Join the crew as they dive into a hilarious and candid discussion about their recent Thanksgivings, filled with unexpected anecdotes and relatable parenting challenges. Scott shares a memorable Thanksgiving experience that includes a comical twist on gratitude, while Chris recounts his baby's first holiday and the chaos that ensued with well-meaning relatives. The conversation veers into the festive season, touching on the anticipation of holiday traditions and the importance of keeping things light and fun amidst the stress of parenting. They also explore the cultural significance of Hanukkah and the lack of creative representation in holiday merchandise. With plenty of laughter and camaraderie, this episode captures the essence of adulting and the joy of shared experiences in the unpredictable journey of parenthood.

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My name is Scott.

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With me, as always, the scumbag reselling hoarder himself, Chris.

Back to you, Scott, the Jewish American princess.

Sarah, hello.

Our emotional support, gay Nick.

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So how was everybody's Thanksgiving?

Not great.

Stress.

Oh, okay.

That's been.

I mean mine, mine was good.

Oh, that's good.

Let's hear about yours because I need some positivity.

Okay, so, gosh, I can transition to four different topics just within this one.

So I'm going to try to keep it to this one so we can transition later.

So we were all sitting around the dining room table and we talked about this last year.

Like we hate it when you know, there's always a kid at the table going, what are you thankful for?

Yeah, and then last year, out loud, like the drunk uncle that I am, I said cocaine and hookers because you guys inspired me to say that.

Yeah, yeah.

Good times.

So this year, my sister makes an announcement.

She's like, you know, your niece would like to share what she's thankful for.

She's like, now, no, you don't have to participate, but, you know, let's go.

So my niece goes, you know, I'm thankful for family.

And then, you know, it's going around and everything's like super cheesy and all that.

So then it gets to me and I said, I'm just thankful that I was told that this was an optional activity and we moved on.

But I had, I opened the next morning.

I opened that morning and I opened the next morning and I was exhausted.

So I literally had like a window of two hours to drink.

And boy, did I make the best of that opportunity.

I was pounding those bud lights.

And then we do the traditional, our traditional Johnny Walker Red shot with a chaser of beer.

And then I did an extra shot.

I like that tradition.

Yeah, you know, it's a.

I think I've told it before, but it started with my grand.

You don't have to.

Yeah, you don't have to.

Okay, now actually, I guess you could.

I'll just.

I'm new here, new audience, new new host.

So it started with my grandfather and my father and it was his father, it was my dad's father in law, so my mom's dad.

And they did a shot of Johnny Walker Red and a chaser beer.

And then after my grandfather passed and when my sister was of drinking age, my dad and my sister started it and they were drinking off the same handle of Johnnie Walker red for about 30 years.

Like it just, you know, they were doing one shot a year.

So then I started having more to do with my family.

And I was at Thanksgiving every year.

And so then I started jumping in the shot and my brother in law and my wife, so we polished off that, that handle about, I don't know, five years ago.

Well, now it's expanded.

It's not just Thanksgiving anymore.

It's Thanksgiving, it's Christmas.

It's new.

It's any holiday.

It's just any day for you.

It is, it is.

But it's any holiday like that falls between Thanksgiving and New Year's and that does include Hanukkah because we do celebrate one day of Hanukkah with my brother in law, who is half Jewish, which falls on Christmas.

This year it does fall On Christmas.

This year.

Do you get.

Do you get double presents then?

I get double presents every year.

But.

So we.

We finished off the second handle ever in a matter of like two years.

Two or three times, as soon as you started that.

But it was really cool when we polished off that first handle, that original handle that my.

My dad and his father in law were drinking off of.

I took the bottle empty, and my sister, anybody who drank from it, we put.

We.

We made her handprints, put our hand prints on the bottle, and signed it for my.

I thought you're gonna say you all got Covid, but I mean, wouldn't.

Wouldn't surprise me.

But Chris, how was your.

How was baby's first Thanksgiving?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So started off the day before when we thought, you know, it'd be really cute for her to have a turkey meal for Thanksgiving.

So we went to Target, got the pureed turkey and, you know, heated it up, gave it to her, and she gagged so bad and it smelled like cat food.

I don't blame her.

So did not do the turkey meal.

Thanksgiving Day was cool.

Yeah.

First Thanksgiving we gave her, we found like a puree of turkey and sweet potatoes.

So it's based on sweet potatoes.

Okay.

She had that.

Is she on like regular food now?

Just grind it up or like once.

A day she has that?

Yeah.

Okay.

Not for nutrition.

No, no, no.

So like, it's really hard for her to eat french fries.

It takes like three hours for.

Which is what we did today on my first day watching her, which I'll talk about later.

So first day watching her.

So.

So I should say first day with unsupervised parenting.

So on Thanksgiving, it was just stressful because everyone kept coming up with like, like dabs of things on their finger, wanting to like, feed her, like, oh, here's try mashed potatoes.

And.

Oh, here, try the.

Try this and try like.

You can't do that.

Why not if it's like mashed potatoes?

Because there's so many different spices and stuff in that and we don't know what she's.

What she's allergic to or whatnot.

We have to keep track of it.

She's a.

She's a dairy intolerant, Scott.

So that's the other thing, I guess something made with her.

I.

There's too many spices.

I am.

Well, she didn't try.

Not gonna get killed by my wife.

Yeah, this would help her poop.

