Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley - Thanksgiving Special!

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

EP255: Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! We are thankful to the whole Kitty Gang for your support and love every day ?? On today's episode, Kail and Lindsie talk about their Thanksgiving preparations and play a thanksgiving dinner version of This Or That. They also read Thanksgiving story submissions which has us gasping! To finish it off, we read some Foul Plays Thanksgiving edition! Thank you to our sponsors! Everlywell: Visit everlywell.com/convos for 20% off an at-home lab test Lomi: Turn your food waste into dirt with the press of a button with Lomi. Use the code COFFEECONVOS to save $50 at lomi.com/COFFEECONVOS Stitch Fix: Sign up today at StitchFix.com/convos to get $20 off your first purchase Upside: Download the FREE Upside App and use promo code coffeeconvos to get $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more Vegamour: Go to Vegamour.com/coffeeconvos and use code coffeeconvos to save 20% on your first order

I hate gift giving and receiving receiving gifts is so weird. What do you say? Thank you? This is coffee convos with Kale Lowry and Lindsay Chrisley. I really want you to be in your feels Kale That does not interest me whatsoever. I feel very attacked by you a spirited discussion about motherhood friendship Family and life in the public eye. I'm just not with the fakery anymore. There's a fakery bakery around here Here's Kale and Lindsay This episode of coffee combos podcast is brought to you by Lomi by Pila. Visit LOMI.com slash coffee combos Hello kitty gang. Happy Thanksgiving. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, we are here for a holiday episode Good morning. That is my holiday singing

Hello and happy Thanksgiving fluffers. I am so excited. It's one of my favorite holidays Actually, the holidays just in general are my favorite holidays, but I love to eat. I love Thanksgiving food Love anything about it. I do love Thanksgiving food. That's like I could eat Thanksgiving food all year long Wait, someone told me Not too long ago. It was a guy. He told me that he doesn't get down with Thanksgiving food and this was just like a random conversation actually it was conversation I was having with the nail salon and I was just like what what happened to you Who hurt you like who who traumatized you in your life that like you don't love Thanksgiving food

I've just that's I think literally the first person that I've ever met that ever told me that Kristen doesn't eat like turkey and stuff. She only eats the sides. Wait, what? Yeah, she she calls it She calls it sidesgiving. Oh Wow, okay. Well, I could kind of get behind that although I do I Love a fried turkey like I'm from I've never had fried turkey. Huh? I've never had fried turkey. Oh my god It will make you slap your mama your grandma mama like it is so good. Chase Chrisley makes the best fried Turkey ever I was sneaking into the refrigerator last year

At midnight getting pulls off of his fried turkey So good Honey, I've never had it One of my best friends is coming from Dallas. You guys know Sterling And her kids are coming and Sterling she puts her foot in whatever she cooks So I'm really excited for her to cook. She cooked. We did Thanksgiving at her house two years ago And I'm just not a shelf. I'm not a cooker. I'm not a I'm just can't so I'll take care of the drinks and Sterling can cook the food

Wait, do you guys drink like Excessively on Thanksgiving? I don't drink ever alcohol drinks. Are you talking about you're gonna handle soft drinks? Oh, I'm handling soft drinks. No, I'm not opposed if people wanted to drink alcohol at my house for Thanksgiving I would not be upset That's their prerogative, but with four kids. I never want to have a hangover. So that's not happening for me Um, no, I think first of all need to back up. My parents don't drink never have actually was having this conversation with my dad the other day and He was like, I don't know what happened to my kids like they all drink and we never did and

I'm thinking to myself It would be so nice to just like take the edge off of being around everyone by just having champagne Like I don't get it. Like why can't we do that? But never alcohol a lot of my parents house ever So we do not have alcohol At my parents house for any holiday ever. Oh, okay. So we think that's weird. No, I don't think that's weird I don't think when I was growing up doing Thanksgiving like with my extended family my cousins my aunts and uncles and stuff I don't remember them ever even maybe there was no I feel like wine was only at Christmas I don't remember them ever having alcoholic beverages at Thanksgiving. I feel like there was wine at Christmas. And that was it

Um, I would love to know how many people just get drunk with their family over holidays because I think that that's probably a pretty common thing. Did you ever go out for Thanksgiving Eve the fuck is that? Oh Here go out for Thanksgiving Eve. It's like a big thing. They like go to the bars and bar hop and stuff, huh? Wait back up back up. First of all, where was this originated from? Is this like a common white people? Probably? I don't know What Thanksgiving Eve is like a big deal around here people go out for Thanksgiving Eve ma'am I've never heard of Thanksgiving Eve ever in my life

Thanksgiving Eve Looks like your kitchen fucking exploded your mom's bitching you out because you need to clean All the pots and pans and start the dishwasher so that she can refuck it up Yeah, no here. That's not it. You just go you get ready you go out you And you you get fucked up with your friends so That's that's interesting. I'm actually gonna look up Thanksgiving Eve and anybody who has ever participated in Thanksgiving Eve please let me know and give me a better definition than what Kale has because

Going out and getting fucked up with your friends Seems seems strange, but like, okay. I could get behind it. Yeah, wait before we get into like talking about anything else Let me tell you what happened to me this morning. Okay, so I was just laying in my bed like being trying to be a normal person which we all know that I'm not and And I start hearing okay, and I needed to know if anybody else has ever done this because this has happened to me like all The time where you will be sleeping and you think you hear something or you know that you hear something But you're still kind of like asleep, but like yeah, like know what's going on that's around you Yeah, like almost like a lucid dream, but you're not really sure like you think you might be more awake than

Yes, that's what was going on So I'm like I hear like this throw-up noise and I'm like still sleeping with my eyes closed I don't know why I didn't feel like I needed to peel them open sooner I wake up this dog is laid out beside me Freaking puke it on the bed. I knew you were gonna say that I fucking knew you were gonna say that Why like what what possessed her on that time that she needed to throw up and like what? Like I've never had a dog puke in my bed before and I was absolutely disgusted But I'm gonna tell you something more disgusting than I did. What'd you do you just lay down?

I Wouldn't get a towel and I put it over the throw-up Yep, because it was on like one side of the bed where no one was and then I just went back to sleep It was like too early to try to start cleaning that up. Yeah, no, that's that's what I did That's what I do when if my kids are sleeping with me and they pissed the bed I'm not cleaning it up at two in the morning anymore. Stop. There was a there was a period of time in my life when I would clean it up in the middle of the night, but like for what? Okay, wait, wait, wait, if your kids pissed the bed, is it not like a lot?

