Episode 18: Navigating Festive Shifts: Embracing Holiday Traditions and Creating New Memories

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Hosted by: The Global Zoe, Eric Biddines & Drego Mill

Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, Christmas was just another day on the calendar, but now as a parent, the holiday season twinkles with a new magic through my children's eyes. Drego adds a layer of complexity, having celebrated Christmas only once and now observing Hanukkah alongside his partner's Israelite faith. Together, we unravel the tapestry of holiday traditions, from the scents and tastes that define the season to the personal evolution of festive celebrations. We delve into nostalgia, sharing stories of our most meaningful gifts—like my treasured PlayStation 2—and discuss the significance of forging new traditions with our families, where the essence of giving takes center stage.

The conversation then journeys through the shifting sands of holiday perceptions, from how we teach our kids about the spirit of the season to dealing with the bittersweet moments when they start to question magical beings like Santa Claus. We reflect on our own transformations as parents, sometimes realizing that the efforts we make are as much for us as they are for our children. We also highlight the importance of self-care during the holidays and how we manage the pressures of fulfilling holiday expectations without losing our sense of peace.

This episode is not just about the warm fuzzies of the holiday season; it also casts light on the resolute spirit of communities during trying times, such as hurricanes in Florida, where neighbors band together, strengthening bonds through shared resources and comfort. We close the year with gratitude for the growth and touching interactions with our audience and tease the exciting prospect of new branded gear. So, whether you need a dose of festive cheer, a moment of reflection, or just an opportunity to feel connected during the holidays, join us for a personal exploration into the rich diversity of seasonal experiences.

⏰ Chapter Markers ⏰
0:00 - Christmas Traditions and Personal Experiences
8:56 - Christmas Traditions and Gift Giving
15:04 - Holiday Traditions and Changing Perceptions
21:17 - Holiday Traditions and Treating Oneself Reflections
36:13 - Snow Experiences and Movie Classics
50:12 - Unity and Resilience During Storms
54:00 - Reflecting on Progress and Expressing Gratitude

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

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Speaker 1: 0:54

Man, you know Christmas is right around the corner, so we're gonna go non-tradition. I ain't gonna get no music, nothing too crazy, but we do want to keep this focused on the holidays. So this gonna be a little different for us. Man, I'm up for that challenge there. I kind of got that from you. Don't? Air time gonna be a lot in. I Was like you know what? We want to do something totally outside of the norm and we want to talk about the holidays, man.

Speaker 2: 1:19

Yes, it felt real on home goods Etsy, martha Stewart, andrago we're going this one. So I was like alright, okay, the prompts make sense.

Speaker 1: 1:33

Okay for sure. Well, for sure, man, I'm glad y'all like it. Yeah, not when a little did a little shopping man. So shout out to home goods and TJ Maxx. They got your board right. You know what I'm saying. And I had a farm, just the neck. This is my. You know I'm saying, and my Cuban late man. But uh, you know what, christmas coming up, man, we just want to really kick it off with um I want to talk about. You know just, uh, it's Christmas is approaching, man, how do you, how do you treat Christmas? You know I'm saying, when Christmas is coming, slab, I start with you. But you know, do you really look forward to Christmas? Is it is exciting as Thanksgiving? And you know, I mean, how do you treat Christmas before the approaches?

Speaker 2: 2:13

um, I've grown to Really love Christmas. Once I had kids and that became part of our tradition but raising my two boys but Before that we didn't celebrate Christmas. I grew up to Hope Whitman's Okay, so we didn't celebrate Christmas. So that Didn't feel nice because I wanted toys. So we kind of waited actively to get certain things. But as I got older I got into the tradition. I will say it was always nice in elementary school doing the crafts, the, the activities that the teachers had going on um after-school programs where you would have the Gift drives and stuff like that. The energy definitely was up in on very festive and In giving around that time. So that always felt good, no matter what your Religious um upbringing was.

Speaker 1: 3:11

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: 3:12

So today I still love. I like the eggnog, I like the um, you know, the cookies. I like the smell of Christmas trees, like the real ones, okay, even artificial, artificial spray on the other ones. I just, I just love the scent, the uh, the coffee to. We get into the, the peppermint seasons and the pumpkins and all that around Christmas and the Thanksgiving area, so I get really nice around the end of the year cool briskin breezy.

Speaker 3: 3:44

All right, all right, all right, drago, what's going on with? Well, I might be the all-bar the group man because, uh, I'm a turkey baby. So you know I was born on Thanksgiving. So Either you celebrate my birthday or not, it's still being celebrated because of the Thanksgiving. You know, birthday was a couple of weeks ago your boy, big 37, 99, tom.

Speaker 1: 4:05

Oh.

Speaker 3: 4:08

Yeah, so, um, thanksgiving for me is always. It's always a birthday for me, either I celebrate my birthday or not. But the Christmas man I think I celebrated one time in my life and, uh, when I saw him the art ball. I never really celebrated Christmas, man, and and, and now it's, it's Hanukkah instead of, uh, christmas for me, because I'm practicing Israel life. I don't know if you guys know my, yeah, my girl's uh, she's uh, israel's, israel, like, uh and um, I'm actually practicing it. You know, I'm saying it's the what does that exactly into?

Speaker 1: 4:40

so um, uh.

Speaker 3: 4:44

It's, it's the same thing as, almost like the I don't want to say that because I don't too much to. It's almost like being Jewish, okay, but uh, it's, it's a lot more to it. So if I say that you, it's the same. Uh, israel, like uh behaviors and everything that they study and Uh what their beliefs.

Speaker 3: 5:01

So, okay, I want to get too heavy into that, but um yeah, so this year I guess I would say it's my first time celebrating Hanukkah with me, my grandma and, uh, that's that our family. So, um yeah, christmas was never really a thing for me, man. I don't think I've ever gotten a gift or nothing like that for Christmas. That, oh man.

Speaker 2: 5:17

Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, man, what um? What was the reason Um?

Speaker 3: 5:23

um, I think, since I was a kid and my family been broken up for a long time, man, and, and because of it, man, um, I'm gonna just put it out there. It's not, you know, not, I want no pity part of nothing, but I grew up with no parents, no mom, no dad, right, so I grew up, uh, with my uncle, and it was just my uncle, and then it became, became my grandma and my uncle, and then my grandma, my uncle and grandfather, uh so, but you know, the zoes, they don't, they don't really, you know, do Christmas like that you?