No, the prunes do.

The organic prunes.

The organic free range prunes that are $80.

Yeah.

Not not the.

Not the Daniel parents sweet potato casserole.

The organic has, like, pecans or pecans or whatever you guys call them in it and nutmeg and I don't know.

I don't know what.

You kind of get butter, so I don't know what she can or can't have.

So we have to.

Can we talk about the fact that you're saying there's multiple people trying to stick their fingers?

Yeah, they just all want to be the first person.

Did we not learn anything?

Back to Covid.

Did we not learn anything?

My baby is now a super spreader.

Yeah, we had to puree antibiotics the day after.

We had.

The day after leftover sandwich.

She had antibiotics?

No, but it was over.

Overall, it was good.

We took her out for Black Friday shopping the next day, which just isn't fun anymore.

No.

What's the point?

Everything's purchased online.

Oh, yeah.

I used to go out at midnight, and it was amazing.

Not even to buy anything, just to observe.

Yeah, Nobody cares anymore.

It wasn't fun because I used to have to work in that.

And I stopped supporting Black Friday after that.

Scott thought it was something else.

He never went out.

So I.

I went to Walmart.

You know who didn't stop Black Friday shopping?

Most of America.

$10.8 billion.

I thought the economy was bad guys.

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Here we go.

But before I end my spiel about my holiday, I.

I go to Walmart, and they start Black Friday early.

I go to Walmart, they say, oh, you know, check out our Black Friday deals.

I'm like, ma'am, it's September.

They started them all the way back then.

So, like, I go there on Black Friday.

Everything's sold out already.

Yeah.

Nothing special.

Yeah, but I digress.

Nick, was anybody trying to stick things in your mouth on Thanksgiving?

Oh, I.

I kind of wish, unfortunately.

Well, I stuck a.

I stuck an edible in my mouth.

So we'll start with that.

There you go.

I needed.

So our family is not drunks like yours, so I don't know how to put that politely.

So we.

We passed around a joint.

They passed around a can of beer.

Like, a few of us had, like, a couple of beers, but nobody got intoxicated.

But I.

I'm now at the point that I need to be stoned to be around this family.

So I went back to Lima.

Oh, did you see Rachel Barry and Finn Hudson?

I didn't like he did.

Oh, yeah.

He died.

He died.

We can't talk about him.

So he's the one that jumped off the balcony, right?

No, he's the one who overdosed.

Wait, who jumped off the balcony?

The guy that went One Direction.

Oh.

I mean, it was in One Direction.

Oh, that's One Direction.

That's not New Directions.

One Direction.

Yeah.

Not from.

Truly was only One Direction for that guy.

Oh, my God.

Well, the story short anyways, so Piper and I had to go back to Lima.

Sean had to work Thanksgiving Day.

Shocker.

He works in retail.

I'm sure he didn't have to work.

He just wanted to.

He's like, I don't want to go to Lima.

I.

I wish I could have said I had to work that day.

We all thought Lima was a made up place for Glee.

Is that where the beans are from?

So, yes.

It's named after the Lima bean.

Is it?

Actually, yeah.

Our city mascot was literally a Lima bean.

Oh, my God.

I guess it would just be a bean.

Yeah.

Wow.

So Lima is not my favorite place to go.

And I have so much hatred.

I guess for that study we'll say hatred just because I.

After being through therapy and stuff, I realized Lima was definitely not for me.

It's a small town and they've actually built it up a little bit more.

So there.

We went to a bar, which I'll get to in a minute too.

That looks like a place from Glee.

But I did Thanksgiving at my dad's side of the family, and I'm just not as close with them anymore.

We don't bonds, I guess, like I used to with him.

Just because they annoy the crap out of me.

It's a good reason not to not bond.

See, I.

I got high, kind of just sat in the corner half the time just because it was a really awkward setting.

Like my aunt, uncle weren't talking to my mom and dad for some reason.

I don't know.

I don't know what's going on, if there's drama on their side.

So, yeah, it's just.

It's not a place that I.

It's not my fun vibe.

But I want, like, I want fun people to be around and they're just not.

Not for me anymore.

So we decided to stick around another night in Lima.

So it sucks there.

So we're like, let's say.

Here'S why.

I'm going to stay another night.

This was a last minute decision, and here's why.

So I get a gunpoint.

I get a last minute text.

Message saying like, hey, the cousins are all going to a piano bar Friday night.

Oh yeah.

Clearly gays do not turn down piano bars.

There's a piano bar and I'm okay, but.

But my mind also went to the fact that there was a full blown conversation between the other seven people that are talking about this piano bar that I was not included in.

And I was an afterthought.

So that's where my downfall went to this.

And I'm like, why?

Why did nobody think that's me?

Fomo.

So I had fomo.

I decided to go.

It was a really fun time.

So this piano bar, it's a new bar in downtown Limo, if you want to call it downtown.

They have an eight story building so I guess can call it a high rise.

I guess.

So we got this panel bar.

We're having a good time, me and my cousin.

I'll say her name, Kristen.

She.

That Scott Mets, the hot one.

She's.

She's the fun one in the family that I get along with.

She gets high, she drinks.

She, she has a good time.

The rest of them weren't as fun as us because like we're singing out loud with the piano guys.

Like they're calling people up on stage and stuff.

And we get called out because we requested Hot to go.

Oh.

So the rest of the Pink Pony.

