Almost Brothers Podcast
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Almost Brothers Podcast
Cranberry Sauce Still Shaped Like The Can? Absolutely
The first cool breeze hits and suddenly our kitchens feel different. We’re talking chili that sticks to your ribs, soups that steam up the windows, and the polarizing truth about pumpkin: some of us love it, some of us won’t touch it. From the great cracker debate (saltines vs. oyster) to whether sour cream, ranch, or even a spoon of Miracle Whip belongs in the bowl, we unpack how simple choices turn into rituals that define the season.
We also explore why certain foods only feel right now. Pancakes that say “family’s here,” Christmas-morning breakfasts that ground the day, and cranberry sauce that absolutely must slide out of a can with perfect ridges. Turkey or ham becomes a philosophy, not a protein, and we admit that nostalgia is the secret ingredient in Nana’s chicken and dumplings, dream salad, grape salad, and the fried potatoes that taste like childhood. These aren’t just recipes; they’re anchors—quick flights back to a table we loved and a feeling we need.
Then we pivot to the culture around the season: how Black Friday morphed from midnight sprints to tiered drops and Cyber Monday clicks, why some of us crave the chaos while others cherish quiet, and the Halloween watches that set the mood. There’s even a surprising take on a new sequel that’s shockingly kind to faith. Cozy, candid, and full of flavor, this conversation is a reminder that fall food feeds more than hunger—it restores. Jump in, argue your toppings, and tell us your non-negotiable fall or winter dish. If this episode made you smile, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so more people can find the show.
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Oh man, I'm tired.
SPEAKER_01:The stairs got you?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, just all day.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, just everything.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, before service. I was running. Just running. Well, we you know.
SPEAKER_01:Good job, man. Thanks. Head banging. A man. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, everybody. Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Al Most Brothers podcast. In third chair today.
SPEAKER_02:What?
SPEAKER_01:Richard Randall.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Paternity.
SPEAKER_01:He's on that's what I said.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I thought you said maternity.
SPEAKER_01:Your maternity.
SPEAKER_03:That's all I got is a big sigh for you.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I appreciate it. I feel loved. So no, I didn't say maternity. So for this episode, you know, the weather's starting to change.
SPEAKER_03:The weather outside is right for me.
SPEAKER_01:The weather outside is weather. So it has gotten to the point to where fall food is now the cravings are now starting to hit. Yeah. So we wanted this episode to just kind of be a relaxing, nice fall episode.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and the problem is most fall foods I'm not a huge fan of. Really? Yeah, like I don't like anything pumpkin. So that is and I think spice and all that.
SPEAKER_01:Everything pumpkin is amazing.
SPEAKER_03:I'm not a not a pumpkin. What is it? Why not? I don't know. I just don't like the flavor of pumpkin.
SPEAKER_01:That's crazy. So no pumpkin pie.
SPEAKER_03:The only pumpkin thing I like is the weirdest thing, is like salted baked pumpkin seeds.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Which I guess they don't really taste like pumpkin, I guess.
SPEAKER_03:No, they taste more like a sunflower seed eater type, you know, something like that. But I don't like I don't even like carving pumpkins.
SPEAKER_01:The the insides of them are nasty and just no. Yeah, I don't like doing that. Yeah. But uh everything pumpkin, man, I think is just the just great.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. And it's I mean, it's a big, I mean, it's popular for a reason. Lots of people do.
SPEAKER_01:So really, I didn't know that about you.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, my brother, he'll eat a pumpkin pie like by himself.
SPEAKER_01:Jamie makes a really good pumpkin pie. Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And then like, oh man, it's just it just I do, I do, however, love soup and chili weather. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, and this is the only time I will eat chili during the year.
SPEAKER_03:Uh that's nonsense. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Well, like from October till February, March, depending on how early it starts getting warm. I just can't, I can't do it, man. It's it's tough. It's yeah. So chili's definitely on on the top of the radar.
SPEAKER_03:Well, chili is one of those things with my gallbladder out that I pay when I eat it.
SPEAKER_01:So it's like it's like, is this worth it? Yeah. Is it worth it? So are you gonna eat at the chili cook-off?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know, maybe. I might. I'm hoping there's some other stuff there.
SPEAKER_01:Which it's hard at our house with chili because Jamie likes all the extra stuff in it. Tomatoes, onions, peppers, that sort of thing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And I do too, but I don't make it that away because nobody else likes it. So I like tomatoes.
