End of Year Wrapup

The beginning is awesome. We're just talking about the different styles and like styles. I don't even remember styles. We were talking about the different jeans. What are those called? The jeans, . Those jeans. The Jin. Oh my god. So like, so like I, I had we, so we had recorded and then you put two different podcasts that day.

And then we also recorded like an intro, right? Where we were just talking. Just the three of us. Like this sort of, yeah. And I was, I had edited that intro like a while ago. Mm-hmm. like weeks ago. And I was like, I will put this on Ms. Neffs. I think it'll be fine. I'll put it over there. Mm-hmm. . But it was good.

I don't even remember what we were talking about now. And I know I just looked at it, but it's gone. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, but it was like 20 minutes of, you know, banter about fucking nothing. Cuz that's usually how it goes with us. Right. We're just talking about that's what we talk for. Hours bullshit.

Nothing absolute bullshit's really? Yes. But fun. Have so much fun. Yes, we do. We entertain ourselves. Had 20 minutes of that and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna put it at the beginning of her video. And I put it on the beginning and then I was like, it's gonna be 20 minutes before we see Ms. Neff. And we didn't have a transition, so I was like, so do I put our little like intro, the little like.

Do, do, do music porn. Music. Yeah. Yeah. Porn, . So I was like, no, I don't wanna go. 20 minutes in. And then suddenly people are gonna think the podcast is over . Right. Like, not starting. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. True is true. I, I took it and I pulled it out and I put it at the end. So the podcast has an intro, has my staff, and then has the outro and then 20 more minutes of just bullshit with us.

Oh gosh. I gotta listen to it. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. But she was involved too, which made it great. Yes. Right. No, that, oh no, that's on the back end. It's 20 minutes of just the three of us. Oh. Well I can't wait to listen to that. I haven't seen it. I forget. I completely forget. I just looked at it last night, but my brain is mushed today.

Oh, I understand that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's hair, it's a long, it looks really pretty though. Oh, thank you. I like how it, yeah, it's looks, so I got this, um, totally squi. . Um, that's what I totally do. Well that's what Kathy does and she just pulled you right up. Yeah, she totally did. It was a squirrel vortex. I can struggle to keep you people focused.

So, so I went with poverty. You know the target on the south at Lakeside has, um, Olta in it. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Yeah, they is. And so poverty loves going to that target. So we went to that Target and uh, we went in the Ulta and she wanted like, skincare stuff cuz she's got kind of this like raw stuff on her nose and she's always looking for something to help make that better.

Mm-hmm. . And I'm like, I don't know, like here's a whole aisle of skin shit. Like go pick something. I don't fucking know. Yeah, exactly. Like if anybody has any ideas, I don't know, help me out. Do they have a helper person? There was nobody in there. Oh no, not in that section. Okay. So, you know, it's really good.

But, but they, before you do it , I'm about to take her out. So they, they had like, they, it was in an L and so this side is skin and this side is hair. And yeah. I keep seeing stuff on TikTok, like, if your hair does this stuff, it's curly. You need to, you need to curl it. And, you know, you can like, like mostly get it dry and like scrunch it up and it's all like this.

So I did that and I bought this BB curl, you know, bu bum bumble. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just like, you kind of go through your hair when it's mostly dry and like scrunch it up and it's like, got some waves to it. It does, yeah. Scr, I wouldn't say it's curly. Mm-hmm. . No. But it definitely, it explains whatever the hell is happening here.

Mm-hmm. , it's all like cosy. Just when I put my hair up, it's all like, yeah. You see flyaways and, and underneath fly if it gets like that too, like. Yeah. Yeah. You got those gray have a mind of their own. Yes. I think that's what it is. It's the grave. They're just like, and grays tend to be a little bit corer.

They don't, they, they definitely are. Like, they're more bristly, whatever. I don't know. Yeah. It's doing the best they can here, but it's total like beach wave and I love that. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. So that's awesome. Meanwhile, I'm doing everything I can straighten my hair . Well if I just like blow dry it, that's what it, it is.

Yeah. And then, you know, I'll walk outside in this weather and it'll go, it'll just like, like fly it just fl. That's mine. It's really light theora. Yeah. Mine doesn't do the triangle here. That's why I was like the umbrella today. I'm like, good god, don't get wet. Don't get, it's gonna grow. The hair's gonna grow.

Oh, it's gonna get bigger. Tell Pinky to try. Clinique gets like moisture surge. You can get it in like those little comes like in a little container. She loves little containers. Yes. It's her favorite thing and it's, it's super nice and just tell her to put it on there like at nighttime and it'll make it a little bit better.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm glad we have it recorded. My brain has already forgotten it. Yeah. Yeah. I have like no short-term memory. Well we've been through a lot the past couple weeks. Yeah, it has been. So it's kind of interesting, you know, going back through and like editing these videos. Cause I was like, it's been like three weeks since we've recorded it feels like forever ago.

Mm-hmm. and it, and we had just kind of like, we were recording, you know, back to back episodes on the same day. with the intent kind of sandbag in 'em so that we would have stuff to pepper out while we were, you know, busy. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Cuz like Bumble, you know, Rudolph was rough. Rudolph was super busy. Yeah.

Lots of fun. Tons of fun. It was a lot of fun for a kid show. I mean, it went two weekends. Yeah. We don't normally have that. I don't think I've ever done a kid show that went two weekends before and I think there's good and bad with that. Mm-hmm. the, I really like that it wasn't cramming, you know, what is it?

12 shows. We normally do 12 shows in four days. I'm glad that we weren't doing that. Yes. And the kids shows were on different days. Like we didn't have to come back in the evening. Evening. A night show. Yeah. That made a big difference. That was, yeah. And I know for Gabby it made a difference. Mm-hmm. for girls.

It did too. I know when they do those camp shows and we start day at like, you know, we have to be there. Call time, is it 7:00 AM mm-hmm. . Yeah. Seven. And you get like a, a short little, you can't nap in that. Let's switch to power Nap 30 minutes away. It's like you, you know, spend an hour on the road to, and then you got few and then you gotta turn around, come back.

Yeah. That never, that never goes very well, but no. And then they gotta get up in the next morning and do it all over again. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. You know, that's hard. So that was good. We didn't have that, um, the set was lasting. Mm-hmm. , the puppets were probably, Happy. We didn't have another weekend after . I don't, I dunno if it, I mean that one Rudolph puppet, he, he kind of had gone through one, that one I'll tell you.

Oh no. It went him with one of the kids. Yeah. Broke his neck. His nose fell off. Yeah. Oh, it's okay. He was way back on, said the batt out. I totally know his name. Sorry. It's fine. said it. So your kid's name? No, no. She said another kid's name. It's fine. I'll, I'll it up. You noticed it's not a big deal. Whatever, sorry.

But yeah, so, you know, he's been through a war. That one, his head broke off and then his nose fell multiple times off. The whole body came, like Max was just going down and the whole body flew off the stick. And it didn't even look like he hit it against anything. He didn't, he just, he was just going and it came off and then when it hit the ground, Yeah.

He, you know, did you find yourself galloping across the stage while holding the puppet? Just to like, simulate Yes. Movement. I mean, you could go, I'm, I would get to the other side and be like, entire body idiot. Your entire body. Oh, no, no. I was galloping with my entire body. I felt like when I was galloping, I was far more successful when I was just walking doing this.

That was when I was having the issues with him. You so he has, it was horrible. He has to go straight you to go straight down the hall and you were going straight. Yes. But, but he was like, but my arm wasn't, he was like this, he's like perpendicular. Yeah. So like a drunk don. A drunk donkey drunk. Right. I dunno how that looked to the audience.

Who knows what that looked like. Like, well, he, when he goes from this side of this stage to that side of the stage, he looks a little drunk, but then he's five. When he goes back, it's galloping. Listen, it's, it's his first time. That's a very good point. It his first flight. It's his first flight, so he might be a little wonky.

And the time turns around. Perspective on that. Yes. , I don't think anybody would've gonna think of that. But no, . That's my rationale for screwing it up. Oh, you know what? You have puppets here. Get your, we could like grab one. Oh, grab Yeah. Yeah. There. Yeah. And we took two of the Rudolph ones home. Yeah, that's what I have.

I brought it. Yeah. The reindeer. Yeah. Don't we have so much stuff like crammed around us when we podcast And that light fell off numerous times for his nose. Yeah. I'm gonna try and not, and how clever, like one of the kids brought it to my attention and then we told Laura about it because when we were first doing him in dress rehearsal, look how cute he is.

Oh, he's got like a Is adorable. He's got a thing. Ah, . He's not tidy. He's a deer. It's, I think it's a probably, oh, there we go. I got it. So I didn't wanna pull it too much when we were first. Were using him in that scene. We were turning his, his nose on. Mm-hmm. and one of the kids were like, Hey, he, his nose shouldn't be on yet.

Like, we haven't gotten to that part of the story where you're showing that to people yet. Right. And I was like, oh, good catch. So then she said it to Laura and Laura was like, you know what? You're right. There you go. This again in this show I know. I realized, I don't know what's going on out there. Like I know the story, but there's little pieces that you never get to see, like the reporters and different things that there, that were reporters in the original story.

No. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. The movie didn't, it was just Sam. Yeah. Mm-hmm. out there, things can't get comfortable Again. Which is interesting because in the movie, how does Santa know that the weather is. , I guess cuz people are like flailing around in the village. I guess that's how you know that the weather is bad.

I don't know. I feel like I need to clearly, I feel like I just need to watch the movie again. I know. Yeah. So it's kind of, you know, the Mandela effect where you bel like you believe that some, you witnessed something or read something or watched something, but it didn't actually happen that way. Mm-hmm.

like Luke, I am your father being the quote. It's not actually the quote. What's the quote? Um, I think it's just, I am your father. No, Luke. Oh I always saw was Luke. That's what everybody says. Yeah. Okay. So that's the Mandela. Exactly. So okay. Everyone collectively has this memory of Santa not being bald. Oh, everybody's very upset.

