The Morning Mix Podcast: Treat Ya Self

The "legacy" you can't live down, finding out where you would haunt if you could choose, PLUS we'll tell you what to stream this weekend AND Foodie Friday!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get rubin in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's the Morning mixed with Matt Harris and Liz Luda.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh my goodness, it is Friday, and I am so
relieved to see it. I know that that sounds like
such a generic thing to say, but I feel like
I am being held together with.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Duct tape and a rubber band. At this point. It
has been the longest week.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Ever, and I'm ecstatic that we're basically at the weekend.
I mean, we just got a little farther to go
because I've been sick. My voice is recovering. I'm getting there.
It's fine. But I got called for jury duty and
I was out yesterday so I could go and perform
my civic duty. And I did not get selected. I
was dismissed. But I have served on a jury twice,

(00:45):
and both times I served on that jury, I did it.
I do not ever want to do it again, though,
And there are so many people that are like, oh
my gosh, I would love it.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I love true crime. No, no, no, no, no, no, it is.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is a little different. The first time I served,
it was for a non violent alleged crime, which.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
That was fine.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
The second time it was like federal I didn't get
to go to work for.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Two weeks, oh man, and.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I am still haunted, haunted by that case. So I'm like, oh,
like the details of by the details, and I learned
things I never wanted to learn that week. So I
yesterday was like sitting there so nervously. Not because I
was like, oh, I hope I don't get Jerry duty
because it throws my whole life out of schedule, which
is a valid thing or whatever. Absolutely, but I was like,

(01:35):
oh gosh, if they select me, please let this be
a traffic crime, please be a anything other than like
a criminal trial. But so I ended up getting dismissed,
and then I had the best day ever afterwards, excellent
because it was still like middle of the day. My
kid was at school. Yes, I was in the big
town a gastel, and so I went around and I

(01:58):
went and got me like a lot unch. I went
to TJ Max and I perused like the different body
washes and got a.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Purse charm and then I just had a whole day
of it.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I was like, Okay, excellent, I could do this
more often.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
That's way better than murder and mayhem.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
But now today I'm still like Wow, it's been a
long week.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm ready to sleep in tomorrow. Yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Libra's celebrity birthdays are powered by Mark spain, a real
estate and today starting to so off strong celebrating is
Zoe Perry, who is forty two.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
And if you don't immediately go Zoe Perry.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's the mom on Young Sheldon, and I love that.
TJ just last year learned the fact that that is actually, Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
My gosh, Lori uh Metcalf.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, LORI Metcalf's daughter in real life. That's why she's
able to do such a good impersonation of.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Her, because it's so great, Because how good of an
impression do you do of your mom? Because I think
I do a pretty good impression of my mom.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I actually think I do a terrible one of my mom.
But I'm not an actor. Very fair, but this is
her being Young Sheldon's mom.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I couldn't find any girl baseball trophy, so on made
you one.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is her head so big, it's a Barbie hip I
had to improvise, and.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Those well, I actually liked Young Sheldon better than the
Big Bang theory.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I didn't watch the last episode though.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'm really guilty of doing that with certain shows when
I know they're ending, I'm like, I'll.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Just save the last four episodes for a rainy day.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
That would drive me crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
The other person who celebrated today is Serena Williams.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
She is forty four, and she gives solid life.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Advice always be authentic and just always be yourself and yeah,
just always also be kind to yourself.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
And one more thing, be humble.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Be humble, yeah all right, which like she has every
reason not to be humble.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh yeah, you know, way, Like, no, I'm going to
be humble.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I did a thing one time and they asked me,
like what my advice was, and I didn't I'd never
been asked that question, and so I was like, uh.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Be likable, and I got roasted.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I got roasted for giving that answer, and I was like, uh,
I don't know, nobody's ever asked me for advice before
because they're usually doing better than me.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I don't know. The Christina Emilian is forty four. Linda
Hamilton is sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
She's Sarah Connor in the Terminator and then sadly she's
no longer with us. Olivia Newton John she had me
singing into the back.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of a hair brush.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I loved Grease growing up, but I want to roller
skate and listen to some Xanadu, which I have no
idea why I've seen that movie, but I have and
it was transfixing.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
And then finally, today's National Holidays. It's a big one.
Are you ready for this?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's National Pancake dumpling and Shimmy Choga Day.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh wow. I love all those things. I mean, can
we roll them all into one?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean, at Shimmy Changa but like put a pancake
around the outside, Okay, okay, with we.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Could kind of make it a dumpling by say does
that work?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, Chimmy Changa in a dumpling or adjacent at least. Yeah,
they're in the same category.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
All I know is when you take some type of
a carb and you stuff it with deliciousness and you
seal it off. You can fry it, you can bake it,
you can steam it. I am here for it.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Toty Mixed Matt Harris Lesluda Matt is out today and
so with Newsnuts today, We're just gonna make it as
weird as possible because that's me. I'm weird, and it
is one of my favorite weeks of the year. It
is Fat Bear Week. I don't get into very many brackets.
I'm not sportsy, but when I discovered Fat Bear Week,

(05:55):
I thought this is the one for me. So if
you're not familiar, it started into twenty fourteen and like
raises money for a national park and preserve in Alaska.
And they basically have all these different bears that compete
in a bracket to be declared the fat Bear at
the end of the competition. And the best part is