SPEAKER_01:And then you have like people like it soupy, people like it thick, you know. So it's it's a very it's gotta be a thick.
SPEAKER_03:It's got when I make chili, yeah, you know you ate some chili.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, okay. And see, I I like it thick, but I like it to start a little less thick and then I add the extra stuff in it. So I add a lot of crackers in mine.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I like oyster crackers. What do you think? Oyster crackers or saltines?
SPEAKER_01:I I think either. Either. Yeah. But I like I don't know. I like saltines more because I feel like they don't I don't know. I don't know. I'm an oyster cracker guy. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mind oyster crackers.
SPEAKER_03:What do you put like okay?
SPEAKER_01:I love it. I love this, dude.
SPEAKER_03:So the chili debate of what you put in it as you make it. Cheese, obviously, crackers, of course.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I put MiracWhip in mine.
SPEAKER_01:No, I absolutely not.
SPEAKER_03:So what? The kids will put ranch. People put ketchup, people put mustard, like people put some weird crap in chili. What do you, what do you anything? No.
SPEAKER_01:Not really weird stuff like that. Like, I I'll do I'll do a little bit of sour cream. I don't think that's weird.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's good. Ketchup? Yeah. For years that's how I ate it. And then I remembered.
SPEAKER_01:Which I guess tomato kind of goes to.
SPEAKER_03:Mirkwip. I mean, it sweetens it up a little bit, makes it a little creamy. It's good. Try it.
SPEAKER_01:I can't. I can't. You can't.
SPEAKER_03:I got faith in you. You can do it. Oh. You can put pumpkin in your mouth. You can have pumpkin's good, man. Come on.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, nothing really weird. Just hot sauce, cheese, crackers, and sour cream is usually my go-to.
SPEAKER_03:My kids love ranch. Like they'll eat ranch until.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I know people like baked potatoes with ranch on it. I don't do that either.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I like ranch on a lot of stuff. I've never eaten chili, but but I love like uh clam chowder and and load of potato soup and that kind of stuff too.
SPEAKER_01:So it's like it's such a hearty, just good, easy, home cooked feel to it. So soups and chilies are really good this time of year. Um which for me, my sweet tooth is crazy. So this time of year is really hard for me because all the cookies are, you know, like it's it's tough. I know at your house it's what the it's the Christmas tree.
SPEAKER_03:Christmas tree got Jennifer got three boxes last night.
SPEAKER_01:Jeez, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Like they're out. I mean, last year she froze some for just to keep them.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because they don't sell them all year round. Right. Yeah. That's just insane. It's a little much, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, she's nuts.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. So it's it's you know, and it's the smells of fall, the candles and those things that just takes you. Yeah. Oh, I love it.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and I love a good breezy day.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Not like tornado weather, right? But just today, it's just a beautiful light breeze blowing. It's just like I could get in the hammock and stay there, man.
SPEAKER_01:It's just selling a porch with some coffee. Yes. That's why I like mom's porch, so it's it's screened in, yeah. So you don't have to worry about bugs. Right, right. And it's just so nice to sit out there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Makes me want to go get in my hammock right now.
SPEAKER_01:Which hot coffee this time of year is is just it hits perfect. Which I drink hot coffee all year round. But if I'm like going through a coffee shop and it's hot outside, I'll do uh iced coffee.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and I'm not a I'm not a hot coffee guy ever. And it's the only time of the year that when it gets really cold.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Not now, but like winter, is I'll drink hot coffee some. But even then, I like I prefer an iced coffee.
SPEAKER_01:But do you do do you at y'all's house, do y'all do the hot dogs after? Like, do you do chili one day and then the hot dogs? We have. Like that's usually what we do.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, because you'll do that's a that's a twofer.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Yep. Yep. That's a buy one, get one fruit right there, is what that is. Yeah, that's what we do, is we do now. If we if we cook a big pot of chili, we'll do chili a couple nights and then we'll do chili dogs.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and that's because my kids are starting to eat like grown men now. Yeah. So a lot of times we don't have leftover chilies. So we'll have hot dogs.
SPEAKER_01:It's like, all right, chili dogs with no chili. So just hot dogs then. Yeah, you know. Chili free. Yeah. Oh, the chili.
SPEAKER_00:So hot dog.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And and we'll do that, or we'll do uh, what is it, chili fritos or frito pie, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. We usually do it.
SPEAKER_03:It's real good and easy. You know, you just throw chili on the panel.
