December 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a holiday photo and thought, "What was I DOING with my hands?" Or noticed your arm looks twice its normal size pressed against your body? Or realized your front leg looks like a column instead of, you know, a leg? You deserve to look back at holiday photos and love what you see. We're breaking down three photographer-approved fixes that'll instantly make you look more confident and relaxed in every picture—no awkward posing required.
Stop dreading holiday photos and get in front of that camera, Mama. Hit subscribe and learn the simple hand, leg, and arm tricks that'll make you look (and feel) amazing in every picture this season.
Note: This is a re-aired episode with timeless photo advice that works for any occasion—holidays, weddings, family gatherings, or just when someone pulls out their phone and says "let me get a picture!"
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Who Should Listen
This episode is for anyone who hates how they look in photos because they don't know what to do with their body, and everyone who's ever said "I'm just not photogenic" (spoiler: you probably just need better posing habits).
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What You Get In This Episode
- How to avoid “slug fingers” and the S-curve secret
- Sitting and standing angles that slim what's closest to the camera
- The "teapot" and "raptor" poses that open your shoulders without looking staged
- Group photo tricks that solve "where do my arms go?" questions once and for all
- Bonus: Minute-to-win-it party games that require zero setup and maximum laughs
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Bios
Caitlin and Jenny are two friends navigating the hilarious and sometimes chaotic world of adulthood—from awkward family photos to holiday party planning. They're here to share relatable stories, practical advice, and a healthy dose of laughter along the way.
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Sources & Mentions
- I’m a Photographer and These Are the 3 Things You Should Avoid Doing in Photos | By Marissa Wu for PureWow
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SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
It's the most wonderful day of the week.
SPEAKER_03 (01:04):
Yeah, guys, it's Tuesday.
Uh, we're so glad you're here.
It's the holiday season, um,which means it's photo season.
SPEAKER_00 (01:13):
It's the holiday season.
SPEAKER_03 (01:15):
Yes, it is.
And if you're like me and youjust hate what you look like in
photos, which is because I don'tknow what to do with my body
parts.
Sometimes my face even lookslike I'm like it's like unhappy
housewife smile, where you'relike, kind of smiling.
Um, these tips are for you.
(01:35):
So today um we have an articlethat we're referencing about how
to not do weird things with yourbody in photos.
SPEAKER_00 (01:45):
But first, but first she turns this gingerbread house
into a gingerbread home.
It's Caitlin.
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Oh, she's my sneakily talented hawk.
That's Jenny.
Yours are always so sweet in myor like yeah, and that was
tongue in cheek.
Let's be real.
SPEAKER_01 (02:05):
I mean, ew.
unknown (02:08):
But thanks.
SPEAKER_01 (02:10):
Um I didn't say what kind of home.
Ah no, um, so I I took agingerbread like decorating
class this week.
Um because of course you did.
It was the first time I had donea gingerbread house, Sans Kids,
in 13 years.
SPEAKER_03 (02:31):
And I didn't so proud of it.
You didn't use graham crackerson the side of a milk carton to
make no no no no.
SPEAKER_01 (02:37):
Like this, oh, it was really cool.
Like they had the houses alreadyassembled.
You were literally justdecorating them.
But I like I was not I was doingit by myself.
I was having so much fun.
It uh it was half a dozen womenjust decorating their
gingerbread houses,chit-chatting while we're doing
it.
And I was so proud of it.
I brought it home.
(02:58):
Abigail sees it the nextmorning, and she was like, You
made a gingerbread house withoutme?
I was like, Yes.
Yes, I did.
But don't worry, kit wasn'tthere, nobody was there, it was
just me, and it was amazing.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03 (03:12):
Your audio is doing that staticky thing again.
SPEAKER_02 (03:15):
I have all new equipment.
SPEAKER_00 (03:18):
Is it better now?
SPEAKER_03 (03:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:20):
Okay, I won't move.
unknown (03:23):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (03:24):
Well, I mean, that sounds like fun.
Um, given that I will destroyyour home, apparently.
No, you're not just saying, justsaying, you warm it right up.
SPEAKER_01 (03:36):
I'll eat it.
Have you seen the ones wherepeople like are not happy with
their gingerbread house, so theyput a toy dinosaur on it?
SPEAKER_03 (03:44):
No, but that's kind of awesome.
I like that.
SPEAKER_01 (03:46):
Now they're like, oh, my dinosaur ate my uh
gingerbread house.
SPEAKER_03 (03:50):
Yeah, that's a good idea.
SPEAKER_01 (03:51):
I like that.
There was one year that Abby dida murder like crime scene house.
SPEAKER_02 (03:56):
Uh God, I love that little girl.
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (04:00):
Um our gingerbread houses also normally have some
kind of koi pond in the backyardwith goldfish in it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:06):
Ooh, that's a cool idea.
I can get into that.
I'm down.
I I don't think most people dothat.
So that's a nice creative uhalso in this class.
SPEAKER_01 (04:17):
I learned that if you turn an ice cream cone
upside down and cover it ingreen frosting, it's now a tree.
SPEAKER_03 (04:22):
Yes, that one I had seen before.
That's a good hack.
Does anybody actually eat gentRed Houses?
SPEAKER_01 (04:27):
Oh, well, Kit asked if he could eat, and I said no.
He's like, no, this is foodthat's sat out.
Like, no.
SPEAKER_03 (04:34):
That I also touched every bit of and probably rubbed
my nose at some point and then.
SPEAKER_01 (04:39):
Oh, you did.
I know it's like cutting candywith scissors.
I don't even know if thosescissors are for food.
SPEAKER_03 (04:45):
Ew.
Yuck.
And now let's go to the topicthat we're talking about.
We're actually here to dosomething.
Yeah, sorry.
So um, again, today I'm tellingyou to stop doing these three
things in photos.
My source today is aphotographer, former
photographer for Pure Wow.
Uh her name is Mirsa Wu.
(05:06):
The article is called I'm aPhotographer, and these are the
three things you should avoiddoing in photos.
She actually worked at popularphotography for a while.
Um, also has credits withSouthern Living and Martha
Stewart.
So I was kind of like, allright, this girl at least knows
what she's doing.
She knows what she's doing.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, so first tip.
Uh that she so on the article,if you look at it, uh um, which
(05:31):
and I'll link it, of course, inthe blog post for today, you'll
see that there's a a what to dopicture and a what not-to-do
picture.
SPEAKER_01 (05:39):
Oh my gosh, love it.
SPEAKER_03 (05:40):
And the not-to-do picture cracks me up because the
description that she's providingis dead on accurate.
Okay.
So what she says, the firstthing to do is do not lace your
fingers together.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (05:51):
Because she had a professor who was like, your
fingers will look like slugs.
And when you see the picture,like, look at my hands right
now.
Right?
That's interesting.
They look like little, and andshe also says this applies to
solo pictures and couples'pictures.
Like the couples' pictures whereyou're like, oh, it's so sweet,
it makes your hands.
No, it looks it makes yourfingers look gross.
(06:13):
And I have very short, stubbyfingers, and I have long nails
on them because it I feel likeit makes my fingers look less
stubby.
And so the last thing I want inmy photos is to have sluggy,
stubby fingers.
It just makes me terrible.
SPEAKER_01 (06:30):
I I I I would want to meet the woman who says, I
want to have stubby, sluggyfingers in my fingers.
SPEAKER_03 (06:36):
I literally put in the notes nobody wants to have
their fingers look like slugsbecause that's gross.
Like, who wants that?
So here's what you do instead: you overlap your fingers like (06:42):
undefined
princess hands.
SPEAKER_01 (06:49):
You know, that is actually why Kate Middleton
carries a clutch.
SPEAKER_03 (06:52):
Yes, because it means there's nothing in there.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
It's not like she has to show her ID somewhere or
has car keys.
