The Morning Mix Podcast: That Naked Trend

In this episode of The Morning Mix, Matt Harris and Liz Luda dive into the world of holiday traditions and trends. They discuss the "naked tree" phenomenon, where some people choose to skip ornaments and lights, and weigh in on the pros and cons of this modern approach. They also chat with listeners about their own holiday experiences, from decorating to cooking, and share some laughs along the way. Plus, they touch on the importance of community and the power of small gestures in making the holiday season special.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh yeah, sixteenth of the Sumba and one of Max
Birthdays powered by Marks Bring Real Estate.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
And yet again, if you want to be famous and
today's your birthday, it's a really great time because it.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Is slim Pickens today. But you know what, there's still some.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah. So like an example is Benjamin brat Is sixty two. Man,
he's on Modern Family as Manny's real dad.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
That guy.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay, yeah, he's been in a bunch of movies too.
He's hot, hot fella.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
And then you knew this gentleman William the Refrigerator Perry
is sixty three.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, you're a line of guy.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Man definitely went to Clemson. I think maybe an achin
or somewhere like that. He was in a bunch of
commercials too for a while. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
And then you knew of him from the Super Bowl shuffle.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, yes, yes, And that's a there's a documentary right
now on I think Netflix about the making of that
oh cool fridge and all his glory.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
And then Billy Gibson from or Gibbons, Oh my gosh,
Billy Gibbs from ZZ Top is seventy six, crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
About so I've seen zz.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Top in concert before. But that song I know from
a commercial. It was like for like men's clothing.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Oh yeah, I got stuck in my head for two
years and.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I was right, achon, how did I know that? I
don't know my kids birthdays, but I know that.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah. Read the Fridges from make in South Carolina.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
You know zz Top kind of makes a lot of
music for like truck commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yeah, they're like the truck commercial band.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and they're the ones that the only guy without
a beard is the guy whose last name is beer.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And then Benny Anderson from Abba is seventy nine.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Have you ever seen the show the musical.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I've never seen the musical. I saw the I saw
the like movie.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, I've never like seen it live, like in person
or anything.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
But I saw the one with Amanda Sifree to it.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah, the second one.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
I didn't see the second one.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
It never was like on any streaming platform that I had,
and I kind of forgot about it.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
And then Dumb and.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Dummer was released on the say in nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
I want to hear the most annoying sound in the world.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
I love that movie Dumb.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The one thing about that was that was one of
those where it was like that Boston Powers that movie
some other ones words.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Everybody's doing the.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Impersonations absolutely stop, yeah, constantly.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Pretty much any thing that Jim Carrey did in the
nineties was in that category.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Absolutely everybody thought they could do Jim Carrey. Yeah, everybody did.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
And then today's National Holidays, it's National Chocolate Covered anything
a day, which I can get behind that chocolate on everything,
savory sweet, who cares?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's always better with.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Chocolate, absolutely, And I did see there was a survey
and the number one thing I think is bacon, which oh,
it argued about the other not argued, but discussed because
you you didn't want it on she didn't want it.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, there's a savory sweet line that I don't cross,
and it's that there was this fancy grocery store in
LA that's making hot chocolate and it's made with bone broth.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and so it's.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Like beef and chocolate, which is just I don't know,
and liquid form does not sound good. And so then
you brought bacon into the party and I was like, well,
still don't like that.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Bacon's a top choice in Bam Colorado Joaja Indian I
with Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
All right, have you heard of a pretzel?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That's the best open that Sealthy couples who have this
in their house like each other, are a lot more
than those who don't.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
What is it, second blanket?

Speaker 5 (04:06):
That's a good one. But oh, that is a good one.
Their own personal space at home. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Sixty one percent couple surveyed say that at least one
person has a personal space in their home. About ninety
percent think that both parent partners should have a personal space. Uh,
you know you're talking, you know, so.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Like other than just your bedroom.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, Like like some guys go to the garage or
earn an office, man cave or a she shed or whatever,
or like they even say small little areas, like an
area where it's where you go that's real comfortable and
you do your yoga or you.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Sit on a chair and it's kind of known as
your spot.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, you can decompress, you can watch games, listen to
music podcasts, listen to our podcast or our music on
your chant here.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, just search mix Charlotte in the app store, download
us before you take us everywhere.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
A mixed one hundre point nine or nine nine point three.
But yeah, so if you have your own space, like
you said, what's office a gaming desk.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
But it can be like a shared space but just
one of you in there at a time.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Right. Well, it's.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
I don't know if that would that would fly or not.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I mean, because like I like we have our our
house is not that large.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
We are that's the biggest thing holding people back, It says.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, it's like, I mean, our house is the size
that it is. But like if I'm in the bedroom
watching like some trash TV, my husband might be in
the living room watching basketball.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, does that count?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Is your own space?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
But the services, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Because then I might be in the living room watching
something and then he might be in the bedroom.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
I don't think that counts.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Oh then I don't have this.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, we're.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
No. I mean I think it doesn't have to be
a very big space. It could be just a like
they say, they give an example of a chair, which
is where you go put your headphones on. It's a
super comfy chair. Uh, maybe there's a small bookshelf next
to it, your particular books, that kind of thing. Oh,
you can retreat there, it's your spot.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm still for my husband. It's just my stuff everywhere.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
That's usually the case.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, that's why the man cave was invented, because the
woman has the rest of the house.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
In general, that's the case, right, or or every space
is a shared space. Yeah, but that is not decorating it, right,
Oh true, yeah, yeah, yeah, the man cave, he usually
has some handed decorating, right. Yeahah, but a guy who
goes through the garage a lot, a lot of guys
have a really decked out garage.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, yeah, well he'll be the old road signs and
that kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, and they you know, tinker, they've got uh maybe
a TV out there, right, I've seen other guys.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Have a couch at the TV. Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
I got some neighbors that have.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
It gets too hot in the summer. Why are you
gonna hang out in the garage?

