited on the outdoor stuff
that you do.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Unctually.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Have a boat and you enjoy fishing, which I don't.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So already got my ski pass, so I will be
doing much more of that this year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
What's the mountain that you're going to ski, are you
going to bump around?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So yeah, I usually get the Epic Pass, which is
like Aspen and Baby Creek and all that. So I've
just done an Icon pass, which is more like Winter
Park Copper Copper Copper Copper Mountain.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Having a seizure, I think.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So it usually happens when I'm live on air certa
least I'm doing it where we.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Can edit it out. Do not edit, no, do not
edit that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
So yeah, so I've got that, and I've just done
a week day one because I probably won't get on
weekends anyway. So just basically exploring our new Humbler Bode
and just be a bit more outdoors and the things
that I actually enjoy. So that's one of mine, is
to be healthy in a different way. Like I found
the lifting, and I find keeping fit easyer the most.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Not directing that anyone, but I think to be like
not necessarily just lifting and think that that's I want
to be fit in like hiking and more snowboarding and
co ed football and things like that. So that's one
of my newest resolutions, to just explore a new place
of home.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
And it's also getting to catch up on stuff that
you've had to sacrifice for years. Exactly, a professional bathroom.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Great point, Yeah, exactly. So I'll probably snap my achille
or something.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, So we'll see how that goes. Okay, And it's
a good place to meet people. We need to meet people,
so I mean, I'll talk to a break wall, but
it'll be nice to actually meet new people. To make
a friend would be great. It's hard to make friends
as an adult, so hard because I just can't be
bothered because okay, this is this is my thing being older. Right,
(38:27):
I have my core group of friends and I've wisely
chosen them over the years. And obviously I've had my
lifelong friends and then I've got my new friends that
I've learned along the way.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
But I think as an adult.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
You just you can't be bothered with the bullshit of
like small talk and like am I really going to
get on with me?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
And so it has to be someone pretty special for
them to be in my circle now. But yeah, hopefully
we meet some cool people and hopefully they will get
an interview to get into my circle.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
But you probably make a lot of mom friends or
parents friend.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, we'll make a lot of friends I think, but
like actual people that I generally want to like meet
up with on a weekly basis will be probably the
biggest challenge. And I think that that does. I think
it's going to be easier having Kai because, as you said,
you know, he's going to go into school and we'll
obviously meet parents and all that kind of and hopefully
they'll be in the same things that we are because
of where we're living. But it's difficult. It's really tough
(39:24):
as a as an adult.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
I'm in my cutting stage.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Yeah, I I.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Was going to get to that. Well, I was. I
was doing that at your age. My age. Yeah, you're
like to say four. Yeah, I'm like not that much
younger than you.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
No, I know, but I was cutting people at like
thirty four.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Mm. Yeah, I'm a big cut the fat person.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Oh you you tell me, I'll tell you half why.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I think it'd be nice if they start hearing from
me then, you know.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I just think just ad laundry on the podcast people
would love that.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah, I don't know. I I think that at this
point in life, if you're not showing up in a
meaningful way, it's kind of like what are we doing? Like, Yeah,
we're not You're not add anything anymore to my life
because of that, I don't want to add anything to
your life now. Her feelings, you're great, but we're good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh that was a millennial piece out there, though.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I am who I am. You know what Cassette, our manager,
said to me one time she's had a conversation with
her therapist. I always loved Cassette starts conversations with Well,
my therapist said love love. Yeah, that's always great stuff.
So I get therapy through Cassette. Okay, so she said,
imagine your friendships as a theater. And sometimes your friends
(40:47):
are in the front road, chearing you on. They're at everything,
they're the most supportive. Sometimes they move to the mezzanine.
They're kind of in and out. They're you know, supporting,
but they're texting while they're watching. Sometimes they're you know,
way in the nosebleeds. And sometimes they don't even go
to the show. And that's okay, And everybody kind of
changes seats and not everybody's always in the front row.
Sometimes they move to the mezzanine. Just punds on what
everybody's lives are doing. And that's fine, very true. It's
(41:09):
good analogy. It is.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Very true, very very true.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
So yeah, those of you that aren't going to the show, sorry, yeah,
your tickets are out. Tickets are out. I have another one,
another neoge resolution. Please. Have you heard of substack?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
So it's a it's a like a social media platform
and app that's more for writing. So theoretically, let's say
you were a subscriber of mine on substack, and if
I write a newsletter or some sort of essay or something,
you would get any email that alerts you to this.
You could read it and it would be about something
that you care about. So, you know, you would probably
(41:52):
subscribe to one that was about life in Colorado or
you know some I don't know whatever. So it's not
like you're interested in or or have some similar experiences with.
