December 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Big moves feel different when they start at home. We kick off a new year with a sharper show identity, a brand-new intro courtesy of DJ Slink, and a title switch that finally sounds like us: Do We Love That? The premise is simple and bold—make the choice, own it, and keep moving—because that’s how our real conversations go.
We share how family feedback pushed us to level up, from tightening our cold open to launching a five-minute hot-seat that forces fast decisions. You’ll hear us speed through the calls everyone argues about: are Christmas movies a win or a skip, Coke or Pepsi loyalty, when to take down the tree, and whether winter means warming the car or just driving cold. We even get into snow day hacks like wipers up vs. down and why Jersey habits die hard. It’s playful, opinionated, and designed to invite your voice into the mix.
Upgrades are part of the story too. New microphones are in the studio pipeline to improve sound quality for guests and rapid segments, and we talk honestly about the tradeoffs of expanding to YouTube while protecting the cozy morning recording vibe that keeps us real. Nostalgia threads through everything—Friends-style episode nods, Everybody Loves Raymond memories, and a quick detour into holiday updates, family travel, and the board games currently on our table, from Horrified to Yellowstone.
If you’ve been with us since the “Hope” era, this is the evolution you asked for: clearer titles, tighter pacing, and more ways to jump in. If you’re new here, welcome to a show that blends humor, honesty, and everyday choices with a warm, 90s-infused heart. Hit play, then tell us your picks: Coke or Pepsi? Wipers up or down? And what should we decide on next?
Enjoy the ride, share this episode with a friend who needs a laugh, and tap follow so you never miss our next Do We Love That sprint. Your hot take could be the spark for our next segment.
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Heather (00:25):
So we've got some changes going, and there's a lot
of changes, so let's just startwith them all.
First.
Okay.
What did you think of thatintro?
Zia (00:34):
Well, don't we love it?
And we definitely want to thankDJ Slank Yeah.
Crazy Me.
Crazy Me had a crazy idea.
And um I sent an email to himuh just with some crazy little
uh notations about our podcast.
(00:55):
Yep.
And he did love one sentiment Iput in there uh specifically.
Uh he found very funny becauseI said, you know, we're 50,
we're doing a podcast, and youknow, we're old, but we're not
dead.
So he said that was just sofunny.
Um in his own words, but hesaid it was funny, and uh he
(01:16):
said, yes, please go ahead anduse it.
So we just want to shout out tohim for just thank you for
letting us use this.
Um it has been in my car formonths, almost like a year now.
Yes, we've been listening.
Many, many months, uh, and it'sjust yeah, and um I agree a lot
of his songs should be used fordifferent things too.
Heather (01:38):
Like his football anthem, that's where I know
that's where I knew him firstfrom was his football anthem.
Zia (01:43):
Yeah, and I feel like you know, there's a lot of football
teams out there agreeing on thatone.
Yeah.
So let's get a move on that.
Come on.
Um, you know, let's we're youknow, we're in the mood of you
know, a new year, so let'schange some things around as we
are.
Heather (01:59):
We are making lots and lots of changes this week.
Absolutely.
Well, between this week andnext week.
So basically it's gonna be anew year, a brand new podcast.
By the time January comes,we'll have in theory all of our
changes um updated.
Um, and a lot of them come fromfamily support.
Um, as you all know, mydaughter was here last week with
(02:21):
us, Eliza.
Yeah, and your son was actuallyhanging out in the background.
Absolutely.
Um, and uh after we were done,they started both of us
independently, had conversationswith our kids and ideas.
Zia (02:37):
Yeah.
Heather (02:38):
Um, and and they were giving us ideas on things to
change on our podcast.
For example, we've beensticking with the hope is with
our titles.
Absolutely, but I think we'regonna change it to do we love
that?
Zia (02:50):
Right.
Heather (02:51):
Or do we love or something along that line.
We're not sure.
We're still working on that.
That's a work in progress yet.
Zia (02:57):
Yeah, uh we just hoped everybody loved us, so that's
why we started with that.
Heather (03:01):
That is where it came from.
We hope that's why it was theepisode one.
A lot of hope.
A lot of hope was uh uh a newhope because we were making a
new hope, and then and then wejust stuck with that because I
mean it was kind of funny.
It was and we we did a couple.
(03:21):
Now, not so much, right?
It's it's getting old, and aswe were told by our children,
that we needed to change it.
We needed to change, needchange.
Change it is so we're gonna douh do we love or do we love that
or something along that line.
Not quite sure yet.
We're working on that.
Zia (03:36):
Yeah, but we do have a lot of family support in our little
podcast, and we appreciate thatbecause we love the feedback,
and they're people we actuallywill listen to.
Heather (03:47):
Yes, as a matter of fact, almost all of our children
between us have asked to be onthe podcast.
Zia (03:54):
Absolutely.
Heather (03:55):
So and I don't know if I told you this.
Um, I'm not sure if you saw it,but on our Instagram, one of
our direct messages was from aco-worker of both of ours.
This person works in thedistrict, and they asked if they
could be a guest star.
See that?
Zia (04:10):
I did see that.
Heather (04:12):
Yeah, I wasn't sure if you saw that, and I responded.
I'm I'm sure you saw theresponse.
I was like, sure, we'll work itout.
Yeah.
Um, this person is great.
She's been working, uh, sheworked with me in transportation
when I was over there.
And then, of course, when Iwent into the school, I saw her
as one of the bus drivers.
But I think that's amazing thatshe wants to be on it with us.
Right.
Um so um another one of our goahead.
Zia (04:39):
We have little uh little sneak ins like that too.
So it's just good that peopleare reaching out or that they're
excited and yeah, lookingforward to it.
Heather (04:48):
And if anybody wants to give us suggestions or ideas,
direct message us.
We don't um we have an email.
Um, it is do we love that foryou at gmail.
Um but on our socials, all ofthose have direct messages, so
you can reach us that way aswell.
Send suggestions, send ideas,send topics.
I mean, if we like it, we'lltalk about it.
(05:08):
If we don't, I mean that's justthe jersey.
Zia (05:11):
Yeah, that's just the jersey.
We just might not love that.
Heather (05:14):
We don't want maybe we'll even say we got this
suggestion and I don't want totalk about it because I don't
love that for you.
Zia (05:20):
That's right.
We don't love that for you.
Yep, not even a little bit.
I mean, if you want ouropinion, if we love it for you
or not, we're here for you.
Heather (05:29):
We will happily give that.
Apparently, that is what weused to do too much.
Absolutely.
I mean, I still do it, but I Iknow we won't stop.
Zia (05:39):
Not even a little bit, but um, I think they inject they
have I think they have a shotlike that when you're born in
Jersey.
I think they just honesty shotand it just goes and then can't
stop.
Heather (05:52):
Like when I was growing up, my grandpa used to say um
we would stand in line and hewould be like, You forgot you
got out of line before they sentthe brains.
He used to say that all thetime.
Like, if we would do somethingstupid, he'd be like, Did you
get out of line before thebrains were handed out?
Zia (06:09):
Oh no, oh no, and my grandfather would just stare at
me.
It was just the stare, and I'dbe like, I got it, I got it, I
know, I know.
Yep, we're done.
All came back, all came back.
Heather (06:21):
But some of the other changes is I don't know, one of
our favorite shows, um, morelow-key on your side than my
side.
I'm more open about it, is ofcourse friends.
So, well, with the hope, wewere doing the hope titles like
the friends, you know, the onewith.
So we want to continue to keepit going that way.
Yeah.
Um, like a do we love that ordo we love and and keep the
(06:45):
friends theme because you know,friends is a 90s thing, and
yeah, we were both old teenagersand young adults then, and
yeah, and it it's watching thatfun stuff.