Speaker 5 (06:50):
It gets too cold to get away from the right. Yeah,
it's not that.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean, it's not like, of course it's up outside
is hot, but we go outside, Well you don't, but.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Right, if you're in the shade, you can put some
fans in there.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Like I'm sure you're your garage in the summer. Yeah,
all the time, all the time.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
All right, Well, I guess I'm just a terrible wife.
I don't have any spaces.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Because your garage is full of your horn.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I overtake everything, right, I don't know what I
would give him though, Like the bedrooms are all in use,
and then there's just a kitchen and a living room.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah that's it. Yeah, Well, can he does he have
a chair that he can use? I mean, does he
have like his chair? No?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, interesting, all right, yeah he does.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Have his sectional and then there's like a chare.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Does he have like an outdoor chair like he can
go outside during the day just sit on there like.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
A you know, like a lawn chair.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
At least get the guy a launch.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
I mean, he's got like a parade chair. This in
the garage like my back.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Morning egs Matt Harris, less Luda and a woman in
New Zealand. By the way, New Zealand has more sheep
than Pete, so maybe this makes sense when you did this,
she had a long list of offenses. Recently, stole a
leg of lamb from a grocery store in New Zealand
and then branded shit is a weapon. Yes, thirty year
old Naami or something like that. Johnson walked out with
over two hundred fifty dollars worth of stuff in her cart,

(08:15):
including the leg of lamb. Employee tried to stop her,
she kept going. She loaded up the groceries onto a
city bus, but then she wouldn't pay the fare and
she demanded someone else pay it for her, So she
eventually got into it with a transport officer. She grabbed
the leg of lamb, raised it over her head like
she was about to club them with it. She did
put it down and left the bus, but she stole

(08:37):
the driver's cash box on her way out, with one
hundred twenty five bucks in it, so she had all
kinds of stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
She's twenty six different charges.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
And in this economy, I don't think on her and
twenty five would have covered the grocery not doing much.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, judgment easy on her six months of house arrest,
but said it's her last chance.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Next time, you're going straight to jail.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I never thought about carrying all lambshank though, as
like right, as like a weapon. I think this is smart,
you know what I mean? Yeah, just imagine you're like
walking around somewhere. You know, you're just like I got
my leg of lamb.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I feel safe once it's talled, though, it doesn't seem
like it'd be as No.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I think you could still swing it like a baseball ball,
you know what. It would be more appalling though, because
who wants to get hit with raw meat like that?

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Proof tomhawk Steak. Yeah, and to see.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
His family has had more than one hundred packages intended
for a local hotel delivered to their home during the
past six months. The resident, who wished to be identified
only as Brittany Uh, said this about this.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
The past six plus months, We've been getting at least
over one hundred packages, I would say, and we've received
everything from cat food to vitamin supplements to even a chainsaw.
For more than half the year, I've been receiving Amazon
packages meant for hotel guests at the Arlow Hotel. They

(09:59):
are in a vertinally clicking on our address, which shows
up first. Unfortunately, it's been a lot of late nights,
like after eight pm, where folks are coming and knocking
on a door.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Which is pretty tough when you have a kid.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
See, at first I thought you had that thing where
sometimes they'll like send you stuff just so they can
leave fake reviews and say it.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
One to your address because it show's delivered.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
But if it's supposed to be going to the hotel,
who's getting the chainsaw to a hotel?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, maybe the hotel because they've got a tree that's down,
or like a tree that's.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
Or you don't know, like a lot of alignemen and
stuff will will be shipped off to different hotels and true, true,
they may need something for their travel job.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Or could be their groundskeep, could be any dore.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Maybe they just needed to like a lamb.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, yes, I got a woman's wrong package in my
house last week, and I had other packages and so
I was just ripping them all open. Yeah, and then
I realized it was the wrong one, and so I
was gonna tape it up and send it back. But
she knocked on the door the other day.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's like, did you get a package from me? And
I'm like yeah, I'm like, I opened it.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm sorry, and I like, but there was a whole
bunch of packages and I just started ripping them opens
over explaining to her. She's just like I said, So
she said, have you gotten a lot of my packages.
I don't think, so she goes, yeah, I just come
and get them. I'm like, where do you live? Right
next door? Like, oh, nice to meet you.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh all right, to meet your neighborhood. Have you never
met them before? Something good?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Though?

Speaker 5 (11:28):
What was in it was a banana bread. It was
a good.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
It was like some sort of chocolate candy. Oh Christmas
present treat.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
I would have eaten it and been embarrassed, but I
not and not.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Don I get it.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
There's like chocolate all over your face. I've never seen it,
never seen it. What you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Fix for starting your day with The Morning? Miss?

Speaker 8 (11:48):
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No, here's your latest pop up day by Mark Spain
real Estate and uh. More information coming about about Rob
Reiner and his white Machine who were found stabbed death
in her home. Rob and his son, Nick, the prime suspect,
got into a very loud public argument Saturday night at
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which a lot of people heard, Rob and Michelle left
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(12:56):
that day, they found blood on the bed and in
the shower and he had the sheets bring the windows.
One of British tabloids got a video of Billy Crystal
and his wife outside the Ryder's home after the news
of their death broke.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Billy looks pretty distraught. Of course, they were good friends.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Rob right back to Billy and when Harry met Sally
and was Rob Reiner's mom who said I'll have what
she's having in that famous scene. Oh yeah, Tam Sink
says Billy's wife actually saw the bodies and because she's
the the run, be called the police and then called
the Crystals.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Larry David was also on the scene, So there you go. Sad.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
But Benllilas is brutal man, just hard on everybody. But
that is a terrible end to how mental endus can
end sometimes. Yeah, all right, so uh switching gears.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Moving on, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
So Reader's Digest broke down the biggest pop culture moments
of twenty twenty five, and I think these are good ones.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
The first one they.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Put is the little Boo Boo craze, which I started
talking about the La Boo boos back in May, right,
I saw them coming. My kid this past weekend saw
lubuoboo and asked me what it was, and I was like,
I was that far ahead at the trend from you missed.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
I guess you know what.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think it's uh older than him.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Yeah, girls and guys.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
He saw it on a bunch of backpacks, like the
little key chain ones and he's like, what are those?
And I was like, oh, buddy, let me tell you
about lamboo. But yeah, and then Beyonce winning Album of
the Year the Grammy for the first time ever, Katy
Perry becoming astronaut Perry oh K Pop Demon Hunters becoming

(14:32):
a worldwide sensation, and he most watched Netflix film of
all time, the astronomer Ceo getting caught having an alleged
fair on the Coldplays, Kiss Cam Big Big, Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey getting engaged. I don't have Prime, so
I didn't watch this, but Belly choosing Team Conrad on

(14:53):
the summer I turned pretty. I heard everybody talking about
that I have.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Prime, but it's not in my wheelhouse.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Obviously, you're not living the right life, all right, I
need you to invite me over to watch things on Prime.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
And then the old fashioned heist at the Louver.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Oh yeah, I think these are good ones.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Diane Keaton passing away at the age of seventy.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Nine, very good.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
And the Hollywood reporters, it's all that end of year
stuff right now, put together lists of their favorite TV performances.
I'll just give you the five and see what you guys.
I don't even know how many of you've seen. You
don't have Netflix. So Nick Offerman was in Death by
Lightning on Netflix. Nope, don't see Jessica Matton on Dark
Winds on AMC.

