Mohr Stories 251: Jay Mohr

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Actually, the holidays just in general, are my favorite holidays. But I love to eat. I love Thanksgiving food. Love everything about it. I do love Thanksgiving food that's like I could eat Thanksgiving food all year long. Wait, someone told me not too long ago it was a guy. He told me that he doesn't get down with Thanksgiving food, and this was just like a random conversation. Actually, it was confrontational talking to the nail salon, and I was just like, What? What happened to you? Who hurt you? Like who? Who traumatized you in your life? That, like, you don't love Thanksgiving food. I've just that's, I think, literally the first person I've ever met that ever told me that Kristen doesn't eat like Turkey and stuff. She only eats the sides. Wait, wait. Yeah, she she calls it. She calls it side's giving. Oh, wow, OK. Well, I could kind of get behind that. Although I do. I love a fried turkey like I'm from have never had fried turkey, huh? I've never had fried turkey. Oh my god. It will make you slap your mama. Your grandmama like it is so good. Chase Chrisley makes the best fried turkey ever. I was sneaking into the refrigerator last year at midnight, getting pulls off of his fried turkey turkey. Honey, I've never had it. One of my best friends is coming from Dallas. You guys know Sterling and her kids are coming and sterling. She puts her foot in whatever she cooks, so I'm really excited for her to cook. She cooked. We did Thanksgiving at her house two years ago, and I'm just not a chef. I'm not a cooker. I'm not. I'm just can't. So I'll take care of the drinks. Sterling can cook the food. Why do you guys drink like excessively on Thanksgiving? I don't drink ever alcohol drinks. Are you talking about you're going to handle soft drinks? Oh, I'm handling soft drinks. No, I'm not opposed. If people wanted to drink alcohol at my house for Thanksgiving, I would not be upset. That's their prerogative. But with four kids, I never want to have a hangover, so that's not happening for me. No, I think, first of all, need to back up. My parents don't drink. Never have actually was having this conversation with my dad the other day, and he was like, I don't know what happened to my kids, like they all drink and we never did. And I'm thinking to myself, it would be so nice to just, like, take the edge off of being around everyone by just having champagne. Like, I don't get it. Like, Why can't we do that? But never alcohol? A lot of my parents house, ever. So we do not have alcohol at my parents house for any holiday ever. Oh, OK. So we thought that's weird. No, I don't think that's weird. I don't think when I was growing up doing Thanksgiving, like with my extended family, my cousins, my aunts and uncles and stuff, I don't remember them ever even. Maybe there was no. I feel like wine was only at Christmas. I don't remember them ever having alcoholic beverages at Thanksgiving. I feel like there was wine at Christmas, and that was it. I would love to know how many people just get drunk with your family over holidays, because I think that's probably a pretty common thing. Did you ever go out for Thanksgiving Eve? The f**k is that. Oh, here we go out for Thanksgiving Eve. It's like a big thing, like go to the bars and bar hop and stuff, huh? Wait back up. Back up. First of all, where was this originated from? Is this like a common way? People? Probably. I don't know what Thanksgiving Eve Thanksgiving Eve is like a big deal around here. People go out for Thanksgiving Eve. Ma'am, I've never heard of Thanksgiving Eve ever in my life. Thanksgiving Eve looks like your kitchen f**king exploded. Your mom's b***hing you out because you need to clean all the pots and pans and start the dishwasher so that she can really f**k it up. Yeah, no. Here. That's not it. You just go. You get ready, you go out you and you get f**ked up with your friends. So that's that's interesting. I'm actually going to look up Thanksgiving Eve and anybody who has ever participated in Thanksgiving Eve, please let me know and give me a better definition than what Kale has, because going out and getting f**ked up with your friends seems seems strange, but like, OK, I could get behind it. Yeah. Wait, before we get into, like talking about anything else, let me tell you what happened to me this morning. OK, so I was just laying in my bed like been trying to be a normal person, which we all know that I'm not. And I start hearing, OK, and I need to know if anybody else has ever done this because this has happened to me, like all the time where you will be sleeping and you think you hear something or you know that you hear something, but you're still kind of like asleep. But like you like, know what's going on, it's around you. Yeah. Like almost like a lucid dream, but you're not really sure. Like, you think you might be more awake than. Yeah. That's what was going on. So I'm like, I hear like this throw up noise and I'm like, still sleeping with my eyes closed. I don't know why. I didn't feel like I needed to peel them open sooner. I wake up. This dog is laid out beside me, freaking puking on the bed. I knew you were going to say that. I f**king knew you were going to say that. Why? Like what? What possessed her on that time that she needed to throw up and like what? Like, I've never had a dog puke in my bed before, and I was absolutely disgusted. But I'm going to tell you something more disgusting that I did. Once you jail, you just lay down. I went, got a towel and I put it over the throw up. Yup. Because it was on like one side of the bed where no one was. And then I just went back to sleep. It was like too early to try to start cleaning that up. Yeah, no, that's that's what I did. That's what I do when if my kids are sleeping with me in the bed? I'm not cleaning it up at 2:00 in the morning anymore. Stop. There was a there was a period of time in my life when I would clean it up in the middle of the night. But like for what? OK, wait, wait. If your kids pissed the bed, is it not like a lot? No, not really. It's mainly just luck. I mean, knock on wood. He hasn't. He hasn't in a really long time. But if you did know it would be less than like a towel. OK, well, I don't think Jackson has peed the bed in like a very, very long time, like years. I think he only had like a couple bed peeing accidents, but I should. You know what that is like one of the worst things as a mom to have to deal with, like a throw up kid in the middle of the night, a throw of dog in the middle of the night, or a bed wetting incident because you're literally half asleep when you're trying to deal with it and you're like, the bathroom was like, literally right there. Yeah, I I don't know. I don't know why. I thought that, like the dog could have possibly like, made it to her own crate to puke. I came up with a bunch of things in my head that, like, could have been a logical thing. But then I was like, Wait, she's not a human. So there's that. And I also need to know from you and everyone else if it takes you literally all day to wash your bed linens because I have so much s**t on my bed. That's so funny, because you were slightly late to the recording today, and I told Kristen I was like, If she doesn't get on my 10:30, I have to go wash my bed sheets just like I got to do washing my butt like I have someone who does my laundry regularly, but my sheets and my towels, I don't mind doing them. I own like it just doesn't bother me, and I love the smell of bleach, so I do it a certain way. I literally was like, I cannot wait to wash my bedsheets like, I'm so excited. It does take all day, but I have like multiple sets, so it's like fine. So yes, through what's on your bed. I have for like regular like the king sized pillows. Mm-Hmm. The ones that you sleep with. And then I have five decorative pillows which come off. I don't I don't always like wash the covers because those come off every night. And then I have now that I have experienced, I got a brand new mattress when I moved into this house and Lux threw up on it twice before I got a mattress protector. So I have a mattress protector that I wash and then I have. I put my my flat sheet under my fitted sheet. So I wash my mattress protector, my fitted sheet, my