She's holding it so she hassomething to do with her hands.
She holds it with one hand andthen holds her hand with the
other.
SPEAKER_03 (07:06):
Exactly.
So that's the next tip is in ifyou're not gonna have anything
in your hands and you justoverlap them, instead you could
put something in your hands sothat your hands have a task.
So you can hold your blazerlapel because all of us are
wearing blazers all the time.
Um, you can hold your skirt,like just hold the side.
You can put rest your hand onthe fence that you're standing
(07:27):
next to, or if it's a Christmasphoto with family or a holiday
photo with family, you put yourhand on your child's shoulders.
Something with your hands, holda beverage, whatever it is, just
put something in your hand.
SPEAKER_01 (07:40):
I have also seen um show your accessories.
SPEAKER_03 (07:45):
Oh.
SPEAKER_01 (07:46):
So like put your hand on your earring or grab
your your bracelet, um, playwith your necklace, like do
something with what you'rewearing.
I like that.
Um, because it's like naturaland not to bring another
princess into it, but MeghanMarkle always touches her
earring because it makes herturn her face a little bit so
you get a little profile shot.
SPEAKER_03 (08:07):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (08:07):
And it has her hand like daintily touching her neck,
so she's always like fiddlingwith her earring for her
pictures.
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
But it also kind of looks like you might be tucking
your hair behind your ear orsomething, so it's sort of it is
a very natural sort of look.
It's not just like let me showyou my earring and right, right,
right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:22):
Yeah, no, in your in your mind, you're saying show
off your accessories in yourbody, you're actually just
touching them somehow, right?
Or featuring them in the in yourmovement.
SPEAKER_03 (08:29):
I like that one.
Okay.
Second tip don't.
SPEAKER_01 (08:33):
Does this involve slugs?
SPEAKER_03 (08:35):
No, but it does involve meaty thighs, which I am
familiar with.
SPEAKER_01 (08:39):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
I have those former I didn't play soccer for so long
that like they're superprominent, but I do have like
former soccer player thigh andcalf issues.
So my legs are meaty, okay?
And I just have meaty thighs.
So um don't put all of yourweight on your front leg.
SPEAKER_01 (08:58):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (08:59):
No.
Um, when you pop one leg,meaning like you bend one knee
and you sort of pop the leg out.
The the goal is to make you havean S sort of curve to your body,
right?
It's supposed to be moreflattering.
The problem with doing that isthat most people put the weight
on the wrong leg.
They put their they put theweight on the front leg, the one
(09:23):
that's closer to the camera,which just makes it look bigger.
So when you do the S thing, thepopping thing, you're supposed
to put the weight on the backleg and sort of just like rest
your other foot on the ground,if that makes any sense.
SPEAKER_01 (09:38):
Like it's only so my friend who is a photographer
many years ago, I'm talking likemore than a decade, told me
whatever is closest to thecamera is biggest.
Yes.
So, and she was helping me outum by saying, like, move your
head a little further.
So that you don't have the theSo that you don't have like a
(10:00):
yeah, yeah.
Um, but that makes sense.
If you put all your weight onyour front leg, like that front
leg is gonna look bigger thanthe rest of your body.
SPEAKER_03 (10:08):
Right.
And it already looks bigger thanthe rest of your body.
So then you're like emphasizingit by popping it into the lost
the angle that you were tryingto build.
SPEAKER_01 (10:15):
Right.
And instead just turned your leginto an elephant leg.
SPEAKER_03 (10:19):
Right.
Exactly.
It's not an S anymore.
It's a it's a It's now just acolumn.
Right.
Okay, got it, got it.
Right.
So So what do I do instead?
Instead, you're gonna reversethe weight.
You put your weight on the backleg and pop the front leg
because when you do that, you'regonna slim out the front one a
little bit more.
Um so when you the same thingapplies when you cross your legs
(10:44):
in if you're sitting in apicture.
Um, the leg that is close to thecamera should be crossed over
the leg that's further away.
So you you want to make surethat whatever weight you're
putting in, you put it in theone that's further away from the
camera, just to emphasize oneproportionality and two like S
and not tree trunk.
(11:04):
Right, like that's what we'redoing.
So shift that weight to the backleg.
Okay.
Okay, the last one.
This is where I really it's onething.
SPEAKER_01 (11:12):
I'm already still like I have an image of tree
trunk.
Like I can't take that out of myhead.
SPEAKER_03 (11:16):
Well, you gave me elephant legs, so that's where
my brain is, right?
Um I this is probably the onethat's hardest for me.
Hands I can handle, but arms Ireally sorry.
Yeah, no, I got you.
Totally.
Arms are where I really arms,arms down, arm, arms off to the
(11:39):
side.
Like what arms?
Oh, right.
SPEAKER_01 (11:41):
And you can't you can't do the teacup anymore
because it's like not 2004.
SPEAKER_03 (11:46):
Except you can.
Okay, so um here's here's mysister calls it the skinny arm.
I'm going for it.
I don't care.
Yeah.
We just talked about how we needto make things look slimmer in
the picture.
I'm gonna do a skinny arm.
It's fine.
SPEAKER_01 (11:59):
So, okay, tell us how to do it naturally to where
we don't look like we're takinga picture in our college
sorority.
SPEAKER_03 (12:05):
Okay, so she says to the former sorority girl.
Okay, so here's what you don'tdo.
You don't push your arms.
SPEAKER_01 (12:13):
Oh my gosh, I just looked at the note at the notes
and you literally used the wordteapot.
SPEAKER_03 (12:18):
Yes.
I didn't even see that.
SPEAKER_01 (12:19):
That's just what I've called it.
That is hilarious.
Okay, continue on.
SPEAKER_03 (12:23):
So you don't push your arms into your sides.
So like arms straight down makesthem makes everything look
wider.
Right.
Um, it just the line thatMarissa Wu, the author, uses is
um no matter how pretty someoneis, their arm will still look
bad according to cultural beautystandards.
Splayed out and flat likeroadkill against their torso.
(12:46):
Ew.
I was like, that is what sold meon this article is that line
right there, because that's soreal to say something like
roadkill and have it publishedon a website.
Because that's exactly what allof us are thinking, right?
SPEAKER_01 (13:01):
Like we're all like especially if you're not wearing
sleeves, it's like really notflattering.
SPEAKER_03 (13:05):
Oh, it's not flattering at all.
No, you can't have it.
So here's what you do, allright?
You teapot yourself.
SPEAKER_01 (13:12):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (13:13):
And she says the teapot pose may live in Y2K
infamy, and she's not wrong.
But if you have no other ideas,it does work.
So you might as well go for it,okay?
SPEAKER_01 (13:24):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (13:24):
Um what that means is you have like you pretend,
you know, I'm a little teapot.
You have your arm sort ofteapotted bent so that your
elbow is out and your hand is intowards your waist, okay?
So it looks like you're making atriangle with your arm up
against your body, okay?
Right.
She also says you can level itup with what this pure wild
(13:46):
beauty director named Jenny Jin,whose articles we've also
featured on this show, calls theraptor pose.
And now, this is not likepretend you're a T-Rex.
This is not like she kind of.
Because that is where my brainwent, okay.
But she calls them Princess.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
Both of us have sons, of course.
We went to dinosaur.
SPEAKER_03 (14:01):
Right.
Well, and I we just got off of aDisney cruise, so my brain also
went Toy Story, like with thedinosaur creature.
Oh, yes.
Right.
Like, yeah.
Um, so isn't that the also isn'tthat the voice of the guy from
Princess Bride?
Isn't that the same dude?
SPEAKER_01 (14:15):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (14:15):
It's gotta be, right?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (14:17):
It's inconceivable that it wouldn't be.
SPEAKER_03 (14:18):
Right, yeah, thank you.
