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Nov 24, 2020 51 min

Thanksgiving

from Jesse & Wilder's Guide to Life

How do you design the perfect Thanksgiving, you ask? Great question: your two favorite morons, Dangerous Boys, Wine Moms, Masters of Romance, and Pope Detectives Jesse McGrath & Wilder Shaw are here to answer that for you, in the form of an easy-to-digest, incredibly boring rubric. Tune into the show critics have hailed as "a podcast" to find out the Very Quite Lit, Very Pretty Good, and Very Not Quite Lit elements of Thanksgiving! POINTS OF INTEREST THIS WEEK INCLUDE: • The great Jell-O debate • Birthday clowns • Keep it brown • DON'T KILL YOUR GRANDMA THIS YEAR [Holler atcha boys on Instagram and Twitter]

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I'm gonna go to another episode of Jesse and Wilder's Guide to Life. I'm Jesse, that's Wilder. This is Jesse and Wilder's Guide to Life. How are you?

Kind of a one-breath move you're going for today, huh? I'm gonna do the whole show on one breath. I still have not inhaled. Okay, continue then.

Well, I don't have anything to say. I mean, it's all just the one breath, you know. If the listeners have any idea how many times I have to cut out your big breathing from the show, they would know how untrue this is. Bro, you never told me I got a big breath.

That's kind of cool. You have a assortment of sounds and noises that you like to make during this podcast. It used to be the loudest typing in the world, and then you really upped the ante by buying this new keyboard, which is much louder. Yeah.

What other kind of noises am I making that you're hearing? I do, I am interested. Okay, well occasionally you do fall asleep and you kind of do like the, the, the, you know, that kind of cartoon snore. I am guilty of a cartoon snore.

Or sometimes when you're, when you want to pretend to be asleep and you're not really asleep, you're like, oh, you know that one? Yeah, and I do pretend to be asleep. I would say most of the time. That's one of your favorite bits.

It's a good one. I mean, what am I supposed to not do? It's a good bit. Brother, let's get into the topic.

Yeah, tell them what we're doing. Well, it's time. This is your favorite. Yeah, it is.

Well, tell me why. It's Thanksgiving. Everyone knows Thanksgiving. You were doing Thanksgiving.

You were the title. You know what's going on. You're listening. Why is it Thanksgiving?

I can take it or leave it. Why is it your favorite? Just because it's literally all about sitting down and getting drunk and eating them as much food as possible until you burst. But the seed, I agree with you, but I do that almost every day.

Yeah, I do that almost every day. But this is when it's socially acceptable. You can do it public around your family and friends except for not this year. You get to do it alone in your house.

By yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is fucking cool as hell. Interesting.

I love it. I love it so. I think part of it is I love cringus so much. And I think Halloween got a big wild card energy to it that I appreciate.

Thanks. I care not for Halloween. Thanksgiving a little boring to me. But that's why I like it.

It's easy, beer easy, baby. You start drinking at like what? 7 a.m.? No.

Thanksgiving? Start drinking at 7 a.m.? Yeah, bro, you're up early. Drunk as hell.

So, okay, but here's my counterpoint. And this is, you want to talk about, I mean, look, we've talked about how fucking bad 2020 is as every single person on the earth. But you want to talk about holidays ruined by 2020. Thanksgiving pretty high up there.

I mean, just like, be inside. Which is where Thanksgiving takes place with your family. And gang, I'm going to do a rubric for like a normal Thanksgiving, okay? So just shut up.

Yeah, of course, of course. Of course. If you want to hear a COVID safe Thanksgiving rubric, see yourself out. For real.

Look in the garbage can. It's in there. Along with your freaking brain. But you want to know one of my favorite holidays that has been ruined quite thoroughly in a different way by 2020.

It's the Fourth of July. Oh, well, sure. Never was there a worst time to be fucking pumped to be an American and wear these colors that don't run? Yeah.

This time. It sucks, because that's the most covey friendly I feel. You're supposed to be outside. I mean, look, we're going to do the old me and the girl that hangs out with me are going to go to my dad's house and we're going to get separate tables.

What do you think about that maneuver? Yeah, my dad's also cooking up an outdoor. He's got heaters. He's got outdoor heaters because it's fine.