flat sheet and I wash my comforter. So Christine told me which I wanted to throw the f**k up most like hotels and stuff. They don't wash or dry, clean the actual comforter. I don't know if it's just like, because people, it's a pain in the ass, or because I have to put it on an extra spin cycle so it rinses like a drains. Mm hmm. But I'm still going to do that because I want it to be clean and then I don't care how long it takes to dry like it doesn't bother me. And so I wash everything at the same time. There's never a time where I don't wash the comforter, too. OK. So I wonder if after you've seen my bed, right? Yeah, I said to you the last time I washed my sheets, which was literally last week I sent you. Oh, actually, I didn't see the comforter was just like the sheets in the pillows. Yeah. So I don't put like a big comforter on my bed. I get so hot at night, so I am a white sheet girl. We've talked about this so many times, but white sheet girl, I have my Laura Ashley, which if you guys like, don't have a Laura Ashley pillow, you're not doing things right. I've never heard of this. That would be a definite like, lovely gift to get someone that would truly be the gift that kept giving every single night. I got my Laura Ashley, a body size one whenever I was pregnant and have never been able to get rid of it used to be something that I just like snuggle with on the couch when I was married after I had Jackson. Because Will is a psychopath about pillows, so we had to have like the down super fluffy pillows that you, you like, sink into. I don't really love a pillow like that, though, and it's funny because since I got divorced, I got a whole different kind of feeling a pillow than I had whenever I was married, because the ones we had when we were married were more ones like Will would have liked. I have for, you know, like those pillows that have like the cooling technology in them. Yes. Yes. OK, so I have four of those and then I have my body length. Laura Ashley, I put on white sheets and then I put on like a fuzzy kind of like, I don't know what type of material it is, but it's like a fuzzy like blanket on top of my sheets. And then, you know, like the slip cover that you put a duvet into. Yes. OK, so I put that on top of my fuzzy, but I don't put a duvet in it because I get too hot at night. I hate duvet covers. I've never had a good experience with them. And then, of course, I have two barefoot dreams blankets on my bed because I can't live without it. If you've ever had it, you'll never live without it. It's a major luxury, but I think I've ever had one. Hmm. Well, you just gave me Christmas ideas. Best thing ever, your kids will fight over them. Wear blanket people we love, like, throw blankets my kids have like I. We all have so many. I love them so much. OK, I'm sending you a barefoot dream's blanket because you need to feel. You need to feel all the feels. OK, don't ever wake up again. But that's that's what's on my bed, and it truly does. It's an all day process. I think it's funny that you use your like flashy underneath your fitted. I think that's so interesting. Also, major tip when I moved into this house and I ordered mattresses for this bed, Jackson's bed and my guest bedroom for the reason that you said about the accidents like on the mattress before you were able to get like protectors, I ordered those when I order the mattress, so there was no excuse for them not to be protected. And I'm so glad that I did, because literally, if this dog would have thrown up in this day and would have gone, I think I would have had to rid myself of the mattress. I can't. I can't like mattresses with stains. Freak me out. So bad hotels truly freak me out. So bad. If you've ever been to a hotel and like she has, like come up like whenever you're sleeping, is that ever happened? Yes, ill. And you wake up and you like, see the exposed mattress and you're like, Holy s**t, like, yeah, I immediately want to throw up. I can't. I can't. My mattresses are zipped into like a water protective cover. So like, you literally zipped the whole mattress into it. And then I have a protector like a mattress pad on top of that. I'm very diligent. And when? Yeah, if you really want to get into it, when I take mattress pat off, I'm able to clorox like my whole like little mattress protector down and it smells so good and it's so clean. So if you guys haven't done this in your mattress is still salvageable. Do it, do it, do it. You know, what else makes a perfect gift, Everly? Well, because it's the gift of health and just knowing how to take care of yourself, your body, taking your lab test results directly to your physician, being able to get vitamin supplements, and that goes for anyone on your holiday list. So this year, you can prioritize what matters most when you share the gift of help with ever. Well, these are at home lab tests like food sensitivity, women's health, men's health or vitamins and supplements because love and health are all you need, really. 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So I got new pillows for the guest room, new comforter, everything. And I'm going to I'm going to bleach all the sheets and stuff and get the bathroom ready. I spent so much money at Dollar General or Family Dollar because they had such good stuff for the bathroom. I like stocked up on all kinds of shampoos, conditioners, lotions, razors, everything, and they're all brand names. So I'm wait. You touch on that Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and I get confused by them and then Dollar General. They're all different. What's the Family Dollar one? I don't know. I never I had never been in it. There's one on my street like literally, my kids can ride their bikes there, and I anytime they want to, like, go get candy or something like, I'll take them and I just send them in the store and then I wait in the car. I never got in there. Well, last week, when I didn't have my kids and I needed to go grab something, I went in there and it was like a s**t ton of stuff. And I literally was like, Oh my God, like, you can get any f**king thing at Family Dollar. I got all the best stuff for my guest bathroom. But what are you putting in the gas? But what? What do you put in a guy's bathroom? I just didn't want her to have to, like, bring stuff to, like, bathe herself, bathe her girls. You know, I got like hair products, shampoo, conditioner, razors. I got flowers, toothbrushes I don't want. I don't want her to have to bring all of that stuff. That's so nice. When you go to someone's house, it kind of feels like an upscale hotel. Yeah, that's like going to Todd and Julie Chrisley's. Yeah, you don't have to worry about bringing any of that stuff. They have the best stuff because she shops at Costco. So one, everything's in bulk and it's just like large and they have everything that you could think of. Like when I tell you the little individual Neutrogena like makeup wipes, the flossing picks, the things you clean your ears out with all like the the good soaps. It's literally better than going to a hotel. If you come to my house, you might get. I have spare toothbrushes like I was diligent about buying that. But outside of that, you're probably just going to like shower with whatever in my shower. And I wish that I was like my parents. And in fact, you've now inspired me. So when we hang up from here, I think I'm gonna go to target and just go through this little section of like, you know, that section that they have where it's like the travel section. Yes. Like, I have found so much great s**t in there. Yeah. So I'm going to go, I'm going to go there today and do that because because you have really inspired me, actually have family coming in town. So that would be very great. And also, while we're on this topic of buying s**t while I'm there, I'm going to get a little box to put together like some snacks and drinks and stuff for the delivery drivers because I get so many deliveries over the holidays. And I think that that's so cute. I see a lot of my like blogger girlfriends making that so cute outside their door for like UPS, FedEx, USPS, whatever to be able to just like grab a snack and a drink is not super cute. Yeah, I remember that from the holiday season last year, and I do think it's super cute, especially