Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson - #Blatitude: The Thanksgiving Episode

Episode Date: November 27, 2019

This week, Kate and Oliver talk all things turkey! They share their favorite Thanksgiving traditions, reveal their holiday menu and debate how to eat cranberry sauce, and discuss what they’re grateful for. They also challenge listeners to do their own turkey trot dance. Executive Producers: Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Sim SarnaProduced by Allison BresnickEditor: Josh WindischMusic by Mark HudsonThis show is brought to you by Cloud10 and powered by Simplecast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Kate Hudson. And my name is Oliver Hudson. We wanted to do something that highlighted our relationship. And what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling rivalry. No, no. Sibling rivalry.

Don't do that with your mouth. sibling revelry that's good here we go this is fun here we go Oliver

is fun is the holidays happy holidays happy holidays no Mom and Paul used to do her, Marty. Marty is on Saturdays. Happy holidays.

Happy holidays. I was singing a Madonna song. Holiday. Yeah. Got to be fucking old time, Saturday. Well, this is going to be an interesting year for us. You know, it's fun? What?

We are doing Thanksgiving. Yes. And this was not even planned, meaning like, sibling rivalries. Everything we do is sibling. But we are doing a Thanksgiving. with just us and our families which is crazy i mean not mom and pa it's really not normal for our family this is a departure everybody's doing things differently this year which is just not how we do things we usually do it at my house sometimes at moms mostly yours in the last mostly a 10 years or so yeah

everybody comes it's usually about 25 people yeah and we have family we have not family but we have the regulars close close friends close friends and it's always an emotional affair always always cries well we go around the table and we you know after a few glasses of wine everyone sort of says what they're thankful for and inevitably i mean i think probably 30 percent cry yeah remember that one year i lost my shit lost it and and wilder and bodie my two boys they didn't understand. They're like, what is wrong with you? I mean, they saw, I was like,

and then mom, I just like, I appreciate your fucking attack with me. I couldn't get everything out. I was going around the table and saying who, why I was thankful for these people in my life. And I was probably going through a lot at that point. Yeah. Here we go again.

I'm always going through shit. I was going to say, I mean, no, you. It's funny because you at Thanksgiving are all, you always say such beautiful things. But it also depends on where you are in your life and what you're going through as to how emotional you get. Yeah. Some years you're like on fire. What was the year that we all went around and did one word?

Oh, yeah. That was a good one. That was it mom. Yeah, because there was so many people, including my ex-husband. That was a great. Chris, which was so great. Yeah. But we went around the room and instead of doing the full thing, we said one word about each person.

There's so much pressure, though. Like when it's coming around the table and you're looking and you're like, oh, shit, I'm like, in five more, I'm up. You get nervous? Oh, yeah. I know. Because I'm like, okay, here we go. I've got a plan. I got a little bit of a plan of what I want to do.

Yeah. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to cry? I know. Because it just, it's the worst. what happens is during Thanksgiving for me it depends on who's like there's a couple years where we lost people that we loved and that is just so hard when you go around and makes you just that that heightened sense of gratitude for everybody in your life and I love sometimes people ask what's my favorite holiday and I think Thanksgiving is one of my favorites let's talk about this year we launched our podcast It hasn't been that long. We've had a good handful of podcasts that have come out. It's been so much fun.

And now, strangely, we're both going to celebrate Thanksgiving together without our brothers and without our mom and dad. In Colorado. In Colorado. And I'm so excited. It's going to be so fun. I know. I wish mom and pa are going to be there. Me too.

Let's talk about Thanksgiving and what it means. in terms of just not the politics of Thanksgiving, but what it means for us, what it's always meant for us. It's always been very much a family affair with our Aunt Patty. Going way back. Way back.

Our cousins. We've always had such joyous Thanksgiving. And in this same house, you know, because we had Thanksgiving in the house that we're currently in, when mom owned the house. Yeah, and then she sold it, and then I bought it back. Right, so we essentially have been in the, having Thanksgiving in the same house. I don't think we've talked about that in the podcast.

No. That I live in our childhood home. I know we have not. No. So I, we'll keep it quick. I was pregnant with Ryder, was trying to buy a home. Every home that I put an offer on literally kept falling through. I thought I'd never have a house.

