Ramblings of a Restless Mind

25 - Ramblings - Happy ChristmaKwanzaNewYearIca!
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[00:00:00] DeJah: I would love to smoke a J with Willie Nelson. Oh yeah. I feel like that's gotta be on everybody's top fives. Mm-hmm. I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put two together. I think Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson together would be an epic. Great time. That would be it. Mm-hmm. That's a solid. I don't really smoke. Well, you, you already told me I don't look cool on a smoke, so.

She doesn't, that's why I don't, that's, that's not the only reason why, but why I don't smoke, which is totally cool to not look cool while you smoke. , I just wanna be there. I don't wanna smoke, but I just wanna be there. Listen to the conversation hand. Hi babe. Yeah, that's awesome. Happy. Merry Chris. Mcc. Kwanza New Year, everyone. Yeah, it is, dude. Christmas is two days away. Yep. It is two days away. I hope all you boys and girls and those that identify as anything else have been good and a little naughty. I'm sure that Santa has checked the list appropriately, and I hope that he brings you all the things that you want.

And if you are. In the GOP administration. I hope we get cold. That's all I gotta say. That's all I gotta say about that. Moving on. Moving on. Yes. Well, may you get what you deserve. That's right, that's right. I love the same that's been going around. Like, may you have the day you deserve. Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely. Oh, that's so great. How, how, how are we doing? How are we feeling about Christmas this year? For those that celebrate the holidays, I honestly am. Wicked stoked for the Oh, wicked individual from Boston. Boston now, who happened to, , be the person that I chose for the family gift giving. Oh, yes.

And so I, yeah, I'm very excited. That's awesome. Mm-hmm. I hope it's me. So we, that's anonymous, so she has no idea. Yeah. So we, , we posted our first, published our first episode, courtesy of Joe. , Hi Joe. Hello. , A little over a year ago now, and we talked about Christmas and some of our traditions and the elf on the shelf and the, the toothbrush I know and near the butt thinging crazy.

, And so if you haven't listened to that or if maybe if you just have a really good memory, , you're gonna hear it again that, , deja has. Yep. Everything by her family. By my family. Yes. Lemme finish that statement. , And so last year we were blessed to have her as part of our holiday celebrations and that includes that on or around Thanksgiving Day, we, the adults there.

So me, deja, my mom, my bonus dad, my. My brother and my sister-in-law, we all draw names and do secret Santas so that it takes away the pressure of everybody having to buy gifts. That saves people money. But it's fun. It is so much fun. Love not knowing. Yeah. It is so much fun. The not knowing, but also it's like working in the shadows.

Yes. Getting the stuff together. Ah, I love it. It's a blast and we, it really just, we get to focus in on. Enjoying the day together. Yeah. That day. So, , it's a blast. We highly recommend it. , 10 outta 10 would recommend. Yes. Yes. So, yeah, it is always very fun. I gotta get on that. I mean, I know who my person is, but I need to get my shit.

Yeah. But yeah, so I'm, , I've been excited looking forward to this, , this holiday season and, , you know, interesting, like my boys are. Technically you're grown. You know, my youngest is a senior in high school and it's not like little kids looking forward to, you know, opening presents under the tree kind of thing.

Mm-hmm. I'm like, Hey, will you guys go to the mall with me? Yeah. Oh God. Like that love. Will you spend time with me? Go dinner? Just because all they want is money. They don't give a shit. Like Yeah. They just give 'em money, gift cards, they'll be fine. Right. But so I, I do love the actual Christmas tradition and the putting up the decor.

Mm-hmm. And that's one thing I love about your family, that you're, they're also into the decorating. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Gotta have the Festivus. Yep. Gotta do it twice this year. 'cause bless mom, she, , she had, I mentioned the last episode she had, , knee replacement surgery and she, I get my love of decorations or feeling at least, like I don't put up.

Tons and tons of decorations, but like, just loving that, that feeling. Mm-hmm. Right. And the twinkly lights and the coziness and all that kind of stuff. I get, definitely get that from her. And , with her having her knee surgery, she wasn't able to kind of get up and, and put everything up. And so we, me and my stepdad, man, we tag teamed it and she was still able to move around and help with some things for sure.

But she's, she wasn't like flying around. They're like a little elf putting things up like she normally is. So, , but now by the recording of this podcast, she is now skipping.