Club, the rest of my cousins at my table are like, people here are not going to know Hot to go.

I'm like, well, they should.

So he did it.

So the guy called it out and nobody knew it except for us.

I don't know.

Insane.

Do you guys know how to go?

Right?

Absolutely.

Ping Pony club.

What?

You guys are homophobic.

I feel awful right now.

I wish you could see my face.

Oh, we wish you could.

For the gays.

Exactly.

Wait a second.

Yes.

Wait a second.

Yes.

Okay, now, Now I'm gonna.

Now I'm gonna look it up.

If you go on Tick tock, there's literally millions of dance moves and it's trending like all over the place.

It's a dance.

It's basically the ymca.

But yeah, like it said for gays.

Wait, is it?

I guess.

Yeah.

The YMCA was gay?

Yeah.

I didn't know YMCA was for straight people.

There was a leather band.

He kind of, I feel like turned that.

Wait, is this the new cat that we're hearing?

Was that on my end?

No, it's mine.

Oh, I was going to say, because it could be.

Spoiler alert.

There could be a new cat later in this story.

So.

Yeah.

So we get on stage, do Hot to Go.

And nobody knows it, but we're teaching them how to do the dance.

And the guy was, the piano guy, knew it.

So we loved it.

So I'm sitting next to my one cousin and she pulls up an app on her phone and she's like, no, different cousin.

That one's the hot one.

Single.

So it's another one.

She pulled up an app on her phone and her husband's blood sugar was really high, so it gave her like an alert.

So she's a helicopter spouse essentially, but.

She using Huckleberry app.

I don't know what it's called.

If my wife had that app, if she got that notification, she would be dancing for joy.

She would update the will and move along.

I can see that.

She'd be like, she'd be giving you all the sugar.

Her phone on do not Disturb.

She's like, have another donut.

So apparently when this happens, I've never seen it before in person, but he basically froze up.

So this guy is literally sitting in his chair.

He looked like he was super intoxicated but could just hold his head up.

So we're like, what should we do?

How do we get his blood sugar down?

We're trying to force feed him food really fast.

He was there, he was there, he was there.

And his wife has the app?

Yes.

Does he have the app?

I'm assuming he did.

And she showed it to him and he just kind of like shrugs it off.

He's like, let me have another beer.

So Fast forward to 911 getting called because he basically was almost unconscious at that point.

So my brother and some other cousins like, take him to this elevator to take him down to the first floor.

And they're trying to carry this six, five.

Oh my God.

250, 60 pound man to an elevator.

But they were dragging him by the chair to get over there.

He literally fell out of the chair in the elevator.

So this is literally like in my mind.

I've watched a lot of like 911 lately.

If you've seen that show on Fox.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Such an amazing show.

I've watched a lot of that and I'm just like, this is quick.

Someone give me a pen.

We've got to put a hole in his throat.

We're calling over the microphone for an EpiPen and nobody had anything.

So we get nine to one.

We're like, get me an EP ped.

I don't know what we need.

Nobody out of the way.

I've watched the doctors we're gonna do.

An incision from his chest to his belly button.

I got this.

We're all.

We all had a little bit to drink, but.

Nick scrubbing in with the iodine.

I was.

I was ready for it.

It's like, turn your head and cough.

It's not that kind of ailment, Nick.

Hey, he's not blood related, so.

But you're about to be.

So as we're getting him in the elevator, me and my cousin Kristen notice a guy filming the hot one.

The hot one noticed a guy was filming us, and we're like, we're in Lima.

First off, I'm like, at that point, nobody should be.

This should be a normal night situation, getting 911 called.

But I'm like, why?

Why are you trying to film film us?

So my cousin's going off on him, but we're just.

And did you get my good side?

Meanwhile, your cousin's dying in the corner.

Yeah.

Literally, somebody's dying, and they're trying to film him.

I don't know if they thought maybe he was just super intoxicated, but we're like, tell them what's happening.

And the guy, like, didn't seem to care.

Like, he's gonna delete it or anything.

And.

No, if cell phones were around during the Titanic, instead of getting on lifeboats, they'd be filming the thing's sinking.

I'm like, is he trying to get famous in Lima?

Because I don't.

I got his hash, his handle.

So ye.

So long story short, he got to the hospital, they gave him what he needed, everything calmed down, he's fine the next day.

But thank goodness, they're gonna be like, long story short, he died in the elevator.

It was a very painful.

Well, that's where my cousin.

My cousin started spinning out in the parking lot.

She's like, oh, my God.

They turned the lights off on the ambulance.

That means that he's dead.

Oh, my God.

And I rush him there.

And we're like.

She's like, I saw it on TV once.

We're just like.

Everything was, like, literally a movie in real life.

But now that's an item out in Lima.

It was such a stupid, like, thing that happened that we can laugh about it now, at least.

But yes.

So, yeah, Lima.

It's just.

It's interesting.

I had fun at the piano bar, to be honest, but it's just.

It's not my cup tea.

The people there are very not fun.

It's middle of nowhere, right?

Yeah.

I mean, it's a big town.

In Ohio, I guess, but still middle of nowhere.

Yeah.

It's literally corn and beans growing there.

Like, throw rocks and for fun, like, throw rocks into.

They join Glee clubs there for fun, Chris.

Yeah.

Yeah, it sucks.

Yep.

Yep.