I had so many people ask, where's Santa's hair? There's another Claymation video like, uh, another Claymation Santa movie in the same era and that Santa has the Jean Luke Picard ring with the beard the monk cut. Yeah. And but this one's maybe it's gold cut. I don't know. Yeah. Uh, it's. It. I think that's where my brain got mixed up.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. I had several people like, oh, what happened? The hair didn't get on tonight. I, no, he's supposed to be bald. Yeah. Yeah. He's bald hair. Because when I first, everybody thinks that. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. I had to look it up myself cuz I wasn't believing it. And I had just seen the movie, but I, it didn't occur to me that Santa didn't have it.

So got the hair coming out the back. Well, and that Santa in this movie, I didn't, I was thinking, well, why is he so mean? Because we were like going through, through this, this is not a nice show. This show is the kids. And I'm like, this Santa's a dick. . . Like, every time Cel would come out, you know, and, and say their lines.

And I'm like, gosh. She's just like, yeah, you could do better. And then like, I gotta go. And he like leaves the stage and I'm like, he needs work. Really. Like, is this really how it was? And then Elvis and then it was on, we didn't sit and like watch it, but it was on the other day, that exact Claymation movie.

And I was like, wow, this is true. He's kind of a jerk. He's kind of a jerk. Yeah. Yeah. And what about Rudolph's dad being a complete jerk too? I don't, you know, not, not that I have any memory. Yeah. Of like Rudolph's dad not being a jerk. Like, I just didn't think of it. And, but you, I mean, everybody was kind of a jerk to him.

Yes. Yeah. I don't know. What do you And at the end, the dad's trying to be all proud. I know. Like, oh, you got this song, I've been supporting you. Yeah. That's my buck. Yeah. Like, okay. Yeah. Jerk. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. You're trying waited swoop in there and try to take some glory there at the end. Yes. Cuz he wanted him to hide who he really was the whole time.

Mm-hmm. , what a life lesson. I know. And then the other, yeah. Since, since we're on the subject, even Clarice's dad, like that was a weird thing for him to come out and be like, no, dough of mine, blah blah. But, but then you never heard about that storyline again? Did it get resolved? Yeah. Did the did? Does he like him now that he's like Exactly.

Successful and useful? Correct. Because he is the same little guy with a light up nose. I know, but before this is, we could really delve into this. We could. Yeah. I mean there needs to, it's kind of funny. Be a sequel that, that you can still actually make him a play and it be okay. Mm-hmm. in today's day and age based on something that's that old though.

Mm-hmm. . I know. Because you know, a lot of that stuff has not stood the test. Right, right. Like you have to change a lot of things in order for it to be like socially okay now. Mm-hmm. , yes. Stuff. But this one was, seems like it's okay. Mm-hmm. , I think there was, you know, maybe a few things kind of Yeah. Could have changed, I guess.

Yeah. For the times to make it a little bit better. . You know, I mean, but it's interesting. Let's just talk about Bossel. That is an HR nightmare. Waiting to . , like, I mean, firing people. Cause he doesn't wanna make noise. Noise like every night. Every night. Cuz I've, you know, I had the headset on. Every night we would get to that scene or you're fired.

And I would say it with her on the headset. Or You're fired. You're fired. . She just embraced that role. She would give a little, she was born to it. Oh yeah. Like on his little shoulder, she walks out. Well, she kind of had a, a, a little, a walk with those boots, those red boots. Do you got for her boots? Yes, yes, yes.

She loved those boots. Yeah. She's, she rocked those boots. She did. She was all about it. Her little 10 year old. Oh yeah. And turned into something, you know? Mm-hmm. little something sound or you're fired and then drop the mic up. She goes, yep. not So no break for him. Like let's talk about that. The unions would have a fit about that.

Well, should he have been in that job if he didn't really want to do it. I mean it's kind of like no people today with the quiet quitting type thing. Like Yeah. Yeah. He wanted to be a dentist so he just wasn't doing his job. Well yeah, but we don't know how that works quitting in the North Pole. Like do you just, do you have to be, you're born an elf, do you have to be an elf?

Was mom and dad an elf? So now you gotta be an enough, they support enough, like were they dentists? The other parents weren't very supportive of their red nose reindeer. Right, exactly. Maybe his parents were just much as jerks. That's why they were both misfits cuz they didn't have any support and. I mean, totally bullied all those other little elves.

He, you know, laughing. He's getting sick. Golden too. Yeah. You don't wanna make toys. Shame on me. Toys. I mean, does make toys. His money make toys. He got like publicly shamed his work of place of work, you know? Yeah. Yes. That would never fly. Wow. I was isn't gonna write a book on, I'm gonna like dissect this, write a book on modern culture compared to Rudolph.

Yeah. Compared to the North Pole. I think we got some, you can, you can use some AI about it. You like, uh, do a blog post on it. Seriously. Don't think wear our secrets chat. G P T. Yeah. There you go. . But yeah. So anyway, but it was a fun show. Yes. Yeah. It was very fun. It was a fun, it was a fun like three weeks.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Yeah. We got to do together, the production team was so much fun. Mm-hmm. . . The kids for the most part were awesome. Yep. You know, it's hard for them, you know, some of them. Mm-hmm. , they just get tired and they get cranky and you kind of have to deal with that. But yeah. Yeah. I can relate. Overall, I would say this was probably one of my better experiences and more recent times.

Mm-hmm. with kids shows. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. They were all really excited to be there and mm-hmm. , you know, they weren't the energy. Yeah. Yeah. Even on that first night, they were so good on that first night I opened up after that terrible dress rehearsal. Oh my goodness. Well that's true, right? Terrible dress.

You weren't there really? Well, OHS. Why? Yeah, because Mikayla had hers, her band concert thing, her wizard concert, that's brain wreckx. So we're just gonna blame that on Chris. But her band concert was phenomenal and I do not regret going . No, of course not. Mm-hmm. No. Definitely Harrison's like stuff, man.

Every show they put on is just top notch. Well, speaking of who's got to go see little women. Yes. Oh, we definitely need to talk about that. Gosh, that was amazing. Oh my gosh. Like I, these kids, I look down, I'm not really a crier. Uh, not usually, unless my hormone, hormone levels are down. or really tired. Then I gotta go get some testosterone.

But, uh, . But I looked down the aisle cause I was on the end and I looked down the aisle and, and the nat the, the little tissues are being passed around. Everybody was like wiping their eyes. Yeah. . Well, at the start of the second act, I handled lily tissue. I said, you're gonna need this cuz I knew where the story was going.

Right. I don't need that. She passes it back to me. About two minutes in, she just calmly reaches over and grabs the tissue back outta my head and starts dotting her eyes. She was a wreck. Oh yeah. I kept, I'm so amazed at how I kept forgetting that there were no set changes. Like you had these three set pieces.

in this little black box theater. Mm-hmm. . And they were so amazing that they pull you so into the story that you forget you're not in the attic, you're not, you know, you're not in a new location. Right. That it just, the story so powerful with just the actors. Yes. And the minimal. And that was a great part.

Like my mom was like, well, you know, that location didn't do it any justice. And I was like, mom, I think it's just the absolute mm-hmm. opposite. You know, the fact that it was such a small, intimate setting and you didn't need any of that other stuff. No. You know? No. She's like, well, I couldn't tell from where I was sitting.

I couldn't tell that there was, um, an autumn in there or a trunk there. Mm-hmm. or whatever. And I said, neither could I, but I didn't miss it. I didn't need it. No, I did not either. I didn't miss it. I wasn't worried about that. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. It was just all about what the actors were bringing to the story and oh, they were so good.

The journey that we were just taken on was. Yeah. I mean, they totally pulled you in, my goodness. Oh yeah. You didn't need other set pieces. No. You didn't need to have all of the, the bells and whistles and theater magic for that story to really kind of grip you. Yeah. It was very raw and just broken down to the studs, and this is what you have and what they did have, I mean, it wasn't nothing, you know?

Mm-hmm. , they had set pieces, but, um, it was just enough and I think anymore would've taken away. Well, that's kind of what I was thinking, like from experience. So normally it's not performed that way, I assume. Right. I guess I've never seen it. I assume I've seen the movie, but not then. Yeah. I'm making a lot of assumptions.

Mm-hmm. . Um, but you know, what they say about that, so, um, but honestly, I don't think I would, I don't think it would land the same way for me. Mm-hmm. with the extra bells and whistles and the inner magic might have been distracting. Yeah. Oh, I think so. Mm-hmm. from the, it would definitely taken away from the story itself.

Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. , you didn't need it. I loved it. That was amazing. I loved every minute of it. The costumes were great. Mm-hmm. , um, everybody's character was very fitting. The actresses and the actors were great. Um, you know, my favorite part about it though is knowing several of these kids that were in this show mm-hmm.

and I say kids, but they're, they're young adults now. Yeah. They've grown up so much, but we've watched them mm-hmm. , you know, from middle school age until now in their, they're seniors. Right. Most of them were seniors, uh, this year. So like, just in that amount of time, the amount of growth that they have had, and we caught one of the actors, um, out kind of after, you know, in the little meet and greet or whatever at the end, outside the theater, and he came up and he was like, you know, give me your honest opinion.

What did you. And I was like, I loved it. It was awesome and you were amazing. And he's like, no, don't, don't hold your punches. I really wanna know. Aw. And I thought, he really doesn't see himself. Right? Yeah. And how much he's grown. And so I was just like, dude, you are killing it. I think I know who you're talking about.

Cuz he was amazing. Yeah. I was like, I didn't know he could sing so Well. I know, I know. Yeah. I agree. I think I know too. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Offline. Well, yeah, for sure. Mention the name. But yeah, I mean, just watching him grow, you know, for years now and seeing that, I'm like, man, he is destined for something.

Just truly amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of the case with several of them, you know? Mm-hmm. , we've watched them for so long. Now these kids are just growing up and you're like, yeah man, I can't wait to see 'em on, you know, Broadway someday or something. Definitely. You know, like I felt that way. We went to Epcot s candlelight professional because the kids, oh, it was gorgeous.

The kids, um, from Harrison, , they had three different nights they went, so different kids went on different nights. And I felt so proud sitting in that audience because I finally knew some of the kids that were singing in it, like they were my own children. Yes. And I realized how much being a part of the theater and teching, not just for my own child, but for these other kids that I've gotten, like you said, have gotten to watch, grow Up and yeah, the talent develop.