She hopes No, she's actually doing great. Thank you.

Love Do Mama. Yeah. , They've actually fallen behind on some episodes and I'm like, what the hell are you doing? You're literally just sitting in the house recovering right now. Retired people. What are you gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Jeez. , Joe, what about you? Your girls are young adults?

[00:05:03] Joe: Yep. 18 and 20.

I'm excited for them to come home. We, , we finished Thanksgiving dinner and then I started bringing the Christmas stuff down. That's kind of how we do. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yep.

[00:05:12] DeJah: Yeah. Yep. You know what I, I respect the hell outta that. You gotta put them kids to work. You don't let them leave right? Without you put 'em to work.

Yeah. That's right. Mm-hmm.

[00:05:20] Joe: Yeah. It's, , it's, it's fun. We, we never put anything in the same place, so it's kind of like, here's all the boxes and we just kind of throw stuff around. , So, but my, my youngest is very, Joe Joe's

[00:05:29] DeJah: family is unique with their sock bins and there, oh my god. Threatened corner. Oh, triggered.

Oh God.

[00:05:35] Joe: The sock bins. We now have two sock bins. There's too many of them. There's

[00:05:40] DeJah: multiplying, they're

[00:05:41] Joe: overflowing.

[00:05:42] DeJah: Shut your mouth when you're talking to us, Joe. And

[00:05:44] Joe: I told, I told my wife like, it would be so great if we just grabbed a trash bike and threw out all the socks and just start it over and just get one kind of sock.

[00:05:52] DeJah: Oh, everyone has one white crew sock. That's what it is. Oh my God. Cruise socks to everybody. God, like that just gives me the biggest anxiety. Like I just, oh my God, that's, but you don't put anything in the same spot. You just. Christmas card.

[00:06:06] Joe: Yeah. We just, whatever that an adult tree in a different spot.

Madness. Yeah. It's,

[00:06:11] DeJah: we just make stuff up place for everything and everything in its place. Yeah. I mean, first of all, like there's only so many ways that things can go in my house. Exactly. I have a very small, modest, humble, little cozy home. And there, there are some things that switch up 'cause I don't remember where the fuck it went the year before.

Right. Yeah. Because it's something small and minuscule, but like the main things like the tree and the shit on the fireplace, mantle and stuff. Exactly. Nope. Same place.

[00:06:32] Joe: We always also, whenever we go on vacation, we pick up a Christmas ornament from wherever we go. Oh, NICE's a so that's always fun. A good tradition when you're putting it on the tree.

I was reading the funny one about COVID this year. I forgot that whole season of, that's hilarious. Humanity.

[00:06:46] DeJah: That's the one thing I love is putting up the tree and going through all of the ornaments. I make my sons do this with me so I can regale them every year with the same stupid story. Right of wear this ornament from 1997.

Came from? Yes. When you have two daughters

[00:07:00] Joe: like mine that look so similar between the ages of one and three, you just kind of have to make up which kid. Oh, that's, that's this one. Yeah, 100%. They don't know.

[00:07:09] DeJah: It's fine. It's fine. We,

[00:07:11] Joe: my oldest wanted some, she's , she's got her own apartment now. She's living out in Boone, and she wanted some ornaments to take and put on her tree, and so we were, I'm not sure I gave her the ones of her that could

[00:07:22] Jen: be her sister.

That's funny.

[00:07:25] Joe: Either way it's sentimental. It's fine. That's right's, right? It's fine. I mean, yeah. Still your sister or,

[00:07:30] DeJah: I think my least favorite like decor put up is honestly, I love it when it's done, but fluffing the fucking tree because I get, I have a fake tree, right? Mm-hmm. Because I grew up, my mom grew up in Iowa.

I was born there. Shout out all the corn people. Shout out to the corn people. Yeah. Not children with the corn, creepy corn. People just differentiating. And they have the long needle like white pines. Mm-hmm. And they flock 'em. Yep. And for those of you who don't know what flocking is. , It's fake snow on our trip.

It's not fucking, it's blocking. It's, it's fucking flocking. All right. So when we, when we were in North Carolina, or we are still in North Carolina, , and we used to get real trees still. , We would flock them every year. Yeah. But my grandfather in Iowa had like one of those shop vacs. And you would fill the, the flocking stuff?