That's not it.

Sarah, how was your Thanksgiving?

Or should I say, how was work?

Yeah, right.

I did.

I worked that morning.

It was not bad, thankfully, so I was able to get out at a decent time and rush back home.

We didn't do anything with my family, actually.

They decided that they were going to do their own thing and.

Do the Jews not celebrate Thanksgiving?

No, we do.

That's.

It's actually my favorite holiday, so.

Yeah, but we.

You're not really that Jewish.

We've.

We've talked about this.

We have, yes.

Yeah, that's true.

We just.

I go by that because that's what.

You thought you were Muslim.

It's close.

But, yeah, we didn't really do anything with my parents, so my amazing husband made me all of my traditional sides and everything that I love and had a little Thanksgiving here with me before we went to his family's house and then had everybody there, hung out for a while and.

Yeah.

Got home and crashed.

Nice.

Yeah, it was nice.

It was quiet.

And then I had to work the next morning, so.

Couldn't really do anything else.

Anyways, my wife had a really cute printed T shirt.

It says, I'm a side chicken.

And I got excited because I'm like, oh, she's somebody's side chick.

So does that mean that I can.

Have a side chick?

You know, just even the playing field.

If she wants.

You know, if she wants to be someone's side chick, that's fine, but.

So, like, I'm starting to ask her this.

And then I read the rest of the shirt.

It says, stuffing, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole.

Like, different sides.

That's a.

That's a.

That's a nice, witty, depressing shirt.

Yeah.

Anyway, but before Thanksgiving, the week before, you know, we haven't been on here.

I saw Wicked on opening day.

Oh, my God, the porn.

No, no, that's what you keep searching.

Yeah.

You know, I have this.

My friend has this illegal streaming service, and I searched for Wicked on there, and there's a lot of adult movies called Wicked.

Oh, yeah, I've watched a lot of them.

They're great.

I might get into these, too.

Yeah, they're about to be popular.

Just not as popular as me, but.

Nick, I know you've seen it.

Oh, my God, I'm so mad that I couldn't see it during opening week because I think I was on my.

I was on my Virgin cruise.

You were.

And I just kept saying, of course.

My entire Facebook feed was blown up with it.

Oh, yeah, go see it.

Go see it.

Yeah.

I've seen every scene that everybody's posting clips.

I feel like the entire movie's out there somewhere.

Oh, yeah.

If somebody pieces it together at this point.

But it's.

I've seen it six times on Broadway.

That was my next question is, have you seen it on stage?

Yeah.

So I've seen it on stage.

So I knew for me, I was so excited to see this movie come to life.

Like, we've been talking about it since the first time I watched it.

Right.

Gonna be honest, I'm shocked that you watched a lot of Broadway, Nick.

I'm sorry, I don't know.

You can't even say that with this great face.

I can't say anything with this tr.

Yeah, say it with a gay face.

What are you talking about?

Yeah, six times.

First time I saw it was in Chicago or most of actually, most of the time I saw it, it was in Chicago because they had like a full sets there or a full year long performances.

My ex lived there at the time, so I used to go all the time and get the lottery tickets for it where you could sit.

Oh, cool.

You pay 25 bucks and you sit in the front row.

Oh, wow.

So that's why I've seen it so much.

It's such a good show.

I remember actually one time seeing it.

Go ahead.

Yeah.

One of one of my favorite stage shows, if not my favorite.

Literally one time that I watched, I was sitting in the front row and in comes next to me.

Literally two Mormons in their entire Mormon outfits and stuff.

Really?

Like bitches isn't the Book of Mormon.

I like, by the way, fun fact, they don't like that show.

Really?

Yeah.

I had some Mormons come to my house one time and they started talking to me.

And you know I don't like to be rude.

So, like, I had four different Bible study sessions with them.

And they're like, what do you know about the Mormon faith?

And I said, well, I know that you can have as many wives as you want, which is why you're still here talking to me.

And they're like, I don't know, we don't really do that anymore.

And I'm like, oh, not interested, not interested.

But I said, listen, I know they made a great musical about y'all.

And they're like, yeah, that's a little offensive for us.

And that was a good musical too.

Okay.

Yeah.

So literally sat there next to Mormons.

I'm right behind the conductor too, which was like, for me, being a band nerd too, Looking down and seeing the orchestra.

Yeah, that was like one of my highlights of it.

But the conductor turned around to say hello to everybody and I just remember him looking at these informants and he's like, blink, stare.

He's just like, I don't know what to say right now.

So what does he do?

He gets on the phone and I know he called backstage and said something to them because you could tell the cast is like looking down at them the whole time.

Mormons in the front row.

But yeah, are they that obvious?

I thought they just were like suits.

No, they wear white short sleeve shirts with the black tie and the name.

They always have Elder or something.

Yeah, that's right.

Elder something.

Elder.

I love that.

Yeah.

It's such an amazing show.

It's such a good story.

It's awesome to see two women.

Empowerment and seeing them become friends, essentially.

Yeah, it's a weird concept for me.

That's why I don't know if I can get behind this movie.

Well, you're not going to like it because there's so many comparisons with a weak man gaslighting the nation into believing that a strong woman is Never happen.

Never happen in your life.

Sarah, have you seen Wicked yet?

Okay, I'm so glad that you guys can't see me.

I have not seen it and I have zero interest in it entirely.

Okay.

Why?

