The holiday season is upon us! Join us as we share our holiday plans, the joys and jitters of gift-giving, and the unexpected dangers of Christmas cookies - yes, they're real and they're lurking, right in your kitchen.
We discuss Mike's wrapping skills, the stocking dilemma (including a PSA to all husbands), and Shawna's obsession with cups... so many cups! We also chat about the challenges of adult gift-giving and the way online shopping has removed the element of surprise.
Just when you thought we were all about holidays, we steer the conversation towards a recent lawsuit against PlayStation and the craziness that is the Stella Awards... ever heard of those?
This is officially the end of Season 1 and we're wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thanks for joining us for your weekly dose of confidently unqualified advice!
Let's keep the conversation going! Connect with us below!
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The holiday season is upon us! Join us as we share our holiday plans, the joys and jitters of gift-giving, and the unexpected dangers of Christmas cookies - yes, they're real and they're lurking, right in your kitchen.
We discuss Mike's wrapping skills, the stocking dilemma (including a PSA to all husbands), and Shawna's obsession with cups... so many cups! We also chat about the challenges of adult gift-giving and the way online shopping has removed the element of surprise.
Just when you thought we were all about holidays, we steer the conversation towards a recent lawsuit against PlayStation and the craziness that is the Stella Awards... ever heard of those?
This is officially the end of Season 1 and we're wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thanks for joining us for your weekly dose of confidently unqualified advice!
Let's keep the conversation going! Connect with us below!
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lifeunmasteredpodcast
Email: lifeunmasteredpodcast@gmail.com
Website: www.lifeunmasteredpodcast.com
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Speaker 2:Yeah, we had a week off for the first time since we started.
Speaker 1:We did. We took a week off for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:That's a good reason.
Speaker 1:It is, but it felt weird. I was super panicky on Tuesday. I'm like oh, I forgot to post the episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was like oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this new thing that we've committed to. It was like I mean not as bad as like for getting your kids at school, but it kind of felt the same. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:Yes, totally the same. Did not know. That's where you're going to go with that what. We hope that you guys missed us as much as we missed you. Did anybody even realize we were gone last week? It's the real question. Some people realized your mom and dad definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they realized.
Speaker 1:So I think what we're going to do is we're going to take a break for the rest of the holidays too, so we'll do this episode and then take some time off. We, the kids have. They had Thanksgiving week off.
Speaker 2:Which is weird. I don't remember ever having Thanksgiving week off.
Speaker 1:I didn't. I don't think I ever did either. I think I just had that Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you go back to school, uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Yep, it didn't feel like a typical week that they have off, because you and I had that Thursday and Friday off and we had your parents here and we were just super busy running around and so it wasn't like you know, they were just bored in the house all week. It was nice to have that break from making lunches and doing homework and drop off and pick up. It really is a lot of work having them in school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't, but I don't know like having them home is a lot of work too. Like now that they're in school and I'm used to them being in school while I'm working. When they're home, I'm like on high alert, like what? What is with all the noise?
Speaker 1:Also because you're downstairs where they spend a lot of their time. So, but they are going to have three weeks off.
Speaker 2:Absurd.
Speaker 1:For Christmas, yeah, a new year break, yeah.
Speaker 2:I probably wouldn't mind so much if we still lived in California, right, and I say that because it's a lot easier in California for three weeks to be like, hey, go outside and play. It's going to be 10 degrees outside, like there's very little, like just go out there and leave me alone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or like hey, Grammy, your grandkids want to hang out with you. Also true, yeah, and tomorrow and the next day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I keep trying to drop them off of people's porches here, but you keep yelling at me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause I think that's illegal Just for an hour. So anyways, like I was saying, I think we're going to have to take a break from the podcast because things are just going to be so chaotic. The kids are going to be home, we've got, you know, holiday stuff and all the things, and so I think, for our own sanity, we'll just come back with, I think like season two in the new year Exactly.
Speaker 2:It totally makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I will say, though I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, but I know we talked about feeling like an adult because we mastered Thanksgiving, which, by the way, it was excellent again, but thank you. I also kind of feel adulty when we look at our calendar and it's like, well, I can squeeze you in Saturday from one to four for the holidays. You know, it's like we have that long to have coffee, otherwise I'll see you in February.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think. I don't know if that's necessarily. I mean I do like having things planned and things to look forward to. The holiday season gets so busy.