Yeah. In the shop vac. And you just blow it like hardcore on the tree. Well, here they didn't have that shit. 'cause North Carolina's like flock. What? Mm-hmm. What Flock? Yep. . So we would just get the little spray cans of it, right? Mm-hmm. We did it one year in the garage with the garage door closed 'cause it was so cold.

Oh. Did you almost poison yourselves to death? Yes. We were very high uhhuh. Me and my mom and my brother were just like, we're, I can imagine hysterically laughing at nothing. This is great. Yes. Woo. Why are we floating? Yeah, pretty much. So anyway, all that to say that I now have a fake tree that is flocked, pre flocked prelock, but I hate fluffing it.

You know, whenever you pull out a box, you gotta do all the things and try to, and it's probably because of my Type A personality, because I wanna make sure that all the spaces are covered and everything else. And then I, I don't really get excited about hanging the ornaments and, but when it's done, I'm like, yay, I'm so excited.

Well then, you know what? I'll come over and we'll make it a party. And then you can come over and I do mine and we'll make it a party. All right. And then you can laugh along with my stories that the boys have already heard. There go every year I'll be your new listener. Other those stories, right? Oh, you don't look at the bottom of my tree though, because my Phineas, my D, my youngest dog, when he was a puppy, he chewed on the lights.

So the lights are out at the bottom of my tree. Not the whole tree. Just just the bottom. Just just the bottom. At least it was just the bottom. Yeah. It's always a pain

[00:09:25] Joe: to put it all up, but it's tough to be like when it's cold outside, you know it gets dark at like four 30 in the afternoon. Oh yes. Feeling you fire up all the Christmas lights.

Yeah. It

[00:09:33] DeJah: feels. Put a fake player place on the

[00:09:35] Joe: YouTube, on the tv.

[00:09:37] DeJah: Oh man. Did you have a warm beverage? All done? Well, was it Monday night here earlier this week? It was. It was cold and rainy much like today. And I was, so, no, not Monday night, Tuesday night. And , I was so excited to sit down. I even put on my Instagram story and it was like, happy girl.

'cause I had my fireplace going. My tree on my lights, on the mantle on little bit. I had a Christmas movie on TV and I had tomato soup and grilled cheese. Oh yeah. And a and a and a pine like scented candle burning. And I was just like. This is the Mecca. Oh yes. So what,

[00:10:09] Joe: what kind of Christmas movies are you guys?

Are you the kind We watch the same ones every year. That's no lampoon. Do you just wanna see the latest, whatever Netflix spits out?

[00:10:18] DeJah: , Well I thought it was really funny last year when I sat with your family, we watched that Christmas movie. Was it hot? Frosty. It was hot for us. My, oh my. We talked about that last year.

We did Last year. Oh my gosh. Oh my god. Bad God. It was bad, but great. Yeah, it was so bad. It great. That was good. Yeah. That's great. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Hot fe frosty Joe. This is such a great, que, did you text in this question? We, I have a text that's possible. I know a text from, from a listener that I just pulled it up to.

'cause I saw that we had two anyway, and it says, what's your favorite? Comfort Holiday movie. So I guess that's a little different than what you were saying, like what kind of Yes. Movie watch,

[00:10:55] Joe: but the family movie is always when we're decorating as soon as we finish. So as soon as we finish the decorating, it's dumb.

'cause we'd have done on Thanksgiving then. We'll, everybody will get food from wherever they want. DoorDash and then we just eat a lot more and watch Elf.

[00:11:09] DeJah: Nice. Okay. Nice, nice. It's always I, it's always Elf. So Elf is your holiday comfort movie. What about you buddy? Do you have a.

[00:11:16] Joe: Buddy.

[00:11:17] DeJah: Wow. Buddy. Buddy. Then buddy, buddy, buddy.

, I, I, I guess I don't, I don't have like a, a go-to that I watch every single year, other than I will say, , oh shoot, I've wa now watched it two years in a row. The, , the, the one where the, the dude from Stranger Things, the cop from Stranger Things is Santa. Okay. But he like. Kills everybody.

[00:11:42] Joe: Oh, okay. So it's like a horror kinda one.

[00:11:43] DeJah: Oh no. Well, yes, no. Um, no, no. It's comedy. Is it

[00:11:47] Joe: Krampus, is it something in that family?