Why?

I just.

I never got into it as a Broadway show because I do love Broadway.

I never got into it as that.

And then I.

I'm sorry, I.

Sarah.

Just say you hate the gays.

Just say I.

Okay, I'm gonna say I really do not like Ariana Grande.

I have two kids staring over my shoulder right now.

Okay.

It is fair.

I'm not real.

Go ahead.

It really has nothing to do with her, truthfully.

I mean, like, I don't.

I'm not a big fan of hers.

So I'm not, you know, gonna be one of those people that's like, oh, I'm not into Wicked.

But I'll see it because I like her.

Because I feel like a lot of people are doing that as well.

But I just.

I don't know.

I've never been a fan of.

Did you like those of us?

You know, I've seen it a few times.

But I'm not like a.

Who invited her?

I'm sorry.

I'm not like a cult wizard of Oz follower.

That's not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate it.

Hmm.

I know who you voted for.

Oh, my God.

But I was listening to Chicago Today, and I was belting it out because nobody was home, so there's something.

Harrison.

No, that's not.

Come on, give me.

Give me something, guys.

I'll give you something.

Big holiday coming up for you next month right after New Year's day.

Yeah.

Happy January 6th.

Like Chicago.

Chicago is a good film adaptation.

Tell us you stormed the Capitol without telling us.

Did I not tell you?

I think last time that we were at Disney, that I had a terrible realization that the Hunchback of Notre Dame, as we know, is my favorite Disney movie.

And I was listening to one of the songs recently, and I found out that the holiday that they celebrate in the movie is on January 6th.

So this whole time, I get all excited for this day, and then I hit the correlation, so.

And now you're even more excited.

Turns out I have been so much.

Celebrating so much.

Okay.

So much to unpack here.

Okay.

Something Scott has never heard.

Sarah.

I'm not a big fan of Ariana Grande either.

I think she's a terrible actress.

I don't think she's funny, and her voice is one step below Britney Spears.

Scott does like her feet, though.

I do love her feet.

I'm a fan of her brothers.

Frankie Grande, he was on Big Brother.

Oh, okay.

Sarah.

She absolutely slayed the role.

I mean, vocally, she crushed it.

Acting, she crushed this role.

And I didn't want.

I was reluctant to be excited about this movie because of her, and I will go see it again because of her if that makes.

She was that brilliant.

It is so good.

Now, have you heard the soundtrack?

Do you know the story?

I.

Absolutely not.

I have.

Like, when I, like, here's the thing.

When I tell.

I'm so glad you can't see me.

You're like a child who's like, I don't like.

No.

Because I have my own other cult followings that I like.

It's just for me, personally, I never, ever got into any form of wicked at all.

I know nothing about it.

So you have no desire to see something that you know nothing about?

She saw the trailer, Scott.

Okay.

You know, do you guys want to learn all this stuff I've been learning about lately on National Geographic?

That's what I've been watching.

I mean, I give it a Try.

How did you know you'd like sex the first time?

Well, that's true.

You have to try it.

It was Louis.

Have you seen my husband sweatpants?

Hello?

Yeah.

I'm gonna be honest with you.

I'm gonna watch it because I think I'll like it.

But I don't like this, like what I've read about.

I don't like the storyline of it.

They go to college.

It's the story of.

It's.

It's before college now.

It's before the.

Gets worse.

The school of shiz.

Yeah, that's.

It just sounds so stupid.

It's Oz.

And why would Glenda and.

And.

And the Wicked Witch of the west be friends?

You.

You have to see that.

I don't want to tell you I'm.

Gonna watch it because first, though, when.

They'Re first at school, they hate each other.

They should.

They're mortal enemies, and they do, but.

It'S this whole different reason why they hate that.

You learn why people hated her.

She's a witches.

I am getting.

I'm watching a lot of Descendants lately with kids, and that's what I feel like I'm watching.

Not.

That's what I feel like I'm hearing pretty close.

And then I saw.

I saw a clip because I've seen million of them online, and she.

And the Wicked Witch of the west is crying, and she's not melting.

Oh, my God.

It's ridiculous.

And all these cringy people taking videos about crying.

Watching the movie is really turning me off.

It's really turning me off.

Scott, what if it was me crying on your shoulder?

We're talking a little bit different, and.

I haven't even seen the second twisters yet.

I just.

Just.

I still refuse.

So that's okay.

That I understand, because every movie.

I'm sorry, does every movie need a prequel?

This is a special one.

I don't know.

I'm going to watch it.

I'm going to watch it.

Okay, okay, here's.

Here's.

Here's a great question for you.

Okay, I'm going to watch every other Wicked, though.

First, if you.

If you watched Star Wars, Episode one, that was the first one that you've ever seen.

Okay, yes, it was.

But you knew because for.

I mean, Star wars has been around since the 70s.

You knew that Anakin Skywalker.

Spoiler alert.

Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader.

Okay?

You know this.

I was six.

And you go see Episode.

Stop it.

You go see Episode one, and you see this sweet, innocent little boy that's in love with a girl three times his age.

If you don't talk about that enough that they get married.

We don't talk about that enough.

But this is not a Star wars episode.

It can be.

But you'd be sitting there going, how does he become Darth Vader?

It's all part of the journey.

It's all part of the story.

Why is there a college?

There's no college in episode one of Star Wars.

That's just stupid.