(06:16):
each one of the bears they put them up with
a picture and an infographic and it looks like a
dating profile. So go ahead, TJ, let's get this going.
So if you'd like to participate in Fat Bear Week,
this week, we've got number six Ozho two known as Flotato.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
This is his first Fat Bear Week, but he is
a favorite because he enjoys laying in streams and looking
like a flat bear.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Potato Solid number one.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Twenty eight We have Grazer, a champion from twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty four, so reigning champion. Other bears
know not to mess with her because she is one
tough lady. She's not scared to go out there and
show everything that she's got. We've also got Bear six
oh six. This one has not been given a nickname yet,

(07:05):
but they say she's big for her age and has
grizzled beauty with round ears. She was very slow to
leave her family, but is now out on her own.
She is one of the youngest contenders and also a
favorite because she is a former Junior Fat Bear champion.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Oh this is so she.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Did, she did, She earned her title in her youth
and here she is as an adult. We've also got
number thirty two, Chunk. Chunk's pretty famous because last year
we actually had to delay Fat Bear Week by an
entire week because Chunk got in a fight with one
of the other fat bears, and we'll just say Chunk
is the only one left standing as a result. He

(07:47):
does have a large scar across his face did break
his jaw, but that.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Doesn't stop him from fishing.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
He's found ways to work around it because he's resourceful.
Oh and then don't forget, we've got eight fifty six.
That's a five foot, patient, dominant, intelligent brown bear. This
one is a new favorite coming into the ranks this year.
We've got nine oh nine, who's a medium brown coat
built for fishing, and yeah she's got a shoulder hump,

(08:15):
but it really helps her leverage your body in the water.
And I just want to say, if you ever randomly
get bored, if you get on Instagram, they have a Facebook,
or just google it. They have all these profiles for
these different bears, and there is a live feed where
you can go and watch where they believe each of
them will be so you can check.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Them out in their surroundings.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
And as someone who loves reality television and used to
be really big into Big Brother, it feels like the
live feeds OK, and much like Big Brother, I just
come in for the highlight reel. Now I wait to
see what other people clip and say. Is like, this
is the good stuff to watch. So I'm going to
go ahead and call it right now. I'm gonna say
that it is going to be Grazier Bear number one,

(08:59):
twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
She's a tough lady like that on ri Makes, Matt Harris,
Liz Luda.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
It is lunacy and it is just the stuff I
find on the Internet because I spend so much time
scrolling and perusing social media. And one of my guilty
pleasures is I love to watch people open Advent calendars
on TikTok. And I know you're like, oh, but that
Ruin's a surprise. It's only September, Liz. All these places

(09:25):
are starting to release what their Advent calendars are, right,
And I know I am never going to spend the
money that some people are on these Advent.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Calendars because some really pricey ones.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, And so it's like the surprise of watching them
open it, and it makes me almost understand better why
my kid liked the Ryan unboxing videos on YouTube when
he was a kid. I'm like, oh, that's the grown
up version of this. For this it is what makeup
sample are you gonna get on Day thirteen?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But there's one that's going super.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Viral and it's at Costco and it's a Lint Advint
calendar and it is five feet tall. Whoa, And it's
for twenty four days and each day you get a
full size Lint chocolate. Okay, all right now, I did
at Chocolate, yeah, because last year, I this is how
deep into this I am. I remember watching the videos

(10:17):
of people in England opening this thing.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Last year, and I don't believe we had it.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
In America, so people were like, I'm so jealous, and
I remember just being like.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's a lot of candy.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, And it was like the different ones where one
might be shaped like a bell, or the different shaped lints.
Usually I associate them with the bunny at Easter and
the gold wrapping or whatever. But so people are starting
to go crazy for it because they saw this lady
who's since gone viral, and apparently it's supposed to be
nationwide distributed by next week. And I think price varies

(10:48):
from like area to area, but it's like one hundred
and eighty dollars, oh, which wow, yet again, I'm not
spending one hundred and eighty dollars on an AdVac glary.
I one time spent fifty dollars on one, and like
the entire time, I was like, girl, you shouldn't have
treated yourself like that.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
You shouldn't have done it.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Those little tiny, hairy potter figures, it's not worth it.
What are you gonna do with them afterwards?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, that was like the nicest Adwin calendar because usually
I just get the little chocolate one at Aldi for
like a dollar nineteen or whatever, and so I was like,
I treated myself one year, and then there was another
year with my kiddo where I went and I bought
him books. And it's when the dollar Tree was still
a dollar for everything, and so I bought him twenty
four books, and every night we like opened up a

(11:32):
different Elmo Sesame Street and we read them. But my
guiltiest pleasure is watching people open them. So if you
like to watch on boxing videos or surprises, know that
the admin calendars are already making their ways around all.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Of the social media, and that if you.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Go to Costco, if you take a picture with this
giant thing, please tag me because there's a video of
this lady carrying it out of the store and I
don't know if she's short, but dang, it looks like
she about a fall over.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'd be so worried about buying it this early because
it would melt here like it was ninety degrees two
days ago.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Like, come on, you.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Gotta worry about climate control, you know what I mean.
You can't put that in the garage and wait it
out all.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
It's got to just.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Rest upright in an air conditioned room until it's time
to go. You gotta have it in the kitchen or
like there's so many things, and then I my dogs
have never tried to pursue chocolate, but I feel like
that would be the thing where they'd be like, what
is this right?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
And so it would make me very nervous. But if
you get it, please please.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Tag me as you open Actually, you know what, any
advent calendar you get, film yourself opening it, please tag
me and know that I will enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
In the morning.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's a morning mixed with Matt Harris and Liz Ludo.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
I wish I could tell you that I can give
you an inspirational quote and tell you how amazing my
life is to inspire you to go out and do
great things. But I'm a giant mess. I Sam, Yeah,
I am.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm a mess.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
And so instead of leaning into all the positives and
you know, like when you're scrolling through Instagram and it's
like the only thing stopping you is you just do
the thing. Man, that's not me. It is failure Friday.
I've had a week where I feel like every time
I've tried to do something, I've just absolutely failed at it.
There was a thing where I was supposed to send