I was so huge and pregnant. and hormonal, mom called me up one day and said, I think the house is going up that we, my old house is going up on the market if you want to buy it or if you want to look at it. And I just thought, yes, yes, yes. It was like this crazy decision that I made right away. I thought I'd be in the house for about two years or something and then find another place. And here I am 16 years later.

I remember I walked into the house for the first time and I had, been back since however long since i was maybe 13 and uh i had a physical reaction i felt nauseous oh really yeah i think there was a lot of you feel nauseous in my house not now just the first time i walked in i i think i was having sort of these recalled memories or this sort of the bad stuff started coming oh really see i had the opposite when i walked into that house I don't know I just felt immediately safe

oh yeah weird okay so let's talk about what is one of your most as when we were kids

what's like do you have any memories of Thanksgiving that are really prominent it wasn't one specific memory but Thanksgiving Christmas was always amazing right because Christmas is

fun you get the presents but thanksgiving was always my favorite favorite time of year my favorite holiday i looked forward to every year because it was the only time that everyone in the family got together specifically david berzniaks who is our cousin and michael burzniaks who were our cousins and i just wanted to be with them and i was so excited for them to come over and play and to be running around the house as a kid and there was a sense of safety when everyone in the family was together and having wine and you were sort of this little dude I was this little dude sort of running around just you know I mean there was so fun it was so so much so much fun and grandma it was always around grandma's birthday too and so sometimes her birthday would fall on

Thanksgiving and it was just a very celebratory time we had mom's birthday around then grandma's birthday Thanksgiving and we all cooked back then too yeah You know what I mean? You cook now. Yeah. But everyone really pitched in. I mean, Michael brought the broccoli surprise and, you know, Aunt Patty brought what she brought. Everyone really, it was very traditional in that sense.

Which will be what ours is this year. Yeah. I'm going to cook the shit out of it. Well, I probably should do most of the cooking. Just are the recipes. You can execute. I'll sort of lead. Am I the sous chef?

No. No, because you'll have duties. What does a sous chef even do? I don't even know. I just said that word. So here's how the kitchen works the best. One person needs to be in charge. Yeah, I can be like the prep guy?

And everybody. It's probably best because you smoke weed. So it's probably best if you're prepping than executing. Well, I don't know. No. A lot of weed heads who are listening to this probably are sick cooks. I mean, you get into a zone and you just cook the shit out of it. But that means you have to just cook the shit out of it yourself.

It needs to be your kitchen. Maybe I will do one special dish. No, no. You need to just listen to what I say. Yeah, but I can chop and do all that stuff, but I want to do one special dish. Here's the problem with specialty dishes. Oh, God. The problem with specialty dishes, when you're trying to share a kitchen, is that...

Especially a kitchen that's small. Especially our kitchen in Colorado, which is like literally about... Barely two people. You can fit in that thing. Right. I feel like you're running over each other trying to find... You're trying to use the same bowls. You're trying to use the same pan, the same pan.

Like, you have to have to have... a plan of action yeah but my specialty dish won't be difficult you know I don't know what the hell it is it's like a salad no no no no no I think I'm going to use the instant pot for something baked potato right I'll do a dip oh a dip is good you can do that the day before too so we we got to put our menu together yeah we turducken don't have the kind of normal hands on deck as we stove top stuffing sometimes stuffing can get too intense i think people can overdue stuffing it gets too there's too much going on in i like cornbread stuffing as opposed to what as opposed to regular like other kinds of bread well that's

what you use you use bread i i knew that i'm just saying like sourdough bread or rye bread i mean there's different kinds of bread have you ever cooked anything for thanksgiving no it just hit me that i don't think You've ever made a dish. I haven't. This will be a different year. So we got to do our classic sweet potatoes in the orange cups. Yep. We hollow out the orange.

We put the sweet potatoes in. Marshmallow on top. Put them in the oven. Super yummy. Cranberry. Although I've always hated. I love cranberry. Good cranberry sauce is so good with the mashed potatoes.

Yeah, I know. I mean, it's a nice, like, when you take a bite, like it's like a dipping sauce almost. I would never go straight cranberry bite. Well, no, that's not what it's for. Well, I'm sure people, like, will eat a straight cranberry bite. No, the cranberry sauce is, it's an addition to the meal. You add it to the turkey. No, you don't.

You don't eat cranberry sauce. It's a sauce. Yes, you do. No, it's not. Oliver, you don't know what you're talking about right now. Wait a minute. Cranberry sauce. I'm not saying.