No, not really. It's mainly just luck. I mean, knock on wood He hasn't he hasn't in a really long time, but if he did No, it would be less than like a towel. Okay. Well I don't think Jackson has peed the bed in like a very very long time like yours I think you only had like a couple bed peeing accidents But I should chew not that is like one of the worst things as a mom to have to deal with like a throw-up kid in the middle Of the night a throw-up dog in the middle of the night Or a bedwetting incident because you're literally half asleep when you're trying to deal with it and you're like the bathroom was like

Literally right there Um, yeah, I I don't know. I don't know why I thought that like the dog could have possibly like made it to her own crate to puke I came up with a bunch of things in my head that like could have been a logical thing But then I was like wait, she's not a human. So There's that and I also need to know from you and everyone else if it takes you literally all day to wash your bed Lens because I have so much shit on my bed. That's so funny because You were slightly late to the recording today and I told Kristen. I was like if she doesn't get on my 1030 I have to go wash my bed sheets. I was like I got shit to do

Washing my bed like I have someone who does my laundry regularly, but my sheets and my towels I don't mind doing them on my own like it just doesn't bother me and I love the smell of bleach So I like do it a certain way Um, I literally was like I cannot wait to wash my bed sheets. Like I'm so excited. It does take all day Um, but I have like multiple sets. So it's like fine. So walk us through what's on your bed I have four like regular like the king-size pillows This one's that you sleep with and then I have five decorative pillows Which come off

I don't I don't always like wash the covers because those come off every night And then I have now that I have experienced I got a brand new mattress when I moved into this house and luxe threw up on it twice Um, before I got a mattress protector Um, so I have a mattress protector that I wash and then I have I put my my flat sheet under my Fitted sheet. So I washed my mattress protector my fitted sheet my flat sheet and I washed my comforter So Kristen told me which I wanted to throw the fuck up Um, most like hotels and stuff. They don't wash or dry clean the actual comforter. No, I washed mine Mine, I don't know if it's just like because people it's a pain in the ass or because I have to put it on an extra spin cycle

So it rinses like it drains Um, but I'm still going to do that because I want it to be clean Um, and then I don't care how long it takes to dry like it doesn't bother me Um, and so I wash everything at the same time. There's never a time where I don't wash the comforter too Okay, so I wonder if our you've seen my bed, right? Yeah, I said to you the last time I washed my sheets, which was literally last week. I sent you Oh, you said yeah, but I didn't see the comforter. It was just like the sheets of the pillows Yeah, but I didn't see the comforter. It was just like the sheets of the pillows. Yeah, so I don't put like a big

Comforter on my bed. Um, I get so hot at night. So I am a white sheet girl. We've talked about this so many times, but white sheet girl, um I have my laura ashley, which if you guys like don't have a laura ashley pillow You're not doing things, right? I've never heard of this That would be a definite like Lovely gift to get someone that would truly be the gift that kept giving every single night I got my laura ashley a body size one whenever I was pregnant and

Have never been able to get rid of it Used to be something that I just like snuggled with on the couch when I was married After I had Jackson because will is a psychopath about pillows. So we had to have like the down Super fluffy pillows that you you like sink into Um, I don't really love a pillow like that though. And it's funny because since I got divorced I got a whole different kind of Feeling of pillow than I had whenever I was married because the ones we had when we were married were more ones like will would have liked Um, I have four

You know like those pillows that have like the cooling technology in them. Yes. Yes. Okay. So I have four of those And then I have my um body length laura ashley um I put on white sheets and then I put on like a fuzzy uh kind of like I don't know what type of material it is, but it's like a fuzzy like blanket on top of my sheets And then you know like the um slip cover that you put a duvet into

Yes, okay. So I put that on top of my fuzzy, but I don't put a duvet in it because I get too hot at night I hate duvet covers. I've never had a good experience with them And then of course I have two barefoot dreams Blankets on my bed because can't live without it. If you've ever had it, you'll never live without it. It's a major luxury But I don't think I've ever had one. Hmm. Well, you just gave me Christmas ideas. Um Best thing ever your kids will fight over them. We're blanket people. We love like throw blankets My kids have like I we all have so many. I love them so much Okay, I'm sending you a barefoot dreams blanket because you need to feel

You need to feel all the feels okay. I'm down. You'll never wake up again Um, but that's that's what's on my bed and it truly does It's an all-day process. I think it's funny that you use your like Flashy underneath you're fitted. I think that's so interesting. Um, also major Tip when I moved into this house and I ordered mattresses for this bed Um Jackson's bed and my guest bedroom For the reason that you said about the accidents like on the mattress before you were able to get like protectors Um, I ordered those when I ordered the mattress

so there was no excuse for them not to be protected and I'm so glad that I did because Literally if this dog would have thrown up and the stain would have gone on it I think I would have had to rid myself of the mattress like I can't I can't like mattresses with stains freak me out so bad hotels truly freak me out so bad um If you have ever been to a hotel and like the um sheet has like come up like whenever you're sleeping Has that ever happened? Yes. Oh, and you wake up and you like see the exposed mattress and you're like holy shit like Yeah, I immediately want to

To throw up. I can't I can't my mattresses are zipped into like a um water protective cover so like you literally um Zip the whole mattress into it and then I have a protector like a mattress pad on top of that I'm very diligent and when yeah, if you really want to get into it when I take the mattress pad off I'm able to chlorox like my whole Like little mattress protector down and it smells so good and it's so clean. So if you guys haven't done this and your mattress is still uh

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I have to prepare my guest room for my guests for Thanksgiving I got I went to the I went to family dollar and you doubt that sort of fun game changer They have so many brand-name stuff. I spend so much money. Yeah I got brand-name stuff at family dollar at my right by my house and Sterling's coming on Sunday like this coming Sunday So I got new pillows for the guest room new comforter everything and I'm gonna I'm gonna bleach all the sheets and stuff and get the bathroom ready I spent so much money at dollar general or family dollar because They had such good stuff for the bathroom

I like stocked up on all kinds of shampoos conditioners lotions razors like everything and they're all brand names So I'm wait. I just want to touch on that family dollar dollar tree and I get confused by them and then dollar general. They're all different. What's the family dollar one? I don't know. I never I had never been in it. There's one on my street like literally my kids can ride their bikes there and I Any time they want to like go get candy or something like I'll take them and I just send them in the store And then I wait in the car. I'd never gone in there well

Last week when I didn't have my kids and I needed to go grab something I went in there and it was like a shit ton of stuff and I literally was like, oh my god Like you can get any fucking thing at family dollar I got all the best stuff for my guest bathroom But what what are you putting in the guest? But what what do you put in a guest bathroom? Um, I just didn't want her to have to like bring stuff to like bathe herself bathe her girls Um, you know, I got like hair products. Um shampoo conditioner razors. I got Flossers toothbrushes. I don't want I don't want her to have to bring all of that stuff