SPEAKER_01:Something about this time of year and pancakes.
SPEAKER_03:Really? For me, yeah. It's a weird one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And I think it had a lot to do with like that was kind of one of the staples in our like when our family would get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, we did breakfast. It would always be pancakes. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, because that's one of y'all's Christmas deals, right? Yeah. I've never been invited, but I didn't, I've heard about it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we do every, yeah. Every Christmas we do breakfast together as a family. That's cool. So no matter where kind of where we're at for um for Christmas Eve, that Christmas morning we do we do breakfast together all together. So um, yeah. So we do that. Man, I was thinking about another one. Oh gosh, what was it?
SPEAKER_02:I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:It was I know, right? It was another like fall winter food. Man, but I can't remember. I'll think of it later. It was a good one. It was oh, oh yeah. It was it was this is the only time of year. Thanksgiving and Christmas, depending on on what we're doing, where we do like turkey and or ham. Right. I almost never get it any other time of the year. Yeah, we don't feel every time we eat turkey.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Unless we do like the lunch, the like Cajun turkey lunch meat. But to just bake a turkey.
SPEAKER_01:Or like uh I like jellied cranberry sauce. I love cranberry sauce, yeah. And it's on and I love it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Always. Yeah, but I never get it except for this time of year. Why? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You can have it anytime. Yeah, and I never think about it. Right. And I'll pass it up at the store and be like, hello, my old friend. Hello, darkness, my old friend. And just keep on going. It's like, I yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's because I want to wait, because it's like a like a treat. It's like, okay, it's that time of the year. We're gonna have it in February just to mess you up.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, just like I'm gonna bring it to a to a dinner. Yeah, like a family dinner.
SPEAKER_01:Like, who brought the crank, the jelly cranberry? Thank you, whoever brought it. Yeah, I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_03:It's but you do like real cranberry, cranberry sauce, right? No, no, we do the can. That's what I do.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I like the can. I don't like I don't mind the cran, like the real cranberry, but I want the jellied can. Yeah. Slice it up. Right.
SPEAKER_03:It looks like stuff that doesn't look like cranberry at all.
SPEAKER_01:Shakeside of the can. You have to like jiggle it out. Yeah, it's so good.
SPEAKER_03:And then we still eat it when it looks like that.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I'll I've there's one year where we had like an extra can in the fridge, and I just popped the top and ate it with a spoon.
SPEAKER_03:That's not that's that's not good.
SPEAKER_01:Straight out the can. Straight out the can.
SPEAKER_03:Little tin flavor.
SPEAKER_01:Just, you know, just hit the spot.
SPEAKER_03:My mom makes this stuff called dream salad.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It's a dessert, and she only makes it at Christmas time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And it's got like cottage cheese and red jello and and pecans, and I don't know what all is in it. It's just like everything but the kitchen sink, but it is look forward to it every year. It's just so good.
SPEAKER_01:And it's only Christmas. Only Christmas. No, that's not Thanksgiving. Nope, she won't crack it. She won't do it. She won't do it.
SPEAKER_03:Won't quite do it. Well, it's not a cheap dish to make, apparently.
SPEAKER_01:And and that, I think that's got a lot to do with it. My sister's the same way with like grape salad. It has to be a special occasion. Yeah. Dang it, man. Yeah, it's so good.
SPEAKER_03:I've had her grape, it's it's so good.
SPEAKER_01:But it is. It's a that's a$60 dish, you know, and it's like I get it.
SPEAKER_03:And it's a lot to put into a dessert. You know, it's not like an entree. You put$60 in an entree, you you kind of get it. But uh put that into a dessert.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, you got you got one thing that you can have in front of you. You can only pick one and every other food goes out, you know, for specifically for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Okay. Just one. What is it? And who makes it? Because it it may it may change from this person to this person.
SPEAKER_03:I can only choose one?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Oh Lord.
SPEAKER_00:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I would say you're baked beans, but that's a summer thing.
SPEAKER_01:I appreciate that. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:It's the wrong time of year.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So uh your mom's potato salad and Tracy's potato salad. They're both equally really good. Yeah. But again, that's summer. I'm gonna think about that. You got one?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I do. And and that's something that you don't think about. I never eat potato salad during the fall. Yeah. It's like it just doesn't, I don't know. But yes, uh, my Nana's chicken and dumplings. Like specifically her chicken and dumplings. Right. I've had a lot of people's, and they're they're fine, they're great, they're awesome. Hers are just something special.
