November 20, 2025 • 17 mins
Do you have to avoid topics at the holiday table ot keep the peace? Fred and the crew discuss.
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All thanks to Live Nation. Here's my question about the holidays.
Have a few holiday them things coming up in anticipation
of Thanksgiving. A very good question from Kaylan. An excellent
question from Kaylen about Thanksgiving. Maybe it's all incorporated. I
don't know, but this is more about the interpersonal aspects
of Thanksgiving. It tends to be a time where family
(00:45):
and friends get together. Typically it's people that you don't
Maybe the friendsgiving and the family giving thing is like
a different thing. Maybe it's combined. I feel like with
the family, you don't necessarily see everybody who attends every day,
so the subject matters, you know, can vary. You can
also decide, you know, find out that you've got the
(01:06):
crazy right wing Uncle Sam and then the crazy left
wing aunt Helen, And they came from the same womb,
but they somehow feel completely differently. One drives a super
U and the other one, you know, drives a pick
them up truck, right and right. And I hate to
generalize here, but you know, one's wearing a red hat
(01:27):
and the other one's wearing like more of a beret,
you know, or something like that. Whatever, yeah, right, right,
whatever the case may be, they don't agree. And so
it's like, how do they come from the same person,
so they have to sit on different ends of the
of the table. Or for me, you know, it tends
to be and my family's very small and so and
we talk a lot, so everybody kind of knows the answers,
but it tends to be the whole catch up on
(01:47):
who are you dating? And you know, how about kids
and and you're the show exactly and just hoping that
my answers will change, or that somehow I'll miraculously show
up with someone, you know, just land the plane and
then there's a person that my mom happens to adore
and then you know, or something like that. Or it
could be like Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, where
(02:08):
my dad had a few cocktails and said, you know,
you know, Christopher, which is my name, Christopher. I just
one of these days, it would be so great if you,
if you'd bring someone you know to this Could we
do it a trip for Thanksgiving? He brings someone to
this trip, you know, a young lady or a guy
or a guy. You know, it doesn't really matter. And
I remember I just looked at him and I and
it's just he and I. My sister and my mom
(02:29):
are over at the pool over here, and I just said,
so you think I'm gay? As soon as the Internet,
by the way, go on to Reddit. Apparently I'm gay
gay is used as a diss too on Reddit was still,
which is so nineteen nineties. I would be proud to
be gay if I were gay, I kind of I've
said this many times. People don't necessarily agree with me,
but I kind of wish I were by because it
(02:50):
would just mean more fun for me. You know, I
wouldn't have had these Apple charger problems anymore. You know, it
would just go everywhere. But I'm not. I am, in
fact straight. And in the Reddit post that I saw
recently was I wish I could and it was people
who claimed a person who claimed to be gay saying
that he wished he could talk to all of you
privately so he could out me, because you guys would
(03:11):
all out me as being gay. So I thought that
was cool from a gay person that he wanted to
get the He wanted to get the private information and
then expose me, Like that's It's like, if you've ever
listened to this thing before, I think you know that
I would. I would have no problem telling you that.
And I think somebody here would have outed me with
them now anywayut you it wouldn't be a secret gay Yeah.
(03:38):
So then I was like, so, dad, but the thing
is for my dad. You have said that means that
there was a conversation about it behind my back, Like
do you think maybe because he's never gotten married, you know,
to a woman. Do you think maybe it's because he's
you know, you know, it'd be okay. I thought it
was very sweet, actually, but I thought so, I said,
I said, you guys have had this conversation. Well, I
wouldn't say we don't have a cover. I just know
(03:59):
you to know, you know, it's like, oh god, okay,
all right, now, how about I just I just have
skipped my first divorce. How about that? We just didn't
have to do that. You know, by this point, if
I get married, I'll probably die before I can get
divorced again, So then it means I only I skipped it,
which saved us all time and money and having to
remember somebody's name. But where I'm getting with this is
apparently more than half of American survey say that they
(04:23):
need a game plan just to get through holiday dinners. Yep,
I mean like it's a strategy, like it's been discussed
among people at the table. I'm talking about the topics
that people dread. How they're going to get around that, politics, finances, appearance, weight, religion.