Speaker 3: 5:52

know these old dudes now. Yeah yeah so, but um, outside of that, you know, growing up still, you know, even being married at one point, it's just it was, it was still flip floppy. So I never really celebrated the holiday. I did once with the family that I had at the time. But now you know, even through years, growing up never celebrated me, man, I think I got one Christmas gift my entire life.

Speaker 1: 6:15

Dang. So how did you feel like? But when you saw, I'm sure you had friends who were getting like how did you feel about that?

Speaker 3: 6:24

I think I got used to it out of younger age, man, it used to bother me as a kid you know what I'm saying. And I say that because it was me and my uncle when I had a godmother at the time. I used to, you know, want to look out for it when the money would came. He was supposed to be the one to buy me a Christmas gift and never got it. It went towards something else. You know what I'm saying. I kind of got that feeling already left me since I was a toddler so I expected it not to happen. Every year it happened, so I never really care, you know what I'm saying Because I didn't grow up participating either.

Speaker 2: 6:59

But it didn't feel nice when you see everybody on the streets with the new bikes and shoes and Right, bikes, shoes, all of it.

Speaker 3: 7:07

Like if I got a bike, I found the bike, fixed it up, put it together and that's how I had a bike. No one ever bought me. Yeah, yeah, that's how I did it. And then when the homies bikes were up, they come to me and I fixed it and we all right, that's how I got. I was always. I think I don't know I was always. I think I became a giver because of it. Probably. I'm happy when everybody else is happy. So to get to love languages right, that's one of my love languages, given you know what I'm saying. I don't know man, I kind of got over it.

Speaker 2: 7:39

Do you have a son, though?

Speaker 3: 7:41

So, yeah, so um, he got everything. You know what I'm saying. Ever since he was young, he get Christmas. Yeah, because you know his mother there, I'm there, he always got it. And not he's to the point where I don't know what to get my kid for Christmas, because you know what I'm saying. Like he, he don't really expect it. Now I just got to the point. What you want for Christmas, like do, your kid got everything. It's almost hard now to think what, what to get them now, because they got everything tablet phone, um, I'm like you want Roblox or something you want.

Speaker 2: 8:13

Apex Core or something they do reach an age where they know specifically what they want. Right, they're really young and you buy them a bunch of just to have a bunch of presents to open up.

Speaker 3: 8:25

I'm to the point like. I'm like, damn, you don't want to upgrade the. Xbox and he's like no, I'm good, I don't really want nothing, but I'll let you know if I do Like years like the early this year. He said he wanted the ones, but that's even from the year before the ones is what?

Speaker 1: 8:38

The Jordans, the ones you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 8:41

But but he rarely asked me for anything. But I have to like find I'm like I have to got like go look to see stuff that he needs for me to just get it from, maybe just your clothes, socks, whatever. But I'll go hammer like maybe I'm just going to upgrade his Xbox.

Speaker 2: 8:54

What about you? Global Watch out.

Speaker 1: 8:56

I had some. You know my parents work pretty hard. I was just thinking back of the first Christmas that I could remember where we you know what it was what gifts was being exchanged, so it wasn't as big in the household. I feel like my dad was a hustler so he tried to make sure we have everything we needed. I think it started off with a. I got a computer one year that was phenomenal to just everything I learned, and I remember the PlayStation two coming out and I remember we wanted that, but that that was like $500 back in the day that was. That was a lot of bread. You know what I'm saying. And growing up in the household where both parents were working, you know, trying to make ends meet, I didn't think it was possible. But I remember the year my dad actually got us that for Christmas. Man Probably want to say like around 14s, somewhere around that 13, 14. I feel like when we got it in man, it was a I thought my dad was like man, like you know, you like yo, so maybe it happened, but we did do that.

Speaker 1: 9:56

In my later part of my life I remember my parents trying to get us gifts for Christmas. I do remember that. Well, it's kind of goes the opposite. Going to school, though, man, you had like $200 budget to shop. It was kind of tough for me going to school. Hence, when I got the computer on, part of the motivation with selling mixed CDs was able to go to buy school clothes. I was able to buy school clothes and pay for studio time back in the day selling mixed CDs, so that was kind of my motivation. When I was showing up to school with that spindle, everybody thought it was just like, oh man, no, but I really needed to buy my Tauti's and some fresh reese to survive the school year.

Speaker 1: 10:37

But now, as an adult, I look forward to it, just because I want to feel like I mean you know giving and seeing someone smile, I know, and like maybe they didn't ask for it, but you was able to get something that they was going to utilize and that they would appreciate. Like, for example, one of the coolest gifts I got was for my sister-in-law. She's into these marathons and she does these, these five K's and different kind of challenges, and I got her this. It's something you can hang up, it's a frame, but it keeps all those out of what they call it, that number that's assigned to them when they run. After you run she's able to save all those and she's been collecting them. But I got her official frame that you can hang each one you inserted inside the plastic and you can just look back and flip through it and have the memories of each five K, each marathon or not my marathon, but each run she does she's able to kind of look back and see it. You can go with that.

Speaker 2: 11:36

Yeah, because I know she was in the running.

Speaker 1: 11:37

I know you were so gift thoughtful, and that's how I kind of do it for Christmas.

Speaker 1: 11:41

I kind of enjoy that part, just seeing something, what they've been doing all year, if they give, if they talked about something they wanted to do or something they wanted to buy. I kind of make notes and pay attention and around November, october, I start my Christmas shopping and then, um, yeah, I was able to do something like that, but I love the fact when she saw it she was like man, I had this in my mind, like this is so dope, like she could utilize it. I think the best gifts you can get it don't got to be expensive, but something that you know someone's going to utilize. Like I know Jago in the gaming world, so I already I feel like something will be surrounded by the games he played in the gaming world or producing. I know like that will be something to get Drago. But that's just how I kind of I pay attention to the person, but I do enjoy Christmas now, like I'm done with all my shopping.

Speaker 1: 12:27

I got my son his gift. He's going I know he's going to go crazy for it, but he wanted to VR. He's into the VR headset. It's something that he he's been asking for.