I was like a proud mama in that audience for like 10 different kids. I'm like, oh, there's that one and there's that one. Yeah. It was so much fun to watch. It's crazy to think that you can feel that way about Yes. About the kid that's not yours. But like, you know, and, and it's not like, like Gabby feels to us or Lily Cade Orella, right?

Like, I know they're not our kids, but they're totally our kids. You know? Because we've spent so much time together and even these kids, we haven't spent that much time with them, but they're still the same, right? We've watched them grow up and we've watched them just grow in their abilities and to see them.

you know, on staging, just commanding in that way and you're just, you know, blown away. Yeah, I thinking blown away. Oh, I know. They're killing it up there, like knowing their voices, right? Like, oh, I wonder if the other kids around them are singing as well. Cause I know how well they can sing. Mm-hmm. , which I'm sure they were, but Yeah.

Yeah. It's a lot of fun. And Detective Olivia Benson was the, uh, narrator from SVU . She's fantastic. Marissa Har, I'm afraid to say her name cause I know I'm gonna just totally butcher har Yeah. That was fun too. Yeah. Dun, dun dun. I saw videos. Neil, dun, dun dun dun dun. Um, just embarrassed. I saw videos people shared of, uh, Neil Patrick.

Like watching the fireworks that night. Oh cool. Yeah, like he was, uh, around the lake I guess, and yeah, he was like two nights ago or Right, but he was there. Mm-hmm. just as a guest I guess. Mm-hmm. and I was like, oh, could a bumped into both of 'em and you might not have even realized it. Probably so. Yeah.

Or pass, wander around park so, or whatever. Well I swear I passed Greg Canne because Oh, I'm sure it wasn't. I suck at names. Um, I can't even tell you what he's been in recently. Greg, come here. He's been in here. We're gonna have to Google him quick. Uh, what's that? . He's slapping you. Like, make me remember.

I'm trying to say as you like it. I'm like, I know that's not right. Some like it hot. I know that's not it. It's something along those same veins. Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. As good as it gets that. See I was close. I'm pretty sure he was in that. Anyway, there was a guy that, no, cuz as good as it gets, that's wrong, as good as it gets was with the older woman.

and the other, I'm horrible with this, but it's a similar type of title. Yes, it absolutely is. Oh, we need somebody Googling. Where's Chris? Yeah, you had, you have a phone right there. Google it right there. I would, but my phone charged. Um, anyway, my phone's busy right now. Or Guy I would help you out . And I was like, I think that's him.

And he had like a hat on and Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't, he looked right at me. I looked right at him and then I just kept walking. . It was probably just some random dude, but maybe it was his doppelganger it, I think it was maybe, I think it was looked just like him. Oh, that's gonna bother me. I'll, I'll get y'all keep talking.

Yeah, look it up. Craig. Caner. Yeah, we just totally had a whole like five minute deviation on that. He was that guy in that thing. with that lady. Everyone. Not that guy that, no, he wasn't that guy. He was in this thing. Yeah, yeah. No, it's y'all. The other guy, . And because Jack Nicholson was with, she's an actress.

She's fabulous. Around his same age. He isn't as good as it gets. Is he? Yes. All right. Turn. I need to see the bit. Cause it, it's not gonna help me. Okay. Well that's just crazy town right there. Who does he play in that? Well, a friend . I dunno, it's been so long since I've seen that. Oh yeah. That is Helen. I, yeah, so I was, see I was right.

That movie points for me. Okay, so the movie, ah, I know which one you're talking about. I don't know what it's called. When he dates the daughter first, but then falls in love with the mom who's actually his age. He's like the guy I always get confused with Bill Paxton for some reason. Oh gosh. . I know. I don't know why, but like he died.

That's so sad, huh? Bill Paxton died when? A few months ago. Mm. I feel like last year ago. A year ago. I don't know. He was in Twister, right? Yeah. Yeah. He passed away. I feel like I might know this is ringing a bell. . I might have known that. Maybe listen, sometimes when they say that like, famous people have passed away or whatever, you're like, oh man, I thought they were dead already.

Like sometimes that happens. . Oh yeah. Totally, totally. We had that conversation not too long ago. . Oh my gosh. I'm having some deja vu. Yes. . What happens? You know? So what's the movie I'm thinking of? I have no idea. The one with, um, yeah. So he dates the daughter, but the wife is a divorced and she, they have a house out in Long Island and so Jack Nicholson takes the daughter out there, realizes the daughter's too young for him.

He ends up falling cuz he has a heart attack while he's there. Wait on, wait. It's coming back to me. And Kean Re is in. and counter reasons. The doctor, and he's young and handsome and he falls in love with the mom, who's like an established awesome author. Something's got a gift. Yes. That's it right there.

As good as it get. Something's gotta give. I knew it was something like that. Now our brains can relax. Okay. Thank you. Ish. Ish, ish. Oh, so Crazy day. We probably should get on track here. Yeah. Um, but this is a year in review. Is that what we were doing today? Yeah. Top 10 episodes. Every episode made it. Cuz we've only, this'll be our, this'll be our 10.

So congratulations to everyone out there for making it to our top 10 . That's funny. I was, that'll be more competition next week. Well I had a conversation with the kids the other day cuz they were like, okay, so is this the end of your first season? And I was like, I, I mean maybe, maybe. How does that work in I don't podcasts to be happy.

A break have seasons. I don't think you even have seasons. You should, I don't know. Keep going. I mean, I think we'll just keep going, just keep rolling. But like, maybe. It'll be season two, episode one, but we do one every week. So does that mean we're gonna have a 52 episode season? Good. I dunno. That's a lot.

That is a lot. Did we get a hiatus? I always love that word. Hiatus. Hiatus. It is kind of fun, isn't it? Yeah. Like, like in the soap opera? Well, no, no soap opera, hiatus tv. So like the prime time tv, which don't they, they do that anymore? Well, like they have a season, right? Like you can have one that starts in August and like goes until, you know, right.

Then the holiday. Yeah. And then you take a little break and then you do like the spring, you know? Yeah. Springtime until summer. And then you go on another hiatus, right? Mm-hmm. . So that's your season one, season two, or you consider that all season one. . I used to Hi hate hiatus TV show as a child because you didn't have DVRs and you barely had you actually hadr.

So you had to wait six months for the new season. Yes. Yeah. And then if you missed it, like let's say your favorite show was every Thursday at 8:00 PM Right. God forbid you had something to do that night. I read There was no way like you missed it. Mm-hmm. , you, you loose like, well now we live in the age of binge tv.

Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. And so it's like, oh, it dropped and you watch it all in one night and then you're like, now I gotta wait two years for the next episode to come out. Darn it. It's horrible. I was telling Angela I just finished White Lotus, so I literally binge that in like three days. It's only seven episodes.

What is that on? It's crazy. It's on hbo, but I, I watched it on Prime. Okay. But you can get it on hbo. Um, and there's only two seasons of it and I found out about it because I really enjoy. , the woman that was in Friday Night Lights, who, oh, we're doing this again. Yeah, we're totally doing Connie Bri this again.

Thank you Connie Briton. Brilliant. I'm good at trivia night, by the way. I love that. I feel like we're in a little game show here. Like who am I describing? Yeah, so Connie Britten. So I watched her in Friday, night Lights. I watched her in Nashville and I did a little like search, like what else has she been in, right?

Well she was in White Lotus the first season. So I started watching it and like the first couple minutes I was like, oh, this is a little racy. So definitely not a kid friendly. No, no show. Very dark anyway. Shape or form. Yes. So nudity language, the whole nine yards. But um, I don't wanna give anything away, but essentially the first season is about these characters that come together and they're staying at like a resort in Hawaii and they all have this experience at this resort.

Okay. Okay. And you follow the characters along. Right. And then the second season dropped. , and I guess it's been out for just a little bit. Mm-hmm. , I don't know. I just found, I stumbled across it. Um, and this one, all new characters except for two, so two characters actually transferred over to the new season.

Okay. And this time it's a resort in Sicily, so totally different setting. But the resort's name is the White Lotus. Mm-hmm. . And you learn that the, it is like a chain because the one character that moves over talks about how she enjoys staying at the white Lotus's, whatever. So, um, Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say about the plot because I don't wanna ruin it for days.

No, don't ruin it. Okay. But, but I gotta like check it out. I think you need to check it out. I think you like it. Yeah, definitely. It's, it's a thinking thing. The first season was funny, like there was a lot of like dark humor, lot of dark humor, a lot of dark, like, you're gonna be like, do they just really just say that?

Mm-hmm. and you're gonna rewind it and play it again. Yeah. They totally just said that. So, all right. It's a super cool mm-hmm. . Yeah. And it's only seven episodes, so it takes you on the ride pretty quickly, you know? Yeah. Um, not a lot of dull lull episode where you're like, wow, nothing really happened in that episode, you know?

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. There's stuff that goes on in every single one. So that's what I've latest, my latest binge I just finished, um, on Netflix. Sometimes you just tend to pass these by because they're dubs. Um, but they're like, you know, three or four seasons long, so, you know, they had to have been pretty good, right?

Yeah. Even if, you know, it's not in English, so I. If it's a good dub, I'll watch it. And it was called, called this. It was a Doug, like, I'm like, oh gosh, here's another term. I don't know. No . Like a dub over. I noted like I did know what it was though. I know you did. I was like, she's lost. You saw my look. , she's got that.

So a dub over. Got that confused look on her face. I understand now. Um, but yeah, it's called the 3%. It's on Netflix. Oh. And, um, the basic premises, they, uh, they have two areas where you can live. One is kind of like the holy grail where you wanna be, but they only accept 3% of the population. And every year when you hit your 20th birthday, you register and you have to go through a series of tests and you can be eliminated in that.

And they only take about 3% to the new island. Um. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so the, where you're coming from is poverty and squalor, and then where you're going is, you know, heaven on earth type. Okay. You know? Mm-hmm. . But, um, yeah, I, it, I just finished it. It was like four seasons. Okay. And it was really good. Highly recommend.