Okay.
Um, so you hold your hands infront of you like you're holding
a purse, and then you put yourelbows out away.
So, like, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:28):
Because you're not holding the purse as the length
of your arms, you're holding itlike at your belt buckle.
SPEAKER_03 (14:33):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:34):
Which makes your arms bend to give you an angle.
SPEAKER_03 (14:36):
Right.
And then and then youunnaturally probably force them
outward a little bit.
SPEAKER_01 (14:41):
Right.
So it's not It also straightensout your shoulders a little bit.
It does.
Look, I'm doing it right now,and I mean, obviously, you can't
look.
This is an audio-only format,but as I do that, I can feel my
whole exactly.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (14:53):
And the way that I kind of think of it is um
anytime we're going for likehaving a a a body and then arms.
We're not trying to have likebody arms, right?
It's like we talk about likecankles.
You want to have definitionbetween the two things.
So when your arms are schmooshedup against your body, it just
looks like body with some handshanging off the side.
(15:16):
But if you create some space,Jenny's looking at me.
SPEAKER_01 (15:20):
I'm dying.
I'm like imagining a toddlerdrawing with like hands coming
out the side, right?
It's like body arms.
SPEAKER_03 (15:27):
Body arms.
As I lovingly referred to mybutt and thigh to my friend
Amanda, it's my by, right?
Like it's just it's all onething and they're supposed to be
distinct.
So if your arms are not distinctfrom the rest of your body, your
barms, your barms, you lookridiculous.
So you need to separate.
(15:49):
So that's why teapot arms workbecause you're you're creating
space and separation between thearm and the rest of your body.
Yes, you're removing the barmsand turning it into.
SPEAKER_01 (15:59):
I also like the like hands on each other's shoulders.
Again, that like opens you up soyou can like put your hands on
the people near you.
SPEAKER_03 (16:06):
I typically demand to be in the middle of group
photos because then I can put myarms behind people.
Right.
And I don't have it opens youup.
Right.
But I also don't have to thinkabout what I'm doing with my
hands.
But that doesn't always workwhen you have three sisters and
one of whom is very insistent ononly taking pictures on one side
of her body.
(16:27):
Actually, I have two of them whodo that.
So I it's very difficult to makesense of it.
SPEAKER_01 (16:31):
It's not the different side.
Because then you can't do it.
No, it's not that it's the same.
No, it's right.
That's what I'm saying.
No, no.
Um, I also like the move ofsticking one hand up in the air.
Yes, you do that.
I share.
Yeah.
But also But again, it elongatesme.
SPEAKER_03 (16:44):
It elongates, but it and it lends itself to that S
shape, right?
As long as you're putting yourweight on the back leg, it it
lends itself to that S shape.
SPEAKER_01 (16:51):
So um but you gotta be ready to do that because that
owns the photo.
SPEAKER_03 (16:55):
You do have, yeah, you have it has to be a special
level of um look at me, right?
Right, that's what that photois.
That is what that is.
It is a look at me photo.
Okay.
So the three things we're notgonna do.
We're not gonna lace our fingerstogether, we're not gonna put
all the weight on our front legand make it look like a tree
trunk, and we're not going toput arms into sides and create
(17:16):
barms.
Okay?
Got it.
All right, let's take a break.
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(17:38):
And now, back to the show.
SPEAKER_01 (17:40):
All right, so now we're back.
Um, let me tell you what I amobsessed with.
SPEAKER_03 (17:45):
Yeah, I want to hear it.
SPEAKER_01 (17:46):
It is the time of year where we are having all of
the parties.
SPEAKER_03 (17:50):
Yeah, that's why you did pick, that's why we did a
thing about photos.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
Right, right.
Exactly.
So what I'm obsessed with rightnow, minute to win it games.
SPEAKER_02 (18:00):
Oh, like all the ones that are.
SPEAKER_01 (18:01):
What I bring to a party now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So instead of saying, like, oh,I'll bring a cheese plate, like
something that takes work, I'mlike, oh, I'll bring a game.
And so my favorite one right nowis the only thing you need is a
dozen candy canes.
SPEAKER_03 (18:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:18):
But you need a dozen per team.
SPEAKER_03 (18:21):
Okay.
Those are easy though.
Those are like what two bucks acouple.
Really easy.
SPEAKER_01 (18:24):
Yeah.
And they're, yeah, right?
So one person puts the candycane in their mouth with the
hook out, and everyone elsespreads the candy canes, the 11
remaining, on the floor.
And that person has to hook themand collect them.
The person who uh the team thatgets their 11 picked up fastest
(18:46):
wins.
SPEAKER_03 (18:47):
That's hysterical.
SPEAKER_01 (18:48):
It's amazing.
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
I saw one that was um big marshmallows on a table,
and you put your kids' hands inred solo cups and they have to
pick them again.
And you yeah, those are justthat's amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (19:03):
Those are so there's tons of them out there.
Um, I think we have talked aboutthem on the show before, but to
me, it's it's like it's theeasiest thing to bring to a
party.
Um, it's also not a 30-minutegame that people are like, okay,
we're over this.
Like, and there's some that aremessy, like how fast can you
wrap your friend?
Um, but that's I don't likethat.
SPEAKER_02 (19:23):
But it's also fun, it's wasteful, right?
SPEAKER_01 (19:25):
And it just costs a roll of wrapping paper and tape.
But um the they're they're funand they don't take up much
time, they don't cost a lot ofmoney, and it gets you off the
hook for having to cook.
SPEAKER_03 (19:37):
There's also like something uniquely uh bonding
about those activities becausethey're funny.
Like we've talked about thisbefore.
Anytime you laugh together, itdoesn't need to be a long game,
it just needs to be funny.
SPEAKER_01 (19:49):
So I think that's you do not need any athletic
ability to be talented at thesegames.
SPEAKER_03 (19:54):
That's the other thing.
I wish that when people aredoing, excuse me, like
professional development gamesthat are like meant to be
bonding, you would if youfocused on laughing as opposed
to sharing, you would bondpeople a lot faster.
SPEAKER_01 (20:09):
I don't get why that's not a a thing, but and I
have if I have to make one morespaghetti and marshmallow tower,
I swear.
SPEAKER_03 (20:20):
No, no, those are awful.
No more STEM challenges.
Just make me laugh.
SPEAKER_01 (20:26):
Make me laugh.
Make me laugh.
Have me do something completelyand totally ridiculous.
I loved this game.
It was done in about 12 seconds.
Oh yeah.
The fastest kid was incredible.
We were like, why are you goodat this?
Oh, there was another one umthat I played recently where we
(20:46):
took everybody had um tiny, likethe the fun size uh MMs.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
And then there are cards in thecolors of MMs.
Okay.
And so you open your bag whenthey say go, and you have to
sort them onto the colors.
(21:06):
Oh, dude.
And everyone on your team has toget their bags sorted to be
done.
Oh gosh.
But everyone's sorting at thesame time.
Yeah.
Okay.
So again, it happens in like 20seconds, everybody's done.
And people are franticallymoving MMs around the table.
Red, red.
SPEAKER_03 (21:27):
That's pretty funny.
I could see middle schoolersturning this into another.
Well, we played it with middleschoolers.
SPEAKER_01 (21:32):
And then they ate the MMs, which I thought was
disgusting.
SPEAKER_03 (21:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you guys, everyonehas touched these at the time.
Yeah.
Can we wash hands before we dothis?
That's a little gross.
Okay.
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (21:41):
Okay.
Sorry.
That's my obsession.
What's yours?
SPEAKER_03 (21:43):
Okay, well, speaking of laughing, I don't know how
often the Muppet Christmas Carollike appears in your Christmas
movie lineup, but it needs to beall the time.
Because I've watched it twicealready this season.