Why is weight coming up at Thanksgiving dinner time? You've
(04:45):
gained a few, so you know what? Most want to
steer towards safer waters? Food and wine. Shat topped the list,
followed by social life updates, travel, hobbies, and hell, I
don't know. Wine is a controversial one. I mean, are
we gonna have a sincere or are we gonna have
(05:05):
is this? What is this? Is this a pino noir?
I told you right, red or white? You only have white.
I'm out of here. But yes, hobbies in hell, the
real people want to talk about. Sixty three percent say
that they're even uncomfortable talking about any sort of deep
topic at the table. So this is what I'm wondering
(05:27):
from you guys, and from you guys listening. Eight five
five five nine three five You can call in text
the same number. First of all, is there a person
you don't have to you can make up a name
for them, but you or just say yes, there is
a person at your hollow or at your Thanksgiving dinner
table that you're gonna avoid because they're family. But like,
I don't feel like it. I don't feel like the speech.
(05:48):
Do you have a story about being cornered or something
being said at the Thanksgiving or holiday table where you're like, oh, really,
like now we're gonna do this now? I guess. Do
you dread for any reason? And do you have any
sort of strategy for how you're going to avoid it,
unless maybe you're just not going to go at all.
Maybe you're like, dude, I don't know that government shutdown.
(06:10):
That government shutdown really really really hurt things. And I
don't know. I think I think that that ten percent
flight that's going to trickle on down and I don't
think I'm going to be able to get from Raleigh
to Charlotte. It's like, well, you could drive. I don't know.
I heard the roads are you know. I heard Fred
say triple A. He said that, you know, you probably
(06:33):
can't get my car fixed. You know, I don't know.
It's I'm not sure if I can accommodate. Kiki. What
I feel like, do you have the biggest family? We
have the most people because you've got a lot of
different there's a lot of a lot of brothers and kids,
and those kids are always asking about politics. No, but like,
what is it? What is it for you? I don't
(06:53):
I don't have this may be the problem. I don't
have this issue. Maybe I avoid.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You if you don't have that person it is, yeah, no,
I'm kidding right, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, it's one spicy aunt in my family. But
she and I that people say we're a lot alike,
which I don't know if that's a compliment or this,
but she and I will probably go at it and
we you know, and that's entertaining probably to the rest
of the family it is. But outside of that, you know,
we don't really have issues, like how.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Do you go at it? Though?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like is it just she gives a lot of unsolicited advice? Okay,
right there, and so do I. So yeah, so you
know you are the problem. I know, I know, so
sorry to my family in advance. But you know, I'm
a good time. I think let's just let's get together
have a good time. I don't really talk about people
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till till I leave.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The car ride home with.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Timothy will is always like wool child, did you hear this?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that? You know?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But other than that, we don't really have this this problem.
I'm not dodging anything.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's funny, kicky because I'm the opposite. I feel like
my mom will invite a bunch of people over friends.
Really again, we have the families at that pig, and
my sister might be there, and then yeah, and so
my mom and my sister are the same person, so
they're out there entertaining and all this stuff. My mom
invited these people, I did, and they're not my friends.
And then I disappear and I go back in my
cause I get tired of talking because I talk for money,
and if you're not paying me, I don't want to talk,
(08:17):
so I go just and my sister gets so angry
about it, like why do I have to carry all this?
It's like, well, I don't know, Like mom doesn't make
you come out and talk to anybody. I'm like, well,
because she knows better, Yeah, she knows better. She knows it.
You know, if I don't want to be there, at
some point, I'll just drop some crazy topic. I'll just
be like dude, yes UFOs man Like it's like, all right,
go back to you. You know what, you can go
(08:37):
watch the game. It's fine, you know what I mean?