Even though it was dub over, you really couldn't Well, you didn't miss it at all. Yeah. Like squid games. I totally forgot. I was reading, I almost said lyrics, . Why you didn't, that's not right. I didn't have to read. I don't like having to read it at the same time. Oh, right. Because like then I spent all my time reading no subtitles, but it's just so, but did it look like, you know, in those old like karate movies when Yeah.

I mean they like, and the are going, but I mean, the language was close enough that you could pick it up. That you Yeah. Like it didn't Okay. You didn't miss it. I didn't spend the entire movie or the entire, you know, four seasons of this going, God, I hate the fact that their mouth moves and it's not the same thing I'm hearing.

Yeah. I usually don't like it cuz it feels not authentic. Like they're, but they had the actors like acting it when they did the voiceover. Oh, okay. and it was same people voicing? Mm-hmm. . Like they had multiple people voicing their characters basically. Was it from originally, like what type of, what country?

Do you know what language it was in? I'm somewhere in South America. I think. South America. Okay, cool. Yeah. So interesting about the 3%. Now, was it like families that could go, so I know I turned 20 and I go on this lottery, so it could potentially be picked. Do you have like a higher probability of being picked if you already have family there or like No.

Was okay. Totally remember. So they're basically trying to figure out, so choice, Lato. , is it like getting an appeal? I mean, I'm just wanting to know , so, so when you turn 20 you, you register and you go mm-hmm. and all of the elimination happens through testing. Oh. And so like your first round of testing is they want just an interview.

Best of the best. Mm-hmm. . Okay. Yeah. And so you're like interviewing with an agent that is part of the 3%. They come over from the island and they help with that process. Okay. And so you go through this process and you're like, okay, the first step, I passed the, the interview, or I didn't pass the interview.

And the people that didn't pass have to go back down to squalor. And if you pass, you stay and you go to the next round. The next round may be puzzles or okay. It may be, you know, any number of tests. Gotcha. And by the time you get to the end, you'll have passed all of those tests and then you're, they whittled down that population that came into just 3% of the people.

That's interesting. They get to go. Interesting. Do they do like medical stuff? So like if you have certain diseases, like do they do that? Yeah, they have advanced technology so they can, you know, help make you better if you're sick or whatever. Oh, wow. But yeah, like they're, it's an interesting series and I'm, I'm trying really hard not to like give too, too much away.

No, that's a good boy. Yeah. No. Yeah. But all four seasons I was, I was hooked within the first couple of episode. It's Well, and I'm sure there's so much around it. I'm sure people try to buy their way and try to, I mean, I don't know. I don't wanna assume mm-hmm. . I know, but there's a lot that goes on there.

Have you guys ever watched that one about, and I don't remember which, um, chair and what was on or what station or whatever, but, um, , it's about the train and it's like, it's the world. It's like the apo apocalyptic world. And there's a train and the back of the train, the polar express . No, it's silly. And it's, and the train, it can't stop because it'll freeze to the track.

So it has to continue Illegal. Never. But the whole thing, it's very similar to that. So you had to buy a spot so people knew that the world was coming to an end. So they, you know, the elitist of the world had already bought into getting like a first class ticket on this train where you could be whatever.

And um, but when the world was actually coming to an end, there's a lot of people that panicked. A lot of people. So there was a bunch of stowaways. So there's like car, like train carts or whatever they're called. Train cars. Cars, cars. Yeah. I saying carts. It didn't sound right. You were carts mm-hmm. Carts at the end where that's like the squalor, like people were just living there and, and.

It was just bad. Like you didn't wanna be there, but they would try to fight their way to the front of the train to like, take over the train. I don't know. PJ started watching it and he enjoyed it. Um, I don't think he got through it, but I watched maybe like one or two episodes of it, and there's a whole social dynamic that goes on.

Mm-hmm. , because you have so many things, right. The train can't stop. So that's one thing, right. The second thing is you have all these people in the front of the train that are living life, like it's never ended. They're all like at a fancy resort, almost, you know, doing their thing. And then you have these people that get recruited.

There's a murder on board, so they have to find someone who could help it. It's, it's, yeah. It's, it's starting to sound very complex. Yeah, it is. But it's, it's pretty cool. And maybe one of our listeners will know what I'm talking about. They can let us know. Yeah. Yeah. I've been watching this really cool podcast called The Drama Mamas

They only have about 10 episodes. I know, but yeah. Yeah, they're good. And I. Funny, I realized when we started, we were like, okay, we have all this knowledge to offer that we can help other parents get in. Do we? Yeah. We, we don't, we actually don't. We had like one we actually know we're absolutely nothing.

Doing this has made me realize how very little I actually know being with these different people that are experts. Are experts, yeah. Mm-hmm. and how much we have. It's been a lot of fun though, like all along the way learning. Mm-hmm. more and more and more. Um, yeah. And then, you know, now I'm, I feel like I've, I've shifted, so I've got a very interesting TikTok feed.

Mm-hmm. , but it's now including things like, uh, people that stage manage for a living. Oh yeah. Which is pretty cool. Uh, Laura actually shared another one now. I started following him cuz I don't know, uh oh. He's on the touring, um, version of, uh, shoot, come from Away. Mm-hmm. and, oh yeah. She was trying to show it to me, but I didn't have glasses on.

You. You just need to have 'em with you all the time. You need to get, we need to buy you one of those like the chain chains. I understand the chain now. I really do. Yeah. Okay. Christmas time. I know. Well that's just a few days off. You got five days. You got five days. Hook you up. I'll get you a pretty pearl one.

Ooh purple. Can wear it with all your fancy outfits that I never see is gonna take it a very wrong way. I'm gonna reel myself back in her very fancy outfit. She's gotta wear the pearl chain with her ugly sweater. That's not ugly by the way.

That was funny. Yeah. Ti references. Can you, if you don't know I'm watching, you can hear the jingle bells on it. Oh, that's some as S m R right there. And it's our cat. It looks just like our cat, Peggy. Aw. It does look like Peggy. Mm-hmm. . It's like a grumpy cat version of I know It is Peggy. And she's kind of a grumpy cat.

She's naughty. That's what it says. What does that say? She cuddles naughty, kinda grumpy. Yeah, they're, oh my gosh. Like I interrupted stage man. Yeah. Shocking. We interrupted and got sidetracked, but Yeah, I know. I almost forgot for a second. , but you said stage manager and I was like, oh right. Yeah, I was talking about that.

And I think it's pretty neat cuz like I'm mm-hmm. like learning even more. I'm, yeah, I'm gonna have to apply that knowledge, you know? Yeah. There's a workshop, I think it's a new Smyrna I saw where we'll be, um, next week and they're doing like a stage manager workshop and I was, I really wanted to go to it.

It was a time we couldn't go. Wow. But I'm very interested in, I should probably not say that cuz then people are gonna like, oh, your phone's gonna ring . That was one of the things. So I was writing down like things I've learned from the different episodes and one of the things that came to me, and I don't remember which episode it was, but it was oh, probably Laura and Laura talking about all the different things.

Stripper pants. Yeah. Stripper pants and fa booze. , but talking about all the different things that she's done and all the different hours she's given to the theater and mm-hmm. , it really struck me how community theater would not run without volunteers. That is very true. If you think about just the show we just recently did.

Mm-hmm. there of course were some paid people, not paid very much. Not as much as they certainly deserve, but a lot of the people that were back there were volunteers. Yeah. Yeah. And it would be very difficult to put on a production in a community theater if you didn't have the volunteers. I know. I feel like, uh, every time we do a show where like trying to rope in more parents, it's always help.

And we had, you always need great people. That really good people started now and like, please come back. Please. Yeah, yeah. Please bring your kid up back. I mean that the girl that we had that joined us mm-hmm. that had been doing it for 17 years. Right. She was a total pro. Total. Oh yeah. It was, I mean, it was her journey.

It's not, it's not like what she does professionally. Correct. Um, but yeah, I mean, having her back there. was like completely like, it just, it just happened. It just worked. It did everything just, it was just organic. Yeah. Yeah. Everything just clicked and it w Yeah. And she give her time. She's got a full-time job and driving from Tampa.

Correct. And like the days we had the morning show and the evening show with like the 10 30 and the six 30, she would drive home to Tampa and drive back. Like that's a huge sacrifice. Yeah. To, to just be a part of, of what we're doing. Yeah. So shout out to volunteers for Yes. All that you're doing to help theaters.

And if you're not volunteering, then I encourage you to do so because that's, that relates back to the candlelight. Like, if I hadn't done all this volunteering, then I wouldn't feel so connected to all these children. That's very true. And it's like a really warm, fuzzy feeling to be, feel like I'm a very slight, small part of their lives in helping them grow and succeed.

Yeah. Yeah. That's very true. Mm-hmm. . It is very true. Some touching Angela. Yeah. Well, and it's very profound. Very true. When we, the couple of new parent volunteers that we had in this show, I was like, Come, come be a part of our family. Sure. You run across the stage, . Yeah. And we were putting down Oh yeah. And they were all about it.

They were great. They loved it. Great. And I hope, I mean, I hope they loved it. It seemed like they loved it. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. They kept, they kept that. Yeah. I was gonna say, they kept coming back. They couldn't have been that bad. Um, so I, and they've got young kids. Mm-hmm. . Yes. Um, a couple of 'em. So there's a lot of opportunity for them to, to really Yes.

Learn a lot about the theater and volunteer more mm-hmm. and, you know mm-hmm. , I just, I'm like, yes, please come, come, let me tell you. I'm gonna show you a round, here's the backstage, here's all of this stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And the, the best part too is that we all realize, The best way to cultivate that is to be kind and friendly.

Mm-hmm. and nice and warm, welcoming and fuzzy. Like I come from the nursing field where it is very, very known that we eat our young Right , which is horrible because that's, didn't know that. Oh yes. Like when I got out of school, warned a hundred percent like, be careful, they're gonna be old and crotchety with you, and they're not gonna wanna show you anything and da, da da da da.