Speaker 3: 12:37

Did you all go all out with the direct decorations and stuff? Cause I know that's one thing my folks did. They'll decorate, but that'll be it, like they'll put little lights around the house, yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:47

A little tree bare minimum. Tree lights around the tree and something outside bare minimum. But I'm funny, Get into it next year. I want to say I'm going to get the house all decked out for show, Now that I did the work, that most of the work is done around the house.

Speaker 2: 13:01

But that's important man.

Speaker 1: 13:03

That's important and I just like that feeling. Man, when you wake up on Christmas morning, you know that tree there. Do your little gift exchange man, you spending time, but I think it ultimately spending time with family and friends, like just being able to be in each other presence and having a good time. I think that's the most important part of it. When I get from Christmas but I'm not, you know, I'm thankful for whatever I get on that, no matter how big or how small, I'm always thankful for whatever I get. I'll utilize it, that's for sure.

Speaker 1: 13:29

That's for sure, oh, yes.

Speaker 2: 13:30

Yeah, so Christmas, the exposure to you all.

Speaker 1: 13:34

Boom Boom. So as we talking about that, let's talk about something else, man. So when you gathering with your family, of course there's there's food, there's the, there's the games you know what I'm saying and there's the movies. So any tradition you got now, as we're in our adult, we got significant others and we got kids. Is there anything you're implementing now that's important, that you've been doing as far as tradition is concerned?

Speaker 2: 14:02

Now what I've started to do, because my boys are good at eating gifts but they haven't really learned the side of wanting to give that exchange back to somebody else. So we've kind of tried to let go a little bit and see what they gonna do or what they gonna think about as far as the side of it being thoughtful and trying to come up with something. Putting the time aside out, putting the time aside in advance to be thoughtful, like the beautiful parts of give-and-gift inverses, you know, just receiving. So I think it's like that transition from when you start getting to an age where it's like all right, it will make sense for you to know that there's another side, instead of just being catered to. Now other people wanna feel what you can give. So that's been a part of the tradition, that's been a partner, that's been something that's been implemented new. So allow me any more relax a little bit, kind of see what they gonna do and also wait for them to say what they want, cause they are simple.

Speaker 2: 15:21

They are simple, they don't wanna ask for a lot but, getting them to try to do the other stuff on their own, not before. You'll kind of make them like, hey, we gotta get this for your grandmother, hey, we gotta get this right. And then they know you're gonna do it but you're not really learning to get inside, and that was something I didn't know because I wasn't participating. So when it came down the times of me trying to come up with something as thoughtful as you did with the marathon tag plates, I didn't know how to do none of that. I'm thoughtful in the process throughout the year, but I was always a little uncomfortable with the pressure of holidays about.

Speaker 1: 16:08

Valentine's Day. Right, you're right, though that's definitely.

Speaker 2: 16:11

And on my holidays and birthdays. I was in my mind and this is just me being, I guess, stubborn I'm like I would like to wanna go all out in those ways outside of a season, as kind of make you wanna do. And that was just me being stubborn. Today I'm like, hey, we all having fun and everybody doing it, but I'm not really thinking about participating nothing more, would participate fully.

Speaker 1: 16:45

Yes sir, yes sir.

Speaker 3: 16:46

Fred, go with you guys Again.

Speaker 1: 16:47

it's new this year, so just like that, but just some traditions that you've been that you've been outside.

Speaker 3: 16:56

It's always been me and Lil man. I've always. I always took him to the little event out in Derrey the Christmas lighting and stuff like that and that we've always done, even with family. Now it's always been me and Lil man. We didn't go this year because, of course, of course, because of work, but the Christmas parade and the Christmas lighting was always a tradition that we always did every single year. He still asks about it because we've been doing this since he was five or six. Okay, okay, so yeah, that's one thing we always did. Always they got in Derrey, yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:37

Oh, the tree lights. Yeah, the tree lighting in Derrey is a hundred foot tree. Yeah, a hundred foot tree, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, that's what's up. That's what's up. One thing I do is the. I love going to Coconut Creek. There's a light show down there that they do where you can get in your car. They got 3D glasses if you choose to or not, and it's just a nice ride, man, maybe 45-minute drive if you're going, five miles per hour of this beautiful light show, just enjoying that.

Speaker 1: 18:05

Adjani usually gets his iPad and starts filming and we just always fascinated by that. That's one thing that we've been doing. I'm actually just bought the tickets to do it this week, so I'm looking forward to that to see if he stills enjoy it as he gets older. I hope he or maybe I need to find a different spot, but that's one thing we've always done. We enjoy that there and unfortunately he's in the fifth grade.

Speaker 1: 18:28

Somebody spoiled it to him like he came home and said man, you know if they told me, santa Claus is not real? So, yeah, you know these kids now with social media and how they talk. So we used to do the cookies and the milk in the morning Christmas morning drop a little bit of bacon, bacon soda powder on the floor. Let him know Santa was here. This is what he left, man, and it's just one year. He really was like I feel like they sold it to him, man. He just wasn't buying it normally, man. So he's like I know y'all buying my gifts and it ain't no Santa and it was like it kind of messed up, that little vibe. But I did look forward to you know, setting that up for him to make sure when he woke up he had that experience. Man, that's crazy.

Speaker 3: 19:08

Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, jk. And the man's like yeah, you know, Santa, not real. I said damn, who told?

Speaker 2: 19:14

you that I don't remember that Mine no real.

Speaker 3: 19:18

I always see what he realized.

Speaker 2: 19:19

Before first grade yeah, I always Johnny was, I think.

Speaker 1: 19:23

He found out, I think. So I'm gonna say four. I'm gonna say it was probably last year he really was sold like he had. J was six yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:30

Yeah, j was six, I hadn't. They grew up with nice kids because they snipped and said, oh my kid. I heard A young one didn't believe it all. Wow, the older one, he liked to believe it was worth believing. One of me felt like that too like wrestling.

Speaker 1: 19:47

I didn't want to hear, like, tell me his fate. Like I was good, like let me enjoy what I'm enjoying, right.

Speaker 2: 19:54

Now, because once you get well, this was I'm a, I'm a phrase, it in what I'm expressing. Okay, when the kids start getting older in the tradition no longer feel the same, like it's changing a little bit, as a participant, then it makes me kind of I can. I can see how people can be sad, be sad once that tradition is kind of expiring due to the age, because now my older, we ain't going to sleep olders in the hot cocoa breakfast, like they getting in their pajamas, buying pajamas, they sitting out, you seeing all this stuff. And now they start getting older. You looking into kids like y'all just open, y'all one big present that y'all wanted and with nothing else Y'all need to, and if you did get some other things you don't even they ain't even looking at that stuff. So then you get to a point where, like I can't be spontaneous because they gonna let you know you bought something that they ain't really careful. Oh, a hoodie. No, I vote for them and leave $1,500. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:14

Versed to $35.