I saw people doing posting pictures of like friends, giving and they're all at long tables, but there's a space between gang. That sucks. It doesn't work. Don't make me explain to you why that's a bad call.

Don't fucking do it. It's really. Yeah, it's not. I'm pushing the boundaries and we're going to be outside and we're going to be at separate tables.

Don't just leave one person space between you. Here's what I'll say. Wait, this is for mine. I mean, can we talk about one of the worst things I think is squeezing people together at a table?

That should be a part of your category, right? I do want to say one more thing about Kobe before we get rid of it. We're not going to talk about Kobe the rest of the time, but I will say as much as we're talking shit right now, I don't blame people entirely for some of their actions. I blame people entirely for all of their actions.

Here's the point I want to make. Here's the point I want to make. When your stupid-ass government doesn't set a precedent by not giving you any money and being like, you can go to restaurants as long as they're like New York's thing is restaurants are closed at 10 now. Oh, because Kobe is out at night.

Kobe vampire. That's a good one for New York because it's only one to eat dinner at 10. Yeah, it's true. You might as well not even open for dinner if you're going to find a restaurant serving dinner at 7 p.m.

in New York. But my point is like I don't necessarily I don't 100% blame people who are like, we can we as long as there's space in between the table because all that we've heard is like- No, that's you're doing the opposite of what I love to do in my life, which is blame idiots for being idiots. I know, but there's bigger idiots at play, you know? It's there's idiot puppet masters.

Speaking as an idiot. Okay. Yeah, true. Stop being such a fucking idiot all the time.

Yeah, it's true. Just use your dang brains. Use your noggin. And don't be like but we need it this year.

Gang, we all need everything this year. Yeah, you really don't. Thanksgiving's not that tight. Hate to tell you what it's pretty.

Pretty medium. It's so very good. There's a reason that there's no Thanksgiving Reese's shapes. They skip the fuck over Thanksgiving, don't they?

Yeah, that's interesting, huh? They get Easter and Valentine's Day in there and not Thanksgiving. Why not a little turkey? It's like I didn't even have to think about that.

It's turkey. It's turkey. It's easy. It's easy.

Or like a leaf or something like a fall thing. Right. What's crazy is I don't even think you could even argue, you could do keep pumpkins, but they don't even- I feel like- You're like squish. As soon as- As good.

As soon as like October 31st rolls over midnight into November 1st, Reese's trees are out. It's like Christmas time already for Reese's. Oh, I saw the trees in stores before Halloween even happened. Okay.

There's what I'm talking about, baby. Alright, let's get into the rubric. Don't fucking cough in your grandma's face. Thanksgiving's not worth it for that.

You stupid ass. Yeah, and like maybe don't even invite your grandma to Thanksgiving. Big shout out to grandma. Also not worth it.

I had to uninvite her. I was like, she was like, I don't think we should go, but I was like, you're not coming. Let's talk about seating because I already had some thoughts about it. Okay, seating.

Yeah. A lot of the where I start loving Thanksgiving from it's just because it's been like, it's to me, since I don't do a cringus really, it's one of those traditions that like have always, I always hit the same hits on repeat for like my whole life. Right. Right.

So starting as a little kid, I loved the fucking kids table, baby, give me kids table and very quite lit. Kids table, very quite lit. I won't do it without an explanation. Because the kids table is where it was fucking happening, dude.

That's where the shit was going down. That's where the real stuff is being talked about. But like what though, bro? I don't know.

Mario Kart. Okay. Congra feature in your baseball in 64, whatever was relevant at the time when I was a kid. Okay.

I'll put kids table here. I love a kids table because it sucks ass when you're like a little fucking eight year old or whatever, and you go over to someone's house for Thanksgiving, and you got to sit with all the adults and listen, they're fucking, oh my god, adults are so great. Okay. So here's my problem with your kids table designation that I think ties into this.

Oh my god. You hate kids table, bro. You hate kids. Well, first of all, kids table a little counter to why you love Thanksgiving because the thing that I remember the kids table is kids are trying to fucking go.