And for real, it was, now I pray that it is not that way in, but you know, I, I don't want, it's not human nature. Right. But that was just very known. And so it's very important that we are very welcoming and which we are, you know? Um, because we want them to have a good experience. Mm-hmm. , well, I was thinking about it the other day and I'm like, we've got another, we've got maybe another.

Of Pinky doing shows in the community theater before she's sort of occupied, I assume. Hopefully Hopeful. Fingers crossed. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. Yes. Yes. Um, because once she gets into Harrison, you know, that first year they don't, they're, I guess it's the whole first year, right? They don't audition.

They don't audition the, for the fall show because they're not there that those auditions take place at the end of the previous year. Okay. And then they tech that show, and then they're able to audition for the spring show. Oh, okay. So she, so not even a full year really then mm-hmm. Yeah. Of doing shows and then she's gonna be busy.

Right. I hope. Yeah. Especially if she has to tech that show, depending on the dates. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Whether she's cast or not, she'll be busy. Mm-hmm. and it'll be hard for her or impossible Yeah. For her to do more stuff at this theater. Um, you know, the one that we frequent the most, but I mean, any of 'em honestly.

Right. She's like, you know, she's just, I don't know when she would have the time to do it, so like, we're gonna be phasing, I assume we'll be phasing out cuz we're going to need to put our efforts into supporting her. That's terrible thought. It's though I know. Is amazing. It's this so like, um, not allowed.

I know. You need to adopt . Absolutely. Cuz I don't know, they don't allow parent volunteers over there. I'm assuming they very, I mean, just kind of a backstage monitoring not actually working the show Right. Because the kids do all that. Right? Correct. So, you know, listen, let's just be She's sobering. I know.

It really is. I was, I was really kind of like, oh, I don't know. Rewind, take this word. But I don't think your mouth, I mean, I'm thinking about like our episode with Kat. Mm-hmm. and she, you know, she got involved and was doing a lot of stage managing and stuff like that and she doesn't right now. Mm-hmm.

she's, you know, she's got a different job and it, it pulls at her and she doesn't find the time to do that. Plus she's trying to spend time with her family. . Yeah. And her kids have grown and they're, they're doing different things and you know, you know, busy at Harrison and and beyond. Right. All the college stuff, prep stuff.

Yeah. Knowing the two of you mm-hmm. like, I know you, you love to volunteer and to help. And there really aren't that many parent volunteer opportunities at the school because like you were saying, the kids do everything. Kids do it all. So I'm gonna hold on to that. . You're gonna wanna come back , I think.

And she's gonna miss it. Yeah. Oh, you will. She's gonna, you'll totally miss it. She's gonna need to be I know, I will. I don't think I'll be able like to, to just not Right. You know? Yeah. Um, maybe not as frequently, but still be involved that, yeah. And thinking about Kat and like the other parents, I mean, I think they were still able to do, I guess it depends if, whether or not they get cast right?

But like, I feel like a lot of those high school kids still did some stuff at community, at least for that year. They have to get permission, right? So they have to Well, yes. It's very serious. Right. They get, their three teachers have to sign it and make sure that, um, . There's no real conflict with what they have to do at Harrison.

Mm-hmm. , because it's very clear that that comes first. Yeah. The school comes first, but you saw that they have volunteer. That's part of their graduation requirements. They have to have so many volunteer hours. Mm-hmm. , they have to volunteer. Mm-hmm. to do that, which mm-hmm. , you know, uh, McKayla, she volunteered during SpongeBob and actually logged her hours.

Yes. Because she's volunteered at a lot of shows and not logged her hour. She's had be thousands. When she logged that show, she logged over a hundred hours. Oh, I know. It's crazy how many hours they can get for doing that. That's one show. Mm-hmm. ran three weekends. Yes. So young adults, if you need volunteer hours, it's a great place to earn them.

Yes. And it's fun. That, and swim meets oddly enough. Oh gosh, no. Yeah. No. Cuz you're just a timer assuming Yeah. But you're outside. It's hot, it's Florida. You get in the surface of the. and Hades. Remember ? Yeah. Not at Gant. Don't go to Gandy pool cuz it's right over Hades. , sorry. Gandy Pool. Yeah. Well, anyway, but we want you to come to the theater.

Yeah. Because yeah, it's fun. You won't be bored. You'll be surrounded by great people. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Before, you know, you'll get We need more parents. Yeah, we do. Parents. Because some of us are gonna, you know, maybe not be there as, as often and we need more support. Very upset by that thought. Yeah, I know. Oh, like I said, I was just thinking about it and I'm like, uh, does this, what does this mean for us?

This is depressing. I know. Let's change the subject.

No, I mean, yeah. Well, I mean, uh, I'm still very interested in it. Right. I'm asm I don't think for Laura again. And I imagine anything you do, Chris is gonna jump on board and help on the Yeah. He'll be voluntold. That's, that's Kayla's term. Voluntold voluntold. Definitely. I love that. Like when I voluntold her to do the spotlights for I love you.

You're perfect. Now. Change. Yeah. She was, it was such a fun show. It was a fun show. Speaking of fun shows, Hey look, I'm gonna change the subject again. Yeah, yeah. We've got, coming up let's up like, I wanna call it six women, one dress. I know that's not right. It's five wearing Chad, the same dress, , five women and five women.

Chad . But Chad doesn't wear the dress well, just the five women. I didn't even mention the dress that said it was five women with Chad. Well, the title is five, I think five women wearing the same dress. But it sounds like it's gonna be a great show coming up. Yeah. In, in January. It's gonna be at Lakeland Community.

Yeah. It'll be here before we know it. Yeah. January. I think it's the 20th. I think somebody shared it on Facebook earlier today. Mm-hmm. And was like, it's in a month. Yeah. And then the comment immediately underneath was one of the cast members going something like, oh my God, it's a month. . It's a month. Yeah.

Because they already already bringing in the um, well, it's a straight show. It's not a musical, right? Nope. And it's, it's like very, I mean, it's a straight show, so it's very dialogue heavy. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. It's from mature audiences. Yes. That's I've heard as well. Yes. Yes. So don't Bring the Kids Is a date night built-in date night for you and, um, couple of our friends are in it.

We're, yeah. I need to go support them. We're definitely gonna, yeah. Very much so. I'm looking forward to this one. Yes. Yeah, that's gonna be a good one for sure. Mm-hmm. . And then we got Dream Girls coming up and Woo. I know. Gosh. Yeah. That'll be here. It's a good, when did you see the Elf finished their run?

Yes. And their last show. . They uh, they had to evacuate the building. No. What happened? And so they didn't get their final bows. No, I know. Same thing for the um, the black box. Right. Uh, every Christmas story ever told with Ben, did they have like a fire drill or something? They have fog go wrong. , A fog gone wrong.

I saw little bomb emojis. So I don't know if they had a bomb threat. Oh geez. Or something. Yeah. Because it's a big facility at, it is Winter Haven. It's not just the theater. Like there's a whole Yeah. Complex there for sporting than sports. Sports. How sad. Yeah. But um, yeah. Yeah. I thought that was, that kind of was a bummer.

I said we were really excited. Say like four or five weeks of that show, Alf. Yeah. It started before Thanksgiving. We saw it the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was our first night. Mm-hmm. . And then we got busy. We didn't even get to go see that show, so we were upset about that. Yeah. Because we were out of town.

Mm-hmm. for Thanksgiving and then we rolled right into Rudolph and we just didn't, yeah. We weren't able to nail down a date to go see it, so, but I'm sure everybody did. Fantastic. . Yeah. It was a good show. Yeah. I heard it was a a great show. You obviously saw it, said it. Yeah, it was great. It was great. Very fun.

Lots of kids. Lots of kids and lots elves. Used the kids a lot, which was fun. They use 'em in like, just for more than the elves. They used them like, so you like seat streams? Yeah. Nice. Mm-hmm. . Oh good. They're great experience for them. Are you trying to wrap us up, ? No, I was . Yeah. And then we have Dream Girls, which is gonna be really exciting.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. So definitely get tickets early for that one. And Into the woods. Yeah. And then into, into the Woods. Into the woods. Yes. Lots of good stuff coming up. Yeah. I can't wait. Yes. We've got a, like a little get together with the cast. Mm-hmm. this week. Nice. So I'll get to see everybody. And you know, a couple of people I've seen, you know, since like agreeing to be the ASM for the show and I'm like, I'll see you there.

And they're like, wait, what? ? I'm like, I'm not in it. to be clear. Uh, no. Uh, yeah. It'll be fun to ASM that one and, and kind of see. , how that's all done at a different theater and in a black box. That'll be funny. Yeah. Like that more smaller, intimate setting. Yes. Which I haven't actually been in that theater over there yet.

I've seen it, but not anything in it. Just the theater itself. Yeah. So that's different than where Oh yeah. Cuz Little Wooden was Harrison, it's totally different. Mm-hmm. , same kind of, yeah, same concept, right? Mm-hmm. . So that'll be great. And of course we have Chitty Chitty mind going on right now, end of February.

Yeah. We're so, we're in, we'll be serious. They decided the kids all got cast together again. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. So they'll, they'll have a lot of fun with that. And it's always nice to see them get cast in a main stage. Mm-hmm. so they get to kind of experience that. Yes. I know it's a little bit different than doing the juniors production, so Yeah.

They get exposed to so much talent, which is really nice. Yeah. They just see and different types of direction and you know, there's not as much handholding, like it'll be great for them. Mm-hmm. , it really helps 'em grow. . Yeah. So I've seen some pictures of the car for that. Oh, have you? I haven't seen it. Yes.

I, I can't share, but it does look just like the car. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Nice. And they're, and it's gonna fly. It's gonna fly in quotes, air quotes, . Um, so they, that fog machine that we used in, um, Rudolph, they're gonna have that again. They may have a second one, I think I heard. I think that's what I heard.

And so they'll fog up the stage and that'll be the car flying to the Ah, that's cool. But the car actually like elevates. Mm-hmm. . Nice. Uh, I think I, I, I think I remember them saying it can go up to four feet in height. Wow. Like how high it can go. That's pretty up there. Yeah, that's pretty high. That's, that's a pinky

It's a pinky. It's a pinky. Poor pinky. That's Talls pinky. She's grown so much. Yeah, she's gonna keep growing. Yeah. She'll be all right. She'll get there. She will just give her time. All right. What else you got on your list there, angel? Yeah. All the things I've learned. I'd sat down a with each episode and thought, what have I learned from this episode?

