Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: All right, sound check.
Hold on. Try again.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Hello, Hello.
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's much better. There we go.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: I still feel quiet.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: I think it's the music.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: All right. And we're live, by the way.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: We're live.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: That wasn't our intro. We're gonna do another intro later because I love this song. But we're already like. Well, not live like that. You and I are live on our mics, okay? So hello, everybody. It's Christmas morning. Come, come join Kevin and Sky.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Yay, it's Christmas.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Yes, Yay, it's Christmas. We love Christmas. And today what we thought we would do is share with you some of our traditions.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Let's do it.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Let's do it. Okay. Let's do a little back and forth.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: You wanna go first or second?
[00:00:43] Speaker B: You can go first.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna start with December 23rd. Two days ago, our anniversary. Because for us, that kind of kicks off our traditions. Yeah, we got married on Christmas. I almost said Christmas Eve. We got married on two days before Christmas Eve Eve. I should just said we got married on Christmas Eve.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: There it is.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: And we did it for a couple reasons. We wanted to get married was the first reason. The second reason was because the church was wonderfully decorated for Christmas. Gorgeous poinsettias everywhere. So we really. I mean, I think we paid for flower girls petals. That's. I mean, we don't have to pay for much.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: You know what I mean though, it was kind of nice. Came out that night and it was snowing big flakes. Do you remember? Oh, it's just special and magical. 32 years ago, folks, love of my life sitting across the table from me here. Speaking of being ahead of the game. I was ahead of the game way back then when I married you, girl.
Okay, so our tradition has been for 32 years now that we go out for breakfast on our anniversary. And we have found ourselves in different countries, different states, different anythings.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Different countries.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: I. Well, we never gone on our anniversary for a country. Yeah. Oh, no, you're right. We celebrated our anniversary on a different date when we were in another country.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: But we cruise gift to ourselves.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: But we've certainly been in other states. We've been everywhere from Hawaii, California, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri. I mean, you name it, lots of states. Florida, lots of states. And we just find a great place that has breakfast and we go out there. Well, we found a great place and it's here and we actually knew it existed. We just hadn't had a chance to get over there yet.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yes, it is The Toast in Anderson, Indiana.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Yeah, The Toast Cafe.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: And Darla and Gary. Yeah, Sally, they just rehabbed the building. And it's diner food, but it's on like a glam. Like, it's like dash of glam. It was just beautiful.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Diner deluxe.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: It's so beautiful and it's so good. Have to go.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: It is darn good. I said, surprise me. That's one of my favorite things to do when I go out to eat. And she just looked at me and she was like, yep, Hungry man. I got this. And she sent me back the Manhattan Biscuit. Biscuit something or other.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: It has a home, has a big name.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Gosh, it was good.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Good. Yeah, it was. I had they make their own biscuits.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: And they aren't like your traditional business.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: There's something special, like hamburger bun size.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Kind of a cross between a biscuit and.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: I don't know, it was just flaky and yummy. But I had the French toast version. Yeah, good, good portion sizes. I actually had to take some home with me.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good. I did not have to take any home with me. Maybe I should have. But I was like, I'll just eat two meals today. If I even get to a second one.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: Fresh squeezed orange juice.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: Oh, it was delicious.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: Coffee was good.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: No, I see there. So it's like that kind of room temperature.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: So good.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: So tasty. All right, well, that was the first tradition. Sky, what do you got? Let's. Let's move to. Let's move to yesterday, Christmas Eve. What were our traditions yesterday?
[00:03:39] Speaker B: So we adopted this from my childhood. I don't know if you had it as your childhood as well.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: Well, I did have a childhood, but.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: I mean, like, did you open a present on Christmas Eve?
[00:03:48] Speaker A: No, that was new to me.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: So we in my family would open our Christmas pajamas so that we would have beautiful pajamas for Christmas pictures the next morning.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: That's where I thought you were going. We did open one present, but it wasn't like pajamas. You're really referring to two gifts, a gift and pajamas.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: The gift is the pajamas.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Okay, so it's got it. We did not do pajamas, but we did do a gift.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: To be fair, it is so common in our family that I actually have the same reusable packaging. And the kids know which one. I don't even have to label it because the kids know. We did try to get rid of this tradition once the kids became teenagers, but they revolted and said, nope, we want our Christmas pajamas. Don't ever do that again. We want them forever. So this will probably be a forever present to our grown children, but they. They wear their Christmas pajamas all year long, so, you know. There you go.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Interesting. Well, let's continue with our traditions, but let's kick us off the right way.
