 I'm sick. I'm sick of it. I am. I'm over it. Meeting is now streaming live on YouTube, redirecting me. Okay. So where do I look at it? Okay. Oops. Was that on there? I'm over it. Okay. So it's now streaming live on YouTube, redirecting me. Oh, so can you hear me saying that? How do you do? I don't remember. Okay. Let's um, how do we know? All right. Do I need to look at it? We have people. We have people. Okay. Cut away. Can people hear us? Can you hear us Zealand? How do you do that? I don't remember. Okay. Let's um, okay. Can people hear us? Can you hear us? Okay. So I'm not sure. How did we do this last time? Oh my gosh. I don't remember, but I'm trying to see if we're live right now. Oh, we are. No, I can see us live. It's just that I can hear what we're saying as well. And that's frustrating. Okay. Well, it's, it doesn't seem to be annoying. Okay. That's annoying. I don't want to listen to myself place. Okay. Sorry. Press a button. Lart. Lart. Oh my gosh. Make it stop. I need a teenager. Okay. Done. Got it. Hey, New Zealand. Okay. Is that, is that sequence on there? Maybe. Watch this. Watch this New Zealand. Ready? It's pink. It's gray. Do you see it? I can see us live. It's just that I can hear what we're saying as well. Isn't that gray? I'm living my best life. How about you guys? No? What is that? Is that a Santa hat? Is that a elf hat? Like, what is that? Well, it's, I forgot my pants are buttoned. Sorry. Hold on. I'm wearing a size six. Okay. It's just not buttoned. Can you see that? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. So what are you wearing? You look like you're going to a funeral. Are you okay? Okay. I thought this was the Christmas morning on Saturday and I'm up talking with you. Oh, okay. You get to pass. I don't think they can hear us echoing. So we'll just keep talking. You see it? So, all right. Tell me. Okay. Look at you. Look at you. It's the most wonderful time of the year. Is that a Santa hat? Yeah. And then I just want to introduce you to my fireplace. Yes. Does anybody else have this? Yeah. We've been watching the DC U log and like every once in a while like a DC character kind of comes out or and it's 10 hours. I literally thought my family was going to watch 10 hours like they just want to know every 10 minutes, you know. So like last night I got them to skip to the end and we realized that nothing happened from hour or not, you know, hour two to hour nine. So it saved us. Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. Yeah, it is a little bit like you get kind of sucked in. I'm not sure why it's one thing. You get sucked in. It's so great. Why would you have a real fireplace? Ever. That's a lot of work. No, it is. Well, unless it's just like the flick of the button one, then it's fine. Oh, that I like that. Let's make it happen. All right. Okay, so I'm just going to welcome everybody to the live and I just looking at there's lots of arenas. Hello. Good morning. Give a shout out to shorts master. I'm not sure if that's like clothes or like not sure you go with your pants. What's the temp in Wisconsin? It's 21 degrees Celsius here, which would be like, I don't know, 70s. What is that hot? I'm sorry. You said 70s. Yeah. What I don't even want to hear about that. Okay, one moment. Well, I'm trying to get my phone to work because this is the only way I know anything. Okay, I have to look on my phone or open my door. And I'm not going to be able to open my door because I have crap in front of it because it's Christmas and I live in a two bedroom apartment. What is the weather today? Lard. One moment with, wait, hold on, weather. I love Google. You ready guys? 33 degrees Fahrenheit. Get a turtleneck on. Yeah. Man, I don't even remember like driving in snow and having to deal with snow and shoveling and oh, it's the worst. Yeah. And there's no snow now. It's just ugly now. Yeah. Yeah. Very brown on the trees, just brown and yeah, good mud and zero leaves on the tree, zero. But plenty of people at the mall, they don't mind being out in 33 degrees. Spend that hard, burn cash. So berries like the 21 degrees Celsius is 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit. So we can use rounding and then I'm correct. It's 70 degrees. Yeah. You go with your bad self, Berry. Let's go. Well, it's not 33. Okay. So let's talk about Christmas. Let's talk about Christmas. Look at you so Christmasy with your Christmas gnomes and your cup and your earrings and your whatever. Okay. Okay. It's a pillow. Guys, she just told me that she has a Christmas, what was it? Christmas shower curtain. Like you literally changed the shower curtain for Christmas. I sure did. And even the little hooks because the hooks are gingerbread and candy cane versus the clear one. No, you have, you have Christmas hooks on. Listen, tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la la. Watch how you say all that. That could get scary. How you end. Oh my goodness. So are you feeling