[00:11:48] DeJah: No. Oh my gosh. I, we are not talking about Bad Santa, are you? That's Billy Bob Thornton. That's Billy Bob Thornton. , I think I can

[00:11:55] Joe: see the trailer in my head. I can replace it. There's one with Mel Gibson called Fat Man.

I haven't seen that one, but I think it's similar.

[00:12:04] DeJah: It's Fatman is a, a movie about Rob, a robbery. I don't think there's any, it's not Santa Santa related. Oh, maybe. I just thought it

[00:12:12] Joe: was 'cause it was, it came out on Christmas and he said Fatman. Yeah.

[00:12:14] DeJah: Yeah. It's, it's gory, right? Yeah. A little bit. Yep. There's some fantastic ways to kill someone with a candy cane.

[00:12:21] Joe: It's like a revenge movie, right? Like somebody did something wrong to him and he happened to be a Santa in Cast Co. And he just went with it.

[00:12:28] DeJah: , He got stuck 'cause his reindeer took off. 'cause gunfire happened in the house. Oh. So got it. Was Santa.

[00:12:32] Joe: He is Santa in the movie. He is actually

[00:12:34] DeJah: the legitimate real Santa who gets, does not wanna be involved.

Just wants to leave. Damn. You know that there's somebody out there right now just screaming what this movie is. I know. And I'm like, are you, are you googling? It's my Santa movie. I am, I'm trying to to find David. What's his name? David Harbinger. Har Har Har David Har Harper. Oh, there we go. Look, I looked up, I, I Googled gory Christmas movies.

And Tim Burton's a nightmare. Before Christmas came up, I was like, gory. No,

[00:12:59] Joe: that's

[00:12:59] DeJah: not, that's

[00:13:00] Joe: not gory. My daughter's like that one. I don't get into that one.

[00:13:03] DeJah: Someone tell me what it's, find it. Joe. You're the

[00:13:06] Joe: violent knight.

[00:13:07] DeJah: Yes. Violent knight. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. You better watch out

[00:13:10] Joe: is the log line.

[00:13:11] DeJah: Yeah. So I guess, yeah, in my, , that's your comfort movie. Comfort movie track. Yep. That

[00:13:16] Joe: tracks I always end up watching Die Hard. I think that's in the same category. I, I also

[00:13:19] DeJah: think that Diehard is a Christmas movie. Agree with that. It happens during Christmas. That's right. That's right.

[00:13:24] Joe: Make, make Knuckles with your Toes people.

That's right. That's right.

[00:13:27] DeJah: I think my comfort holiday move. I think I have two. Of course I do. , One just for like fun, just 'cause I love it, is. Jim Carrey's. The gr Oh, so good. And then, but I then I think like romcom one is the holiday with Kate Winslet. Oh, that's a good one. Jack Black and Jude Law.

Mm-hmm. I, I haven't watched that in a bit. I have a, I have a girl date with myself on the, like I do like that, , face mask and like hot chocolate and like on with the fire and all that kind of stuff for the holiday. I love that movie. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:13:56] Joe: We had a, so that's another one where Christmas movies, the Grinch, we always watch it and they.

The daughters figured out that the little girl was on Gossip Girl. Yes. For a couple seasons. Yep. And it just blew their minds this year. Taylor, Taylor mom said Taylor Momon. Yeah,

[00:14:10] DeJah: because she just, so, Cindy Lou, who is also a badass lead singer of the female rock band, , pretty little reckless. Or pretty reckless.

[00:14:17] Joe: Yeah. And that new version of that song is great. Yes.

[00:14:20] DeJah: She just, this year she dropped. Rock version of, where Are You Christmas, that she's sent a Cindy Lu who, oh wow. Okay, cool. I'll have to listen to that Shoot. Yeah. I don't wanna crush her daughter's dreams, but when she played Jenny and Gossip Girl, she hated her life.

Then. Like I recently saw her on Call Her Daddy the podcast. I think they mentioned that like she had hard time on that show and she, she was really trying to lean into her music and not acting anymore and there was just a whole, they were like painting her as this horrible person in real life. And she is like, I don't need this.