That's nothing compared to howmany times we've already watched
Home Alone, which is like 12.
But um it is hysterical.
(22:05):
And one of my favorite things inthis world is Muppets acting
like regular adults and breakingcharacter and or having
bloopers.
Like Unhinged Elmo when hebreaks the fourth wall and like
cannot handle Zoe talking aboutRocco is one of my most
hilarious.
Like I will cry laughing everytime.
(22:26):
It's so good.
So not only am I obsessed withMuppet Christmas Carol, but I
also found an Instagram reel ofMuppet Christmas Carol bloopers.
SPEAKER_01 (22:36):
I am all about it.
You know I love the Muppets.
Yes, I do know you love theMuppets.
I love the Muppets.
And when we were on this trip,that we should probably recap at
some point.
SPEAKER_03 (22:43):
We should recap at some point, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (22:45):
Um, there was a one of the things that you could do
is solve a Muppet mystery.
And there was a little girlsolving the missing 101
Dalmatian puppy mystery.
SPEAKER_02 (22:58):
Oh, that's cool.
SPEAKER_01 (22:58):
And so it uses the same technology, but like
depending on what mystery you'redoing, is what the screen plays
for you, right?
Yeah.
You sign up, okay, I'm doing theMuppets.
But we were at the same stationand she was waiting to do the
puppies and we were doing theMuppets.
And she was like, What is that?
And I looked at her parents indisgust and I was like, What do
you mean your kid doesn't knowwhat the ball is?
(23:20):
No, no, I didn't.
I didn't.
So I'm telling her, I was like,these are the Muppets.
They were created by a magicalman named Jim Henson.
And I'm like giving her thewhole story, and I'm like
pointing to each of the Muppetson the street, and I was like,
This one is Miss Piggy.
She's the prettiest Muppet, butshe's not the nicest one.
SPEAKER_03 (23:38):
She's like Daisy Duck, she's a diva, but even
sassier.
SPEAKER_01 (23:42):
It was too funny.
I'm like exploring this wholeMuppet world with her while
we're waiting for you know a30-second video clip to play for
the team in front of us.
And her parents just kind oflook at me like, who is this
crazy Muppet lady and why is shetalking to my kids?
SPEAKER_03 (23:56):
First of all, if you're feeling that way about
other adults on a Disney cruisetalking to your kid, then you
need to go somewhere.
Second of all, make your kidwatch the Muppet Christmas car.
Oh my gosh, it's so good.
SPEAKER_01 (24:06):
It's also the rat steals the show.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (24:08):
Like the literature.
SPEAKER_01 (24:09):
It's my favorite Muppet for shirk.
SPEAKER_03 (24:11):
Oh, yeah.
I also do love um the SwedishChef guy because he's so
ridiculous.
Anyway, so this in this looper,this one particular one, you
know, the ghost of Christmaspresent, this massive Muppet
who's probably got a personinside of him because he's so
big.
Oh they're walking the streetsof London with Michael Caine of
(24:33):
all people.
And at one point he gestureswildly and hits Michael Caine in
the face.
It brought tears to my eyesbecause his Michael Cain's like
trying not to break character,but he does like just hurt a
little bit.
It's so good.
And I just I Sam has been antiuntil this year, where I was
(24:56):
like, no, we are watching thistogether because it's funny.
And I think the crew's sort ofhelped that a little bit because
he knows who they are now, butuh it just it's making me laugh
and it's bringing joy to myheart.
It's like such a good, it's agood Christmas story, and then
you add to it like anytimethere's jokes for adults, it's
just gonna make it smarter case.
SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
That's one of the things that's great about the
Muppets is that it definitely ummeets everyone's yes, meets
everyone's needs.
SPEAKER_03 (25:25):
It's it's good for everybody.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:26):
So in Muppet News, did you hear that they are
rebranding the Aerosmith rockand roller coaster to be the
Muppets Rock and Roller Coaster?
SPEAKER_03 (25:37):
I did not know that.
But Animal should be featuredheavily on that just to breach
that.
SPEAKER_01 (25:42):
It's gonna be the electric mayhem, the whole band.
unknown (25:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:47):
It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be really good.
Now, the sad part about that isthey're closing Muppets 3D.
SPEAKER_02 (25:54):
Oh no.
SPEAKER_01 (25:56):
And guys, that was like one of the best places to
sit in air conditioning in themiddle of the day.
You have to wait for the show,then the show's 25 minutes long.
Like it was it was a really goodbreak.
SPEAKER_03 (26:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
So you have to do the frozen sing along.
SPEAKER_03 (26:13):
But that's okay.
I don't mind singing along withfrozen.
So good.
unknown (26:17):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (26:18):
And um, the rumor is that while they're closing it,
they are trying to find a way tore-like put it somewhere else
because they do know that it's afan favorite.
And Pizza Rizzo is closing.
It's rat pizza.
SPEAKER_02 (26:31):
What does he say in that movie?
It's like, uh, my mom told menever to eat stinging food.
Yeah.
Like what?
Like what?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (26:40):
Alright, so Gem of the Week.
Um, Abigail is trying to bakesomething, and um, all of the
measurements are in um largequantities for like it's it's
like a legit baker's recipe.
Okay.
Right?
So everything is measured in umweight or volume instead of like
(27:03):
item.
So instead of like a cup offlour, you need 300 grams of
flour, whatever.
Well, we have a food scale, soit's fine.
But the eggs are measured 800milliliters of eggs.
SPEAKER_03 (27:16):
Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (27:17):
It's like I don't even know.
I'm just gonna go.
SPEAKER_03 (27:20):
Just put the thing on the scale and start counting.
SPEAKER_01 (27:23):
We we have to like measure the volume of an egg.
Yeah.
Um, well, I didn't do that.
Oh, that would have been smart.
So instead, I start Googling howmany eggs in 800 milliliters.
I'm like, someone somewhere gota flag that someone Googled
this.
SPEAKER_03 (27:40):
Yeah.
And what's the answer?
Do you know?
SPEAKER_01 (27:42):
Um, it's uh between 14 and 17.
That's depending on the size ofthe eggs.
And it's a lot of eggs, but it'smaking a moose.
SPEAKER_03 (27:49):
Oh, okay.
But that's a lot of moose, too.
SPEAKER_01 (27:52):
It's a filling.
SPEAKER_03 (27:53):
Oh, okay.
Understood.
SPEAKER_01 (27:55):
Yeah, she's making a Yulog.
Nice.
I love it.
Yeah.
I was like, uh, excuse me, what?
800 milliliters of eggs?
Who is measuring their eggs inmilliliters?
I am measuring them in each.
SPEAKER_03 (28:07):
Right.
And like or doesn't get acarton.
Like just go get one of thoselike liquid eggs cartons.
Ugh, gross.
Okay.
Um mine is uh instinctively,when someone puts their finger
in my face, I try to bite it.
It's just a thing.
SPEAKER_01 (28:24):
It's like if you put your hand over my mouth to make
me stop talking, I'm gonna lickyou.
SPEAKER_03 (28:28):
I'm gonna lick it.
Right.
Just so Sam's thing is to puthis finger near my mouth and
watch me try to bite it.
And he says the other day, hesays to my father-in-law, Cappy,
my mom bites.
And he it's his like his thingis to like tell people that I
bite like a dog, like, careful,she bites, right?
Like, so he's like, That's agood thing for people to know
(28:49):
about you.
It is, I agree.
And then at one point he didstick his finger in my mouth.
I did bite it, and then he goes,Stop it, let go of me.
I'm not a bagel.
It made me laugh.
Like, I so I uh instinctivelylet go, otherwise I would have
held on to that finger.
But I was like, I'm not bagel?
Like what's the thing I bite themost?
(29:10):
Apparently, I do like bagels,but also I did not expect.
