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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'm gonna have to tread lightly here and trying
to figure out how I'm going to navigate this story.
But I have to figure this out because I really
don't know what to do. It is now January twenty first,
when was Christmas? Okay, this year was on the twenty fifth.
You're correct, You're a corrector. So me and my wife
(00:24):
we are very similar where we go over the top
for Christmas. Obviously, you guys know me. My wife's the
same way. She loves Christmas just like me, and so
we get each other a lot of Christmas presents, to
the point of where I've thought about, you know, saying like, hey,
we need to like scale back and like chill out
a little bit. But we both have so much fun
(00:45):
with giving each other the gifts, and then that morning
it's super fun to open all the gifts and stuff
like that, and so we just we'd love doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I know, you guys had to make that rule
for other holidays because you guys are going over the
top for Valentine's Day and St.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I mean literally, there was gifts for Arbor Day and
you're like, all right, what are we doing? Like I
had to shut it all down. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So now Christmas and birthdays.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, like Mother's Day some we'll do
some small Father's Day, small things, but nothing too crazy.
And so Christmas, though, is our is an explosion. It's
it's insane. And so there was a couple of things
that were going on that I had to kind of
get in there with. You know, one of my go
to things it's easy to get me is graphic T shirts.
(01:32):
And so she was buying me graphic keys of stuff
that I like, but they were all very kind of basic.
So she would go to Kohle's or Target and get
the you know, standard Star Wars just as Star Wars
on it, you know, or whatever. And I'm like, I
come on, I'm so past that. Like all of the
shirts that I get for myself are like deep cuts,
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and those are the ones that I like, you know.
And so I have a set of like six or
seven websites that I will go to that I said,
you know what, instead of getting me a standard Coles
T shirt, I'm going to send her this list of
like six or seven websites that I shop for shirts at.
That that's where you can start buying my shirts. From
and so I was kind of expecting to see, uh,
(02:15):
you know, explosion of T shirts for Christmas this year,
but I didn't really get that. And the couple shirts
that I got were the standard basic T shirts I
showed you guys the other last week. I got a
shirt that just says Empire strikes back.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Up, which is crazy because she got me a T
shirt that's great. It's all the names of like the
most important Yankees from their dynasty on one shirt.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I love that. Who do you think helped her? You
think she went on and picked that up? Do you
think she she did all the research and knew all
the nineties Yankees players that you like.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So okay, Deborah knew exactly who Bernie Williams was.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, knew. She knew Cheter. That's so true.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
About her, though I'm confused. Did she go to the
Links and then buy the most basic shirt they carry
or did she just go back to Target.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
A couple of things could have happened, like she you know,
we are again very similar. We buy throughout the year,
So this is something she could have already had in
the bag and purchased. And then when I sent her
that list, which was like in November or whatever. She
was like, oh, okay, maybe for next time. I hope, yeah,
but or she just she can be a little stubborn
and like maybe that offended her of like, I don't care,
(03:28):
I'm still gonna buy them whatever. What I like, I
don't know. I don't know what's going on with that.
And you'll understand when I say stubborn in a second. Okay,
So I have been talking about something that I've wanted
for over a year. I mean it has been quite
a while that I've said I've wanted this, and I
thought this would be an easy thing for her to
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get me throughout the years. So I remember it was
something that I told her I wanted for my birthday.
It didn't happen. I thought, okay, well then Father's Day
it didn't happen. I've brought up and to the point
of where Emily and I continuously joke about it now
at this point because she has one. It is a
(04:08):
Blackstone grill. I've wanted one as well, and so when
Emily got hers, I was like super jealous and I
was like, oh, I want one to and she always
makes fun of me. Why don't you just go buy it?
And I tell her, I go because it's such a
perfect easy gift for Deborah to get me. I don't
want to buy it if she can just get it
for me. And then and then it's like two birds
with one stone, yeah, and no put intended Blackstone. And
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so I keep hearing all these great things that Emily's
making throughout the year, and I'm super jealous.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Wells are like she's making hey damn.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Good on that thing. And it's come up in my
household multiple times because like for Emily's Birthday and Christmas,
I've bought her Blackstone products and Deborah's I.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Got all the accessories. Right now, she's seen label Blackstone floating.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And I'm like talking about it.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
I may or may not have also sent her photos
before in the past year or two when I happened,
because you guys know, I'm always on like a Walmart
or Costco, and I'll be seeing I'll see when I
see a great deal on the blacks and I'll send
take a photo of it, you know, two seventy nine
for the Blackstone grill everything blah blah bla blah blah,
I'll send it to her.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And oh, okay, so this Christmas I was like, slam dunk,
I'm getting the Blackstone grill. It's like I know for
a fact I'm going to get it, and this is
gonna be great. I can't wait to use it. It's
gonna be awesome. So opening the Presence Christmas morn rip
or prip, this is the greatest morning in my life.
And no Blackstone oh again again to the point of
(05:49):
where like Emily is just dying laughing because I didn't
get it against stair and at the same time it's
almost humiliating. I don't know what what it is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
What does she not want to eat good food.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And she thinks girl's fault. I don't know. I don't
know what's going on. So that was a little strange
to me. But what I did get still doesn't really
make a lot of sense. So I think I mentioned
this like when we came back from our Christmas break.