really busy and overwhelmed in the normal Christmas craziness or? Well, yeah, sort of. I mean, my year is different this year as you well know, you know, when you're divorced, you got to share. I'm not a good shareer. I don't want to. What do you mean? Like you have to share the kids? Okay. The worst. Anybody else out there have to do that? I'm sorry, big hugs to you. The worst. But that's okay. So I just try to make Christmas super fun for myself. But at the same time too, it's you know, nothing's perfect. I mean, I can have the twinkle lights on all day long and still feel on, you know, but I'm choosing. We have a choice. I'm choosing to enjoy all the things. So I've been wanting to go Christmas caroling. And once again, this year not happening. The other thing I've been wanting to do. I can't get anybody to Christmas Carol with me. Do you guys do that? Um, yeah, the people, I just saw some people caroling. I don't, I don't see it a lot. But like, I think you just go out and you just start doing it. People start joining you. I think you just take your bad self and go around your apartment building and knock on doors and be like, la, la, la. Did you guys know that Christie's a singer? Okay. Sang in my wedding. Christie's a singer. Did you know that? Hmm. I used to use to you can say whatever. It's not like you lose it. Hey, it's just like a muscle. So what happened to my arms and my legs and my rear end? Okay. Anyway, yeah, I'm afraid I will walk it around singing. They would be like nine one one. What that is here is emergency. Somebody come get this crazy lady. And someone just said, could it get any more Christmasy over there by you? No, no, sir. No, it could, it could. One thing I saw that I do not have yet. Oh boy. Is a front door mat that when you step on it, the lights and the music start. What? Everybody needs this. Everybody needs this in their life. Okay. First of all, you'll scare the crap out of, you know, a burglar. That's for sure. But anyway, so, okay. Dying to here in New Zealand, you guys, for Christmas. What's like the hot items to buy? You know, Americans, it's always some fad. We're into fanny fricking packs. What is happening? I'm like, are we bringing back the 80s? What's going on? I already had a fanny pack. I don't need another one. Why are you having a hot flash? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The fanny pack in New Zealand doesn't mean exactly what you're saying. Are you serious? What the fricking? Oh my gosh, I forget because I've said that in groups before, like when we were about to go to like, I'm using a park and I had my fanny pack and everybody goes hysterical. So yeah, we'll, you know, it's, it's, it's about, okay. So I think people will know what it means. But I mean, what you're talking about, but like what it means here is not that. It's not that. And you can't even say what it is. Bum bag. Thank you. The bum bag. Because the fanny pack is like women's parts. Are you serious? I think that that's what it means. Everybody's always laughing at me. So I wouldn't say. New Zealand, what's, what does it mean? That's funny. Put it in the chat. Put it in the bum bag is what it's called there. A bum. Okay. Because I think you're supposed to like turn it around and put it, you know, by your bum. Oh. Oh yeah. No, no, this is how people are wearing them here. You ready? So it used to be the fanny pack, which made sense by your fanny. Now it's up here. And boys are wearing them too. Like teenagers. My son is 19 and he's wearing one. And I'm like, are you supposed to be wearing that? You kind of remind me of Nana. And he's like, no, this is cool. I was like, oh, okay, sorry. So yeah, I want you to put one of those on and we're going to go dancing again. And you're not going to take it off. And you're just going to wear it right here. Okay, girl, that has to be better than what I was wearing when I was dancing. Really? I was wearing a backpack purse. I mean, I couldn't have been screaming. I'm a mom louder, but I had no idea. I lost my mind. I didn't even notice it. I didn't even notice it. That's how bad that's how good of a friend I am. You're like, yes. You go ahead with your sunshine and coffee shirt in the clubs. Let's go. Oh, okay. Okay. Other thing. Okay. Other things is New Zealand into these ugly shoes, ugly. I just don't understand it. I think, okay. So they look like, they call them slides here. They're like flip-flops without the little thing in the middle. Yeah, I know what slides are. Yes. Okay. Super thick, super thick, chunky slides, all different colors. Everybody's wearing them. You look like you're wearing flip-flop moon boots. Why? Oh, really? So not like crocs. So it looks like crocs, but slides and the crocs are correct. Oh, so bad. And they love them. Love them. Also, everything is LED lights here. You, like kids want them in their car, in their coasters, in their, what is this called? Room. Everywhere. We put LED lights up. Looks like we're in style. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like everybody must be hiding the kites. It's like, what is happening? Everybody's got to have the LED lights. Yeah, you guys have all those weed stores everywhere now. Yeah. Weed it up. I don't know what's going on. Is what it is. Tis the season. Okay. If New Zealanders want to comment, like, what's hot right now? Because I don't know. Like, I don't really watch TV, so I'm not seeing commercials. And I don't know. Like, I don't know. It's just not the same here. Like, they're not, they're not into fads. So what is your store? What are your stores look like? Like, are they popping a lot? I've been shopping a lot, but they don't look any different. They just look like they normal do. Like, I don't feel like there's like some stores that have some, you know, like, you know, like some Christmas stuff in it, but like it's, I don't know. Oh, is that interesting? Oh yeah. Everything. Like in America, just go in. They're pushing everything. I mean, I'm just like, what do I buy now? Girl, I bought, what did I buy the other day? I've been buying so much stuff off of Amazon. I need to stop doing that. It's just so easy to click at midnight. You're half asleep. And it's like, oh, that looks, and then when I wake up in the morning, I have a package. It's very exciting. I never know what I buy because I'm half asleep. Like you're getting your Amazon stuff. Oh, it's so fast. You guys know? No, we don't have it. We don't have Amazon. We don't have that. Okay. You and I need to start a business. Let's do it. Shipping to New Zealand only. Let me tell you, it's not easy to sell things to New Zealanders when they don't want it. Or they, it's different. Let me tell you, I have been struggling, but that's a different topic. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Somebody's saying hi from Dubai. Oh, you are kidding. What time is it in Dubai? Go with your bad self. I don't know. Oh, okay. Favorite Christmas song. Go. Okay. She's tired. The espresso is not working. These little, these little midget cups you guys have. These are their midgets. They are. Look at that. Let's get a real people cup. Go, Baker, go. Sorry. It's Saturday. All right, New Zealand. Favorite song to sing. Like, if I broke out into my- It's beginning to look a lot, but it's not here. So every time I hear that, I'm like, Oh, got it. Okay. So would you guys have the white spray for the snow? Do you put it on your window? What? People, you don't have white spray that signifies snow. Anyone, anyone. Wow. Okay. I need to get there and help you all out. My youngest, he's 11. He's the most you would be, you would think this is so cute. He wants to decorate so bad. And like, I struggle because like I put up what we have, which isn't a lot and we're renting. So it's, it's hard for me to buy when it's like, you know, it's not like your house, right? And so he came home from school, no joke, came home from school, 3.30, sits down and for hours for the entire night, created decorations and goes to hang them up. So he has like little gingerbread man hanging hanging from the lights. He has like snowflakes stuck to the windows. He has, we're not, we're just, we're just creating. But I love him. I love that. Do you guys do mistletoe? We're like, if you're under it, you have to kiss. Again, I don't know. I assume. New Zealand, help her out. It's 8.30. She can't help her out. She's got American blood in New Zealand soil. Okay. Let me read. There's a lot of comments. Hold on. Start reading friend. I can't see squat. Listen. New Zealand's shop doesn't spend money on decorating for Christmas rather spend money on the holiday. So there's not, yeah, that's true. There's no decorations. Okay. It's no spray here. So you can. Yes. I have two adult kids. I'm not sure what's hot. I'm not. Nothing stands out for Christmas. I saw Christmas display in someone's house in the window the other day and had a, hold on. There's so many comments. Christmas tree with a squirrel. They don't have stories here. So just so you know, no mistletoe. It said, somebody said. Oh, okay. Okay. Favorite. Yeah. Hey, Santa Claus don't play to kids. I don't know what that means. Okay. My son has an NFL jersey from the States. Very cool. The Atlanta Falcons. Oh, guess what I did? I bought, do you guys do this over, you call it the university? No. What's high school called there? Oh, college. College. So we, so both of my sons played sports in high school. You have the option to purchase their football jersey. So I did. Of course you did. Of course you did with all your extra cash. You did that. All my extra cash. Anyway, so that's super fun. I love that. Okay. All right. What is, what is your go-to Christmas movie? New Zealand. Do you have a go-to Christmas movie? Okay. Sorry. Sorry. So, so you can buy it. That's not true. You say you can buy everything on Amazon just takes longer. That's not true. You can get about 50% of the things. No Christmas in Dubai. What? I don't know. Is that a religious thing? Maybe who knows? I don't, I don't know. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. What were you saying? Sorry. Okay. Favorite Christmas movie, New Zealanders. What is it? Tara, what is yours? Mine is. It's a wonderful life. Hands down the best Christmas movie. Okay. No. Look at how cute they are. Look it. The Grinch is your favorite Christmas movie? It's my go-to. I can watch it 900 times and it doesn't bother me. His heart grows. He gets better. I love a go-get-em story that actually works. Okay. Where they actually get better. Oh my gosh. Okay. Then I love Jesus. So that's a thing. My other go-to. Prep and landing. What the heck is that? I've never heard of that. You have been messing out. This is my huge love. I don't think I've seen this. Missed out. Oops. Wrong thing. I'm trying to show you pictures. Okay. Love it. It's about elves. You don't know. Okay. Next up. Oh, I love this for if you're a little older for, because you know, there's probably a little fast forward scene, but I love this one. Oh, I hate the holiday. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? They're about to make people like that movie. I love it. This is like embarrassing to watch with people. It's like, what do you, well, you don't watch it with other people. I watch it by myself and it's cute. I can never get by myself. Okay. I got people around me all the time. And you do have to fast forward a couple of parts in that movie. So I don't let my 13-year-old watch it, but anyhoo. Oh, and then, sorry, we just did Thanksgiving. This is my Thanksgiving movie. Okay. Plains, trains and automobiles is so funny. So funny. Is that a Thanksgiving movie? Yes. He's trying to get home for Thanksgiving. Oh, okay. Yeah. And he bumps into John Candy. God bless him. All right. That's it. No favorite movies, New Zealand. You said what? It's a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life is my favorite. Are you kidding me? How is that not your favorite? Is it still black and white? I like colors. You can get it in color. Gosh. Look at your shirt. Look at mine. Let's go. New Zealand, what are you wearing today? If it's 70 degrees, berry 69.4, whatever you said, I want to know what you are wearing. Is this t-shirt weather, tank top weather? Like what is this for you? I would be in shorts and a tank top, but that's my Wisconsin blood speaking. How about you? So I'm just going to, okay, yeah, Die Hard. Everybody watches Die Hard here. We have a group of friends that watch Christmas movie starting every weekend, and they always start with Die Hard. I can't even go to it anymore. I hate it. Die Hard is a Christmas movie? Yeah. It takes place at Christmas, but I think it's a stretch to say it's a Christmas movie. Yeah. That's a little bit of a stretch for me, but I love action movies. I guess I could try it. People are wearing shorts and t-shirt today, so. Good job. I'll be wearing a big old puff coat. Okay. So I'm going to share my screen with you, and I'm going to show you what is the food that I see at the grocery store. Oh, okay. I'm ready. Let's see. All right. Let me know if you can see it. Is that fruit cake? What is that with fruits? What is that? Do you see this? Do you see this? Yeah. What is that? Six brandy, what? I need my readers. Is that brandy baskets? I'm just going to play this for you, and then we'll. Okay. I'm ready. Okay. We got Christmas pudding. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. I'm sorry. They look, that looks like turds in there. I'm so sorry. Might be the visual. I know. Let's watch it again. Let's watch it again. I just did it really quick. Like, look at all this. Look at how many fruit cakes there are. Those are fruit cakes. Wow. I was joking that it was fruit cake, and it is. Eight dollars. Who eats fruit cake for real? Like, I thought that was just. So, yeah. So let me just stop sharing. So, I was like, I put it out on social this week. Like, who's eating this? Like, somebody's eating this because did you see how many were there? Somebody's buying that. There's nothing to make it if someone's not buying it. And people are like, yuck, yuck, yuck. We don't eat it. We don't eat it, but somebody's eating it. I don't know. Yeah. Why would they mass produce it otherwise? Okay. When you guys go to other people's houses for holidays, do you bring a hostess gift? Maybe that's the hostess gift. Fruit cake. No, but like in the States, if you brought that as a hostess gift, you would be like, I don't like you. In fact, I don't like you so much that I'm going to bring you a fruit cake. I don't know what Christmas pudding is. Like, you need to try Christmas pudding, but I look at it, it's like, I don't know. They're describing it as something that they start cooking in November and it sits in. They add stuff every week. I don't know what they're saying. They lose me at that point. Have