Because they were essentially real people.

Nick, please help me.

Yes, please help me.

I need help from the gay.

I need help.

The monkeys come later, just like somebody else.

That was in the other Wicked movie I watched.

Don't talk about me, Nathan.

That's in Part two.

So, yeah, it's basically.

It's the backstory of Glinda the Good Witch and.

Or.

Who's the Wicked Witch?

Or.

She is Witch of the North.

Right.

In the wizard of Oz, Glenda the.

Good is the Witch of the North.

Yes, yes.

And then there's Elphaba, who's the green one.

She's.

Why'd they give her that name?

First of all, because of the creator of the wizard of Oz, L.

Frank Bomb Elphaba.

That's ridiculous.

It's genius.

I love how they're adding on to a story that's a tale as little time, essentially.

Like.

Yes.

So did you ever see Oz?

That came out awful.

I liked it, but it.

It.

But it doesn't.

It doesn't hold true to Wicked.

I saw the Whiz.

It completely.

Where does that tie in?

Does Michael Jackson have a cameo?

Michael Jackson does not have a cameo.

How about.

How about the Skeeters?

Wait, what are they called?

Bugs?

No, no, the.

From Return to Oz.

The Skeeters.

The.

Oh, the Wheelers.

The Wheelers.

No, that is.

The Skeeters was in the other Wicked movie I saw.

Sorry.

He saw a little munchkins on that one.

Yeah.

I gotta get them all mixed up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's basically.

It's what you see when they get to Oz, basically, when Dorothy gets to Oz.

So you see, their life before Dorothy gets there is the story of this.

So Dorothy doesn't exist yet.

This is way before she comes into town.

Wicked essentially takes place over a couple of years.

Now.

Act one is like their first year of college, essentially, but the second act takes, you know, place over a little bit of time.

So where's the college when Dorothy gets there?

It's magically disappeared.

There's.

Okay, there's a whole map of Oz Yes, Bomb wrote several Oz books.

And he wrote about the college.

No, because it was creative.

Horrible creative.

No, this.

This was someone taking L.

Frank Bomb's work and creating a backstory.

No, that was big college paying whoever wrote the story back.

I know you guys can't reply because I'm doing this post edit or I'm doing this while edit, but there also is a Oz tabletop RPG role playing game that takes place in this world.

It's such a big, vast world that someone was able to make a whole game out of it.

So it's not just as simple as the movie wizard of Oz.

It's.

There's so much more to the world of Oz.

Have not seen Wicked yet.

Can't wait.

Listen, my favorite version of this whole story is that viral video that goes around, you know.

Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Her sister was a witch.

You know that one?

Scott, you've never heard.

Really?

That's a good one.

Yes.

That's my favorite version of the story.

Yeah, that's my Wicked.

Never seen that.

That's my Wicked, Sarah.

Honestly, I will watch that video at least twice every time.

Is this the one with him saying, like, his sister was a witch and.

She came out of bubble dog?

Yeah, the whole thing.

Oh, that's my favorite version.

Well, there's a whole.

I don't know if I've seen that one.

Nick, I'm thinking that you and I should just get some more gays on here and we'll just deal with the podcast.

I can't deal with this anymore.

This is one of the.

The greatest.

Greatest Broadway shows of all time.

It was a great.

Yeah, it's a great Broadway musical show as well, too.

And.

But what they did with this movie is.

It is the greatest adaptation.

Yeah.

Of a Broadway show to a movie of all time.

And to me, it's gonna win.

This is a top 10 movie of all time.

That's how good it was.

That's a bizarre statement.

It's gonna become a very quick cult classic movie.

You just.

Like, I was.

I was.

I was.

I was putting.

I was picking up what you were laying down.

I just lost all credibility as people.

Are literally dressing in green face PA Movies now.

Speaking of which.

Speaking of which.

So my daughter is home alone one day.

Okay.

I'm at work.

Rachel's at work, home alone.

And we get a picture.

She has painted half of her face green.

And I'm like, we don't have any green makeup at home.

And I'm like, sweetheart, that looks amazing.

But what did you use the slime glue.

Did you read the instructions?

Does that stain your skin?

So, like, you know, she sends us a picture, it's me and.

And Rachel and Abby's mom, all in this group text, and we're like, I hope it comes off.

Like, I hope it doesn't burn your face.

Now, granted, the shading that she did was on point.

Like, she may need to get into professional makeup because it looked fantastic.

I'm putting it in our Discord chat right now.

And if you want to join our Discord, just go to our website, no New Friends podcast dot com.

Our Discord is free and you can join there anytime you want.

There is a members only site where you get to see Sarah's secret stash.

We never really did anything with that, but.

So, yeah, just super, super concerning.

But spoiler alert, it did come off.

Did come off.

Now, Nick, I am determined my daughter and I are going to learn the dance from the end of.

What is this feeling?

You know, that's like, viral everywhere.

I want to learn it.

I want to do it.

So do I.

With the books?

Yes, with the books.

I mean, Bowen.

Yang, too.

Let's talk about him being a BO.

And Yang was brilliant.

It's racial.

I don't think you say that anymore.

Gay Asian from SNL is.

Oh, he's in the movie.

Really?

Yes.

He basically plays Glinda's sidekick that follows her everywhere.

She's the popular one.

She's the one that everybody looks up to.

But, yeah, it's incredible.

The dance moves, the great cast.