Speaker 2: 21:17

Then they go and we experience our feelings getting hurt and as a parent, you kind of got to check yourself and say was I doing this for me? Because they kind of hurt in my feelings that they're not like the little three and four year olds that was impressed with the rapping and everything. Because I got to the point, like me, you got to expect it though. Yeah. Yeah, it hurt your feelings. It hurt your feelings though, but then you want to, but I don't know if that's now. I see, once we got old enough to kind of dismiss certain traditions. Now I look back and I think about the like our parents and relatives and things like that, and we dismissed what they loved and kind of took that away from them. And then it's you can be left empty because you're like oh, the traditions we had that I appreciated. It's no longer in the hell. We're not doing those things anymore. So I don't know if I voice that. I apologize for venting. It wasn't really a question.

Speaker 1: 22:35

No, you're good, You're good. Yeah, it's a different outlook on that. You know what I'm saying and I guess I'm kind of excited to see as Johnny gets older. I feel like my journey I don't know. I'm just listening and taking it in. I feel like I'm going to be right there with you telling you the same thing years from now.

Speaker 3: 22:51

I want to get minds to understand how, like you said, to start giving and remembering birthdays and stuff like that, cause I won't point. He was like what about your birthday? What are we going to celebrate yours? So when he said that one time to me, I'm like I'll let you know when it comes, I'll let you know when it comes. But I got him used to telling his mom you know what I'm saying, like happy birthday or making a card or something like that. So I tried to get him to remember hey, it's not just about receiving, you got to give also. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Yes, sir. So am I the only one that treats myself to get? I treat myself every year or something too, though? Yep, oh, I don't, I've always okay.

Speaker 3: 23:31

That's one thing. It might be. It might be every other year. For me, though, it's not like all the, I don't really need not every year, no, every year I do spur, I get myself a gift like every year I've been doing that, Not saying that I like I don't want to take away from people who actually do get me.

Speaker 1: 23:47

I always, you know, sometimes I just got my eye on something and it might cost a little bit more than the norm for somebody and instead of saying I don't want to put that pressure on nobody. So I always usually will get myself something that I can enjoy, and you know what I mean. Like, for example, I got a new paint job on my truck, Like that's something that's a couple bands, but that's something I wanted to do to give my truck another. I got knows five, 10 years without worrying about it. I'm like you know what, let me get some new rugs to replace a few of the buttons inside and I just got a fresh coat, paint that thing sexy black. So now I'm like I can ride out for another couple. You know five, 10 years, easy, with no problem. But that's something I treated myself to this year. I didn't want no gadgets because I got everything I feel with cameras and I usually get something techy, but I'm good.

Speaker 3: 24:38

So you wait a certain time in a year for you to do that.

Speaker 1: 24:42

It's always around Christmas time and I usually going to be our at least November or December, but this year I've been thinking about it, thinking about it and now you know, in Florida I learned something that we should be waxing our cars every three months, religiously because of the weather. Yeah, so the UV rays started messing with the hood and the top of the car, the ceiling, and when I started looking at it I'm like it's too late. The damage was there. So now you know, I got away 30 days and I'll be able to make sure I wax it every three months, and that's the best thing you can do in that Florida weather is wax it every three months, but the UV rays will eat your pain. Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:21

If I see somebody call like that, I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even judge, yeah. So I was like you know, and then you got that just like ashy walking on the knee, yeah.

Speaker 3: 25:36

So I was like my grill. Right now, my grill got that problem.

Speaker 1: 25:39

So, yeah, I learned about that and I said you know what they told me after 30 days? Just make sure I do that every three months. So I'm gonna stay on top of that. But yeah, that's just one thing I also do. I know this, that about myself. My treat to myself is doing nothing for way, coming up to Christmas Day, like what.

Speaker 2: 26:03

Doing nothing at all. So I'm gonna be able to do nothing without myself being able to genuinely, genuinely be able to do nothing without any expectations, because the pressure of having to deliver around holidays it's just. It's just some. It's a pressure, the same as it do. You got to fulfill quotas, you got to make people happy, you want to do nice things? I like not having to have anybody have to do nothing for me and vice versa. Everybody can just do what they need to do. You get to do what you want to do. You get to save your money. You get the, the thoughts to be nice, because obviously I did it the other way.

Speaker 2: 26:57

But I've had some holidays where I really didn't have to worry about nobody and it felt so beautiful. It was almost like I had a vacation away from tradition Not that I will always want that, because I appreciate tradition Right, but going a couple of years where everybody moving around and especially for those that are that have been there in unfortunate circumstances, the holidays can be stressful for a lot of people. So you being on having a couple years where you're on the outside, where you don't have to worry about nothing and it's very simple and empty and there's no requests, there's no demands, there's no pressure. You're like this is nice, because I you feel the frenzy, even in the frenzy.

Speaker 1: 27:53

So is there encounters you still interacting with people? It's just a gift exchange part. You're saying I don't got to show up to no parties we're talking about everything.

Speaker 2: 28:05

I've had a couple of years where it was almost as if the holidays didn't exist in that sense.

Speaker 3: 28:13

So it's like the family's taking a family trip for the holiday and you stay home and everybody's gone.

Speaker 2: 28:19

Yeah, it might be. No, it might be where the person there might be a family member that usually is the one that led everything. Then that year they went somewhere else. Then it might be another one to where everybody just kind of dropped a ball on making it an event, gotcha, and then it was like, oh, this is, this is an easy one, I don't want this and that. And we got, oh, it's out of the way, wait, anybody? No, no, you didn't.

Speaker 1: 28:52

Oh, and then you realize what, like you hit a lick, that's it.

Speaker 2: 28:58

It's done and then like your siblings cool, because your siblings won't you to have your money to do you. And then vice versa, everybody got the kids, everybody kind of like. If we just eat each other alone and none of us have to worry about everybody, especially when you have a big family, then it's like this is not nice. It ain't what I'm used to Do.