Exactly. Yeah. And she's like, no, I just don't wanna act anymore. I wanna, you know, but. There were contractual issues, all that kind of, anyway, I don't know. Yeah. , I was gonna say, but yeah, I don't dunno. I don't have, , I guess it's maybe because we, I think it really kind of leans into like your family traditions.

Yeah. Do you like, you know, like Joe, like you guys Yeah. That's what we do. We, we do this and we watch movies and like Yeah. Yeah. I have definitely been watching, I have spent, this is the first week in a long time that I haven't had multiple things in the evening. Like, mm. Well, when we're saying this for you, there's not much left in the week, , I've recently watched, , I. Oh, what fun. It's on Prime. Oh, I saw Michelle pfe. I saw the trailer for that. Is that good? And Kelly Grace Marette. It is cool. It is good, good, good. I'll watch it because I love Issa. Michelle Pfeiffer. She's hot as hell. I, I got it's, and Eva Longoria is in it. I, she's also hot as hell.

I texted my mom, I was like, mom, you gotta watch this movie. Like She'll, it's, it's very centered around moms. Oh,

[00:16:31] Jen: nice.

[00:16:32] DeJah: , And like will make you want to like, text your arm. Well. Text your mother figure Yep. Right away and be like, thank you so much for all you do for Christmas. Mm-hmm. , It's, it, it, it's got a lot of humor, but a lot of, I mean, it's a typical holiday movie, humor and sentiment, right?

Yes. That's what we want out of our holiday movies. Yes. So, but with actual good actors. Yes. Yes. Michelle Pfeifer

[00:16:48] Joe: got the lead in the new Taylor shirt and it's under production. Oh, really? Yeah. He's doing another show. Cool,

[00:16:54] DeJah: cool, cool. For what? I've always liked her, who, it's called Watson.

[00:16:56] Joe: It's a Yellowstone spinoff, but she's the main character.

[00:16:59] DeJah: Oh, nice. Oh, she'll be good in a role like that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. She's a good dude. Heroine, grease Two's kinda my favorite. Michelle Pfe. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm, I instantly am Catwoman. Oh, oh yeah. Forever Catwoman. Mm-hmm. Wasn't she in a movie? That was when I first got a crush on her.

[00:17:15] Joe: Was she in one fine day with George Clooney?

Was that Michelle Pfeiffer?

[00:17:18] DeJah: Oh, oh, IM dv feels, it feels right. Yeah, it feels right. You know, as I was looking up these horror movies for Christmas, , this one popped up and I haven't seen it in a long time. And now I really wanna watch it this season as gremlins. Oh, wow. Yeah.

[00:17:32] Joe: It doesn't hold up. I, but I encourage you to try.

[00:17:35] DeJah: I encourage you to try. Can we have some THC seltzers? Yes. And then watch some lin.

[00:17:41] Joe: That would very much help, I guess like,

[00:17:43] DeJah: would be like, you can't, I haven't seen that since it came out. Oh, since I was a child? Yes. Oh my gosh. The, the one at the end with the, the gremlin with the top hat singing. Oh man. And Gizmo.

Oh, I love Gizmo so much. Ugh. Anyway, it's so funny. Shout out Gremlins. Yes. Yes. But all of the deliciousness too. Looking forward to the food and looking forward to the, yeah,

[00:18:07] Joe: we took the girls 18 and 20 to go see Wicked two at the Alamo. Nice. And, , that was pretty good. I enjoyed it.

[00:18:14] DeJah: We haven't seen it yet, and that's my fault.

I take responsibility for that. , What's funny though is that when the first one came out. Was the first day of Deja and i's very first recording for the podcast. Yeah.

[00:18:25] Jen: We

[00:18:25] DeJah: left here. Yeah. Went home, let our dogs out, and went to go seat at the Alamo. Went to the theater. Yeah, like the 10 o'clock showing or some shit that night.

We both got that. We were like, what the fuck are we doing?

[00:18:34] Joe: We're so, so tired. Alamo was a good theater. It is. I, I love it When they played the ads of people that were angry, that got kicked out. Ugh. Those are my favorite. I just,

[00:18:43] DeJah: I love when they play the old movies, like, , going and taking my son to go watch the first Ghostbusters in the theater.

Come on. That's awesome.