No, no, no. It's like a relish. Yes, but you put it on your plate in its own little place. No, you don't put it on top of things. It's like your gravy. It's like an addition to the gravy. You've got gravy and you have cranberry sauce. Is this true, Allison?

I think I'm siding with Kate on this one. I'm going to Google that. If that's true, I, I. Cranberry sauce is, it's not like a, it's not like grandma's mold. You know, grandma's mold. Remember grandma's mold? Yeah. Her gelatin mold.

She did that for Thanksgiving. I know. Remember she did her. It was like a very. traditional green, like nuts in it. Gelatin. Yeah, and she did her cherries and her little pineapple bits. Let's make a mold for old times' sake.

We should. Let's make a green mold. That'd be fun. The green mold. Yeah. I have the recipe. That's a good idea. I won't eat it, but it's good to just have.

It actually might taste different now that you're older. I'm not sure I even ever tasted it. That's what I'm saying. Because it just looked. gross it's quite good it's like jello with bits in it like like imagine it's real old school green jello with like 50s ballnuts and stuff and like I can imagine it I've had it it's good it's like ambrosia but gelatin right um broccoli surprise broccoli surprise is a big traditional thing for our family yeah that's usually what uncle Michael brings the broccoli surprise and it's a casserole yeah it's

Basically a casserole with manis, mayonnaise, cheese, mustard, mushroom soup. Right. Onion powder mix. I mean, it's just like every bad thing for you in one with broccoli and then cheese. And then mashed potatoes, which are key. If those have to be super buttery. All right.

Well, let's talk about gratitude or families. There's some interesting. statistics with Thanksgiving and oh look here let's just read this for fun geez Allison she literally went back to the Latin meaning of gratitude the word of gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia which means grace graciousness or gratefulness in some ways gratitude encompasses all of these meanings gratitude is a thankful appreciation of what an individual receives whether tangible or intangible. Interesting.

Gratitude is something that, and again, it feels like a little Instagrammy, which is fine. Hashtag blast. Hashtag Grattyblast. Hashtag Grattyblest. Hashtag. Blatitude. Dementy blessings. Blatitude.

Hashtag Blatitude. That's my new favorite Thanksgiving hashtag. That's going to be the name of our episode, Blatitude. Oh, that's a good idea. Blatitude. Hashtag Blatitude. So, no, but it is, it's funny because we talk about, we talk about gratitude all the time. And this is something that happened to me this morning with Bing, where he was going through

having a moment, as all kids do. And I looked at him, I said, you know what, let's shift the way you're thinking right now and let's think about the things we're grateful for because he needed to feel gratitude in order to feel better about himself in that moment. And when you do take time out of your day to think about the things that you're grateful for, it literally changes, I think scientifically, it shifts your brain matter or it lights up a certain part of your brain. But being grateful is almost a practice.

I think you have to practice being grateful. I don't think gratitude is necessary. I think for some it comes maybe easier than others. But I think you have to practice being grateful. I mean, you have to take time out of your day, especially when shit is going sideways to realize the things that are good. Gratitude can shift the way we tackle life.

If we can feel more grateful for things, it will create a positive and optimistic effect in the brain that can bring more happiness. That is a fact. Well, I think you can change your negative emotions, which I think a lot of us operate on. I think that's part of the fight or flight. Negative thinking. Yeah, that negative thinking, which then in turn sort of brings on those negative emotions and that gratitude, if you can practice it enough, and wake up grateful. even if it means writing your shit down in the morning. You can change that to sort of more positive emotion.

Or just like fake laugh. It works. Look, do it again. Look at me and laugh. That made a difference. It works. It does. We should have.

We should do a fake laughing seminar. I bet you that's a good idea. It literally just changed our whole brain chemistry. So let's do some studies on gratitude. Okay. Not only does thank you constitute good manners, but showing appreciation can help you win new friends. According to a 2014 study,

thanking a new acquaintance makes them more likely to seek an honor. ongoing relationship. That's actually true, though. It's like, just use that in a relationship with your partner. If you say to them, thank you so much for taking out the garbage honey that meant the world to me. They're probably more likely to feel better about what they just did and want to do it again.