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Nope, don't see it.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Porn of Jack Ganathan. I probably mispronouncing that. On Deli
Boys on Hulu.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
She was good, but the show not so good. Robbie
Hoffman on Hacks, Yes, oh yeah, ax is great. Uh.
And Malan Ackerman on The Hunting Wives on Netflix. Yeah,
she did a good job. It was great, but very hot.
And a lot of people in Charlotte in the area
were on that show.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, because then they're filming season two right now. But
I just want to say, like, I feel like pop
culture is my thing, right. I didn't see a single
one of those, not a dang one.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And you probably didn't see something called Best Interest on
a quarant TV.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
A quarant TV whatever.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Heard?

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, then people going nuts for Yeah, sure Severance is
on there, Okay, I saw that.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, Okay, you didn't see any of these?

Speaker 7 (16:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Your your pop culture really limited to nonsense? Yeah, pretty much,
not even all reality TV just the Mormon one, right, No,
that's you Old America next Tome Model for two thousand. Yeah,
but I'm talking.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
About I do like Love Island and all that.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
I haven't heard you talk about that in a while.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well that's because it's not actively on right now.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
Oh I didn't hear you talk about that very much.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
This summer, Remember, I like caught up and watched like
I don't know, ten days.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Okay, all right, yeah, but you'all so watch a lot
of I.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Love the TLC reality, that's what it is. And they're
so bad.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
You're so bad.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
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Speaker 3 (17:22):
You can take us anywhere, or our Santa Claus everywhere.
And this year it got away from me.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
It got away from it.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
But it should beat yourself up too much over it. Yeah, definitely,
I know.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
But my kid is nine like this, and he just
turned nine.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
He's a fresh You did less than you did the
year before last year.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
He does, he does remembers all the things, and he's
even been like, why are we doing anything?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
And I'm like, mommy is burnt out.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Right. Yeah, times that happens.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
It's been minimal decorations, right.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
I usually your minimal is still pretty good.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, I mean I only have three wreaths up hopefully,
Oh my god, I'm like.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Twelve, all right, e three is more than some people
like me.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
I only have one life size and nutcracker, a life
size nutcracker. I have a whole fleet of them, and
they're all just like no, they're not coming out. And
so I haven't done anything.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Holly jolly.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
We haven't gone to see Santa Claus, we haven't gone
to look at Christmas lights.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
And then I missed all the holiday pades.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Nine days.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, we got nine days.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
So I saw my husband down yesterday and I said,
we got a buckle down, sir. We need to make
a plan. We need to make a game plan.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
And I am literally somehow going to magically try to
pull some Christmas magic out of thin air.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
You already make it happen. Three breaths.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
You have a blow up nutcracker or whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
You've got to two life size nutcracker and they unplugged
it because it was singing too much.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
So that's a weird description life size, because what is
the actual size of a nutcracker in real life.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
This one the size of a nut, like a walnut. Okay,
then which should be smoking?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Right?

Speaker 4 (19:00):
I have like he's over five feet tall.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Okay, yeah, human size.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah he's almost my height. Maybe he's like I don't know,
human size, he's pretty large.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
And so I just have a lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Yeah, I know. And I didn't put any of it
out hardly.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
No, but you already have a lot of stuff, is
what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, but I haven't done anything. We haven't made Christmas cookies,
we haven't made a gingerbre holause, we haven't done all week.
And so I I have made an appointment to go
and see Santa Claus on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Okay, all right, so I've got that all that maybe, And.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Then I was looking at like cookie decorating events that
are happening. Uh, we were looking at there is like
Christmas putt putt out there in Fort Mill, Indian Land. Oh.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I've been thinking about doing that outdoor though, right, I
know it's gonna be cold.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
That's okay. I just don't do outdoor very well.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I don't and in my big code, I don't know
how well I'm gonna be able to play, so I
might have to just commit in fifty degree weather.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, so so cold.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
I know. F I have gotten one of those big
cardboard gingerbread houses that you can color in.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Okay, so we can struck that in the living room.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I just feel like I'm so far behind. I feel
like I need another month to properly do Christmas.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
You're doing it fine, Yeah, you're beating yourself up for nothing.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
I've missed all the parades.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
And then I even thought about going to the one
at Lake Wiley this past weekend that they do with
the boats, and so I got into like little Lake
Wiley Town Group or whatever, and I was like, where
do I park? And then people were like trying to
like send me Venmo requests and then their addresses were
in New Jersey, and I was like, I think these
are scammers. Let's not let's not do that list for

(20:42):
you to park there?

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, because how do I olse, do I get close
to the lake?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't property?