SPEAKER_03:That's very cool.
SPEAKER_01:And I've got I've got a couple cousins that they get pretty close. Uh Denise gets pretty close, but it's just I would I would get rid of every other food on the planet to just be able to have that. And the number one, it's great, but number two, just the feeling I get like it just hits a spot in your soul where it's and that's where a lot of like that's where comfort food comes from.
SPEAKER_03:It's it's it's a lot of the nostalgia that comes with that. Yeah. And uh so I I I really think it's my mom's dream salad. I mean, it's because it is Christmas. That like that. And I wonder if that has a lot to do with it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, as it's just that because yeah, I'll get that maybe on like on Thanksgiving, but definitely Christmas. So one of those times. So I think that has a lot to do with it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we link our emotional response to food, yeah, is a thing. Yep. And that's I mean, that's why people get addicted to food because of the memories that go along with it.
SPEAKER_01:I think a close, a close Sega's probably mom's fried potatoes.
SPEAKER_03:Those are good.
SPEAKER_01:They are, and that's and same, same. That's my childhood. Like we had that no matter what the meat was, that was always part of it. Every meal. Just because I mean, one, you can get a whole big bag for ten dollars and that lasts the whole month, but it it is something that I instantly feel at home, I feel safe, I feel comfortable. It it just yeah, it really does.
SPEAKER_03:It it just kind of my brother makes fantastic beer bread. You ever had beer bread? I I couldn't tell you the process of how it's made, but uh it's a thing. It's like fried bread. No, it's baked, but it it it beer is one of the ingredients, but obviously it bakes out. But um, I don't know, it's just a really fluffy, very good bread. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:My sister makes good fried bread. That's what I thought you were. It's really good.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Is that like cornbread and you fry it?
SPEAKER_01:Is that kind of No, it's regular regular bread, I believe. And yeah, and she just fries it, and it is just really good. So it's just little bite-sized breads, and it's good. And my mama Peggy, so uh she lived across the street. Uh my buddy Karen, it was her his mom, and she made fresh bread. So like the whole neighborhood could smell it when she was making it. And that I remember going over and she'd have slices for me, and that just had a spot in my heart, too, you know.
SPEAKER_03:I got I told you I've got that homemade sourdough bread from that vendor over there at um Discovery, whatever it is, anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Pretty good? It was really good.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, yeah, and I love sourdough bread, but it was really good. Homemade.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Miss Pat made some friendship bread last year.
SPEAKER_03:I've never had that, I don't guess.
SPEAKER_01:She said it's like a 18-hour process. Holy shit. So she doesn't make it very often, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I would imagine not.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's really good. Really good.
SPEAKER_03:That sounds good.
SPEAKER_01:So make sure if you listen, hit us up, let us know what your favorite fall/slash winter food is. Foods. Yeah, yeah. I used to really like hot chocolate, but I don't I'm I'm not a big I don't do I don't do too much of that.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so talk about hot chocolate. Do you go big marshmallow or mini marshmallow?
SPEAKER_01:Ooh.
SPEAKER_03:Because now they've got even minier than many, right? Like the little tiny ones.
SPEAKER_01:I like the minis because then you get a little bit every drink. Right. Instead of just kind of one.
SPEAKER_03:That's the way I am. I like the minis also. And I don't I won't drink it fast because I want the marshmallow to melt in the chocolate sum. Yeah. Yeah. And now I want some.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But I don't do I don't do a lot of hot chocolate anymore because I'd I'd just rather have coffee.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Well, we used to go uh trigger treating in uh Kulin, where my mom lives, and there was a specific house they set their garage up every year, and it was basically you walk in there and they'd have just all kinds of treats and stuff, and you could hang out, and you know, it's basically like a break spot.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:You know, you hang out, walk, or you know, you've been walking all night. So anyway, long story short, they made homemade hot chocolate. And it was phenomenal.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I bet.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:What is the oh gosh, what was her name on the Santa Claus, the little elf, and she made that's what it was. Yep, and she made uh the the hot chocolate. They look like the best hot chocolate in the world. Like, I want to try this hot chocolate, Miss Judy Lady. Judy Elf. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So well, Sandy's short. Could she just make us some hot chocolates?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, shout out to Sandy. Man, that's messed up.
SPEAKER_03:Love you, Sandy.