Speaker 2:It's weird, right, like I almost feel like we're so busy that you can't stop and enjoy it and by the time you blink, it's over and you're like, oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, so you've got this like two week break that you're taking coming up, and I remember, like before Thanksgiving, I was like, oh man, this is so far away, and now it's like it's in a week. Yeah, the time goes by so fast and then a week after that, the kids are out of school for three weeks. I'm just like man. It goes by so fast, everything goes by so fast. I think that's just like proof that we're getting older.
Speaker 2:But that's that. That's how we know everything happens so fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cuz you know I'm like nine minutes later to pick up Jase than I normally am, which is still not late, but he's like gosh, mom, why did you take eternity?
Speaker 2:Why did you take?
Speaker 1:eternity, like I can't be mad at you. That's just funny. But we did decide to split our time off this, you know, during the kids break, which I'm excited about Because they'll be with at least one of us, if not both of us, for the majority of their break. So I think they only have three days where it's gonna be like a free-for-all for them, where we have to figure out a way to work with them running around load them up with sugar and just let them go.
Speaker 2:Sounds like a terrible idea you just got to get it over with like hopefully they crash.
Speaker 1:Okay, good luck with that. I'm thinking we'll leave that to me.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But yeah, christmas is in full swing, which we've had the decorations up for a while now, but I feel like now, with the Christmas music, we've had Christmas cookies.
Speaker 2:Oh, those cookies were dangerous. So they were like they were what, what is that? Like a 50 cent piece size. You know they were like bigger than a quarter. They're those.
Speaker 1:They're those cheater cookies. Yeah the Pillsbury ones, where they've got the design throughout the middle, and so all you're doing is like putting these little dollops on to the cookie sheet and just Popping them in my mouth left and right every time I walked by.
Speaker 2:I don't know why you hate me, but I remember telling you like this year it's gonna be awesome, I'm gonna enjoy Christmas cookies and like, yeah, I enjoyed them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you did, they're really good kids woke up the next morning.
Speaker 2:I'm mad at me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are there any cookies left? My dad ate them all. I mean I had my fair share too, but I just blamed it on you, that's fair. Carter came downstairs, she was so she was.
Speaker 2:She gave me stink eye, like right away, like you ate all the cookies. And then I took the fall because that's what husbands do.
Speaker 1:But I think too, it's freezing outside. We've got the Christmas music playing and it just really does feel like Christmas. Mm-hmm and we've got all of our Christmas shopping done right.
Speaker 2:Yep as of today.
Speaker 1:You did, you finished today. Yeah and so now comes the fun part, which is all the wrapping. So I, my mom, will wrap. Growing up she would wrap presents as she got them and stuff, and then she put them under the tree Throughout the season. My dad, they don't wrap anything or put anything under the tree until Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1:So you wake up on Christmas morning and it's just like all of these presents are there, yeah and so I wanted to do that for the kids, at least in these early years, because I feel like there's like some magic that is with that. Like you, there's nothing on the tree.
Speaker 2:Then you wake up Christmas morning and it's like oh, is it weird that I think of a home alone, like that's what I think of. Like when they're in the hotel and they walk out on Christmas morning, like where all these presents come from. Like that that's what I'm thinking of yeah, yeah, it's just like there's the.
Speaker 1:It adds this like extra level of excitement to it. Mm-hmm so the first year that we did that, I was like okay, well, I'm not putting anything out till Christmas Eve, I'll just wrap everything on Christmas Eve. That was the worst decision I ever.
Speaker 2:I cringed as you said this, like right now. I like remembered, I'm like, though it was so bad it was so bad.
Speaker 1:We were up till like what two o'clock in the morning. It was such a bad idea and then I was just cranky and grumpy the next day because I was so tired and so more than normal. Thank you for that but it's not your fault either.
Speaker 2:sorry, I don't mean to cut you off, but like I'm, I'm useless when it comes to wrapping presents, so like you actually, so you wrap my presents?
Speaker 1:I mean I Know for a fact, you do it on purpose. You try to have the worst wrapped presents.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just that good.
Speaker 1:You think it's funny, which is fine.
Speaker 2:It doesn't bother me I don't know, it depends on what it is. Now that one like Obscenely large water bottle that I got you that one year. That one was funny.