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I don't know as I would trying to like just
figure out anything you're spending.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
So this is what happens at this time of year,
and especially I'm gonna say especially women it's so much
on their plate because the guys probably aren't helping out,
but you.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Are setting this like, oh right thing when you're doing fine.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Absolutely, trust me, this kid is not gonna need therapy
because you didn't have fourteen nutcrackers exactly.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Only had one.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Like the big thing about being on Christmas vacation isn't
specifically all the holly jolly. You're two weeks off of school,
you know, it's just like the whole thing. You're hanging
out with your family.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah, the trees there, the tree is there. You got
the basic.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Usually do like all the events and all the lights
and all the everything. I just feel like an absolute
right which I am gonna do. You have your phone
number If anybody has any suggestions for easy things I
can magically pull out. I think it's nine eight ozho
three eight oh one zero zero nine. That's exactly right,
Nato three eight oh one zero zero nine. If you
want to help a mom in trouble over here, sing

(21:49):
it mom, nine eight oh three eight oh one.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Zero zero nine.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
If you have any suggestions, I'm down to drive. Yeah,
I am down to drive, do whatever it is to
create some holiday magic.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's Morning Mix Matt Harrison, the quirky Liz Lula looks
at social media eighty seven hours a day so you
don't have to.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
And I saw a video on TikTok of this dude
talking about how over the years we have certain traditions
of like YouTube favorites we need to go back and
watch because back in the day, it didn't feel like
the Holidays until you watch Frosty the Snowman and Frosty
Returns and at Charlie Brown Christmas.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
And now we still have those things, but they've also
changed where there are certain holiday clips that you just
watch every single year.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
And I did some soul searching and I realize that
minus Patti LaBelle, when her backup singers do not join
her on stage, she does not know the words, but
she carries on like the performer that she is. Hang
this tone, I'm going again, and know that.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
This Paz where my man, I don't say this and
that's the wrong words on the two Chris because.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
She just starts narrating what's happening on the stage because
she's like, I don't know the words.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
It's gonna be a Christmas.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Free wheeling.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
And the faces she makes her in the video is
just so great until she's so frustrated.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
But she's like, the show must go on, but I
don't know the words. I don't have backup singers. And
it was like in a big thing. It was like
the Christmas tree lighting in d C. Or every year.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I watch this cliff multiple times at the holidays because
I can't. I can't get enough of it because it's
just so funny. And I didn't realize until I saw
that TikTok video that that is.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Now my Frosty turns. That is my Charlie Brown Christmas.
That is the like holiday tradition. Even my kid, he
knows that he'll sing.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Along with it.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
He'll ask my backup singers. He will, He'll sing to
you the the The.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
One that gets me to the holidays is Smokey Robinson.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Which one's that?

Speaker 5 (24:18):
What he sends that? What do you call that? When
you hire a celebrity?

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Oh the cameo.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Yeah, we're gonna try to play it through here. I
don't know what it's gonna work.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
But I have no idea what Chanooka is.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
But happy Chanuka because they said so.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Anyway, God bless you, babe, and enjoy chanukah a wonderful time.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I will also take them to say happy holocaus we are.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
But yeah, robins chanooka. Do you have anybody helping you?

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Or right, yeah, it's Matt Harris, Liz Lude who never whispers.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Nine it's bad for your vocal.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
For in ninety nine point three, I want you to
sing the phone song, the phone.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Number song nine three O one zero zero nine.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Yeah, use that please?

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Nine Nato three Nato one zero zero nine one.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Of the sites, and it was kicked off by the
Ellie Parker on Home to Court Choices that scream I
don't have taste.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
And again it's lighthearted, it's all in good fin I
know I'm about to be attacked multiple times on this list.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
So somebody said, blanket ladders. You know there's things.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, have one of those.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
My mom did growing up very nineties, and she put
quilts over it that she had made.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
This person said, just put them in a linen classet, Like,
why do you need to display your blankets because I
can see them being there for a functional reason. Actually right, yeah,
it's like don't don't don't touch those. I have a.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Sotional though that opens up and instead I just kind
of ball them up and throw them in there, trying
to push it shut.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Is it rattan or raton you know, like they raton balls?
You know those things that they're like her Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those things.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
We had those at one point in our house, and
I think there's still some kicking around in my garage.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Or not that you can like sit on there. Just
they're just like a softball size or sol.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
On a coffee table.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Look like they're made of like, uh, you know, twigs
or something. Yeah, I do, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
No, I never brought my yard trash inside decorative balls.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
I'll show you a picture that you'll remember it.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Like I do decorate with ornaments. That is a glare
I cannot see you. Well, do you need to clean
your computer screen that I like to keep. It looks
worse than like when my dog puts nose prints on.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh no, I'm dirty. Mirrored furniture.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I never did that one, but I remember there were
like dressers and stuff like that, or like use a
mirror to make the room look bigger, very Miami vice. Right.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Uh then the when you mentioned kind of word decor,
Oh yeah, they yes, gather.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
The one that says like the kitchen, the says eat.
It's almost like I need instructions.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
There's like I do have one in like where my
washing machine and dryer are, and it just says like
washing machine and dryer. Yeah, laundry yeah yeah, yeah, just
because she got confused while you were wandering the house.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Uh, they say beach decor if you're not at the beach.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, I'm definitely with you on that. How about if
you just had a bathroom. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It's a bathroom if you go into our like hall
quosity bathroom next it's not a closet.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
But you know, like the little one downstairs that like
it's for guests.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
So it feels like you're peeing in the ocean, right, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Sure, You're sitting on a bunch of sea shells, a.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Bunch of like fish, and it's got a cute little
like little light switch plate and stuff.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
All gray silver color schemes.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Okay, I hate millennial gray. I'm antiat, but I do
have a gray sectional.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
It says it's giving wires everything chrome from SpongeBob.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
I don't know the SpongeBob line.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
But you do acrylic chairs, you're smushed some press like glass.
Nobody's button needs to be viewed this way, so I
guess it's a see through Oh seat, I don't never
seen that luxury brand coffee table books.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Oh, I don't have a coffee table. I have to
get there first.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
I do love a coffee table book though, but I
don't have a coffee table.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yeah like yeah, no, I just like a book that
you can just like kind of flip through. Another home
decord they says, says streams. They don't have taste. Is
a highland cow art.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Oh, but they're so cute, are they the ones that
are wearing suits and stuff of the cows?

Speaker 4 (28:34):
No, they're like the ones that have the little furry coats.
They're the adorable ones. They look snuggly. It's a snugly cow.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
No modern farmhouse style. I swift starbuck bears.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
I hated the the farm doors, the barn doors.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Oh, I do like that.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I do like a pocket door, the barn door. I mean,
the problem is when it becomes not in vogue, then
you've got this giant door. But I do like a
door that doesn't take up as much space.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yes, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, we'll just close it.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Yeah, the barn. Then when you open it you lose
all that space.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
It just gets off track.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Minimalism.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
It says I have no decorations, claiming you like a
clean look, when you're actually boring, no personality.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
That's me. Yeah, I'm just boring. I'm just cheap and lazy. Right,
And you're not paying attention to what's on the walls anyway. Yeah, yeah,
is it on the TV? You don't care? I don't care.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't care, And then I want another hole in
the wall. Gotta worry about to hide. Morning Mixed Matt Harrison,
Liz Luda and DJ. How many people did last Christmas?
Because she's a tailor swifted one?