Like man thoughts on immigration and it's like, okay, all right,
you can go. And I don't really want to. I
have no interest in talking about it, but I just,
you know, just whatever it takes for me to get
out of it, because I just don't have the energy.
Lisa hid Hi, Lisa, good morning. So it's Auntie Lou,
Auntie Lou And what is Auntie Lou's m o.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Auntie Lou is a ninety three year old small Italian
lady that's never been married and knows and knows everything.
So too fantastic. Oh we just I've resonated with the
whole weight issue. I'm in law, so long story short.
Her comments be between my sister in law, my niece,
(09:21):
all the things. Over the years, I find myself when
I walk past her, I suck it in because I'm like,
you're either going to say my outfit is too tight
or you know she said about my niece, is she
pregnant again? Oh? So finally I'm the only one who
can really get her to stop. And I see, Auntie Lou,
that is not nice.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, don't do that. Little always old people in weight.
My nana got that weight too. Like my nana, who
I could do nothing wrong, I could do nothing wrong.
I was I was a saint as far as she
was concerned. And as she got older, she became very
obsessed and she was always hard on the women because
she only had daughters. So she was hard of my sister.
She's hard on my mom. But but one year, I don't
know where She's like, you've gained some weight. Like, wait
(10:04):
a minute, it's it's saintly weights Nana, Like what are
you talking about? Like this is a good week. I'm
the perfect child. But what is it about? Is it
just do they just lose the filter completely or is
it is weight like a sensitive I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Back in the day, they just shamed each other so
freely about ways that you know, in our generation, we
don't play that, you know, like no, so they just
they have no filter when it comes to it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I don't know what it is about it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We have to give we have to give each other grace.
But she is She's a non filter old lady. I
love her to death, but every holiday I'm the one
next to her. Everybody else kind of sits at the
other end of the table.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You know what, Lisa, You're a good person. You take
care of answer then, yeah, you are. Have a good day.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
We have a great holiday, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Think by Nicole.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Good morning, Good morning, tread and family.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Nicole. Yes, we're having a family dinner right now with
no turkey. But this is an answer. Cousin and uncle
that are on us. This is what I'm talking about.
And they don't agree politically.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yes, so they're on very So my cousin is very
liberal and then my uncle is very conservative. And so
this used to go on every single year, and so
we we just got tired of listening to it. They
would sit at the table eventually take it to the
living room and just my uncle would just bait my
cousin because he knew that he couldn't turn down from
(11:27):
you know, arguing it. My my uncle was just arguing
things just to argue with him. And so then it
just like put a whole damper. We're like, guys, can
you just can we can we stop? Can we stop
talking about politics? And so one year, because we always
hosted at my parents' house, we're like, we're putting up
a whiteboards and we're going to put different topics that
can and cannot or avoid.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes, yes, we can talk about the weather. We can
talk about the dessert course weather right, food.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
No, we can't talk about jobs. No, we can't talk
about politics, like things that we have read on the internet,
Like my aunts and uncle are very like they put
like the painter's tape over their camera because they think
the government is listening in on them. Like it's exactly.
So there was a lot of things that ended up
(12:16):
on that whiteboard of things that cannot be discussed at Thanksgiving. No,
obviously everybody's gotten married and had their own kids and
moved away, so it's all separated out. But it was
a good four to five years where we had a
whiteboard of things that we can and can't discuss to
try to keep the peace.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think that makes sense. Thank you to Coole, have
a good day, Thank you too. It was like the
was it the state of Illinois? Now you can put
your a lot of other states you can do this already,
but you can put your driver's license in your wallet
on your phone. There's a process for us pretty quick,
but they take a bunch of You have to take
pictures of different angles and scan your idea and I'm like, man,
I don't know is this safe to do? Then I'm thinking,
are you kidding me? All we walk around with how
(12:51):
many forms of microphones that they can listen to us?
