Drama Queens - Happy Holidays from your Drama Queens

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

Our hosts are talking about all things holidays, including how they're celebrating and their favorite treats and traditions. They also share their special wish for all of you listeners going into the new year!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, the weather outside is different depending on where you live. But happy holidays to all of you out there in the cold or in the snow or in the warm tropical weather. Who knows? Who knows? Holiday in Jamaica. Like, maybe you're just chilling. I think we all should have gone to Jamaica. Happy holidays, everyone.

Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanza and any and all things you're celebrating. Merry everything. Hi, kids. How are you? Mary all of it. Yes. Merry merriment. I'm glad we have it.

We need it. Would Christmas still be Christmas for you if you were in a place like Jamaica where it was very warm and tropical and sunny? Yes. I think so. Yeah. I mean, I do really, so much of Christmas is about the ambiance and the evergreen trees and all of the cold coziness. I think because I feel permission to relax. when it's cold outside, like the weather gives me permission to relax.

And if I'm out in the sun, I feel this immense pressure to accomplish things and get things done. But I don't know. If I'm in Jamaica, then I'm kind of on vacation where I would be. But, you know, so I don't know. I don't know. I guess so. What about you, Rob?

I grew up in Southern California. So all I ever had were sunny Christmases. So it would still be Christmas, but I got to say now here in Portland where we actually have seasons and we have a proper winter, man, it's kind of next level when you wake up and there's like snow on the ground because I'm with huge joy. As soon as the weather, as soon as it's raining, I feel like it's God's way of going, hey, take the day off. Stop being productive. Just relax. Why don't you sit at home and be cozy and make a stew? Yeah. Yeah. There really is something nice about the cold in that way.

I'm doing my first East Coast Christmas in a couple of years. I actually, I brought my parents to New York for Christmas in 2019, you know, thinking we were going to go into 2020 and have this great year, L.O.L. We got locked in our homes. But we had this really beautiful city Christmas and we went to plays and we did all these things, but it didn't snow. And so, I don't know, it feels nice to be kind of getting this cold, woodsy moment. Yes. Yeah. So are you guys going to continue that through the holidays? You're just going to stay there. Rob, are you staying in Portland too? Are you guys are going to travel oh yeah yeah no traveling with a four month old sounds terrible um no we will be here uh and it's been great we've just been having fun with the kids and then jenny has been

baking up a storm oh which is equal parts incredible and difficult because i have the self-control of a dog i will eat the food you put in front of me until i hurt my body like i get a stomach cake and she recently made um a just a monster batch of rice crispy tree And are you familiar with Muddy Buddies? Oh, yeah. Yes. No, wait, no. What's a Muddy buddy?

So, buddy, buddy, let me walk you through what a muddy buddy is. Wait, is Jenny a Jersey girl? How does she know about Muddy Buddies? No, she's an Oregon girl, but she's just a wizard in the kitchen. So it's when you take checks, the cereal. Well, let's put those at the side. First, what we're going to do is we're going to get some chocolate and we're going to melt it down. And then we're going to toss some peanut butter in that party, mix it and melt it down.

probably some butter because why not? And then after that's this like hot, delicious concoction, you pour in checks mix and you mix it all around and then get this though. Here's where it gets real next level. So tell them. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a big old plastic bag. We're going to dump a ton of powdered sugar in there.

And then you pour the chocolate peanut butter covered checks in and you shake it up. So it is just like an insta cavity, but oh my gosh it's got the crunch it's got the sweet it's got the salt it's so good when i tell you like i've i've hurt my body i woke up yesterday and my stomach wasn't right still isn't right even when i took the day off sweets it's so good i can't help myself you've got to get you some muddy buddies i do not like peanut butter and chocolate together and muddy buddies are the one exception to the role i i am a person who would prefer to have enough i i am a person who would prefer to have a dinner for dessert instead of a dessert for dessert. Like I'm such a savory kind of gal that when I first

got back to the East Coast, I'd been in L.A. for work and, you know, some projects out there. And I got home and walked in and Ash had made lasagna soup. And I was like, this is the best thing I've ever eaten in my life. I don't even know what that is. What is lasagna soup? You guys, I will send you the recipe. I'm telling you, I'm unwell. It is so good. And we ate dinner and then I looked at her and I was like, I'm having another bowl of this before bed. This is, I absolutely, I don't need it. I know there's dessert over there, but I don't care. I don't care. I just, I want this. So I think I, I need to venture into the world of the savory, the savory sweet. And it sounds like a muddy, everybody is that.