All right. The next one I can think of. Christmas Eve is a day that we play games for the most part. We play games all day long on Christmas Eve. That's our thing. Card games and board games for the most part. When we were younger, certainly, like younger, like when I was young, before I knew you, certainly more video games. But with our kids and our families now, it's much more cards and board games.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: We love Wingspan. We love a few other games that are quite fun. The thing with Wingspan and games like Carcassonne, which we also enjoy. It just takes so long.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: It does.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: And we want to get through. It's kind of like, okay, sky, what game do you pick? And we kind of go through the family. Miranda, what game do you pick? Telling it. What game do you pick? And so we kind of ignore those longer big games, like a brisk or Monopoly type game, so we can get through more. But Christmas Eve is a game day for us.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: It is.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: What do you got?
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Well, we, you know, to help Santa out.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: On Christmas Eve, we also sneak out, usually late.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: And go buy some supplemental stocking stuff.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: And that is also a tradition that I got from my parents. They used to do the same thing. And it's not, you know, it's nothing big or exciting. It's just stuff that we want to add to the stocking. But there is.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: Santa outsourced it to us.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Sure, sure.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: That's what he wants us to add.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: But one of those traditions we adopted with stockings is also. We put an orange in the toe.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, both of our families have done that. The stocking stuffer thing at midnight. We just got back from doing that. We just got back from hitting Walgreens up. We like to kind of like what's on the end caps, what's on the aisles that, you know, that's extra special at Christmas time. That's fun, that's cheap, and 33 off. Because no one's buying Christmas gifts at this point in time. Anym.
We just got back from there. But that was your family's tradition.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: And your dad would do it many times. And so the first time I was at your family's Christmas, and he did it, and he was just like, you want to go with me? And I was like, yeah.
And I was like, this will now be my tradition moving forward.
I bring that up because I'm gonna. We're gonna ask them for their traditions here in a minute, but.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Okay. So you just said that one. So I'll say that. We also do. On Christmas Eve, we have a very special dinner that we serve.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: In fact, we had it as our rehearsal dinner for our wedding. We weren't sure we were going to get it on Christmas Eve, and we wanted to make sure we had it.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:07:10] Speaker A: It's burgers, malts and fries and tots.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Burgers multiply. And we every year have done it for 32 years.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: And it's nice because we don't have to decide what to do right before Christmas. We just know.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: And this came from my family. We. I cannot remember a time when we didn't have burgers and malts and fries.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: It's very rare.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: I've kind of changed it to mostly tots with our family because I prefer those over fries. But we do. We often do both.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: And there's times when we've been busy and we. We purchased it. So that also makes it easy.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Last night was just tots, but delicious burgers, moles and tots, baby.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: So good.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Okay, that was mine. What do you got?
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Well, keeping along the theme of stockings, your family hides the stockings. So when the kids wake up in the morning, they have to go find their stocking. And what is so funny is you. You would think that people would be tired of this, but they want it. They want us to hide their stockings.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Just like the pajama thing. We tried to stop that, as you said. And they're like, no, revolting. And they want pajamas.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: So.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: It's fun, though, because we can hide it in the most obvious spot. And presents are falling out of them and the kids are walking by even as adults because they're barely awake and they're still rubbing their eyes and get to sleep out of their eyes. And. And we're like, you're getting warmer.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: We hide it like they're three year olds. And I swear, it's like you are standing right next to the big capital letters Miranda.
You've got no clue. And we're like, seriously, it's got to be two, three rooms over. And I'm like, I can see it from here.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: I feel like they find each other's first.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: They do. They don't even know what they're looking for.
We don't. What we don't do. You said presents because sometimes we put a few Little presents in with the stocking. We don't do what some families do, which is like put all the presents together for each person with their stocking. Other traditions. Because there are more.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Yes. So we shared a lot of them.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: At this time of year, we do.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: We share this one. In my family, you weren't allowed to leave your room until the Christmas music began.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: And that. That way we knew that, you know, the parents had the camera ready and that they had, you know, things.