They're going to get up from the table, finish their food fast. They can and so they go around, play Mario Kart, go on their video games. I just want to chill, bro. They are fucking too high energy for me, even as a kid.

All right. They're putting it very, pretty good because it's dope when you are a kid and it kind of might suck when you're an adult. Okay. And that's okay.

So this is my thing. There is a time in your life when both the kids table and the adult table sucks shit. Like when you're a teen kids table, you're like, are you fucking kidding me? I'm hearing these kids talk about Digimon.

Attendees. Very not quite lit. A teen. Yeah.

Yeah. They got to skip it honestly. They want to. Oh my god.

Quack business with Beanzo. Are you ready? Oh no. It's like a birthday clown that comes to your house, but it's a teen Thanksgiving MC.

What does that mean? He's there to like chill with a teen. He's going to buy an adult man to your house, staying out with teenagers. That guy sounds legit.

And he's got like balloon animals or whatever teens love. They don't love that. That sounds like you just are describing a clown. You have like an idea and it's a bad one.

It's just a clown. It's just a guy in a full clown costume. No. No.

A better business with Beanzo is a guy who has like a fucking laser tag arena. Okay. Here's what I want to think. I want to combine birthday clown with Bar Mitzvah MC.

Why are you bringing something into your home? That's what Thanksgiving's about, baby. Send them off. This is not where a dog shines, by the way.

A dog is a two. Oh yeah. It's a border. It's almost a one, to be honest.

It sucks too when you're like at someone else's house and you're trying to sneak Sparky. Some of your fucking dry ass turt and they're like, please don't feed the dog. Why is the dog in here then, huh? Oh my god.

Please don't feed the dog. Get out of here. What am I at the zoo? I want to do another thing for seating.

Too many tables, very not quite lit. You ever go to a Thanksgiving and their people are not equipped to host a Thanksgiving? So there's like a four top table, a breakfast nook where two people are sitting. Oh, like they're not even together.

Yeah. Like, oh, you six people have to eat on the couch around the fucking coffee table. Do you know what I'm talking about? That's still not as bad to me as not enough seating though.

Okay. All right. All right. All right.

So too much seating. That's a two. Is a two, not enough seating. Obviously, if people are standing, is a big no-no.

And just like, control your fucking guest list, boys and girls. Oh my god. If there's a table that comfortably seats three people on one side, don't squeeze a fucking fourth in there. It's hell on earth.

You're banging your elbows together. Yeah. Stop squeezing is no good. And I'll tell you what sucks.

And it seems like it's perfect. So we're going to have to really unlock our brains right now and figure out the perfect situation because one long table sucks shit. I almost want to give it a one. You know what I've seen that I like is there like three or four long tables shaped like a big U.

Yeah, I'm I'm better to that. I don't know if it's very quite lit. Or even like a square, like a fucking table reader. So still the problem with me is I feel like you're really locked into conversation with the two people next to you and maybe well you want what wedding style, bunch of fucking round tables.

Tell me there's something wrong with it. No, it's not the wrong with it. But what normal home can accommodate that? Oh, we're doing normal stuff now.

Mr. Bar Mitzvah clown coming in to entertain. Bro, you know what else I like outdoor seating. You don't like the outdoors though.

Yeah, I do not like it. What's the guest list here? Kids is a two, right? I mean, this is obviously like always depends on the size of your house.

Of course, of course, but kids are too. Yeah, we talk about like little children. I want to talk about numbers though. Okay.

Like, let's talk numbers. What do we think? 15? Max?

Yeah, 15 is very pretty good to me. 6 to 10 is where it's at. All right. You know what time it is, baby.

We're talking consumables. I kind of like a radical thing. I would say it's to be radical. You've already said a bunch of dumb shit might as well fire off another.

I think Turkey Turkey to me is a one. Okay, so I don't disagree with you here. And I don't think that's as hot of a taste. It's it's it's really not because people fucking love it.

That's by far my least favorite food. However, so this is the tough part and because I'm a spoiled boy and I have a live in chef. I've made a good turkey before too. And even it's best, it's not as good as I've been.

Did you did you debunk it and then roll it with herbs and sausage? Oh my God. No, I didn't do that, but I've made good turkey. The key is you just keep taking it out and brush it with olive oil.