Depends. What if it was a buddy down the street who came? It's your neighbor. And you put your recycling. been in the wrong place and he came out and moved it and you went and said hey man thank you so much for doing that that meant a lot you probably would then end up talking hanging out making a new friend a little bit oh yeah and then the next time he saw that he might do it again and then the next time you do that you might actually do it for him right he then next thing you know he's at

our thanksgiving right okay grateful people experience fewer aches and pains and they report feeling healthier than other people. I mean, maybe. I don't know. Sometimes that kind of science. I believe in that. I believe in mind over matter. I really do.

I do too. Because when you think about if today you wake up and you're grateful for your health and you breathe air and you're out and you're, I mean, I believe that you would experience less pain. If you felt a pain and your ability to say, to have gratitude for just having a hand versus feeling the pain in your hand, it would probably lessen the pain in your hand.

Well, let me get a hammer and smash your hand. Okay, fine. Maybe I'm, maybe it's not true. I like this one, because this is a question that I've had since we were, since Thanksgiving has been celebrated, 42% of people eat their Thanksgiving meal between 1 and 3 p.m. Why is Thanksgiving so damn early? Why? I don't know because you eat.

I don't like it really. Because you eat. Well, there's football. Well, football, yeah. But I mean, yes, which is by the way is a whole other topic about Thanksgiving. I mean, we forgot to even hit on Thanksgiving football, which by the way, you want to talk about nostalgia. And, you know, you were talking about the sort of the memories that we have had through all of our Thanksgiving. And I think football is definitely the constant, especially with the redskins.

oh yeah because redskins always play that's right that's right yeah that's where mom mom's from well her family yeah is from Maryland to that area right but why why do why do people eat Thanksgiving so early I don't know we usually do like four I think because of kids I think because usually it's a very long meal there's extra servings we just seem to eat all day and night and then you're tired and then you just hang maybe that's it and drink maybe it's to to have a prey thanksgiving you know maybe it gives you time for a pray thanksgiving you have your desserts which is big in our family because i make all those pies and stuff and ice cream and ice cream i'm so excited about the things that i'm grateful for this year there's so much me too i mean i

just feel like we're in such a good just emotionally me too i feel so i just feel so i just feel an enormous sense of gratitude and it's not for thanksgiving it's just period i mean just in the last year i i felt so much joy i just feel life is simpler for me from an emotional place really yeah is shit as much about everything i you know in the best possible way i don't i'm not putting pressure on myself to do anything or to be anything i i don't know i i just am happy and content being a husband and a dad and just living my best life each day i find that i'm living more in the moment almost to the point of detriment? Like, I think I'm living too much in the moment.

Is that possible? Well, no, it's not. It's this hour. It's this hour. I'm like, I don't care about what happens tomorrow. So it's interesting because I was just talking to somebody about this. Planning is as important as spontaneity and purpose. I think I touched on this before, but grateful people sleep better.

Writing in a gratitude journal improves sleep. Okay, here we go. 2171. Actually, don't look at the stats. Did you look at them? No. I mean, some of them. Are you going to quiz me? Uh-huh. How many ridges are on a 14-ounce can of ocean-sprayed jellied cranberry sauce? 17. You're such an asshole. What? You saw the number. First of all, ocean spray needs to do organic things. This is like ocean sprays. I do like an ocean sprays. I do like an ocean. spray cranberry juice.

Mm-hmm. This is not an ad. We should be sponsored by Thanksgiving. Just the whole holiday. Just, is it a government holiday? Oh, look, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. It is. 4890 is the average cost to serve 10 people a Thanksgiving feast.

Well, that's the other thing you talk about gratitude, and that also means giving back. You know what I mean? which honestly I need to do more of in my life yeah you do I do I was at the children's hospital

for a couple years that went away I loved when you did that I know I'm going back actually on Thursday no Friday I want to start that up again

I loved that you started volunteering but I also got to get the kids more into it I really really do I was talking to Bing about that I think it's... Yeah. I have to get them.

I think it really is important for everybody to be involved in their community no matter what. 54.3 million Americans will travel 50 plus miles this Thanksgiving. We're doing that. Yeah. Driving. 900. 900 miles. It's interesting, though.