Jeff Goldblum is the wizard.

And they sing live.

Yeah.

They actually didn't just record voiceovers.

They sang the entire thing live, which is amazing.

It was really good.

It was so good.

I know.

I'm like, I don't want to spoil it for people that don't know it too, because I'm like, I know what happens.

I know.

I know.

Essentially so.

Because that's the thing, is that Chris is like, I don't understand.

How are they friends?

She's bad.

And he's gonna see Act 1, essentially, and leave just as confused.

I think that's what a lot of people didn't realize, too.

And I, as a Wicked fan, I didn't realize until probably like, two weeks before that there's two parts and they split it in half.

And I.

I know the Broadway musical is almost three hours long.

Right.

But the first movie is 245.

I'm getting sucked into all the clickbait with people going, I just don't Understand, like, how does this happen?

And I'm like, tell me you haven't seen Wicked on stage without telling me you haven't seen Wicked on stage.

And I'm getting sucked into all these people saying dumb about it, being just like, I just don't understand.

And I'm like, oh my God.

Did you not see part one at the beginning of the movie?

And at the end it said to be continued.

And it's like in Chris you see the monkeys coming.

In the last part you see hints of dor or not Dorothy, but the scarecrow, the attend man.

I did see all the.

I did read all the arc.

There's lots of stuff that leads up to the wizard of Oz portion of it.

I'm very excited.

So I saw the little line in a basket.

I saw the silver slippers.

Yeah, I saw.

Stop.

You're gonna give things away.

All the Easter eggs that they throw in.

Amazing.

Yes.

So listen, it was fantastic.

I love it.

Nick, did you wear green or pink?

I had green and Sean had pink.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, I wore a green sweatshirt and a pink shirt underneath.

And I went outside, I ran outside and I was showing Rachel.

I was like, look, I've got a green sweatshirt and I've got a pink undershirt.

And then like her and my mother in law were just like staring me out.

I go, guys, perhaps I am gay.

Yeah, welcome.

Welcome to the club.

Yeah, so we took, and we took Piper too, which is amazing.

She loved it, right?

We had her watching the wizard of Oz this week.

We had to watch an Oz.

There's a new cartoon out recently.

It's a cartoon series of the wizard of Oz.

So she's been loving it and we watched the movie together.

She absolutely loved it.

She actually sat still for the three.

Hours because it's amazing.

Yeah, Sarah, that should show you right there.

Like a seven year old sat still for a three hour movie.

And she was asking questions too.

She's like, my 10 year old sat through Titanic on her request.

Yeah.

Piper was even asking.

Titanic was a good movie, right, Sarah?

It is my favorite.

See, kids, a bad movie.

If a 10 year old can sit through Titanic and a 7 year old can sit through Wicked.

They're both great movies, right?

Absolutely.

Okay, just go see Wicked and you will thank me.

You will pay for my ticket.

I'll go.

Done.

And my popcorn and my.

And my candy and my drink when.

The kids are in bed.

Google Wicked.

You'll thank me.

All right.

So Sarah, yesterday was Lewis's birthday.

It was happy birthday and he Got a new pussy?

No, I.

Well, I got that today on a whim.

Oh, late.

Late birthday present.

Little threesome action.

So yesterday, actually, he was working on his break.

I.

Yeah, he had to work yesterday.

I know that's wrong.

I know.

A week off for my birthday.

What jobs?

Well, he has like five jobs, so that was racist.

Well, he was doing it work before this, was he not?

Yeah, he was on FaceTime at work trying to fix his computer problem.

That's true.

That's true.

Very kind of him.

I went to literally buy cat food, as one does, you know, I go in, I look at the cat that's up for adoption.

So cute.

So nice.

Taking pictures, videos, self control.

I leave.

Fantastic.

But then I go into work this morning and I'm talking to my co worker about her cat.

My cat, whatever.

I start showing her pictures of this one yesterday.

Well, in walks another coworker and he decides to say, oh, well, look what's at the Humane Society right now.

I was just looking.

So the Humane society is only 15 minutes away and it opens very soon.

So I pulled up and I waited and I walked in and I looked and looked and looked and pet and, you know, whatever.

So anyways, I walked out with a kitten.

It's two months old.

I don't know if you can hear in the background, but yeah, see, I wish my camera was working so you could see how cute.

Got a new pussy.

Yeah.

So now.

Now, yeah, he's got quite a few.

Wow.

Wow.

And it's young.

Yep.

So now, is he looking for a.

Wiener dog anytime soon?

He would absolutely call you and Sean first.

Don't you worry.

Top of the list.

So I did do a really good job yesterday of practicing self control because the woman took the cat out of the cage and she's like, he needs a home.

Look, he loves you.

And I said, okay, well, what do you have to do?

And she says, you sign a couple papers, you pay a hundred bucks, and you get the cat.

And I'm like, that's so easy.

Can you not do that to me?

You're enabling me right now.

And then Lewis is on FaceTime doing exactly the same thing.

I practiced the self control and I got in the car and I drove away.

But then today it was to the.

Bank to get money to buy the cash.

He's so cute, and I had to have him.

So now he's hanging out with the girls.

And what's his name?

Well, the Humane Society gave him the name Nitro.

That doesn't count.

But what does that Count?

Yeah.

That doesn't count.

He doesn't know his name yet.

You can change it.