That's so nice when you go to someone's house. It kind of feels like an upscale hotel Yeah, that's like going to Todd and Julie Chrisley's Yeah, you don't have to worry about bringing any of that stuff. They have the best stuff because she shops at Costco So one everything's in bulk and it's just like large and they have Everything that you could think of like when I tell you um, the little individual Neutrogena like makeup wipes the flossing picks the

um, things you clean your ears out with um All like the the good soaps it's literally better than going to a hotel um, if you come to my house you might get Uh, I have spare toothbrushes like I was diligent about buying that but outside of that You're probably just going to like shower with whatever in my shower And I wish that I was like my parents and in fact you've now inspired me so when we hang up from here, I think I'm going to go to Target and

Just go through their little section of like, um You know that section that they have where it's like the travel section. Yes. Yeah, you can find so much great shit in there Yeah, so I'm gonna go I'm gonna go there today and do that. Um Because because you have really inspired me actually have family coming in town So that would be very great. And also while we're on this topic of buying shit while I'm there I'm going to get a little Um box to put together like some snacks and drinks and stuff for the delivery Drivers because I get so many deliveries over the holidays

And I think that that's so cute. I see a lot of my like blogger girlfriends making that so cute outside their door for um, like ups fedex usps whatever To be able to just like grab a snack and a drink. Isn't that super cute? Yeah, I remember that from the holiday season last year and I do think it's super cute, especially because It's a crazy time and I actually watched a tiktok today Um an amazon driver was like giving tips on how he was like, I'm gonna help you help us help you Um, and he was saying that like the flex drivers and stuff that deliver for amazon It's not like usps like it's a different person every single time and they literally can deliver in the middle of the night

So leave like your porch lights on and stuff like that And so I think those are like the forgotten delivery drivers like the flex ones because they have Typical like fedex amazon ups from eight to eight, but then they also have flex drivers I don't know if ups upsps or fedex and ups. I don't know if they have um Like out of regular hours deliveries, but amazon does so he was like don't You know, we're tripping over stuff. We don't mean to make your dog bark We're not gonna knock but like that would be nice for like those Drivers that deliver in the middle of the night. Oh my gosh, let me tell you I was um cleaning up my kitchen the other night

and it was probably Close to 8 30 because it was getting close to Jackson's bedtime and he had already made it upstairs and My doorbell rang and I could do not it was like rainy and it was cold outside and I was getting a um UPS delivery that late and I said, oh my gosh, it's so late I wish I would have had a snack for her then because she just looked like she was so tired And there's no telling how many packages I think about I always think about this over the holiday And I don't know why I think about it more over the holiday than the regular part of the year Maybe I'm just like in the spirit

But now that you can order everything offline and because of amazon I feel like they probably have to work so much harder because there's so much more delivery I agree and I think the flex actually think that the flex drivers are able to pick up more hours and stuff Well, I had not I did not even know what a flex driver was so you drive their own cars You just informed me, um Of of something actually even formed me of a couple of things on this episode. Um That I was unaware of before we do the this or that Thanksgiving foods

I've got to tell you I was preparing Jackson for a field trip I talked to christen about this either on southern tea Somewhere I talked to her about it. Um about this is the first field trip that I have not gone on as a chaperone so I was preparing for it today and um Preparing for like the lunch and I don't know why I get so freaked out But I'm I was like so alarmed that like he was not going to have something I went back and looked at the list that his teacher sent

I acted like he was going for like stay away camp for like a long time I went through this list like six times and I was like, okay. He's got his beanie. He's got his gloves Um, he's wearing the right shirt. So in case he gets lost like my child will get lost So make sure he's got on the right shirt Um, I was making dino nuggets at like eight o'clock last night to put in his lunchbox and um I was just like so nervous. I don't know like dropping him off at the school this morning Knowing that he was going to get on a bus and like I wasn't going to be there stressed me out

I Anything with the kids that school stresses me out No, but like do you chaperone on field trips or I have I have chaperoned, but it's not something I do regularly Kale when I tell you I've been on everything So this is the first time ever and when I went to drop Jackson off at school We get in carpool this morning and he is like Mom, why is this the field trip you're not going on and I'm like well because I had things

to do and like I all I am a mom that has always You know, I will make sure if there's like a sign-up genius and like the school needs something or like, you know stuff for the school nurse Whatever like I've always been on top of that to like just be a part do my part whatever And I remember talking about last year that I was gonna not sign up to be room mom because My mental health couldn't take that at that time and I'm glad that I didn't do it this year I just don't feel like I'm as cut out as maybe some other moms being a single mom and Trying to work and like do stuff for Jackson and like have family stuff going on

Not to say other people don't have that kind of stuff going on But I just don't feel like I'm cut out for it right now and maybe like I'll be able to get back to being a pinterest mom and like room mom. It's just not my thing Um, but when I tell you I was so nervous for him to get out of the car Kale like I was having anxiety sweats and this was a holiday field trip This was like they were um, no, they're studying Bears or something and so they're going to some type of like mountain preserve And so I remember doing that in school. Do you remember going through that? Um, no part in school like where you studied bears?

No Oh, I specifically remember it, but I thought it was second grade for me But maybe it was third um And it was such a fun unit that we did. I I so remember it with Like I remember going through talking about like the grizzly bears and like the black bears and brown bears and like loved it so much So of course anything that I loved I want Jackson to also love um, and I think it would probably have been a fun field trip

But that's what they were doing and of course I'm just like panicking because I'm like, okay He's got all the things that he needs But like what if he gets up there and he forgets his beanie and like Forgets to know how to put up like his hood like I don't know. I'm a psychopath. I don't know. Yeah, you're a little psychopath Yeah Um, is Jackson going to help you? Cook for Thanksgiving this year, ma'am. Um, I do have Jackson for Thanksgiving this year I don't know what we're actually going to be doing for Thanksgiving. Um

my parents, um Are expected to be in court a couple of days Before and so wow, okay. Oh wow right before Thanksgiving. Yeah them. Um, they wouldn't be the 21st Not that I feel like it should be like a law or anything, but like Damn, they couldn't have waited until after Thanksgiving. Well because the courts close Um, federal government and stuff pretty much. Oh, that's right They closed like probably black friday and probably that following monday. Yeah, and