Speaker 1: 29:24

You feel like that's okay, because maybe throughout the year there's different times where y'all don't get together and maybe they got for one another. So Christmas ain't like it's like it doesn't have to happen on Christmas because we already got each other, we already do things.

Speaker 2: 29:39

You know I'm talking about it. It was a dry New Year's. It was a dry Thanksgiving. It was a dry Christmas oh, it wasn't no Valentine's Like it was, a, it was. It was empty. It was at its aspects of discomfort because you used to something going on.

Speaker 1: 30:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 30:02

But while you're, while you're nestled in that discomfort, you realize, you realize the silence that you didn't get to hear before. And then you say, you know, let me appreciate the silence and just accept what there's nothing to do, and then it's relaxed. Then that's when you feel the frenzy around you of what everybody else got going on but you realize, oh, I get a, I get a break. Sometimes it is, it is a lot. The holiday season is when you got birthdays, you got. There's been some times where I felt like the whole year was booked up to where special as musicians. When you got stuff you want to, you want to do it, you like man. You got to put this out for full September Because if not the rest of the year is gone. You can't do the campaigns, nothing unless you got a holiday song or something for the ladies around Valentine's Day. The, the, it can, it can really stifle, stifle the words.

Speaker 1: 31:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:13

Stifle a couple of your plans. That would require a lot of your attention, your resources, your finances. Then, if there's a few things before that that you do do, the splurge before where there's going out of town, a random event, like maybe bigger functions and stuff like that, he like, oh, this whole year gone, this whole year got something going on. You could do two decent things a month. It's like that month, that month gone, when you really want to have time around. That's just me. I like to. I like to have space between things that I'm doing, I guess.

Speaker 3: 31:54

I'm, I'm that guy, I'm kind of lucky. Everybody. Everybody's birthday is kind of separate. Oh, the the, the anniversary is different, the holidays in. You know what I'm saying? So I'm probably the only one that lands on a holiday or, or like two days off or before or after. That's close to a holiday, or something like that. But nobody really gives nothing on Thanksgiving but thanks. I think you're saying some food, but but but um, yeah, everybody's birthday lands and the holidays lands, yeah that's right yeah, so I guess I'm good when it comes to that.

Speaker 1: 32:28

So I kind of question for you would it be a deal breaker if a chick birthdays in December, like maybe like no, december 15th and then Christmas there, and she'd be like, well, you know what you're dealing with me, you got to get me to. You know, I need to get you because I need that birthday present and I need Christmas at the same time, no, no well, we ain't going to give you just a month of December.

Speaker 1: 32:51

She just got this expectation. Because she's been doing it her whole life, she's got to be celebrated twice, or do you feel like? No, I mean, I can just get you a decent Christmas president calling the day. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3: 33:03

Oh, I take care of your birthday.

Speaker 1: 33:04

No we don't worry about Christmas. I'm just curious that that you brought it up, Like if you already talked about the pressures, I'm kind of like hmm.

Speaker 2: 33:13

If I decide to get involved with someone, and that's their standards, because they didn't condition to enjoy those things. And now I step in the picture of why should she have to change what she's comfortable with for me If I'm also benefiting on the other, the other?

Speaker 3: 33:37

of.

Speaker 2: 33:38

The return of it. If I'm benefiting on everything, I'm super accumulated, okay, okay, I can't be mad because you used to doing this, this, this and I'm like in that, and then all of a sudden you say, hey, but I my birthday round this time. I do expect to get some life.

Speaker 1: 33:57

All right, I'm still expecting you to do the mother Cool Doing to your ex Good, no.

Speaker 2: 34:05

No, that's good, I'll be thinking the exes. I'll be thinking exes I know that's good.

Speaker 3: 34:10

It's healthy for us to think. Exes To thank them.

Speaker 2: 34:13

Yeah, because if you ever even entertain someone who learned something from a relationship prior to you, you can appreciate it. Man, I could be a good or bad thing.

Speaker 1: 34:28

I'm like, yeah, I'm with you, Draco.

Speaker 2: 34:30

I kind of feel it can be a bad thing if you I can see it being a bad thing if you're not able to accept what growth need to come from the bad that there is.

Speaker 3: 34:46

You could be seasoned, but not seasoned. Well, how about that Seasoned?

Speaker 2: 34:50

but not seasoned. Well, well, yeah, so that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 34:53

You put too much salt in that chicken, but you don't really let it marinate with the real seasoning. You know what?

Speaker 2: 34:57

I'm saying so now you get the ass. Well, you said too much salt, yeah, yeah, I don't know if you can. What do we do to fix when it's too much?

Speaker 1: 35:07

You gotta water that thing down. That's it. That's what you gotta do. You either throw it away or you gotta water that thing down.

Speaker 2: 35:13

You gotta get it wet, then you know how to get wet, I'm just salty. If you know how to get it wet, then you can't get it wet, then let it go, oh man.

Speaker 1: 35:28

Somebody else might like the salt, you know what. And to his point you know I'd be fit listening. Yeah, somebody out there would be just fine with it. You right about that, oh.

Speaker 2: 35:41

You gotta be thankful, be happy for him.

Speaker 1: 35:46

That's crazy. That's crazy, All right all right.

Speaker 2: 35:49

So the holiday tips for those who are in new relationships or passing through relationships, and it's different. We send our love to y'all from exposure. There it is it's the season of the jolly hey man, jolly ranch.

Speaker 1: 36:07

Hey.

Speaker 2: 36:08

Speaking of season.

Speaker 1: 36:10

You know what I'm saying? Oh man, cool, cool, cool. So let's talk about the movie side. I know, when we gather around, you know what I'm saying the movies. There's some movies that's classics out there. You probably rewatch them on the holidays or around the holiday time. So yeah, I was gonna say, as I was thinking about that topic and which movie I feel like I can watch over and over and over. I never get tired of it. I'm a bus out laughing and enjoy it. Definitely home alone would have to be one of my classics around Christmas time. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3: 36:44

That was one, but it became Friday after next for me, man, when Ricky Smiley in it, when it was yeah, we were dead in it.

Speaker 2: 36:53

Yo, what's it next? What's it? Yeah, friday after next. I know what you mean. Talk to me.

Speaker 3: 36:56

Yeah, when he started the movie still in the Christmas tree. Yeah, that became mine, man, that became yours, oh man.