What I got this year is awesome, but I didn't
(06:29):
really get it. What I got was basically an I
owe you and I opened it up. It's a PlayStation
gift card and with a note that says this comes
with a brand new PlayStation five and I basically she
(06:51):
tells me I didn't buy you the PlayStation five because
that game stop you can turn in your old system
and get a huge discount credit towards the new system.
This is something that I was like telling her about,
and she's like, well, I didn't want to just take
your system and turn it in without you knowing. You
could be in the middle of a game or whatever.
And I don't want to do that. And plus it's
(07:11):
your thing, so so you know, whenever we can, we
can do that. And I go, okay, that sounds great.
So here we are January twenty first, and I still
don't have the PS five and I don't know, like,
am I just supposed to go buy my own present
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or am I like, I don't know what's happening one
of the things.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So this is I don't know, maybe this is how
I look at it. This is a little different.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Though.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
My wife needed new boots, cowboy boots for riding. Oh
she oh, so riding your horse. I'm nice And I
was like online looking looking looking, and I don't know,
I knew her size, but I didn't know like what
exactly what she wanted. So I said to her, Hey,
I like wrote a little note and like put it in,
(08:02):
you know, and I gave it to her on her
Christmas and I was like, you, this is your.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Christmas buy a boot.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I thought about that, but there's multiple boot places.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I just I just so I drew something on the
card and gave it to her. But now she's gonna
go pick out the boots. So could this be something
like that where she's like, hey, this is your gift,
the PS five.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
But now you're putting it on us. So is that
even a gift? Like, what's the gift the gift is?
I mean she's getting you gave her permission to buy? No,
I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I don't know, because I could have bought her boots.
They couldn't understand all that it would have been gray.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't know a note that I am literally gonna
what do I do with this note? I now have
to go shopping for the boots and buy them? She
would we share, we share an account, So like, what's
the difference. You didn't really do anything. I mean, you
gave her a note.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I did a lot of research.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You did nothing. You literally did nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, Brott, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But I mean she could could she just go get
Cowboy boots? No? Oh, really, permission for the big Man. Yes,
the gift, it's not a gift.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
It was also a gift. So we had, like we
had a budget for Cowboy boots.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
We had a budget for Cowboy boots. I don't want
to say what the budget was. We had a budget.
I increased the budget gets the cowboy boots.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, so generous. Who sits boots?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, she's gonna go by herself because she could try
them up. I don't think you're no, I do.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I see what you're saying for.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But Eddie, how many variations of the p S five
is it in the same world?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
One CD one, there's a there's a digital only one.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But could you easily tell Deborah I want the slim one?
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Go?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I think that's what you want.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
He probably wants them to have a little conversation that
even go, hey, honey, I'm gonna go tomorrow and I'm
gonna go swap out and do the PS five for you.
Why don't you hand me your sister whatever whatever you
want equipment out of your game, hand it to put
in a bag and then tell me which one and
then I'll go do it.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, it's a pain in the ask for me, like,
I'm I gonna do it. Yeah, okay, I guess I'll
do it. I could do that at any point, you know,
I could have done that idea. I don't. I don't
need permission to buy things. I can just go buy things.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And so is it fun?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Have you ever mentioned to her like, oh, I like
to go into game stop and look at the stuff
they have?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Like when was the last time I don't go to games?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, so that's never a thing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So nowhere in her mind would she think, oh, he
would enjoy the experience of going in there and looking
at stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And like, definitely not okay, definitely not the case. No,
definitely not a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
A month later, I still don't have a Christmas present?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Will you say something?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Or will this be a silent battle and we'll find
out next Christmas if you ever got here.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I don't know. That's my question is I don't really
know how to handle it. Do I say to her, Hey,
are you going to go get the PS five? Do
I got to go get this PS five? Or what
do we well?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
What's more important playing the PS five or seeing how
this plays out?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Like trying to win the war? I'm not trying. Honestly,
I've done that many times. In this case, I'm not
trying to win. I'm just confused of like what's happening here? Like,
why how do I get my present? Am I supposed
to go get my own present? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well then I think you do. I think you do
the reverse of what Emily said.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You basically say, hey, babe, when do you want me
to unplug my PS four for you so you could
take it in?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
But that's so passive aggressive, it's almost just aggressive. Yeah,
why not just say hey, are you gonna pick up
the PS five?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Orm?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I gonna pay the five?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You could?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's communications, I mean, why do that? And I'm gonna
unplug this so you could take like what I think.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
It's her gift.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Then just say that, Just say hey, can you get
this PS five for me?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'll unplug my stuff, can you?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You don't need to say you aggressive.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
She didn't want to lug it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
She didn't want to, so he can ut plug it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How about I just unplug it and just leave it
like on the dining room. Yeah, put it out for her.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I feel that's more passive. So I kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
To be honest, all this would have been avoided if
I just got that black Stone Girl was actually I.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Was just gonna say it was really beautiful this past weekend,
and I was out there growing up the store.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I'm sure it was great. Okay, yeah, so maybe yeh
next Christmas. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know.