[00:18:50] Joe: They just opened it up. But my wife tried to get tickets, but they sold out immediately. Oh, you

[00:18:53] DeJah: have to be on that

[00:18:54] Joe: jeopardy. Opened up a thing where you can compete with everybody in the room and the Jeopardy writers write their questions and they built an app for Alamo, but it sold out like,

[00:19:03] DeJah: oh wow.

I bet that sounds fun. Yeah. Something different. No, Alamo's got it, right? Yeah. Their business model, they

[00:19:09] Joe: also do, , on point, they do an elf one where like when it's the snowball scene, they fill the room with snowballs. They serve food that Buddy eats in the movie. Mm-hmm. That's awesome. That's, oh yeah.

It's all like

[00:19:17] DeJah: you get Yeah. 'cause we got like swag, we got Ghostbuster swag, the Ghostbuster themed food. Like everything they do is tight. It is. They stitch everything in. It's great. I do love how they switch up their menu, like with when Avengers end game was in the theater and stuff, you know, in the world's losing their mind.

Yeah. Self included. , Like the menu items and the food's actually good. Yeah. And also now, or they've been doing this for a bit now, but like, whenever you, , now. It's not cheap.

[00:19:42] Joe: Right. Sweet Lord. No. I took my wife and my daughters and it's like, okay, there's all the money. Bye. Yep. Yeah. Oh yeah.

[00:19:48] DeJah: But whenever you buy your ticket now you can also like pre-order a beer.

Yeah.

[00:19:54] Joe: Yeah. My oldest turned 21 and she was very excited to, to

[00:19:58] DeJah: do that.

[00:19:58] Joe: Try

[00:19:59] DeJah: beer if she thinks,

[00:20:00] Joe: she thinks. Dad believe that. I'm really excited to try

[00:20:03] DeJah: some beers, dad. Right. That's hilarious. Yeah. But they, that is very cool that they bring, , I went to see, set it off on a, like a Tuesday night Yeah. For like six bucks or some shit like that.

Yeah, yeah. That they bring movies back like that. Yeah. But man, it's cool. They do say they sell out 'cause people love it. Yeah. You love to do, they do. It's

[00:20:20] Joe: experiential. That's what makes it fun.

[00:20:21] DeJah: And because they have, I mean they're very, I love and the, the openings that are like. It's always usually like an actor from the movie you're about to watch.

That's like silence your phones and they've got that very loud announcement of like, silence your phones, turn it off, you'll get kicked out, kind of thing. I'm here for it. But then stitching in all the commercials that then go along with every single movie. Right? Yeah. When you get to watch all those classic commercials, right.

It, it's Americana. Mm-hmm. Like, it's very, I think it's a, it's a great model. I love it. The first time

[00:20:49] Joe: my wife and I went, , they played all the ads and it got real serious about we'll kick you out. We mean it. Yes. No, really we mean it. Yep. And I looked at her, I'm like, Hey babe, I really wanna see this movie.

I'll just meet you at the car. So I like, there's no way you're not gonna text during this movie.

[00:21:03] DeJah: Yeah. Yeah, they, they're, they are very, very serious about situation I, that I do, I really appreciate it. 'cause I go in, I silence my phone. I'm the one that's gonna be like, yep. Right. If you, it's anybody's making any noise.

I see a light my, yeah. Yeah. My poor

[00:21:17] Joe: daughter. So it's, it's, she's trying to get up and go to the bathroom during the scene and wicked, you can tell she's in a rush 'cause she wants to get back, but she just has to use the restroom and she has pots and she stands up, she loses feeling in her legs and falls down.

Oh no. And the theater laughs. And everybody's laughing, but I'm like, dad mode. And so she's telling the story on the way back. She's like, everybody in the theater's laughing except dad's very concerned and jumping over chairs to come pick me up, you know?

[00:21:43] DeJah: Poor thing. That's the worst. Yeah, you can't feel your lower.

[00:21:47] Joe: There you go. This she was in, she was laughing. She was laughing. Harder than anybody in there though. She has a good sense of humor about it.

[00:21:53] DeJah: Oh, that's awesome. That's good though. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of good movies in there fo show

[00:22:00] Joe: all. I think there might be some kind of curse with Wizard of Ho. Can we talk about this for a second?