It's nice and juicy. So you want to put it as a one? I mean, unless you're so fucking into Turkey. I think Turkey sucks, dude.

It's so dry. I mean, it's there's no denying that is the absolute worst dish. Think about this. Would you agree that the best turkey is lunch meat?

So okay, so this is my other argument for Turkey. That's a bad meat. No, no, no. Here's the other thing for Turkey as a two.

The leftover turkey sandwiches are very, very good business. I skipped the turkey on the leftover sandwich. What are you putting on there, bro? Does stuffing?

Well, the other, well, let me I'll tell you what I'm putting on there. And I'd like to give this my very quite lit consumable for the main course, main attraction, baby. A big ass holiday ham. You've never spoken my language more.

You know that I'm a ham man. I'm fucking John Hammond over here. And I also Jewish grandparents. So we did a lot of brisket for Thanksgiving.

Okay, I'm gonna talk about brisket in there. And if we're doing family biz, last Thanksgiving, dad lab said, fuck turkey, we're doing prime ribs. So I'm putting prime ribs. But it's stuffing a three or two for you.

I love stuff. Okay, I'd like to talk about something. I'm taking a stand. It's dressing.

Interesting. I was actually gonna bring this up. It's not. But what do you say that?

Who are you like? Is it stuffed inside of something? Yeah, literally. Yes.

You stuff it inside the turkey. Oh, okay. Well, that's if you're actually most people don't do that though. That's how every single turkey had ever been done.

No, people just baked stuffing in a dish. You know what I mean? No, they just make it as its own thing. What are you?

Okay. So let me turn your question on you. What are you dressing? I don't know why it's called dressing.

That's fucking stupid to me. But there is a difference between stuffing and dressing. I've always had it from the fucking canal of the turkeys. Okay, that's good.

That's the good good. That is that is proper stuffing. But most people, I mean, every time I've ever made stuffing, I've never even done like that. I just fucking make it in a thing and I bake it in the oven.

Dude, one time Graham. Shout out to fucking Graham. Graham is a Thanksgiving goddess. Graham one time wrapped the turkey in bacon.

I'm gonna put Graham parents in very quite a lot of attendees. Absolutely. Because this is where the fucking shine is. This is the right.

This is the grandparent of holidays. She wrapped it in bacon and then she fucking and she stuffed it. And then like an hour before the turkey was done, pulled it out, cut up the bacon, put it, mixed it into the stuffing that was already in the turkey. Pop that shit back in there.

Oh, yeah. I mean, look, there's ways to do good turkey. I had a barbecue restaurant once did a statement. No, no, that was not a statement on turkey.

That was about stuffing over dressing. And Graham, who stuffs it, calls it dressing. I think it's a southern thing. I think that I've just heard that if you don't stuff, if you make it without stuffing it inside the turkey, it's called dressing.

I mean, I guess you call it deli meat, not just regular meat. If you didn't get it from a deli, like what are we doing here? What are you? No, it's not.

Yeah, it's like a champagne thing. Okay. So, but where do you fucking put it, bro, is what I asked you? Where do I put it?

It's a three. I love it. I thought you were gonna say some dumb shit. Like, oh, never had it.

I never had stuffing. I just been talking about it. Let me give you another consumable that I love so much. Yes.

I don't know what's gonna be that much of a two besides. I don't let me know. I know. It's gonna be tough Okay, I love a spicy, gourd-based soup.

So fancy, boy. My signature Thanksgiving dish is spicy pumpkin or butternut squash soup. I got two for you. Maybe you want to agree.

The sweet potatoes. I don't fucking love sweet potatoes that much. I like them. And I like them when people do them with the marshmallows on them.

But I don't need it. I'll give you sweet taters a two. The way that I'm doing this is if I show up and that's not there, am I like, okay, or am I like, wait, nobody brought this? Don't give a fuck about sweet taters.

You know what I need? Maybe this isn't even Thanksgiving so much as it's just always at my Thanksgiving smacking cheese. Yeah, I think that it's pretty fun. Is that a staple or no?

I think it is. It's a staple for us. Actually, it doesn't fucking matter because we're making our own Thanksgiving. Right.