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Right?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
So I don't know how trendy it is, but I'm
gonna say it's trendy because I did it.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I feel like if I were to go to your house,
I'd have to be embarrassed and go to the other
room because you got something naked.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
My tree, Christmas tree is naked.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
I saw this on one of the tiktoks or instagrams,
one of these, uh, and it is people.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Some people don't even put lights on it.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh, now my tree has lights because it's part of
the artificial tree.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yeah, I mean you don't have to plug it in though.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Good point.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Get even more.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Take off your lights. And I put the tree up,
but I didn't put any ornaments on it. They're sitting
there and I'm like, my daughter's like, you didn't put
any ornaments on it. I'm like, well, we can do
that later or something. And then I saw the trend
and I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I think it's just an excuse to be like, that's okay,
that's okay that I didn't get to it.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's just cool. Yeah, that's that's the cool people they're doing.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
They're having naked trees.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And I'm gonna be honest, it looks they look fine
without it on there.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Absolutely. And then when you take it down, taking off
the ornaments is horrible and you usually miss a couple
and then you write to like all right, and you've
already packed away the ornaments.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, like seventeen ornaments. How are you missing a couple?

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Like some people.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
That you know what the real move is used to
ran wrap your Christmas tree with the ornaments on and don't.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Take it apart.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
That's right, just keep it all I had the stories that.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
Would be good. Yeah, just put it in the closet.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
That's true. That's true. Or even I guess the one,
the non breakable ornament, Yeah, you can leave. Never thought
I thought about that.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
But your tree probably puts the three piece a couple
three peces, so that's gonna make it a little rougher.
But like I, I don't actually believe this trend. I
think it's either one make you feel better or two.
It's something like like a Gwyneth Paltrow, like the naked
tree is all the trend where it's like people pretending
to be poor that have a lot of money and
calling it trendy.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah, okay, that's me a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
I don't think you're pretending.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I think you're right.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, there's no pretending.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
No, you know it is because when you look at
the tree, unless it's like a fancy, fancy one, sometimes
you don't even see some of the like the ornaments,
like some of the ones I have are just you know,
they're not. It's not like a like people have a
theme like red and gold or red and.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Gold or whatever.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, they do I know some people have think, oh, yeah,
I don't have a.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
Thing, so it might have just like homemade.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Some crabs those the best ones they are, But you
really don't see that.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
I'm like, you know, from a distance, So let's just.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
See the ornaments. Even if they are the homemade.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
As long as it's got the lights on it, you're
good to go. That's that's where i'm and that's what
I'm thinking.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
You wrap some tinsel or garland, it's not gonna hurt.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
I never do that.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Give it a little razzle, dow, no razzle. Do what
we also call the tinsel and garland different?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I know.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
That's why I tried to say both words.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Do you do icicles?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I have different versions. I use the garland that's like
like the I call the tinsel. No, it looks like
a rope of rope. Yes, shiny sparkley stuff.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
But do you know what icicles are that that's like a.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Streamer, Like, yeah, they're individual pieces you throw up on there.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
But you're talking about like they're almost paper ish.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah no, no, no, they're more like gosh, be describe
the things we called them.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
I think we called it tinsil.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I believe and but it's then other people called it icicles,
but you don't even know that part. Just toss it
on there, and mom would like, you don't just throw
them at clumps.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yeah, I think that's it. I think that's what silvery. Yeah,
that's what I like this.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
If you like shaved it the tree you're pointing at
right now, shaved garl, like the garland is uh like
it's like a tinsel, like a rope.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
You're calling that tinsil. Yeah, yeah, see, I would call it.
I would call that a tinsil garland tinsel garland. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
And so when you just say tinsil, it's like the
longer piece like the hair. And when you say icicle,
that makes me think of the ornaments that are shaped
like icicles. Off.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Oh okay, So we're all over the place on this.
Even if they sell sell these anymore, people saying.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
I bet they do.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
You know, tinsel, any of it garland. It's been a
lot harder to find this year, So I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know if there was a shortage, if it
was something with something, But it.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Still rings in my brain if my mom yelling throwing
a clumps and.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I still do this day kind of have a PTSD,
you'd even see it, right, Yeah, that's fair because you're boor.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
As a kid, you're like whipping it. Does your kid
decorate the who tree? Or is he bail after a
few minutes?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
He no, he'll help, but he just like hangs anything
anywhere and then he has a specifically mom.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
No, I support it. He can put it wherever.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I don't care, and I just leave it. But he
always he doesn't like to touch the breakable ones. Really
away from those. Okay, okay, I get it. But yeah,
my kid to do it for a couple of minutes.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
And they're like I were out of here. I'm like, okay, fixed.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
For starting your day with the Morning Mix with Matt
Harris and Liz Luda.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
And I thought that I was just being lazy. No,
I thought it was on being part of a trend.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
You're so trendy because you got a naked tree.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, it's this thing going around where you don't put
ornaments and some people didn't put lights, but I got
the lights because it's part of the it's pre tree.
Yeah tree, yeah, but no ornaments. And I hung like
two up the other day. Yeah, I got like ahead
of myself there.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
And you found out you're secretly trendy. And that's that.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
The whole new movement is to have a naked tree.
Let it just exist in its own beauty.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Sing the song for our phone number, because I want
to hear if anybody else is with me?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Nine eight o three eight oh one.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Zero zero nine nine three eight no one's why did
I do it?

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Nine three and oh one zero zero nine.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Is the shingle makes everything easier? Just admit it does
with your naked Tree's this? Hi, Danielle, how are you today?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I'm doing well? How are you great? To hear from you?
What is on your mind?

Speaker 4 (35:51):
I him rocking the naked tree this year?

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Was it a conscious thought or is it just a
this season went a little too quickly?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Uh So what happened was tree and like all the
lights were out except like the ones in the middle,
and so I was like, I don't have the paces
for the time to like check up.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
A little ball.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
So I was like I just order some new one
that kind of got away from.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Me, and then like here we are now nine days
away and I'm like, you know what, it's just naked
tree this year?