Yep.
Yeah, they don't have TV likethat anymore.
Zia (07:00):
No, they don't.
We were just watching theRaymond uh Everybody Loves
Raymond reunion.
Yes.
Love it.
I actually cried a few timesbecause it brought back a lot of
memories of Michael being awayand not being with me watching
it at first.
Yeah overseas, and then youknow, he come home and he's
like, What are you watching?
Heather (07:19):
And he'd be like, It's a great show, just to enjoy it.
Zia (07:22):
And then he would love it, you know.
It's just it's those littlememories that quick and you
know.
Heather (07:28):
Yeah.
So Rich is was never into thefriends world.
He was he was a little older,he was having his first round of
children during that.
So he he didn't really get intothe friends world, but when we
started dating a million yearsago, he he watched it.
So he he has the ideas of them.
(07:49):
He yeah, doesn't get the jokesthe way we do, but right.
Zia (07:53):
Yep.
And I watched it, but it wasn'tlike it was just something to
watch for me.
Um I didn't really pick up on alot of people that I connected
with in it or liked.
Yeah, um, I just really justwatched it as oh, this is a good
show, you know.
Heather (08:08):
You're you're more you're more of a combo character
in reality.
You're a little bit of ofalmost everybody in there.
Zia (08:14):
Yeah.
Heather (08:15):
Where I've where I'm focused more on one or two
characters, in my opinion,you're like three or four
characters at them.
Zia (08:22):
Right.
Right.
Heather (08:22):
So I get that.
Zia (08:24):
Yep.
Yep.
I needed the like everybodyloves Raymond, or you know, I
used to went Chicago Hope.
Heather (08:31):
Yes, ER.
Zia (08:33):
Yeah, well, I wasn't ER, that's why I went to Chicago
Hopes.
You went to Chicago Hopes,yeah.
Heather (08:37):
So which is funny because the hospitals were, I
mean, in the way they implied,the hospitals should have been
like right next door to eachother.
Zia (08:43):
Yeah, and Mark Hamill was in that, and so was Manny
Petankin, and I loved MannyPetankin.
Heather (08:49):
So our youngest, Angela, she never saw House.
Oh my god.
So we just went through thewhole series with her of House.
Zia (09:02):
Alex would love to do that.
That's his favorite show.
Heather (09:05):
I I you know, I forgot how much I enjoyed it.
And um watching it with her, Iwas like, yes, you know, there
were parts of it that I didn'tlike, of course, but that's with
every series, but absolutelyyeah.
So um I love it.
Another thing we got, um, youbought got for us are new mics.
(09:27):
Yes, yes, we are not using thembecause we could not figure it
out in time, yeah.
But yeah, we just didn't wantto try and how you got them.
Zia (09:37):
Okay, so I we just didn't want that echo.
We were trying a little bitbefore we started, but we were
just worried about an echo.
But um I I was like, you knowwhat?
I see all these uh people withthese beautiful little mics, and
I got a little jelly.
So I was like, I think we needthis in our life.
I love this for us.
Heather (09:57):
I love this for us, yes.
Zia (09:58):
Yeah, I love this for us.
I think we need to do this.
So as soon as we get them upand running, we will there's
another change we'll be using.
That we'll be using our mics.
Heather (10:07):
And the nice thing about the mics is that there's
we each have two, so when wehave guest speakers, if we're
with the guest speaker, we canum just hand that over.
There you go.
Zia (10:18):
Yep.
Heather (10:18):
I lost my sentence there.
Zia (10:20):
I got you.
Heather (10:21):
I know that's why we work.
Yep.
Zia (10:24):
Um so yeah, it's you know, so I got you know, they they
always have those little fluffypom-poms in front of them when
they talk.
Heather (10:31):
And I I'm missing my fluffy pom-pom.
I know it.
I need our youngest to get thaton.
Zia (10:37):
If I if I was there, I'd get the fluffy pom-pom on for
you.
Heather (10:41):
You would help me.
My fingers don't work that way.
Zia (10:43):
No, no, but yeah.
We know that.
Heather (10:45):
We know you know my fingers don't work that way.
Zia (10:47):
Yeah, yep.
So, yeah, so we decide.
I was like, we need these inour life.
Heather (10:53):
We did.
Zia (10:54):
Yep.
Yep.
Heather (10:56):
So that's another change.
That's not even on our notesfor the changes that we were
doing that.
Zia (11:02):
That was another change, yep.
So we're doing that.
Oh goodness, I'm just moving upand atom.
Heather (11:06):
I'm gonna add that because you know, it'll be it'll
be reminiscent when we lookback.
Zia (11:12):
That's right, that's right.
And you know, just uh littlelittle bit of jealousy, you
know, get you get you motivated.
Heather (11:22):
Well, if you want that, then you know, our our
handy-dandy producer here sayswe could make this into a
YouTube and just make the videoof us, we could put it up on
YouTube.
Yeah, then I wouldn't be ableto sit here in my jammies.
Zia (11:35):
I know, me too.
Heather (11:36):
I know, I know we are recording this.
We said we were gonna record itFriday night, but life being
life, we decided to do it Fridaymorning.
Zia (11:44):
And yeah, so no drinking in the morning.
Heather (11:47):
Exactly.
We yeah, we were promisingthat.
I do have the case.
Zia (11:50):
I do have the coke.
I do have the coke.
Heather (11:52):
You are drinking coke, yeah.
Um, and as you saw, we put ateaser up on our uh story today.
I did a story instead of apost.
I put a story.
Um, but yeah, we didn't do aFriday night recording, we're
doing it Friday morning becausehonestly, I'm I'm a morning
person.
I'd rather get up and getgoing.
Zia (12:10):
Me too.
And you know, the house isquiet, and I like to do it then
too.
Yep.
Heather (12:15):
Yeah, it's easier for us in the morning.
Zia (12:18):
Absolutely.
But we're excited about all ourlittle changes.
Heather (12:21):
I know, me too.
We have another met we haveanother big change that we're
gonna start incorporating intothe podcast.
Zia (12:28):
Go ahead and tell us about it.
Oh, well, we have our uhfive-minute uh like little
five-minute do we love it.
Heather (12:37):
Hot takes.
Eliza called it hot takes.
Zia (12:40):
Hot takes, yes.
Heather (12:41):
Hot takes, but we are not gonna do hot takes.
Zia (12:43):
We're gonna do do we love that?
Do we love that?
Heather (12:47):
Or, you know, this or that kind of thing, you know.
When I worked in the schoolwith you, I must have been asked
that.
Would you rather I know oh mygoodness, but now it's gonna be
fun because it'll be adult moreoriented, as opposed to would
you rather uh let me see, whatwas my favorite?
Six or a seven?
Zia (13:08):
No, just joking.
Heather (13:09):
Oh Lord.
We talked about that last week.
We're done.
Zia (13:12):
Yep, we're done.
Heather (13:13):
No more six sevens.
Zia (13:14):
Yep.
Heather (13:15):
No, I think one of the ones the one of the kids asked
me, it was the it was ourwonderful hugger boy that I that
I love and miss so much.
Yes.
He asked me one time, would Irather fly to the moon in a
rocket ship or with wings that Icould strap on?
Wow.
(13:37):
And I I said, Does he want thereal answer or the fun answer?
And he was confused, but hethought about it a moment, and
he said he wanted the realanswer.
And I said, Well, it would haveto be a rocket ship because if
I strapped wings on, I wouldprobably die halfway there.
Zia (13:53):
Right.
Heather (13:55):
He didn't know how to take that, so he just gave me a
hug and we moved on.
Zia (14:02):
They don't think about the oxygen and the food and they
don't think about it.