I mean, I know when we look at that statistic, we just think about travel. But, I mean, when you really think about it, everyone's trying to get home to be together. I know what I mean it's it's a bunch of people at once trying to connect I mean when you get down to the base of it it's all anyone needs is to connect we're all longing for connection I wish you could bottle up that feeling that you should you should do a perfume called connection you can literally bottle connection that's my vodka that's connection I guess so that's a that's a type of connection that's a good idea for a line you know because everyone says I wish I could bottle that

up so you find the things that everyone says I wish I could bottle it up and then that's what you bottle up and that's what you call it I mean it's kind of what people do with candles like gratitude candles and abundance and prosperity perseverance love if you could bottle one thing up

and when you sprayed it like in your face or whatever it gave you that feeling of sorts you know what I mean it's like for people what would it be? Yeah no for yourself I don't want it for other people see this is the difference

see this is no no no this is what this is don't get all altruistic on me altruism is The real thing. No, I know, but this is a game I'm playing. Honestly, it was the feeling that I had when I had my ayahuasca experience.

And it was a universal feeling of love and safety. No, safety is the wrong word. Because it was, it was, it's expansiveness. It was like a oneness, wasn't it? Like you didn't exist. I didn't, I ceased to exist. Yeah, except it's like I was in nothing but everything. And I think that when you truly let go, when you truly surrender, there's this sense of love and oneness and freedom and everything that you've ever could possibly want to feel. And you just get emotional and cry and say if I could put this in a bottle and give this to people. people the world would be a very different place mine's similar but it's like no i'm serious it's like the feeling of sitting on the beach at sunset and you're alone it's kind of cheesy no no it's

kind of cheese no it's not listen the feeling of sitting on the beach at sunset and you're all alone and it's similar in that you don't cease to exist But you are just small. You feel connected. And a part of everything. There's times when I can just let everything go, where there is not one stressor in my body that I'm experiencing. And that usually happens on the beach or even in the mountains.

And it's pure. And it's fearless. That's what I would spray on, first of all, myself. And then I would spray it on everyone else. It's that fearlessness. I like Carl Sagan's quote, for small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. And I love that so much because I find comfort in the grandness and the unknown of what's out there. I actually find that to be more comforting, whereas a lot of people find that to be very scary.

it makes me feel more connected because it's because it is insignificant so it makes the moments more significant to me well sometimes you look up at the stars and it it makes me crazy i cannot believe that we are existing on this tiny little planet that is floating around this vast universe and it is gnarly to me have you heard about these flat earthers yeah i've just heard about i didn't know anything about really i did because i was like i bet you kate and danny are like this is real i don't know i don't know i mean look it's not even a possibility okay well first of all here's the thing this is the difference again between you and i okay you go right to this not even possible i go you know how i don't think so we've literally sailed around the world like it's gone around the world

right i'm with you i said like clearly the none of these people have either been to space or on the concord and I have been on the concord and I did see the curvature of the earth when I was really young I went on the concord and I remember seeing that round and I was like wow I'm on a planet this is such a non-conversation like the no but but isn't it interesting that there's people out there who actually actually think yes but there are people out there who think crazy things all the time why this has gotten traction. I have no idea. I don't know either.

I don't know. That stuff is craziness. I think people are bored. I mean, what is right? I think it's exciting. What's exciting about that? It's total bullshit.

Theorys and ideas. You know what, Oliver, we could be living in a matrix. We could be living in a total video. We don't know what the fuck's going on. That's the truth. Agreed, but we know the world.

We know the earth is round. We don't know. Amen. Man, we could just be like in some weird guy's head, man. We could be. It's true. We don't know the answers. It's fun to hold on to ideas and to think that people do have the answers.

It's interesting. But, I mean, the reality is that... Well, I'm grateful for not having the answers. Me too. because what fun is that it's boring as i'm saying it's fun talking about flat earthers no but that's that takes it to another place do you believe we landed on the moon interesting question let's not do this right now actually we should do a conspiracy theory episode where it's just you and me no no and we we should bring a conspiracy theorist on here someone who knows everything oh

that would be so fun yeah three point five million spectators are expected to lie in the streets this year at New York City for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We've watched it though. We watch it. I hate parades. No, you don't. Your kids do the Fourth of July parade. That's different.