Speaker 1:It was literally like wrapping a five gallon bucket and it had you purposely, like wrapped the straw that was sticking out, yeah, so that one was funny, but all like the box shape ones I am trying.
Speaker 2:Okay, that is, that is the best you get you married.
Speaker 1:This so what Mike does is he wraps my presents and then he puts the tag on them so I know they're mine, and then he sets them aside so that I can put the ribbons and bows on them, which is fine. Why, that's what you do. And and could I put them under the tree without the ribbons? The bows, yes, but I like everything to look pretty for Christmas morning, so I put the bows on my present.
Speaker 2:Unless you want a bunch of Velcro on your gifts right so clip on ribbons.
Speaker 1:The babe. The ribbons are so easy. Think about it.
Speaker 2:You take the somebody invented a clip on tie and the person who invented that was told ties are so easy, you just tie it, like that we can make clip on ribbons, I think that's already what bows are.
Speaker 1:You take the little sticky part off the back and you stick it to that.
Speaker 2:I can do that.
Speaker 1:I do that. I don't have those.
Speaker 2:I do the ones that you have to you gotta buy the ones for like three year olds.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll buy you. I'll buy you my own little bag of listicky bows.
Speaker 2:We'll definitely know which ones are mine all the bows would be on the floor.
Speaker 1:So anyway, um, we're definitely we have not done that sense, because I was like this is bad idea. I think. Last year Carter got a bunch of big stuff like she got the vanity and the dress-up thing. We built that a few weekends ahead and then yeah, mm-hmm. Thank goodness we don't have to build stuff that night, so we've moved everything up. The guest room becomes Santa's workshop.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm and I just like hide out in there and wrap the presents. And so I think this is funny, because I came across this meme the other day that says Christmas is great because you can shout don't come in here. And people think that you're wrapping presents when you're actually Drinking wine and eating chocolate in peace. Yeah which is funny because I mean I think I'm gonna actually do that after I'm done getting all the presents and I actually am in there.
Speaker 2:But then once.
Speaker 1:I'm done. I'm gonna be in there with my book and my chai and pretend that, like I'm still going at it.
Speaker 2:It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1:Why. Carter, that's, she won't let you she will sit outside the door and try and talk to me the whole you just hear like her little hand like Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Speaker 2:Can I come in now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, mom, are you done yet? I was taking a shower the other day and I've started locking our bedroom door because I just want, like, some privacy. Makes sense and I come out to leave and there's like five pieces of paper that she shoved under the door notes Like I've been in here for 15 minutes.
Speaker 2:But she says we'll be downstairs. I'll be like leave your mom alone. She's taking a shower and she'll be like I know, but I just miss her so much.
Speaker 1:She is so sweet. I love her.
Speaker 2:I don't know how that happened. Like she's not like that with me.
Speaker 1:No, she's definitely not. She's good. I feel like she's getting better, though. So, speaking of memes, though I I saw this reel when the the dad is going around and he's showing everybody's stockings.
Speaker 1:Like all the girls are opening their stockings, the dog Got a stocking he shows his stocking and then he turns the camera and there's just like empty flat stocking. He's like who's this? And he holds up to the wife. He's like, is this an extra one? She's like, no, that's mine. And he's like what happened? She's like I guess Santa just forgot about me this year. So I saw that and this is like something that I've experienced. It's something that my mom's experienced, and so I thought I would just send out a quickly Friend, like a quick, friendly PSA. Husbands, you are responsible for your wife's stockings.
Speaker 2:I learned the hard way. I learned the hard way.
Speaker 1:Okay, what, what, what did I yell?
Speaker 2:No, but like you know, it's weird like that guy handled it, like I'm gonna turn this into a tick-tock, I can't do that, I'm just gonna be like when it happened, I was like, yep, I look terrible. I.
Speaker 1:Feel like I didn't. I didn't make a big deal about it at all. I think you could tell that I was bummed. Yeah and then, I think, one year you.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you told me ahead of time that I was responsible for that, by the way, which you should have known that I needed to be told that this is true, and then I think, one year two, we were just busy, we had family staying with us and I got like a stocking full of an entire bag of Reese's pieces so many bags, multiple bags at least, like I cleared out that row, target right.