Heather (14:07):
That was, I think that was my favorite one.
Would I rather fly to the moonin a rocket ship or with
strap-on wings?
Zia (14:13):
Yeah.
I love that for him.
I never got those.
I always get the kids that comeup to me and would say, I have
a riddle for you.
Heather (14:21):
Well, that's because you do your Friday morning
jokes.
Zia (14:24):
I'm like, dear God.
Heather (14:25):
Your Friday funnies.
Zia (14:27):
Yeah.
Heather (14:27):
You do your Friday funnies, that's why.
Zia (14:29):
Yeah, and sometimes I sit there and I'm like, I don't even
think this is a riddle.
Like, I'm trying to figure itout.
And I'm like, I I'm veryanxious to hear the answer to
this.
And then you gotta give me one.
Heather (14:40):
You gotta give me one.
Zia (14:41):
Oh, I don't even think I remember them because I just
don't want to remember them.
There's like a glimpse of likewhat?
Yeah, I don't like sometimesthey just come up to me and be
like very random, and they'll belike, There's a lady in a park,
and she says hello to you.
What do you say back?
And I'm like, uh uh hello?
Heather (15:04):
How you doing?
Zia (15:05):
Yeah, and they're just like or not, and then they walk
away, and I'm like, I don't knowif I got it right or wrong.
Heather (15:13):
They don't even give you the right answer.
Zia (15:15):
No, they just go, okay.
And I'm like, hmm.
And sometimes like my otherco-workers would be standing
there, and I just look and I go,I I don't know.
Did what did I say?
Did you get it?
Like, did they say it to you?
No, just you.
I'm like, okay, I don't know.
Yep.
Heather (15:31):
Well, that just shows how loved you are.
Zia (15:33):
Oh, yes.
For my for my just my answers,right?
Heather (15:37):
Again, just your answer.
I mean, come on.
Zia (15:39):
Yeah.
But it they called them riddles,though.
They're like, this is a riddle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Heather (15:47):
All right.
So back to our five minutes.
Yes, go ahead.
Zia (15:49):
Yes.
Heather (15:50):
So according to Eliza, we're not supposed to give
answers.
Like, we're just supposed togive the answer.
Love it, hate it, or you know,A or B or whatever the answers
are.
So we were gonna do the five,we were just gonna do five in
general.
Yeah.
But then we talked about it andwe decided that that's not
gonna work for us because we'regonna end up describing stuff
(16:10):
and talking.
Zia (16:11):
So should we try it?
Let's try it.
Heather (16:15):
All right, so this starts our official section of I
love it.
Five minutes.
Do we love that?
Do we love it?
All right, Christmas movies.
Love or hate.
Zia (16:31):
Love hate.
Sorry.
Heather (16:35):
Me too.
I like the ones that I like theones that have like a real
meaning and not just like a yay,it's Christmas.
Zia (16:42):
I'm like Christmas movie specific.
Heather (16:46):
Me too.
Oh, yeah.
And to give my daughter her uhapproval, she did deem Die Hard
is a Christmas movie.
We watched it yesterday.
Zia (16:56):
Yes, Eliza.
Yes, Eliza.
Thank you very much.
Heather (16:59):
Shout out to Eliza.
We fixed the problem.
She saw Die Hard.
I did not realize she had neverseen Die Hard.
So she we fixed it.
Rich and Angela were like,wait, you never saw it?
And that was what we watchedyesterday.
Zia (17:13):
Love it.
So thank you very much.
Perfect.
All right.
Perfect.
Heather (17:16):
So we'll let you take the second.
Do we love that?
Zia (17:19):
Um, actually, I don't think I don't have that open.
No, I don't have it open.
I'm so sorry.
That's okay.
It's Coke or Pepsi.
Oh god, I'll take that one,Coke or Pepsi.
Um, as you can probably see inthe photo that Heather showed,
I'm definitely a die hard cokefan.
Heather (17:39):
I I am now a die hard coke fan.
I used to be a Pepsi fan, butaround like the mid-2000s, they
changed the recipe somehow.
And I of Pepsi?
Yeah.
Oh.
I don't know what they did, butit was probably like 10 or so
years ago, 12 years ago,somewhere around there, they
(18:01):
changed something about thePepsi, and I just I don't like
it anymore.
So I am now a coker.
I am a poker person.
Um, but I prefer Coke Zero.
Zia (18:11):
Oh, yes, but I do you do.
Heather (18:13):
I I prefer the Coke Zero.
I have some health issues,yeah.
So I don't know.
But our our health issuesactually do not complement each
other.
Zia (18:24):
No, they do not.
They really don't.
They don't.
Heather (18:27):
We let we make them, but they really don't complement
each other.
And maybe one day down the roadwe'll get into some of our
health issues.
Zia (18:34):
Yes.
And we could help a few peoplewith the right.
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Heather (18:38):
We could probably we could probably give some advice
on some of that and since wecover such an array.
I mean, it's not like I justhave, you know, right eye
problems.
I have the list, you know.
You guys can't see, but I'msitting here counting off on my
fingers.
Zia (18:51):
Yeah, like we have more specialist doctors than well, we
have probably we we havespecialist doctors than we yeah
for every part of my body,right?
For every part of our body.
Heather (19:06):
So it's doctor the doctor, me too.
So if I ever need a doctor, Ijust type in DR and then all of
them pull up and I find whichone I want.
Zia (19:16):
Yeah, I do it that way.
Yeah, it's just easier.
Yep.
So yeah, we'll have to gothrough that one day.
So yeah.
Heather (19:22):
Yeah, one day we'll add that to a future, a future one.
Um, so do you have it pulled upor do you want me to keep
going?
Zia (19:29):
No, go keep going.
I don't I just couldn't findit.
Yep.
Heather (19:31):
All right, don't worry about it.
Yeah, it's the new one we'vemade, so don't worry about it.
So, tree down December, or doyou wait till January?
Zia (19:39):
Uh I'd take it down today, but um, we had to cancel
Christmas at our house.
Heather (19:45):
Yeah.
Zia (19:45):
So um I have to get on that in a few minutes.
Yeah, uh I have to leave it upthis year until I see my other
little peoples.
And um, usually it's downbefore my birthday, though,
because I just don't like itbefore my January birthday.
Yeah.
Heather (20:00):
No, that's a must.
That's a must.
You're correct.
Um, I always take my tree down.
When I was growing up, wealways took it down on New
Year's Day.
Zia (20:09):
Okay.
Heather (20:10):
Um, but then when I had Eliza, I decided to leave it up
through her going back toschool, which is typically,
which is typically, you know,cut a day or two after.
So it would always be thatweekend.
Yeah.
So it it falls on Epiphany ifyou're religious, but it's not
Epiphany.
I'm not taking it down onEpiphany for Epiphany.
I'm taking it down because thatwas the weekend.
(20:31):
Um but generally generally I doI do early January.
Early, early January.
Zia (20:37):
Okay.
Not bad.
Heather (20:38):
No, no, it's okay.
We we we're good with that.
Um all right, so the next oneis a two-parter.
It's do you warm up your car inthe winter or do you just get
in it and drive and let it warmup while you're moving?
Zia (20:52):
Um I normally just get in the car and drive because mine's
in the garage.
Heather (20:57):
Okay.
I'm on I don't have a garage,so I let mine warm up.
I have a remote start for minetoo.
Zia (21:02):
Yep.
Heather (21:03):
So I'll go out and just, you know, click, click,
and start it and let it warm up.
Zia (21:07):
Actually, I don't have a remote start on my car.
Yeah, but Alex Alex made melaugh actually.
Funny story about the startingup the car and getting the car
in the garage.
Um, my car went in the shoplast week, and I had to take his
car to school to work.