because it's a crazy time. And I actually watched a Tik Tok today. An Amazon driver was like giving tips on how he was like, I'm going to help you, help us help you. And he was saying that like the Flex drivers and stuff that deliver for Amazon, it's not like USPS. Like it's a different person every single time, and they literally can deliver in the middle of the night. So leave like your porch lights on and stuff like that. And so I think those are like the forgotten delivery drivers, like the Flex ones because they have typical like FedEx, Amazon UPS from eight to eight, but then they also have Flex drivers. I don't know if you USPS or FedEx and UPS, I don't know if they have like out of regular hours deliveries, but Amazon does. So he was like, Don't you know, we're tripping over stuff we don't mean to make your dog bark. We're not going to knock. But like that would be nice for like those drivers that delivery in the middle of the night. Oh my gosh. Let me tell you, I was cleaning up my kitchen the other night, and it was probably close to 8:30 because it was getting close to Jackson's bedtime. And he had already made it upstairs and my doorbell rang and I kid you not. It was like rainy and it was cold outside and I was getting a UPS delivery that late and I said, Oh my gosh, it's so late. I wish I would have had a snack. For her then, because she just looked like she was so tired and there's no telling how many packages I think about. I always think about this over the holiday and I don't know why I think about it more over the holiday than the regular part of the year. Maybe I'm just like in the spirit. But now that you can order everything offline and because of Amazon, I feel like they probably have to work so much harder because you're so much more delivery. I agree, and I think the Flex, actually, I think the Flex drivers are able to pick up more hours and stuff. Well, I admit not. I did not even know what a flex driver was, so they drive their own cars. You just informed me of of something, actually, even for me of a couple of things on this episode that I was unaware of. Before we do that, this or that. Thanksgiving foods, I've got to tell you, I was preparing Jackson for a field trip. I talked to Christian about this either on southern tea somewhere. I talked to her about it, about this is the first field trip that I have not gone on as a chaperone. So I was preparing for it today and preparing for like the lunch. And I don't know why I get so freaked out, but I was like, so alarmed that like he was not going to have something. I went back and looked at the list that his teacher sent acted like he was going for, like, stay away camp for like a long time. I went through this list like six times and I was like, OK, he's got his beanie, he's got his gloves, he's wearing the right shirt. So in case he gets lost, like my child will get lost, so make sure he's got on the right. Sure, I was making dino nuggets at like eight o'clock last night to put in his lunchbox and I was just like, so nervous. I don't know why dropping him off at the school this morning, knowing that he was going to get on a bus and like, I wasn't going to be there, stressed me out. All right. Anything with the kids at school stresses me out. No, but like, do you chaperone on field trips or? I have. I have chaperones, but it's not something I do regularly. Kale when I tell you, I've been on everything. So this is the first time ever and when I went to drop Jackson off at school, we get in carpool this morning and he is like, Mom, why is this a field trip? You're not going on? And I'm like, Well, because I had things to do. And like, I always, I am a mom that has always, you know, I will make sure if there's like a sign of genius and like the school needs something or like, you know, stuff for the school nurse, whatever, like, I've always been on top of that to like, just be a part, do my part, whatever. And I remember talking about last year that I was going to not sign up to be real mom because my mental health couldn't take that at that time. And I'm glad that I didn't do it this year. I just don't feel like I'm as cut out as maybe some other moms. Being a single mom and trying to work and like, do stuff for Jackson and like, have family stuff going on, not say other people don't have that kind of stuff going on, but I just don't feel like I'm cut out for it right now. And maybe like I'll be able to get back to being a Pinterest mom and like real mom, it's just not my thing. But when I tell you I was so nervous for him to get out of the car, call like I was having anxiety sweats and this was a holiday field trip, this was like they were. No. They're studying bears or something. And so they're going to some type of like mountain preserve. And so I remember doing that in school. Do you remember going through that? No part in school like where you studied bears? No. Oh, I specifically remember it, but I thought it was second grade for me, but maybe it was third and it was such a fun unit that we did. I I so remember it with like I remember going through talking about like the grizzly bears and like the black bears and brown bears and like, loved it so much. So of course, anything that I loved, I want Jackson to also love. And I think it would probably have been a fun field trip, but that's what they were doing. And of course, I'm just like panicking because I'm like, OK, he's got all the things that he needs, but like, what if he gets up there and he forgets his beanie and like forgets to know how to put up like his hood? Like, I don't know. I'm a psychopath. I don't know. Yeah, you're a little psychopathy. Yeah. Is Jackson going to help you co-creating getting this year? Ma'am, I do have Jackson for Thanksgiving this year. I don't know what we're actually going to be doing for Thanksgiving. My parents are expected to be in court a couple of days before, and so OK. Oh wow. Right before Thanksgiving. Yeah. They win the 21st. Not that I feel like it should be like a law or anything, but like, damn, they couldn't have waited until after Thanksgiving. Well, because the courts close federal government and stuff. Pretty much. Oh, that's right. They closed like probably Black Friday and probably that following. Monday, yeah, and then, you know, their hours or so weird through the holiday, so yeah, I hate the fact that it's going to be just a couple of days before Thanksgiving, but truly, this is the first year that I have not had solid holiday plans, which makes me kind of feel all out of sorts. But here's my thought process. I'm like, OK, we're going to go and take care of what needs to be taken care of. It's still a few days before Thanksgiving. The grocery store won't run out of food. They might run out of some stuff. But if they do, it's OK because we don't have to have it. We are healthy. We have food all the time, so if they run out of nuts, it'll be OK. And I'm just going to go from there. So once we get through that process, then I will actually worry about Thanksgiving. I've never been in this position before in my life. I don't know if you guys remember, but last year I did a Thanksgiving little style picnic with all of Jackson's like favorite things because that was my. Was that my first holiday that I didn't have Jackson? I think like my first major one. And you gave them and introduced him to Georgia. Yes. And so that was probably like going to go down in history as one of like my favorite holiday memories ever. And it was bittersweet because like Will was there as well. And it was just super cute. So also, I have thought of worst case scenario I might just do another picnic of Jackson's favorite things forgo Thanksgiving food altogether. Hope that everybody else really enjoys their Thanksgiving. Maybe I will have a friend that I can do a drive by and take a pull off of their fried turkey and keep it movin. But I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. 