(13:23):
my kid with money to school, and I discovered that
I've actually been emptying his piggy bank and forgetting to
refill it with the funds I've taken. Oh there was
another day that was like a themed day because they're
doing a fundraiser right now. Completely forgot about it, and
he came home and asked me, and I said, oh, yeah,
they did send a reminder. These are mostly parenting fails,

(13:45):
but I go farther than that. I drove over a
sidewalk curb yesterday because I'm terrible at parking a car
and I thought that tight space right there, I could
do this. And I want you to know it was
in front of an audience because it was one of
those restaurants where people sit outside.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh of course.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
And it was beautiful. Yes, not at like the evening time.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
This was lunchtime, all right, because I know the storms
came later. But more than anything, the way I'm failing
is my kid was at the bus stop the other
day and when he got back in the car, like
after I picked him up from the bus stop, he said, Mommy,
why does everyone else have decorations and we don't, And
all of my neighbors that participate in Halloween decorps. They've

(14:25):
got those giant spiderwebs that come.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Off the side of the house.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
If you've ever wondered who goes to a home depot
or Low's to buy the big skeletons, it's my neighbors.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
And usually I've got some pumpkins, you know, a little
some to show off.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
And they start.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
You start decorating way early, usually like in.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
The summer of August. It's like when my stuff is
up and ready to go. I don't know if it's
because I've been sick. I don't know, if it's because
I've been busy. I don't know. I do not know.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I have not gotten anything out. I haven't even found
the box yet.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh no. And it's gone even further than that.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I have like these tubs, like the rubber made tots
or whatever, right right that not only have the d corps,
but that's also where my Halloween wear is. Oh yeah,
I have a couple like ghosty and pumpkin sweaters and cardigans,
and this is the only time of year I can
really wear them, right, right, And it seems like on

(15:19):
well maybe not on trend, because it's never on trend. No, idea, No,
no idea where they are. But it's just because I
haven't started looking. Yeah, there's too many things.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yeah that's uh, you're behind.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
You need to get it up.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
So you're also having a failure Friday seven oh four, five,
seven oh one oh seven nine.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
What's your's tj uh?

Speaker 4 (15:38):
So I definitely spent six hours in the emergency room
yesterday thinking I was gonna die. But it turns out
me turning thirty nine was just too much and I
over exerted myself earlier this week and the chest pains
were just from like lifting something heavy.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Apparently, yeah, no, apparently once you get over third when
they say lift with your legs, they're really talking to
our crowd. You gotta learn that young so that when
you get older you can handle it.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
See.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
I thought this wouldn't happen until after forty, but no,
I'm very yeah, I am getting a head start.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
I guess obviously, best case scenario. I'm glad it wasn't
anything more but the embarrassment of saying I owe how
much money for you to tell me right?

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, and they're like, uh uh yeah, you just have
a boo boo.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, well you should probably take it easy, old man,
So what is your failure?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Friday?

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Seven oh four five, seven, one oh seven nine, It's
the Morning Mix.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Thanks for starting your day with the Morning Miss.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's the Morning Mixed with Matt Harris and.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Liz and now here's your latest pop Update.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Hop's powered by Mark Spain Real Estate And oh my gosh,
I did not know this was taking place last night.
I wish I would have watched it. I'm going to
go and watch it and stream it today. But they
had a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with like
celebrities and they had an episode last night where Kate
Flannery and Oscar Nunez aka Oscar and Meredith. They were

(17:03):
on the season finale of it, and not only did
they win the million dollars, but when they had to
use their phone a friend lifeline, they called Brian, who
is Kevin Malone from the Office the accountant, which I
I'm sure in real life he's very very smart, but
just going off of his office character, he is probably
the last person in the office I would have called