I mean, I don't mean to get it now here
I go on my conspiracy theories, but I'm like, you
know what, correct share your stuff because honestly, like you know,
if there's anything they want to know, they're going to
find it. What about you guys, is there any any
I mean, Jay says he get invited to Thanksgiving, so
there's that I haven't invited yet, So I don't know
when I have beef with my parents. But you, but
(13:12):
your cousin gets invited. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. You know,
he has the baby, so all the attention is on him.
So I'm sure they've already, you know, figured out when
he's coming, when the bed is gonna be made up,
where the crib is gonna go, where, whatever, But not
shoot me a text and says like, hey, come over
to you know what.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It's just it's assumed that you as as the only child,
the christ child, It's just assumed that you would have
an open door invitation. I don't know about that, not anymore,
I think.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So he knocks on the door when he goes to
his parents' house, he rings the doorbell.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That is unheard of to me. Yes, I'm not not.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I's ever lived at that house.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's not my house. The parents walk in, if they
may get in the in the kitchen doing some stuff,
then good for them. I guess I don't know I would,
but yeah, I'm sorry, they're supposed to do that. Nate
in the kitchen. Helena never Oh yeah, Helena has in
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that house.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, speaking of that, you guys, remember what happened to me?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Was it last Thanksgiving? I'm coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I think I'm the one year anniversary of finding family
member's adult homemade shout out to my gay brothers.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And sisters content.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, so it is a little bit difficult to look
him in the end.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It was targeted at at uh a genre that you
were unfamiliar that he was interested in. Right, No, he has.
He has since come out.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He was married for a long time, had so like,
we're happy for that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I just.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We were that new information. It was a newer thing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And then to go from zero to like, oh yeah, no,
it's you weren't lying, and now I cannot look you
in the eye.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And you have a cousin's group chat by the way
to talk smack. That's good. Here's a perilous situation for Angelica. Angelica, Hi, Hi,
So this we're talking about here is that people, apparently
a lot of people, half of people out there have
a strategy. We're going into holiday events with family because
everything is so tenuous right now with topics that we
(15:18):
just simply have to avoid. And for you, it's what.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I am recently engaged, been with my fiance for ten years.
So maybe congratulations, thank you, and I am trying to
avoid the people who are not invited to the wedding. Yeah,
it's the biggest thing right now, keeping our guests count low.
You know, prices are rising, things like that, so just
(15:44):
trying to avoid them.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I was going to say, how do they get invited?
Is it Thanksgiving? But they don't get invited to the wedding?
Is it because it's like distant family that I don't know,
You don't you're not connecting with as much, and you're
not inviting very many people.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
So well, we're going to his dad's side, so they're
all of the families are going to come to one house.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
That's hope.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
We're going to go see them.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I see. So if it comes up like when's the
wedding or you like, we haven't decided even though you know,
or how do you how are you going to do that?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
You know, I've been pretty vocal about my wedding era.
I've waited this long.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I think I don't.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Have any room to hide it. But I've honestly been
straight up to tell them that they just aren't invited.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
But there we are essentially paying for it by ourselves.
So I think it's some grace that it's just us
two in our twenties paying for it on our own.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, and here's the good news, Angelica. The one question
you won't have to answer this year is when are
you getting married?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I know, So there's that's the good news. Have a
good dam I'm glad you called. Thank you, Pauline. Is
it is it mark to always turn stuff up? You know?
Because I I know your whole family? So who would
it be? It?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Honestly was her sister. I have an aunt and an
uncle and they have a lot of opinions. They both
weren't born here, but they have a lot of opinions,
but everything, and they don't live here anymore. So now
we're just a lot smaller. And I kind of like it.
I like I like it my three person you know, uh,
dinner table. It works really well for me. I think
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I'm one who fights back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I don't like that. So you're the one. Then he's
gonna say you're the one. My wife, she's a problem.