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We're sure to have a car to suit both your needs and your budget, and every car leaves here fully serviced with a one year warranty to view. Book a test drive or apply for finance on your next car. At Michael Bonorable Motors, please visit M.B. Motors Dot IEEE or call zero one eight three three three zero. I'm also very invested, I it's so funny because everyone I don't know if it's just like my adulthood or Mac, mac and cheese has never been a staple at any of my Thanksgivings growing up ever. And so when I hear people talk about mac and cheese that their thanksgivings, it's so funny and like, I look forward to it now as an adult now that they don't have, like my traditional Thanksgiving that I grew up going to. That's like one of my favorite things to eat at Thanksgiving. My mom and nanny make the best homemade macaroni and cheese ever. Like, it's the kind that when you open up the oven, it's like, I'm going to set the scene. It's a cheese overload. And the cheese gets just like a little browned and like, bubbly on the top. And then you can see, like all the butter, like seeping up. Oh, so good. Honey, it is so good. It's not dry at all. You could probably if if it comes out properly, you could put it in a bowl because it's like so cheesy, so good. However, if I was going to make macaroni and cheese because I can't cook like they can, I have a really good crock pot recipe. But you got to be careful with doing a Crock-Pot macaroni and cheese because it can get dry if you're not watching it. It's not like one of those crock pot things that you put it in. You believe it, and then you come back eight hours later, it's like you watch it. Yes, OK, one of those what? I need to try that because I know I've said it before on here, but I have definitely tried to make a homemade mac and cheese, and it comes out like soup, like it's just not good at all. So I definitely would. You're going to have to send me the Crock-Pot one I feel like for me because I'm not that great of a cook. It's easier control to be able to do it in the crock pot because you can take it out whenever you want to. I mean, which I guess you could do that in the oven, too, but for whatever reason, mine ends up being dry. So I just like, don't do that. But that's so funny to me that that was not a staple because I feel I don't know if it's like a southern thing, but I've never been to a Thanksgiving. That macaroni and cheese wasn't like a main dish. 100 percent. Yeah, every one of my adult life has always had mac and cheese at every, not even just Thanksgiving, but just like every every dinner holiday, every, you know, celebration. That's like a huge thing. I'm I'm mind blown. I'm always mind blown whenever you tell me that, OK, so first one stuffed turkey or turkey and stuffing separate. First of all, it's not stuffing. If it's not stuffed into turkey, it's dressing. So I know that Kristin probably wrote that, but it is turkey and dressing if it's separate. I mean, I'm going to eat. Either way, I don't care. I'm not. I'm not eating a stuffed word. I love stuffing or dressing. I love dressing. So we do cornbread dressing. I'll if I get to have it, which I don't know if I'm going to get to. I certainly hope I do, because this dressing is my favorite part of the meal, like if I had to choose one thing. Mm hmm. Actually, if I could choose two things, I'm going to add three things actually, dressing is one of my favorite things. Hmm. Regular green beans, not green bean casserole. You know, I love regular green beans like I love regular. Oh my god, it's so good. And the my folks, they make dressing so good that like, you don't even need to slop gravy on it because it is so good. I so I do agree on everything, but you're one of those that you go and fix your whole plate and then you get the ladle and put gravy all over the entire confection. Yes. Convection reminds me of Mattel's Matilda Yogurt Confections Ltd launch. See at lunch. No, I'm not doing the stuffed turkey. I'm doing fried turkey and dressing separate. OK, I'm doing, yeah, I'll go turkey and dressing separate as well. OK, are you a turkey or ham? I love both. I don't. I can't choose. Like if this year we I don't know why. You know, Alaska was like, We're not going to do ham this year. And I was like, one. I don't even know what you normally have, but why not? I love him. OK, I love him. So I think it's probably common to have both at Thanksgiving for most people. Mm hmm. We always did. Yeah, I think we always did, both with Will's parents as well. Growing up, Julie, which mom Julie, her granny always did a. He always did a turkey, but I learned how to eat this sauce from them when I was a little girl. I had never like known other people to do it. So like, everybody's probably going to be like, that's customary. But I just thought it was like so special because her granny did it. But it was like this brown sugar. And then you put mustard in the brown sugar to, like, make a sauce to put on the ham. And it makes it kind of like sweet and salty. OK, like a glaze. So you put like brown sugar in a bowl and then you put mustard on top and then you like, mix it. There's not like I couldn't give you guys a recipe because it's literally those two ingredients and you just have to mix it until it's like saucy. OK, OK, I'm tracking you to spread that on your ham. And so I always eight ham as a little girl, but we didn't fry turkeys back in the day. So now that we do a fried turkey, I don't think I've. I've literally touched a ham on Thanksgiving and probably like five, six seven, who knows, nine years like I haven't. I love fried turkey. So good. I've never had fried turkey. I think we're going to fry one this year, but I also want I requested a regular one too. I'm going to fight for the ham this year because I do love him and I didn't. Did I do Thanksgiving last year? I don't think I did Thanksgiving at all last year and all that. I'm thinking about it. But if I had to choose between the two, I would choose Turkey just because it's the staple of Thanksgiving. OK? Mashed potatoes or candied yams? 100 percent mashed potatoes. I don't like yams in any shape or form. We have neither. We did sweet potato souffle. That is so weird to me, and sweet potato soufflé is like literally my second. Like, if I'm going in order, it's going to be dressing sweet potato souffle green beans. I do love candied yams, though, and if I was having to pick between these two, it would be candied yams over mashed potatoes. But we've never had mashed potatoes at our Thanksgiving or Christmas, for that matter, ever. That's so weird. I mashed potato. Actually, we always had both growing up the mashed potatoes and the candied yams at my nana's house. We always had both, and everyone would always be like, Kill your Kaitlyn. You ready for your candied yams? Something like that? No, I don't like them. Oh my god, I gravy or juice. What does that mean? Kristen, what the what is juice? Oh, like like gravy or like you? You pick some of the juice from like the turkey, right? OK, no, I'm going to go gravy if I'm going either of them, but I'm not putting gravy on any of my stuff. I'm going gravy and I'm putting gravy on every f**king thing. The next question is an offensive question, but I know when I say that people are going to come over me so hard because people who ride for box stuffing ride so hard for it. I've never had box stuffing, always had homemade anything to me. Homemade is going to be better than anything boxed. Don't argue with me. I can't choose based on preference because I've never had homemade dressing or stuffing. I do, really. I really do love boxed box stuffing like stovetop is a one and I actually utilize to make it the other night. I didn't make it, and I just put it out on the counter because he loves to cook. And I was just kind of like nudging him to make it. I don't think he ever made box stuffing before was like, I really want this for dinner, so I want to go back. I think just because that's all I've had. I think if Sterling makes homemade dressing this year, I will update you after Thanksgiving. OK? Box stuffing is actually really good. Have had it, but never like at Oh my god, if someone showed up with box stuffing at one of our Thanksgivings, my grandmother would be appalled. Nanny would be like, The f**k is that box stuffing is really good. If you get like those smaller little muffin tins, you know, I'm talking about muffin tins, OK, like the little ones. And put them in there. It's really good like that. OK, so they kind of look like muffin muffins. Yeah, like stuffing muffins. And that's cool. Yeah, it is super cute and