Speaker 1:Thank you, but candy doesn't count, like I. What am I gonna do? I don't even think I touched any of that so much candy. That we just end up throwing away. So this year I feel like I was extra helpful. I sent you a list of gifts that I want and a list of Stocking stuff or ideas both conveniently Stocking size, so I can mix the two lists and it'll look like I tried perfect, yeah, so you know, and I feel like that's still.
Speaker 2:I think there that's the PSA. It needs to be towards the wives, not the husbands, because even like, if you tell husbands you're responsible for the stocking, you're gonna get a stocking full of candy.
Speaker 1:This is true.
Speaker 2:The wives need you to step up and be like. These items are conveniently tiny and will fit inside of a stocking. Nice like. Right help us out.
Speaker 1:You're gonna get me like a skateboard in my Get your rolling pin. You totally would. Oh my gosh, you guys. I guarantee I'm gonna wake up from Christmas morning with a rolling pin in my stocking now, just because you're gonna think it's funny.
Speaker 1:Well, I'd have to unwrap it to put it in there first, but don't think I won't yeah so yes, that's actually very true, and I feel like I've had this conversation with a lot of other women who are frustrated with the gift situation With their spouses. I think that there are there are a lot of spouses that are really good at buying gifts and, you know, kudos to them. That's amazing.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm and there I think that as we become adults it's sad for our birthdays and you know, Christmases and stuff just as part of growing up that you lose that surprise, that excitement that you know. It's just part of being an adult, right.
Speaker 2:Well, I agree, but I also think it's harder now. So we talked last time about how many sales there are throughout the year right.
Speaker 2:And it's not like how it used to be, where if we were out and about at a mall or something and you're like, oh, that's a pretty like necklace or something like that, like that doesn't happen so much because all the shopping is happening on Amazon or anything else. So I don't necessarily know what you're looking at on Amazon when you decide like, hey, I'm gonna go browsing and stuff and also there's so many sales throughout the year that it's real. It's a lot easier. It's like in the middle of March, like, oh, I really want that, it's 20 bucks, I'll buy it now. Like before it was like, oh, you mentioned this six months ago and now it's Christmas. So here you go, like that was part of the magic and I'm not saying that there's no surprises Like I could definitely do better. I understand that, but it does make it harder and I'm not picking on you at all.
Speaker 1:I think you do a great job. What I'm saying is that I think that we get sad, for I think that I find so much joy in picking out things for you and for the kids and I like to see that, that surprise on your guys's faces. For me, I'm not so much concerned about the surprise element. I mean, I don't want to go out and buy my own gifts, but I think that it is fun to get a gift and to be surprised by it. That's exciting. But also I don't want you to go out and just waste a bunch of money buying things that you think I might like. I would rather give you a list of things. I put small things on there and I put big things on there that you're probably not going to buy but and that way you can pick from whatever you want, and then I'm surprised by what you actually decided to get. And then you always get a few little things too that are extra.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um and so, but I just think that, as we just have to make that Mindshift as we get older, that this is not necessarily for us anymore. Like we, we can get this and we can enjoy these things, but really it's with the kids.
Speaker 2:That's why people get jackets and like sweatshirts and stuff. You know it's like oh, we got to get something for somebody like here's jacket.
Speaker 1:You literally asked me for socks, underwear and undershirts for Christmas. Yeah, I'm like no, I'm not spending, I'm not doing that. You should, though I'm not though that will come out of our necessities budget.
Speaker 2:It's. I'm not necessarily a necessity yet, but it's getting there, oh they were.
Speaker 1:I do your laundry. We're past that. There are holes where they shouldn't be holes.
Speaker 2:I mean, my boxers are basically thongs. At this point, I, I think you, not all of them, some of them.
Speaker 1:I think you actually pulled up a pair the other day like which Hold is my foot going? And you finally threw that pair away.
Speaker 2:But I don't like you being excited or like holding it over me that I finally caved and threw something away. So, like I, I like wait till you leave the house, to like secretly tuck it at the bottom of the trash so you can't see.
Speaker 1:You're so weird.
Speaker 2:I don't want her to be right.
Speaker 1:Hey, you're such a weirdo. I don't understand why you have to take things to the very last string before we just get you a new pair.
Speaker 2:Literally the last string holding it together.
Speaker 1:I'm like you might as well Just go go commando today. What is happening here?
