December 3, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christmas season. We always like to have fun with Christmas.
So you want to get into controversial Christmas takes takes
eight seven, seven, nine, three seven one to four seven Isabella.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You have a controversial Christmas take.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I think, yeah, I guess so. My family really didn't
do Christmas list, and I've kind of carried that with me.
I noticed that a lot of people end up just, oh,
what do you want for Christmas? Oh, I'll give you
a list, and then if it's not on the list,
people just get kind of so upset, And then that's
(00:38):
not really how I feel that Christmas was. I love
this time of the year where you just get together
with your family and have a great meal and share
some stories about what's happened and the times next amount
of time, and you just kind of bond together. You
play some games, you have fun. But gifting to me
is more just about like if you walk past them
(00:58):
in the store and you something that just seems aunt poky,
and you just want to grab that for them and
share that moment with them, you know, and just tell
them like, yeah, I walked by and I remembered tell
them the story about a lizard when we were kids,
and this just reminded me of that, and it made
me feel so special. I need you have this. That's
what I love about gifting and things. So for Christmas
(01:20):
it all kind of feels forced these days. And I
just never know what to do with my hands when
I'm supposed to up as a gift, and it just
doesn't feel I don't know, it's as light as it
used to be when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Don't use your hands to open the gifts.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's so awkward. You're like, Okay, am I to be
really excited? Am I supposed to small?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Big?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What am I supposed to do here? You know? And
then it's just it's all flat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's a good take.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But you were saying you like to get together, eat
food and tell stories and play games. That's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's my great aunt. She would have us all together
at her house and she would do like her own
version of White Elephants. So she would buy all the
gifts so that nobody could bring anything too weird because
one year they brought a fish. And she would just
bring nice from all over the world because she travels
a lot, and she would have us big numbers and
(02:18):
you could steal it from somebody else, and there would
be games like Christmas Trivia, so like how many candy
canes are sold the year and you'd guess, and the
closest one got this really big prize, and we'd all
just get together and sing, and my great uncle would
dress up as Santa and pass out some.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Gifts and it just okay, hold on, you never had
it when you were a kid. You didn't come up
with a Christmas list because I think lists of her kids.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, No, I didn't my my grandparents because we grew
up at my grandparents' house. They just they just made
it so radical you were counting down to this time.
It wasn't really about like, oh, what you wanted. It
would just like spread out all these random gifts, which
sometimes were just things that you needed. My stocking needs
to be filled with, like tooth brushes and things like that,
(03:04):
but something different where it was kind of funny and
like those chocolate coins. I got to see what they
thought that I would want.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Ida, Yeah, thank you. Nate. Do you have a controversial
take on Christmas?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, I don't think it should be controversial, but
according to my wife, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What's that I think this.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Whole everybody giving gifts as a family, as we're all adults,
is just incredibly dumb, because it's like, say, you set
a limit at fifty dollars, and I buy you a
fifty dollars gift and you buy me a fifty dollars gift.
We both know what the other one's gonna get us
because we put it on a list. So why don't
I just take my fifty bucks by the thing I want.
You take the fifty bucks by this thing you want.
(03:45):
Everything's good to go. If you got you know, five
people and you're spent three hundred dollars on Christmas, I
could add that to my other you know, three or
five hundred dollars, and by that eight hundred dollars item
I've wanted all year that I've been putting off. I
just don't understand the whole gift givings. Everybody knows what
they're getting, why do it?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I get it?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
For kids? Kids is a different story. Totally cool with that,
But as adults, enjoy the company, enjoy family, go do
something as a family, you know, make use of the money.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Receiving gifts is not his love language, and Isabella could
be related.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, but it's kind of point there. It's like I
could actually get something that I want for the fifty bucks,
and you can get something you want, and then we're
all good. We're all adults here. I get what he's
saying and then party some other way.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
And it would be no different than like me giving
you fifty dollars and you give me fifty dollars. What
did you accomplish? Absolutely nothing. At the end of the day,
you already still had fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Every year, Well, you should follow Isabelle's rule and say
no lists, and then it will be a surprise.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, see it, Like that's the thing. Like my we
went to the farmer's market. I'm in Tucson and my
wife and I went to the farmer's market a couple
of weeks ago, and there was a lady selling blown
glass hummingbirds. My wife thought and said, oh, your mom
would love that. That's the kind of gift that can
understand for Christmas. But the forest idea, you know, it's Christmas.
We have to give everybody a gift who seems ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, Nate, thanks brother, thanks for listening. Speed A
farmer's market. My wife, you know, she had to hysterect
to me, so she wanted to go out the other day. Slowly,
we went to a farmer's market that I hadn't been
to in a long time. And you know how they
got like cool food at farmer's market. Yeah. Get this,
I can't gets out of my head. Picture like a pancake,
but it was corn bread and in between the corn
(05:32):
bread was melted cheese. So it was like a pancake
corn bread melted cheese sandwich. Ye I know, I know,
I wish I didn't have it. Oh, I just stared
at it and I was like, because it was I'm
trying to If it was like four in the afternoon,
I would have eaten it, but it was like nine
am I know, and people were eating them like crazy,
But I would just I didn't. It seemed so delicious
(05:56):
and something I've never heard of before. I know, my
mouth is watering, faking now you gotta go back. I would,
but not in my house. It's my controversial Christmas. No
farmer's marketing to Christmas. All. Wait, it's John Jay Rich.
If you've got a controversial Christmas takes, we'll want to
hear from you eight seven seven nine three seven one
oh four seven. In other words, if you're a screwge
(06:16):
on Christmas, call us
Christmas season. We always like to have fun with Christmas.