I think that's the answer. There's also a recipe floating around right now that's popular with, I mean, first of all, rice crispy treats, I kind of feel like it's the wheel of desserts. It was perfect from inception. Let's not try to make it better. That said, there is a brown butter rice crispy treat with pumpkin seeds and I think a little bit of rosemary or something. Wait, what?

Like a savory? Yeah, boy. That's for me. Yes, I want one of those two. them out to me. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. If Jenny's got the recipe for that,

please drop it in the group chat. Oh, yes, please. Or she could just make some and then just put them in her little rocks. She has that kind of time, Joy. She has that kind of time. It's okay. It may look different,

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Bridges on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. baked good or sweet doesn't have to be baked i guess yeah i like meringue um on on things like the little peppermint marangs or oh you know what no you know what i really love oh this is this is definitely my favorite and it's from trader joes they're feffernoose cookies i don't know if they're dutch i don't know what the deal is but they're called feffernoose and it's maybe has a i hate licorice it's not a licoricey but it's like a heavy on the clove. It's a very Christmassy flavored

cookie and sometimes they make it into a cake but it's also covered in powdered sugar. I would just go to Trader Joe's and ask them for where the Fefernoose cookies are. They're so good. I just love a coffee and a coffee and a cookie for the holidays. I'm not a big. I mean I love

the food but I love the savory food at the holidays mostly because I just don't eat a ton of desserts. I don't really like cake or pie. It's just not my thing. What's yours? Well, I'm actually kind of more like, Sophia, if it's a proper, like, dinner and, like, if it's Thanksgiving and there's pumpkin pie, I might just skip those to do more dinner rolls and mashed potatoes and gravy. Yes. Just a dinner roll and some butter, some salted butter.

That's what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will say, though, my mom traditionally makes raspberry pie for Christmas. And because I love sour things over the years, she's made her raspberry pie. really tart. Oh, Maureen.

It is the kind of thing, Rob, where much like you, if I'm left alone in the house with it, good luck. I will try to stop. My dad and I now fight over them. And my dad sometimes will be like, I ate it just so I can't finish it before him. And so now my mom makes two and she's like, you're like children. You can each have one. Don't touch each other's pie dish.

Like, we're absurd. We're grown adults. Whip cream or ice cream with this thing? Absolutely not. No, no. No. I don't want to touch it. I'm very much a purest in that way. Like, don't mess up my perfect dessert with vanilla ice cream.

I'm set. I don't want it. I love a crunch. I'm a big fan of a crunch. Just textually and anything, really. But that's what I'm telling you. These muddy buddies, they got that crunch. Oh, my gosh.

Okay. So I have a question because it sounds as though, I know we're all home for the holidays, which feels really nice. It sounds like perhaps our favorite part of the holidays is the food, but is there something else I'm missing? Is there a holiday tradition perhaps that you love, or are you making any new ones? This year, I ask only because I've started sort of gathering from family all their favorite traditions. I don't know why I got inspired to ask about it this year, but I was like, what does everybody love to do them? most, and I want to know what you guys love to do most, tradition-wise. And if there's something

else, that's your favorite part other than the food, obviously tell me, but I don't know. Two, we went to a farm this year as a family and actually, like, went into a field of trees and we found our Christmas tree, and then I saw it down myself. Oh, come on. Your walking Hallmark movie. Get out of here. It was, and it was so cool. It was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, had a very cool surreal moment where I was like I'm down on my hands and knees sawing a Christmas tree looking up at my wife and kids and I was like this this is my life oh my gosh wow we come a long way and the other tradition is Jenny decided she's going to every Christmas morning make cinnamon rolls from scratch and buddies she does it right so that'll be

another like I will wake up happy on Christmas morning and be in a small diabetic coma by probably 11 a.m. How about you, Joy? Okay, so I went to The Goodwill and I found this plate that had a, it was a drawing of Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind. And I thought it was really cool.