And um I said, Alex, move yourcar in the garage.
(21:28):
And he was like, Oh my god,it's like Air Force One.
Wherever the president goes,that car gets this royal
treatment.
And I went hysterical.
Heather (21:37):
I was like, I love that.
Zia (21:39):
That's pretty good.
He's like, Oh my god, I lovethat for you.
My my car is Air Force Oneright now.
This is amazing, he goes.
Heather (21:46):
I love that for you.
Zia (21:47):
Yep.
Heather (21:48):
So I put out a declaration here that because I
moved to New Hampshire, um,we're not in our permanent home.
We're we're renting a placeright now.
But um, when we get ourpermanent home, I either A have
the garage or B getting acarport.
Yes, yes.
Because I I uh that was one ofmy one of my declarations when
(22:08):
we moved.
So with the winter talking ofthe car, do you put your wipers
up if when you're at work?
Because obviously you're in agarage.
Absolutely.
Do you put your wipers up ifthere's a storm coming, or do
you leave them down if there's astorm coming?
Zia (22:24):
Um I'm put them up.
Jersey has taught me to putthem up.
Um, I just did it last weekbecause we had that ice storm
was supposed to be coming.
And I, you know, I think me andone other person were in the
parking lot with our things up.
You know, they might haveJersey influence or back.
Heather (22:41):
I was gonna say that Lady the person I know who has
the Jersey influence that havethem up.
Yep.
Zia (22:47):
Yep, and um and it could be an 80s thing because a lot of
us used to do that in the 80sbecause we didn't want to
because the wipers were crapback then.
Heather (22:55):
Yep.
So I go both ways.
I go both ways.
Zia (23:00):
Ooh.
I love that.
Love that for you, Heather.
Heather (23:06):
I don't know if that was proper or not.
Anyway, I think that's why wehave the E next to our name on
the podcast.
Because we have we have verypoor self-control sometimes.
Zia (23:17):
Well, sometimes we think like 12-year-old boys, you know.
Heather (23:20):
12-year-old boys, yeah.
Right.
Um, no, so I I do I do it bothways.
If I'm out and about or if I'mat work, I will definitely put
them up because um Oh, yeah.
Because, you know, if or if I'mat work, I should say, I'll put
them up because when I whenit's the end of the day, I want
to go home.
I don't want to sit there andtry to clear my cough.
Absolutely.
But here, but here in thedriveway, I've been leaving them
(23:42):
down because we have um we areone of our neighbors is we hired
him to come and remove the snowfor us for every snowstorm.
And um when we hear him coming,because we our driveway is so
long, I just start my car, andby the time he's at where we
are, my windshield is clear andI can move them.
Um so I don't I don't reallyput them up in the driveway.
(24:05):
Yeah, but if I'm at work or ifI'm if it's actively snowing and
I'm running into, you know, thegrocery store where I know I'm
gonna be 20 or 30 minutes, I'llthrow them up so that I don't
have to worry about themfreezing.
Um so I do I do kind of do itboth.
Um yeah, so that's funny.
Zia (24:24):
Yeah, that's that is funny.
Heather (24:26):
So there you go, Eliza.
That was our hot takes.
Yeah, um, but in our ourversion of hot takes, because
absolutely that's the way we doit.
Yeah, and we have 30 secondsleft before the timer goes off
because we're trying to keepthese at 30 minutes.
Yeah, so quick Christmasupdates.
Yeah.
Wanna hook yours up?
Sure, I was sick.
Zia (24:47):
Um, like I said, we had to cancel Christmas Eve.
Um but the kids were supposedto come.
I got totally sick.
I had high fever, um, so bad Iwas in bed for like my ring that
I have, it says I was sleepingfor 24 hours, and I I I Michael
said, I don't think you've donethat in like over 10 years.
Stayed in bed for 24 hours.
Heather (25:09):
So sometimes you have to.
Zia (25:10):
Yeah, so we had to cancel um Alex Alex had to cook the
food so it didn't go bad.
Um, he just did like a quick hecooked all the food that was
left for me to cook, and uhthank God he can cook very good.
Um so tough him well.
Yep, so he he did that and umkind of saved the food and um
(25:32):
yeah, but uh sick, you um weactually had a phenomenal day.
Heather (25:37):
Um Eliza came home or came here, she took a quick mini
vacation with her collegebestie.
Yeah, um who list who is anadvid listener, by the way.
Shout out to Gandhi!
Zia (25:48):
Thank you, thank you.
Heather (25:49):
Um so uh they get back on Christmas Eve from and uh I
picked Eliza up at the airportand she stayed here Christmas
Eve, woke up Christmas morning,so we did a split Christmas, so
we did Christmas dinner onChristmas Eve, okay, and then we
did Christmas morning,Christmas morning, and then she
left about two o'clock um to goback to New York.
So she's back there now.
(26:09):
Um but we got awesome stuff, wedid everything.
We're coming to New York thisweekend, but it's only for the
day to see my parents and Rich'soldest daughter, yeah, and um,
or our oldest, I shouldn't sayRich's.
Yeah, right.
She's mine.
She's mine.
Yeah.
She may not be mine, but she'smine.
Yeah.
Um, we're gonna see them and myparents, and then we're gonna
(26:31):
be done, and then we'll talkabout it again.
But I am coming out to new newuh New York, so we'll be able to
you and I can see each other.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, so it was a greatChristmas.
Zia (26:42):
So um I mean Margie and uh Leon uh stopped by and um they
you know we gave we Alex was thego-between.
He gave presents to them andthey gave our presents to us.
Um, but yeah, that that was allwe saw.
And then uh Zach did a FaceTimewith us.
Oh, nice.
Heather (27:01):
So you got to see the babies.
Zia (27:03):
Uh no, they were sleeping.
Um, okay.
Yeah, Zach dropped the stuffoff.
Um, you know, uh the babies getvery excited, you know, when
they say, you know, you know howthey get it in their head, they
want to do things, and then itdidn't happen.
So just like to calm everythingdown, he just dropped the stuff
off, and then we talked to himand Michaela, so yeah.
Heather (27:23):
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
There's still very little, sothey don't understand.
Zia (27:27):
It's like, you know, tell them one thing and it just keeps
you know in their head.
Go, go, go.
Heather (27:32):
They're baby babies, so that makes sense.
Zia (27:34):
So we're gonna reschedule and do our own little we have
the games.
We have to do the games.
Heather (27:39):
I love that for you.
Yes, you got a game forChristmas.
Yeah, you got a you got a newgame.
Zia (27:44):
Yes, I got a new game from my friend Heather and Rich.
Yeah.
Heather (27:49):
And I claim I claim with my whoop whoops today.
Zia (27:51):
I claim the Jersey Devil, and she just told me I can't
claim any of them.
Heather (27:56):
You totally flattened that dream of yours.
Oh my god.
So the game is calledHorrified, and it's it's a great
game, but you have to rescuethis town from cryptids.
Yep.
And there's three cryptids whorun around the town, and why
three of them would be together,I'm not quite sure, but it's
one of our favorite games here,but um, but you you can't be
(28:17):
that cryptid.
You have to you have tovanquish the cryptid.
Zia (28:21):
Yep.
Heather (28:22):
So unfortunately, you're gonna have to vanquish
the Jersey Devil.
Zia (28:25):
I know.
I'm so upset.
I'm so upset.
Yeah, but there's like there'slike ten cryptids in there, so I
mean and and Margaret got us uha game yesterday, um,
Yellowstone.
So I'm very excited to playthat.
Yeah, yeah.
It's got like the bunker, it'sgot the farm, it's it's so it
goes this way the board.
It's like yeah, it's horizontalthe board, it's very cool.