Speaker 1: 37:04

I wish we could have got one more man. I wish we could have got that money right. You know what I'm saying? It's Friday, so you were home alone too.

Speaker 2: 37:13

The first home alone. The first home alone. I liked the first home alone. That was really nice and that's probably the biggest Christmas movie.

Speaker 3: 37:22

I can think of Nobody really topped it, since you know what I'm saying. Like home alone. We grew up on that. Definitely that's what I thought Christmas was supposed to look like yeah, yeah Movie.

Speaker 1: 37:31

That's a good description. I like how you just said that that would be my. I would say the exact same thing.

Speaker 2: 37:38

I felt I was getting ripped off. After home alone came man. I was like man, it's hot, santa ain't gonna come here. We ain't got no chimneys, no rain there, there's nothing around here.

Speaker 1: 37:52

I was one of the chimneys. For that reason, yeah. I just wanted the snow and snow too.

Speaker 3: 37:56

I didn't see the snow.

Speaker 2: 37:57

I wanted the snow. I wanted to see it falling. That day, home alone made you feel like that was how it was supposed to look.

Speaker 1: 38:04

Hey, to this day, I've never seen snow yet.

Speaker 2: 38:06

Man, I got a story.

Speaker 1: 38:07

You never see snow. I got a story for snow. That was my goal. I probably did when I was a kid because I was born in Jersey, but I wanted to take a trip this year. I was trying to go to Colorado to actually see it and that didn't work out. But hopefully next year I can figure something out and I want to see snow. When I was in Gainesville now I got one morning when I went up to my van at the time I mean it almost looked like it was so cold that it looked like snow was on the car, like I couldn't even see the car, barely recognized it. But dang, I really want to see snow.

Speaker 3: 38:40

I got a story for one man. I was in Afghanistan. Oh shoot.

Speaker 1: 38:45

All right, we don't hear that every day. Yeah, it's like, yeah, come down the block.

Speaker 3: 38:52

It got real cold During the day. It warmed up. When it get hot, it get hot there. When it rains, it rains there, and when it snowed, it snows there. So yeah, I was in the valley. They get all of that. Yeah, they get all of the above, all of it, and it's bad. Every time it happens it's bad Thunderstorics, all of that. So me not knowing, I know it's cold, whatever like that. But we're in our tents, our tents, they got these units, man, they got these nice AC units that can go hot and cold, whatever like that. So we're uncomfortable in my tent. Just wake up one morning and I had my boy go out the door.

Speaker 3: 39:30

Oh shit, it's not outside. I want me up my snick. I ride out my sleep. So I'm in my boxes, man, I jump right in the snow because it's my first time. I didn't know, but I was creeping up but all I could hear is stuff sliding out off the tent. I didn't know what it was, just I'm thinking, you know, it's probably wet down here.

Speaker 1: 39:46

What's you cold?

Speaker 3: 39:47

You said you know, I jumped into the snow in my boxes, man. Remember that? Were you cold? I was freezing, I was, but I was so excited that I ignored it for the first 60 seconds and went inside and got sick, got sick. Everything was wet, just my boxes, bruh. Everybody looking at me like I was crazy, but it's my first time. I'm from Florida, bruh, yeah, I can get that yeah, I'm from Florida for the first time I don't think it's going.

Speaker 2: 40:12

It don't look that cold.

Speaker 3: 40:15

That's why I'm cursing it. So it's just, it's just sitting there, so, but it's negative 10 and it stayed negative 10. Even when the ice melted, it was still negative 10. But after I jumped in the snow, grabbed it of course, threw it but ran aside. I want to put clothes on, but now I was freaking, freezing Everything, frozen bro Pipes, no water, we can't shower. This is for like two weeks.

Speaker 2: 40:39

They ain't telling you it was risking your life doing that.

Speaker 3: 40:41

No, man, everybody looking at me, laughing at me, bro. Even other people from the other side they're laughing at me, man.

Speaker 2: 40:46

The negative 10 ain't no joke, bruh, I'm not serious.

Speaker 3: 40:49

I learned it already. The next five minutes, the next five minutes. I learned, definitely learned that my knuckles got all dark. It started pilling. You could have gotten frostbite, dude. I was messed up. I was messed up for the next two weeks. I was messed up.

Speaker 2: 41:02

Jumping in the snow. You jump in the snow. You get a headache in your face. It's instant. You didn't even know you could get headaches.

Speaker 1: 41:07

That's what I'm saying. I would, yeah, I'm about to say you brave bro, it's instant, it was it but it was fun.

Speaker 3: 41:12

It was fun, it was instant man and yeah, yeah, so I experienced it for a short amount of time.

Speaker 1: 41:17

You experienced it in Afghanistan, in Afghanistan. Wow, how about you your snow experience?

Speaker 2: 41:23

I've seen in New York a couple of times. Okay, I've seen some Salt Lake City, utah, oregon, some, especially when I went on that tour at Rick's. It was probably a handful of places. I don't even remember all the other places, but I seen snow probably about six times.

Speaker 2: 41:45

Oh yeah, it's always like there's regions where there will be snow, but it's not like it's tolerable too. It's like a. It's a. It's a different type of snow. I can't. I can't explain it. So it ain't always. It ain't always bad, it is cold, but seeing it, especially the climates where the sun is still out you kind of get both you got the snow in, you got the sun. That's nice. Yeah, I appreciate it. I know I couldn't, I wouldn't be able to, I wouldn't like to live in conditions like that unless I had everything I needed.

Speaker 1: 42:23

Yeah, Every, every single thing, when I was in Park City, Utah it was.

Speaker 2: 42:30

some people had heated driveways.

Speaker 1: 42:32

What.

Speaker 2: 42:33

Yeah, because it can be diff it's snow and it's a lot of hills too. Yeah, it can be difficult with your vehicles driving through certain places. So those people had heated driveways. Where you looking they driveways just clear, no shoveling and nothing necessary. Got everything in the I guess they cut the work out for them. That's dope, yeah, that is dope.

Speaker 2: 42:54

I'm like that's how I wanna do it. I know it's probably a flex, probably really expensive, but I'm like if I was living in climates like that, I would wanna have it all. Yeah, you would have to have it all. I wanna do the luxury. So I don't have to think. You gotta get used to shoveling the snow. It is hard, but the natives is probably nothing. That's just part of it. But for Floridian, where we don't really have anything to worry about far as our climate other than the sun doing damage to your roof, we probably have to change our oil more than other people. This is a few things we might not really take into consideration with whether I keep you to the stick.