I'm not a bagel, he doesn't eatbagels.
Wait, where would that comefrom?
But I'm not a bagel.
Okay.
So two things we learn there.
One, he thinks I eat them a lot,and two, I bite.
So don't stick your finger in myface.
FYI.
SPEAKER_01 (29:29):
I think you need a shirt that just says I bite.
SPEAKER_03 (29:33):
I probably do.
I probably do need that shirt.
I think that's a good one.
Speaking of don't bite people.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Make a choice.
Make good choices.
Don't don't stick your finger inmy face.
Uh and no slug fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (29:50):
Yeah.
Or we'll bite.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
Or barbs.
Or no slug fingers.
Yeah.
I don't bite slug fingers.
Gross.
Okay, bye.
unknown (29:58):
Bye.
It's the most wonderful day of the week.
SPEAKER_03 (01:04):
Yeah, guys, it's Tuesday.
Uh, we're so glad you're here.
It's the holiday season, um,which means it's photo season.
SPEAKER_00 (01:13):
It's the holiday season.
SPEAKER_03 (01:15):
Yes, it is.
And if you're like me and youjust hate what you look like in
photos, which is because I don'tknow what to do with my body
parts.
Sometimes my face even lookslike I'm like it's like unhappy
housewife smile, where you'relike, kind of smiling.
Um, these tips are for you.
(01:35):
So today um we have an articlethat we're referencing about how
to not do weird things with yourbody in photos.
SPEAKER_00 (01:45):
But first, but first she turns this gingerbread house
into a gingerbread home.
It's Caitlin.
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Oh, she's my sneakily talented hawk.
That's Jenny.
Yours are always so sweet in myor like yeah, and that was
tongue in cheek.
Let's be real.
SPEAKER_01 (02:05):
I mean, ew.
unknown (02:08):
But thanks.
SPEAKER_01 (02:10):
Um I didn't say what kind of home.
Ah no, um, so I I took agingerbread like decorating
class this week.
Um because of course you did.
It was the first time I had donea gingerbread house, Sans Kids,
in 13 years.
SPEAKER_03 (02:31):
And I didn't so proud of it.
You didn't use graham crackerson the side of a milk carton to
make no no no no.
SPEAKER_01 (02:37):
Like this, oh, it was really cool.
Like they had the houses alreadyassembled.
You were literally justdecorating them.
But I like I was not I was doingit by myself.
I was having so much fun.
It uh it was half a dozen womenjust decorating their
gingerbread houses,chit-chatting while we're doing
it.
And I was so proud of it.
I brought it home.
(02:58):
Abigail sees it the nextmorning, and she was like, You
made a gingerbread house withoutme?
I was like, Yes.
Yes, I did.
But don't worry, kit wasn'tthere, nobody was there, it was
just me, and it was amazing.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03 (03:12):
Your audio is doing that staticky thing again.
SPEAKER_02 (03:15):
I have all new equipment.
SPEAKER_00 (03:18):
Is it better now?
SPEAKER_03 (03:19):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:20):
Okay, I won't move.
unknown (03:23):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (03:24):
Well, I mean, that sounds like fun.
Um, given that I will destroyyour home, apparently.
No, you're not just saying, justsaying, you warm it right up.
SPEAKER_01 (03:36):
I'll eat it.
Have you seen the ones wherepeople like are not happy with
their gingerbread house, so theyput a toy dinosaur on it?
SPEAKER_03 (03:44):
No, but that's kind of awesome.
I like that.
SPEAKER_01 (03:46):
Now they're like, oh, my dinosaur ate my uh
gingerbread house.
SPEAKER_03 (03:50):
Yeah, that's a good idea.
SPEAKER_01 (03:51):
I like that.
There was one year that Abby dida murder like crime scene house.
SPEAKER_02 (03:56):
Uh God, I love that little girl.
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (04:00):
Um our gingerbread houses also normally have some
kind of koi pond in the backyardwith goldfish in it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:06):
Ooh, that's a cool idea.
I can get into that.
I'm down.
I I don't think most people dothat.
So that's a nice creative uhalso in this class.
SPEAKER_01 (04:17):
I learned that if you turn an ice cream cone
upside down and cover it ingreen frosting, it's now a tree.
SPEAKER_03 (04:22):
Yes, that one I had seen before.
That's a good hack.
Does anybody actually eat gentRed Houses?
SPEAKER_01 (04:27):
Oh, well, Kit asked if he could eat, and I said no.
He's like, no, this is foodthat's sat out.
Like, no.
SPEAKER_03 (04:34):
That I also touched every bit of and probably rubbed
my nose at some point and then.
SPEAKER_01 (04:39):
Oh, you did.
I know it's like cutting candywith scissors.
I don't even know if thosescissors are for food.
SPEAKER_03 (04:45):
Ew.
Yuck.
And now let's go to the topicthat we're talking about.
We're actually here to dosomething.
Yeah, sorry.
So um, again, today I'm tellingyou to stop doing these three
things in photos.
My source today is aphotographer, former
photographer for Pure Wow.
Uh her name is Mirsa Wu.
(05:06):
The article is called I'm aPhotographer, and these are the
three things you should avoiddoing in photos.
She actually worked at popularphotography for a while.
Um, also has credits withSouthern Living and Martha
Stewart.
So I was kind of like, allright, this girl at least knows
what she's doing.
She knows what she's doing.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, so first tip.
Uh that she so on the article,if you look at it, uh um, which
(05:31):
and I'll link it, of course, inthe blog post for today, you'll
see that there's a a what to dopicture and a what not-to-do
picture.
SPEAKER_01 (05:39):
Oh my gosh, love it.
SPEAKER_03 (05:40):
And the not-to-do picture cracks me up because the
description that she's providingis dead on accurate.
Okay.
So what she says, the firstthing to do is do not lace your
fingers together.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (05:51):
Because she had a professor who was like, your
fingers will look like slugs.
And when you see the picture,like, look at my hands right
now.
Right?
That's interesting.
They look like little, and andshe also says this applies to
solo pictures and couples'pictures.
Like the couples' pictures whereyou're like, oh, it's so sweet,
it makes your hands.
No, it looks it makes yourfingers look gross.
(06:13):
And I have very short, stubbyfingers, and I have long nails
on them because it I feel likeit makes my fingers look less
stubby.
And so the last thing I want inmy photos is to have sluggy,
stubby fingers.
It just makes me terrible.
SPEAKER_01 (06:30):
I I I I would want to meet the woman who says, I
want to have stubby, sluggyfingers in my fingers.
SPEAKER_03 (06:36):
I literally put in the notes nobody wants to have
their fingers look like slugsbecause that's gross.
Like, who wants that?
So here's what you do instead: you overlap your fingers like (06:42):
undefined
princess hands.
SPEAKER_01 (06:49):
You know, that is actually why Kate Middleton
carries a clutch.
SPEAKER_03 (06:52):
Yes, because it means there's nothing in there.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
It's not like she has to show her ID somewhere or
has car keys.
She's holding it so she hassomething to do with her hands.
She holds it with one hand andthen holds her hand with the
other.
SPEAKER_03 (07:06):
Exactly.
So that's the next tip is in ifyou're not gonna have anything
in your hands and you justoverlap them, instead you could
put something in your hands sothat your hands have a task.
So you can hold your blazerlapel because all of us are
wearing blazers all the time.
Um, you can hold your skirt,like just hold the side.
You can put rest your hand onthe fence that you're standing
(07:27):
next to, or if it's a Christmasphoto with family or a holiday
photo with family, you put yourhand on your child's shoulders.
Something with your hands, holda beverage, whatever it is, just
put something in your hand.
SPEAKER_01 (07:40):
I have also seen um show your accessories.
SPEAKER_03 (07:45):
Oh.