Then you know, they're hours or so weird through the holiday. So, um Yeah, I hate the fact that it's going to be just a couple of days before Thanksgiving But truly this is the first year that I have not had Solid holiday plans, which makes me kind of feel all out of sorts But here's my thought process. I'm like, okay We're going to go and take care of what needs to be taken care of it's still a few days before Thanksgiving The grocery store won't run out of food. They might run out of some stuff, but if they do it's okay because we don't have to have it Um, we are

healthy, um We have food all the time. So if they you know run out of nuts, it'll be okay and um, I'm just going to go from there So once we get through that process, then I will actually worry about Thanksgiving I've never been in this position before Um in my life. I don't know if you guys remember but last year I did a Thanksgiving Um little styled picnic with all of Jackson's like favorite things because we that was my Was that my first holiday that I didn't have Jackson? I think it was like my first like major one and you gave them and you

introduced him to Georgia Yes, and so That's probably like going to go down in history as one of like my favorite Holiday memories ever and it was a bittersweet because like will was there as well Um, and it was just super cute. So also I've thought of worst-case scenario I might just do another picnic of Jackson's favorite things for go Thanksgiving food all together Hope that everybody else really enjoys their Thanksgiving Maybe I will have a friend that I can do a drive-by and take a pull off of their fried turkey

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everyone I don't know if it's just like my adulthood or Mac mac and cheese has never been a staple at any of my thanksgivings Growing up ever And so when I hear people talk about mac and cheese that they're thanksgivings It's so funny and like I look forward to it now as an adult now that I don't Have like my traditional Thanksgiving that I grew up, you know going to um

That's like one of my favorite things to eat at Thanksgiving. My mom and nanny make the best homemade macaroni and cheese ever like It's the kind that when you open up the oven, it's like I'm going to set the scene It's a cheese overload And the cheese gets just like a little browned and like bubbly on the top And then you can see like all the butter like seeping up. Oh so good

Honey, it is so good. It's not dry at all um You could probably if if it comes out properly you could put it in a bowl because it's like so cheesy so good um, however, if I was going to make macaroni and cheese because I Can't cook like they can I have a really good crock pot Recipe, but you got to be careful with doing a crock pot macaroni and cheese because it can get dry if you're not watching It's not like one of those crock pot

Things that you put it in you leave it and then you come back eight hours later. It's like a Stir it watch it. Yes. It's one of those. Well, I need to try that because I know I've said it before on here But I have definitely tried to make homemade mac and cheese and it comes out like soup Like it's just not good at all So I definitely would you're gonna have to send me the crock pot one I feel like for me because I'm not that great of a cook It's easier control to be able to do it in the crock pot because you can take it out

Whenever you want to I mean, which I guess you could do that in the oven too But for whatever reason mine ends up being dry. So I just like don't do that Um, but that's so funny to me that that was not a staple because I feel I don't know if it's like a southern thing But I've never been to a Thanksgiving that macaroni and cheese wasn't like a main dish 100% Yeah, everyone in my adult life has always had mac and cheese at every not even just Thanksgiving, but just like every every dinner holiday every

You know celebration. That's like a huge thing I'm I'm mind blown. I'm always mind blown whenever you tell me that. Okay. So first one stuff turkey Or turkey and stuffing separate. First of all, it's not stuffing if it's not stuffed in the turkey. It's dressing So I know that Kristen probably wrote that um, but it is Turkey and dressing if it's separate. I mean, I'm gonna eat it either way. I don't care. I'm not eating a stuff word I love Stuffing or dressing. I love dressing. So we do cornbread dressing

Um, I'll if I get to have it, which I don't know if I'm gonna get to I certainly hope I do because it's Dressing is my favorite part of the meal. Like if I had to choose one thing Mm-hmm. Actually if I could choose two things, I'm gonna know three things actually. Um Dressing is one of my favorite things Regular green beans not green bean casserole. No, I love regular green beans. Like I love regular Oh my god, it's so good and The my folks they make dressing so good That like you don't even need to slap gravy on it because it is so good

I I love gravy on everything, but You're one of those that you go and fix your whole plate and then you get the ladle and put gravy all over the entire confection Yes, confection reminds me of um, Matilda Matilda confection see you at lunch See you at lunch. Um, no, I'm not I'm not doing the stuff turkey. I'm doing Fried turkey and dressing separate. Okay. I'm doing Yeah, I'll go turkey and Dressing separate as well. Okay. Are you a turkey or ham?

I love both. I don't I I can't choose like if This year we I don't know why you know a lot of shit was like we're not gonna do ham this year and I was like One I don't even know what you normally have but why not? I love him Okay, I love him. So I think it's probably probably common to have both at Thanksgiving for most people um We always did Yeah, I think we always did both with will's parents as well

growing up Julie Which mom Julie her granny Always did a ham always did a turkey But I learned how to eat this sauce From them when I was a little girl. Um, I had never like known other people to do it So like everybody's probably gonna be like that's customary But I just thought it was like so special because her granny did it

But it was like this brown sugar and then you put mustard in the brown sugar to like make um a sauce to put on the ham and it makes it kind of like sweet and salty Okay, like a glaze So you put like brown sugar in a bowl and then you put mustard on top and then you like mix it There's not like a I couldn't give you guys a recipe because it's literally those two ingredients and you just have to mix it until it's like saucy Okay, okay. I'm tracking you just spread that on Your ham and so I always ate

Ham as a little girl, but we didn't fry turkeys back in the day So now that we do a fried turkey, I don't think I've I've literally touched a ham on Thanksgiving in probably like five six seven Who knows nine years like I haven't I love fried turkey um So good. Um, I've never had fried turkey. I think we're gonna fry one this year But I also want I requested a regular one too um

I'm gonna fight for the ham this year because I do love ham Um, and I didn't Did I do Thanksgiving last year? I don't think I did Thanksgiving at all last year now that I'm thinking about it um But if I had to choose between the two I would choose turkey just because it's the staple of Thanksgiving. Okay mashed potatoes or candied yams 100 percent mashed potatoes. I don't like yams in any shape or form. We have neither

um We do sweet potato souffle That is so weird to me and sweet potato souffle is like literally my second like if I'm going in order it's going to be dressing sweet potato souffle green beans um I do love candied yams though and if I was having to pick between these two it would be candied yams over mashed potatoes

But we've never had mashed potatoes at our Thanksgiving or Christmas for that matter ever. That's so weird I mashed potato. Actually, we always had both growing up the mashed potatoes and the candied yams at my nana's house Um, we always had both and everyone would always be like here kale. You're you're kailyn You're ready for your candied yams, and I'm like, no, I don't like them. Oh my god. I'd like to be or juice What is that even use christen? What the what is juice? Oh like, um Like gravy or like you you pick some of the juice from like the turkey, right? Okay. No I'm gonna go gravy if I'm going either of them. Um, but I'm not putting gravy on any of my stuff I'm going gravy and I'm putting gravy on every fucking thing