Speaker 3: 43:45

Oh, yeah, it can damage your home. If you're at home, don't keep a certain temperature, it can damage your roof of your home also. You can get leaks here and there, stuff that ran out, some roofs and floor.

Speaker 1: 43:55

Oh my God, Went through hell. That roof is no show. I feel like just buying a whole new house Like that would work. You talk about that stress. Yeah, I'm about to say that's stress right there for real, my gosh. Like insurance and Florida is crazy. I feel like you pay for it, but when it's time for them to break that bread, man, you're gonna go through hell. I felt like I was at a record label trying to get my mask. I've been paying y'all two every month and I'm fighting for that, but no, that's crazy.

Speaker 3: 44:30

Now that snow life is definitely different. Man, because I visit some family of North one time and the struggle that they had to go to to wake up three in the morning, get up, shovel snow, start the car up and go back inside get ready for work, to leave for work early and then get the fight and the road to get to work and then to leave work.

Speaker 1: 44:57

Yeah, that's do it all over again pretty much.

Speaker 3: 44:59

Oh my God and then you get home at nine, maybe 10 o'clock at night to probably maybe try to prepare food to eat to feed the like. We're visitors, so we're there, so they're trying to. You know we're cool, we wanna go buy food to go out and eat and wanna enjoy the snow, but for you to come home at nine, 10 o'clock may need almost to try to prepare food for you to eat, to get to sleep, to wake up at 34 in the morning. Dude, I can't. I was like no, no, I can't stay there. I love my Florida life. I'll do a hurricane for three, four weeks over the snow. Man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, man, listen, I'm not saying you'll take a hurricane.

Speaker 1: 45:36

What we did, we did three, four weeks before. We just said you take a hurricane. Exactly what part of the hurricane are we talking? We're talking about what out power hurricane, three, four weeks Is that the one you talking about? Just some winds and some rain. You see that three, four weeks now Hell, no, I never been. Three, four weeks. Yeah, we have no Hell.

Speaker 2: 45:55

No, I've done like four days, there was three four days, yeah, but I personally never had to do that. Oh, I had three weeks. I know people that had three weeks.

Speaker 1: 46:03

You went to school with no power too. Yeah, I've never done that long. I done three, four days. Yeah, I did like maybe three, four days. Yeah, yeah, that's what I remember, oh y'all, I had two weeks, three weeks, where you were living, boys, that animal went to school, you were always gonna say high school.

Speaker 3: 46:14

We had no power in high school either. I wasn't singing it. I didn't see you there. I definitely was dead.

Speaker 2: 46:19

I ain't never go to school without no power.

Speaker 1: 46:21

Yeah, me neither. Oh y'all, the school ain't had no power. What school you went to?

Speaker 3: 46:24

Atlantic. Yes, we went at least almost a full week with no power in school.

Speaker 2: 46:29

Well, some of y'all went. Everybody ain't go.

Speaker 1: 46:33

Yeah, I don't understand. What are you doing in the school with no power? We was definitely there working sweating bullets.

Speaker 3: 46:38

Tell you that I remember them days, boy.

Speaker 1: 46:41

We got hit by a few kids, I don't even understand what the point of that?

Speaker 2: 46:43

Now, that don't even make sense. They got to hang back to school.

Speaker 1: 46:45

I ain't go. Yeah, I don't remember that. Yeah, I don't remember.

Speaker 3: 46:49

It's not even that day. It was a week.

Speaker 1: 46:50

Yeah, I don't remember that A week Mm-mm. Oh, it's right back there. I do remember that.

Speaker 2: 46:54

I sure do remember that it's possible that it could have been some parts. This is the old land, right? Oh four, oh three. Yes, it was the old land. Yeah, so it's probably. It probably wasn't the whole school.

Speaker 1: 47:10

Yeah, it was that old, because they had some. It was the old five. Okay, okay, that was the boys' high school.

Speaker 3: 47:14

Yeah, they had nags all night. Yeah, they had parts. Do you remember what hurricane it was? We got hit by three that year. Back to back, back to back to back, frances. I don't remember that. I don't remember that.

Speaker 1: 47:29

I'm trying to remember the name of the school when no power fell that.

Speaker 2: 47:32

I know I don't. I know I had a crucial hurricane experience.

Speaker 1: 47:39

I mean it was those what's what you call a cruise Right, yeah, like.

Speaker 2: 47:44

People being scared they're gonna lose their life and things.

Speaker 3: 47:46

I don't think he ever was like that.

Speaker 2: 47:48

Yeah, I never experienced anything.

Speaker 1: 47:51

So for me you know you watch it on TV, but I had the privilege to go be the the first responders in Key West when Matthew came. That was the first time that I almost questioned what the hell we doing like, why we going out there like? You know what I'm saying? Because, uh, you know, when you drive to the keys, you got those bridges and you got the way they do it. They're so trained, but they drive their cars like if there's the main road going north and south, everybody would drive their car to the main road at the highest point, because that's the highest point of the main road, you can't leave it in your driveway. Uh, so when I got, we got to this one after homestead, you got to this one Particular spot before you into the keys, I feel like we drove for 45 minutes and there was nothing but cars At this highest point. And then you'll see every now and then you'll see a trailer, upside down boat in the middle of the road. Uh, just, it just looked abandoned. It looked like some residents evil without the monsters, like, just looked abandoned. And I'm like, oh, my god, like this is real.

Speaker 1: 48:54

So when we end up being um there, when I got to the location to open up to the public. We had swat, we had, uh, the Nate, like we had so much secured, we had tanks. Because, if I thought about, like, if people wanted to rush us Like, let's just say, for food, because they haven't had, they had no power, there was no hotel available and they starving and they know they got some chicken over here you can get some sandwich, like you can get a comfort food. What would stop a hundred people from rushing 20 people, for example, to try to get a nice home cooked meal? It was pretty interesting, but that's the first time I said man and we, we were blessed, like, we dodged the bullet.