SPEAKER_01 (07:46):
So like put your hand on your earring or grab
your your bracelet, um, playwith your necklace, like do
something with what you'rewearing.
I like that.
Um, because it's like naturaland not to bring another
princess into it, but MeghanMarkle always touches her
earring because it makes herturn her face a little bit so
you get a little profile shot.
SPEAKER_03 (08:07):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (08:07):
And it has her hand like daintily touching her neck,
so she's always like fiddlingwith her earring for her
pictures.
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
But it also kind of looks like you might be tucking
your hair behind your ear orsomething, so it's sort of it is
a very natural sort of look.
It's not just like let me showyou my earring and right, right,
right.
SPEAKER_01 (08:22):
Yeah, no, in your in your mind, you're saying show
off your accessories in yourbody, you're actually just
touching them somehow, right?
Or featuring them in the in yourmovement.
SPEAKER_03 (08:29):
I like that one.
Okay.
Second tip don't.
SPEAKER_01 (08:33):
Does this involve slugs?
SPEAKER_03 (08:35):
No, but it does involve meaty thighs, which I am
familiar with.
SPEAKER_01 (08:39):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
I have those former I didn't play soccer for so long
that like they're superprominent, but I do have like
former soccer player thigh andcalf issues.
So my legs are meaty, okay?
And I just have meaty thighs.
So um don't put all of yourweight on your front leg.
SPEAKER_01 (08:58):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (08:59):
No.
Um, when you pop one leg,meaning like you bend one knee
and you sort of pop the leg out.
The the goal is to make you havean S sort of curve to your body,
right?
It's supposed to be moreflattering.
The problem with doing that isthat most people put the weight
on the wrong leg.
They put their they put theweight on the front leg, the one
(09:23):
that's closer to the camera,which just makes it look bigger.
So when you do the S thing, thepopping thing, you're supposed
to put the weight on the backleg and sort of just like rest
your other foot on the ground,if that makes any sense.
SPEAKER_01 (09:38):
Like it's only so my friend who is a photographer
many years ago, I'm talking likemore than a decade, told me
whatever is closest to thecamera is biggest.
Yes.
So, and she was helping me outum by saying, like, move your
head a little further.
So that you don't have the theSo that you don't have like a
(10:00):
yeah, yeah.
Um, but that makes sense.
If you put all your weight onyour front leg, like that front
leg is gonna look bigger thanthe rest of your body.
SPEAKER_03 (10:08):
Right.
And it already looks bigger thanthe rest of your body.
So then you're like emphasizingit by popping it into the lost
the angle that you were tryingto build.
SPEAKER_01 (10:15):
Right.
And instead just turned your leginto an elephant leg.
SPEAKER_03 (10:19):
Right.
Exactly.
It's not an S anymore.
It's a it's a It's now just acolumn.
Right.
Okay, got it, got it.
Right.
So So what do I do instead?
Instead, you're gonna reversethe weight.
You put your weight on the backleg and pop the front leg
because when you do that, you'regonna slim out the front one a
little bit more.
Um so when you the same thingapplies when you cross your legs
(10:44):
in if you're sitting in apicture.
Um, the leg that is close to thecamera should be crossed over
the leg that's further away.
So you you want to make surethat whatever weight you're
putting in, you put it in theone that's further away from the
camera, just to emphasize oneproportionality and two like S
and not tree trunk.
(11:04):
Right, like that's what we'redoing.
So shift that weight to the backleg.
Okay.
Okay, the last one.
This is where I really it's onething.
SPEAKER_01 (11:12):
I'm already still like I have an image of tree
trunk.
Like I can't take that out of myhead.
SPEAKER_03 (11:16):
Well, you gave me elephant legs, so that's where
my brain is, right?
Um I this is probably the onethat's hardest for me.
Hands I can handle, but arms Ireally sorry.
Yeah, no, I got you.
Totally.
Arms are where I really arms,arms down, arm, arms off to the
(11:39):
side.
Like what arms?
Oh, right.
SPEAKER_01 (11:41):
And you can't you can't do the teacup anymore
because it's like not 2004.
SPEAKER_03 (11:46):
Except you can.
Okay, so um here's here's mysister calls it the skinny arm.
I'm going for it.
I don't care.
Yeah.
We just talked about how we needto make things look slimmer in
the picture.
I'm gonna do a skinny arm.
It's fine.
SPEAKER_01 (11:59):
So, okay, tell us how to do it naturally to where
we don't look like we're takinga picture in our college
sorority.
SPEAKER_03 (12:05):
Okay, so she says to the former sorority girl.
Okay, so here's what you don'tdo.
You don't push your arms.
SPEAKER_01 (12:13):
Oh my gosh, I just looked at the note at the notes
and you literally used the wordteapot.
SPEAKER_03 (12:18):
Yes.
I didn't even see that.
SPEAKER_01 (12:19):
That's just what I've called it.
That is hilarious.
Okay, continue on.
SPEAKER_03 (12:23):
So you don't push your arms into your sides.
So like arms straight down makesthem makes everything look
wider.
Right.
Um, it just the line thatMarissa Wu, the author, uses is
um no matter how pretty someoneis, their arm will still look
bad according to cultural beautystandards.
Splayed out and flat likeroadkill against their torso.
(12:46):
Ew.
I was like, that is what sold meon this article is that line
right there, because that's soreal to say something like
roadkill and have it publishedon a website.
Because that's exactly what allof us are thinking, right?
SPEAKER_01 (13:01):
Like we're all like especially if you're not wearing
sleeves, it's like really notflattering.
SPEAKER_03 (13:05):
Oh, it's not flattering at all.
No, you can't have it.
So here's what you do, allright?
You teapot yourself.
SPEAKER_01 (13:12):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (13:13):
And she says the teapot pose may live in Y2K
infamy, and she's not wrong.
But if you have no other ideas,it does work.
So you might as well go for it,okay?
SPEAKER_01 (13:24):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (13:24):
Um what that means is you have like you pretend,
you know, I'm a little teapot.
You have your arm sort ofteapotted bent so that your
elbow is out and your hand is intowards your waist, okay?
So it looks like you're making atriangle with your arm up
against your body, okay?
Right.
She also says you can level itup with what this pure wild
(13:46):
beauty director named Jenny Jin,whose articles we've also
featured on this show, calls theraptor pose.
And now, this is not likepretend you're a T-Rex.
This is not like she kind of.
Because that is where my brainwent, okay.
But she calls them Princess.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
Both of us have sons, of course.
We went to dinosaur.
SPEAKER_03 (14:01):
Right.
Well, and I we just got off of aDisney cruise, so my brain also
went Toy Story, like with thedinosaur creature.
Oh, yes.
Right.
Like, yeah.
Um, so isn't that the also isn'tthat the voice of the guy from
Princess Bride?
Isn't that the same dude?
SPEAKER_01 (14:15):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (14:15):
It's gotta be, right?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (14:17):
It's inconceivable that it wouldn't be.
SPEAKER_03 (14:18):
Right, yeah, thank you.
Okay.
Um, so you hold your hands infront of you like you're holding
a purse, and then you put yourelbows out away.
So, like, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:28):
Because you're not holding the purse as the length
of your arms, you're holding itlike at your belt buckle.
SPEAKER_03 (14:33):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:34):
Which makes your arms bend to give you an angle.
SPEAKER_03 (14:36):
Right.
And then and then youunnaturally probably force them
outward a little bit.
SPEAKER_01 (14:41):
Right.
So it's not It also straightensout your shoulders a little bit.
It does.
Look, I'm doing it right now,and I mean, obviously, you can't
look.
This is an audio-only format,but as I do that, I can feel my
whole exactly.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (14:53):
And the way that I kind of think of it is um
anytime we're going for likehaving a a a body and then arms.
We're not trying to have likebody arms, right?
It's like we talk about likecankles.