(17:25):
for assistant.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
I don't know I would pick Kevin over Creed.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
I think you know what, you never know what you're
gonna get with Creed though he's half there sometimes.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, And so I thought that was really cool that
not only are they all still friends, but that they
got together played raise some money for charity, and that
they listed Kevin as the phone of lifetime.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
I didn't see the full thing, but I did watch
a little clip of it, and it is pretty great.
They they are really hamming it up for it. Yeah,
and this is what you want.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, And even though I already know how it's gonna end,
I'm still gonna go watch it, because, like, who doesn't
need more office content. I've already finished the paper. I've
watched that twice now twice.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, I know. I really need to get a social
life and some friends. And then this is cool.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Lincoln Park has a Lullaby album that's dropping today. Now, TJ,
you're the resident metal fan. Yeah, sure, so you might remember.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Lincoln Park from such favorites as.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Shut Up when I'm talking to You or also I
don't know any of these.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, so, like, obviously they're not like the most hardcore
of the rock bands. But this is definitely a change,
and I suddenly feel peaceful on the inside. It's just
very tranquil.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Hold on I need to lay down for a minute.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
I think this should be my meditation soundtrack here. Who
needs a nature? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Break it down for those babies. Break it down. I
tried to when my kid, he's eight now, when he
was a.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Baby, I tried to do the Beatles.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Lullabyes for him. Yeah. I don't know if it actually
did anything.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
For my niece when she was born, I bought them
the records of Snoop Dogg Lullabyes and Wu Tang Clan.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
But I love this.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I love that there's so many different things now in
the genre, you know what I mean. We've come so
far from Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star. We have come so far.
And then I don't know there's any Charlotte Charlotte's Web
that's coming out. It's gonna be on HBO Max on
October second.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
It's got some big names.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
It's got Amy Adams as Charlotte, Elijah Wood as Wilber
the Pig.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, I don't think we needed it, though, No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I don't know that cartoon was dated. When I was
a kid, it was dated, and it's a great story,
so I can see. I feel like this is one
of the few exceptions where we may need this. Yeah,
because that car just like immediately looks so old to me.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I guess you know, I'm gonna be honest.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
I don't think I've ever gotten through Charlotte's Web without crying,
and something about feeling sympathy for a spider. It just
feels wrong in my soul the way that it sits.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I can't. I can't live that life.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Heny makes Matt Harris, Liz Luda, producer TJ And what
is something you did or said only one time but
no one will let you live it down? Seven o
four five seven, one oh seven nine. I found out
that Guy Fieri from Flavortown Food Network, right, has only
worn a flame bowling shirt. That flame shirt he's famous

(20:39):
for one time, No one time.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
I feel every time I picture him flame shirt, yes,
the glasses, the frosted tips that are spiked up, yes,
but always that flame shirt, always in.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
The flame shirt. And so it turns out it was
a promotional picture. He got handed the shirt at the
last minute for one of his restaurants to go on
like a flyer talking about like some new barbecue thing
they were doing. Yeah, and everybody loved the picture so
much that promotionally. It has followed him ever since, and
so he shared this on like a podcast and he
was talking about it. He has no tattoos of flames

(21:15):
on his body, okay. And the thing is, you can
even go online and buy a guy fiery like halloween
costume and flame shirt. Flame shirt, right, flame shirt. That's
the first thing that comes to mind every time. So
it was just a one day, split second decision where
he's like, oh, okay, y, I'll wear that shirt because.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
You brought it right.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
And now he will forever, forever be known as the
man that wore flames, even though.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
He just did it the one time.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
But he does. He does stick with the bowling shirt.
He takes the same style, but it's not the flame shirt.
But yeah, every time I picture him, it is the
flame shirt. That's so weird.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
And so like I went, I was like, there's no way,
there's no way he's lying, right, Like why would he
lie about himself? So I went and googled it and
it's like the same picture just super imposed on different
background and you're like, oh, that's that's okay.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
That's the thing that's either really good or really bad marketing.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I think it's marketing. Honestly, it's worked for him, I mean,
his flavor. So I was trying to think of something
that I have that I've never lived down. And it's
not as epic as a flame shirt. But I walked
into a glass door one time, and nobody ever wanted
to let me live that down. And it's because I
don't know. I mean, I guess I saw it. It was

(22:28):
like a like a boardroom or whatever in a building
i'd never been into, and so I could see everyone
sitting at the table, and I also was like carrying
stuff in my hands, and I just didn't realize there
was glass man, And so everyone's looking at me because
I was running late, because of course I was, and
I just go thud, like a bird flying into a window,
and I just fell over. And so after that, everyone's

(22:50):
always like, oh, Liz, do we have to put a.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Smudge on the glass? Oh Liz, there's glass.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Here, even if it's not like a door or like
it'd be like walking into business where it's blatantly a door.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
And people are like, oh, be careful, watch step. Don't
want to smack into that.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
All right, So me and my friends went out for
a night of enjoying adult beverages and end up at
my where my sister was hanging out and they had
made a bunch of cupcakes, okay, and so you know
that we're eating cupcakes because that's what you're hungry after
a night out. And my friend goes to collect the

(23:32):
trash and I hand him the foil you know, cupcake things,
and he's like, where's the other one?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
And I'm like, what other one?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
And I had eaten the paper thing on the cupcake.
And now every time there's a cupcake involved, hey, make
sure you don't eat that paper because yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
That one's hard. That's hard.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
And you know what, some of them, some of them
they're pretty sneaky because like when you put them in there,
they're like the paper ones and they're green or pinker.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
And they kind of like form to the cupcake.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
You know. Yeah, and you're like, oh, yeah, that's fine. Yeah,
but in hindsight danger at least it wasn't like foil though, right.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I was like, no, I gave you the rapper like already,
and they're like, no, there's two.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh there was I. Oh you know what you do?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
You just have to emotionally tell yourself they forgot to
put the.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Wrapper on the day.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, yeah, that you just have not been able to
live down. It only happened once, but everybody just seems
to recall it, especially at holidays, and they just.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Mock you for it in the morning. Next, Maden, Liz,
what is.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Something you did once that your family does not let
you live down? I just found out that guy Fieri
only has worn a flaming shirt once. It was one
promotional picture, and he said, now it lives in perpetuity
and it gets used for everything.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Seven o four five seven, one oh seven nine. What
happened with you.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
So it was in the morning. Was that in the
middle of the night and I was walking down, I
was going downstairs to get snack, and my foot completely
missed the step and I fell all the way down
the stairs. Oh and now whenever I'm on the stairs,
my family's always like, we need to watch out, make
sure it I'll fall upstairs this time.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh, don't rush too quick for that snack.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Now, we don't need you getting injured. The snack will
still be there. Oh. What's your name, Matthew? Matthew, where
are you calling from?