That's different. That's a parade, Oliver. It's a local parade that lasts 13 minutes and I'm in it. Well, I'm riding a motorcycle in a parade. That's cool. But, I mean, to go to a parade? it's the worst oh it's exciting it's like celebratory no i mean imagine going to sit at the macy's day parade just sit on the sidewalk and watch these big floats that's so boring but they're beautiful

floats it's so boring parades are probably my least favorite thing in the world actually america's first turkey trot took place more than a century ago maybe we should do a turkey trot i think it's a dance right hey syri what is a turkey trot the turkey trot was a dance made popular in the early 1900s the turkey trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as scott joplin's maple leaf rag we have to we should do a turkey trot that is amazing Siri play turkey trot dance rag time Sorry, but I couldn't find any music about you. Let me see if Siri likes me better. Hey, Siri.

Can you play turkey trot music? Okay, let's hear Let's Turkey Trot by Jan and Dean. Gav-a-Di-Lip, Gobba-Gaw-Gab-Dilip, go-a-gob-gob-a-dilip. Come on, let's turkey trot. Shoo-Hoo, go-a-gobba-dil. Oh, we're definitely. playing this. We need to do it.

We got to have a tamlet. Shoo-shoo. This is amazing. We're going to do a turkey truck. Okay, so here's, let's talk about traditions. Yeah. So Danny's family, my man, has this tradition where they shake butter in a jar. And everybody shakes butter.

You put this cream. in a little jar, and you shake it so fast, and everybody's shake, and the first person to create the butter ball wins. Wow. And the butter is so good. What happens, everybody brings a loaf of bread that they love to Thanksgiving. And then you all have these sort of homemade butter after, of course, everybody finishes their butter, and you eat bread, and it's sort of this, like, breaking bread tradition that they do,

which I love. Where did they come up with that? have no idea but it's so much fun and you can't help but laugh when you're doing because you got to do it really fast in order to win the it's like it's a competition wow that's fun isn't that fun we don't have i mean our traditions are thanksgiving i mean we don't like we we do our thankful for and talking about what we're thankful for but theirs is cooler it's like an active thing it's a tradition that i make pies yeah that i do my my dessert maybe we need to come up the new something like shaking

yeah we're going to bring that to our Thanksgiving oh we are yeah we're going to do a full butter shaking maybe the turkey trot is a new thing and the turkey trot I was going to say we should do a turkey trot the kids have to like choreograph a dance and the adults have to as well we're going to do

a turkey trot by the way this could be a good thing that we could ask our followers and the people that are subscribing to do their own turkey trot dance. And then on Thursday, since we air on Wednesday, on Thursday, they can post their turkey trot dance with their family. And at Sibling Revely Turkey Trot, hashtag, we could do it, S.R. Turkey Trot. Yeah, that would be really funny.

That would be so much fun. That would be fun. That would be funny and shit. I love a turkey trot. And the crazier or the weird. Weirder the better. Well, maybe we do a con. Maybe they win something.

Okay. So we got to, yeah, we should start doing that, like contests and stuff. So our favorite turkey trot winner. I mean, everybody is a winner because anyone who does it. Right. But our favorite one, what would we, should we send a merch? We could send a merch. Yeah.

Some SR merch. We don't have it yet. I know, but we could make that some merch from they could have the first merch. Okay. Look at the turkey trot foot race. It's a long distance variety. It's held on or around Thanksgiving in the United States. So you have the turkey trot is the race, which could be fun too.

We could do like a race, a turkey trot in like turkey costumes. Could be a dance too. There's both. What was your weirdest Thanksgiving? I know what mine was. And it was also so great. Oh gosh. You go first.

I have no idea. So I was shooting Fool's Gold in Australia. and couldn't come home for Thanksgiving. We shot it over Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving isn't really, Hollywood doesn't recognize Thanksgiving as a, we're taking this time off, which I had spent, I've spent many Thanksgiving on location,

but this one in particular was so crazy because we couldn't get any traditional ingredients. So I was living at the furthest end of the earth. And so for Thanksgiving, we had a lot of American people on the crew and the cast. So I put together a big Thanksgiving dinner And I tried to find these ingredients Which was nearly impossible

We drove all over like two hours to try to get We found cranberry in the city of cans We found this like Then we couldn't find pumpkin for a pumpkin pie And we were driving back from going to this strange supermarket way out in the middle of nowhere And as we were driving back We saw this man on the side of the road

selling Japanese pumpkins which was a Danny? Danny was that's how you met Danny No he was this man and we stopped

at the car I was like stop because it looked like a pumpkin but it didn't it looked more like a squash and I asked the man I'm like

what is this I can do a terrible Australian I just try it might as well he was like he's like he's like

no it's a Japanese No, that's like English Pumpkin Japanese pumpkin Hey All I know what to say is Shaq

Jack It's a shark It's a pumpkin So he said Oh it's no it's they're Japanese pumpkins So I got a bunch of these Strange Very different looking squash

And I made a pumpkin pie I had to make a pie So I made this pumpkin pie out of this I completely took all the meat out of it and strained it. It was very different. Made this pumpkin pie. It was the most amazing pumpkin pie I've ever made because it wasn't as sweet. But it was still a little sweet.