Heather (28:46):
We got we got the game um stupid people, which is where
you have to decide if howsomebody died was a Darwin award
or not.
Zia (28:56):
Let me know about that one.
Heather (28:57):
Oh, I I may bring this game when I come back to New
York because it it looks likeit's gonna be a lot of fun.
Yes, but we are now over ourtime.
Yes, one of the advantages ofDJ Slink talking to you and you
and him having your funny emailconversation is he gave us
permission to use the song.
So we are gonna play the songfor you in part of our outro.
(29:20):
It's only a minute and a half,it's fabulous, it is funny.
But we were re-recorded ourintro with the music and the
outro with the music.
Absolutely.
So I guess we say our genericgoodbye and then our official
goodbye will be recorded.
So we will see you all nextweek.
Yes, goodbye.
(29:40):
Bye.
So we've got some changes going, and there's a lot
of changes, so let's just startwith them all.
First.
Okay.
What did you think of thatintro?
Zia (00:34):
Well, don't we love it?
And we definitely want to thankDJ Slank Yeah.
Crazy Me.
Crazy Me had a crazy idea.
And um I sent an email to himuh just with some crazy little
uh notations about our podcast.
(00:55):
Yep.
And he did love one sentiment Iput in there uh specifically.
Uh he found very funny becauseI said, you know, we're 50,
we're doing a podcast, and youknow, we're old, but we're not
dead.
So he said that was just sofunny.
Um in his own words, but hesaid it was funny, and uh he
(01:16):
said, yes, please go ahead anduse it.
So we just want to shout out tohim for just thank you for
letting us use this.
Um it has been in my car formonths, almost like a year now.
Yes, we've been listening.
Many, many months, uh, and it'sjust yeah, and um I agree a lot
of his songs should be used fordifferent things too.
Heather (01:38):
Like his football anthem, that's where I know
that's where I knew him firstfrom was his football anthem.
Zia (01:43):
Yeah, and I feel like you know, there's a lot of football
teams out there agreeing on thatone.
Yeah.
So let's get a move on that.
Come on.
Um, you know, let's we're youknow, we're in the mood of you
know, a new year, so let'schange some things around as we
are.
Heather (01:59):
We are making lots and lots of changes this week.
Absolutely.
Well, between this week andnext week.
So basically it's gonna be anew year, a brand new podcast.
By the time January comes,we'll have in theory all of our
changes um updated.
Um, and a lot of them come fromfamily support.
Um, as you all know, mydaughter was here last week with
(02:21):
us, Eliza.
Yeah, and your son was actuallyhanging out in the background.
Absolutely.
Um, and uh after we were done,they started both of us
independently, had conversationswith our kids and ideas.
Zia (02:37):
Yeah.
Heather (02:38):
Um, and and they were giving us ideas on things to
change on our podcast.
For example, we've beensticking with the hope is with
our titles.
Absolutely, but I think we'regonna change it to do we love
that?
Zia (02:50):
Right.
Heather (02:51):
Or do we love or something along that line.
We're not sure.
We're still working on that.
That's a work in progress yet.
Zia (02:57):
Yeah, uh we just hoped everybody loved us, so that's
why we started with that.
Heather (03:01):
That is where it came from.
We hope that's why it was theepisode one.
A lot of hope.
A lot of hope was uh uh a newhope because we were making a
new hope, and then and then wejust stuck with that because I
mean it was kind of funny.
It was and we we did a couple.
(03:21):
Now, not so much, right?
It's it's getting old, and aswe were told by our children,
that we needed to change it.
We needed to change, needchange.
Change it is so we're gonna douh do we love or do we love that
or something along that line.
Not quite sure yet.
We're working on that.
Zia (03:36):
Yeah, but we do have a lot of family support in our little
podcast, and we appreciate thatbecause we love the feedback,
and they're people we actuallywill listen to.
Heather (03:47):
Yes, as a matter of fact, almost all of our children
between us have asked to be onthe podcast.
Zia (03:54):
Absolutely.
Heather (03:55):
So and I don't know if I told you this.
Um, I'm not sure if you saw it,but on our Instagram, one of
our direct messages was from aco-worker of both of ours.
This person works in thedistrict, and they asked if they
could be a guest star.
See that?
Zia (04:10):
I did see that.
Heather (04:12):
Yeah, I wasn't sure if you saw that, and I responded.
I'm I'm sure you saw theresponse.
I was like, sure, we'll work itout.
Yeah.
Um, this person is great.
She's been working, uh, sheworked with me in transportation
when I was over there.
And then, of course, when Iwent into the school, I saw her
as one of the bus drivers.
But I think that's amazing thatshe wants to be on it with us.
Right.
Um so um another one of our goahead.
Zia (04:39):
We have little uh little sneak ins like that too.
So it's just good that peopleare reaching out or that they're
excited and yeah, lookingforward to it.
Heather (04:48):
And if anybody wants to give us suggestions or ideas,
direct message us.
We don't um we have an email.
Um, it is do we love that foryou at gmail.
Um but on our socials, all ofthose have direct messages, so
you can reach us that way aswell.
Send suggestions, send ideas,send topics.
I mean, if we like it, we'lltalk about it.
(05:08):
If we don't, I mean that's justthe jersey.
Zia (05:11):
Yeah, that's just the jersey.
We just might not love that.
Heather (05:14):
We don't want maybe we'll even say we got this
suggestion and I don't want totalk about it because I don't
love that for you.
Zia (05:20):
That's right.
We don't love that for you.
Yep, not even a little bit.
I mean, if you want ouropinion, if we love it for you
or not, we're here for you.
Heather (05:29):
We will happily give that.
Apparently, that is what weused to do too much.
Absolutely.
I mean, I still do it, but I Iknow we won't stop.
Zia (05:39):
Not even a little bit, but um, I think they inject they
have I think they have a shotlike that when you're born in
Jersey.
I think they just honesty shotand it just goes and then can't
stop.
Heather (05:52):
Like when I was growing up, my grandpa used to say um
we would stand in line and hewould be like, You forgot you
got out of line before they sentthe brains.
He used to say that all thetime.
Like, if we would do somethingstupid, he'd be like, Did you
get out of line before thebrains were handed out?
Zia (06:09):
Oh no, oh no, and my grandfather would just stare at
me.
It was just the stare, and I'dbe like, I got it, I got it, I
know, I know.
Yep, we're done.
All came back, all came back.
Heather (06:21):
But some of the other changes is I don't know, one of
our favorite shows, um, morelow-key on your side than my
side.
I'm more open about it, is ofcourse friends.
So, well, with the hope, wewere doing the hope titles like
the friends, you know, the onewith.
So we want to continue to keepit going that way.
Yeah.
Um, like a do we love that ordo we love and and keep the
(06:45):
friends theme because you know,friends is a 90s thing, and
yeah, we were both old teenagersand young adults then, and
yeah, and it it's watching thatfun stuff.
Yep.
Yeah, they don't have TV likethat anymore.
Zia (07:00):
No, they don't.
We were just watching theRaymond uh Everybody Loves
Raymond reunion.
Yes.
Love it.
I actually cried a few timesbecause it brought back a lot of
memories of Michael being awayand not being with me watching
it at first.
Yeah overseas, and then youknow, he come home and he's
like, What are you watching?
Heather (07:19):
And he'd be like, It's a great show, just to enjoy it.
Zia (07:22):
And then he would love it, you know.
It's just it's those littlememories that quick and you
know.
Heather (07:28):
Yeah.
So Rich is was never into thefriends world.
He was he was a little older,he was having his first round of
children during that.
So he he didn't really get intothe friends world, but when we
started dating a million yearsago, he he watched it.
So he he has the ideas of them.