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Right, See you thought it just got away from you.
But don't just say you're trendy.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Right now, I know I'm trendy.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
You and I, Danielle, you and I with are naked trees.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Naked trees.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
That's right, she's celebrating with me.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah. Good, well, we appreciated nervous when you said naked
tree the first time.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
No, I thought maybe you may you were just naked
in the room with your tree.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
I have been.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Uh, I thought about it.

Speaker 8 (36:54):
All right.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Wait you thought about Matt naked with the tree.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Don't do that with you? Wow? And you still didn't
vomit up your Christmas cookies.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Well, we appreciate that. Danielle. Thank you have a great holiday. You,
thank you have a naked holiday. Bye. Who's this?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Good morning? It's Donna.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Donna?

Speaker 5 (37:18):
What's your thought? What are you thinking?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Well, as far as Christmas tree, guys, I'm a cat,
so not.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Christmas tree is about two feet tall.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
And does countle try to climb it every time?

Speaker 7 (37:33):
Oh, they'll knock everything off of it.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Away.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
So you made it a naked tree so that cats
can't don't.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Have anything knock over?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
That's it.

Speaker 8 (37:42):
One seat straight up, and down.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
I'm meany years ago, and it's got one ball.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
That I kind of don't take to it real Charlie
Brown looking Christmas tree.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
That's very York of you.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, and we can say that for from New York, right, Yeah,
don it's great to hear from you. Thank you for
calling it, thanks for finding our new number. I mort
he makes Matt Harrison, Liz Luda. I am a big
hand talker. I talk with my hands on the half
of my whole life, and people always, like I remember

(38:19):
back in college on time they were daring me, like
any time I would talk to my hands, I had
that chuck of beer.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Oh so I didn't last very long, I bet, because
it's just how I do.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
You started talking more and more with your hands just
for an excuse.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, right, you're a hand talker, are you?

Speaker 8 (38:32):
I am.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'm a hand talker.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
And I remember when I was younger, when I got
like my first grown up job quote unquote, they told
me I talked with my hands too much and I
appeared like too young and youthful, and they would make
me practice like sitting on my hands like underneath my
legs so that I wouldn't move my hands when I talked,
because they said it just made me look really young.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
And what you'd give to look younger.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
Now exactly, so I have to I have to bring
my hands back out and start talking.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
You know. The analyze the video of Ted Talks to
determine the impact that hands Gester's had an audience reaction.
Did the thirty three million video likes whatever, hopech blah
blah blah, And they found that here's the good news. First,
they found that those used illustrative gestures over the course
of the talk were reliably rated as more clear, competent,

(39:20):
and persuasive. Okay, all right, here's the bad news. Random waving,
fidgeting or gestures.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Because now you're back in the small.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Light, or even just pointing to things did not offer benefits.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Oh, gestures, visualizing, expressing phrases like spreading one's hands apart
when you're saying something is far away, that's helpful. But
if you're just randomly flailing, oh that's me, that's me. Yeah,
I think you saw this original report.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
You thought, yes, I know, I thought I'm doing good.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
But I've also had an issue in the past where
because I don't know what my hands are doing. I
had posted it and somebody said I was sending out
of distressed signal with my hands and I was like, oh, oh.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
No, I was just I was just waving them. I
don't know, I don't know what I was doing. My bad,
My bad. I am not distressed. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
So the first part of it, yeah, you got these
perfect gestures, more clear, competent, persuasive. But if you're kind
of flailing, random waving, pidgeting, not so great. Oh yeah,
because I I'm definitely a flailer.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
It looks like we're trying to land jetliners, like we're
the ones out there with the flags, like bring it
down the runway, bring it.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
When I do my like sometimes do a TikTok where
I'm cooking. Yeah, have a knife, Yeah, waving that knife
around that.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Knife of me.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Yeah, it does feel very menacing when it's a knife.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, maybe we should switch out for like a spoon
or some little safer morning mix.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Matt Harris, Liz Luda and as we sit in the studio,
I am in short sleeves and so is TJ.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
And Liz is in a parka live in my best
life right now, this is how I need it?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Actual Parker Like, that's not exaggeration? Yeah, is that this
be called?

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I mean it's a ski jacket, for certain, and it
is lined with a lot of fur or faux fur.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Let me go ahead and put that out there.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
And you yesterday you were complaining because.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
I wasn't complaining.

Speaker 5 (41:08):
We're complaining.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
It was seventeen degrees and my husband is a polar
bear and he likes to live in an icy Arctic climate.
And when I was like, it's gonna be really cold tomorrow,
it's gonna be really cold, he had the audacity to
hand me a fleece and he told me I could
wear a fleece. And I said, a fleece is a jacket,
not a coat. I need a coat for seventeen degree weather.

(41:31):
And he said, well, then what's the point of having
the fleece if you can't wear it when it's cold?
And I said, fleeces are for fifty to sixty degree weather.
And so, long story short, I showed up to work
yesterday in a fleece.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
All right, But also you don't it's not like you
worked outside. Just have to get right of your car
drive and he warms up the car for you.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Yeah, but it's also chilly in here.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Okay, it is seventy six degrees and you're currently right,
why did you have a jacket?

Speaker 5 (41:56):
I think you've missed.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
So basically last summer, we like packed on my winter
clothes and it went into one of those like big
rubber mate totes or whatever, and it was out in
the garage somewhere, and I didn't know which bin it
was in, and so my husband and I were in
a disagreement because he was like, well, you can go
get it, and I was like, I don't know where
you put it. And he was like, well, I don't
know where I put it either, and I was like,
but you're the one that put it there, so you
should know.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
You want to get it.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I was like really frustrated. Yesterday and I came home
and he was in the garage finding.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
That tote for me.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
All right, And so today I got my big old
coat and it's a little warmer today, but I still
believe that this is a useful coat and I will
wear it, uh basically for the next two months now,
every single day to prove that.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm very thankful that he went out and dug it
for me.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
You don't need to wear it in studio.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Yes, I do. The statement is I'm cold.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Did you find your holiday sweaters?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
There were also twenty three sweaters that he put through
the washing machine and the dryer and had hung up
for me ready to go.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
But why did he have to wash them? They were
just a bin, right or whatever?

Speaker 3 (43:00):
I mean this one in the garage, I don't know.
You want to keep them fresh? I have pretty dry
sheets in there.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Okay, so you you found your sweaters, You found your
You complained enough?