it's easy. It's controlled. So that's an idea if anybody cares. Next question I have become a less bread person as I have gotten older than I was when I was a little girl. Always big time bread girl. Now I don't really care for it and it might not be on there. But Jackson loves bread and we always do. The roles they come in the frozen section in there and like a little tin and they're like, pull apart, I think their used roles. So I'm going to have to go roles, pre-made roles from the store in the frozen section, those specific ones. I've never had baked homemade roles, ever bake at home roles, never had that. I'm also less of a bread person. The older I get, I don't really give a f**k if there's roles or not. If there is, they're most likely going to be Hawaiian roles. And again, I just don't care. So I'm going to go pre-made from the store and I may or may not even eat them. Perfect love that for us. Green bean casserole or brussel sprouts. We actually never have either of the same. I've never had either at this at Thanksgiving. I prefer just like the regular traditional green beans, traditional green beans. I'm not a huge fan of casseroles in general. Growing up, my dad there was like two casseroles that we were allowed to have because my dad wasn't eating any other casserole. He said. It's like you go into the fridge and casserole reminds him of either throw up or you've taken everything that you had all week out of the fridge, put it in a dish and then tried to make a meal out of it. And like, that wasn't his thing. So we don't really do that. Many casseroles in general. Never have I ever had green bean casserole. I've never had green bean casserole that I can think of. But it is something that sounds good to me. I've never had brussel sprouts at any of my holiday meals. I like brussel sprouts, especially from this pizza place called Nuno's by me. They have the best brussel sprouts with like a Bahama glaze and bacon and whatever. That's that I've never I've also never had green bean casserole, but it's something that I would like to like. Look up what's in that. But no, I would just do traditional green beans, and I've never even had green beans at Thanksgiving. OK? Cranberry sauce or corn? We have both at my family, at typically at my Thanksgivings. Like we're growing up, I'm talking like my nan and died when I was in high school. So it's been a long time since we've had. But like when I think of Thanksgiving, I think of when I went to my neighbor's house as a kid, we had both. OK, so we always have cranberry sauce, I love cranberry sauce, but I don't hate like canned cranberry sauce like the kind of you like slice. I think that's super good to just like take a little bite of that, take a little bite of your dressing and then take a little bite here. Fried turkey. That's so good. Never had corn at Thanksgiving. 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We all a lukewarm gravy, less mom, less meal and left her there. First of all, I'm a roll right into this. Good for her. I stopped her like, Oh, poor thing, good for her. I know that there's lots of moms out there and grandmothers out there that are, you know, cooking for days and like really preparing and doing all of this. And I did Thanksgiving one time by myself, when will and I were mad at his parents, for whatever reason? I was like, You know what? I'm going to make my own f**king feast. And I did. And by the time I got done, I didn't even want it. I was like, This was so much work, and I hope that you guys enjoy it. But like, I don't even care about it. So I definitely like, feel this mom from the one time of my entire 33 years and I made Thanksgiving on my own. Yeah, I love this for her, and I don't hate this for her family. I just don't. That would really be upsetting to me. I don't cook what if I did? And then I fell asleep, but everyone left me. I would be very upset, but also again, bringing it back to my childhood Thanksgiving. There were designated person or people who were in charge of the food, and nobody was expected to help cook outside of those people. I know my mom was always in charge of bringing the mashed potatoes like that was my mom's thing. But I stayed out of the kitchen and I remember my cousin staying out of the kitchen to like that was not a thing. And like when we went to Dallas for Thanksgiving at Stirling's, she didn't want to help. She was like, Don't come in my kitchen like she didn't want help. That's so funny. But I do. I'm wondering if it's a southern thing now because I feel like I'm I might get chewed up about this. I feel like northerners probably do more of like, you bring a dish, I bring a dish. We all put the dishes together and then like, we have Thanksgiving. I think it's probably a a customary thing in the south, where one person cooks at their home and like, you're not expected to bring a dish and like, just don't bring a dish, actually, because it might not be good, it might not be good. Elijah said his top foods for Thanksgiving are mac and cheese stuffing greens, turkey pie. I forgot about the greens. That's something that's new for me too. I never had greens at my Thanksgivings. See, we do greens for New Year's. OK? So you don't do it for you, but you don't. Everything's going to be OK. OK. Next person says Every year we get together with my husband's family at a cold, dank rundown fellowship building with no running water. Everyone who arrives, eats and leaves in 90 minutes. His aunt brings mac and cheese. But it's like mac and cheese soup. One year, someone brought PB and J sandwiches. This year I said, Let's do it at my house. I have heat and running water and a TV to watch football. Half the family declined to come. What? OK, first of all, fellowship. What is the fellowship building? Like a church? Yeah, like, that's what I'm imagining. I'm imagining like a small, like little church with like pop up chairs and like school lunch table style things is like what I'm picturing in my mind. To me, if it's got to be like this, I don't want to go because one I might be 90 minutes late. So if everybody leaves in 90 minutes, I might not even get there for the mac and cheese soup. So first of all, and like PB and J sandwiches. That's why even I think we I don't I'm so confused by every year we get together with my husband's family in a cold, dank rundown fellowship building with no running water. Why? Why would there's no. First of all, is that even legal for that many people? I've just made up how many people are here, but I'm going to imagine it's like a good man, people. Is that even legal to be in a place like in a building with no running water, with these people with PBJ sandwiches, macaroni and cheese soup, like? I don't think so. I hate this idea, and I'm sad that half the family declined to come to your home. But I think you should stand your ground and I come home usually stay at your home. And if they don't come, you don't have to be in a dank rundown building with no running water. And you're also not eating PB and J sandwiches and macaroni and cheese soup. So that's my advice. I agree. I'm not going to know dank a*s place on Thanksgiving. I rather just for that. I would just stay home and eat the f**king PB and J. OK. Next person says one glorious Thanksgiving. My mom and aunt decided to try edibles. Have a story about this. Naturally, they made a rookie mistake of eating another after. One 15 minutes, because they're not doing anything. Fast forward two hours, my mom is full panic mode, whether or not the local whether or not the local duck she fed daily will starve overnight because there's no way she's in any fit state to go out and feed them. And my aunt is waking my uncle up every half hour and asking him to tell her whether or not she's still breathing. Why? Well, first of all, I feel like this would be a common thing for somebody who tried edibles and then thought that they weren't working and then, like, took another one because it like, didn't kick in yet. And then this thing happened. But you can't take the one on a holiday like someone gave on on a holiday last holiday, literally. And I did not take these on a holiday. Like, if you're going to try edibles, holiday is not the time. It will literally put you on your a*s and ruin your day. Someone that I know not going to call him