The next question is an offensive question But I know When I say that people are gonna come for me so hard because people who ride for box stuffing Ride so hard for it. Um, I've never had box stuffing Always had homemade. Um Anything to me homemade is going to be better than anything boxed. Don't argue with me I can't choose Based on preference because I've never had homemade dressing or stuffing. I I do really

I really do love box box stuffing like Stovetop is a one and I actually made Elijah Make it the other night. I didn't make him I just put it out on the counter because he loves to cook and it was just kind of like nudging him to make it I don't think he ever made box stuffing before It sounds like I really want this for dinner Um, so I'm gonna go box stuffing just because that's all I've had I think if sterling makes homemade dressing this year, I will I'll update you after Thanksgiving

Okay Box stuffing is actually really good. I have had it but never like at oh my god If someone showed up with box stuffing at one of our thanksgivings my grandmother would be appalled nanny would be like The fuck is that? um Box stuffing is really good if you get like those smaller little muffin tins, you know what I'm talking about Muffin tins, okay, like the little ones. Uh-huh and put them in there. It's really good like that Okay, so they kind of look like muffins muffins. Yeah, like uh stuffing muffins and that's cute

Oh, yeah, it is super cute and it's easy. It's controlled Um, so that's an idea if anybody cares next question I have become a less bread person as I have gotten older than I was when I was a little girl um Always big time bread girl Now I don't really care for it and it might not be on there But Jackson loves bread and we always do the rolls

Um, they come in the frozen section and they're in like a little tin Um, and they're like pull apart. I think they're yeast rolls So I'm gonna have to go rolls pre-made rolls from the store in the frozen section those specific ones Um, I've never had baked homemade rolls ever bake at home rolls never had that Um, I'm also less of a bread person the older I get I don't really give a fuck if there's rolls or not If there is they're most likely going to be Hawaiian rolls and again, I just don't care So I'm going to go pre-made from the store and I may or may not even eat them. Perfect. Love that for us Green bean casserole or brussel sprouts. We actually never have either of those same. I've never had either at the

Thanksgiving I prefer just like the regular traditional green beans traditional green beans Um, I'm not a huge fan of casseroles in general growing up my dad There was like two casseroles that we were allowed to have because my dad wasn't eating any other casserole he said it's like you go into the fridge and Casseroles reminds him of either throw up or

You've taken everything that you had all week out of the fridge put it in a dish and then Tried to make a meal out of it and like that wasn't his thing. So we don't really do that many casseroles in general Um, never have I ever had green bean casserole. I've never had green bean casserole that I can think of but It is something that sounds good to me I've never had brussel sprouts at any of my um holiday meals Um, I like brussel sprouts, especially from this pizza place called lunas by me. They have the best Um, brussel sprouts with like a balsamic glaze and bacon and whatever That's not I've never I've also never had green bean casserole, but it's something that I would like to like look up

What's in that? But no, I would just do traditional green beans and I've never even had green beans at Thanksgiving Okay, cranberry sauce or corn. We have both at my family Uh, typically at my Thanksgiving's like we're growing up. I'm talking like my nana died when I was in high school So it's been a long time since we've had but like when I think of Thanksgiving I think of when I went to my nana's house as a kid Um, we had both Okay, so we always have cranberry sauce. I love cranberry sauce

Um, but I don't hate like canned cranberry sauce like the kind that you like slice I think that's super good to just like take a little bite of that take a little bite of your dressing And then take a little bite of your fried turkey. That's so good. Never had corn at Thanksgiving. So Really? Ever ever. Yeah, Elijah was he was like corn corn and and also he He wants to do jerk chicken at our oh see I could be fine. I could get down with that He was he was like wanting to do all kinds of stuff and I'm just it's so fascinating to me

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I know that there's lots of moms out there and grandmothers out there that are You know cooking for days and like really preparing and doing all of this and I did Thanksgiving one time by myself when will and I were mad at his parents for whatever reason Um, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna make my own fucking feast And I did and by the time I got done. I didn't even want it I was like This was so much work and I hope that you guys enjoy it, but like I don't even care about it So I definitely like feel this mom from the one time of my entire 33 years and I made Thanksgiving on my own

um Yeah, I I love this for her and I don't hate this for her family I just don't That would really be upsetting to me. I don't cook But if I did and then I fell asleep and everyone left me I would be very upset But also again bringing it back to my childhood Thanksgiving There were designated person or people who were in charge of the food and nobody was expected to help cook outside of those people

Um, I know my mom was always in charge of bringing the mashed potatoes. Like that was my mom's thing Um, but I stayed out of the kitchen and I remember my cousins staying out of the kitchen too Like that was not a thing and like when we went to Dallas for Thanksgiving at Sterling's She didn't want no help. She was like don't come in my kitchen. Like she didn't want help That's so funny, but I do I'm wondering if it's a southern thing though because I feel like I might get chewed out about this I feel like northerners Probably do more of like you bring a dish. I bring a dish. We all put the dishes together and then

Like we have Thanksgiving. I think it's probably a A customary thing in the south where one person Cooks at their home and like you're not expected to bring a dish And like just don't bring a dish actually because it might not be good. It might not be good Um, Elijah said his top foods for Thanksgiving are mac and cheese stuffing greens turkey pie I forgot about the greens. That's something that's new for me too. I never had greens at my Thanksgiving's see we do greens for new years

Okay, so you don't do it for you, but you don't do it for Thanksgiving. Okay Okay, next person says every year we get together with my husband's family At a cold dank run-down fellowship building with no running water Everyone arrives eats and leaves in 90 minutes. His aunt brings mac and cheese But it's like mac and cheese soup one year. Someone brought PB and J sandwiches This year. I said, let's do it at my house I have heat and running water and a TV to watch football Half the family declined to come what?