Speaker 2:Everyone just learned way too much about me.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, um, speaking of christmas and christmas gifts, since you won't let me buy myself Any more cups. I have this obsession with cups, I don't know why you have forever.
Speaker 2:I will say and I will say because it's a very popular thing and I'm not saying that you're catching on to the bandwagon here you have always loved cups. Since we got together, I was like I made you throw away so many when we moved. I was like why do we have like 50 cups that are all the same size? And like it just blew my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that I've become pickier as I've gotten older. There's I want them to do certain things now when before, I just liked the idea of having different cups to choose from. It's a cup.
Speaker 2:I want them to do different things. I want a cup that I can use it.
Speaker 1:When I?
Speaker 2:when I mean by that to control the tv, go ahead, break it down. What do you mean?
Speaker 1:Now we are sending me to this laughing fit, not gonna be able to complete this ends. I have one that I love specifically for my coffee. This one keeps my coffee warm, it fits in the cup holder, it's small, I don't need to fill, overfill it to, I'm not gonna drink it. That's like my coffee to go cup. And then I've got these cups and I want specifically for my iced chai, which are different than what I want for my water, because my water one doesn't spill like I have. That's fine. Call me weird, but I have like different reasons that.
Speaker 1:I like different things, so the Stanley cups are my favorite for both my cold drinks, my hot. Yes, you've been very happy since you found Stanley cups and I I have no desire really to try another cup. There is this other brand that I saw and I almost bought one when I was shopping with Christian when he was here, and then I was like Mike will literally kill me if I come home with this.
Speaker 2:So I didn't, um you felt like you were cheating on Stanley.
Speaker 1:I was just like. You know why do I need this if I have the ones that I like? But so what I did, though, is, since I couldn't buy me anymore, I brought the kids into this. Last year, or no, I think for father's day, I got you your first Stanley, which you use every day and I'm so grateful and thankful because I've gotten you quite a few cups that you don't ever touch Because I'm like, okay, I can't buy me cups, I know I'm by my.
Speaker 1:Everybody should love cups as much as I love cups so weird, so, um. So, anyways, you're, you're settled, you've got what you need. So I have had to bring the kids into this so they got their own little ones that match us and are like water ones, and I'm so excited for them because they do like ours and want to drink out of mine all the time They'll be excited.
Speaker 1:Yes, so, on this topic, you know I love Stanley and so I saw this story the other day of this woman who is recording Her car after I got into a fire, and she's like trying to like see what the damage is. And she opens the car door and she's like, oh my Stanley, like how did this survive? And she like pops it out. It like kind of sticks a little bit from all the plastic melted around the outside from the cup holder. She picks it up and as she picks it up it jingles from the ice still inside the Stanley cup, like if that's not the best marketing that Stanley could have ever had. And so they actually ended up reaching out to her, and not only did they send her a ton of different Stanley's, but they bought her a new car.
Speaker 2:That's really cool. Isn't that so cool, that's really cool.
Speaker 1:So I'm like man. All they need to do is run this, this video, for all of their advertising from now to the end of time, and everybody's gonna want to Stanley it with it. Withheld like withstood a car fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty crazy, right, man? I just can you imagine the guy like because I'm sure they have like social media marketing people and they're like I got it Like you can't write that right I.
Speaker 1:They instantly sent a message to see you like all right, here's what we've got to do.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, yes, if you guys are, you know, wondering what you want to get for your neighbors, or your spouse, or your children, or your mother-in-law, stanley, stanley for the win.
Speaker 2:Yep not sponsored. Not my favorite Stanley cup either.
Speaker 1:You are wanting a Stanley cup this year.
Speaker 2:Well, technically next year, that's true.
Speaker 1:But this hockey year a different Stanley cup. I'd be happy to add to add one of those Stanley cups to your shelf my little collection. Michael has what? Well, first of all, we've switched gears from Stanley cup, the brand, to hockey Stanley cup.
Speaker 2:Correct for those of you who are not, yeah, big on hockey, and I got little mini versions on my office shelves to what's the word Commemory? Is that the correct word? Did I say that correctly? Sure, that's the word.
Speaker 1:That's what we'll go with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I would love to add one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be fun. So moving forward with all the Christmas festivities.
Speaker 2:More things.