Everybody had a chance to go to the restroom or whatever they needed to do before we go out and open presents.
But your song is specific.
For us, it was just general Christmas music. But for you.
[00:09:30] Speaker A: No. No. Merle Haggard. Santa Claus and popcorn. Santa Claus and popcorn. Jingle bells and reindeer horns? Christmas trees and mistletoe Jesus loves me.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: This I know and sometimes we have to.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: My boy Merle Haggar right there.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Four times at night.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: I keep going all night. Crosby dreams of Christmas white. We celebrate cause the king was born with Santa Claus. But he says it. He says, we celebrate because the king was born with Santa Claus and popcorn, which makes it sound like Jesus was born with Santa Claus and Jesus was born with popcorn. A horrible way of saying it. He should say, we celebrate with Santa Claus and popcorn because the king was born. But then it didn't rhyme right, so.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: We celebrate because the king was born with Santa Claus and popcorn. One of my favorite songs. And of course, I only listen to it once a year.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: I have never heard that song until I married.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And then now, like you, we have to play it three or four times to get them to stink and wake.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Up because they're adults and they want to sleep in.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: That just means I get to play it louder and sing louder. So I don't mind at all.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: Yes. That's what you do.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Next. Tradition. Thanks for sharing that one. We make a special breakfast on Christmas morning. We make what's called bubble loaf. Some of you mistakenly call it monkey. Monkey bread.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: I don't know why.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: I. It's just a colloquialism. It just happens to be different parts of the country. Although most cinnamon flavored, bubbly type monkey type breads, there seems to be two traditional recipes. One does not have butterscotch pudding in it. One does.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: And our bubble loaf recipe for my mom does have that butterscotch pudding in it.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: I don't think I ever saw that.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Difference in the world. So freaking good. Or we make blueberry coffee cake, which.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: Is also my favorite, and that's what.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: We'Re making this morning blueberry coffee cake for the kids. They love it. Fresh blueberries. Ah, Betty Crocker blueberry muffin mix. Does wonders. The key is the crumbled topping. It is, right? What is the name for that? Why am I drawing a blank? Well, it's Christmas morning. They should be a strusel.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Strudel.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I suppose streusel is the right term. I don't speak not strudel.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Is that noodles?
[00:11:37] Speaker A: Strudel is a bread, like an apple strudel or a, you know, German.
Yeah.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: International foods.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: Oh, I speak all foods.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: I know you do. I know.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Loud and clear.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: You are a foodie.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: You have a family tradition that I'll let you bring up, but you would do on Christmas afternoon. That was really foreign to me.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: It was usually Christmas evening. Well, after all the presents were open. After all the food's been eaten.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Yeah, after your weird Christmas dinner, which we'll get to in a second. But anyway, go ahead.
I'll tell the people. You go ahead. Um, I'll tell all 10 of our listeners.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: It was mostly when we got older, so we would go out to the movies, and it was usually with my cousins A lot of times, or if we're traveling, it was with family that we're visiting. But a lot of fun movies are available even on Christmas day.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: They're also available on. Not Christmas day.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: I know, but it's just fun.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: It was the weirdest thing to me, folks, when I got into her family and we were going on our first Christmas adventure to the movie theater. I was like, who the freaking heck goes to the movies?
[00:12:44] Speaker B: A lot of people.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: That's the problem. I was thinking we were gonna get whatever seat we want. And we got there, and I was like, this place is packed.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: It is a tradition for many.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Totally foreign to me. And I have fought against it every year since. Well, I've gone two or three times.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: Santa Claus and popcorn. I mean, like, but maybe why didn't.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: Sing Santa Claus and movie Popcorn. Just Santa Claus and popcorn.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: That's the best popcorn.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: String popcorn on the trees. There's other kinds of popcorn, woman.
Okay, so we. We don't do that in our marriage as a tradition.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: We don't have a movie theater in town anymore.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. We don't. Well, even when we did, we didn't go to the tradition. But thankfully. I mean. Did I say it out loud?