Yeah. Mainly we don't know anything . Thank God other people do. Then I'm terrified when it's time for the kids to go to college because yes. That process and getting scholarships and stuff be, that's daunting. Yeah. It's very scary. I hope. But hopefully he's still in business by the time we get there. Well, I'll be there soon enough.

Yeah. So, yeah, I, I think I'm like, definitely enlisting the college pros cuz Yeah. So you can be the first one, you'll be like our mm-hmm. Guinea pig. Yeah. You're the first one for musical theater. Oh, that's true. Yes. Oh yeah, yeah. Elli. Yeah. You're gonna be like blocking that outta my brain. Yeah. Oh yeah. No, remind.

When I was thinking of those, like Cat and Tommy, both, they're episodes I. . The monologue is not something our kids are doing enough of. No, no, they're not. Because I keep hearing JJ has said it, Kat, Tommy Oliver has said how you have to have these monologues and Yes. Like, oh gosh. He, he keeps keep saying like, she's like, oh, I hate Dylan monologues.

She's so good at that. She is so good at 'em. And I wish that she would just see that. Mm-hmm. , like still to this day, the jelly bean one is my favorite. Oh my gosh. I love that one. Her yelling at her dad about eating jelly beans wrong. Yes. That was like four years ago. I still remember it vividly. She was so good.

Yeah. Mm. But that's something I'm thinking. All right. We need to do acting class or something. Yes. I was just gonna say, maybe we need to seek out some acting coaching mm-hmm. , because that seems to be very important for these college admissions that are coming up very, very quickly. We need, so the things that we need to go figure out sooner than later, acting, coaching.

Mm-hmm. , uh, of course they're already getting some dance one-on-one. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. , and then vocal one-on-one. Mm-hmm. . So we've got that kind of covered. We just need the acting one. . And then, um, in order for them to kind of branch out, we need to start looking at other theaters because, you know, the regional theaters and stuff would be like next level.

Mm-hmm. , um, an agent. Mm-hmm. . Oh geez. Head shots. Mm-hmm. like more than you know mm-hmm. . Yeah. What I do. Um, cuz I, I'm just doing right now I'm just doing it with my phone. I don't have a camera anymore. Yeah. I have a lead on that then I'll share it with y'all. Okay. Yeah, so

update the resumes, which I just did cuz I had to have that for Harrison's uh, application. That's a lot of stuff. It is a lot. Yeah. It's a lot to get going as far as the acting goes. So JJ mentioned the same gentleman and when I was at the theater for maybe Cheaty Cheaty callbacks, I was speaking to another actress and she mentioned the same gentleman Oh, okay.

That she had taken acting lessons from and she does it still kind of sporadically. Do you remember the name? I do not, but we can listen back. Okay. Cuz he mentions it. Yes. Mm-hmm. . Um, and when he says it, I'll know. Mm-hmm. , it's like a, a multiple name. Okay. So, um, but yeah, I mean, that might be somebody that we can reach out to.

Yeah. That's definitely something I've learned is there's a different not working elements that we're not touching on yet. Mm-hmm. if we want to continue to succeed. Yeah. Yeah. And let them grow. Yeah. And then I was thinking too of, you know, there's a difference between Kat who's doing it on her own and then have somebody like Drew that you're paying and just the importance of finding the right fit for your child.

So just getting into a musical theater school is not, of course it's a goal, but I think the bigger goal is to finding this school that is right for your child. And Drew kind of hit home on that. Mm-hmm. . That's true. Even little things. Even like what is the campus like and what location wasn't it him that mentioned that, um, the kids that go into those art schools like Harrison, that he was kind of, they kind of burn out this way.

Yeah. He was saying they kind of burn out, and so I, I worry about that personally. Mm-hmm. I have for a while because they get, when they get into those programs, they're not, everything's kind of locked down for them. They're not able to kind of explore, and these are already kids. It's not just acting mm-hmm.

or musical theater or whatever, just singing, like they do all of it. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. You know, he is very artsy. She loves to draw and take pictures. She's a amazing artist. Yeah. And I, I know our kids are all kind of like that. They're all very, you know, they're pretty d your kids, , , Stella plays cello, right? Yes.

Mm-hmm. , like God into Harrison for cello. Mm-hmm. , but chose musical theater, right? Yes. Mm-hmm. , yeah. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. So like the, they're artsy in all different ways. Mm-hmm. to see them kind of like pigeon go into these programs Yeah. And be, and be locked in on, and laser focused. I worry about that a little bit.

Yeah. It was an interesting point that he brought up. Yeah. I don't know. I don't, I don't think it changes any of our trajectory at the moment. Correct. But it's one of those things that I'm gonna watch for. Right. Because we've got friends that are extremely talented but aren't auditioning mm-hmm. and are going to fill in the gaps.

Like go to a, a non-performing arts high school and plan to fill in the gaps. Recreations on their own mm-hmm. correct. Yeah. But then leaves them open to do possibly exploring other things, so mm-hmm. . Yeah. So's what's right for your own family. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of look at Mikayla's experience with it cuz you know, she's a junior now.

Mm-hmm. and, you know, I've watched her with her tuba playing and stuff over the years and she, when she came out of middle school and was going into high school and auditioning for Harrison and how she was like, Gungho, I'm a hundred percent I'm gonna do mm-hmm. , I'm gonna do music. It's, it's, it's tuba life for me.

You know? Mm-hmm. , and she was torn. She had this back and forth about do I wanna do a performance or do I wanna be a teacher? Like, because she just, yeah. You know, and to watch that sort of fade away, and I don't think it's bad necessarily, but to watch it, like, she loves what she's doing at Harrison and she loves playing the tuba, but not in the same way.

Right. Yeah. Passion ands not what she wants to do. The passion is completely changed, but maybe that's a blessing cuz then she won't be going to college for Tuba. She kind of already knows that. Maybe that's not where I wanna head. Yeah. It, it's been a interesting shift to watch her kind of like, take that step back mm-hmm.

and go, well what do I wanna do now? Because I know now it's not bad. Right. And I don't know if that's like good or bad. You know, better to find it out sooner than later, I guess, but like, yeah. But would she have felt that way? They just beat the passion out of her with, you know, you have to have this elective and this music theory and this, you know, all of this stuff.

But isn't that what college is? Mm, I, yeah. I guess it was for me, cuz I went to, I went for musical performance and so the theory is if the passion is really that hard and strong fast, would it burn out so easily? Right. And we say so easily with a grain of salt because we know these kids are getting Yeah.

You know? Yeah. Bombarded with it. So if that, if tuba really was her destiny and really was something that she felt so, so strongly in her heart, would that happen? Could it be beaten out of her? Right. Exactly. Right. Could that even happen? Because then you have folks that do a performing arts and then go to college, right?

Like Yeah. You know, and then they have that continuous, that's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. Mm-hmm. . And it would be interesting to see what are the statistics on kids that go to an arts. High School. Mm-hmm. , and then that translate going to a musical theater program. What happens to them when they graduate or college?

What is that percentage that keep going? Mm-hmm. . Or do they Right. You know, what do they do? Do they say no? You know what? I'm gonna go be a profess, I majored, I double majored, or I majored and minored. Yes. So my major was the one thing I got into the school for musical theater, whatever. Yes. But I also got, you know, science degree of some type.

Did, drew had a term for it. Oh, what was it? Alternate employment. Yes. What was it? He, he suggested that he loved that alternate employment. Something, it was more than that, but having a back. Mm-hmm. , I don't wanna say a backup point, but other ways that you can earn money if your musical theater, whatever track doesn't quite go as you intend for it.

And you talked about that on the heels of the question, what if you have someone that comes to you mm-hmm. . And I think where you were going with that question was, listen, what if you have a kid that just doesn't have any of the talent? Right. Like, do you tell them, like, don't waste your time. Kids. Correct.

And he was like, no, I'm not gonna be the one that's gonna do that. Mm-hmm. , like, I'm not gonna be the one that therapist is talking about on the couch when the kid goes there in 10 years because their dreams have been, you know. Right, right. Whatever. Nobody believes in me. . Yeah, exactly. So he's, he's like, no, I don't say that.

but, and as a parent, right, he's suggesting that you don't squash those dreams. Mm-hmm. , you just encourage the alternate way to support yourself and be successful. Right. So, you know, that was Yeah. I like the way he put that. Yeah. Yeah. I was not expecting that answer. I really thought that. He might say, yeah.

You know? Yeah. We don't take that. Yeah. Not even, we don't take that. But I don't want you to waste your time. Time, right? Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . I've seen what's out there. I've seen the schools and, and you just don't have what it takes. Yeah. I was surprised by that and I really appreciated that answer. That was mm-hmm.

very helpful. It was a very positive way, and even for parents, for us to be able to direct our kids Yeah. Down that path without, you know, squashing their dreams. . Oh, I've learned something else about myself, through this podcast. Oh, okay. I didn't learn about myself, but I'm a nosy person. Like I will sit and ask a person a million questions, even in the line at Publix just to find out about them.

Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm finally using it for like something good. , you're using it for good. To ask people that have things to offer. . This is what I, my grandfather was like that he could not go to Publix without making 15 friends and would annoy my grandmother to no end. Like, can we just go home now? Yeah.

That's funny. And all these questions I've been asking all these years, , I've been practicing for this moment. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing I've learned about Angela, and I'm sure everybody's gonna agree with this, is that she has a magnificently amazing radio voice. I just, ah, yeah. So strange cuz I am so annoyed by my own voice.

Oh gosh. No, it is. I don't know what y'all are, Karen. No, it's fantastic. Soth. Yeah. That's just bizarre. It's super soothing. It's like rich, especially, you're like, sweet jazz. Do my Scooby. I don't think we need a Jin a jingle. I'll just introduce, which we haven't even done yet. Oh my God. Oh, hi, I'm Angela.