out because everybody knows them and we feel like I know who it is gave me and other folks edibles and didn't know. Hmm. No, that person. No, we didn't. Oh s**t. I'm like, This is illegal. Like, Oh yeah, it is illegal. And then I got a text message about it the other day. They were like, You ready for them edibles again this year? Literally. I'm not even kidding. I can't. I'm not. I mean, we could get into semantics about about edibles and smoking weed, but like, I can't function I have in my life. But if I was to eat an edible like I'm on my like, I'm going to bed like, you won't see me for 10 10 hours. Smoking and edibles and things like that would put me on my a*s and put me right to sleep like I can't. I'm not a functioning high person. OK, well, before we move on to the next thing, I need you to pull out my text messages from two days ago. That's how relevant this is to me. I had sent this person a picture of a fresh mojito with lots of mint and just a bowl of pickles. And they responded and said, I'm jealous and I said, Don't be. But do you feel me? Yeah, yeah. I remember when you ate that edible and was completely fried, like some chicken, like some turkey on Thanksgiving, I said laughing my a*s off might get into that at some point soon, to be honest, saying you're way better than drinking. So this had happened to me on holiday, and I would say I feel bad for them, but I also don't. So next, next. OK, number four, during a childhood Thanksgiving, my mom's candles, carpet, kitchen curtains and some decorative greenery on fire. My sister, my cousins and I were just at the kids table in the kitchen while the adults were were in the dining room, so no one of significance noticed anything except me. Before we started eating, my mom threatened us with the pain of death if we annoy the adults during dinner. So when the fire got out of hand, I quietly walked into the dining room and stood silently for a minute or two until someone noticed me. Only then did I. Only then did I politely say sorry, but the kitchen's on fire. My mom still gives me grief about my prioritizing politeness over sense. She did what she was told. This person from the south are strong hundred percent. She was not about to get whipped over that. No, she was not about to get whipped. Secondly, how many people have kids tables at like their holiday functions? Because I grew up going to my mom's granny's for holidays like all of our holiday meals before she passed away? And we always had fricking kids table. I never had one because I was jealous of my family, like I was jealous that I wasn't at the adult table because I always thought I was an adult my whole life. And I hate to be at the table, and this person is also probably my twin because this is also how I would have handled the situation specifically. I'm trying to think like I was the youngest, so there was no need for a kid table. Now, Sterling and I have to have a kids table because I have four. She has two and then my other girlfriend is coming with her four children, so they're going to have to sit down and shut up at the kids. No, I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'm totally kidding. We're going to have a kids table this year on kids tables. To me, literally make me laugh so much because I'm like, What type of conversation is actually going on at the kids table versus the adults table? Well, Lux will probably get up on it and dance. So I'm thinking at your kid's table would be far more lit than your adult table. One hundred percent. OK. Next. My grandma, my grandpa, my grandma got divorced and my grandpa eventually remarried one Thanksgiving during the. What are you most thankful for? Version of my dinner. My not so well, grandpa. Grandpa stood up and declared that he regretted letting my grandma divorce him and that it was the biggest mistake of his. Life right in front of his new wife. Wow, that's deep and I have never done. What are you most thankful for? Part of the dinner? We never did that. I wonder how that ended. I'm going to assume that he's probably divorced again. Didn't remarry, though. Like, I wonder how that went. I want to know like how this played out. So we need to have her told us about this. Please let us know because this is like drama that I'm invested in. I think that I would love to have been a fly on the wall during this Thanksgiving. And I wonder how often that it actually happens. I was told by someone in my life that most of the people that they know that have been divorced, actually, it's my nanny. She told me this. Most people that have been divorced, they have a sense of regret from doing it once they've done it, like after many years have passed. And I wonder, like what the psychology is behind that? I wonder if it's if you can, like, still get along and be in like a normal place where there's like not hostility and whatever is it? You are maybe fantasizing over the what if, if you would have stayed together or if you actually feel like you missed out on something and made a wrong mistake. I think when I think about it, it's more like it's kind of like when you're in a toxic relationship and you think about the reasons why you're staying in the toxic relationship is because you see the potential. You see who they are when they are a good person, when they, you know, when things are up, when things are good, it's kind of like that. Like, I know that I've reminisced about, you know, being married and I've almost romanticized the good parts and the good aspects. And it's like, did I make a mistake? Mm-Hmm. Yeah, I think that I think that I mean, I'm definitely not in that place. Maybe it's just like too soon for me. I don't think that I made a mistake, but I also definitely desire maybe in our future at some point, maybe like five years down the road that eventually like we could sit around a table with other significant others and like, do this. I just hope that no one stands up and declares regretting getting divorced. I would be mortified if that happened. I just do think that it is probably, I think my nanny's right, and I think it is a common thing that people go through. When I was growing up at my Thanksgivings, nobody was divorced at all except for my mom. And that was, I mean, my dad just didn't come to Thanksgiving. He was out of the picture. When my nana died and people started getting divorced me. One of my cousins and my aunt got divorced at the same time. Thanksgiving was never the same after that. We never really got fully together again. 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I can always tell if I had the spices right by smelling and tasting the batter as I proceeded to put my nose closer to the bowl and sniff it. I still stupidly forgot the f**king mixer was still going. Needless to say, those beaters rolled up my hair faster than any curling iron I've ever used and slammed into the side of my head. I felt like every hair was being ripped out. The three boys, all early teen a*****es, laughed so hard they were in tears. That would be your kids also, but not from laughing. I made them all leave the room and managed to somehow save my hair from the mixer. So remember kiddie gang? Turn off the mixer before doing a sniff test. Why? I mean, a new batch spice came out perfect. But to this day, that story gets told every single Thanksgiving. Thanks for letting me share my stupidity. That's like my vacuum story when I got my my hair caught in the frickin thing. I still don't see how that happened. Honestly, that poor girl. Oh my God, her hair was probably going to rip out. First of all, every single person that is listening to this. If you lie and say that you don't do taste test by tasting batter everything on Thanksgiving, you're a liar. I just remember eating. We had a vegetable tray that every year at my nana's, and that was like the appetizer for my mom wouldn't let me eat all day. Like, there was one thing my mom was going to show up for and it was Thanksgiving with mashed potatoes. She might not have fed me for the rest of the year, but that was what she was going to show Suzy she brought. She came committed with those potatoes. She was committed to holidays and I was a kid. So if she was going to look like the perfect mom to anybody who was going to be Thanksgiving and Christmas, but on Thanksgiving, I