Speaker 5 (25:26):
I'm black Dolf.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Oh hey, okay, We'll be very careful on the stairs today,
and just know that those calories are still waiting for you,
so just take it slow. Marie makes about Harris les
Luda producer TJ mats out today. When is the last
time you had to treat yourself moment? Seven o four
five seven one oh seven nine. I had to treat
yourself yesterday. Yes, So I got called for jury duty.

(25:51):
I was dismissed, which is beautiful and amazing. But then
I had the whole day in front of me, and
I was like, oh, I can like go and do
things right, because.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Like the work day would have whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
If you're my boss listening, don't worry about it. But
I had like the whole day in front of me.
I was already out in the big city at Gastonia,
and so I went around and so I wound up
at TJ Max because that's like the most treat yourself
moment or whatever.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
And I found one of those purse polls, like a
zipper pole that you would put.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
On your purse or your backpack, and I don't have
any of those. And it's a Wiener dog and it
looks like my dog Lucy, and it's got like a
little tennis ball thing and it's giant and oversized and
all the things.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
And I looked at it and I was like, do
you need that? Yes? You do, Yes, you absolutely do.
So Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
The entire time I was like standing in line to
check out, I was like the little Parks and Reck thing,
They're like fan of.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
The goods, treat you'll sale my.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yaws like playing on a loop in my head, and
I was like, that's right. This was a I want it,
I don't need it.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Purchased, which I feel like, you know, I don't. I
don't have that many of those. You know, I'm on
a budget. You know, I'm one of those people that
like got a family to support. Yeah, and my kid,
I swear every two weeks he's in a different size.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
So like all of that treats yourself money is going
to try to find him pants that fit that are
not too long but fit in his waist and our covert.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, that's where it's all going, right.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, And so I was like.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
You know what, I'm gonna do this for me And
I got home and I was so excited. It's on
my backpack this morning.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
But it was a real treat yourself moment, that thing
is meant for you, that was made specifically for you.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I think it looks like my Wiener dog, right. And
then what was your last treat yourself?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
My last one was based on a birthday gift and
I bought some collector disc off discs. Oh yeah, so
thank you, Liz.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
So I'm gonna be very honest.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
I didn't know that there were like differences in the
discs because the one that I have I got for
free from a bank at a promotional event.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
See that's probably just a frisbee, not a disc off disc.
They're different different.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, I'm not trying to sut like I didn't.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Know they're different.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
They're differently waited, they're differently shaped, like the edges will
be more beveled, and like, oh I have more of
a grip on it.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, well look at that.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Not only did you treat yourself, but you educated me
on the difference between a disk and a frisbee. Yes,
morning makes Matt Harris, Liz Luda, we have your chance
to win tickets to the Carolina Renaissance Festival. It opens
October fourth, and wolver on weekends through November twenty.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Three, seven O four five seven one oh seven nine.
Who is this?

Speaker 4 (28:27):
We've got Morelli calling from Gastonia.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Ooh, hello Morelli from Gastonia.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
I know you are not going to disappoint, so the
tickets are yours, but I would like to hear your.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Best British accent.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't know if people in the Renaissance era spoken
a British accent, but it just it feels right, It
feels right.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah, Hey, let's see.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Hello, how is today? I don't know if that was.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
I mean, that was a Gastonia. That counts about. How
about you tell me how much you enjoy the giant
Turkey leg.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
I will enjoy everything from the area.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Giant hurt you leg, but they're good.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yes, you know you're the first person I've ever met
with a worst British accent than my own. So congratulations
on that alone, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
You're our winner. Yay, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I'm gonna put you on hold and I'm gonna come
back and get some more of your info. Okay, morning
makes Matt Harris, Liz Luda producer TJ Matts out today.
But what is that one vacation spot? You just keep
going back to seven O four five, seven oh one
oh seven nine. So they were talking about it, Kelly
Rippa and her husband, they have their little show or whatever,

(29:40):
and they were talking about how in America people seem
to be stuck in routine and were like creatures a
habit and the people just keep returning back to the
same vacation spots over and over again. And at first
I was like, no, I do not, absolutely not. And
then a little word called Myrtle Beach popped up in
the back of my head and I really, oh, yeah, no,

(30:01):
that would probably be my go to And it's just
like I've been there, I know what to expect, right,
it just seems easy. I know I'm gonna have a
great time. And even when I didn't live because I
grew up here in Stanley County, and at one point
when I was living in Memphis, I remember driving back
here to drive to Myrtle Beach with my family. Like

(30:22):
I've taken vacations across country to go to Myrtle Beach
once a ride in here in Charlotte, and so like
it's that. It's just it just keeps calling me in
and I don't know what it is. I don't know
if it's the fact that I can put a half
eaten baloney sandwich down my bathing suit top and pull
it back out for snacking on later without looks of judgment.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Right, yeah, very welcome there.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
It's also just the beautiful water, you know, right Yeah.
So do you have a spot that you just repeat
over and over?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
I do like to mix it up as much as
I can. I don't like to go to the same
place every time. But if I've only got a short
amount of time, I'm going to Charleston every time.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh I love it.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
There's a great music scene, there's a great food scene.
There's the beach, there's the city. They got everything down there.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
I am intimidated by Charleston and Hilton Head. Really why
because I always feel like and always, I mean the
couple of times I've gone, everybody feels.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
So fancy, Oh hilde bit, what do I do?