Speaker 5 (43:10):
He go out of the stuff, don't.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
And so because I'm so late in the holiday season
wearing my holiday sweaters, these will now be called Valentine's Day.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
What this nutcracker celebrating Valentine's Day?

Speaker 3 (43:21):
And the day?

Speaker 5 (43:22):
Nine days left? You can just double you wear every
day one day. He's just like one in the morning.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
One for me changes every time I go in the
hall here at work, just come back in in a
different sweater.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
The sad part is no one would notice.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
No one, No, and yeah, we wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
I know.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
We went because you look on my hair and we're like, what,
what's different from yesterday?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Yeah? Kept getting bigger this morning the more I brushed out.
But that's okay because now that I've got my little
fur lined coat on faul Fur, it blends in with
my hair.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Thanks for starting your day with The Morning, Miss.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
It's The Morning mixed with Matt Harrison and now here's
your latest pop up.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Date Howard by Mark's main real estate.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Have you ever bought something and when you see it
online it just looks so pretty? And this has happened
a lot, like on TikTok shop and different different places
where you go and buy things and then it shows
up in the mail and you go, what the heck
is that?

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Yeah, all the time.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
It happened to Melissa Joan Hart. So she said she
got burned by an online ad. She saw this gorgeous
Christmas dress that she was gonna wear to a Christmas party.
It showed up for the Christmas party and when she
took it out it looked like a cheap Halloween costume.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
She said she couldn't wear it and she just had
to go back to.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Wearing a sweater she'd worn before, which I mean, that's fine,
but like, it's nice to know that I'm not the
only one who's getting burned by AI and all these
little things where they make it look so fabulous and
then when you get it in real.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Life, you're like, oh no, I guess it was too
good to be true for five ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
Well that's done. That's stuff was going on long before AI.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's what's gotten worse though.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Make it look great or maybe they have a great one, right,
and they show you like, oh, look at all that's
been getting any time the commercial, that's great, that thing.
Look yeah, this toy that goes amazing. And then or meals?
How many like fast food meals? And then you get
in it's like, oh.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
So yeah so.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Action Network surveyed some fans to map out drinking habits
around the league. The study looked at pregaming in stadium
consumption and quote heavy drinking to find here in this
case as five or more drinks anyway. Yeah, the uh,
the fan base drinking the most Arizona. Wow, I'm not

(45:32):
surprised by that with eighteen percent of their fans so hot.
There you got a are you just thirsty?

Speaker 4 (45:37):
Honestly?

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Buffalo two?

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Okay here about Buffalo all the time? Right party and
they threw each other through tables.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
That's right, that's right, Houston three, but then the shocker
Carolina fourth.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
What I don't three can think of the Panthers fans
as boozers.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
No, but they are the fourth uh percentage of wise
of heavy drinking and pregame drinking and all that and
at the bottom, which doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
The Packers. The they're liars is what they are.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
That is a liar list because on the list it's
Packers the bottom. The next to them Seattle, Pittsburgh. Come on,
my yeah, I'm buying this. But yeah, Panthers be proud
of something.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
But right, exactly, but you're still not for first. We're
time for first.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Come on, very good chance to Yeah, there you go.
Pop moments.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah so readers digest, which I didn't know was still
a thing, but it is, right, broke.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
Down online or maybe not, it's an old people think.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I broke down the biggest pop culture moments of twenty
twenty five. And it started off with the La Buo
bu craze, which that things swept. I think it's starting
to kind of, you know, die out just a little bit.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
Well, products are starting to be like merchandise is starting
to pop other merchandise besides that. Yeah, so it may
have a second wave with that. Yeah, then there will
probably die out.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Yeah, like the little knockoff ones and stuff.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Beyonce winning Album of the Year for her Grammy the
first time ever. Katie Perry becoming astronaut Perry, which has
this year been really long because that feels like years ago,
like years I feel like she's been an astronaut almost
my whole life. K pop Demon Hunter is becoming a
big sensation. The people getting caught on the cold plays,

(47:21):
kiss Cam, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting engaged.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I don't have.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
Prime, so I couldn't get on this, but Belly choosing
Team Conrad on the summer I turned pretty sorry.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
If that was just a spoiler. And then the old
fashioned jewel heist at the Louver.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Yeah, yeah, those were big moment.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
That was the most recent one.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Then I guess probably are close to Yeah, yeah, yeah
about that, let's see.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Also, you Are You? This is a weird Christmas movie
on Paramount.

Speaker 6 (47:53):
I think it's on Paramount called Deer Santa is starring
Jack Black and this kid. Basically he writes a letter
to Santa, but he's pretty bad at Spellingslexic. I think yes.
So he sends a letter to Satan instead, and it's
Jack Black and he's he's masquerading as Santa Claus but