Okay, first of all fellowship. What is a fellowship building like a church? Yeah, like that's what I'm imagining. I'm imagining like a small like little church with like pop-up chairs and like school lunch table style things is like what I'm picturing in my mind um To me if it's got to be like this I don't want to go because one I might be 90 minutes late. So if everybody leaves in 90 minutes I might not even get there for the mac and cheese soup. So first of all And like PB and J sandwiches. That's not even a thing. Wait, I don't I'm so confused by every year

We get together with my husband's family at a cold dank run-down fellowship building with no running water Why why would there's no there? No First of all, is that even legal for that many people? I I've just made up how many people are here But I'm gonna imagine it's like a good amount of people Is that even legal to be in a place like in a building with no running water with these people with pb And j sandwiches and macaroni and cheese soup like I don't think so I hate this idea and I'm sad that half the family declined to come to your home But I think you should stand your ground and I have that home. You should stay at your home

And if they don't come You don't have to be in a dank run-down Building with no running water and you're also not eating pb and j sandwiches and macaroni and cheese soup. So that's my advice I agree. I'm not going to no dank ass place on Thanksgiving. I rather just if for that I would just stay home and eat the fucking pb and j Okay next person says One glorious Thanksgiving my mom and aunt decided to try edibles. I have a story about this Naturally, they made a rookie mistake of eating another after one 15 minutes

Because they're not doing anything Fast forward two hours. My mom is full panic mode whether or not the local whether or not the local duck she fed daily Will starve overnight because there's no way She's in any fit state to go out and feed them and my aunt Is waking my uncle up every half hour and asking him to tell her whether or not she's still breathing first of all I feel like this would be a common thing for somebody who tried edibles

And then thought that they weren't working and then like took another one because it like didn't kick in yet And then these things happened But you can't take them on a holiday like someone gave me one on a holiday last holiday Literally, and I did not take these on a holiday like if you're going to try edibles Holiday is not the time it will literally put you on your ass and ruin your day Someone that I know I'm not going to call them out because everybody knows them Um, I feel like I know who it is

gave me and other folks Edibles and didn't know No, that person knew we didn't shit I'm like, this is illegal like Oh, yeah, it is illegal and then I got a text message about it the other day Like you ready for the medibles again this year literally. I'm not even kidding

I I can't I'm not I mean we could get into semantics about about edibles and smoking weed, but like I can't function. I have in my life Um, but if I was to eat an edible like I'm on my like I'm going to bed like you won't see me for 10 10 hours Smoking and edibles and things like that would put me on my ass and put me right to sleep like I can't I'm not a functioning High person. Okay. Well before we move on to the next thing. I needed to pull up my text messages from two days ago That's how relevant that this is to me

I'd sent this person a picture of a fresh mojito with lots of mint and Just a a bowl of pickles And they responded and said I'm jealous and I said don't be but do you feel me? Yeah, yeah, I remember when you ate that edible and was completely fried like some chicken Like some turkey on Thanksgiving I said laugh my ass off might get into that at some point soon to be honest Saying way better than drinking so this had happened to me on a holiday and um,

I would say I feel bad for them, but I also don't so next Next okay number four Um during a childhood Thanksgiving my mom's candles caught the kitchen curtains and some decorative greenery on fire My sister my cousins and I were just at the kids table in the kitchen while the adults were high We're in the dining room So no one of significance noticed anything except me before we started eating my mom Threatened us with the pain of death if we annoyed the adults during dinner So when the fire got out of hand I quietly walked into the dining room and stood silently for

a minute or two until someone noticed me only then did I Only then did I politely say Sorry, but the kitchen's on fire My mom still gives me grief about my prioritizing politeness over since she did what she was told This person's from the south 100% she was not about to get whipped over that. No, she was not about to get whipped secondly, um How many people have kids tables at like their holiday functions because I grew up going to my mom's grannies for

holidays like all of our holiday meals before she you know passed away and We always had freaking kids table I never had one because I was jealous of it like I was jealous that I wasn't at the adult table because I always thought I was an adult my whole life And I hate to be on the table and this person is also probably my twin because this is also how I would have handled the situation specifically

I'm trying to think like I was the youngest so there was no need for a kid table now Sterling and I have to have a kids table because I have four she has two and then my other girlfriend is coming with her four children. So they're gonna have to Sit down and shut up at the kids table. I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'm totally kidding Um, we're gonna have a kids table this year. Um kids tables to me Literally make me laugh so much because I'm like what type of conversation is actually going on at the kids table versus the adults table Well, Lux will probably get up on it and dance. So I'm thinking that your kids table would be far more lit than your adult table

100% okay next My grandma my grandpa my grandma got divorced and my grandpa eventually remarried one Thanksgiving during the what are you most thankful for? The version of my dinner Mine not so well grandpa grandpa stood up and declared that he regretted letting my grandma divorce him And that it was the biggest mistake of his life right in front of his new wife Wow, that's deep and I have never done a what are you most thankful for? Part of the dinner. We never did that Um, I wonder how that ended. I'm gonna assume that he's probably divorced again

Did he remarry though? Like I wonder how that went like I I want to know like how this played out So whoever told us about this, please let us know because this is like drama that I'm invested in um I think that I would love to have been a fly on the wall during this Thanksgiving um And I wonder how often that it actually happens. Um, I was told by someone in my life that Most of the people that they know that have been divorced actually. It's my nanny. She told me this most of people that have been divorced

um They have a sense of regret from doing it once they've done it like after many years have passed And I wonder like what the psychology is behind that I wonder if it's if you can like still get along and be in like a normal Place where there's like not hostility and whatever is it you are maybe fantasizing over the what if if you would have stayed together Or if you actually feel like you missed out on something and made a wrong mistake I think when I think about it, it's more like it's kind of like when you're in a toxic relationship and you think about The reasons why you're staying in the toxic relationship is because you see the potential you see

Who they are when they are a good person when they you know on When things are up when things are good It's kind of like that like I know that I've reminisced about you know being married and I've almost romanticized The good parts and the good aspects and it's like did I make a mistake? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think that I think that I mean, I'm definitely not in that place. Um, Maybe it's just like too soon for me. Um,

I don't think that I made a mistake, but I also definitely Desire maybe in our future at some point Maybe like five years down the road that eventually like we could sit around a table with other significant others and like Do this. I just hope that no one stands up and declares regretting getting divorced. Um, I would be mortified if that happened Um, I just do think that it is probably I think my nanny's right and I think it is a common thing that People go through when I was growing up at my Thanksgiving's nobody was divorced at all except for my mom and that I mean, my dad just didn't come to Thanksgiving. Um, he was out of the picture

Um, when my nana died and people started getting divorced me one of my cousins and my aunt got divorced at the same time Um, Thanksgiving was never the same after that. We never really got fully together again I mean, some of us would get together at my aunt's house Um, but I really feel like divorced like kind of at my nana my nana's death really pulled us all apart well I hate that. Um, I feel like everybody in my family Has been divorced so I can't relate Um, I come from divorced folks. So yeah

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I can I can always tell if I had the spices right by smelling and tasting the batter As I proceeded to put my nose closer to the bowl and sniff it I Stupidly forgot the fucking mixer was still going Needless to say those beaters rolled up my hair faster than any curling iron I've ever used and slammed into the side of my head I felt like every hair was being ripped out the three boys all early teen assholes laughed so hard They were in tears. I was in tears also, but not from laughing