you made that last month? I'm not eating it. That's a no. That's called bacteria, and we have to get away from that. Yeah, no. So yeah. So I, there's definitely some things I haven't tried. So I always make a pavlova, which is like, like the best dessert ever created. And I will send you pictures of it this year, but they also have like a thing called a trifle, which I don't really know what that is either. Oh, okay. Favorite cookie cutout. Okay. So they don't do like sugar cookies like they do in the U.S. So you know, so I don't really make them. People, you are missing out. That's all we do. Did you know that? Oh yeah. Okay. Do you have like the peanut butter balls, like the Buckeyes where you like roll them in chocolate as well? So you make the peanut butter ball. Yes. Yes. That's my, that's my kid's favorite. So I make lots of Christmas cookies, all different flavors, like my grandmother's recipe. So I started with the peanut butter cookies last week. And then because on Christmas, we're definitely going to have the peanut butter balls. So like, you don't want to have peanut butter, you know, so we'll have like the sugar cookies. My grandma's recipe is like more like cakey. And then, you know, some oatmeal cookies. This year, I made Christmas cannolis for like the thing that I'm going to bring. Yeah, for the thing that I'm going to bring to, you know, people's parties. And let me tell you, I've been bringing them and I'm not making them anymore. They're too putzy. I'm not doing it. But like, I wanted to conquer the cannoli and I did. And I bring them to places and they're so beautiful. They have like the Christmas, whatever, they're really nice. You can see it on my social. I've done lots of posts up. But like, people are like, what was this? They have no idea what it is. And I was like, okay, it's like an Italian cookie. Like, you don't need to know what it is. Look at it. Doesn't that look good? Just eat it. So good. I mean, between that and the Christmas pudding, you would think that would be a no, you know, kind of a big hit, what if I could get people to try them? But they just didn't know it never even heard of it. That's crazy. Yeah, I don't what do what do New Zealanders typically eat on Christmas? Is it ham? I think that you do barbecue barbecue. Yeah, that's right. You're the barbecue people. Yeah, like out on out on the beach. I don't know. Hold on. Let's go to the comment section. Because there's comments. Okay. Okay, favorite songs, Little Drummer Boy, New York fairy tale, the sound of music. I love watching home alone. Rush fruitcake is better. Okay, God bless. I don't get it. Okay, we all eat fruitcake, a small slice for everyone every day to the end of the statutory holiday. Oh, it's like a tradition. Got it. Okay. Okay, Christmas pudding is soaked in brandy, no bacteria. Ah, that alcohol, getcha. That's nice. Ham, ham and lamb, ham and barbecue steak. Yum. Let's see. Makes my lips itch. It doesn't feel very Christmassy when you see Santa on a surfboard. I suppose not. Oh, let me find my Santa one moment. Okay. So, yeah. Oh, tis the season to be, I love it. Okay, I'm putting it back over here. Any, is that new or something, or what's the deal with that? No, isn't it cute? I just wanted to show you my Santa. I mean, we have it all here. We've got Christmas gnomes, Santa, Jesus, reindeer's, Christmas trees, snowflakes, polka dots. Oh, do you guys do this, Christmas journals? What do you mean? You don't write down what you do at Christmas so you don't forget. No, write it down. How do you remember what you do year after year? What did you do last Christmas, Cole? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember. You guys, you and I are such suckers. You buy anything. I love it. Love it. So, you have a journal for every Christmas. You have a different journal. Is it the same journal? Okay. Okay. Is that the one we bought? Yes. My favorite, Dave. Okay. What? You have a different journal for every year or is it like the same journal? Ma'am, it's the same journal. Whoopies. And this one ended in 2008. So my other journal is over there. You literally have record of what you're doing at Christmas every year. Why? It's the most wonderful time of the year. Oh, please. Because when you have lived Jerry Springer, you won a little Norman Rockwell. So that's what I was going for. I just want to remember that I had glimpses of normal. Okay. When you lived Jerry Springer. Merry Christmas, you guys. Or do we say happy holidays? Yeah. Yeah. All of it. I don't know. Happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Christmas. Happy. Yes. Thank you for joining us today. It was great. It's so good to see Christy. Our last episode of the year of 2022. So we'll be back next year with a bang. And maybe you're coming here. Oh, I just let's get the medication figured out. I'll be there. Oh, that's not a problem. We got the medication figured out. You guys are the best. Have a good one.