Speaker 1: 49:33

You know, miami had floods, they had a lot of water, but we dodged the bullet. That's the first time I seen it with my eyes what the, what a hurricane could do. And I see with my eyes and I said man, yeah, I don't take that for granted. And, yeah, the keys have some very nice people, though, the ones who stayed, who couldn't evacuate, there were some of the nicest people I met. Under them circumstances, I would have been way more stretched out and pissed. There was some of the nicest people, though, and said thank you and and appreciate you for opening and just thank you for giving us a home to live.

Speaker 2: 50:03

That's what you were doing. That because not many people have taken a big step.

Speaker 1: 50:08

Yeah, man, it was uh, it was uh interesting. But no, I appreciate that. Thank you, man. I, ever since then, I said yeah, we, you know, we got to be grateful for these storms when they come. And we, we still have our houses. And, like you said, you haven't been through a Tragical, but try not to my dad, the one when we lost power. Then he took a wires, he set it to the car he had. We- had light.

Speaker 1: 50:29

He had light coming through the house. He done some things with a battery like my dad was like ready though man, I don't know if them, the tactics and Haiti, but my dad made like I felt like we still ate. Good, we had music. He made it fun, although we had no power.

Speaker 3: 50:45

It was always a party. Y'all we know it was always a party.

Speaker 2: 50:48

We, uh, that's the side I'm I'm used to.

Speaker 3: 50:52

I didn't want to say it like that but people. Well, for the ones that don't know it, was like a vacation. Yeah, for the ones that don't know, that's. That's what it is when we get Hercules.

Speaker 2: 51:00

It was even fun going in the. It's unfortunate for those who I guess it's. It's unfortunate for everybody. I have to do this, but for some reason Florida, in its lighter sense, have like a, a nice uh, a good humor, positive humor when it comes to preparing for these things. So we're a joke, we'll go out. We be mad because we got to get the shiny water, or you, looking at what's left in your options, that is a nasty water.

Speaker 3: 51:34

We all get together, I feel like it getting the whole.

Speaker 1: 51:40

I mean the minerals they added now.

Speaker 3: 51:43

I gotta test that theory man, I gotta try it, but um yeah, everybody's saying you ain't missing nothing. But, uh, it is the time of the year wherever we all do get together Like it's a holiday. You know we, uh, we all help each other out, putting shutters up and wards, and all of that you know. And then, when all that gone, you know you can get your baby, and all that you know. I'm saying so you got to do that's what it is.

Speaker 2: 52:06

It do feel nice it's uh, you can feel. It's a time where everybody want everybody to be taken care of. Yeah, everybody want everybody good neighbors is checking on you.

Speaker 3: 52:15

Cookin everybody's in in the neighborhood cutting down trees Together, you know ain't gotta go nowhere, you ain't gotta work.

Speaker 2: 52:22

It sucks for those who actually end up losing jobs, right, but then you appreciate the people that actually going out there, they are working for you, they putting in a they time. If they fpnl and they got to work crazy, I always just it's horrible, but you can't. You do feel the unity in community coming together. Buckle down. Yeah yeah, it bring something back together. So that's the part where I'm like man. I kind of had some Some nice special times when there's barbecue going on, because if the electricity go out, gotta eat certain ways to rain. And the curfew oh yeah, the curfew. But if you had somebody to hunch, y'all like y'all just stuck in the house.

Speaker 3: 53:09

Hey, okay, it was quarantine before quarantine.

Speaker 2: 53:13

Yeah, Florida, Well, not just Florida but any other hurricanes yeah I already knew about the quarantine you had. You had people surfing In the weather. It was in the road of going to the beach. They had to bearfoot it like, and after it is, it felt so liberating, like it was a cleanse that went on. Everything slowly got back to where it needed to be and then people take, they drive around, see what is looking like.

Speaker 1: 53:40

I done, hey, I do that. I'm like I'm infamous for that. Y'all seeing the walk. Yeah, yeah, that's me, oh, that's me.

Speaker 2: 53:51

Oh yeah, right over, you start seeing this like it's like you. You driving through um Something that's on display. You just going around. Yeah, you want to see what mother nature did. I'm that she was at us. You look around like man. They split a whole tree what?

Speaker 3: 54:13

What you call it house guy hit by a tree. Bro, it's gone. Yeah, yeah, that's before we used to use our cell phones.

Speaker 1: 54:20

It's so so yeah, before you could. Yeah, that that was before social media Really took over, but now we supposed to be growing now.

Speaker 2: 54:25

So I don't think it'd be as funny to us, because you just got a roof. Yeah you would laugh and I you'll be like how long it took me trying to get that?

Speaker 1: 54:36

Yeah, I'll be thinking about that yeah, boy.

Speaker 1: 54:38

Well, that was interesting, man. I can't believe what we're at and how much we accomplished, from the episodes to the shorts, to the platforms. Man and um I bumped into somebody in the streets the other day, knows like man, look, I like what y'all doing, keep doing it. Um, you know, I really enjoyed the Haitian fresh interview and he was Hispanic too. That was pretty dope from the state and he's just like, yeah, I like what y'all doing. Man, just keep keep doing it, keep bringing the guests and just, uh, you know y'all making a difference out there.

Speaker 1: 55:07

That was the conversation. So I was like yo, that's what's up. I say, appreciate you even coming up and saying you have to do that, but it kind of just inspired me and, uh, trying to give me some ideas for, you know, things we can implement and try out for next year. But, uh, that's what's up, man, I'm happy for us, man, and I think this is gonna definitely end off the year for us on exposure. Man, and you know just what. That being said, all our viewers, all our supporters, all our fans. On behalf of myself, I just definitely want to say we appreciate you, thank you for celebrating the year with us, and I do wish you and your family, all your loved ones, a merry Christmas, a happy holiday and a happy new year slap.

Speaker 2: 55:48

Merry Christmas, Happy holidays all all the other Um at least ceremonies around.

Speaker 1: 56:01

You know what I'm saying. Yes, yes, yes, drake. Oh, hey man, happy holidays and new years. Y'all's take it easy out there. All right, you came on, so likes this one baby with you, oh swabby with it, you got a way to go live in the coconut oil.

Speaker 1: 56:20

Yes, uh, and we all got our exposure gear that's gonna be available to you next year the hoodies, the polo shirts, you know, I mean the sweatshirts, the hats. We coming man, we appreciate y'all, y'all tuned into exposure and this, another episode, and we are, oh, it's like I gotta keep that.