I made them all leave the room and managed to somehow save my hair from the mixer So remember kitty gang turn off the mixer before doing a sniff test FYI, I made a new batch pies came out perfect. But to this day that story gets told every single Thanksgiving Thanks for letting me share my stupidity. That's like my vacuum story when I got my back my hair caught in the freaking thing I still don't see how that happened. Honestly That poor girl. Oh my god. Her hair was probably gonna rip out first of all Every single person that is listening to this if you lie and say that you don't do taste tests by tasting batter of

everything on Thanksgiving You're a liar. I just remember eating we had a vegetable tray that every year at my Nana's and that was like the appetizer for My mom wouldn't let me eat all day Like there was one thing my mom was going to show up for and it was Thanksgiving with the mashed potatoes She might not have fed me for the rest of the year, but that was what she was going to show Susie she brought she came committed with those potatoes. She was committed to holidays when I was a kid So if she was going to look like the perfect mom to anybody it was going to be Thanksgiving and Christmas

Um, but on Thanksgiving, I was not allowed to eat anything until we got to my Nana's because at some point We eventually moved away. It was like two or three two or three hour drive every year Um, and but there was always a veggie tray and I used to eat all the carrots and the olives out of the veggie tray That was like our appetizer. Um, I was like I said, I wasn't allowed in the kitchen. So I couldn't try any batters I couldn't try the like I couldn't try anything. Oh gosh. See like people from the south You're going to try it and you're going to tell what you think's missing Like your mom's going to give you a spoon or your nanny's going to give you a spoon and be like does this taste right?

Like do you feel like it needs more sage or like do you feel like This is good. Like I feel like that's just like a very Common thing, but I also think it's a very common thing that you're not allowed to eat all day And it's like who told you that well because we would eat my Nana's Thanksgiving started at one o'clock Oh, okay. That's a good question to ask everybody. What time does your Thanksgiving start because we eat at one I think some people do like evening And then some people do lunchtime and then some people do like brunch hours We always did we ate at one o'clock

And then we would go out and play with the football we would play football and then um, we'd come back in and have dessert We eat when my mom and nanny say that the meals on the table. That's what time we eat out The meals. Oh, so y'all. Oh, okay. Okay. So like we're all there at like 12 1 o'clock whatever But was it mandatory for you guys growing up like when I was growing up? I'm shit you not like When I think of Thanksgiving today or holidays today and like People I know that have siblings and so and so and where are you going for Thanksgiving? And they don't have like like I'm so stuck on my childhood Um, nobody as long as my nana was alive. Nobody missed Thanksgiving or Christmas like

It was not oh, I'm going somewhere else for Thanksgiving. Like that wasn't a thing That was literally my mom's granny and like it was just like a known time like you're showing up and like Dinner's gonna be on the table at one o'clock Period and you're you're you're not going to so-and-so's house instead Like whatever you do after you leave nana's house is on you But you show up and you're not you're not going somewhere else. You know what I mean? Like you're it would be so rude Or would probably be no one said this but like in my mind It probably would have been offensive if you would have like been late to that because you knew the meal was going on the table

at one o'clock like no questions um We're a little bit more flex with my parents because my parents now host everything um And it's just kind of like whatever time the macaroni and cheese is done bubbling is like what time you're gonna eat It's all mac and cheese is key. Okay. We actually do have time to do number seven if you want to read it Okay, love the pod. I tell almost everybody that I know they have to listen This is a story of what of when I almost died first of all

I was died at family Thanksgiving and nobody noticed when I was in the eighth grade I got braces a week before Thanksgiving and hindsight who was the asshole that decided that My mouth was so sore on the best food day of the year But I digress I had an expander across the roof of my mouth. I was getting the hang of along with the braces My family is 100 toxic and used to force holidays together in this particular year. Everybody was in particularly bad moods I was just starting to enjoy my salad when the bickering began amongst the table I was minding my own business Chowing down when a large fancy piece of lettuce got hung up in the roof of my mouth under the expander and lodged in my throat

I experienced true choking I was silent. I couldn't cough talk or so much grunt loud enough for anybody to hear me over the fighting So here I am at the end of the table fighting for my life shoving my finger in my throat trying to pull the lettuce out of What my family fought pulling the lettuce out while my family fought over some bullshit and nobody was noticing I was panic and I finally punched my stepbrother in the arm. He performed his version of the Heimlich on me to dislodge it It was one of the most scariest moments of my life And all I could think of was I was going to die in the presence of my whole family and nobody is going to notice Thankfully the chaos has ended and everybody has now decided to do their own thing for the holidays and no more near-death experiences have occurred

Um choking is something that I am absolutely terrified of Um, especially with children one time my sister got a spaghetti noodle lodged in her throat and I saved her life. So Savannah Chrisley if you're listening, um, you're welcome for being here I also I choked on a hot dog at daycare one time and Almost died and another kid like saved me or whatever Um, I have a couple things to say about this number one. I'm so glad that you're okay Um, I also had a near-death experience with lettuce from salad works where I was driving and eating my salad and I like inhaled

um a piece of spinach and it was like Exactly how she described like and I was driving so I shouldn't have been eating the salad, but I Couldn't breathe couldn't talk couldn't cry couldn't um cough nothing and it was just like I like It's so terrifying. I literally inhaled it but It's the next thing I want to say is we never had salad at our thanksgivings Yeah, I don't think we've ever had salad at our thanksgiving either um

But I also don't want to not address the fact of like the toxic family Also, we've never had a fight at our at our family functions ever I wonder how many fights happen at family functions. I feel like it's a lot actually my family is I don't know like My family is very like secretive about like certain things like there's just certain things that we don't talk about But I have never experienced my family fighting ever Interesting, none of them. Nobody I have if there was ever an argument between people in my family I have never known about it. Okay. Well, um, I cannot relate because if there is ever anything going on in my family

Everybody knows about it. You're gonna know about it You're gonna know about it. You're going to be annoyed about it because another person has to be annoyed about it Um, and you're gonna do the walk of shame probably if you've done something that it's just like foul So interesting speaking of foul. I've never seen them fight. That's so crazy. Okay. Speaking of foul We're gonna do foul play I'm scared Go ahead Okay from our dear Alexa in the facebook group