This is the preas show. Dame is taking over Las
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at Park MGM January twenty fourth through the twenty sixth
and round trip airfare. Text Night to three seven three
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All thanks to Live Nation. Here's my question about the holidays.
Have a few holiday them things coming up in anticipation
of Thanksgiving. A very good question from Kaylan. An excellent
question from Kaylen about Thanksgiving. Maybe it's all incorporated. I
don't know, but this is more about the interpersonal aspects
of Thanksgiving. It tends to be a time where family
(00:45):
and friends get together. Typically it's people that you don't
Maybe the friendsgiving and the family giving thing is like
a different thing. Maybe it's combined. I feel like with
the family, you don't necessarily see everybody who attends every day,
so the subject matters, you know, can vary. You can
also decide, you know, find out that you've got the
(01:06):
crazy right wing Uncle Sam and then the crazy left
wing aunt Helen, And they came from the same womb,
but they somehow feel completely differently. One drives a super
U and the other one, you know, drives a pick
them up truck, right and right. And I hate to
generalize here, but you know, one's wearing a red hat
(01:27):
and the other one's wearing like more of a beret,
you know, or something like that. Whatever, yeah, right, right,
whatever the case may be, they don't agree. And so
it's like, how do they come from the same person,
so they have to sit on different ends of the
of the table. Or for me, you know, it tends
to be and my family's very small and so and
we talk a lot, so everybody kind of knows the answers,
but it tends to be the whole catch up on
(01:47):
who are you dating? And you know, how about kids
and and you're the show exactly and just hoping that
my answers will change, or that somehow I'll miraculously show
up with someone, you know, just land the plane and
then there's a person that my mom happens to adore
and then you know, or something like that. Or it
could be like Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, where
(02:08):
my dad had a few cocktails and said, you know,
you know, Christopher, which is my name, Christopher. I just
one of these days, it would be so great if you,
if you'd bring someone you know to this Could we
do it a trip for Thanksgiving? He brings someone to
this trip, you know, a young lady or a guy
or a guy. You know, it doesn't really matter. And
I remember I just looked at him and I and
it's just he and I. My sister and my mom
(02:29):
are over at the pool over here, and I just said,
so you think I'm gay? As soon as the Internet,
by the way, go on to Reddit. Apparently I'm gay
gay is used as a diss too on Reddit was still,
which is so nineteen nineties. I would be proud to
be gay if I were gay, I kind of I've
said this many times. People don't necessarily agree with me,
but I kind of wish I were by because it
(02:50):
would just mean more fun for me. You know, I
wouldn't have had these Apple charger problems anymore. You know, it
would just go everywhere. But I'm not. I am, in
fact straight. And in the Reddit post that I saw
recently was I wish I could and it was people
who claimed a person who claimed to be gay saying
that he wished he could talk to all of you
privately so he could out me, because you guys would
(03:11):
all out me as being gay. So I thought that
was cool from a gay person that he wanted to
get the He wanted to get the private information and
then expose me, Like that's It's like, if you've ever
listened to this thing before, I think you know that
I would. I would have no problem telling you that.
And I think somebody here would have outed me with
them now anywayut you it wouldn't be a secret gay Yeah.
(03:38):
So then I was like, so, dad, but the thing
is for my dad. You have said that means that
there was a conversation about it behind my back, Like
do you think maybe because he's never gotten married, you know,
to a woman. Do you think maybe it's because he's
you know, you know, it'd be okay. I thought it
was very sweet, actually, but I thought so, I said,
I said, you guys have had this conversation. Well, I
wouldn't say we don't have a cover. I just know
(03:59):
you to know, you know, it's like, oh god, okay,
all right, now, how about I just I just have
skipped my first divorce. How about that? We just didn't
have to do that. You know, by this point, if
I get married, I'll probably die before I can get
divorced again, So then it means I only I skipped it,
which saved us all time and money and having to
remember somebody's name. But where I'm getting with this is
apparently more than half of American survey say that they
(04:23):
need a game plan just to get through holiday dinners. Yep,
I mean like it's a strategy, like it's been discussed
among people at the table. I'm talking about the topics
that people dread. How they're going to get around that, politics, finances, appearance, weight, religion.