Biscuits, three for me, obviously. Let me give you another. It's a two. Non-traditional Thanksgiving.

Okay. Meaning not the Turk and stuffing shit. And everyone's nude as well. And everyone is nude and it is an orgy.

Yes. This year, I'm gonna pick up Shouts Two, my favorite Middle Eastern restaurant in the world, Mini-Kabob. I'm just gonna pick up a shitload of Mini-Kabob and bring it. I agree.

I think that you want it just right in non-traditional foods. Non-traditional Thanksgiving. Okay. I think it's a two.

Because sometimes someone can be like, really strike out. Right. Yeah, right, right. Yeah.

Because some of it you want those flavors. They hit you just right. And I think it's not as simple as just like, we're doing pizzas instead. That's fucking boring.

That's pizza night. I'm talking about it. Still Thanksgiving. I think you have to have what do we think?

10 plus options of food? Wow. I mean, including appetizers. Yeah, I think so.

Probably. You need, I think to me, what defines Thanksgiving, which is what I love so much about it, is that there's so many little nibbles invites to have. No, I'm there. So non-traditional treats.

Oh, appetizers, bro. Let's talk about appetizers. I'm talking appetizers. This is cocktail hour.

Yeah. I mean, cheese and crepes. Yeah. Is it three, right?

I have to have it. If I honestly, if I showed up to my family's Thanksgiving and like, there were not cheese and crackers, I think I would leave and go get cheese and crack. Oh, you want to just go pick some? I know.

Oh, you must have forgotten. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll run to the store.

They're open. I'll get some. Oh my God, bro. Going to the store on Thanksgiving is horrible.

When can like, is that a what's that category? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get to like, activities. We'll come up with a better name for this, but activities.

Yeah. Doing a store run. Oh God, horrible. Okay.

But this is this is the one time where a teen shines because they want to drive as they've ever driven. Oh, they can't wait to leave. Yeah. That's so just like, hey, we need ice.

Teens are like, Oh, I got it. They're dying to get out of there. Go get me the fucking ice boy and bring me a bottle of maker's mark while you're at it. They can't do that, though, can they?

No, sure can't. No dry Thanksgiving's please. I don't even want to put that. What an absolute zoomable dry Thanksgiving.

Oh, very quite lit. So fucking lame. What's your drink of choice? What are you getting?

Liddy on during Thanksgiving? Okay, I am so happy you asked. I don't want to switch spirits because this is already a day where I'm finna yard for no matter what. Oh, but you know, that's no problem for me.

So I'm switching lanes all day long. You don't get a little nauseous if you do like, but you're one. I'm telling you, this is we've talked about I have a certain set of skills. Switching makes me more powerful.

So I do something a little counterintuitive sort of going on. You know by the end of Thanksgiving, it's snooze town for me and for many, but definitely for me, for this big snoozy, it's maximum snooze. Yeah, so in the morning and evening or in the morning afternoon, especially like we're watching football, my family likes to fucking Rick rock with a signature cocktail. This is actually this is a this is a three just in general signature.

Someone's signature thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Megan brought her famous mashed potatoes. Oh, mashed potatoes is a consumable that I need. Yeah, it might be a two for me.

Really? Just like if I'm thinking about the pecking order, it's like, I need mac and cheese on my plate. I need my biscuits out to my sweet mom, Ellie, you know, she does for she used to make these she could get these lavender potatoes, just get these purple. Mashi's going so good.

I like that. But you want to put mashed potatoes three? I won't fight against it. I need that's something that's like I'm expecting it.

Yeah. Okay, so what's the signature cocktail? So the signature cocktail could be whatever. I mean, that's what I was saying is like, it's not like the same one every year, which is great.

It's like they'll show up and it's my mom's like making like a holiday synchria Chelsea's mom like last year or two years ago made this like caramel apple. I mean, it was a nightmare, but it's just like that's what we're doing. And then when the dinner comes, I switched to my sweet red wine because it's snooze town and I'm gonna have my big meal and I'm gonna drink my big red wine. Yeah, I'm with it for wine with dinner though.