It was just totally different. Did McConaughey like it? He did. He did. Okay. Let's talk about what we're grateful for this year. Yeah, that's good. You know, I will say that this experience, I am grateful for not only being able to

this with you and have this time with you and it's so fun because like even when you come into the house and i see you walk in and we're doing this together it's just a absolute blast and i get to spend time with you and talk with you about weird things well that's what's been great about it i mean aside from being able to talk to siblings and talk about fun things just the fact that you and i get to hang out like this now yeah it's really fun it's super fun and this is just the beginning you know like we get to we're gonna have to we're gonna get to go places i know that travel a little bit maybe go on the road and do a live show imagine imagine imagine imagine imagine imagine creating a live show though like of course we're going to be on stage doing a podcast but imagine producing and choreographing

we're gonna choreograph hell yeah I'm so good at choreography oh we're gonna have we got to have singing or I want to sing I want to do a pirouette and a high kick I mean we can create a whole show around it can I wear sequins recycled sequence Oh, yeah. I'll do like five minutes stand-up. I like Bob Mackey dresses. It's like a variety show. What's happening?

By the way, that's a great idea. Imagine if we did like a mini variety show. And I would come out and I would sing, good morning. Good morning. Is that the opening? It's a morning show. Now that jazz, we're going to sing. We're going to fucking sing.

and all that jazz you're like you do like puppets like what is it what's a puppet like ventriloquism that's a great idea I should do

I'm terrible at it like Meredith you do ventrilo you have the puppet that's fucking funny all those weird like the 60s variety No, but not, but yeah, it's, it's, it's been so fun.

And then I'm grateful that people have responded to this, the way that it, honestly, exceeding our expectation of what we thought. Reading some of the comments. So great. Knowing that it's funny and poignant and sensitive and emotional in the room and even hearing it back, but when you start to hear and read, we're sorry, read people's comments, and they start talking. about their own situations, you know, their relationships with their siblings,

how they, this, some of these episodes have made them want to reach out to their siblings. I loved, I read one like that and it made me feel so wonderful for that person. It's like touched me on a different level, you know. I obviously want people to laugh and have a good time. But it resonates. It's fucking relatable. Sometimes things happen for a reason. and that you just that's why I believe you just have to like go with your gut go do the things that feel good or that you want to do sometimes because you never know what the outcome is going to be and even if it was just a couple of episodes that we did and of course we're not we're going to do more this experience the reaction to it I just feel so I feel so grateful that people have responded in the way that they do and feel yeah I'm grateful I'm grateful for

This year, mostly Aaron. Really? Yeah. Are you going to start crying right now? No, I'm going to hold it back. I'm not going to let it go. Tell me why you're grateful for her. She's just this fucking greatest woman ever to walk the earth.

I mean, in order to deal with somebody like me. I wouldn't give yourself that much credit. I'm dissing myself. I know, but like, I'm not easy. I know. And look, we've been through our shit. We've been together for eight, almost 19 years. it's been good and bad and i've fucked up and she's been forgiving and she's just a deep big thinking person

she doesn't get myopic she looks at me and knows me for everything that i am not necessarily just the actions that I take and she sees my soul and my heart and she just loves me like I've never been loved before now are you going to start crying no I'm not going to cry and so I and our relationship has been so solid and I take credit you know I mean obviously it takes two to make good and also make bad but she she is the sort of anchor she is the one who makes it possible for me to be as good as i can be so i'm grateful for my beautiful wife oh i wrap that yeah i'll cry i i don't want to cry at thanksgiving yeah i will but i don't want to cry a version of that and it's going to you're going to get emotion then Aaron's going to cry yeah no i will i know it's what

we do but i'm going to save my tears I don't want to cry right now. I have to say, I have to say, I'm, I am incredibly grateful for my partner as well. I'm grateful for him for you. Yeah. He's, he is really grounded my life and I'm going to start crying. You just let it go. It's okay.