Why is weight coming up at Thanksgiving dinner time? You've
(04:45):
gained a few, so you know what? Most want to
steer towards safer waters? Food and wine. Shat topped the list,
followed by social life updates, travel, hobbies, and hell, I
don't know. Wine is a controversial one. I mean, are
we gonna have a sincere or are we gonna have
(05:05):
is this? What is this? Is this a pino noir?
I told you right, red or white? You only have white.
I'm out of here. But yes, hobbies in hell, the
real people want to talk about. Sixty three percent say
that they're even uncomfortable talking about any sort of deep
topic at the table. So this is what I'm wondering
(05:27):
from you guys, and from you guys listening. Eight five
five five nine three five You can call in text
the same number. First of all, is there a person
you don't have to you can make up a name
for them, but you or just say yes, there is
a person at your hollow or at your Thanksgiving dinner
table that you're gonna avoid because they're family. But like,
I don't feel like it. I don't feel like the speech.
(05:48):
Do you have a story about being cornered or something
being said at the Thanksgiving or holiday table where you're like, oh, really,
like now we're gonna do this now? I guess. Do
you dread for any reason? And do you have any
sort of strategy for how you're going to avoid it,
unless maybe you're just not going to go at all.
Maybe you're like, dude, I don't know that government shutdown.
(06:10):
That government shutdown really really really hurt things. And I
don't know. I think I think that that ten percent
flight that's going to trickle on down and I don't
think I'm going to be able to get from Raleigh
to Charlotte. It's like, well, you could drive. I don't know.
I heard the roads are you know. I heard Fred
say triple A. He said that, you know, you probably
(06:33):
can't get my car fixed. You know, I don't know.
It's I'm not sure if I can accommodate. Kiki. What
I feel like, do you have the biggest family? We
have the most people because you've got a lot of
different there's a lot of a lot of brothers and kids,
and those kids are always asking about politics. No, but like,
what is it? What is it for you? I don't
(06:53):
I don't have this may be the problem. I don't
have this issue. Maybe I avoid.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You if you don't have that person it is, yeah, no,
I'm kidding right, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, it's one spicy aunt in my family. But
she and I that people say we're a lot alike,
which I don't know if that's a compliment or this,
but she and I will probably go at it and
we you know, and that's entertaining probably to the rest
of the family it is. But outside of that, you know,
we don't really have issues, like how.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Do you go at it? Though?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like is it just she gives a lot of unsolicited advice? Okay,
right there, and so do I. So yeah, so you
know you are the problem. I know, I know, so
sorry to my family in advance. But you know, I'm
a good time. I think let's just let's get together
have a good time. I don't really talk about people
(07:45):
till till I leave.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The car ride home with.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Timothy will is always like wool child, did you hear this?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And that? You know?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But other than that, we don't really have this this problem.
I'm not dodging anything.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's funny, kicky because I'm the opposite. I feel like
my mom will invite a bunch of people over friends.
Really again, we have the families at that pig, and
my sister might be there, and then yeah, and so
my mom and my sister are the same person, so
they're out there entertaining and all this stuff. My mom
invited these people, I did, and they're not my friends.
And then I disappear and I go back in my
cause I get tired of talking because I talk for money,
and if you're not paying me, I don't want to talk,
(08:17):
so I go just and my sister gets so angry
about it, like why do I have to carry all this?
It's like, well, I don't know, Like mom doesn't make
you come out and talk to anybody. I'm like, well,
because she knows better, Yeah, she knows better. She knows it.
You know, if I don't want to be there, at
some point, I'll just drop some crazy topic. I'll just
be like dude, yes UFOs man Like it's like, all right,
go back to you. You know what, you can go
(08:37):
watch the game. It's fine, you know what I mean?