(07:49):
He yeah, doesn't get the jokesthe way we do, but right.
Zia (07:53):
Yep.
And I watched it, but it wasn'tlike it was just something to
watch for me.
Um I didn't really pick up on alot of people that I connected
with in it or liked.
Yeah, um, I just really justwatched it as oh, this is a good
show, you know.
Heather (08:08):
You're you're more you're more of a combo character
in reality.
You're a little bit of ofalmost everybody in there.
Zia (08:14):
Yeah.
Heather (08:15):
Where I've where I'm focused more on one or two
characters, in my opinion,you're like three or four
characters at them.
Zia (08:22):
Right.
Right.
Heather (08:22):
So I get that.
Zia (08:24):
Yep.
Yep.
I needed the like everybodyloves Raymond, or you know, I
used to went Chicago Hope.
Heather (08:31):
Yes, ER.
Zia (08:33):
Yeah, well, I wasn't ER, that's why I went to Chicago
Hopes.
You went to Chicago Hopes,yeah.
Heather (08:37):
So which is funny because the hospitals were, I
mean, in the way they implied,the hospitals should have been
like right next door to eachother.
Zia (08:43):
Yeah, and Mark Hamill was in that, and so was Manny
Petankin, and I loved MannyPetankin.
Heather (08:49):
So our youngest, Angela, she never saw House.
Oh my god.
So we just went through thewhole series with her of House.
Zia (09:02):
Alex would love to do that.
That's his favorite show.
Heather (09:05):
I I you know, I forgot how much I enjoyed it.
And um watching it with her, Iwas like, yes, you know, there
were parts of it that I didn'tlike, of course, but that's with
every series, but absolutelyyeah.
So um I love it.
Another thing we got, um, youbought got for us are new mics.
(09:27):
Yes, yes, we are not using thembecause we could not figure it
out in time, yeah.
But yeah, we just didn't wantto try and how you got them.
Zia (09:37):
Okay, so I we just didn't want that echo.
We were trying a little bitbefore we started, but we were
just worried about an echo.
But um I I was like, you knowwhat?
I see all these uh people withthese beautiful little mics, and
I got a little jelly.
So I was like, I think we needthis in our life.
I love this for us.
Heather (09:57):
I love this for us, yes.
Zia (09:58):
Yeah, I love this for us.
I think we need to do this.
So as soon as we get them upand running, we will there's
another change we'll be using.
That we'll be using our mics.
Heather (10:07):
And the nice thing about the mics is that there's
we each have two, so when wehave guest speakers, if we're
with the guest speaker, we canum just hand that over.
There you go.
Zia (10:18):
Yep.
Heather (10:18):
I lost my sentence there.
Zia (10:20):
I got you.
Heather (10:21):
I know that's why we work.
Yep.
Zia (10:24):
Um so yeah, it's you know, so I got you know, they they
always have those little fluffypom-poms in front of them when
they talk.
Heather (10:31):
And I I'm missing my fluffy pom-pom.
I know it.
I need our youngest to get thaton.
Zia (10:37):
If I if I was there, I'd get the fluffy pom-pom on for
you.
Heather (10:41):
You would help me.
My fingers don't work that way.
Zia (10:43):
No, no, but yeah.
We know that.
Heather (10:45):
We know you know my fingers don't work that way.
Zia (10:47):
Yeah, yep.
So, yeah, so we decide.
I was like, we need these inour life.
Heather (10:53):
We did.
Zia (10:54):
Yep.
Yep.
Heather (10:56):
So that's another change.
That's not even on our notesfor the changes that we were
doing that.
Zia (11:02):
That was another change, yep.
So we're doing that.
Oh goodness, I'm just moving upand atom.
Heather (11:06):
I'm gonna add that because you know, it'll be it'll
be reminiscent when we lookback.
Zia (11:12):
That's right, that's right.
And you know, just uh littlelittle bit of jealousy, you
know, get you get you motivated.
Heather (11:22):
Well, if you want that, then you know, our our
handy-dandy producer here sayswe could make this into a
YouTube and just make the videoof us, we could put it up on
YouTube.
Yeah, then I wouldn't be ableto sit here in my jammies.
Zia (11:35):
I know, me too.
Heather (11:36):
I know, I know we are recording this.
We said we were gonna record itFriday night, but life being
life, we decided to do it Fridaymorning.
Zia (11:44):
And yeah, so no drinking in the morning.
Heather (11:47):
Exactly.
We yeah, we were promisingthat.
I do have the case.
Zia (11:50):
I do have the coke.
I do have the coke.
Heather (11:52):
You are drinking coke, yeah.
Um, and as you saw, we put ateaser up on our uh story today.
I did a story instead of apost.
I put a story.
Um, but yeah, we didn't do aFriday night recording, we're
doing it Friday morning becausehonestly, I'm I'm a morning
person.
I'd rather get up and getgoing.
Zia (12:10):
Me too.
And you know, the house isquiet, and I like to do it then
too.
Yep.
Heather (12:15):
Yeah, it's easier for us in the morning.
Zia (12:18):
Absolutely.
But we're excited about all ourlittle changes.
Heather (12:21):
I know, me too.
We have another met we haveanother big change that we're
gonna start incorporating intothe podcast.
Zia (12:28):
Go ahead and tell us about it.
Oh, well, we have our uhfive-minute uh like little
five-minute do we love it.
Heather (12:37):
Hot takes.
Eliza called it hot takes.
Zia (12:40):
Hot takes, yes.
Heather (12:41):
Hot takes, but we are not gonna do hot takes.
Zia (12:43):
We're gonna do do we love that?
Do we love that?
Heather (12:47):
Or, you know, this or that kind of thing, you know.
When I worked in the schoolwith you, I must have been asked
that.
Would you rather I know oh mygoodness, but now it's gonna be
fun because it'll be adult moreoriented, as opposed to would
you rather uh let me see, whatwas my favorite?
Six or a seven?
Zia (13:08):
No, just joking.
Heather (13:09):
Oh Lord.
We talked about that last week.
We're done.
Zia (13:12):
Yep, we're done.
Heather (13:13):
No more six sevens.
Zia (13:14):
Yep.
Heather (13:15):
No, I think one of the ones the one of the kids asked
me, it was the it was ourwonderful hugger boy that I that
I love and miss so much.
Yes.
He asked me one time, would Irather fly to the moon in a
rocket ship or with wings that Icould strap on?
Wow.
(13:37):
And I I said, Does he want thereal answer or the fun answer?
And he was confused, but hethought about it a moment, and
he said he wanted the realanswer.
And I said, Well, it would haveto be a rocket ship because if
I strapped wings on, I wouldprobably die halfway there.
Zia (13:53):
Right.
Heather (13:55):
He didn't know how to take that, so he just gave me a
hug and we moved on.
Zia (14:02):
They don't think about the oxygen and the food and they
don't think about it.
Heather (14:07):
That was, I think that was my favorite one.
Would I rather fly to the moonin a rocket ship or with
strap-on wings?
Zia (14:13):
Yeah.
I love that for him.
I never got those.
I always get the kids that comeup to me and would say, I have
a riddle for you.
Heather (14:21):
Well, that's because you do your Friday morning
jokes.
Zia (14:24):
I'm like, dear God.
Heather (14:25):
Your Friday funnies.
Zia (14:27):
Yeah.
Heather (14:27):
You do your Friday funnies, that's why.
Zia (14:29):
Yeah, and sometimes I sit there and I'm like, I don't even
think this is a riddle.
Like, I'm trying to figure itout.
And I'm like, I I'm veryanxious to hear the answer to
this.
And then you gotta give me one.
Heather (14:40):
You gotta give me one.