Let it go. Let it all out. let it out but cry into the mic you're such a dick sometimes i'm grateful for him because it's the first time that i've seen you as content as you are as a human being i think that has to do with him and i think that's to do with a lot of work that you've done you're grounded and centered you are now i think it's a lot of i think honestly i don't even know what it is what the concoction has been but I know that Danny is like the key ingredient you know what I mean and actually I'm the key I'm also a key ingredient the balance has been really interesting and but he's so such a good man

and so every time he I see his his effort it's coming from the most the purest most beautiful place and I feel so lucky that I allowed that to be the love in my life because if I didn't do work on myself I would have never allowed that kind of purity and abundance of love in my life yeah so I'm so grateful and I am I'm grateful for all of those fuchikows they're such great people I love so family oh it's it just reminds us of it's the thing when people say you marry like kind and that doesn't mean that you come from the same place it doesn't mean that you come from the same cultural background what it means is that your values are the same that you have the same desires and values in life they're all about their family and loving each other that's everything for them and that brotherhood and those siblings those three boys those three Fuji cowboys and their mother and their father unfortunately passed away but that unit is so important to them and they work hard at it and i think similarly to us we have the same value system yeah grateful for a lot of things man there's a lot of things grateful for communication and grateful for the concept

of just forgiveness if you don't even if you don't have forgiveness i don't know how you can continue and have a full life you know just the concept of it alone we have to forgive constantly throughout our life you know and if you don't have that just you just die you just you die, you've resentment and you're of anger. I'm grateful for the way we were raised that has allowed us to be open thinkers. I think it's as Dr. Sheffali would say it's your birthright, but it's also a gift if your parents raise you to be free thinkers. I think it's also important for everyone to feel gratitude for themselves. Grateful for you. Grateful for you. Grateful for your own being and your accomplishments not necessarily in work or monetarily but just your

accomplishments as a human being your ability to sort of get through things or to you know work hard or to persevere you know that gratitude self-gratitude self-love self-worth is extremely important so I think and I would say to everyone take a moment on this Thanksgiving to be grateful for who you are, to show yourself some gratitude. Anyway, I'm grateful for you. I'm grateful for me too. Oh. And I'm grateful to all that are listening to this podcast on the Thanksgiving Eve.

Oh, what all those people out there right now, you guys are listening, it's Thanksgiving Eve. Everybody, they're either on their way to the airport probably. They're in the car. Oh, that's right. They might be traveling right now. They're on a plane maybe. They downloaded it and they're on a plane going somewhere. And we do, we do honestly.

And this is who Oliver and I are and whoever you are listening right now, we really do wish you the most beautiful Thanksgiving. Beautiful, happy Thanksgiving. And I'm going to leave you with a song, Thanksgiving is tomorrow night. Are you trying to change the melodies now? You're like, you're like, reach. Thanksgiving, I hope you cook it right. We've got stuffing and carrots and yams and beans. Little children who wash, they're all clean.

They come down to dinner with shining little cheeks. Everyone says what they're great for for. grandma speak I'm grateful for you and you and me and me Thanksgiving chip or chippery

hooray it's Thanksgiving it is Thanksgiving It was amazing We should put a We should get Uncle Mark to throw a guitar down on that Or a little

strings some strings um all right it was a perfect way to end oliver yes we wish you and to all of the people out there who are not with their families and are with their friends that have made their families friends giving we didn't touch on that at all but we should a little bit because we we take a lot of people in for thanksgiving and it's so important to remember that you can make your family right and i think that It's an important point because Thanksgiving, yes, it's about family, but it's about community. Yeah. And there are a lot of people who are not with their families whose families have passed or who can't, they just can't be with their families.

And you're right, that Friendsgiving thing is really big and I think very, very important. Yeah. And we are and always have been an open door family. And we take in the strays. We do. And I urge people out there if you know anybody who doesn't have a place to go for Thanksgiving, invite them over. Yes. I agree with that.

And I'll sing a song about that. Invite your friends who have no friends and Thanksgiving will be fun. Anyway, we love you all. Love you all. Happy holidays. Merry Thanksgiving to all and to all a good night. Sibling Revely is executive produced by Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Simpsarna.

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