Like man thoughts on immigration and it's like, okay, all right,
you can go. And I don't really want to. I
have no interest in talking about it, but I just,
you know, just whatever it takes for me to get
out of it, because I just don't have the energy.
Lisa hid Hi, Lisa, good morning. So it's Auntie Lou,
Auntie Lou And what is Auntie Lou's m o.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Auntie Lou is a ninety three year old small Italian
lady that's never been married and knows and knows everything.
So too fantastic. Oh we just I've resonated with the
whole weight issue. I'm in law, so long story short.
Her comments be between my sister in law, my niece,
(09:21):
all the things. Over the years, I find myself when
I walk past her, I suck it in because I'm like,
you're either going to say my outfit is too tight
or you know she said about my niece, is she
pregnant again? Oh? So finally I'm the only one who
can really get her to stop. And I see, Auntie Lou,
that is not nice.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, don't do that. Little always old people in weight.
My nana got that weight too. Like my nana, who
I could do nothing wrong, I could do nothing wrong.
I was I was a saint as far as she
was concerned. And as she got older, she became very
obsessed and she was always hard on the women because
she only had daughters. So she was hard of my sister.
She's hard on my mom. But but one year, I don't
know where She's like, you've gained some weight. Like, wait
(10:04):
a minute, it's it's saintly weights Nana, Like what are
you talking about? Like this is a good week. I'm
the perfect child. But what is it about? Is it
just do they just lose the filter completely or is
it is weight like a sensitive I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Back in the day, they just shamed each other so
freely about ways that you know, in our generation, we
don't play that, you know, like no, so they just
they have no filter when it comes to it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, I don't know what it is about it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
We have to give we have to give each other grace.
But she is She's a non filter old lady. I
love her to death, but every holiday I'm the one
next to her. Everybody else kind of sits at the
other end of the table.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You know what, Lisa, You're a good person. You take
care of answer then, yeah, you are. Have a good day.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
We have a great holiday, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Think by Nicole.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Good morning, Good morning, tread and family.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Nicole. Yes, we're having a family dinner right now with
no turkey. But this is an answer. Cousin and uncle
that are on us. This is what I'm talking about.
And they don't agree politically.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yes, so they're on very So my cousin is very
liberal and then my uncle is very conservative. And so
this used to go on every single year, and so
we we just got tired of listening to it. They
would sit at the table eventually take it to the
living room and just my uncle would just bait my
cousin because he knew that he couldn't turn down from
(11:27):
you know, arguing it. My my uncle was just arguing
things just to argue with him. And so then it
just like put a whole damper. We're like, guys, can
you just can we can we stop? Can we stop
talking about politics? And so one year, because we always
hosted at my parents' house, we're like, we're putting up
a whiteboards and we're going to put different topics that
can and cannot or avoid.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes, yes, we can talk about the weather. We can
talk about the dessert course weather right, food.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
No, we can't talk about jobs. No, we can't talk
about politics, like things that we have read on the internet,
Like my aunts and uncle are very like they put
like the painter's tape over their camera because they think
the government is listening in on them. Like it's exactly.
So there was a lot of things that ended up
(12:16):
on that whiteboard of things that cannot be discussed at Thanksgiving. No,
obviously everybody's gotten married and had their own kids and
moved away, so it's all separated out. But it was
a good four to five years where we had a
whiteboard of things that we can and can't discuss to
try to keep the peace.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think that makes sense. Thank you to Coole, have
a good day, Thank you too. It was like the
was it the state of Illinois? Now you can put
your a lot of other states you can do this already,
but you can put your driver's license in your wallet
on your phone. There's a process for us pretty quick,
but they take a bunch of You have to take
pictures of different angles and scan your idea and I'm like, man,
I don't know is this safe to do? Then I'm thinking,
are you kidding me? All we walk around with how
(12:51):
many forms of microphones that they can listen to us?
