Holiday Episode

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We get sent so many book ideas by authors that we can't possibly read them all. So Sarah came up with an excellent idea. She is interviewing some of those authors in many episodes called Author Spotlight, where we showcase those authors and let them tell us about their books and why we should read them. You can find them on our Book Interrupted channel. Wherever you get your podcasts. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Parental Guidance is recommended because this episode has mature topics and strong language. Here are some moments you can look forward to during this episode of Book Interrupted. [00:00:33] Speaker A: The Story. They have theater. There's costumes, there's dance, Everything that I like. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Are you serious? [00:00:40] Speaker C: Right? Imagine being Taylor Swift. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Yeah. 240,000 people are coming to the city. [00:00:45] Speaker B: Off the set. I'd be like smoking a cigarette and like whacking myself in the leg and. [00:00:49] Speaker C: Smoking in the Grinch costume. [00:00:50] Speaker A: In the Grinch costume. This is fully problematic. And when you look at it kind of scary and weird and whatever, I still really like the movie. [00:00:58] Speaker C: And so Christmas is always me crying or yelling or having a bad time. So I don't enjoy Christmas, but I do love Christmas movies. [00:01:06] Speaker B: And then my last is the last holiday with Queen Latifah. I will watch that movie any time of year. I'm sure they've already started. [00:01:14] Speaker A: I don't want a lot for Christmas, dude. No. [00:01:19] Speaker C: My body and soul Inflammation is the goal. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Try to learn something new without it. [00:01:32] Speaker C: My body is high. [00:01:34] Speaker A: Information is with us. Trying to learn something without being disrupted. Mind, body and soul inspiration is with all. And we're going to talk it out on Book Interrupted. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Welcome to Book Interrupted, a book club for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life's interruptions. Let's listen in to this episode's group discussion. Yeah, you guys have very similar haircuts right now. [00:02:07] Speaker A: All the cool kids are wearing hair this way, right? I don't know. [00:02:11] Speaker C: I don't know what cool kids do. Somebody said they were having a Tay Tay friendship bracelet making party and I was like, I have no idea what you're talking about. And I had to look it up. And I go, oh, that's Taylor Swift. I don't know the Tay Tay. Oh, is it Taylor Swift? [00:02:25] Speaker B: Oh, Tayjay's called Taylor Swift. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Oh, Taylor Swift is coming to Toronto next week in the week after. She's doing three shows. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then the following week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. They're closing down roads downtown Toronto and they've renamed a street for her. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Are you serious? [00:02:44] Speaker C: Right? Imagine being Taylor Swift. [00:02:45] Speaker A: 240,000 people are coming to the city. So we're prep. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Why are they renaming a street after Taylor Swift? She's not Canadian. [00:02:52] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:02:53] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:02:53] Speaker B: That's weird. [00:02:54] Speaker A: There's so, like. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Not permanently though, right? Just for the show. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Just for the show. [00:02:59] Speaker C: But yeah, just for the show. Sarah. [00:03:00] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't think permanently, but permanent would be weird. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you meant permanently. I was like, well, that seems outrageous to me. [00:03:07] Speaker C: Everything about Taylor Swift is outrageous. People are nuts about Taylor Swift. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Obsessed. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah. There's like Taylor Swift dance parties that you can go to and she's not even there. It's just people getting together. It's like, you pay to go. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And they just play Taylor Swift songs, I guess. [00:03:24] Speaker C: I assume. I. I don't know. I could go. I could do some recognizance maybe. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Okay, you go and let us know. [00:03:31] Speaker C: It's probably hard to get tickets even for that. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Wow. [00:03:34] Speaker C: Sorry. Do you want to introduce the Taylor Swift episode? I mean, Christmas episode. [00:03:39] Speaker B: Sure. So welcome to our Christmas episode Holiday episode, where we're going to talk about our favorite Christmas and. Or holiday books and holiday movies. And I was thinking we could also talk about holiday songs if you want, because I'm sure they've already started. [00:03:55] Speaker A: I don't want a lot for Christmas. Do. Do. No Little what's her name? [00:04:02] Speaker C: It is good. [00:04:02] Speaker B: That's my favorite. Mariah Carey. [00:04:04] Speaker A: I like that song. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Classic for Christmas is you. [00:04:08] Speaker C: I know it's played a lot, but, like, made an instant classic. It's so good. Right? It's become a classic. [00:04:14] Speaker B: I could listen to it during Christmas all the time. I don't mind it at all. There's some Christmas songs that get obnoxious. [00:04:20] Speaker C: But rocking around the Christmas tree I can only take so much Rocking around the Christ. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:04:24] Speaker C: Jingle Bell Rock. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah, Jingle Bell Rock. Or even just Jingle Bells. [00:04:29] Speaker C: I'll take Jingle Bells over Jingle Bell Rock. [00:04:30] Speaker A: We could do a sing along and do this whole episode of us singing Christmas without you. [00:04:37] Speaker C: That one. I can't do Elvis Christmas. I know. People love Elvis. Whenever that comes on, I go. I don't know if I'm a big Elvis person because like Blue Christmas, I'm just like, oh, God, this song. [00:04:48] Speaker B: I like Michael Buble, his Christmas albums. Good. [00:04:52] Speaker A: I like the Bing Crosby. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Oh, Bing Crosby. [00:04:55] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. [00:04:55] Speaker A: The White Christmas. That's my favorite. [00:04:58] Speaker C: Have you seen the movie White Christmas? [00:05:02] Speaker A: Yes. I love the movie White Christmas. [00:05:04] Speaker C: You do? [00:05:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:06] Speaker C: You love it? Yeah. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Every single Christmas. My mom and I watch it. Yep. [00:05:10] Speaker C: We watched it. We. We got it. In a pack. It's Wonderful Life and White Christmas, and we watched White Christmas. We're like, what is this movie? I don't know. We were just. This movie is too much. [00:05:21] Speaker A: Oh, I love it so much. [00:05:22] Speaker B: It's funny. [00:05:23] Speaker C: I love that you love it. I'm going to tell Dan and then we'll watch it again. [00:05:26] Speaker A: The music is amazing, the story. They have theater. There's costumes, there's dance, everything that I like. So every year since I was a. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Kid, I've never watched it. [00:05:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Really? [00:05:40] Speaker C: Well, if you come to my house one day, you can watch it, because I love It's Wonderful Life. That's my favorite Christmas movie of all time. I'll watch it any time of day, really. Or year. [00:05:50] Speaker A: I don't think I've ever seen It's a Wonderful Life. [00:05:52] Speaker C: Really? [00:05:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:53] Speaker C: It's so good. [00:05:55] Speaker A: There's no singing. There's no dancing. [00:05:57] Speaker C: No, it's good, though. It's really good. At the end, you're like, I mean, it'll bring tears. My kids like it. And it's black and white. They're like, yes, it's A Wonderful Life is great. And I think that's saying something. Maybe it's saying my kids don't get to watch a lot of movies. [00:06:12] Speaker B: Any sort of screen, they're like, yay, there's a screen. [00:06:16] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:06:17] Speaker C: I'll take it. Black and white, color, whatever. It's just the sound with the stop picture. I'll take it. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Maybe it says they're old souls. [00:06:25] Speaker C: I mean, Elsa is an old soul. She loves classical music. Loves it. Right? Okay. I wanted to say something about this vest I'm wearing. If people go on the YouTube channel, they can see it. So this is a fantastic Christmas. It's, like, tied at the back with a ribbon. This Christmas vest is Kara and Leah's mom's Christmas vest. Our families used to have Christmases together, and she used to wear it to our family Christmas. And she passed it on to our mother because our mom was hosting the Christmases and she gave it to her to wear at Christmas time. We always say, my mom is Christmas. Like, she. It's her favorite. She goes over the top. She loves Christmas parties. She's coming to visit me for Christmas, but she's having a Christmas party at her house before she leaves. Right. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Anyway, she's going to bring candy canes and Christmas things for my kids when she comes to visit in April. I was like, oh, Christmas in April? Is that what we're doing? [00:07:21] Speaker C: It is Christmas, so. And she Used to have these. Not just the Christmas hosting, but she had these big, elaborate, what we called Christmas cheer at her house. We'd invite all our friends and all the kids, me and, and Sarah and Matt would all invite our friends and mom would invite all her friends. And it would just be a house packed with people and like food on every surface. And yeah, Christmas cheer was so good. This is nice because she's moved to a new town and then there was a pandemic and blah, blah, blah. She's gathering kind of a group of people around and they're gonna. She's gonna have another Christmas party this year, which is great. But anyway, this vest, she left it here one day. She's like, you know, maybe I'll give this to you now. So this Christmas vest is now stays in my closet. So when she's here, she can wear her Christmas vest or I can wear it for the book interrupted Christmas episode. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Please describe the vest to our listeners. [00:08:15] Speaker C: Okay, so it's only a half vest. It ties at the back with a ribbon and around the neck and it's got felt presents with pipe cleaner bows, A Santa with a gold glittery hat and a Christmas tree with decorations also glittery. And what's we got? Frosty snowman. And the background looks a little bit like a sweater. Like a knit sweater and. [00:08:39] Speaker B: No, it looks like a candy cane. [00:08:40] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Candy cane. [00:08:42] Speaker A: And it's got sequins. Sequins all over. [00:08:45] Speaker B: Lots of sequins. [00:08:46] Speaker C: It's very loud. It's very Christmassy. It's been in the family, like if you include Kara and Leah's family as part of our family, which we. We do. It's been in the family for many, many years. [00:08:59] Speaker A: And you could, if you wore it without anything else under it and just the vest, you could be Sexy Christmas. Because it sure doesn't cover very much. [00:09:08] Speaker C: It does not cover very much. I could sing like the Santa Baby song. Yes. Quote, sexy. It's not a sexy vest. Let's just say that. But again, if you weren't wearing underneath it, you know, somebody would want to undress you for two reasons. [00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty ugly to get it away. [00:09:28] Speaker B: That's a good Christmas song. Santa Baby. I love it. [00:09:32] Speaker A: What's the song that. Oh, yeah, sorry. Go ahead, you sing that, please. [00:09:35] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:09:36] Speaker A: I'm horrible singer. [00:09:37] Speaker B: Continue on. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. [00:09:45] Speaker C: Like that. [00:09:46] Speaker A: What's the song that. Everyone's changing the lyrics now because it's like a date rape. [00:09:50] Speaker B: I really can't stay Baby, it's cold outside. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah, but everyone's been changing the lyrics. I like the song, but I think the new versions of the lyrics are much better. [00:10:02] Speaker C: People don't like it because people impede that. He's like, how would another drink? And she's like, no, what's in this drink? But it's supposed to be. She wants to stay. And they're being coy. It's not like, what's in this drink? Did you drug me? [00:10:15] Speaker A: That's not what's happening. [00:10:17] Speaker C: But people like the coercion, and I guess it maybe is giving younger people a bad idea. But it's supposed to be flirty and playful. I love that song, though. I don't know. I can't help it. [00:10:27] Speaker A: Yeah, but in our world where consent is so important, then indeed, you know that. [00:10:32] Speaker C: But some of the new lyrics, they just didn't really nail it. Add some consent to the song. But some of the lyrics are just. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Like, there's a movie that's not a Christmas movie, and I never remember anything. So I wish Kim was here because she could, like, decode this game of mine, not knowing who's in anything. But there is a Christmas movie, and it's about a girl who writes a dating column, and she always finds something wrong with the guy. The guy she ends up being with, like, finds this perfect guy, and it turns out the guy used a friend of his picture, but she really likes this guy, and she shows up at his house at Christmas as a surprise. [00:11:12] Speaker A: Oh, I know that movie. [00:11:13] Speaker B: Anyway. Okay. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Yes, you find it. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Anyway, I'll film Netflix in that movie. They redo that song, and they kind of redo it really great. Because both the characters that actually are perfect for each other, just because he doesn't look, like, super hot, like, this other guy that's not perfect for her. [00:11:30] Speaker C: It's a rom com. Of course they're perfect for each other. [00:11:33] Speaker B: I know it's rom com. So they redo the song. So it's not. She calls it rapey. She's like, can we do the song not so rapey. And he does it, and she loves and, like, it's like the turning point. She falls in love with him because of that, because he redoes the carol to Be Consent and being like, you know, you can leave anytime you want. [00:11:53] Speaker C: And because he knows that he. When she says it's a little rapey, he's not like, I don't know what you're talking about. And she's like, yeah, you do, though, right? Or if you don't then this isn't gonna work out. [00:12:03] Speaker B: It's a really cute part of that movie. And it's like the turning. You know, there was always this turning point in the movie. Like that was a turning point that she's like, maybe he's perfect for me. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Sorry. I'm trying. [00:12:13] Speaker C: But is it a Hallmark one? Because there's a hundred of those. [00:12:16] Speaker B: No. [00:12:17] Speaker C: Is it called Love Hard? [00:12:18] Speaker A: It's good. It's really cool. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Love Hard? [00:12:20] Speaker C: Yes. [00:12:21] Speaker B: Love Hard. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah. How'd you figure that out so fast? [00:12:25] Speaker C: I searched maybe It's Cold Outside Christmas movie and it was the first one that came up. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Love Hard. That's it. Good job. Yeah, everybody. [00:12:34] Speaker A: That's a cute movie. And I. When I thought of that song in the redoing lyrics, I also thought of that movie, but I just couldn't remember. So, yeah, it's a good movie. [00:12:42] Speaker B: I like that movie. [00:12:43] Speaker A: I just. I made Laird watch. I really wanted something. It's. It's been a long week and he's in rehearsal this week. He usually comes home probably by like he does 14 hour days right now during tech week, and usually comes home around like 10, 10:30 or something. So at like 8:30, I was like, oh, I'm going to turn on a really cheesy Christmas Hallmark movie. So I was like, okay, I'll put it on. Whatever. He comes home like 20 minutes later. I was like, do you want to watch this? So he watched it and he kept being like, the writing is so bad. The storylines are so bad, the acting is so I was like, yes. I was like, you just. The point of those movies is to fully escape. I know that this is really, really bad and that's why I am enjoying it. Because you can be like, I could. [00:13:31] Speaker C: Walk away and make a snack and keep it on and it wouldn't even matter because I already know what's going to happen at the end. [00:13:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a formula. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:39] Speaker A: I think it was called Crown for Christmas or something. It's with the chick from. Remember the Wonder Years, the girl who played. Yes, Winnie. Winnie, yeah. She's the main character in it. She's really bad acting in it, but it's like so cheesy. And it's a few years ago, but her make in every scene. She's got like the really gigantically long fake eyelashes with dark all over her eyes. It's too much like you're. She's like a nanny or a governess or something. But the kind of the plotline is she's in New York and She's a maid and then she bumps into this guy who she doesn't know yet is like the king of some made up country near Luxembourg. And she ends up losing her job. The butler gives her a job as the governess and she's like, sure, I'll take this job at this random person I don't know, and he's gonna fly me across the world or whatever. Anyways, sure. [00:14:27] Speaker C: She's on. Playing with a stranger, right? [00:14:29] Speaker A: Exactly. And of course she's like the help. And you know, there's the whole thing with the help and then there's this beautiful princess that comes. But you know how it goes that obviously he loves her and not the princess, but it's like you're a governess, you're not going to be full makeup with huge fake eyelashes on every day. So I'm just saying. But there, there's a Christmas movie. I watched that. There you go. [00:14:50] Speaker C: I watched that. [00:14:51] Speaker B: We watched the other day. Elf, me and the kids. I love that movie. I could watch it over and over. I just love it so much. And I can watch it with the kids. And it's just so silly. Like, just so ridiculously silly. Like when he eats the gum that's stuck at the subway and stuff, like, just outrageously ridiculous. [00:15:13] Speaker C: Santa knows he's gonna do that. He's like, if you find gum on the ground, it's not free candy, don't eat it. And he does anyway. [00:15:21] Speaker A: What are you telling me? I love you. [00:15:22] Speaker B: I love you. I love you. Like, he's so funny. It's just so good. Anyway, I watched that. That's one of my favorite ones that I can watch over and over. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Some of the newer animated ones are really good. The new Grinch is hilarious. So good. [00:15:36] Speaker A: I like the old Grinch too. I like that. [00:15:38] Speaker C: I like the old Grinch too. Like, the one in between is. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Oh, the one with Jim Carrey. [00:15:42] Speaker C: My kid's friends. My kid asked, what's the scariest movie you've seen? And she's like, the live action Grinch. And I was like, yep, that tracks. Like, it's really creepy. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Do you want to hear a great story? I heard Jim Carrey on the Graham Norton show and they're asking him about the Grinch. [00:16:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:00] Speaker B: And they asked him how long he had to be in makeup. And it was like a ridiculous amount of time every day. And he said because it had this yak hair everywhere. He said it was extremely uncomfortable. It was pain. Like, hard to be in the costume. Itchy and suffocating. And he kissed. He's like, I can't do this. I don't. I can't wear this every day. And they brought in a guy that used to work for, I think he said, the CIA. And he helped train military people, like, people in the CIA, like agents, how to withstand torture. And they brought him in for it. Right? Like, you gotta wear this every day. So the things he needed to do when he couldn't take it anymore, first smoke. Smoking will come. So he's like, in between takes, I'd be smoking. And another thing that we do, you have to disrupt the. Your mind. So you have to hit yourself as hard as you can in the leg or something. Like, cause yourself to have pain. He's like, so off the set, I'd be, like, smoking a cigarette and, like, whacking myself in the leg and smoking. [00:16:59] Speaker C: In the Grinch costume. [00:17:00] Speaker A: In the Grinch costume. [00:17:02] Speaker B: And he said, I just kept the thing. [00:17:04] Speaker C: It's for the kid. [00:17:05] Speaker B: Oh, it's for the kids. But he said the yak hair was excruciating to wear. [00:17:11] Speaker C: That's crazy. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Why would they do that? [00:17:13] Speaker B: I'll find the clip for, like, this is. [00:17:15] Speaker C: Maybe we can just make a new one that doesn't feel like that. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Right. Like, that's so mean. [00:17:23] Speaker B: They brought in a specialist, could deal with the torture. Crazy, right? [00:17:28] Speaker A: Like, how much would you pay the guy to help you? How couldn't you have just made a new costume that isn't as painful? [00:17:34] Speaker C: So that's weird. Very weird. [00:17:37] Speaker B: If you watch the movie now, you'll see him sometimes. Like, you'll see him scream and do crazy things. And if you're watching, you think he's just being crazy Grinch. But he's doing that because he's having one of his moments where he's like, can't take this. [00:17:48] Speaker A: I can't take it anymore. [00:17:49] Speaker B: And he hits himself. [00:17:51] Speaker C: It makes me grumpy. Like a Grinch. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:54] Speaker C: Helps him get into character. [00:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, maybe that's why he's so scary. Yeah. [00:17:59] Speaker C: Just, like, losing it. It was very creepy. [00:18:03] Speaker B: And maybe he said something about the eyes, too, the contacts. Like, anyway, the whole thing, he said it was excruciating. [00:18:09] Speaker C: It's funny. Poor guy. I didn't prepare any, like, Christmas book ideas. Although, you know, mom bought the kids this one called the Christmas Pig, and it was written by J.K. rowling. Rowling. I don't know how to say her last name. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Rolling. [00:18:23] Speaker C: I've been saying it wrong. [00:18:24] Speaker B: I think it's Rowling. [00:18:25] Speaker A: Do you know, I thought it Was Rowling. But maybe. I don't know. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Maybe Rowling. I don't know either. [00:18:30] Speaker C: Oh, no, Nobody knows. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Doesn't matter. I'm sure she's not going to be like, damn them, Rowling. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Rowling. You have to say it with a British accent. Maybe Rowling. [00:18:39] Speaker C: Anyway, I didn't read it. My mom read it. She was like, oh, I got this to read to the kids. And then she sat down and read the whole thing. So it was apparently very good. The Christmas Pig. That's the only book I can think of at the top of my head. [00:18:50] Speaker A: I like the. I just almost said the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is also a good movie. But the days before. Why can I. [00:18:56] Speaker C: The Night Before Christmas. [00:18:57] Speaker A: The Night Before Christmas. Thank you. But it's. [00:18:59] Speaker C: It's not called that, though. It's called. [00:19:01] Speaker B: It's something else. [00:19:03] Speaker C: The. The title of the poem is something different. [00:19:04] Speaker B: It's a poem, actually. [00:19:06] Speaker C: Yeah, we reread that. The Night Before Christmas. We read that, me and the kids. I'm gonna fight it with. The poem, actually, is called Twist. [00:19:14] Speaker A: I think I know. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that's mine. [00:19:15] Speaker C: A visit from St. Nicholas. It's called a visit from St. Nicholas. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Oh, I put up my Christmas books. I have the Christmas Vinyl Cafe also. Mom gave me that. [00:19:28] Speaker C: Not a book, but wonderful. It's a book. [00:19:31] Speaker B: It is a book. Look, I'll show you. [00:19:32] Speaker C: I thought it was just the cd. [00:19:34] Speaker A: No, I gave it to Laird, too. Oh, yeah. [00:19:37] Speaker C: That's awesome. Do you want to explain what the Vinyl Cafe is to the listeners that are not Canadian and the Canadian listeners that don't listen to the cbc? No. [00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. The Vinyl Cafe is a radio show from CBC Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. And it was Stuart McLean who would tell a story of a family. And the main character is, like, Dave and his wife and their kids. And Dave is just kind of like a character that gets into all these funny things. And it's like a very Canadian radio show that was very popular called the Vinyl Cafe. And that book has a whole bunch of stories from the stories he'd read on the radio. I know Lindsay doesn't like it, but I was. I loved it. Like, I tuned in every day when it was on. I loved. It was like I was. I was in it. I was on it. And when they came up with the app. I have the app, and they still put out things now they like, even though he's passed away. So this Stuart McLean has passed away, and they still put out stuff. Jess Milton, that we went to school with, she still does A little podcast about old episodes of the Vinyl Cafe. [00:20:42] Speaker A: Yeah, she's the Purdue was. [00:20:44] Speaker C: Stuart McLean came to our city, and I went and saw him do the. [00:20:49] Speaker B: Did you? [00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I got tickets. I was like, dan, we're going to this. He's like, sure. He's always game. He just goes along with what I've ever been doing. [00:20:58] Speaker A: It's not my favorite. I just find everyone always gets mad at me. I'm so un Canadian. Laird loves it, and his mom loves it, but that. It's just. It's like, oh, Dave went down the street, and there was a parade in the way. And then everybody in the live audience laughs, and I'm like, I don't understand why it's funny that he was trying to get down the street and there's a parade to me. I'm like, get. Get out of the way. I need to get somewhere. [00:21:23] Speaker C: Like, I hate. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Oh, it's hilarious that he had to get to this place, but there was a parade in his way, so we couldn't get to the place. Or. Or he was trying to cook a turkey, and then he ended up at a hotel. This is probably one of the Christmas stories, I think. He was trying to cook a turkey, and he couldn't cook a turkey because. Something to do with his oven. So we ended up at a hotel. And I'm like. I would just be mad. I'd be like, all right, freaking. I'm not cutting cu. Let's just order in. So for me, it's like. It's just. Laird says that the reason why people like it is because it's real. Story of a real. Like, it's a fake person, but, like, that they are going through real life things that people might go through in a absurd, kind of exaggerated way. So people think it's funny because they can see themselves in him. Totally. I think, yes. [00:22:09] Speaker C: I make some bad decisions, like you said. If he just said, you know what? Let's just order in. But he doesn't. He's. He's going to persevere and make bad decisions. And people were just like, oh, brother, I've been there. [00:22:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he forgot to. He told his wife he would do the turkey that year, which included buying it, but he didn't buy it. So then that's the story. [00:22:29] Speaker C: How many. [00:22:29] Speaker B: So then his wife's like, okay, have you taken the turkey out to defrost? And he went downstairs to look for the turkey, and it wasn't in the freezer. And he looked everywhere, and he was like, oh, she expected me to buy the turkey too. And it was like Christmas Eve. So then he like was going to like 24 hour shops to try to find something and he got like a turkey that was like missing a leg or something and it was beaten up because it was in like grade eight. [00:22:52] Speaker C: But he got a Lindsay. [00:22:54] Speaker A: If you go onto YouTube and you. [00:22:55] Speaker C: See Lindsay's face, she's like, I know the story because I had to listen to it. [00:23:00] Speaker A: I've had to listen to it and. [00:23:01] Speaker C: I still don't think it's funny. [00:23:03] Speaker B: I love it though. [00:23:05] Speaker A: It's awkward. I don't like, I don't like those. Awkward. [00:23:08] Speaker C: That's probably. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Oh, that's true. [00:23:11] Speaker A: I can watch, like people I don't know, like saw or something. Movie Saw. And I'm like, all right, well, that was fine. But put me in an awkward, like the office or something like that situation. Awkward comedy is how you're uncomfortable. Like, oh my God, it's so awkward. Someone fix this situation so everybody's happy and not so awkward. [00:23:32] Speaker C: Yeah, I get it. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Awkward comedy is my favorite. [00:23:35] Speaker C: Yeah, it's my favorite too. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Awkward comedy is my favorite. Like top. Yeah. [00:23:39] Speaker C: Cringing. Just like, oh, why did you say that? [00:23:43] Speaker B: I love it. It makes me laugh so out loud. Like, makes me laugh out loud. Awkwardness. Anyway, I don't really do Christmas books. Like, I know that some people, like read the same book every year or something like that. I don't do any of that. But my mom did get me that Christmas book. So except for the Night Before Christmas. I read that to the kids on Christmas Eve, but that's it. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Are there adult Christmas books? Does anyone know about any? The only thing I can think of is, like, kids Christmas books, but. Okay, listeners, if you know of any really great adult Christmas books, then let us know. You can call us on our phone that no one ever calls us on, which is on our website or you can email us. I want someone just please. My Christmas wish to everybody. One person just please call the phone and leave us a voicemail. And you could whatever you want to leave. I just want one person please to do that. That's my Christmas. [00:24:39] Speaker C: We don't use phones anymore. It's like people are scared to use the phone. [00:24:42] Speaker A: I know. No one answers the phone so you can call it. No one will answer. Just a voicemail. So you could just leave the voicemail. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Okay, I will look it up. I also want to. Oh, you got it. [00:24:54] Speaker B: I know the first part. 416-900. I just don't remember the last part. Maybe eight, six. [00:24:58] Speaker A: Oh, well, that's. [00:24:58] Speaker C: So I had to look it up anyway. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Okay, while you're looking it up, I'm gonna tell you about this thing behind me. [00:25:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:25:04] Speaker A: For anyone that can't see, this is a bunch of cats that kind of look like my parents cat named Marmie. Just like an orange and white striped cat with a Christmas hat on and a Christmas bow. And they're on a green skirt that has musical notes on it, which maybe means something. [00:25:23] Speaker C: And Christmas carols. Probably Christmas carols. Caroling cats. [00:25:26] Speaker A: So. And it's a dress, which I. Oh. [00:25:29] Speaker C: Wait, was that the front of it? [00:25:32] Speaker A: So, okay, this is like the clickbait thing years and years ago. And one time I was online and I saw this come up, and I was like, oh, my God, that looks like my parents cat. I'm gonna get this and wear this for Christmas. So I got it. It's like the most hideously ugly dress when you put it on ever. And so I've never. I want to wear it. And I keep meaning, I don't care if it's hide, but do it. [00:25:52] Speaker C: Just get a great belt maybe, right? And then it'll be like, oh, she's trying to look bad. Yeah. [00:25:58] Speaker A: Oh, well, you're gonna see it. It looks pretty bad. If I wear it, maybe I'll take a photo and then Sarah can put it up on Instagram or something. It's. It's pretty ugly, but I'll figure out a way to make it look a little better. But it's pretty funny. So I think this year for Christmas, I'm just gonna walk in wearing it without any prep, and then everyone will be like, what are you wearing? I don't care. [00:26:20] Speaker B: Didn't your family last year all have the same pajamas or something? [00:26:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that was me. I bought everybody matching pajamas. So at Christmas time, everybody opened them. And then one. One year, we all wore the same pajamas, which is so cheesy, but I thought it was so great. The men's were onesies, and if you haven't seen. But like, my father and Laird are not skinny guys, so it's like you can imagine what they look like in a onesie. It's kind of a little round in the middle and then their legs coming out. [00:26:49] Speaker C: It didn't leave much of the imagination, perhaps. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it was pretty funny. I don't think they wear those very often, but they all appease me. And we took a group photo, so that was fun. [00:27:00] Speaker C: That makes me think of this is not Christmas Eve. When I visited Sarah, we went Shopping. We. We both got this one piece, like it's a tank top, like kind of one piece pant suit thing. Not suit, but pants, a onesie. And we were like, oh, this will be great for pajamas. We both buy it. [00:27:18] Speaker B: The same one there was so hideous on. [00:27:21] Speaker C: So we put it on and it's like. It wasn't flattering, but it also went really low. [00:27:28] Speaker A: So like quite low. [00:27:30] Speaker C: So we wore it two nights in a row. Was getting lower every night because it was like cotton, I think. So it was stretching each night 100% cotton. So we took some pictures of us like posing together. [00:27:42] Speaker B: And it had at the bottom too. It wasn't just like a onesie, like a tank top onesie. It was also had an elastic at the bottom, like where the legs are. But I have this linen top that's a little bit longer that I wear over it. And it actually looks good. And I wear it when it's super hot, when I don't want to like wear anything too heavy. And it doesn't matter if it goes low because there's a top over it. And you can kind of see that I'm wearing something underneath because it's a one. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Maybe you were supposed to always. Maybe it was supposed to be something. You're supposed to put something over top. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Well, it has to be like it was really unflattering. Unless you're 18 and. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Okay. So you could wear that with the. The vest over top. Mare. And there you go. There you go. Wow, Your hubby's gonna love that. [00:28:28] Speaker B: That would be something. That would be something. You have the number? [00:28:33] Speaker C: Yes, I do. Ready? [00:28:35] Speaker B: All right. [00:28:35] Speaker C: It is. The phone number is to our voicemail machine. Nobody answers this phone number. We just listen. If anybody ever left a message other than Lindsay. Area code 416 and our country code is one. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:28:49] Speaker B: 0001. [00:28:51] Speaker C: Okay. 416-90-08603. [00:28:58] Speaker A: All right. Should I tell the story of the tree falling on me? If you wanted. That's the story. You want it? [00:29:04] Speaker B: Let's hear it. [00:29:04] Speaker A: My Christmas Story. This has nothing to do with books or movies though, mind you. [00:29:09] Speaker C: But this type of story could make it into the Vinyl cafe if Stuart McLean was still around. [00:29:13] Speaker A: That's true. That it could be very relatable. Yes. Unfortunately, Stuart MacLean died. So I am actually sad about that because I think he's. Was a national treasure. Yeah. [00:29:24] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Have I told this story on the podcast before? I feel like I have. [00:29:28] Speaker B: I think you have four. I know what episode was. It was Episode where we did our little traumas. Remember what happened to you? We all. There are little t. Traumas. And yours with the tree falling on you. [00:29:42] Speaker A: A little bit of a little tea trauma. All right, maybe then I don't. Okay, I'll give the, like, quick rundown. [00:29:47] Speaker C: You can't just bring it up and I tell it. Well, it's a Christmas. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Yeah. You have to tell it. Not everyone is. Listen to every episode. [00:29:53] Speaker C: Listen to that episode listeners. [00:29:55] Speaker A: So my dad always gets this really gigantic Christmas tree because the house we grew up in had a big cathedral ceiling. I don't know, I want to say like 12 foot trees. Like tall, tall trees. Huge, huge. That fill the kind of big arched or whatever peaked ceiling. Oftentimes they're so big that my dad had to use some wires to like, attach it to the wall so that it didn't fall. Well, I guess this time he didn't do that. Or we were just putting it up or something. And I was walking by and the tree started to fall. And my instinct, instead of like running away so that the tree falls and I don't get hurt, I am in underneath trying to protect, like, push the tree to hold the tree. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:37] Speaker A: So I'm going like this and I'm screaming like. And my mom was standing in the kitchen, and I'm like, mom, Mom. And then she just stands there and just laughs at me the whole time. I think that was. That was probably the little T of the trauma. [00:30:51] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm like, mom, mom, help me. [00:30:53] Speaker A: And. And she's just like killing herself laughing because it was like the kitchen was open. So it was just. She was standing right there. Literally, she could have come and helped me and she didn't. So that's the kind of. That's my Christmas tree story. But my dad usually wires it up. Well, he used to now. Now the trees aren't as big, so it's not. But is. [00:31:10] Speaker C: One year, my dad screwed the. The stand on a piece of plywood to the. To the subfloor. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Oh. [00:31:19] Speaker C: And he would sometimes put wires and they didn't work. And I was there one time and my baby cousin, I think it was Kyle, was on ground by the tree and it starts falling. And so I grabbed the tree and it's all spiky on the. For people who are not familiar with evergreen trees, they've got needles on the trunk of the tree. So even if you grab it, your hands are full of these sharp evergreen needles. Anyway, so he just drilled it right into the. Through the carpet, into the subfloor. [00:31:44] Speaker A: All right. There you go. That's smart. [00:31:46] Speaker C: Little extreme. He was done with it. I'm done with the street. [00:31:50] Speaker A: Falling over. Falling over on people. [00:31:54] Speaker C: Yeah, there's some really nice Christmas tree stands. You can get though the Lee Valley catalog. Lee Valley's got like, a lot of, like, woodworking tools and whatever, right? I get this catalog because I. I love it. And they have this really, really fancy, like, you pump it with your foot. And it's got like these like, cables that like, tighten perfectly around the trunk. It's got lots of stuff. It's very expensive. This person hates trees falling over. They really, really made it fast and easy to get your tree secure. [00:32:22] Speaker A: I bet some of our listeners maybe have never. I'm sure there's parts of the world that don't have evergreen trees. So I think there's lots of parts of the world that aren't that don't have evergreen trees. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Here. But I'm sure most people know where I am. Christmas tree looks like. But yeah, they're spiky, most of them. [00:32:38] Speaker B: We do the whole Santa Claus thing even though we're Muslim. But I only got like a tiny little tree because it doesn't matter. And my mom came to visit and I knew she had a really hard time. Another friend who only during COVID she didn't go back to her family lives in Spain even though she lives here. So it's the only time she didn't go back to Spain. So she bought a full Christmas tree. But it's super artificial looking. It's not even trying to look like. Not an artificial tree. Anyway, she gave it to me because my mom was coming and my mom in her luggage, she had tons of Christmas decorations. And she came for Christmas again two years later and brought more. It was like, almost like she was like, offended. I was like, but I know, but it's not a thing here. People don't celebrate Christmas. It's like 98% Muslim country or something. Like, people don't celebrate Christmas here. So you could get a little bit of things, but that's enough. And that's enough. And anyway, because she's the Christmas queen, she brings it in her luggage and she's sending the kids Christmas gifts in a boat, like in a shipment over on the Christmas gifts for the kids, which should be arriving any day now. And she packed wrapping paper because she was really upset about the lack of choices in wrapping paper here. In addition, how expensive it was to buy the wrapping paper once you found some. She's like, don't worry. I packed wrapping paper and I'm like, okay, great. Perfect. The kids will be thrilled. [00:34:03] Speaker A: That's great. Yeah. Do you celebrate. Do the Santa thing just because you grew up Christian with. With Christmas? Yeah. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And a lot of. Honestly, a lot of Muslims in Canada also celebrate the whole Santa thing. Nobody here does because it's like, majority of people are Muslim. But in Canada, because a majority of people celebrate Christmas, there's a lot of families that we know, they're also Muslim. There's still the whole Santa thing, but they're not celebrating the Christian traditions of Christmas. They're doing Santa Claus is coming to town kind of thing. So. [00:34:34] Speaker A: And how do you. Do you, like, talk about that with the kids to differentiate or do you guys don't really talk religion? [00:34:40] Speaker C: We. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Yeah. They ask why Santa comes to us and we say, because their nana is Christian. That's it. They get Santa because their nana's Christian. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Great. [00:34:48] Speaker B: So they lucked out. [00:34:49] Speaker A: That's easy. Perfect. Yeah. [00:34:51] Speaker C: They just accepted it. That's great. [00:34:53] Speaker A: That's good. What about, like, the other people that, you know, they're all fine with. Like, they don't care that you guys celebrate Santa. Like, you're. [00:35:00] Speaker B: It's not like my mom. I don't do a huge thing. Like, we have a. Just a small tree in the living room, and we don't put any of the gifts out beforehand. We only do it the night before, so it's not a thing like that seems excessive too, here. It feels excessive. [00:35:14] Speaker C: It feels excessive here. Honestly, the number of gifts, it's like I can just already feel Christmas coming, and it's so stressful. You know, we're already getting questions. What do we get your kids? And stuff? And I'm like, they don't play with anything. You know, they don't. They don't need anything. You get them a really nice stick or experiences would be nice, but, like, it's. This feels like I spend my whole life trying to get rid of stuff that isn't used in the house, and then I finally do it, and then it's Christmas, and then it gets filled up again with stuff that nobody uses, and I'm just cleaning it up. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Could you do. I know my parents are really wanting my brother and his wife to set up a bank account for my niece. I don't know if they've done it yet, but so that every Christmas or birthday or whatever, some money can just go into that so that it's like a college fund or whatever for her when she's old or Maybe you could do that and say, well, why don't you send a card and put some money in for them? [00:36:08] Speaker C: I think it's a conflicting needs thing. I think people want to give a cool toy. I don't know. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:15] Speaker B: I think it's a. I think that it might be also our parents generation want to do something for Christmas. You know, they want. And they want showy to do something that's. Yeah. Like, exciting and. Yeah. [00:36:26] Speaker C: Membership to something they want to go to is not showy. You can't open at that. At Christmas. You can't open. I put something in your bank account for the thing you're saving for. Although some of the family does send some money for the thing they're saving for, which is nice, but also gifts. And it's okay. It's just I don't enjoy shopping. So having to come up with a list for not just this thing that I might get my kid, but what everybody else is going to as well. It's like I have to chop in my head first and make a list and email it out. Maybe I give them something that the kid really wants and they don't buy it. And then it's like, so they don't get that thing. You know, it's hard to get people. You're. This is what they really, really want. They really want this one thing, if you want to know. This is what they want and they don't get it. And you're like, okay. And the kid's like, oh, I only wanted that one thing. [00:37:13] Speaker A: Didn't get it. [00:37:14] Speaker C: It's so stressful. Christmas is so stressful. And I don't want stuff either. Oh, well, it begins. [00:37:20] Speaker B: But I like the food. I really like the food. [00:37:22] Speaker C: Can you tell that I don't enjoy Christmas? I'm so negative. I like Christmas movies. Christmas is always a source of stress. When I was a kid, you know, I found it too noisy and too stressful, and I was always an emotional mess and I had to act a certain way and I couldn't do it because I was too stressed out and it was too much. And so Christmas is always me crying or yelling or having a bad time. So I don't enjoy Christmas, but I do love Christmas movies and Christmas carols. [00:37:51] Speaker A: I think a lot of people feel that way. The same way as you? [00:37:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:55] Speaker A: I mean, I like being with my. My family or, I mean, I don't have kids, so it's very different than what you guys have to deal with. Yeah, Ours is more like, you know, we make a cocktail on Christmas Eve and I'll have appetizers and then have a dinner. And it's not like a huge thing. [00:38:11] Speaker C: We go and cut down a Christmas tree every year where I live because it doesn't have a. It's not a big population. Like, it's free. You print off a permit saying, I've got this permit to cut down a Christmas tree. And you can go off to certain places, just like in the forest, and find a wild Christmas tree. This is another thing that upsets my mom because a wild Christmas tree is not as full as a farmed one, because the farmed ones are, like, pruned in such a way over time so that they're really full, unnaturally full. But then we go and we bring hot chocolate and a little sled and we, like, you know, the kids can be in the sled when they get tired. [00:38:47] Speaker B: I did it with you. Yes, sir. [00:38:48] Speaker C: Came too. [00:38:49] Speaker B: Do you remember when I came? [00:38:50] Speaker C: And we, like, Christmas wrap it in a tarp. Yeah. Put it on top of the car. Then we drive it home, you know, and then we trim it to a Christmas tree shape. But it's, like, sparse. But I love it. I love it because it looks natural. It kind of seems like a little nice. A bit of tradition. Aside from all the advertising and the selling and all the stuff that comes with the consumerism. [00:39:12] Speaker A: Does not sound like you hate Christmas. I think you just hate the commercialism of Christmas. [00:39:17] Speaker C: I do hate the commercialism, you know. Yeah. And unrealistic expectations. The elf on the shelf thing, I will never do. [00:39:24] Speaker B: We never did that. We've never done that. But I heard that's a big thing now. [00:39:29] Speaker C: Yeah. If you're not good, then you don't get Christmas. [00:39:33] Speaker A: That's where it is. [00:39:33] Speaker C: This elf is going to watch you for I don't know how many of her days leading up to Christmas so that you're good. I'm like, doesn't that put a damper on Christmas? We're checking to make sure you're not naughty during this most stressful month in Canada. [00:39:47] Speaker B: But Santa does the same thing. [00:39:49] Speaker A: That's what Santa is. Santa's supposed to be. If you're naughty, then, like, he's supposed to be watching you, too, so. [00:39:56] Speaker C: I know, but it's like they've sent an extra agent to really have a good eye on you. [00:40:02] Speaker B: Drill it in. Yeah. [00:40:03] Speaker A: My parents are so creative. Looks fun. I would do that just for who? Fun creativity for the parent. [00:40:09] Speaker C: For the parent. [00:40:10] Speaker A: For me. I would love that. If you're like, what is the elf gonna do now? Let me just set it up. I love the creativity of all that stuff. [00:40:16] Speaker C: I feel like it's just one more thing to do because there's, you know. Yeah, you got to do this for the Christmas con. Like, there's so many Christmas shows and stuff leading up to it, you know, December is nuts. [00:40:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I gotta opt out of all that, so that's nice. We just have Christmas Eve and Christmas, and then it's done. I get gifts, I bake cookies, and we're done. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Great. [00:40:38] Speaker B: So that's the Christmas episode. [00:40:41] Speaker C: I don't really know. [00:40:42] Speaker A: We just kind of talked. Did we talk about anything? Is it interesting at all? [00:40:46] Speaker B: I don't know. Okay, everyone quickly say our favorite movies. [00:40:50] Speaker C: Oh, well, mine's It's a Wonderful Life, but there was a really good one that I watched recently, and now I can't. I'm panicking. I can't say it. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Okay, Lindsay, what's your favorite Christmas movie? [00:40:59] Speaker A: I don't know. Probably White Christmas, I guess. I think that's the only one that I watch every year. So I do really like the one that, when you look at it, is very problematic. That has the. I don't want a lot for Christmas. What's that? [00:41:11] Speaker B: Love, actually. [00:41:13] Speaker A: Love, actually. I do really like love, actually. Even though every of the scenarios is fully problematic, and when you look at it kind of scary and weird and whatever, I still really like that movie. [00:41:23] Speaker C: Yeah, there's a lot of problematic relationships, but I love that movie too. [00:41:28] Speaker B: That's funny. If I love that movie and anytime at Christmas, I'd watch it. And then I bought it as a DVD so I could watch it whenever I want. And now that I have it, I'm like. Every time I go to play it, I'm like, but there's so many horrible relationships. But if it's on TV, I watch it 100%. I'm in. I'm totally engaged. I love this movie. But now that I own it, I'm like, oh, it's not really lots of happy relationships. It's more actually horrible relationships. Lots of horrible is that the point. [00:41:57] Speaker C: Is, like, love exists in all these different. Weird. Whatever. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Yes. [00:42:01] Speaker C: Varied. The answer is Claws. It's an animated one called Claws, and it's newer, and it's really good, I suppose. Kind of like a origin story kind of thing, in a way. He's a toy maker. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw that. [00:42:16] Speaker C: It's good. It's really good. But it's K, L, A, U, S Claus. [00:42:21] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, we'll watch It. [00:42:24] Speaker A: I also really like the one where it's got Cameron Diaz and Jack Black and the Holiday. The Holiday. The Holiday. [00:42:32] Speaker B: That's one of my favorites. [00:42:34] Speaker C: I like half the relationships in that movie. [00:42:37] Speaker A: Fair. [00:42:37] Speaker C: Like I just want the Jack Black and the. And the Kate Winslet all the time. Yes. And I don't want the Jude Law or the. [00:42:44] Speaker A: No, I like Jude Law. [00:42:45] Speaker C: That one's. I'm like, whatever. But the. But the Kate Winslet part, I'm like. [00:42:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's so cute. I like that. [00:42:52] Speaker B: That's one of my top four the Holiday. So my. I have four. I have Elf, which I already mentioned. The Holiday. The Family Stone. I love that movie. I love it. It's really sad and kind of funny. Do you know it? It has Luke Wilson and Sarah Jessica Parker and Diane Keaton. Who's the girl that is in the Notebook? What's her name again? [00:43:14] Speaker A: Rachel McAdams. [00:43:15] Speaker B: Rachel McAdams is in it. And Dermot. Something that I haven't seen yet. [00:43:20] Speaker C: I'll watch it. [00:43:21] Speaker A: What's it called? [00:43:21] Speaker B: The Family Stone. And I really like it. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:43:25] Speaker B: But it's awkward, so maybe Mary will like it more. There's awkward moments and heartfelt. Anyway, I really like that. And then my last is the Last Holiday with Queen Latifah. I will watch that movie any time of year. I love it. I love it so much. I haven't seen it. [00:43:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good one. [00:43:44] Speaker C: I'll watch it. [00:43:44] Speaker A: She thinks she's gonna die. [00:43:46] Speaker C: I've seen the preview many times. It's like a preview on one of our DVDs. And I'm like, oh, we should watch that sometime. But we watch movies so seldom, like once a month. I don't know, maybe. [00:43:56] Speaker B: So it's really nice and it's happy ending and it's really great. That's a really great movie. That's my favorite. [00:44:03] Speaker A: There's one recently called Holidate. That's kind of cute. Now that I remember it. These two people are annoyed because of Christmas and that people are making them bring dates. So then they decide they're going to be each other's Holidates. The aunt has a holidate. So it's like not a real date. They're just like pretend like they're together for the holidays so that they can go to everything so people stop bugging them and trying to set them up. It's kind of cute. It's current. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Well, I'll watch it. [00:44:28] Speaker C: A holiday. It's got a good thing. [00:44:30] Speaker A: It's called Holidate. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen it. I haven't watched it yet. [00:44:33] Speaker C: I want to watch that one, too. That you were saying. That song is in love. [00:44:37] Speaker B: Love hard. [00:44:38] Speaker A: That one's cute. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cute. Yeah. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Okay. Well, that was a nice way to end our Christmas episode. Everyone, have a wonderful holiday season, whatever thing you celebrate, even if it's just a break. Because lots of times people just. I have lots of people that I work with that are like, great. So I don't celebrate Christmas, but I'd love the break from work. [00:44:57] Speaker B: So, yes, definitely. [00:44:59] Speaker A: Enjoy your time. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you for joining us on this episode of Book Interrupted. If you'd like to see the video highlights from this episode, please go to our YouTube channel, book interrupted. You can also find our videos on www.bookinterrupted.com. here on Book Interrupted, we're breaking for the holiday season. But don't worry, we'll be back January 1st with our season four recap, Book Interrupted. [00:45:26] Speaker A: Never forget, every child matters.