I prefer like, I want to keep it brown. That's kind of the theme of Thanksgiving. Ooh, keep it brown is yeah, yucky thing to say. Keep it brown.

Keep it down. That's what I have to say about this. Do you do so like a whiskey? Right.

Whiskey is gonna be my drink of choice. Can I get beer at two? It might be a one. Yeah, I don't even think it's a two to be honest.

Like you're this is about endurance. This is a marathon, not a sprint and you need all the stomach capacity. So I'm not about wine is a two because it goes so well with food, but it is snooze juice. Like if you start drinking wine at noon while I'm like, oh my god, bro.

Nobody's drinking wine while they watch football at noon. Yeah, I think somebody might be. And then we have like spirits as a as a three, which I think is the move. Maybe I'll fuck around and make a signature cocktail this year.

Who the fuck knows? You'll probably want to give this a two and I'll understand. But I something that I look forward to is a green bean casserole. I do like that nasty shit.

No, I don't hate it, but I just don't think it's elite. No, it's not mandatory. It's a two. No, it is mandatory.

A salad. That's lame, but I do need it. So how about this? Can I put like fresh greens as a two?

No, no, fresh greens. I think is a three. You gotta have it. I gotta have something fresh.

Okay. All right. All right. Does your family have any like cheesy potato situations like a scalloped potato?

Yeah, I do love those. Okay, that's a three for me. What if we just go potato is a three? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So whether that sweet potato is whether it's mashed, whether it's scalloped, because I don't need scalloped and mashed sweet potato casserole. It's a fucking nightmare. Graham makes these things called dairy potatoes, which are basically just a scalloped potato kind of and my dad lab like threw a legit fit like two or three years ago because she didn't make it. And he was like, Mom, Mom, you didn't bring the dairy potatoes?

And she was like, Oh, honey, I thought you said you were going to make them. I was like, why would I make them? Oh, bro, uh, roles. Well, I said biscuits.

Yeah. Yeah. What do we put the cranberries stuff at? Is that a what I don't give a fuck about cranberry sauce cranberry anything.

You're asking the wrong guy. You love cranberry? I love it. To be honest, but here's why.

It's because it's the it's the solution to that nasty ass dry turkey. Right. So if we're building the perfect one, we wouldn't even need a solution. I still, but I still kind of like it.

It's it's one of those like two traditional to quit for I also like cranberries. That's like, I enjoy them. I don't hate them at all. I don't hate them.

I just like, give it to if I just like don't care about them enough. I would be if they were gone, I wouldn't notice. It does exist for for turkey. It's certainly it's it's serves a good purpose.

Oh, cornbread dog. Cornbread. Yeah. Cornbread is a three for sure.

Bread that has been corned. Fuck. Cranberry to me also good in that it adds like a sour to all this fucking rich heady shit, but I still don't. It's I don't know how about a slot for like this is where I want a non-traditional dish is a three.

You know what I want? I want one wild card wild card dish. Well, we have non-traditional, but you know what I mean? Non-traditional to me is a two for like the whole meal.

Is it non-traditional meal, but not one wild card. I want someone to be like, oh, do you see that fucking cheesy Brussels sprout bake someone made? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I get it. I get that. When you're I get fed up and mint skewers?

Yeah. I'm I know I fuck with it. Yeah. Somebody brings like a fucking homemade olive top and odd or some shit and you're like, oh, yeah, that's oh my god.

Oh, I live for that. What is what is the dessert situation? I don't even need dessert if I'm being honest. That's the thing in it because I'm not really much of a dessert boy, but if they're had to be, I won't buy.

Do you want do you like a punky pie though? The signature punky pie. I am a punky pie hater. Okay.

I think it's one of the most overrated foods. Yeah. I don't particularly love it. And the crust is always bad because nobody ever.

If you need it. If you need it on your phone. No, I'm classic when it comes to pie. I love like an apple cinnamon.

Okay, I'm gonna put fruit pie as a three. Can we just do that? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. My mom will make a strawberry rhubarb pie. So good.

Graham fuck around with it. My family big cream pie family as you can be a guest. We always have like a fucking chocolate cream pie or a Nina cream pie. And that that's I'm gonna put that as a two because I know that's not everybody's specific flavor, but I do love a green pie.