This is Drama Mamas . I'm Kristen. Oh, and I'm Kathy . Welcome. Yeah, like 45 minutes in. Yeah, I'm terrible at this. The goal of this episode was to kind of do a recap and talk. What we've learned, what we still wanna cover and talk about, but we've been just all over the place. We're just rambling. We haven't seen each other in this capacity in a few weeks.

I know. So it's like we have so much to just catch up on. And I wanna give a shout out. I got permission from you guys to do this to our friend Tony. Yes. Oh yes. A listener. We'd love Tony. And he usually gets to work with us backstage and he wasn't able to this time. No. So we miss you. We love you. Thank you for listening.

And we can't wait to work with you again. I know. Yes, yes. I got a great picture with Gabby and, and Tony. Oh, good. Excellent. I'm gonna be busy. . Well, you're gonna have to maybe I'll see Shitty the last weekend from the audience. Okay. But yeah, into the Woods opens at the same time. Oh, that's right. But it runs two weekends and shitty runs three, so Okay.

Maybe we'll have like a night of a rehearsal that maybe you won't have and you can just kind of make a cameo or something. That would be fine. Maybe. But I, I don't know if I showed you this schedule. I, my phone is occupied recording us, but yeah, it's like crazy busy. It's like every night. Mm-hmm. . Yeah.

Especially when you get closer to the show. And that's a serious show. I mean, that's, yeah. The music and everything. I think Chitty Chitty is gonna be like, really like crazy show 20, it's like 26 locations. Did the car goes to in the show? Yes. Oh my gosh. Yeah. You'll have to tell me how, uh, how that looks.

Yeah. I haven't committed to anything. I haven't committed to anything. Need to shut. Yeah, but we already, we already probably know. Oh, please. Angela, you're gonna . I'm hoping. I think Chris has been roped in already. Even if he doesn't know it yet, do it. You're gonna do it? Yeah, I'm gonna do it. So that means you gotta, oh, if you're doing it, then heck you.

We'll do stage right. We'll leave Chris on stage left. They shouldn't put us together. Oh, stop it. We're the best if we can get in trouble. , can you believe Chris all alone on stage left? No. Why don't we all work together? Because he can handle, he'll get the face face. You feel the sad face? Face. I'm sorry Chris.

Not in charge. Listen, the only reason why I said that is cuz they never put all three of us on the same side of the stage. No. Yeah, but they could. They should. They could. And they should. And if you got 26 locations, they're not all coming in from. Yeah. One side though. Mm-hmm. . So like, you're, you're gonna need help.

It's not gonna be you three and alone. Right, right. Again, I have not committed to anything. . . Nobody's asked me note taken. I haven't been asked either. I'm just, she's like, I'm working out, throwing it out there. Yeah. They're gonna have to throw me back out backstage. All right. Kick me out. Come through all my notes.

That was it. I, my cheap sweater's falling apart. , I, I thought I saw some little, some gold over there. Your dogs are gonna be pooping out gold. They're gonna eat this and this little gold. What did you call? Oh, oh, oh no. It's like literally falling apart. Is this, what do you call this stuff? Tinsel? That's not the right word.

That, yeah, that's, that's like tinsel garland. Garlic fringe Garland. Garland. That's, I've been looking for that word for the wholes it month's. Well, you know what, we used that in Rudolph. I know. And I didn't know what it was called. They had some of that and then they had like plant garland. Yes, as well.

Cuz you can have both. This is she metallic garland. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Look, did you see our Christmas's great. But it's, it's beautiful. I it's so beautiful. See, we've got a Charlie in the box and a bumble. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, I love that. Awesome. Yeah. And when I had originally seen or saw her tree, I made her explain to me how she did the bows, because they're so pretty.

I know. It's gorgeous. I DJ I'm gonna need you to take notes that, so it's, it's just, um, ribbon, but it's like the kind you use in plants and stuff. Mm-hmm. . So it's got a little bit of wire on the edges. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. And I just cut 'em and I did like, I don't know, pieces that are about yay long, like a couple feet and you cut 'em in an angle.

It's never a straight cut. Mm-hmm. , because if you cut straight on fabric, it, it phrase, but if you cut at an angle, like 45 degree angle, it, it won't phrase bad. Didn't know that either. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, because I don't know, could film, you could, you can always just, you know, hit it with a little bit, like a lighter or whatever, a little bit of fire and then that seals it in.

But I didn't do that and I just cut little pieces and just put 'em in there and just tucked them in the tree. It's so beautiful. And it's so like, elegant art tree at home and it's a perfect space. We, growing up, we had like two trees. Mm-hmm. , one tree had all the sterling silver ornaments and then the other tree had all the other orna.

No. Like No, the homemades were in the back. . Oh. Like all your macaroni art from when you were in first grade in the back. Yeah. And everything else was like the Christopher Rad cos like all the, my, my family loved Christmas, so all the like expensive ornaments that you would go shop for the day after Christmas at Burdines or Lord and Taylor.

Yeah. My mom had a Lennox tree. Yes. That's what we A lot of Lennox, a lot of Waterford, Wedgewood, all that kind of stuff. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . So that's what I grew up with expecting. That's how a tree should look Perfect. Like a picture. Well now my kids have gotten ahold of archery and it is every single handmade ornament they have ever made since they were born , like smack dev.

Oh, I think that's in the front. It is crammed full. There's not green showing and it's fabulous. But I have to walk away every year. Alex always like, what? Aren't you decorating with us? I can't because like my mind wants to, you know, make symmetry and perfection. Right. And color schemes and they just like, just put it on.

They're all there. Yep. Well, I actually actually have a bunch of those ornaments. Mm-hmm. , I, and usually I have them on the tree. But when we moved, it's like some of our stuff is down in the garage and some of it is in a storage unit. Mm-hmm. and I don't know where the hell the ornaments ended up. . So, because you didn't was It does right away.

So this was somewhere, this a whirlwind trip at Target where we had to, to get a new tree. Oh gosh. And they had like one tree left and this is the one we got. That's beautiful. That's perfect. Uh, I like we were in there maybe 30 minutes tops to get the topper, which is gorgeous. It is. We got so lucky. I love it.

Yeah. Yeah. The ribbon, the orna. And it was like, we just did it like a week ago. That's impress. Impressive. So that close to Christmas mm-hmm. with them completely. Like the shelves at Target are wiped out. Oh yeah. Like, yeah. It was really tough. They're already moving onto Valentine's Day. Yeah. I thought they really are.

Yeah. And so like to find that stuff and it matched like that. Well, yeah. Great. That's really nice. I got really lucky you did, because if you had gone to find a real tree, you wouldn't have found it. They've been sold out for weeks. Yeah. I, I haven't done a real tree in ages. We still do it, but we like the, the fake ones don't last that long.

Like, we'll, we had, we've had in the last 10 years, probably at least 10 trees, but there was a year where I bought three and did a little like, like the pencil trees. Mm-hmm. , you know how thin they are. Yeah. And I did three in different heights. Oh. Pretty together. So it was like a little. That was, that was fun.

Oh, cause you had symmetry. You had three. I did. I do a lot do symmetry, but I do this a lot like where I'm like decorating it with a theme or whatever, but yeah. Mm-hmm. . But I always, I usually always include all those ornaments and I have like the plate that has the center cutout and the kids' picture like slapped in there and macaroni art.

Yes. And it's half damn size of this tree , but it goes on. Yeah. But it does go on. We have some weird, it's a water bottle with construction paper on it to make it look like a penguin with a feather coming out of its head. Oh, interesting. It has to come out every year. I'm like, oh my gosh. Really? Lily king?

Do we have to show that? She's like, absolutely. She puts a right in front, in front and the, the feather's purple. I'm like, it's not even a Christmas colored feather. That's funny. So weird. That means something to her. It does. It's kinda hilarious. It does. You know. Yeah. She's very, um, senti sentimental. Very much so.

Yeah. I'm like, ah, it's in my way. Throw it out. . Yeah. I'm not that way. You're like, ma, don't you love me anymore? I do. I don't like my stuff, but I don't like your ornaments. Yeah. Our tree right now. We usually have several up in the house, but you know, we recently moved as well. And so, um, we have two trees up in the house.

One has nothing on it, the other one has like lights and we have three trees. PJ's. Oh, do we have three? Oh my gosh. After you tell the story, I have to tell PJ a story. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. Oh God, I don't even remember where the third tree is now, but anyway. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's when you first walk in on the thing.

Yeah, I know where that one is too . But anyway, the main tree, it has a couple ornaments just from whatever the kids have brought home, like this season Oh, okay. That they've made at school. I'm like, oh, just put it up on the tree. But hopefully maybe tomorrow night we'll be able to decorate our tree. Yeah.

You're running outta time here. Yeah. This season. Five days, days. I know where, Hey listen, five. I know people that do it like Christmas Eve, that's what they do. They put their tree up, they decorate it. No. And then what? They leave it up till Valentine's Day. Like how do you appreciate that? So, well, let's take Oh, We just got it done and it's New Year's.

Take that fucking down . Yeah. Is that, is that what you guys do? Do you leave your tree up past New Year's or do you take it down? Um, usually around New Year's. We, we get it the day after Thanksgiving. Okay. So yours. So I'm ready for my house to go back to normal by that point. Okay, gotcha. We leave ours up, so Gabby's birthday's in January and so it's PJ's.

Oh. So we always leave it up. That's cute. Through January. Um, it's usually up way before now. Mm-hmm. . But, you know, life has just been wild. So we haven't had a chance to do much to the house, but, um, but we usually leave it up through January. Okay. Let me tell my PJ story. Yeah. Okay. Are you listening? PJ's here.

Cassie's husband. . So we're at the candlelight professional at Epcot last night, and we're sitting with Jordan, Laura and Kat, who you all listeners will know from the podcast. And Judah, who now we have to have on, because Judah would be fantastic. I know, wouldn't they? Yeah. Um, and so in the middle of the, so it's a huge stage.

There's like probably. a couple hundred singers up there, but in the middle is this like Christmas tree shaped formation of Disney singers and then surrounding him as all the high school singers. Okay. So they're singing and singing and Jordan leave over and she goes, the guy in the middle looks just like PJ and I look and it did

He was so into it. It was one of the professional Disney singers looked just like you, except he had like kind of curlier hair on top, but same cut and everything. Oh dang. That dude was so into it. . And all I could see was you PJ . I was so distracted by it cuz it looked just like you. It was a hilarious Oh, you have a dopple hanger babe.