(48:15):
he's Satan and it's it's funny, like I haven't finished it, yeah,
but yeah, it's it seems worth checking out.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Can I give my little trigger warning here if you
have a deceased sibling, do not watch it.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
It's a fairly brothers thing too, right.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Yeah, I'm sure it's great, really really really funny. Just
that that's a little, a little moment. If you're in
that unlucky club, don't don't do it.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Jack Black is like you can see him as Santa.
He should have been Santa years ago. I know it
doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
He needs to redo Miracle on thirty fourth Street. Oh yeah,
because he's so he would be.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Great at that. Make it a slapstick comedy instead of
the America on thirty fourth Street as much as.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Not that big no no as a roll Oh yeahs
a body sha.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
More about the kid and the family and everything else.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Right for starting your day with The Morning Mix with
Matt Harris and Liz Luda.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Hey, it's National Chocolate covered anything day. The most popular
thing to cover in chocolate is bacon, believe it or not,
which is.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Bizarre to me, like out of like that's like a
once and like like a treat, like a like a
special occasion you try maybe twice.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
In your life, like who's snack and all.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
That definitely not super common, that's for sure. I think
they're they they are basing it on uh Google.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Oh yeah, and you.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Probably need some special instructions on how to actually cook that.
If it's too jiggly that, oh yeah, then the gurse
would make it just run right off.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
It's not the number one in the Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
We'll tell you second bananas, The chocolate cover banana big
in Arizona, Connecticut, Matthews. That's like it's second place. Almonds
has a few states. Okay, yeah, chocolate covered almonds.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
If you're going to be a health food, be a
health food. Don't try to pretend you're something else to me,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
I don't want to feel like I'm making a good
decision if I'm dipping my something.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
In basically a eminem right yeah yeah. Chocolate covered pecans
or pecans Okay. Louisiana and South Carolina.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
All right, Okay, well, so you said, don't pretend you're
something that's that's I think.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
I just don't like almonds, you know what I mean
as somebody who's going to many a dietitian where theyre
always like, oh, you should feel full off of three almonds.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Chocolate covered peanuts South Dakota, Macadamian nuts Hawaii.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
Chocolate covered strawberries is a few states.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Oh yeah, that's so good.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Chocole covered cherries is.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
A few states. All right, I see, So here's one
who are individuals. Okay, blueberries California.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
That is good. Chocolate covered blueberry.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Oh, it's good. It's good.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Chocolate covered apple in Pennsylvania. I don't think I've ever
had that. It's like, but never chalk right, I've seen them.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Even if you go to like the fancy candy shops
where they make like fudge and homemade candy, they always
have like the chocolate apples too, and then they.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Like roll them in peanuts or something.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Okay, chocolate covered pineapple in New Jersey. It's okay, I've
never had that, but I'm interested.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
Yeah, it still tears up the inside of your mouth.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Grapes in Kentucky that I've not had grape I would
eat that too.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
It does sound like a grape.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Time Raisins are number one in Illinois, come on. Chocolate
covered pickles in Ohio, No way, try it. Chocolatever popcorn
in Florida.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Yes, and oh my gosh, let me bring you over
to my nastiness. There is something so magical about white
scheddar popcorn and then you drizzle the chocolate over it.
It is It smells like socks, and it's salty and
it's sweet and somehow it's just perfect.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Well, every once I get that when they have candy
like Oreo.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, yeah, chocolate covered pretzels in delawarecolate covered potato chips
in North Dakota very good. Yes, coffee beans Idaho, in Kansas, yeah,
North Carolina, chocolate covered crickets, come on, leading the way.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Who had to go with the novelty one? Come on,
I had it. North Carolina's most popular cholven covered treat is.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Most capular or most popular right, because I don't believe that.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Eating chocolate cover crickets over a chocolate cover pretzel.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Bugfest takes place every year in Raleigh and is the
largest bug centered event of its kind in the country.
Each year they choose a different bug to focus on.
This year it was spotlight all things anthropods.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
I don't want to yuck anyone's yam if that's what
you get down with. I know a lot of people do,
like the cricket flower and stuff like that. It is
not for me, And I always have a good excuse
because I'm allergic to shellfish. That means my probability of
being allergic to them is also high.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
So sorry, I can't partake. So I'm not judging you
in your deliciousness over there. I just it's too risky
for me to risk.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
There was a place in rock Hill they used to sell.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
They came in one time on the show and cooked
us up some crickets and things in like a garlic
butter type thing.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Really it was fine taste, little crunching.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
No they didn't. Did everybody get down with it? Or
it's just you because you're weird?

Speaker 5 (53:16):
I think me and Bandy probably ye thrown back there
good stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
You were like googling when we had the bad cicadas,
not last summer, but the summer before.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
You were trying to figure out how to make like a.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Yeah, yeah, you're like free protein in the I'm going
to fight the wildlife off for these ones.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Maybe we want to put some blonde tips in my hair.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeah, the morning mixed and my hair is Liz ludap
TJ with frosted tips. I had him at one point
we should lean back into that horrifying Uh yeah, I
believe right back into that.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
They're called gray tips now, I mean willing to be
easier to die now?

Speaker 8 (53:52):
True?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Yeah, true true.

Speaker 8 (53:54):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Merriam Webster's word of.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
The Year is slop as an a slop right, okay,
instead of the would the other people use when they
did theirs, it was one of those uh six seven
I think was the one because there's different dictionaries. They
did the six seven. Yeah, sick seven as the as
the as the word.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
But you found out a word that's a slang we
should know.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I guess glazing.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
Uh, it's glazing, the bad one of the good one.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Glazing is the bad one. Glazed is the good one.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
So if like you're glazing is like if you're doing
too much with like your outfit. If I wanted to
like make fun of you, I'd be like, oh, look at.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
You in your new sweat or Matt oh glazing.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
But if I think that you actually look nice, I'd
be like, oh your outfit, you're glazed. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
I was really excited. Thank goodness for TikTok and.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
The people that speak to the youths, because otherwise, if.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
You would have said that to me, I would have
assumed it had a way worse connotation.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Yeah, honestly, Well, yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
My first thing when I saw the word was I
went back to the old what it used to be,
or what I thought it was going to be.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
I thought it, Yeah, I thought it was like a drug.
I only know that, like, yeah, yeah, eyes glazed over,
like I'm a graduate of the Deer Program.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
I don't know if you know.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
I don't want to make this awkward in here, but no, no,
it was it's it was you have to explain to
me off the air, because I don't know that the gesture.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
Is it's you know, your face, that's something on your face.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Okay, So anyway, I also heard this one, which you
might not know because I and first of all, don't
take our word for everything. Yeah, we're hearing these things
that if they say someone's tough just cool. Oh yeah,
oh you're bad, right, Yeah, because my kids said that
something about the other day.

Speaker 5 (55:36):
I didn't know that one new kids.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
On the block saying about it hang tough.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I feel like that came back around. Yeah but it was.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Yeah, but it's back again, apparently running and she dropped
it and I'm like, who's tough? And I thought they
meant like tough. Yeah it was a tough guy. No, No,
that's a Now that car is tough right there.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
See, I feel like so much. I remember I did
remember the old days. That's like you haven't heard it
in forever, right, and now that you say it, I
did know that one. Yeah, but it's back again. You
know what we need to bring back is boss Man.
That is really boss. This is a little bit.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
I mean, this is going to date me. But like
back when Juno came out, they started trying to use
boss again.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
That was very short lived. I think the one we
really need to bring back is all that in a
bag of chips, because why not?

Speaker 4 (56:21):
I wonder, Yeah, it's so cheesy, change it. It's like
all that and a seltzer.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I heard this one.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
This new one is going around talk to the hand.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
But why but why