Maybe is a three. I know you don't like brown gravy or some of your shit like that. But turkeys ousted. What are you even putting gravy on?

Like on your prime rate, you're gonna put gravy? Taters. Mashed potatoes. Just on your mashed taters.

That's what it's for. Yeah. I love gravy on my taters. The thing about breakfast or breakfast.

Good Lord. The thing about dessert. What you talking about? Yeah.

I'm fucking wasted on this fucking Thanksgiving talk. The thing about dessert is that you do finish dinner like a normal and maybe we should talk about this too. I feel like Thanksgiving dinner for some reason takes place at like 3.30 pm or some dumb shit. Like it's always I like the I like the weird time if I'm being honest.

Right. But that's what's so great about dessert is like you I mean it's just like you eat dessert at like 7 pm. All right. I'll give you 10 pm dessert then.

Yeah. There we go. I'll wake up from my nap. Activities a nap.

I don't usually like them, but I think that Thanksgiving nap is a little tasty. You're just tailoring this to you because you can't stay awake. Come on. A little Thanksgiving nap.

I don't want a nap during my day. I'm having fun. I don't want to go nap. Bro, that's what going to bed is for.

I go on a little I get on the couch after I've had my couple. This is your own problem. Couple one two cocktails, a bunch of cheese and crackies. And I had to take a little 20 minutes.

Like I've done a little dinner. I gotta work my way up. Is there a worst guy where they're like everyone's sitting down and they're like, okay, are we ready? And someone's like, oh no, we gotta go wake up McGrath.

He's still asleep from his one drink and his cheese and crackers. The cheese makes me sleepy. This is such a you problem, dude. Can we give nap a two?

Come on. If we have to, I will give it a two. And that's a reluctant two. What's very pretty good?

Like dinner at six, I guess. My move since I would do I would do double Thanksgiving, bro. I would I would fucking be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've been there. Look, we both got the worst parents, bro. I've been there before. I think this still goes on schedule or I want to do schedule because after Thanksgiving, you know what we did?

You what? That's activities. What bro? At a bar.

Not like at the house. Okay. Okay. So I think no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

We would go to this bar and Sherman Oaks shout out to the Oaks Tavern. I don't even know if it survived. Rony or not. But we would go.

They'd have their own little you do karaoke all day night. Keep getting litty. Okay. So I'm an after after hours treat.

Yeah. I'm gonna put activities after hours treat. What do we think about Thanksgiving lunch? We're doing that this year and I'm I'm curious about it.

I think it's we're doing we're doing dinner at one this year. Interesting. I don't I don't hate it. But I think that the problem is that then you really like I think that I'm fine cracking open a cocktail at 10 a.m.

I don't know that like I'm not going to be doing much drinking because there's no ubers anymore. Right. Oh yeah, that's true. Here's I know exactly what's gonna happen.

I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna overeat like you do on Thanksgiving. Yes. And then when I'm hungry for dinner, I'm gonna feel bad about myself.

Yeah, that's the risk of the Thanksgiving lunch because Thanksgiving dinner should be your last day. I'm taking leftovers with me though. So I think I think it's just I'm gonna keep eating whatever we didn't eat. I'm gonna put it as a two.

We're also not doing much cooking this year. Right. Because we don't want to contaminate. Oh right.

Ding. Rony sucks. I'm just gonna say it. Finally somebody brave enough to say it.

You know what I kind of like as I'm gonna pop back into consumables for dessert? I think pie obviously great. Cake. We're not gonna put cake on here.

If you bring cake to Thanksgiving like toss yourself. I like it like a um various baked goods because sometimes you're so full you don't want a whole piece of pie but a little brownie. No, no, no, no, what kind of baked goods you think? I love a cookie.

I love a brownie. You know what I love which I don't even can't tell you last time I had it. What's up with nobody ever has coffee cake. Coffee cake is so dang.

That's such a bad so fucking thing. I can't even think of a time I have coffee cake not from 7-11. Dude there's a place not that I used to go all the time in high school like a diner. It's they're famous for their coffee cake.

They're just like coffee. It's so fucking good. What is it? Just cinnamon and brown sugar?

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