I mean, I don't mean to get it now here
I go on my conspiracy theories, but I'm like, you
know what, correct share your stuff because honestly, like you know,
if there's anything they want to know, they're going to
find it. What about you guys, is there any any
I mean, Jay says he get invited to Thanksgiving, so
there's that I haven't invited yet, So I don't know
when I have beef with my parents. But you, but
(13:12):
your cousin gets invited. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. You know,
he has the baby, so all the attention is on him.
So I'm sure they've already, you know, figured out when
he's coming, when the bed is gonna be made up,
where the crib is gonna go, where, whatever, But not
shoot me a text and says like, hey, come over
to you know what.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It's just it's assumed that you as as the only child,
the christ child, It's just assumed that you would have
an open door invitation. I don't know about that, not anymore,
I think.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
So he knocks on the door when he goes to
his parents' house, he rings the doorbell.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That is unheard of to me. Yes, I'm not not.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I's ever lived at that house.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's not my house. The parents walk in, if they
may get in the in the kitchen doing some stuff,
then good for them. I guess I don't know I would,
but yeah, I'm sorry, they're supposed to do that. Nate
in the kitchen. Helena never Oh yeah, Helena has in
(14:10):
that house.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, speaking of that, you guys, remember what happened to me?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Was it last Thanksgiving? I'm coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I think I'm the one year anniversary of finding family
member's adult homemade shout out to my gay brothers.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And sisters content.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, so it is a little bit difficult to look
him in the end.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It was targeted at at uh a genre that you
were unfamiliar that he was interested in. Right, No, he has.
He has since come out.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He was married for a long time, had so like,
we're happy for that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I just.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We were that new information. It was a newer thing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And then to go from zero to like, oh yeah, no,
it's you weren't lying, and now I cannot look you
in the eye.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And you have a cousin's group chat by the way
to talk smack. That's good. Here's a perilous situation for Angelica. Angelica, Hi, Hi,
So this we're talking about here is that people, apparently
a lot of people, half of people out there have
a strategy. We're going into holiday events with family because
everything is so tenuous right now with topics that we
(15:18):
just simply have to avoid. And for you, it's what.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I am recently engaged, been with my fiance for ten years.
So maybe congratulations, thank you, and I am trying to
avoid the people who are not invited to the wedding. Yeah,
it's the biggest thing right now, keeping our guests count low.
You know, prices are rising, things like that, so just
(15:44):
trying to avoid them.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I was going to say, how do they get invited?
Is it Thanksgiving? But they don't get invited to the wedding?
Is it because it's like distant family that I don't know,
You don't you're not connecting with as much, and you're
not inviting very many people.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
So well, we're going to his dad's side, so they're
all of the families are going to come to one house.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
That's hope.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
We're going to go see them.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I see. So if it comes up like when's the
wedding or you like, we haven't decided even though you know,
or how do you how are you going to do that?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
You know, I've been pretty vocal about my wedding era.
I've waited this long.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I think I don't.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Have any room to hide it. But I've honestly been
straight up to tell them that they just aren't invited.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
But there we are essentially paying for it by ourselves.
So I think it's some grace that it's just us
two in our twenties paying for it on our own.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, and here's the good news, Angelica. The one question
you won't have to answer this year is when are
you getting married?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I know, So there's that's the good news. Have a
good dam I'm glad you called. Thank you, Pauline. Is
it is it mark to always turn stuff up? You know?
Because I I know your whole family? So who would
it be? It?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Honestly was her sister. I have an aunt and an
uncle and they have a lot of opinions. They both
weren't born here, but they have a lot of opinions,
but everything, and they don't live here anymore. So now
we're just a lot smaller. And I kind of like it.
I like I like it my three person you know, uh,
dinner table. It works really well for me. I think
(17:23):
I'm one who fights back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I don't like that. So you're the one. Then he's
gonna say you're the one. My wife, she's a problem.
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