SPEAKER_01:Does Santa know you're gone? Yeah. Oh man. But yeah, that's that's about kind of my comfort comfort foods, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. My uh the boys' grandma, she's passed away now, but she made homemade chicken and dumplings, like rolled out the dumplings and everything.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's what the nana did. So it would be watching her do it, and it's just man.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they were good.
SPEAKER_01:But she's getting to where she can't do it anymore, so she's kind of passing the recipe down.
SPEAKER_03:She knew that they were good. She would tell you like you haven't had chicken and dumplings until you've had mine, which I'm I like the confidence.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And they're not wrong.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, it was good. It was good. Jennifer makes hers out of biscuits. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like canned biscuits.
SPEAKER_03:They're really good.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03:That's enough of the chicken and dumpling debate.
SPEAKER_01:So good, man. So good. I love chicken and dumplings. What is something you cannot eat? Like you just feel like you can't eat during the winter or fall?
SPEAKER_03:Yams. Sweet potatoes. Really? I'm not a fan. And they look amazing with the marshmallows and everything in them. I'm learning so much today. I don't know. I think it's a texture thing. They just mushy and just I don't care for them.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Yeah. But you like regular potatoes?
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I don't, that's not the same texture. They're not. No. And they're good. No, because a sweet potato has like a it falls apart a lot easier. For lack of a better word, a slimier texture. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So it's true. And they're so good.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. A lot of people love them. I just I can't.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Something eat. It's hard for me. Man, what would something be that I can't eat?
SPEAKER_03:I've never seen you not eat something, so it's hard to.
SPEAKER_01:I I really, I really don't, and this may be a hot take. Because a lot of people like I don't like casseroles.
SPEAKER_03:Like at all?
SPEAKER_01:No.
SPEAKER_03:I love casseroles.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I think that's the perfect thing to make.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Now I'll I'll every now and then I eat certain ones, but I remember like, man, I'll go, I could go for a good casserole.
SPEAKER_03:Well, we're having tater tot casserole this week sometime.
SPEAKER_01:See that I don't because I don't like mushy tater tots.
SPEAKER_03:They're not mushy tater tots. You cook them before you put them in the casserole.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but they're mushy when they get in the casserole. It's not true. Yeah, so that's true. Somebody made it wrong. Well, I'm sorry. Maybe. But yeah, that's something that's hard for me to eat. And and a lot of vegetables, a lot of green bean casserole, stuff.
SPEAKER_03:I like green bean casserole too. Yeah. And that's another thing you only get once a year.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:That's only a holiday thing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. It's weird, isn't it, that we kind of designate foods.
SPEAKER_03:Relegate these foods to holidays and nothing else.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:Cranberries and green bean casserole.
SPEAKER_01:Turkey. Are you a turkey or ham?
SPEAKER_03:Ham, all the way.
SPEAKER_01:That's how I am. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I've had a couple of deep fried turkeys that I really like. Yeah. But for the most part, they're dry and just gross.
SPEAKER_01:The great turkey and ham debate.
SPEAKER_03:Now I do like to take my cranberry sauce and smear over the turkey because it gives it a little more um, a little more flavor.
SPEAKER_01:A little more oomph.
SPEAKER_03:But I'm not a turkey guy.
SPEAKER_01:Are you are you a are you one that'll that'll like just pivot and go like Boston butt on Christmas or Thanksgiving?
SPEAKER_03:I have tried for years to get my mother just to do sandwiches on the holidays. Just so she can enjoy the holiday and not cook and clean. And she ain't having it. She won't even have it at somebody else's house. Yeah. Like I've offered to host at our house. Yeah. She's like, no.
SPEAKER_01:That's what now we do. So we used to do Thanksgiving and Christmas together, but now we do I still want to do Christmas breakfast at my house. Yeah. Like that's a tradition. Now we'll go wherever you, you know, I I kind of leave it up to them. Like whoever wants to do Thanksgiving will come and be a part of that. But we want to do Christmas breakfast at our house. Like that's what we want to do. So we try to keep it that way. But um yeah, we we it's I'm not I'm a I'm a creature of habit, especially when it comes to tradition, family traditions like that. I love that stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, tradition. I mean, it there's a reason traditions are traditions because they're they're they're fun and they're ingrained and they're just something you look forward to. And I, you may or may not know this about me, love Christmas. Like it is my favorite holiday by a mile. Yeah, I love it. That's why we have it in November.
SPEAKER_01:That's what I was supposed to say. Y'all don't even celebrate Christmas, you celebrate November myth.