[00:22:04] DeJah: Oh yeah. This has been ongoing. Think about

[00:22:05] Joe: all the stuff that went on with the first one. Mm-hmm. The rumors of Munchkins hanging themselves in the background and like the way that they treated Judy Garland and made her like take diet pills and she got addicted and all this. Nonsense. The paint

[00:22:17] DeJah: that the Tin man had to endure, that poisoned him.

Yes. And yeah, like

[00:22:20] Joe: all the things, there's so many things that's like, oh, this is bad news. Mm-hmm. And then my daughter, before we went to Go Sea Week, had showed me all these reels about like the kind of weird relationship between Cynthia Riga and ,

[00:22:30] DeJah: Ariana Grande.

[00:22:30] Joe: Thank you. Most famous person in the world.

Blanking on her name probably. Okay, cool. I'm hip with the jive, but anyways, they. They would just cry a lot. Like they would. They would just, somebody would ask 'em a question and then they would just cry. Mm-hmm. Just like awkward interactions. And they look, , and my daughter's word emaciated. I saw one reel of somebody who was like, do they just chain 'em in a basement?

Only let 'em come out to do they,

[00:22:54] DeJah: they are thin. It's, they're, it's a, there's a

[00:22:56] Joe: strange vibe to the interviews. Mm-hmm. In the movie. They look great. They look healthy. Yes. They don't look like that in the movie. Yeah. , They looked like themselves. , But yeah, there was something. There. I don't know. I hope there's not, but is there something weird?

Yeah, I don't know. Some kind of weird wizard of odd curse that we should just leave that movie alone.

[00:23:13] DeJah: I maybe. Or we just need to send sandwiches. I don't know. I don't know. It's one of the two. But you are right, they are both like, or they do, you can't, that is like. As Pilates thin, like as your body can get before it's unhealthy, right?

Yeah. When you can count your ribs. Correct. That's true. In a low cut dress, you're like, oh yeah. You know that sick shit is coming back though. They're getting so thin with the ozempic and stuff that like your clavicles are hanging out like where your BMI is in the teens. The negative. Yeah, man. So unhealthy.

Yeah, let's

[00:23:42] Joe: just let all that go. Can we PSA, yeah,

[00:23:44] DeJah: just our God president is going on and on about how it's on sale. How the fuck are we supposed to let it go? I, that fat fucker endlessly talks about how fat everybody else is. My God, I just, if you guys could just see the vein that was about to explode out of DIA's neck.

[00:24:03] Joe: I do, I do a lot of medical shows and I got concerns about Ozempic, but I think my feelings overall are, it causes a. Obesity causes a lot of health concerns Yes. For other people. So I think, I think there's truth to the logic, like, should people who are diabetic be on insulin their whole life? Probably not, but it's necessary when they need it.

Mm-hmm. And so I think there's a, there's a transition. I don't know, I think I feel bad for people that are on it, that get made fun of. Like, I look at what happened with, , the tennis woman, Serena Williams. Mm-hmm. Like people were just mean to her. Who cares. She's, she's taking some medicine 'cause she wants to change health water.

So, 'cause president

[00:24:39] DeJah: of the United States on fucking air went around his like, well, hey, I think, , I think luck, Nick. Yep. I think he's on it. Yep. I think, uh, secretary of Yep. Yep, yep. Think he's on it. I mean, HIPAA out that. Fucking door. This guy's like, yeah, everybody's fat. I don't, I don't get the shame.

This fucker's on it, that fat fucker's on it.

[00:24:55] Joe: I don't get where the shame comes from. Is it jealousy? Like, how dare you? Will you get skinny? And I won't be skinny. Like, no,

[00:25:01] DeJah: it's just simply probably because she's one, she's a black woman. , So there has to be criticism of her in some shape or form. And just because, yeah, she made a choice to take a drug that would help her, made her an elitist.

Because he's a man child and gives him something to say, to tear someone else down, to make himself feel better about himself. It'll get reactions, good or bad. But why? Serena received more criticism Yeah. Than some of the other white. Okay. Kelly Clarkson was very open right about how she was out. There was plenty of other stars out there.

[00:25:33] Joe: Right.

[00:25:34] DeJah: Wow. And was this person receiving more negativity? 'cause I saw that. Yeah. And I love the mindset, like,

[00:25:40] Joe: what do I care what medicine somebody takes? Like how is that something I should have an opinion about? Yeah. And,

[00:25:45] DeJah: but also, like, shouldn't you be happy that they're on a path of being healthy? Sure.