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Like? I have the hardest time, Like if you're in
Hilton Head. I remember one time I was driving and
I couldn't find the Walmart.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
And it's because the signage.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Was so beautiful to fit with the surroundings, yes, And
I was like, I don't know, these might not this
might not be my place. I don't know what's happening
over here, so I always feel super intimidated.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
So maybe that's also part of it. With Myrtle beaches,
I'm just like, I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna meet
people that are gonna be chill. We're just gonna check out.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, So I think there's lots of good places.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I mean, we're lucky because you know, we live here
in Charlotte. A drive to the beach or to the mountains.
Ashville's another one that I repeat over. A huge, huge
fan of the mountains, especially because I went to school
at Western Carolina University. Oh yeah, so I'm going to college.
You listen, give it like another week. Let those leaves
start to change. Perfect, and I'm going to be that

(32:14):
person driving entirely too slow on the back road. I'm
gonna be pulling the car over if I see a
crunchy pine cone to go run and step on it.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, but that's me.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I do love a good Hendersonville trip. You know again,
it's just right there. It's you know, an hour and
a half or whatever. It's just like, yeah, we'll muse
you around this little downtown every time.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
When you say you're going to Hendersonville. I'm like, you're
gonna stop at the dishbarn. And you're like, what's the dishbarn.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm like, dish sir, You're not gonna stop at the dishbarn.
There is an apple stand right next door. So where
is somewhere that you just keep frequenting for vacation? Morny
makes mountain, Liz, where is a vacation spot? You just
keep going back to you because you're a creature of habit.
Seven oh four, five, seven oh one oh seven nine
the Max, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Who's this?

Speaker 6 (33:00):
Ay? This is Courtney.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Courtney, where are you going?

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Well, we only went for the first time this year,
but now we've gone back to more time and that
would be to Cherokee.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh so much fun.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Well, my husband's from a tropical island and the Caribbean,
and so the beaches here don't impress him to the lake.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
I mean, has he been to Myrtle though, No, he don't. Mom,
you can't tell me. You can't see your toes when
you walk out. There nothing tropical about Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
Come ons up in Cherokee are nice and clear, and
so he equates that to being clean, so he prefers
to just drive three hours to the mountains of Cherokee.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah, that's a great choice.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I love that. Do you go casino? Like, what do
you do when you go?

Speaker 6 (33:51):
No, because we got little kids, so we can't do
the casino yet. But we just stay in the hotel
right off the river.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
So I to live a very different life than I
live now. I'm very sedentary at this point. But I
went to college at Western Carolina University, which is just
down the road from Cherokee, and then Nanahala is there,
and we used to go kayaking, and I love that
river and it would be so much fun. So I
can understand wanting to go back over and over again.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Yes, it is beautiful and serene.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Up there, mornemakes Matt Liz, producer TJ. And do you
want to talk like the youths? Because I know I
sure to so, Miriam Webster Dictionary. They added more than
five thousand terms or words to the dictionary, Okay, And
I don't know if that's where the young kids are
getting their words these days, but I'd like.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
To try for it. Yeah, right, hold.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
On, Sorry, that was a very classy moment. That's how
you know this is a live radio Yes, but so anyways,
they added a whole bunch of different words, and apparently
this is the first time they've updated it in twenty
two years.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Wow, that's so a little ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, so they had a lot to work with. So
that's why there are so many of them. But the
first one is beast mode, Okay, all right, And that's
an aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone adopts
temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.
I've only ever used the term beast mode when it
comes to me and a play to nachos, and so
I didn't realize it was a competition. So I've been

(35:21):
going beast mode against some tortilla chips and.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
They didn't know.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
You never stood a chance.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
To dad Bod.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
And the official definition a physique regarded as typical of
an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and
not extremely muscular. Yes, it's one of those things though,
as these things get added to the dictionary, because I
remember as a kid, like you'd have to like go
through the dictionary and you'd look things up, and it
always felt very formal and something about beast mode.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
And dad bod.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Not as not as fancy dumb phone, which I don't
think I've used.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
That term in a long, long time, long time.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
So that's just a cell phone that doesn't have the
Internet on it or do anything fancy. Form to table
I feel like we're kind of starting to get out
of that being such a trendy thing. But form to
table as the items come from the farm.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Right, yeah, to the table table, which I do.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Love, I guess a hard pass yet again, I feel
like these are ancient, but in twenty two years.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
You gotta update, like vernacular turn. Yeah, change is way
faster than every twenty years.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Like I know that there's probably been budget cuts to
the dictionary, all right, the children aren't out there buying
as many as they used to, all Right, I get it,
But we need somebody at least yearly updating this thing.
I don't know if that the source is still getting updated,
but we need to have the words there. They also
included love language Okay, Riz I think is probably the

(36:53):
youngest sounding one I saw in there, which riz is
like charisma, And that's one of those words that when
my kid uses it, he's eight, he's like always so
like appalled that I know what it means, and I'm like,
all you did is abbreviate the word buddy. Of course
I'm going to know Krisma, but I pretend that he's
like totally on trend. You know, of course side eye,