So, you know, it was one of those decorative plates that goes on the wall. And, you know, of course, the famous line is, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Well, I also happened to have this box full of homemade ding-dongs from a local bakery where they do their, like, local version of ding-dongs.

And I was like, what could I, this would be kind of fun to incorporate this plate and Christmas or it was a New Year's, it was a New Year's thing. Like, how are we going to start the new year? And my sister was in town and her kids and my parents. And so I was like, let's, I had just the right amount of ding-dongs for everybody. And so I was like, this would be kind of nice. We'll all take a moment to pass the plate around. And if you did something that hurt somebody's feelings in the year,

or you just knew you didn't get a chance to apologize. for you pass the plate and you say hey I'm sorry for being a ding-dong and the person then says frankly my dear I don't give a damn it's fine and then you just let it go so that went over like a lead balloon but I thought that it would be really fun I would have participated

see what I mean like I don't know maybe it was the kids the kids were just like and then they weren't allowed to say damn so it was I don't give a darn but I thought that was really cute anyway so it's a tradition I still hold out hope for I have the plate on the shelf I just don't know that I been brave enough to bring it out again because I don't want to get made fun of. It's never too late. I'm going to try.

Maybe I'll just try again this year and just see, you know, take a risk. Yeah. So. Stop trying to make ding-dongs happen, Joy. Yeah, like what the heck. I also really love mulling spices. And what Christmas sets in right around Thanksgiving, I start putting those William Sonoma mulling spices on the stove. And it's just a pot simmering all day long, makes the house smell amazing.

That's one of my favorite things to do, too. I love that. How about you, Sof? Well, so a couple of years ago, I actually got in on said tart raspberry pie baking process with my mom, and I really enjoy that. That's something I'd really like to continue. And then I was trying to think last New Year's about great ways to mark the new year. And my best friend, Kenny, sends all of us this book. that is this thing that you sort of sit with for a few days going into the new year and fill

out. And it's so inspiring. And it's also such a pain in the ass because it takes like three full days to do. And I want to be the person who has the time to do this. And I'm often not. And so this year, I have discovered a cool way to do it more easily. Somebody last year sent me an idea where everyone in the family gets a jar and once a week you put something great that happened to you that week in the jar. It can be more often, but it's a minimum of once a week. And you're supposed to look at them, you start on New Year's Day and then the next year you read them on New Year's Day. But I thought to myself, I actually want us to sit and read these jars on Christmas because- Oh, that's great. Walking down that kind of wonderful memory lane is a gift.

And then you get a whole week to kind of mull over your year and then enter the new year in so much gratitude for all the good things that have happened because, you know, there's a lot that's really tough, but why not put your energy toward being thankful for what was beautiful? So that's my brand new tradition. And I think, yeah, I think the holiday jar, it's a jar of merriment, if you will. The merry jar. And you can have it out all year round, sewing into it, waiting for the day it arrives when you get to read it all. I love that.

Yeah. I think it's special. Well, however, you and yours celebrated and are continuing to celebrate this holiday season from all of us at Drama Queens, we hope that it's been a wonderful season for you and an even better, more prosperous year to come. Yes, indeed. And just a thank you, you know, I mean, to both of you, I love you so much and to our whole show family. And our fans, I mean, you know, our listeners, guys, we get to do this because of you and with you. And we're so looking forward to what's to come in the new year. Yeah, thank you all.

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We're all about that high school, drama girl, drama girl, all about them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride and our comic girl, cheering for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens, smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you're tough girl. You could sit with us, girl. Drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens. It may look different, but native culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop.

That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first native comic bookshop. Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Thank you.