Zia (14:41):
Oh, I don't even think I remember them because I just
don't want to remember them.
There's like a glimpse of likewhat?
Yeah, I don't like sometimesthey just come up to me and be
like very random, and they'll belike, There's a lady in a park,
and she says hello to you.
What do you say back?
And I'm like, uh uh hello?
Heather (15:04):
How you doing?
Zia (15:05):
Yeah, and they're just like or not, and then they walk
away, and I'm like, I don't knowif I got it right or wrong.
Heather (15:13):
They don't even give you the right answer.
Zia (15:15):
No, they just go, okay.
And I'm like, hmm.
And sometimes like my otherco-workers would be standing
there, and I just look and I go,I I don't know.
Did what did I say?
Did you get it?
Like, did they say it to you?
No, just you.
I'm like, okay, I don't know.
Yep.
Heather (15:31):
Well, that just shows how loved you are.
Zia (15:33):
Oh, yes.
For my for my just my answers,right?
Heather (15:37):
Again, just your answer.
I mean, come on.
Zia (15:39):
Yeah.
But it they called them riddles,though.
They're like, this is a riddle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Heather (15:47):
All right.
So back to our five minutes.
Yes, go ahead.
Zia (15:49):
Yes.
Heather (15:50):
So according to Eliza, we're not supposed to give
answers.
Like, we're just supposed togive the answer.
Love it, hate it, or you know,A or B or whatever the answers
are.
So we were gonna do the five,we were just gonna do five in
general.
Yeah.
But then we talked about it andwe decided that that's not
gonna work for us because we'regonna end up describing stuff
(16:10):
and talking.
Zia (16:11):
So should we try it?
Let's try it.
Heather (16:15):
All right, so this starts our official section of I
love it.
Five minutes.
Do we love that?
Do we love it?
All right, Christmas movies.
Love or hate.
Zia (16:31):
Love hate.
Sorry.
Heather (16:35):
Me too.
I like the ones that I like theones that have like a real
meaning and not just like a yay,it's Christmas.
Zia (16:42):
I'm like Christmas movie specific.
Heather (16:46):
Me too.
Oh, yeah.
And to give my daughter her uhapproval, she did deem Die Hard
is a Christmas movie.
We watched it yesterday.
Zia (16:56):
Yes, Eliza.
Yes, Eliza.
Thank you very much.
Heather (16:59):
Shout out to Eliza.
We fixed the problem.
She saw Die Hard.
I did not realize she had neverseen Die Hard.
So she we fixed it.
Rich and Angela were like,wait, you never saw it?
And that was what we watchedyesterday.
Zia (17:13):
Love it.
So thank you very much.
Perfect.
All right.
Perfect.
Heather (17:16):
So we'll let you take the second.
Do we love that?
Zia (17:19):
Um, actually, I don't think I don't have that open.
No, I don't have it open.
I'm so sorry.
That's okay.
It's Coke or Pepsi.
Oh god, I'll take that one,Coke or Pepsi.
Um, as you can probably see inthe photo that Heather showed,
I'm definitely a die hard cokefan.
Heather (17:39):
I I am now a die hard coke fan.
I used to be a Pepsi fan, butaround like the mid-2000s, they
changed the recipe somehow.
And I of Pepsi?
Yeah.
Oh.
I don't know what they did, butit was probably like 10 or so
years ago, 12 years ago,somewhere around there, they
(18:01):
changed something about thePepsi, and I just I don't like
it anymore.
So I am now a coker.
I am a poker person.
Um, but I prefer Coke Zero.
Zia (18:11):
Oh, yes, but I do you do.
Heather (18:13):
I I prefer the Coke Zero.
I have some health issues,yeah.
So I don't know.
But our our health issuesactually do not complement each
other.
Zia (18:24):
No, they do not.
They really don't.
They don't.
Heather (18:27):
We let we make them, but they really don't complement
each other.
And maybe one day down the roadwe'll get into some of our
health issues.
Zia (18:34):
Yes.
And we could help a few peoplewith the right.
Right, that's what I'm saying.
Heather (18:38):
We could probably we could probably give some advice
on some of that and since wecover such an array.
I mean, it's not like I justhave, you know, right eye
problems.
I have the list, you know.
You guys can't see, but I'msitting here counting off on my
fingers.
Zia (18:51):
Yeah, like we have more specialist doctors than well, we
have probably we we havespecialist doctors than we yeah
for every part of my body,right?
For every part of our body.
Heather (19:06):
So it's doctor the doctor, me too.
So if I ever need a doctor, Ijust type in DR and then all of
them pull up and I find whichone I want.
Zia (19:16):
Yeah, I do it that way.
Yeah, it's just easier.
Yep.
So yeah, we'll have to gothrough that one day.
So yeah.
Heather (19:22):
Yeah, one day we'll add that to a future, a future one.
Um, so do you have it pulled upor do you want me to keep
going?
Zia (19:29):
No, go keep going.
I don't I just couldn't findit.
Yep.
Heather (19:31):
All right, don't worry about it.
Yeah, it's the new one we'vemade, so don't worry about it.
So, tree down December, or doyou wait till January?
Zia (19:39):
Uh I'd take it down today, but um, we had to cancel
Christmas at our house.
Heather (19:45):
Yeah.
Zia (19:45):
So um I have to get on that in a few minutes.
Yeah, uh I have to leave it upthis year until I see my other
little peoples.
And um, usually it's downbefore my birthday, though,
because I just don't like itbefore my January birthday.
Yeah.
Heather (20:00):
No, that's a must.
That's a must.
You're correct.
Um, I always take my tree down.
When I was growing up, wealways took it down on New
Year's Day.
Zia (20:09):
Okay.
Heather (20:10):
Um, but then when I had Eliza, I decided to leave it up
through her going back toschool, which is typically,
which is typically, you know,cut a day or two after.
So it would always be thatweekend.
Yeah.
So it it falls on Epiphany ifyou're religious, but it's not
Epiphany.
I'm not taking it down onEpiphany for Epiphany.
I'm taking it down because thatwas the weekend.
(20:31):
Um but generally generally I doI do early January.
Early, early January.
Zia (20:37):
Okay.
Not bad.
Heather (20:38):
No, no, it's okay.
We we we're good with that.
Um all right, so the next oneis a two-parter.
It's do you warm up your car inthe winter or do you just get
in it and drive and let it warmup while you're moving?
Zia (20:52):
Um I normally just get in the car and drive because mine's
in the garage.
Heather (20:57):
Okay.
I'm on I don't have a garage,so I let mine warm up.
I have a remote start for minetoo.
Zia (21:02):
Yep.
Heather (21:03):
So I'll go out and just, you know, click, click,
and start it and let it warm up.
Zia (21:07):
Actually, I don't have a remote start on my car.
Yeah, but Alex Alex made melaugh actually.
Funny story about the startingup the car and getting the car
in the garage.
Um, my car went in the shoplast week, and I had to take his
car to school to work.
And um I said, Alex, move yourcar in the garage.
(21:28):
And he was like, Oh my god,it's like Air Force One.
Wherever the president goes,that car gets this royal
treatment.
And I went hysterical.
Heather (21:37):
I was like, I love that.
Zia (21:39):
That's pretty good.
He's like, Oh my god, I lovethat for you.
My my car is Air Force Oneright now.
This is amazing, he goes.
Heather (21:46):
I love that for you.
Zia (21:47):
Yep.
Heather (21:48):
So I put out a declaration here that because I
moved to New Hampshire, um,we're not in our permanent home.
We're we're renting a placeright now.
But um, when we get ourpermanent home, I either A have
the garage or B getting acarport.
Yes, yes.
Because I I uh that was one ofmy one of my declarations when
(22:08):
we moved.