Speaker 1:More things. This weekend we're doing our annual PJ party. Those are a little different this year or not this year, but in the last five years since we've been in Colorado, but the first year that you and I were together, like our first Christmas, was the first year that Tammy did the whole themed pajama parties Really Duck Dynasty, yeah. And so we've done them every year since and they're always so fun. It's sad that we can't all get together anymore. And now it's going to be even more different because Craig and Laura are in Texas now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everyone's spread out, all over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's going to be a little party, I told her.
Speaker 2:A little Zoom party.
Speaker 1:I told her to leave room, like when they take their family photo, to leave room for Craig's family and our family and I'm going to send it to Matt and be like Matt please Photoshop this place.
Speaker 2:I got a Photoshop guy.
Speaker 1:So hopefully he can Photoshop us both in and we can still look like we've got all of them.
Speaker 2:I have a friend that I talk to occasionally, like multiple times a month. We'll randomly text each other or whatever, but it always cracks me up because I don't know how to Photoshop or do anything. But it doesn't matter how ridiculous it is. Like any time of day I will just send Matt a text after not talking to him for like three weeks and be like I need a picture of Rob dressed as the Hulk and like within minutes it shows up.
Speaker 2:He always Photoshop's the most random things, or he'll randomly Photoshop his face on your body in pictures you post to Instagram and then send them to me yeah, so then it looks like it's you and him in this photo.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say that. There's this photo like our faces are smashed up against each other and he replaced your face, or my face, with his, and I'm like that's such a sweet photo of you and Matt.
Speaker 2:That's a weird thing to get at 11 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wake up to that photo, so anyway hopefully, that's a great guy. Yeah, it's funny. Hopefully he can take care of that for us, but we'll have to. Actually, I want to try and go back, because that's a lot of Christmas pajama parties that we've had and get all of them together and see if I can post all of those, because they're so fun to see over the years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's good you get to see everybody get a little balder and their stomachs get a little bigger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there actually were some big stomachs. There's quite a few of us that have been pregnant during the PJ parties. So anyway, also, we're going to be doing a Christmas party with some friends and I'm really excited about that because it's going to be friends, food and games, which this is news for you. But the girls and I have been texting and we found quite a few little party games that we're going to be doing and it'll be fun and I'll take lots of videos and post those and or save them for blackmail.
Speaker 2:I feel sick.
Speaker 1:They're going to be fun.
Speaker 2:No, I'm going to be sick next week.
Speaker 1:Well, if they're drinking games, you'll definitely be sick, but they're going to be really fun. I think that they're going to be like we're not going to include the kids that can do their own thing. They're going to be adult, adult games. All of the games that I saw online include drinking. But we would be. We would just be follow that would not work.
Speaker 1:So we're going to have to, you know, make some adjustments, but I've seen things like these over the years, and now we're finally going to be doing them, and I'm pretty excited about it.
Speaker 2:That's cool. Now I mean once I get over my sickness. If I can make it, then I'll be excited, you'll make it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we have one specifically for the husbands that we we have deemed too embarrassing for us to do, so we're just going to let you guys do them.
Speaker 2:This sounds like a terrible party. It's going to be so fun. Oh gosh, didn't I embarrass myself enough?
Speaker 1:I don't need this, so it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 2:I mean speaking of games, since obviously there are some games that I care a lot about. I'm a very big PlayStation guy. I saw something this past week that like blew my mind. Playstation in the UK is in the middle of a $7.9 billion lawsuit class action lawsuit right now.
Speaker 1:Wait, so that's happening only in the UK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's in the UK. Okay, but basically the reason is is a bunch of people like PlayStation has their own store where they sell video games where you can buy from. So you can just go on to like PlayStation Live or whatever they call it, and download games right there from your couch, right? Which is what I do typically, because it's amazing and convenient and awesome.
Speaker 1:So similar to like if I want to go download a book, I don't have to go buy the hard copy, I can do it straight from my Kindle.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Okay, so that's the idea. So, but because of this, these consumers have decided well, you have a monopoly on this product. Therefore, you are making too much money on the product because you no longer have to pay like a retailer or somebody to carry, like a physical copy of the game.
Speaker 1:So is it the people who actually created the games that are suing PlayStation?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. This sounds like like a consumer based thing. So like you and a bunch of people not you, but like essentially- Kind of yeah, because it says they're filing this lawsuit on behalf of like seven million customers and like automatically, like all over the internet, everyone's like you might be in line for 500 bucks from PlayStation. Like check out, like, so you know how class action suits go.