Well, no, but I kind of like it.

That's the first time I've actually kind of liked it.

Nitrogen.

Well, first of all, I could do.

It with the British accent.

Yeah, we love Fast and Furious, right?

So, you know, I was.

Feels like a car.

And then my husband's Puerto Rican.

Hello.

Coffee.

He drinks Nitro Brew all the time, so.

I'm just saying it works.

I'm Nitro, the Spanish cat.

My Salem came with the name Creed.

So, like the band?

Oh, I mean, I like the band if I get any hate for that.

Oh, that's Pearl Jean.

Him.

Sorry, I don't know Creed songs.

My Sacrifice.

That's the only one I know.

I didn't know that Creed was a Christian band, by the way.

Is it?

Yeah, I think.

I guess the name kind of gives it away.

It should.

It should.

I like.

But the music video, like My Sacrifice, which, by the way, was filmed at Universal Studios.

They flooded the streets of New York during Halloween hor nights.

But anyway, like, the video itself, it doesn't seem like it should be a Christian rock band, but, yeah, Creed is a Christian rock band.

Well, maybe that's why I changed his name.

It was unintentional, but, you know.

Gotcha.

I'm kidding.

All right, well, that's exciting.

So eventually, you'll be able to see him.

Yeah.

What's.

We're having all sorts of camera problems with Sarah on her computer.

It wasn't working.

And then she called Lewis, the IT guy.

He couldn't get it, so then she switched to Lewis's computer, and it's still not working.

It's really.

It's working somehow on one screen.

But I.

It's not gonna work unless I restart, so.

Yeah.

Sorry, guys.

We're 47 minutes into the episode.

It's fine.

Yeah, I won't do that to you.

Chris.

You.

Your wife went back to work today.

How did you know that?

Huh?

How did you know that?

She texted us.

She.

We.

We were all, like, wishing her luck, and Nick said, take lots of pictures.

Well, she posted, like, a million pictures of every single baby.

It was every hour.

Every hour of the baby's life.

So, like, we should all be, like, concerned for Emily because this is her first day without the baby, and, you know, we are, but we're more concerned about the baby because this was her first day with you.

It was.

And the baby decided to learn how to crawl yesterday.

The day before.

No video games in today.

No, I, I put up.

We don't have any gates yet.

So I just like put.

I just moved all the, like the bookshelves.

This kid's almost a year old.

How do you not have any gates?

No, I just didn't put them up yet, Scott.

I'm not gonna lie.

I got them all.

I got them all.

My God.

She can't crawl.

She started rolling.

She's a.

She's a roller man.

But now she can crawl.

She army crawls.

And she, she tired herself out a lot.

She took so many naps today because she's just crawling so much.

So anyway, first little mishap of the day.

She's on the floor crawling around and I'm not watching her.

And I look over at her and she looks up.

She looks at me like she's Harvey Dent pre the like or after the face burns off.

You know, he's like two face with the.

But it's all liquid on the one side.

Like she's not injured or anything.

And I'm like, what happened to you?

I go over to and she's giving me that gummy smile, which is the cutest thing ever.

I go over to her and she's got just.

Just vomit over.

She's too faced, but with vomit all over the side.

I was like, I guess I still have to burp you.

I guess that's a thing still.

Yeah, yeah.

Just because you learned how to crawl doesn't mean you.

You got.

You stop with everything else.

Yeah.

I sent you guys pictures.

I did strategically position her hands into a place where she could hold the bottle and feed herself, which is really cool.

And when it gets to halfway done, she doesn't know to lift it up all the way yet.

So I made a contraption.

It's essentially like a.

A hamster water bottle holder, but.

And it just clips onto the side of her little thing.

It's just perfect.

You know, hands free, just can be able to suckle on the.

On the bottle.

So that's pretty good.

So I've eliminated at least 10 minutes of time that I have to be doing.

That feels like this dad thing down already.

Yeah, I get like all the silly tricks that.

Easy.

Yeah.

If I can find another like half game of Madden to be able to distract her for, I'll be able be sitting pretty.

So.

So that was that.

So I had to change her.

I put in a really cute outfit that I too.

It was pretty sick.

And she threw up all over it and that was not cool.

So I told her not to do it.

Again, so I'm sure she won't.

Now, in preparation of Emily going back to work, I did a copious amount of research.

I so chat GPT on how to raise a baby.

I watched the full season one of the Mandalorian.

So I'm at the part.

I'm at the part and my daughter's journey where I just need a black guy with a sword to kidnap her for a couple weeks.

And I'll know exactly what to do.

So I feel prepared for anything now.

Yeah.

No, in all honesty, I woke up at.

At 6:30, got downstairs by 6:45, says, yeah, I got.

Got to wake up, got to get this cross out of my eyes.

Right?

And it's downstairs by 6:45.

Hung out with her for a little bit.

She napped twice.

And then Emily's mom came over at 11, so.

Oh, jeez.

It's like, hey, you're.

You have all fun Mondays.

You want to come over and watch, hang out.

Not watch, hang out with the baby.

No, she.

She wanted to, so she'll be over.

My mom will be over at like 5:00am Tomorrow, probably.

Yeah.

Who do you have lined up for Tuesday through Thursday now?

Oh, my mom will be here every single rotation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

I will.

Emily will come home and.

And say that she misses Ellie.

I'm gonna miss her too, because I won't see her all day either.