(37:14):
which we've been given those for years, but apparently now
now it's.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
An official thing.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
But one word I didn't know is taraflop, and that
is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of
a computer equal to one trillion floating point operations per second.
So a flop sounds negative or like a floppy disc.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I don't understand that one that I I You know,
I don't think I've had enough memory.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
I don't think I have a traflop on my cloud.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
If I do my bad traflop, you deserve the respect.
It's the Morning Mix. Thanks for starting your day with
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Speaker 2 (37:51):
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Speaker 3 (37:54):
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Speaker 1 (38:04):
I just like to use fancy voices when we talk
about acting in the theater acting.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
And obviously I'm talking about the highest level of acting.
Because this weekend, Gabby's Dollhouse the movie comes out, and
out of everything I saw, that's the one I'm most
excited for because it's an animated adventure and it's following Gabby.
She's been on Netflix, right, She's got to save her
dollhouse from an eccentric cat lady who is Kristen wigg Oh.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
So I'm down with this. Yeah, my niece is gonna
love that.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, because kids love it.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
And honestly, I man my kid.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
If I can get him.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
To sit in a movie theater, that's just relaxation time
for me, because I like to go to the North
Lake one.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, and they have heated seats.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
There's nothing in my life I want more than a
heated seat. Well, I don't have to do anything, you
know what I mean? And he stays put Ah, that's
the best parenting. Also, The Fantastic Four First Steps, Marvel's
only theatrical release this year, is going to be available
to or rent, so if you're a fan of that,
that's there. And then sticking with the Marvel, Marvel Zombies

(39:07):
is coming to Disney Plus and this one is a
little bizarre.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Have you seen this?

Speaker 4 (39:12):
I saw an advertise, like just a picture advertisement.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
So it's an animated series, but it's Marvel's first TV mature.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Mini series interesting TV m So.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Like, obviously for me, I've got like the filter things
I'm not I have not seen a single ad or
anything for this. And so when I was Google and
I was like, what is this? And apparently the world
is in ruin, the Avengers are gone, and the most
trusted heroes are zombies. Wow, So I don't know. I

(39:45):
don't know how that's gonna go. I mean, an ma a,
I don't know that. I I don't even watch anything
rated R though, because I'm always like, is this going.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
To be too graphic for me?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Walks in Yeah, yeah, do I have a trusted adult
to watch with me to make sure that the themes
aren't anything that's gonna give me nightmares? And then on
Netflix Karate Kid Legends and this is the sixth movie
in the franchise.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Oh okay, it's a sixth movie.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Wow, that's not including the Cobra Kai all of that.
And I love reading descriptions of movies, and I don't
know if AI writes them.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Or if there's.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Somebody very dramatic in a dark room with a typewriter,
because that's what I imagine. Jackie Chan and Ralph Maccio
share the screen to help a teen in the mean
streets of Manhattan.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Okay, I don't know, I'm on burden. The mean streets.
Isn't that like the nicer port it is? Probably? Yeah,
the mean streets in Manhattan.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
It was written by somebody who grew up in the
seventies in New York.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah, And then I gotta share. The biggest thing that
I'm going to be watching this weekend is Sister Wives
season twenty. It's the premiere, Oh all right, September twenty eighth,
So it's Sunday at ten pm. It'll be on TLC
and HBO Max. And yet again, the dramatics of the
way things are written. The Browns are back and more
emotionally as Cody continues to struggle with the aftermath of

(41:04):
his fractured family. And you know, I know if you
follow I love reality TV. If you follow any of them,
half of them live here in North Carolina. Now they're
out towards like the Fayetteville area. Because I follow all
of them on social media. It's some crazy yeah farm
or something. There's a flower farm, yeah, But that hasn't
even come up on the show yet because we're still

(41:25):
dealing in the past or whatever. But I I just
I've already committed so much time. Twenty seasons is a
lot of my life. That's a lot, So I can't
stop now. I have to just keep watching. Should I
Probably not?

Speaker 1 (41:40):
No, I don't. I don't think. I mean even the Simpsons.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
You know, once we hit twenty seasons and there's probably
time to call it quits, but we kept going, yes,
And I feel like that's where I am with Sister Wives.
It's probably time to bring it to an end, but
I can't stop.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
It's the Morning Mix in the morning.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
It's the Morning Mix with Matt Harrison, Liz Ludo. Nine.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
If you were a ghost and you came back and
you could haunt anywhere, where would it be? Seven oh
four five seven oh one oh seven nine. My husband
and I like to play this hypothetical game where we
just think of weird questions we ask each other just
to see what our answers would be. And I know
you and Matt are always teasing me because you're like,
what do you guys talk about so often? You guys
are always on the phone. Blah blah blah blah blah.

(42:24):
It's because we're just making up weird scenarios to see
how the other would react. Okay, And so my husband
has been consistent in his answers for years, and that
is that he would come back and would somehow be
in charge of the butterflies or be a butterfly himself
and flap in my face incessantly. Oh wow, because I'm
terrified of butter is Okay, Yeah, and he thinks it's hilarious.

(42:47):
So I would a little less mean with my answer
because it's changed over the years. But I think I
would want to go to a theater where they have
like the touring shows of the Broadway musicals. Okay, so
that way you have the whole season where it like
changes out, so you don't get stuck watching the same
thing over and over again.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
I feel like there's usually some type.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Of a rumor that there's ghosts that's living there anyway,
that's like dropping things and causing all sorts of chaos. Okay,
sometimes there's other shows that come into town in between.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I just feel like it'd be great.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
That's places to sit. Yes, you you don't need to.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
Sit when you're a ghost.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Come on, I feel like I'd still be wanting it.
I do love sitting. I feel like that will never change.
So if you could come back and haunt somewhere, where
are you gonna go?