So I was thinking that that would be a good
outlet for me because I love to write.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I can imagine being a good writer. Actually, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Journal. No, I've tried, but there's nothing like thinking about
all your shit and then looking at all your shit
and it's just now it's there for somebody to potentially
come across it and read it. Yeah, do you journal? No?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Actually, when I was playing golf. I used to journal,
not regularly, obviously, I used to go through ways, but
you know, if I was like going through a bit
of a bad mental spell, Yeah, I would literally in
the morning before because I'd be like, oh my god,
I'm going to shoot a hundre and two today. Obviously
it's not going to happen. But I would literally write
down all the things that could go wrong. And it's
somehow freed me out, really because I was like, that
(42:57):
just sounds so ridiculous, and even if that did happen, like,
who gives a shit? Really, Like, if that's the worst
thing's gonna happen to me, is me top the foot
the top of my golf ball and then shoot eight
one hundred and two like whatever. And it's just somehow
I probably shouldn't Now I say that I probably should journal,
but I.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Just I just.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I just can't be bothered.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's very time consuming. It is, in yeah, I mean
it is.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
But I mean the amount of times that you know,
you scroll through Instagram, you probably could journal like two
or three sentences of every day, can you.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
So yeah, that's true, that's true. But Instagram's more important.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Instagram's way more important. I have to cash up on
things that I've missed out when I've been asleep.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, so I guess it kind of plays into an
overall goal of being better about my content pillars and
creating ware of a community online and having a direct
link to people that could relate to me that you know,
I can share these things about my life or my
story or experiences and maybe that could help somebody. So
(43:55):
that's something I would like to do in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Very good, Very good. I would like to be a
bit more organized.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
You want to be more like Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
I want to set like a certain amount, like I
want to do my to do list before Again, this
is the transition from an athlete. So I used to
do that and now I don't do that when I
probably should because my life, in a weird way is
even more chaotic than it was as an athlete, because
I've got a lot of things going on and if
I don't write it down, I obviously forget. So I'm
going to be better at that. And I will listen
(44:32):
to your voice notes and I will reply to the
same with you, Cassette.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I will reply to your emails.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
You know what helps me. I find that if I
am just going willy nilly through my day, I forget
so many things. I drop the ball. I get overwhelmed
with the amount of stuff that I need to do.
But if I take five minutes of the night before
to write myself a general timeline of things that I
want to get done and when I want to get
(45:01):
them done, what they are, and I build my day
in a bit of block scheduling. Yeah, then I wake up,
I've got a plan. This is my time to take
this thing to FedEx, this is my time to catch
up on the pod. This is my time to prep
for next week. Then all of a sudden, I've had
a generally successful day and then just not put pressure
(45:22):
on it because things changed about the day. But if
I've written it down, it has a lot more chance
of actually happening.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm with you. That's wanting to
be better at and just not being on my phone
as much. I do a good job with Kai, like
I very rarely sit around Carl on my phone, but
me and Kylie definitely we can get away from as
if we're not too careful.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
So I definitely want to limit my screen time.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
No, I feel like I'm a real adult these days.
So that comes with I got to act like that.
What am I doing with my life? That's my other wife? Yeah, yeah,
what are we doing here? Yeah, I've spent ten years
grinding you can relate to what At a certain point
the grind kind of stops and you've done all this
(46:07):
stuff to get yourself to this place. So what are
we doing with that? What are my life goals? What
do I actually want to get from this grind? Not
to say that I need to figure that out in
twenty twenty six, but I would like to start thinking
about Okay, I don't know that I want a grind
it forever.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I know, I do feel like that's the American way though,
Like I've noticed a massive cultural difference living here than
in the UK. Like the UK, we have a lot
of days off and a lot of holidays and a
lot more time.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
You can have a lot more time PTO with work.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I can't believe how hard you guys work, like it
is twenty four to seven. Like I will get emails
from people on the weekend. I'm like, bro, yeah doing
not that that it's important, but I'm like, bro, what
are you doing I'm like, you don't need a response
right away, but I don't know. I feel like you
guys just culture are so different, Like you guys need
to just have a step back, go to a big
arden and just chill sometimes not reply to people.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I know. I say that as my One of my
resolutions is to be like more like Kim Kardashian I
did and respond immediately. It's unlikely, though, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
It's just not real life, so she has like a
whole staff, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, but there are plenty of times when I'm just
letting things fall through the crafts that would take me
two seconds and why why am I doing that?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Sorry, it's fine, good little work out, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Don't worry about it. Let's end on some podcast resolutions.
What do you want to see with the pad in
twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
I said before, I would like me to do at
least one in person. I think that would be pretty cool.