Speaker 1:So everyone's like so excited to jump on this because free video games.
Speaker 2:Basically, but like my point is, this is just so ridiculous to me. One your argument doesn't make sense because the main argument is these games cost less usually less when they're in a store, Like if you go to Walmart. You can get the game for like $10 cheaper than if you downloaded it from your couch.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, but to me it's like well, obviously, because if PlayStation was selling it less than Walmart, there's no incentive for Walmart to carry their product Like that. Just that just makes sense, right? Also, walmart is hoping that you buy something else while you're in their store to make it worth it. That's how sales work.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I just don't like it. It bugs me and I don't want to just get on a rant, but something similar happened, and I think it was with developers last year, where they tried to go after Apple for all of Apple's like on the app store If you bought their game, like they were able to control the prices or they took like a fee from those companies. That one failed. So it's like okay, well, that one failed. It's just like they're going from one source to the next.
Speaker 1:It doesn't surprise me about the Apple one Apple with all of their stuff. No matter where you buy it, what retailer, usually they have set prices. You can't.
Speaker 2:You can't go under like this is what you sell it for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that Apple doesn't lose any money.
Speaker 2:But my point like and maybe this is me and maybe I'm wrong, but it's not like PlayStation is in charge of your electricity or your heat. We're like here, like, if you, we move, we live in Colorado Springs, so you use Colorado Springs utilities. It's not like there's another energy company that you can go to. No one is forcing you to buy these games.
Speaker 1:I don't understand how. I don't understand how. This is a lawsuit, so they're upset because they can buy it cheaper somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Basically, their argument is PlayStation is making too much money by selling me this game at this price.
Speaker 1:Well then, why don't they go buy it from Walmart Exactly? Oh, my goodness, people, okay, so this reminds me of I think I've told you about these before the Stella Awards.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay. So the Stella Awards. It reminds me completely of this, and if you haven't heard of this, it's basically this guy on the internet awards the dumbest lawsuits of the year, and it started because the lady who originally sued McDonald's over the hot coffee spill.
Speaker 2:The infamous.
Speaker 1:Yes, her name was Stella. And so that's how that like got dubbed Stella Awards. So I've read these before and I hear these like wild stories, like the guy that broke into the house and he tripped inside that person's house.
Speaker 2:That he was robbing yeah.
Speaker 1:And so he sued those people and won. That one was real, but I've also heard the one about the guy who got up in his RV and like, as he's driving on the freeway, he got up to make himself a cup of coffee and it didn't like it crashed.
Speaker 2:He put it on autopilot or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so unfortunately that one was I mean fortunately, but unfortunately that one was fake. So there's all these stories that I've heard that are amazingly entertaining and just like mind blowing and you're like, how is this possible? And thank goodness they're all fake. Funny, but fake. However, there are still very real ones.
Speaker 2:But isn't that sad that we're at this point where it's like wait, is this real or is this fake?
Speaker 1:And it's so ridiculous that you're like, oh, this could I could totally believe. Yeah, that definitely happened. But my point in that is I feel like people hear these stories whether they be real or not, because it's really hard to decipher what's real and what's not on the internet now these days. But I feel like people get these things in their head. They're like oh man, this person won this absolutely ridiculous lawsuit.
Speaker 2:Copycats.
Speaker 1:Let me go and sue this for whatever reason, and you know, worst case scenario I don't win. Best case scenario I become a millionaire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1:I just feel like it's one of those things that's like so easy to sue anybody over anything now.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the tip of the day then, and nothing makes sense. You know, the tip of the day is just install cameras and lawyer up Seriously.
Speaker 1:And then, yeah, don't, okay, this is going to get me down this whole rabbit hole. I can't even get started, so we so we got to wrap it up here. Yeah, or else you're just going to listen to another 45 minutes of us complaining.
Speaker 2:Too much laughter to bring it down now, right.
Speaker 1:All right, guys. Well, we are going to miss you during this holiday break. We hope that you guys have the best Christmas, the best New Year's, that you are safe and healthy and you enjoy time with your friends and family, and we will see you back in a few weeks.
Speaker 2:Bye.