You do. And you're a liberty. What are they called now? Oh goodness. Liberty Singer. . They're the professional singers at at Disney, but they're like the extra, they're like glittering their vein singers like ready to roll. Pj, you got a twin out there, babe? Do you have a second job? I don't know about, I think he do

I'm just . He's rocking it. We were all cracking. I'm trying hard to get him on the podcast. And he said mm-hmm. not till we're at 10,000. Yeah. Right. So guys, 10,000 followers. Share, share, share, share. I know. Click, click, click get. Because PJ won't be on the show until we hit 10,000 followers. No, and he is worth it.

He is. He hasn't definitely, he hasn't given us, you know, parameters beyond that. Right. So yeah, we're gonna get him that 10,000 follow followers. I don't know where maybe across all of them that would work. Yeah. Absolut makes absolutely old accounts. Just so we can get some more followers. . Yeah. . Yep. For real.

But yeah, no, he's definitely a great drama dad. Yes, he is performer technician. Okay. Oh, and the fact that he's gonna be in Chitty Chitty with Gabby is like huge. Oh yeah. So cool. As a family. Yeah. This is our first. Like time with them being able to be in a show together. So it's a lot of fun to do that show together.

That was be because you got to do it with Pinky. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. And Beauty and the Beast. Mm-hmm. . So Angela, Hey, I now a show together. I Buble. I'm Bumble. That's right. I did a show with both my kids. Oh. So hey, we can follow up on that cuz you remember we were saying, oh, we didn't know what part I know she's gonna be, we never followed back up what appendage I was gonna be.

What Appendage You were the right arm. Angela was the right arm. Okay. Bumble was definitely right arm dominant. Yes. Because he used that arm to put the star on the Christmas tree and, and to, and to scare him behind the mountain. Yes. Yes, yes. Pinky was baby Bumble. The shadow Bumble. Yes. Yes. She was. Yes. She got and she did a great job that was super cool.

Like her fingers looked so long. Mm-hmm. stood and went like this, but it looked like the Bumble. Yeah. It really did. Yeah, that was super cool. Yeah, that was funny how the progression went from shadow to half a bumble to whole bumble. Yeah. And every time. Interesting. I never thought about that. Every time Bumble would go, go like, make an appearance.

Jackie on the headset who was calling the show, she would go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, cause that's how his mouth kind of moved. . Well, could you hear Juan up in the flies making that noise? The last show? Yes. Oh my gosh. He was so loud. I thought, I thought it was Chris growing. I thought it was Chris on the stage making the noise.

And I was like, has he been doing that all along? We were cracking up behind that puppet. It was so loud. Gosh. Because he was up in the fly. Yes. I'm sure the fierce first few rows could hear him. They had to have, yeah. It was funny. Yeah, it was pretty funny. We had a great time doing that. We got, yes, had to wear these white suits and hats and go out there and

We had a lot of puppets. We had a lot of puppets that the text got to do. There was mm-hmm. . There was Rudolph and then there was. Four other reindeer and then Santa's sleigh at the very end going across the stage. Yes. And we would all line up. Yeah. And we had great time. Our little, A little reindeer.

Reindeer on a stick. Yeah. Oh geez. Yeah. And just do it. It was great. Awesome. Yeah. The first time I put on the, the snow coming down, so we had to wear like white coveralls and a white hat and I'm like, I know. I look ridiculous. Let me just turn to my good friend Kathy here and ask her if I look okay. Kathy, how do I look?

She just goes, you look like sperm . That's, I get on the stage.

Hey. It was, I'm sure I did too when I put the hat on. You did? Chris said a Chris, so to Chris. Yeah. You know, whatever. Kidding. It was sunny. The things we do for our kids. I know. Yeah. We have to have adult laughter. Oh gosh. But you got your. Yes. Yeah. Which was more like a cheers. Go out on stage and go woo.

Wave his hand. . Yeah. We would wave, we would wave the bumble, bend the bumble, and then the Bumble's mouth would go. Cause Chris could do that with the teeth or without the teeth at that point. Yeah. He, he had his canines taken out like herme. But, um, you know, one of our favorite parts I think was when we would put the, so in the first scene that you see the whole bumble, right?

He's out there and he's just a menace and he's attacking everybody and he's holding people hostage and yada yada. And then, so his arms are just flailing about, and then when we would go out for the next scene when he puts the star on the tree, cuz now he's a reformed bumble. Right, right. After getting knocked out mm-hmm.

and his teeth removed by some rocks that are just foam rocks actually hurt, but were actually Yeah. Actually teeth painful. Yes. And we had some late hits and the kid, the kid throwing them that was playing Yukon, he was really, he was out to get you. I might have provoked him a little bit. Yeah. Mm.

Interesting that you would do that since you were protected by two others. Who took the brunt of that attack? Time nine. Chris . Yeah, because he was out to get Chris in the head every time he was trying to get me. That was the problem. Yeah. Okay. He kept reaching, keep going. So then the director was like, well, you know, when he goes out to do that part, he doesn't have to be all flailing anymore.

So we realized that the arms would just tuck right in and it would look like he's got his hands on his . Yeah. That was the best. We loved that. That was so much fun. That was fun. We totally got to be able to become that character. Mm-hmm. , you know, although I was constantly trying to hide behind it. Oh, nobody see me.

Me too. Put that arm up and hide my face Best is when people are like, oh my gosh, I didn't even know that was you. And I was like, mission accomplished. Yeah, mission accomplished. So I got to be the left. My biggest thing is I got to hit Rudolph in the head originally. I got to do that. You sold that for me.

I know. Well, they switched it. We They switched it up. Yeah. Every time I'd be like, hit em as if you didn't know. Hit em, hit em. . That's, I hit em. I'm like, okay. We're having like full on conversations behind there behind Bumble. Yeah, we were Did you end up having to use those cheat sheets you tacked on the inside?

Nope. Or the backside of all? No, we had, I forgot they were there. We hadn't memorized. Although sometimes we'd get busy talking behind and then we'd like miss our cue. Cause we were having conversations. We hear the raw, oh God, we gotta stand up real quick. I know you're talking on stage, but nobody can hear you.

Nobody. No, no. That was one thing I have learned. I used to be so quiet when I would first start teching backstage, like, oh, you know, yeah, you whisper and, and then I worked a few shows and like, oh, nobody can hear anything. Winds up in the flies, like making all kinds of noise. Throwing set pieces around.

Yeah. You can't hear it? No. Thank goodness. Hmm. Yeah. Thank goodness. All right guys. Yeah, that's, we've been rambling long enough. Yeah, I think so too. Well, I'm super excited for our next year, for 2023. It's gonna be fantastic. Yeah. Um, hopefully we can record again before the end of the year. Yeah. So we'll have to figure out when.

I know we're gonna have our little, uh, get together. So we'll share a picture or something from that. Mm-hmm. a little. That'll be fun. White elephant, get together. Drama mamas get together. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll do that. And then we'll just roll right into 2023. Season two. Yeah. Season two or, or is it, is it or is it, or is it?

I don't know. That's a great way to do it. We can make our own rules. Yeah, we can. Well, we'll have to take some, I don't know. We'll have to at least take the summer off cuz you know, you always kind of do your thing. I travel quite a bit in the summer. Yes. Yeah. So true. We're gonna have to have seasons know.

Oh yeah, we are. I'm scared we're gonna lose momentum. I don't wanna lose momentum. We'll have to like double, double. Yeah. Record like we did for this Will For sure. We will. Yeah. I mean we definitely do in January. January. Like do the phone in thing like Tommy did. Yeah. Could do that. True, true. That is very true.

Well, we, our producer on that have our New York trip coming up in March. Yes. Oh yes. So we're definitely, can't we? Definitely gonna, we have a guest. We have a guest, hopefully, fingers crossed. A secret guest, A secret to have a, a secret Broadway performer guest. Yes. Yeah. Broadway. Excited to have him on.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Um, so we have that going on. Yeah. It'll be a fun, fun start to uh, the next season. Mm-hmm. ? Yeah. Or is it? Or is it? Or is it Dun dun dun. Our, our art. Oh, you saved it. I did save it for now. Yeah. It's so cute. Oh, look how good. One of the sisters of a cast member Yeah. Made pictures for us of Look at how cute Bumble List Charlie and Box and Bumble all.

That's fine. You have to tell me who did that cuz I didn't see those. Those are adorable. Yeah. . Okay. Yeah. Very cool. All everybody have a merry, oh wait, no, wait. What? There was one more thing. We got these awesome bags. Oh yeah. We totally got them as a gift, boys. Yeah. One of you can gentlemen snack. So one day when we're real big at our chin, PJ wants us to stack when we have 10,000 followers and PJ's on, we can open a merch store and sell these.

Yeah. Look how cute. So we got them as a gift for each of us, Jordan and yeah, with lots of yummy goodies inside. Yeah, it was awesome. There you go. Of the liquid type variety goodies and, um, yeah. So we're growing. Yeah. I'm so happy that we're doing this. Yeah. It's been an awesome ride it. And we're just gonna keep on going.

Mm. You know, good deal. Listen, share, follow, like yeah, help us reach all of the, and followers. I wanna about PJ on the show. Pj, you wanted to come up real quick and just like say, Hey, I'm pj, can you do like a cameo? So can you come listen, give him like a little teaser mystique. Mystique will, uh, baby, no.

Give him a teaser. So then they'll be like, oh, we need to see him again. . That would be a no, I didn't see my hair. Wow. Okay. Hmm. Hold on that note. Yeah, that's rejection. I've heard a hundred Yes. A hundred nos. Before we get that. Yes. So we're gonna keep asking. That's right. We'll keep asking. Keep we'll get there one of these days.

We'll, we'll twist his arm. All right. We'll get him in here. All right guys, everybody take care. Stay safe. Merry Christmas. Happy you don't hear this after Christmas. Yep. Bye-Bye. Bye.