I'd like to get the audience a bit more involved,
like what do you want us to talk about? What
subjects you want us to talk about? You know this
is your podcast as well. I think that that would
be really cool. Is to get you guys, our very
devoted listeners into the podcast a little bit more, tell
us what guests would like on and things like that.
(48:02):
I think, to really elevate it to where we think
it could go. I think that that would be a
really good, insightful help is from listening to our listeners.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Yeah. I think that's a great one. My goal would
be for us to do an in person recording with
an audience. Oh, that would be cool, like around one
of the majors or around a golf tournament that we're
both at. For us to like sit on a stage
with the mics and have an audience and maybe take
questions in person and have it be more interactive.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, that would be That's really cool. Let's do it
well that Yeah, that's good on it? Yeah, she shush
of the week? You know, do you have one? Because
I was thinking maybe we just be happy.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Okay, good, you know it's Christmas, we don't need to
focus on bat.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
My shish of the week is everyone just needs to
take time off during the Christmas period.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Okay, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good name.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
And that was awesome as well, Kara, thank you. That
was really cool.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
But no, you're right. I think just Christmas.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Mary Crassler, Merry christ.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh wait, hold on, oh you know that? You know
that kid, the British kid that's in the back of
the car and his mom is filming him, and he's like,
I got a classic Parker in a Nativity player. She's like, oh,
what you get? Because I'm door holding number three. I'll
be holding doors. Get in there, I know.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
She's like, are you the shepherd? He's like, no better
than that, are you Joseph? No way better, I'm dornumber three.
I still love going to my nephews and niece's Nativity.
It was one of my absolute favorite, one of my
favorite times of year was just washing the kids just
absolutely cat just carnage, just trying to look for their
(50:02):
parents and oh were you?
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Were you ever a native? I was a sheep once,
I was married once.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Actually can you believe that?
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Wow? Big role. I sang in the children's choir like,
I don't know that I was ever an aativity, but
we did have a choir situation. I think I may
have made maybe played a drum or. Tragically.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
It fascinates me the more and more you tell stories
and the more I tell stories. How opposite we have
lived our life in a weird way.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
You're a sheep and I'm being in a drum.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Yeah, I was marry. When I was married, I was
livid as well because I wanted to be Joseph.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
I was living it all makes sense, All makes sense now.
Maybe we had some inclination then.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Yeah, with the tea tawl on my head, I was
absolutely livid. I wasn't Joseph. Raging, absolutely raging. Hated it
to wear like a dress thing.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
It was horrible. Oh the words could have been a
wise man.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
I could have been a wise man. But I wanted Joseph.
I want to lead role. So when they said a
lead role, I thought, get in there. They said Mary,
I thought, fuck off, fuck off missus Richley funk off.
Are you going to be Mary? O?
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Oh? Devastated. I saw a funny meme the other day
that I said, it shouldn't have been three wise men,
It should have been three wise women showing up with
food prepared.
Speaker 4 (51:26):
For the week exactly, diapers and things that you actually
would have giving birth to Jesus in a manger again, blankets.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Not what was it? Mirth gold. Yeah, this like, I
don't want any things up for Jesus' trust.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Fun not practically needed. Nanny and Danny would be ideal,
right now, a night nurse would be great.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
A bress pump, a breast pump would be great, literally,
anything about what they brought, anything, but please go exactly.
Oh she would have been raging, would she? What are
you talking about? And maybe some bedding probably.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Likes sure, it's God's child.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
Yes, some more straw would have been great, you know,
no bedding.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Religious you're listening to this? Sorry, Like my.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Wife, it's Carli religious, she's very Catholic.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, whole family.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Yeah, well I think there's you know, different levels, like
Catholic is super cultural too, that's like a whole way
of life.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yes it is, well any of all these yes, so
yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Well, Merry Christmas, all the Susures out there, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
Mell.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
This has really been I'm super grateful for this. I'm
really god that we have been able to figure this
out and actually do this. I'm proud of us. I'm
very proud, and I can't say I've ever laughed harder
or had more fun doing a work thing than getting
to do Quiet Please you eight till next year. I
joined a Wed soccer team. Stories some great stories. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
Wait, Merry Christmas everyone, Mary, thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Thank you as always, hope everybody has an amazing holiday
and we will see you in twenty twenty six. Bye bye,
Thanks for listening to Quiet Please. We'll be back next
week with more golf aps and we want to hear
from you. Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts and
tell us what you want to talk about. It just
might be the topic of our next show. Quiet Please
(53:44):
is hosted by Mel Reed and Kira Dixon. Our executive
producer is Jesse Katz. Our supervising producer is Grace Hughes.
Our producer is Jonathan Kerma.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
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