So with the winter talking ofthe car, do you put your wipers
up if when you're at work?
Because obviously you're in agarage.
Absolutely.
Do you put your wipers up ifthere's a storm coming, or do
you leave them down if there's astorm coming?
Zia (22:24):
Um I'm put them up.
Jersey has taught me to putthem up.
Um, I just did it last weekbecause we had that ice storm
was supposed to be coming.
And I, you know, I think me andone other person were in the
parking lot with our things up.
You know, they might haveJersey influence or back.
Heather (22:41):
I was gonna say that Lady the person I know who has
the Jersey influence that havethem up.
Yep.
Zia (22:47):
Yep, and um and it could be an 80s thing because a lot of
us used to do that in the 80sbecause we didn't want to
because the wipers were crapback then.
Heather (22:55):
Yep.
So I go both ways.
I go both ways.
Zia (23:00):
Ooh.
I love that.
Love that for you, Heather.
Heather (23:06):
I don't know if that was proper or not.
Anyway, I think that's why wehave the E next to our name on
the podcast.
Because we have we have verypoor self-control sometimes.
Zia (23:17):
Well, sometimes we think like 12-year-old boys, you know.
Heather (23:20):
12-year-old boys, yeah.
Right.
Um, no, so I I do I do it bothways.
If I'm out and about or if I'mat work, I will definitely put
them up because um Oh, yeah.
Because, you know, if or if I'mat work, I should say, I'll put
them up because when I whenit's the end of the day, I want
to go home.
I don't want to sit there andtry to clear my cough.
Absolutely.
But here, but here in thedriveway, I've been leaving them
(23:42):
down because we have um we areone of our neighbors is we hired
him to come and remove the snowfor us for every snowstorm.
And um when we hear him coming,because we our driveway is so
long, I just start my car, andby the time he's at where we
are, my windshield is clear andI can move them.
Um so I don't I don't reallyput them up in the driveway.
(24:05):
Yeah, but if I'm at work or ifI'm if it's actively snowing and
I'm running into, you know, thegrocery store where I know I'm
gonna be 20 or 30 minutes, I'llthrow them up so that I don't
have to worry about themfreezing.
Um so I do I do kind of do itboth.
Um yeah, so that's funny.
Zia (24:24):
Yeah, that's that is funny.
Heather (24:26):
So there you go, Eliza.
That was our hot takes.
Yeah, um, but in our ourversion of hot takes, because
absolutely that's the way we doit.
Yeah, and we have 30 secondsleft before the timer goes off
because we're trying to keepthese at 30 minutes.
Yeah, so quick Christmasupdates.
Yeah.
Wanna hook yours up?
Sure, I was sick.
Zia (24:47):
Um, like I said, we had to cancel Christmas Eve.
Um but the kids were supposedto come.
I got totally sick.
I had high fever, um, so bad Iwas in bed for like my ring that
I have, it says I was sleepingfor 24 hours, and I I I Michael
said, I don't think you've donethat in like over 10 years.
Stayed in bed for 24 hours.
Heather (25:09):
So sometimes you have to.
Zia (25:10):
Yeah, so we had to cancel um Alex Alex had to cook the
food so it didn't go bad.
Um, he just did like a quick hecooked all the food that was
left for me to cook, and uhthank God he can cook very good.
Um so tough him well.
Yep, so he he did that and umkind of saved the food and um
(25:32):
yeah, but uh sick, you um weactually had a phenomenal day.
Heather (25:37):
Um Eliza came home or came here, she took a quick mini
vacation with her collegebestie.
Yeah, um who list who is anadvid listener, by the way.
Shout out to Gandhi!
Zia (25:48):
Thank you, thank you.
Heather (25:49):
Um so uh they get back on Christmas Eve from and uh I
picked Eliza up at the airportand she stayed here Christmas
Eve, woke up Christmas morning,so we did a split Christmas, so
we did Christmas dinner onChristmas Eve, okay, and then we
did Christmas morning,Christmas morning, and then she
left about two o'clock um to goback to New York.
So she's back there now.
(26:09):
Um but we got awesome stuff, wedid everything.
We're coming to New York thisweekend, but it's only for the
day to see my parents and Rich'soldest daughter, yeah, and um,
or our oldest, I shouldn't sayRich's.
Yeah, right.
She's mine.
She's mine.
Yeah.
She may not be mine, but she'smine.
Yeah.
Um, we're gonna see them and myparents, and then we're gonna
(26:31):
be done, and then we'll talkabout it again.
But I am coming out to new newuh New York, so we'll be able to
you and I can see each other.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, so it was a greatChristmas.
Zia (26:42):
So um I mean Margie and uh Leon uh stopped by and um they
you know we gave we Alex was thego-between.
He gave presents to them andthey gave our presents to us.
Um, but yeah, that that was allwe saw.
And then uh Zach did a FaceTimewith us.
Oh, nice.
Heather (27:01):
So you got to see the babies.
Zia (27:03):
Uh no, they were sleeping.
Um, okay.
Yeah, Zach dropped the stuffoff.
Um, you know, uh the babies getvery excited, you know, when
they say, you know, you know howthey get it in their head, they
want to do things, and then itdidn't happen.
So just like to calm everythingdown, he just dropped the stuff
off, and then we talked to himand Michaela, so yeah.
Heather (27:23):
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
There's still very little, sothey don't understand.
Zia (27:27):
It's like, you know, tell them one thing and it just keeps
you know in their head.
Go, go, go.
Heather (27:32):
They're baby babies, so that makes sense.
Zia (27:34):
So we're gonna reschedule and do our own little we have
the games.
We have to do the games.
Heather (27:39):
I love that for you.
Yes, you got a game forChristmas.
Yeah, you got a you got a newgame.
Zia (27:44):
Yes, I got a new game from my friend Heather and Rich.
Yeah.
Heather (27:49):
And I claim I claim with my whoop whoops today.
Zia (27:51):
I claim the Jersey Devil, and she just told me I can't
claim any of them.
Heather (27:56):
You totally flattened that dream of yours.
Oh my god.
So the game is calledHorrified, and it's it's a great
game, but you have to rescuethis town from cryptids.
Yep.
And there's three cryptids whorun around the town, and why
three of them would be together,I'm not quite sure, but it's
one of our favorite games here,but um, but you you can't be
(28:17):
that cryptid.
You have to you have tovanquish the cryptid.
Zia (28:21):
Yep.
Heather (28:22):
So unfortunately, you're gonna have to vanquish
the Jersey Devil.
Zia (28:25):
I know.
I'm so upset.
I'm so upset.
Yeah, but there's like there'slike ten cryptids in there, so I
mean and and Margaret got us uha game yesterday, um,
Yellowstone.
So I'm very excited to playthat.
Yeah, yeah.
It's got like the bunker, it'sgot the farm, it's it's so it
goes this way the board.
It's like yeah, it's horizontalthe board, it's very cool.
Heather (28:46):
We got we got the game um stupid people, which is where
you have to decide if howsomebody died was a Darwin award
or not.
Zia (28:56):
Let me know about that one.
Heather (28:57):
Oh, I I may bring this game when I come back to New
York because it it looks likeit's gonna be a lot of fun.
Yes, but we are now over ourtime.
Yes, one of the advantages ofDJ Slink talking to you and you
and him having your funny emailconversation is he gave us
permission to use the song.
So we are gonna play the songfor you in part of our outro.
(29:20):
It's only a minute and a half,it's fabulous, it is funny.
But we were re-recorded ourintro with the music and the
outro with the music.
Absolutely.
So I guess we say our genericgoodbye and then our official
goodbye will be recorded.
So we will see you all nextweek.
Yes, goodbye.
(29:40):
Bye.
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