You want to have definitionbetween the two things.
So when your arms are schmooshedup against your body, it just
looks like body with some handshanging off the side.
(15:16):
But if you create some space,Jenny's looking at me.
SPEAKER_01 (15:20):
I'm dying.
I'm like imagining a toddlerdrawing with like hands coming
out the side, right?
It's like body arms.
SPEAKER_03 (15:27):
Body arms.
As I lovingly referred to mybutt and thigh to my friend
Amanda, it's my by, right?
Like it's just it's all onething and they're supposed to be
distinct.
So if your arms are not distinctfrom the rest of your body, your
barms, your barms, you lookridiculous.
So you need to separate.
(15:49):
So that's why teapot arms workbecause you're you're creating
space and separation between thearm and the rest of your body.
Yes, you're removing the barmsand turning it into.
SPEAKER_01 (15:59):
I also like the like hands on each other's shoulders.
Again, that like opens you up soyou can like put your hands on
the people near you.
SPEAKER_03 (16:06):
I typically demand to be in the middle of group
photos because then I can put myarms behind people.
Right.
And I don't have it opens youup.
Right.
But I also don't have to thinkabout what I'm doing with my
hands.
But that doesn't always workwhen you have three sisters and
one of whom is very insistent ononly taking pictures on one side
of her body.
(16:27):
Actually, I have two of them whodo that.
So I it's very difficult to makesense of it.
SPEAKER_01 (16:31):
It's not the different side.
Because then you can't do it.
No, it's not that it's the same.
No, it's right.
That's what I'm saying.
No, no.
Um, I also like the move ofsticking one hand up in the air.
Yes, you do that.
I share.
Yeah.
But also But again, it elongatesme.
SPEAKER_03 (16:44):
It elongates, but it and it lends itself to that S
shape, right?
As long as you're putting yourweight on the back leg, it it
lends itself to that S shape.
SPEAKER_01 (16:51):
So um but you gotta be ready to do that because that
owns the photo.
SPEAKER_03 (16:55):
You do have, yeah, you have it has to be a special
level of um look at me, right?
Right, that's what that photois.
That is what that is.
It is a look at me photo.
Okay.
So the three things we're notgonna do.
We're not gonna lace our fingerstogether, we're not gonna put
all the weight on our front legand make it look like a tree
trunk, and we're not going toput arms into sides and create
(17:16):
barms.
Okay?
Got it.
All right, let's take a break.
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And now, back to the show.
SPEAKER_01 (17:40):
All right, so now we're back.
Um, let me tell you what I amobsessed with.
SPEAKER_03 (17:45):
Yeah, I want to hear it.
SPEAKER_01 (17:46):
It is the time of year where we are having all of
the parties.
SPEAKER_03 (17:50):
Yeah, that's why you did pick, that's why we did a
thing about photos.
SPEAKER_01 (17:53):
Right, right.
Exactly.
So what I'm obsessed with rightnow, minute to win it games.
SPEAKER_02 (18:00):
Oh, like all the ones that are.
SPEAKER_01 (18:01):
What I bring to a party now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So instead of saying, like, oh,I'll bring a cheese plate, like
something that takes work, I'mlike, oh, I'll bring a game.
And so my favorite one right nowis the only thing you need is a
dozen candy canes.
SPEAKER_03 (18:17):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (18:18):
But you need a dozen per team.
SPEAKER_03 (18:21):
Okay.
Those are easy though.
Those are like what two bucks acouple.
Really easy.
SPEAKER_01 (18:24):
Yeah.
And they're, yeah, right?
So one person puts the candycane in their mouth with the
hook out, and everyone elsespreads the candy canes, the 11
remaining, on the floor.
And that person has to hook themand collect them.
The person who uh the team thatgets their 11 picked up fastest
(18:46):
wins.
SPEAKER_03 (18:47):
That's hysterical.
SPEAKER_01 (18:48):
It's amazing.
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
I saw one that was um big marshmallows on a table,
and you put your kids' hands inred solo cups and they have to
pick them again.
And you yeah, those are justthat's amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (19:03):
Those are so there's tons of them out there.
Um, I think we have talked aboutthem on the show before, but to
me, it's it's like it's theeasiest thing to bring to a
party.
Um, it's also not a 30-minutegame that people are like, okay,
we're over this.
Like, and there's some that aremessy, like how fast can you
wrap your friend?
Um, but that's I don't likethat.
SPEAKER_02 (19:23):
But it's also fun, it's wasteful, right?
SPEAKER_01 (19:25):
And it just costs a roll of wrapping paper and tape.
But um the they're they're funand they don't take up much
time, they don't cost a lot ofmoney, and it gets you off the
hook for having to cook.
SPEAKER_03 (19:37):
There's also like something uniquely uh bonding
about those activities becausethey're funny.
Like we've talked about thisbefore.
Anytime you laugh together, itdoesn't need to be a long game,
it just needs to be funny.
SPEAKER_01 (19:49):
So I think that's you do not need any athletic
ability to be talented at thesegames.
SPEAKER_03 (19:54):
That's the other thing.
I wish that when people aredoing, excuse me, like
professional development gamesthat are like meant to be
bonding, you would if youfocused on laughing as opposed
to sharing, you would bondpeople a lot faster.
SPEAKER_01 (20:09):
I don't get why that's not a a thing, but and I
have if I have to make one morespaghetti and marshmallow tower,
I swear.
SPEAKER_03 (20:20):
No, no, those are awful.
No more STEM challenges.
Just make me laugh.
SPEAKER_01 (20:26):
Make me laugh.
Make me laugh.
Have me do something completelyand totally ridiculous.
I loved this game.
It was done in about 12 seconds.
Oh yeah.
The fastest kid was incredible.
We were like, why are you goodat this?
Oh, there was another one umthat I played recently where we
(20:46):
took everybody had um tiny, likethe the fun size uh MMs.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
And then there are cards in thecolors of MMs.
Okay.
And so you open your bag whenthey say go, and you have to
sort them onto the colors.
(21:06):
Oh, dude.
And everyone on your team has toget their bags sorted to be
done.
Oh gosh.
But everyone's sorting at thesame time.
Yeah.
Okay.
So again, it happens in like 20seconds, everybody's done.
And people are franticallymoving MMs around the table.
Red, red.
SPEAKER_03 (21:27):
That's pretty funny.
I could see middle schoolersturning this into another.
Well, we played it with middleschoolers.
SPEAKER_01 (21:32):
And then they ate the MMs, which I thought was
disgusting.
SPEAKER_03 (21:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you guys, everyonehas touched these at the time.
Yeah.
Can we wash hands before we dothis?
That's a little gross.
Okay.
Well.
SPEAKER_01 (21:41):
Okay.
Sorry.
That's my obsession.
What's yours?
SPEAKER_03 (21:43):
Okay, well, speaking of laughing, I don't know how
often the Muppet Christmas Carollike appears in your Christmas
movie lineup, but it needs to beall the time.
Because I've watched it twicealready this season.
That's nothing compared to howmany times we've already watched
Home Alone, which is like 12.
But um it is hysterical.
(22:05):
And one of my favorite things inthis world is Muppets acting
like regular adults and breakingcharacter and or having
bloopers.
Like Unhinged Elmo when hebreaks the fourth wall and like
cannot handle Zoe talking aboutRocco is one of my most
hilarious.
Like I will cry laughing everytime.
(22:26):
It's so good.
So not only am I obsessed withMuppet Christmas Carol, but I
also found an Instagram reel ofMuppet Christmas Carol bloopers.
SPEAKER_01 (22:36):
I am all about it.
You know I love the Muppets.
Yes, I do know you love theMuppets.
I love the Muppets.
And when we were on this trip,that we should probably recap at
some point.