So you want to get into controversial Christmas takes takes
eight seven, seven, nine, three seven one to four seven Isabella.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You have a controversial Christmas take.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I think, yeah, I guess so. My family really didn't
do Christmas list, and I've kind of carried that with me.
I noticed that a lot of people end up just, oh,
what do you want for Christmas? Oh, I'll give you
a list, and then if it's not on the list,
people just get kind of so upset, And then that's
(00:38):
not really how I feel that Christmas was. I love
this time of the year where you just get together
with your family and have a great meal and share
some stories about what's happened and the times next amount
of time, and you just kind of bond together. You
play some games, you have fun. But gifting to me
is more just about like if you walk past them
(00:58):
in the store and you something that just seems aunt poky,
and you just want to grab that for them and
share that moment with them, you know, and just tell
them like, yeah, I walked by and I remembered tell
them the story about a lizard when we were kids,
and this just reminded me of that, and it made
me feel so special. I need you have this. That's
what I love about gifting and things. So for Christmas
(01:20):
it all kind of feels forced these days. And I
just never know what to do with my hands when
I'm supposed to up as a gift, and it just
doesn't feel I don't know, it's as light as it
used to be when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Don't use your hands to open the gifts.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's so awkward. You're like, Okay, am I to be
really excited? Am I supposed to small?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Big?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What am I supposed to do here? You know? And
then it's just it's all flat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's a good take.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But you were saying you like to get together, eat
food and tell stories and play games. That's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's my great aunt. She would have us all together
at her house and she would do like her own
version of White Elephants. So she would buy all the
gifts so that nobody could bring anything too weird because
one year they brought a fish. And she would just
bring nice from all over the world because she travels
a lot, and she would have us big numbers and
(02:18):
you could steal it from somebody else, and there would
be games like Christmas Trivia, so like how many candy
canes are sold the year and you'd guess, and the
closest one got this really big prize, and we'd all
just get together and sing, and my great uncle would
dress up as Santa and pass out some.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Gifts and it just okay, hold on, you never had
it when you were a kid. You didn't come up
with a Christmas list because I think lists of her kids.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No, No, I didn't my my grandparents because we grew
up at my grandparents' house. They just they just made
it so radical you were counting down to this time.
It wasn't really about like, oh, what you wanted. It
would just like spread out all these random gifts, which
sometimes were just things that you needed. My stocking needs
to be filled with, like tooth brushes and things like that,
(03:04):
but something different where it was kind of funny and
like those chocolate coins. I got to see what they
thought that I would want.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Ida, Yeah, thank you. Nate. Do you have a controversial
take on Christmas?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, I don't think it should be controversial, but
according to my wife, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What's that I think this.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Whole everybody giving gifts as a family, as we're all adults,
is just incredibly dumb, because it's like, say, you set
a limit at fifty dollars, and I buy you a
fifty dollars gift and you buy me a fifty dollars gift.
We both know what the other one's gonna get us
because we put it on a list. So why don't
I just take my fifty bucks by the thing I want.
You take the fifty bucks by this thing you want.
(03:45):
Everything's good to go. If you got you know, five
people and you're spent three hundred dollars on Christmas, I
could add that to my other you know, three or
five hundred dollars, and by that eight hundred dollars item
I've wanted all year that I've been putting off. I
just don't understand the whole gift givings. Everybody knows what
they're getting, why do it?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I get it?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
For kids? Kids is a different story. Totally cool with that,
But as adults, enjoy the company, enjoy family, go do
something as a family, you know, make use of the money.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Receiving gifts is not his love language, and Isabella could
be related.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, but it's kind of point there. It's like I
could actually get something that I want for the fifty bucks,
and you can get something you want, and then we're
all good. We're all adults here. I get what he's
saying and then party some other way.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
And it would be no different than like me giving
you fifty dollars and you give me fifty dollars. What
did you accomplish? Absolutely nothing. At the end of the day,
you already still had fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Every year, Well, you should follow Isabelle's rule and say
no lists, and then it will be a surprise.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, see it, Like that's the thing. Like my we
went to the farmer's market. I'm in Tucson and my
wife and I went to the farmer's market a couple
of weeks ago, and there was a lady selling blown
glass hummingbirds. My wife thought and said, oh, your mom
would love that. That's the kind of gift that can
understand for Christmas. But the forest idea, you know, it's Christmas.
We have to give everybody a gift who seems ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
All right, Nate, thanks brother, thanks for listening. Speed A
farmer's market. My wife, you know, she had to hysterect
to me, so she wanted to go out the other day. Slowly,
we went to a farmer's market that I hadn't been
to in a long time. And you know how they
got like cool food at farmer's market. Yeah. Get this,
I can't gets out of my head. Picture like a pancake,
but it was corn bread and in between the corn
(05:32):
bread was melted cheese. So it was like a pancake
corn bread melted cheese sandwich. Ye I know, I know,
I wish I didn't have it. Oh, I just stared
at it and I was like, because it was I'm
trying to If it was like four in the afternoon,
I would have eaten it, but it was like nine
am I know, and people were eating them like crazy,
But I would just I didn't. It seemed so delicious
(05:56):
and something I've never heard of before. I know, my
mouth is watering, faking now you gotta go back. I would,
but not in my house. It's my controversial Christmas. No
farmer's marketing to Christmas. All. Wait, it's John Jay Rich.
If you've got a controversial Christmas takes, we'll want to
hear from you eight seven seven nine three seven one
oh four seven. In other words, if you're a screwge
(06:16):
on Christmas, call us
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