I don't know if this is podcast worthy my dear Kristen Noel hook, but One year we went to Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house and I was pumped for the deviled eggs Okay, again, I never had deviled eggs in my Thanksgiving either. So that's a shame I don't know why but I was like pumped. Well, I bite into one at mealtime and find an animal hair And then another and then another One of my aunts animals got into the deviled eggs filling every single deviled egg It's filling with animal hair and I didn't eat eggs for years I'm immediately disgusted and this is why I have a problem with eating people's food that I don't know

because all my family never like This is again, like I feel like my family is an anomaly an anomaly um Growing up my family wasn't animal people like they were but they they didn't have like a ton of animals Um, nobody had cats everyone only had dogs that stayed on the floor So they never we just never had a hair issue That is so fucking foul And I won't eat like potlucks that people's like works or like events stuff because you don't know

Like I don't know like how their utensils were clean that made that I don't know How that stuff was stored like what the inside of their refrigerator looks like if it's like so disgusting um You just don't know and we grew up like that like my dad was so About that like you don't eat other people's food like you don't this you know that And that's specifically why you if you are invited to my family's Thanksgiving or Christmas Like don't bring food because no one's gonna eat it. Oh So disgusting and I am terrified like of eating if I ate something from someone else's house and found an animal hair like

Oh my god. No, that's so foul. That is so foul And I'm very jealous, but I am jealous of the devil eggs. That would make me upset because It's also a staple of Thanksgiving kill. Okay. Well, I'm gonna tell alijah and sterling right now. Um, okay We refer to this as the Thanksgiving from hell. Oh shit bless I was sleeping on the floor house was full of relatives, you know And I woke up my aunt screaming bloody murder from the bathroom She was taking a shower and the plumbing backed up through the tub. It was quite literally shitty water We had to shut the water off and finish the cooking at several different neighbor's houses. Okay. Yeah, this is hell

That's literal hell To make matters worse We couldn't reach a plumber until the following monday My uncle was staying at a hotel and wouldn't let a single one of us use his room or use the bathroom to shower We had to take carloads of family members to literal gas station to use the bathroom So I went back to college all gross from the days of no showering turns out the plumbing issue was a citywide problem They had to evacuate the entire street in front of our house So the whole ordeal was expensive messy and left such a scar on my family that none of my relatives have been invited back since

We have a small immediate family only Thanksgiving now and they are so much better um, I do not know any of my neighbors outside of Elijah's cousins well enough to ever ask them if I could cook something at their their house Um, I feel like at this point unless you're in the situation. I don't know like what you would do But I think that if I had to like go to different neighbor's houses to use the stove I would just like call it a day and order dominoes Um, yeah, I'm probably gonna call boston market. Yeah, like Not yeah, no, I'm not going to multiple neighbor's houses to try to to use their stove

Um, but good for you guys for really thugging it out and like doing the most because this is this is great Um, also the uncle who wouldn't let you use his room or bathroom to shower and shit We are pissed off at him still And also, um, a small immediate family only Thanksgiving is definitely Preferred for me. I love that. I loved my growing up my extended thing. That was the only time I really saw them so I loved it, but Now I just float around for Thanksgiving or don't celebrate. It depends. Um, are we doing another one? Yep. Last one Okay, kind of traumatic, but it has a happy ending. Don't worry last year

We did Thanksgiving business as usual at my husband's family's house We had just gotten a new golden retriever puppy about two weeks before We brought both of our dogs over and after lunch I decided to give them a little treat and use turkey as a mechanism for training What can go wrong, right? Fast forward half hour where she's literally having uncomfortable diarrhea on the carpet vomiting, etc We cut our visit short and went home to realize she refused to drink any water So we rushed her to the closest animal hospital after tons of tests x-rays, etc She was pumped full of fluids and feeling much better

We still to this day have not given her any turkey and are 100% not sure if it was the turkey that did that Think Thanksgiving with many family members who saw a cute puppy and might have given her extra scraps without us knowing Needless to say she's all right now. She's kept us on our toes since Since and we think the incident might have scented her growth since she's only about 45 pounds That's have checked her out and she's healthy just tiny. Oh, wow Yeah, she but there maybe there was like a little bone in it. I don't know. Okay. No, so Who knows? This did not happen to me on Thanksgiving. This this is not something that happened to me on Thanksgiving

But it's something that happened to me in college um Anybody who's ever watched chrisley knows best and you see milie, which is now my nanny's dog She actually was originally purchased for Grayson Then I got her and had her through college And then when my papa passed away um I was pregnant with

Jackson and was living with nanny. And so she just kept milie But when I was in college, I would make like pot roast. I was a much better cook in college than I am now so You guys try to figure it out. I don't know. Um had made a pot roast and Fix her bowl of dog food and put like a little pot roast and like a little bit of like the juice on top Okay, when I tell you that dog was so deathly ill. I thought that she was gonna die I was a broke college student

So I didn't know like how much it was gonna cost for me to like go and get her help But I had to go and get her help because I was like if once she's not eating she's lethargic like something's got to give I take her and She comes pretty much back alive after like a week, but it was like something in that meat I wonder what maybe the spices the juice. I don't know that so I've never heard of that But like I would advise any person um, Georgia also has a very, uh

Sensitive belly and so I've got to be careful about what she gets and um, if you do have dogs around Thanksgiving table and you're bringing them around people that you don't know I would either advise you not to bring your dog or to tell everyone not to feed them table scraps because this kind of Shit does happen. Um, also many people don't know this, but a lot of dogs are very sensitive to chicken I'm not sure about turkey, but um, if anyone like feeds them turkey flavored food or food that has turkey not turkey Um, chicken flavored food food with chicken chicken scraps things like that

It's actually like one of their biggest allergies. You know, it's so funny because I talked about um, um, Georgia and some shit problems on southern tea with christen And there was like this whole thread on the facebook group and I didn't know like I thought chicken was like a cuss like a Normal thing that like you give to dogs. So I had me too. I thought it was normal. I had no idea But I do think that she has a um allergy to chicken Yeah, a lot of dogs do and people that had no idea christen was the one that told me and then the vet told me after christen told me On real well, I hope that every single person that is listening to this that you involved us On your special day on preparations for Thanksgiving

Listen to our bullshit. Um I hope you guys have enjoyed this episode. I hope that you guys enjoy your time with your families Um, and I hope that you guys have amazing food. I hope nobody Experienced as a fire from frying turkeys And I hope I also get to enjoy Thanksgiving kale. I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving That you enjoy the time with your out-of-town guests um, and that you Feel like a stuffed turkey at the end of the day and have a wonderful nap and wake up

energized and Happy as can be. Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. If you don't celebrate, I hope you guys have a great day Whatever you do choose to do. I hope jackson has a great day with you whether you're doing sides or Thanksgiving or not whatever you guys are deciding to do and Thank you christen for helping us put this episode together. Thank you Alexa for contributing your foul play, which I'm absolutely Excessive by and we will talk to you guys next week. See ya