SPEAKER_03:Like, mind your business.
SPEAKER_01:Oh man. It's like y'all wake up on Christmas morning, like, what is today?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, something going on.
SPEAKER_01:Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER_03:Why? Yeah, like I suppose.
SPEAKER_01:I guess we can take the tree down.
SPEAKER_03:What? We're taking the tree down on December 1st.
SPEAKER_01:Just pack it up, y'all. Pack it up. Like, man. It's a wrap. Absolutely. No, it's all unwrapped. Yeah. Yeah, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_03:And I've told you the reason for that, so I'm not gonna do it again.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was probably nonsense then. Whatever. Mind your business. Like, we get too many houses to go to.
SPEAKER_03:We used to.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03:Me and Jennifer used to be by ourselves on Christmas Day.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the kids go.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we'd go eat Chinese and hang out. Because, you know, Chinese is the only place to eat.
SPEAKER_01:That is a big thing. That is a big thing in like, yeah, in like cities, is people eat Chinese on Christmas.
SPEAKER_03:So they don't celebrate Christmas Chinese. So write that down.
SPEAKER_01:That's something I could no. No, I don't want Chinese on Christmas.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I mean, we didn't eat it like a Christmas dinner, but it was the only thing open. Anyway, moving on.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, Richie Rails.
SPEAKER_03:I know, I'm different.
SPEAKER_01:You ever do you ever do black Black Friday shopping? So that was deep press. Came from D. That came from your bones.
SPEAKER_03:Jennifer likes Black Friday shopping.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I am thoroughly convinced that if I go to Black Friday shop, I will be in jail.
SPEAKER_01:That's Yeah, okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:There will be charges pressed if I'm in Black Friday shopping.
SPEAKER_01:So you've never went?
SPEAKER_03:Twice.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:And both times I'm just like, I can't don't want to be a part of this. So it was because we had specific things that we wanted to get for the kids. So and Jennifer's like, I can't get all of it. Yeah. Like, well, it's stupid.
SPEAKER_01:So man, we used to we used to leave Thanksgiving early to go get in line and do it. Yeah, it's stupid. And I'm glad we don't anymore. So we stopped doing that about probably five or six years ago. Because we did. We would miss most of Thanksgiving because we would go, we would eat, we'd say out to everybody, and then we'd head out to Black Friday. Yeah. And it's awesome. You save a couple hundred dollars, but is it really worth it to lose out on the time with your family on the glad that Walmart stopped doing that?
SPEAKER_03:You know, they used to do four o'clock Thursday, you know, four o'clock Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday. That's not Black Friday.
SPEAKER_01:Right. It's Thursday.
SPEAKER_03:And that's part of the the I don't know. It's fit, I don't know if it fixed the problem because Black Friday's not what it used to be.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_03:And I think it's because of the way they've kind of split it up now. Walmart's kind of the driving force to Black Friday, obviously, which now Amazon's really really doing some good stuff, but but it's changed. It's it's morphed. It's not what it used to be.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they well, they stopped doing it on the one day. And it's smart, it's a smart business strategy because now you you could get one person in three different times instead of just at once. So they yeah, they tier it. Okay, here's what's coming out on this day, here's what's coming out on this day, here's what's coming out on this day, and then they do Cyber Monday.
SPEAKER_03:So it's and Cyber Monday is starting to get bigger than Black Friday.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but well, it's it's more convenient. Absolutely. Two-day shipping. Yep, it's just it's easier to sit at your computer, do what you need to do. I still like going in person because I like the atmosphere. So, how you hate the atmosphere, I love it. Love it. Like the crape. I went to Black Friday one year and bought a DVD. That was all I bought. Just to be around it, just to be around it. I love it. Mom thought I was crazy because I took her with me. You are crazy. You're out of your mind. I just love it. Because it's the Christmas season kickoff, is what it is.
SPEAKER_03:The decline of humanity.
SPEAKER_01:Gosh. I did see some ladies fight over some hand towels.
SPEAKER_03:That's and that's I mean, everybody has a Black Friday story.
SPEAKER_01:Man, Judy, Susan, like y'all, ladies, come on.
SPEAKER_03:And uh Jennifer's mom about got into a fight over, I think it was a cabbage patch doll when she was a girl. Yeah, it was just nuts.
SPEAKER_01:And then, I mean, we used to we used to Walmart, Best Buy, GameStop, and then now, yeah, now it's we go in middle of the day on on Friday.