Here's what I don't like about your Christmas dinner that I was hinting at a minute ago.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: What is our Christmas?
[00:13:31] Speaker A: It's supposed to be Christmas lunch. That's the point I'm making here. Oh, and your family always waited until late in the day. And I was like, why are we doing this? Doesn't everybody. And the same thing on Thanksgiving. Like, doesn't everybody know that if you eat it at lunch, you can eat it again at dinner? Like, to me, that's awesome. I don't want to go to all the work to make this dinner and then shove it all in the fridge and hope that people remember it tomorrow. I want to go to all the work to make this dinner and then have people also get to eat it at dinner time. Like Thanksgiving lunch and dinner or dinner and supper, depending on where you're from.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: I think that.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: But noontime and evening time, I think.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: The main difference is I had. I was blessed to have both sets of grandparents in the same town growing up. So we would actually have Christmas lunch and we would have Christmas dinner, but at two different families homes. So I think as the years passed, by the time you came into the picture, it was mostly just Christmas dinner.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Okay, well, I don't want you guys to think that we're not going to talk about pickleball today, because we are. Here it comes. We want to know if you have a pickleball tradition now. Because we do. Yes. Now it's not a Christmas Day 1 or a Christmas Eve.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: It's more of a holiday.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: It's this holiday season one. But we have, since we learned how to play pickleball, we have begun playing pickleball on New Year's Day every year. So this will be our seventh year, I think, of playing on New Year's Day other than when we were out of town probably, which I'm sure happened once or twice.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: But we've also played at Christmas time with family.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Yeah. But not Christmas day. And I don't think Christmas Eve either. But we. But certainly right around the Christmas time, for sure.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: It's definitely a part of the Christmas vacation.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: New Year's Day is definitely a tradition.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: At this point. Because you're. We've done it every year for seven.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Years, so we also play at Thanksgiving.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: We have. And we love doing that, too.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: I think that pickleball is one of the new family traditions for the holidays. Pick a holiday, play pickleball.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Yeah, no question. So free advertisement time. They are playing at the Pickle Barn in Muncie, which is at the church just east of meijer off of McGalliard Road. For those that are in Delaware county or here in Madison or anywhere nearby that wants to join New Year's Eve, and I'm pretty sure it's a free event. So Pickle Barn in Muncie. And, yeah, they asked if we could spread the word. So I'm spreading the word.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: And then.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: Then the next day is our tradition. We're gonna play around 10am and I'll be putting out posts all week about it. But it's. We usually do a potluck or a pitch in, depending on what part of the country you're from. Again, another colloquialism. But, yeah, we'll bring leftovers, potentially. Leftovers. If they're good leftovers, people bring them. We want them. But yeah, we'll sell food and we'll play pickleball and we'll have a great time. And that'll be New Year's Day.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: Okay, so what are your traditions, first of all? Are you gonna make Christmas time or New Year's time?
Are you gonna make it? Or do you already have a pickleball, you know, tradition for that time? And we shared a bunch of our traditions with you. What traditions do you have that you think we should pick up? Because we love traditions. We'll add some more. By the way, we don't have a traditional meal. Like, sometimes it's ham, sometimes it's like bone in ribeye or. Or, you know, brisket or. So we don't have a traditional meal per se.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: We've had fried chicken before.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: We've done fried chicken. Well, we've had Chinese food.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: We've had Chinese food.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: So, yeah, I mean, when in Rome.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: Right? So anyway, I think people are moving toward the sport in ways that they can share with their family.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Yeah, we want to hear what those are. So if you got new pickleball traditions, even if it's outside of the holiday season, if you have a new pickleball tradition or a Christmas tradition that we need to continue or consider adopting, we want to hear about it. Not New Year's. We're going to talk about that next week, but the Christmas tradition that we should adopt. Let us know. And yes, you heard me earlier. Ten people now have told us that they listen to our show.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Yay.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: If you tell us you're the 11th listener, we'll bump it up.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Thank you, everybody.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: Tell your friends, everybody that we're ahead of the game and so are you. Extra long exit today for our friends.
Call me the business.
[00:17:46] Speaker B: I'm ahead of the game.