was not allowed to eat anything until we got to my nana's because at some point we eventually moved away. It was like two or three, two or three hour drive every year, but there was always a veggie tray and I used to eat all the carrots and the olives out of the veggie tray that was like our appetizer. I like I said I wasn't allowed in the kitchen, so I couldn't try any batters. I couldn't try like I couldn't try anything. Oh gosh. See, like people from the South, you're going to try it and you're going to tell what you think's missing. Like your mom's going to give you a spoon or your nanny is going to give you a spoon and be like, Does this taste right? Like, do you feel like it needs more sage or like, do you feel like this is good? Like, I feel like that's just like a very common thing. But I also think it's a very common thing that you're not allowed to eat all day. And it's like, who told you that? Well, because we would eat my nana's thanksgiving started at one o'clock. Oh, OK, that's a good question to ask everybody. What time did your Thanksgiving start? Because we eat at one. I think some people do like evening and then some people do lunch time, and then some people do like brunch hours. We always did. We ate at one o'clock and then we would go out and play with the football. We would play football and then we'd come back in and have dessert. We eat when my mom and nanny say that their meals on the table, and that's what time we eat up the meals. Oh, so y'all. Oh, OK. OK, so like, we're all there at like, 12:00, 1:00, whatever. But was it mandatory for you guys growing up? Like when I was growing up? I'm sure you not like when I think of Thanksgiving today or holidays today. And like people I know that have siblings and so and so and where are you going for Thanksgiving? And they don't have like like, I'm so stuck on my childhood. Nobody. As long as my nana was alive, nobody missed Thanksgiving or Christmas like it was not, Oh, I'm going somewhere else or things like that wasn't a thing that was literally my mom's granny. And like, it was just like a known time, like you're showing up at like dinner is going to be on the table at one o'clock period, period. You're you're not going to so-and-so's house instead. Like whatever you do after you leave, Nana's house is on you. But you show up and you're not. You're not going somewhere else, you know what I mean? Like, you're it would be so rude or would probably be. No one said this, but like in my mind, it probably would have been offensive if you would have like been late to that because you knew the meal was going on the table at one o'clock. Like no questions. We're a little bit more flex with my parents because my parents now host everything, and it's just kind of like whatever time the macaroni and cheese is done, Bob one is like, what time you're going to eat? It's all mac and cheese is key. OK, we actually do have time to do number seven if you want to read it. OK, I love the pod. I tell almost everybody that I know they have to listen. This is a story of what of when I almost died. First of all, I almost died at family Thanksgiving, and nobody noticed when I was in eighth grade, I got braces a week before Thanksgiving. In hindsight, who was a*****e that decided that my mouth was so sore on the best food day of the year? But I digress. I had an expander across the roof of my mouth. I was getting the hang of along with the braces. My family is 100 percent toxic and use of force holidays together, and this particular year everybody was in particularly bad moods. I was just starting to enjoy my salad when the bickering began amongst the table. I was minding my own business, chowing down when a large fancy piece of lettuce got hung up in the roof of my mouth under the expander and lodged in my throat. I experienced true choking. I was silent. I couldn't cough talk or so much grunt loud enough for anybody to hear me over the fighting. So here I am at the end of the table, fighting for my life, shoving my finger in my throat, trying to pull the lettuce out of what my family fall, pulling the lettuce out while my family fall over some bulls**t and nobody was noticing I was panic and I finally punched my stepbrother in the arm. He performed his version of the Heimlich on me to dislodge it. It was one of the most serious moments of my life, and all I could think of was I was going to die in the presence of my whole family, and nobody is going to notice. Thankfully, the chaos has ended and everybody has now decided to do their own thing for the holidays, and no more near-death experiences have occurred. Choking is something that I am absolutely terrified of, especially with children. One time my sister got spaghetti noodle lodged in her throat and I saved her life. So Savannah Chrisley, if you're listening, you're welcome for being here and everyone. I choked on a hot dog at daycare one time and almost died, and another kid like, saved me or whatever. I have a couple of things to say about this. Number one, I'm so glad that you're OK. I also had a near-death experience with lettuce from SolidWorks, where I was driving and eating my salad, and I inhaled a piece of spinach and it was like exactly how she described and I was driving. So I shouldn't have been eating the salad, but I couldn't breathe, couldn't talk, couldn't cry, couldn't cough, nothing. And it was just like, I like it, so I really inhaled it. That's the next thing I want to say is we never had salad at our Thanksgivings. Yeah, I don't think we've ever had salad at our Thanksgiving either. But I also don't want to not address the fact of like the toxic family. Also, we've never had a fight at our at our family functions, ever. I wonder how many fights happen at family functions. I feel like it's a lot. Actually, my family is, I don't know, like my family is very secretive about certain things like there's just certain things that we don't talk about, but I have never experienced my family fighting ever. Interesting. None of them know what I have. If there was ever an argument between people in my family, I have never known about it. OK, well, I cannot relate because if there is ever anything going on in my family, everybody knows about it. You're going to know about it. You're going to be annoyed about it because another person has to be annoyed about it and you're going to do the walk of shame. Probably if you've done something that it's just like, Wow, it's so interesting. Speaking about, I've never seen them say, it's so crazy. OK, speaking of foul, we're going to do foul play. I'm scared. Go ahead. OK. From our dear Alexa in the Facebook group. I don't know if this this is podcast worthy, my dear Christian while Hook. But one year we went to Thanksgiving at my uncle's house and I was pumped for the deviled eggs. OK, again, I never had deviled eggs at my Thanksgiving either, so that's a shame. I don't know why, but I was like pumped. Will I buy into one at meal time and find an animal here? And then another and then another? Oh, one of my aunt's animals got into the deviled eggs, filling every single deviled egg spilling with animal hair. And I didn't eat eggs for years. I'm immediately disgusted, and this is why I have a problem with eating people's food that I don't know because all my family never like. Since I've gotten like, I feel like my family is an anomaly, an anomaly. Growing up, my family wasn't animal people like they were, but they they didn't have, like a ton of animals. Nobody had cats. Everyone only had dogs that stayed on the floor. So they never we just never had a hair issue that is so f**king foul. And I won't eat like potlucks at people's like works or like event stuff because you don't know. Like, I don't know, like how their utensils were cleaned. That made that I don't know know how that stuff was stored, like what the inside of their refrigerator looks like. If it's like so disgusting, you just don't know. And. We grew up like that, like my dad was so about that, like you don't eat other people's food like you don't this, you know that. And that's specifically why you if you are invited to my family's Thanksgiving or Christmas, like don't bring food because no one's going to eat it. Oh, so disgusting. And I am terrified like of eating. If I ate something from someone