Speaker 4 (43:36):
I think my first option right now is going to
be the disc off course, and I would just mess
with people, okay, like they would get weird shots that
they would never make, and they would also miss shots
that they should be making, you know what I mean,
like just because it would be pure entertainment for me. Yeah,
all my friends are just getting the best scores of
their lives.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
So be one of those things where.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
You're like, Oh, it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Oh the wind, Where did that happened?

Speaker 4 (44:02):
That took a complete ninety degree turn?

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Why did gravity just kick in? That thing went straight down?

Speaker 4 (44:07):
How did this go right back at me? The disc
flew right back at me.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
I feel like we all have some weird choices of
where we would pick.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
So seven o four five seven one oh seven nine.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
If you could haunt anywhere for eternity as a ghost.
Where would it be we have, Matthew, where are you choosing?

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Maybe like a mall or something.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
They are pretty deserted in the contad sometimes true if
you go after hours, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
You have unlimited and basically anything you need as.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
A go though.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
I don't know how enjoyable it would be to look
at the closed down food court.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
I'm not gonna.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm not throwing any shade because I did get I
don't know, I had to go and like register my
car there. But the Gastonia Mall, I'm pretty sure that
one was already haunted.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Yeah, I don't go to that one.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
With Matt Harris and Liz Luda.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
It's foody Friday, and it's because there are a few
things in this life I'm as passionate about as food,
and I can go from being in love with something to.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Hating it very quickly. I mean, this.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Pendulum swings very quickly from one side to the next,
and I'm appalled. There is a chicken nugget that's coming
to Sam's Club, and it's a Thanksgiving chicken nugget, which
you know, surface level, you think, oh, what's the guy
in there is it got like cranberry sauce.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Does that have the flavors?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
No? No, no, it is just chicken shaped to look
like turkeys. And it's the same reason I don't eat
Dino nuggies or the nuggets that are shaped like the
aquatic creatures. I don't want my chicken to be in
the shape of another animal.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
It can be a blob that you.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Can't tell what the animal is, that's fine, but don't
make my chicken a turkey.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
That's such a weird rule.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
I know, I know, considering how few rules I have
for things that I will eat, I know.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
This does make me wonder why aren't there turkey nuggets.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
That's where my brain went next, and I completely forgot
about this. But in seventh and maybe eighth grade. I
grew up in Stanley County, and listen, I want to
give a shout out to all the cafeteria workers. Yes,
you're out there working your hardest. You are making sure
that we have nutritious lunch every day. But there was
a period where they tried out turkey nuggets, and as

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somebody who ate hot cafeteria lunch every day, I remember
there were days where I was like, oh, it can't
taste any different than a chicken nugget. And it was
the shape of a chicken nugget blob, but it was
made out of turkey. And it was terrible, really, And
I can't speak to all of them what maybe wrong.
Maybe they're not also bad, but those ones specifically, I

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think they scarred me. And maybe that was a repressed
memory that should have stayed repressed.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, because it was like.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Almost like a tempora breaded chicken nugget, but turkey.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Yeah, turkey on the inside.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
No gravy for dipping, just ketchup and something about ketchup
and turch It.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Just doesn't match. No, you're right about that, it doesn't match.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
But if you're the person that enjoys the fun shaped
Tyson chicken nuggets, So no dinosaurs, No, I don't need those. Oh,
come on, because it's not a dinosaur. Well, I mean
you could argue the chicken.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
And the day. That's a whole thing that will and whatever.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
The other thing though I saw about food, This one
i'm excited for is they've put out a list of
the different holiday candies that are coming. Okay, and we
have some new candy we haven't had before. Peppermin stick
kit Cats.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Huh, I'm into that. That's probably decent.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I'm one hundred percent into this. It looks amazing, it
sounds fabulous. Twix Snowmen, I didn't know we never had them,
the other shapes.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Right, Snickers in the whole nine. Yeah, yeah, they're.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Bringing back the Kit Cat Santa, so we knew that. Okay,
they're bringing back the Snickers trees, but we've never had
a Twix Snowman until this year.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
And then Hershey Kisses.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Their new flavor for the holiday season this year is
going to be snicker Doodle Cookie, which you've never had.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Yeah, I'm interested in that too.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I'm very intrigued. I'm very intrigued. I like when they
put things inside the Hirshey kisses.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Yes, me too.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Something about it just feels like it shouldn't be happening, right,
but I support.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
It feels so right and so wrong at the same time.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
And then I was surprised.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
I didn't know that we'd never had this, but we
are getting Lifesavers gummy holiday shapes, and so it's the
gummy life Savers, which like those things slapped hardcore like
oh yeah. Two thousand and three, two thousand and four.
But they're gonna be shaped like little holiday.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Things, okay.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
And then these are returning items that I did not
encounter last year, and I'm gonna go out of my
way as soon as they hit the shelves. Twizzlers merry
Berry punch, so it's a flavor. But they also put
them in Twizzler trees, which are tiny little Twizzler bites
shaped like trees.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Okay, that may turn I may that flavor sounds good.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
I may try that.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
I like the idea of a tiny little Twizzler because
they have little Twizzler bites. But honestly, all it really
feels like to me is somebody took a set of
scissors and just cut it right. But something about it
being shaped like a tree. Yeah that I know. My
rules don't make sense. My my food can be shaped
like holiday items or Santa, yeah, but they cannot do
not make my chicken a turkey?

Speaker 4 (49:09):
What if chicken nuggets were shaped like a Christmas tree?

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Somehow? That's okay?

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Oh what?

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Okay? Don't try to find the logic, TJ. It doesn't exist.
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