SPEAKER_03:And it's good, like Malden Walmart is great, yeah, because nobody thinks of them. Yep. So you go, which, but there's a there's a flip side of that. They don't get everything that the super centers get. So it's kind of a gamble.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And people started figuring it out. So after a few years, they start migrating to Malden instead of Dexter and Kenneth. And you know, so it started getting more and more packed, but I love the tier now. So it's we'll go Friday afternoon, check some stuff out. We'll go Saturday morning, check some stuff out, and then we'll check online.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But most of the time you can kind of get to what you need to and not get it on that day. So now they they've extended it out a lot more, so it's it's not so crazy. But I still love the well.
SPEAKER_03:Let me ask you this. We're gonna back it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Okay. That's what that's a reverse man. Going downstairs.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:What is your favorite Halloween movie?
SPEAKER_01:Trick or treat.
SPEAKER_03:It's a good one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:That's a classic. That's an old movie.
SPEAKER_01:I I think it just sums up Halloween perfectly in a movie.
SPEAKER_03:It's a cool movie. Yeah. And you were you're the one who introduced me to it. I'd never heard of it. Yeah. It was a really cool movie.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I thought it was really neat how it was done. I thought it it captured so many different aspects of Halloween.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And I really, really like it. Like we watched um, I forgot how much I love this movie. Um, oh gosh. It's um Johnny Depp had the headless horseman.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Sleepy Hollow.
SPEAKER_01:Sleepy Hollow. We watched that the other night. Never seen it. I forgot how much I love that movie. That was that's a good one. Well, you're a huge fan, so I've never seen it. It's good. Yeah. It's got a killer cast, man. No pun intended. Clever guy. Yeah, but that's cool. You?
SPEAKER_03:Uh yeah, I'm not a horror movie guy, so I don't I I just wanted to ask you. I don't want to be a part of this.
SPEAKER_01:Black Phone 2 was great. Yeah. That's starting to become what I really liked about it as we're watching it. We're sitting there, you know, me and Jimmy had the date night, and we're sitting there watching it. And I looked at her and I'm like, this movie is shockingly pro-Christian. Shockingly.
SPEAKER_02:Really?
SPEAKER_01:It I'm just like it had some cussing in it. Okay. Nothing too, too crazy. But it was very pro-Christian. And I'm just like, wow. It was, it was, it shocked me at how much they put in there and how how how positive they were about Christianity. It was really cool. Really, really cool. And and it was just, I just think it was a great story. How did it compare to the first one? I think it was better in the first one. Really? Yes, I liked it. I liked it better in the first one.
SPEAKER_03:I liked the first one, so I'm looking forward to it.
SPEAKER_01:And I think the first one was very what I liked about it so much was it was a new concept. Like you never really heard about this con like like this type of thing. And the second one kind of turns it on its head, so it's not even like, okay, we're gonna do exactly what we did the first one, just make in a second one. So I like that about it. It changed it a little bit.
SPEAKER_03:So it's a sequel but an original idea. Right. Right.
SPEAKER_01:And not so much that it's a complete like you're going, this has nothing to do with what in the world. But I thought it was really, really good. And again, we we We we don't condone or say yes, watch it, don't watch it. You have your own convictions. If you're okay to watch it, watch it. If not, don't. But I l I I loved it, man. I thought it was really, really good.
SPEAKER_03:I'm excited to see it.
SPEAKER_01:I got the popcorn bucket. Did you really? Yes. Yeah, you sent me a picture of it. Dude, a working rotary on it. And then on the on the um talking part, you could push the button and it and it talks. Yeah. So it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_03:Well, you sent me a picture of you with the rotary phone. I'm like, what the crap?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Where are you at that you're just using her?
SPEAKER_01:It was cool. It was it was 30 bucks, and it came with a large, large, large popcorn's$15. Right. So 15 extra bucks. Yeah. So that's cool. Yeah. It is pretty awesome, man. It's pretty awesome. So it's up on the shelf. I rearranged my shelf. Up on the shelf. Put it on there. Yeah. So I like those. And and Jamie doesn't really like scary movies. She likes like thrillers. Right.
SPEAKER_03:I'm the same way, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So cool. Um trying to get her to kind of watch some of them. Yeah, man. Well, I sure love you, man.
SPEAKER_03:Love you too.
SPEAKER_01:Ty Ty. We miss you. Not that he would be saying much anyway, but Yeah.