else's house and found an animal here like, Oh my god. No, that's so foul. That is so foul. And I'm very jealous. But I am jealous of the deviled eggs that would make me upset because I is also a staple of Thanksgiving kill. OK, well, I'm going to tell Elijah and Sterling right now, OK? We refer to this as the Thanksgiving from hell. My gosh, bless. I was sleeping on the floor. House was full of relatives, you know, and I woke up my aunt screaming bloody murder from the bathroom. She was taking a shower and a plumbing backed up through the tub. It was quite literally s**tty water. We had to shut the water off and finish the cooking at several different neighbor's houses. OK, yeah, this is hell, that's literal hell. To make matters worse, we couldn't reach a plumber until the following Monday. My uncle was staying at a hotel and wouldn't let a single one of us use his room or use the bathroom to shower. We had to take carloads of family members to literal gas station to use the bathroom. So I went back to college all gross from the days of no showering. Turns out the plumbing issue was a citywide problem. They had to evacuate the entire street in front of our house, so the whole ordeal was expensive, messy and left such a scar on my family that none of my relatives have been invited back since. We have a small, immediate family only Thanksgiving now, and they are so much better. I do not know any of my neighbors outside of Elijah's cousins well enough to ever ask them if I could cook something at their house. I feel like at this point, unless you're in the situation, I don't know like what you would do. But I think that if I had to like, go to different neighbor's houses to use the stove, I would just like, call it a day and order dominoes. Yeah, I'm probably going to call Boston Market. Yeah. Like, not yeah, no. I'm not going to multiple neighbors houses to try to to use their stove. But good for you guys for really slugging it out and like doing the most because this is this is great. Also, the uncle who wouldn't let you use his room or bathroom to shower and s**t, we are pissed off at him still. And also a small, immediate family. Only Thanksgiving is definitely preferred for me. I love that. I loved my growing up, my extended. That was the only time I really saw them, so I loved it. But now I just float around for Thanksgiving or don't celebrate. It depends. Are we doing another one yet? Last one. Okay? Kind of dramatic, but it has a happy ending. Don't worry. Last year we did Thanksgiving business as usual at my husband's family's house. We had just gotten a new golden retriever puppy about two weeks before we brought both of our dogs over and after lunch, I decided to give them a little treat and use Turkey as a mechanism for training. What can go wrong, right? Fast forward half hour, where she's literally having uncomfortable diarrhea on the carpet, vomiting, etc. We cut our visit short and went home to realize she refused to drink any water, so we rushed her to the closest animal hospital after tons of tests, x rays, etc. She was pumped full of fluids and feeling much better. Still, to this day, I have not given her any turkey and are 100 percent not sure if it was the turkey that did that. Think Thanksgiving with many family members who saw a cute puppy and might have given her extra scraps without us knowing? Needless to say, she's all right now. She's kept us on our toes since we since, and we think the incident might have stunted her growth since she's only about 45 pounds. That's how I checked her out, and she's healthy. Just tiny. Oh, well, yeah. But then maybe there was like a little bone in there. I don't know. OK, no. So who knows? This is not happened to me on Thanksgiving. This this is not something that have to me on Thanksgiving, but it's something that happened to me in college. Anybody who's ever watched Chrisley Knows Best and you see Miley, which is now my nanny's dog. She actually was originally purchased for Grace, and then I got her and had her through college. And then when my papa passed away, I was pregnant with Jackson and was living with nanny, and so she just kept Miley. Mm-Hmm. But when I was in college, I would make like pyros. I was a much better cook in college and I am now, so you guys try to figure it out. I don't know. I had made a pot roast and fix her bowl of dog food and put like a little pot roast in like a little bit of like the juice on top. Hmm. Kill. When I tell you that dog was so deathly ill, I thought that she was going to die. I was a broke college student, so I didn't know like how much it was going to cost for me to, like, go and get her help. But I had to go and get her help because I was like one. She's not eating. She's lethargic, like something's got to give. I take her and she comes pretty much back alive after like a week, but it was like something in that meat. I wonder what? Maybe the spices, the juice. I don't know that I've never heard of that. But like, I would advise any person. Georgia also has a very sensitive belly, and so I've got to be careful about what she gets. And if you do have dogs around Thanksgiving table and you're bringing them around people that you don't know, I would either advise you not to bring your dog or to tell everyone not to feed them table scraps because this kind of s**t does happen. Also, many people don't know this, but a lot of dogs are very sensitive to chicken. I'm not sure about turkey, but if anyone like feeds them turkey flavored food or. That has not turkey, chicken flavored food filled with chicken, chicken scraps, things like that, it's actually like one of their biggest allergies. You know, it's so funny because I talked about Georgia and some ship problems on southern tea with Christine. And there was like this whole thread on the Facebook group, and I didn't know like I thought chicken was like a like a normal thing that like you give to dogs. So I'm going to I thought it was normal. I had no idea. But I do think that she has an allergy to chicken. Yeah, a lot of dogs do. And people had no idea Kristen was the one that told me. And then the vet told me after Kristen told me on Real, Well, I hope that every single person that is listening to this, that you involved us on your special day on preparations for Thanksgiving listened to our bulls**t. I hope you guys have enjoyed this episode. I hope that you guys enjoy your time with your families. And I hope that you guys have amazing food. I hope nobody experiences a fire from frying turkeys, and I hope I also get to enjoy Thanksgiving meal. I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving, that you enjoy the time with your out-of-town guests, and that you feel like a stuffed turkey at the end of the day and have a wonderful nap and wake up energized and happy as can be. Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. If you don't celebrate, I hope you guys have a great day. Whatever you do, choose to do. I hope Jackson has a great day with you, whether you're doing sides or Thanksgiving or not. Whatever you guys are deciding to do and thank you, Kristen, for helping us put this episode together. Thank you, Alexa, for contributing your foul play, which I'm absolutely expected by and we will talk to you guys next week. See you ! Good evening, everyone. Live is when personal connection matters more than Wi-Fi connection. Behind you live is when being there means being a part of it. Live is a different experience with every performance at over 60 Arts Council funded venues across Ireland theatre, dance, spoken word, folk, rock, classical jazz life is, I guess you'd have to be there. Experience live performance in your area. Book that ticket today. Hashtag Live is funded by the Arts Council. Michael Barraba Motors Airside Motor Park, the home of premium used cars in Dublin. Over 100 used cars in stock and ready to drive away hybrids, diesel, petrol and automatic. They're all here with very competitive finance options. All trade ins welcome. We're sure to have a car to suit both your needs and your budget, and every car leaves here fully serviced with a one year warranty to view. Book a test drive or apply for finance on your next car. At Michael Bonorable Motors, please visit M.B. Motors Dot IEEE or call zero one eight three three three zero.