SPEAKER_03 (22:43):
We should recap at some point, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (22:45):
Um, there was a one of the things that you could do
is solve a Muppet mystery.
And there was a little girlsolving the missing 101
Dalmatian puppy mystery.
SPEAKER_02 (22:58):
Oh, that's cool.
SPEAKER_01 (22:58):
And so it uses the same technology, but like
depending on what mystery you'redoing, is what the screen plays
for you, right?
Yeah.
You sign up, okay, I'm doing theMuppets.
But we were at the same stationand she was waiting to do the
puppies and we were doing theMuppets.
And she was like, What is that?
And I looked at her parents indisgust and I was like, What do
you mean your kid doesn't knowwhat the ball is?
(23:20):
No, no, I didn't.
I didn't.
So I'm telling her, I was like,these are the Muppets.
They were created by a magicalman named Jim Henson.
And I'm like giving her thewhole story, and I'm like
pointing to each of the Muppetson the street, and I was like,
This one is Miss Piggy.
She's the prettiest Muppet, butshe's not the nicest one.
SPEAKER_03 (23:38):
She's like Daisy Duck, she's a diva, but even
sassier.
SPEAKER_01 (23:42):
It was too funny.
I'm like exploring this wholeMuppet world with her while
we're waiting for you know a30-second video clip to play for
the team in front of us.
And her parents just kind oflook at me like, who is this
crazy Muppet lady and why is shetalking to my kids?
SPEAKER_03 (23:56):
First of all, if you're feeling that way about
other adults on a Disney cruisetalking to your kid, then you
need to go somewhere.
Second of all, make your kidwatch the Muppet Christmas car.
Oh my gosh, it's so good.
SPEAKER_01 (24:06):
It's also the rat steals the show.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (24:08):
Like the literature.
SPEAKER_01 (24:09):
It's my favorite Muppet for shirk.
SPEAKER_03 (24:11):
Oh, yeah.
I also do love um the SwedishChef guy because he's so
ridiculous.
Anyway, so this in this looper,this one particular one, you
know, the ghost of Christmaspresent, this massive Muppet
who's probably got a personinside of him because he's so
big.
Oh they're walking the streetsof London with Michael Caine of
(24:33):
all people.
And at one point he gestureswildly and hits Michael Caine in
the face.
It brought tears to my eyesbecause his Michael Cain's like
trying not to break character,but he does like just hurt a
little bit.
It's so good.
And I just I Sam has been antiuntil this year, where I was
(24:56):
like, no, we are watching thistogether because it's funny.
And I think the crew's sort ofhelped that a little bit because
he knows who they are now, butuh it just it's making me laugh
and it's bringing joy to myheart.
It's like such a good, it's agood Christmas story, and then
you add to it like anytimethere's jokes for adults, it's
just gonna make it smarter case.
SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
That's one of the things that's great about the
Muppets is that it definitely ummeets everyone's yes, meets
everyone's needs.
SPEAKER_03 (25:25):
It's it's good for everybody.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:26):
So in Muppet News, did you hear that they are
rebranding the Aerosmith rockand roller coaster to be the
Muppets Rock and Roller Coaster?
SPEAKER_03 (25:37):
I did not know that.
But Animal should be featuredheavily on that just to breach
that.
SPEAKER_01 (25:42):
It's gonna be the electric mayhem, the whole band.
unknown (25:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:47):
It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be really good.
Now, the sad part about that isthey're closing Muppets 3D.
SPEAKER_02 (25:54):
Oh no.
SPEAKER_01 (25:56):
And guys, that was like one of the best places to
sit in air conditioning in themiddle of the day.
You have to wait for the show,then the show's 25 minutes long.
Like it was it was a really goodbreak.
SPEAKER_03 (26:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
So you have to do the frozen sing along.
SPEAKER_03 (26:13):
But that's okay.
I don't mind singing along withfrozen.
So good.
unknown (26:17):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (26:18):
And um, the rumor is that while they're closing it,
they are trying to find a way tore-like put it somewhere else
because they do know that it's afan favorite.
And Pizza Rizzo is closing.
It's rat pizza.
SPEAKER_02 (26:31):
What does he say in that movie?
It's like, uh, my mom told menever to eat stinging food.
Yeah.
Like what?
Like what?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (26:40):
Alright, so Gem of the Week.
Um, Abigail is trying to bakesomething, and um, all of the
measurements are in um largequantities for like it's it's
like a legit baker's recipe.
Okay.
Right?
So everything is measured in umweight or volume instead of like
(27:03):
item.
So instead of like a cup offlour, you need 300 grams of
flour, whatever.
Well, we have a food scale, soit's fine.
But the eggs are measured 800milliliters of eggs.
SPEAKER_03 (27:16):
Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_01 (27:17):
It's like I don't even know.
I'm just gonna go.
SPEAKER_03 (27:20):
Just put the thing on the scale and start counting.
SPEAKER_01 (27:23):
We we have to like measure the volume of an egg.
Yeah.
Um, well, I didn't do that.
Oh, that would have been smart.
So instead, I start Googling howmany eggs in 800 milliliters.
I'm like, someone somewhere gota flag that someone Googled
this.
SPEAKER_03 (27:40):
Yeah.
And what's the answer?
Do you know?
SPEAKER_01 (27:42):
Um, it's uh between 14 and 17.
That's depending on the size ofthe eggs.
And it's a lot of eggs, but it'smaking a moose.
SPEAKER_03 (27:49):
Oh, okay.
But that's a lot of moose, too.
SPEAKER_01 (27:52):
It's a filling.
SPEAKER_03 (27:53):
Oh, okay.
Understood.
SPEAKER_01 (27:55):
Yeah, she's making a Yulog.
Nice.
I love it.
Yeah.
I was like, uh, excuse me, what?
800 milliliters of eggs?
Who is measuring their eggs inmilliliters?
I am measuring them in each.
SPEAKER_03 (28:07):
Right.
And like or doesn't get acarton.
Like just go get one of thoselike liquid eggs cartons.
Ugh, gross.
Okay.
Um mine is uh instinctively,when someone puts their finger
in my face, I try to bite it.
It's just a thing.
SPEAKER_01 (28:24):
It's like if you put your hand over my mouth to make
me stop talking, I'm gonna lickyou.
SPEAKER_03 (28:28):
I'm gonna lick it.
Right.
Just so Sam's thing is to puthis finger near my mouth and
watch me try to bite it.
And he says the other day, hesays to my father-in-law, Cappy,
my mom bites.
And he it's his like his thingis to like tell people that I
bite like a dog, like, careful,she bites, right?
Like, so he's like, That's agood thing for people to know
(28:49):
about you.
It is, I agree.
And then at one point he didstick his finger in my mouth.
I did bite it, and then he goes,Stop it, let go of me.
I'm not a bagel.
It made me laugh.
Like, I so I uh instinctivelylet go, otherwise I would have
held on to that finger.
But I was like, I'm not bagel?
Like what's the thing I bite themost?
(29:10):
Apparently, I do like bagels,but also I did not expect.
I'm not a bagel, he doesn't eatbagels.
Wait, where would that comefrom?
But I'm not a bagel.
Okay.
So two things we learn there.
One, he thinks I eat them a lot,and two, I bite.
So don't stick your finger in myface.
FYI.
SPEAKER_01 (29:29):
I think you need a shirt that just says I bite.
SPEAKER_03 (29:33):
I probably do.
I probably do need that shirt.
I think that's a good one.
Speaking of don't bite people.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Make a choice.
Make good choices.
Don't don't stick your finger inmy face.
Uh and no slug fingers.
SPEAKER_01 (29:50):
Yeah.
Or we'll bite.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
Or barbs.
Or no slug fingers.
Yeah.
I don't bite slug fingers.
Gross.
Okay, bye.
unknown (29:58):
Bye.
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