Like, come on. Just,

[00:25:51] Joe: and everybody wants to talk about, oh, we don't know, we don't know what's wrong with it yet, et cetera. Sure. Okay, sure. I buy that. And it's ab it's

[00:25:57] DeJah: absolutely true. And if you're not gonna use it as prescribed by your doctor. Right, and if you're gonna play chemistry set with yourself, you've gotta accept whatever outcome is gonna occur, right?

Yeah. However, like

[00:26:07] Joe: I think the price point is the elitist thing. I think that's what was driving it though. I think you're right. Absolutely.

[00:26:10] DeJah: I think it's vile and disgusting that again, the leader of the free world is out there telling everybody they should be able to blow $400 every two weeks to not be fed.

You know, like that is just in America. In this economy. In this economy. What the fuck? No, it'll come down. I think what people

[00:26:26] Joe: don't understand is the drug companies spend a ton of money to make the drug and they gotta recoup it. Absolute. And once they absolutely recoup it, they'll drop the price. They like a Shark Tank royalty deal.

Like once Mr. Wonderful makes his money back.

[00:26:37] DeJah: Oh yeah. Then yeah. But also remember they sell those drugs overseas and overseas. They're a fraction of the cost already. Yeah. Right, and I heard it's in America where they make their money by ripping us off. Well, we're also, we are also the only coun, we're not gonna say the only country, but that is so heavily concerned about our image and so they can set it at a certain price because we created diabetes.

Right. No, it's a literal truth. America was where diabetes type two was created and in children in 1998. We're so fat and on our processed foods, we created this medical issue. So of course, America talks about it. We are the most obese country in the world. We're also, we're the most obese, but we're also the most.

I remember talking to from somebody when we were, when I was traveling, they were, I dunno, from Sweden or something, and I was like, you know what, what are top three like stereotypical things when you think about Americans? And they said a couple of things. One of 'em was, you're so concerned about your image.

Yeah. Like it drives everything you do of like how you look in your clothes and how you pose in a picture. And I'm like, ah, yeah, you're not wrong. And so I think because of that and all the other factors that play into this. The pharmaceutical companies are who, you know, whatever can drive up the price because they know that people will pay that to look good.

Of course, because society has a certain image of what they're supposed to look like. That's a whole other soapbox. I've actually got a question for you. Deja. Shoot this one specifically for you. Oh, from a listener. Okay. Oh shit.

[00:27:58] Jen: Are you dirty? My loins guys? No, no. Here we go. This

[00:28:00] DeJah: is not Ozempic related, but , I'm actually very interested to hear this answer.

There's been mention of a love. And partaking in THC. So what five people would be in your dream blunt rotation? They can be alive or dead. Five. Mm-hmm. Okay. Your nails look fantastic, by the way. Thank you. She just held up her hand for five. Yes. Betty White. Oh, good. Smoking a J with Betty White. You imagine?

What a great time. Oh man. That would fucking be, does she smoke? Did she, I think I remember seeing her in this interview. It's past, but like, semantics, Joe. I don't, I don't think that Betty White was a huge hitter of the old, , ganja, but she's, I could imagine. That's a funny lady. Absolutely. She was. Oh my God.

We could just get high and talk about dogs. I mean, amazing. , Let's see. You know what, I could get high and talk about. The law with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Okay. Okay. And bring that back. It's so funny you mention these two because both of your dogs' names are derivatives. Yeah, that's true. Or Betty Betty's my favorite people.

Yeah. , Let's see, let's go with some living peeps. Oh my God, I would love to smoke a J with Michelle Obama. , You imagine how much fun that would be. Yeah, just, I mean, I love her husband, but I really love Michelle Obama. Yeah. Hmm. I wanna read her latest book that that's come out or is about to come out about like her fashion and stuff.

Oh yeah. That she wrote. Absolutely. That's very cool. Hmm. RuPaul, which of that would be a ah, fantastic, fantastic time. , Yeah. So where are we as at four? That's four. , Because like was like, wow, I'm just picking all dead people. We

[00:29:33] Jen: picked a living,

[00:29:35] DeJah: we got two. Michelle, Michelle and Ru. Yep. , And. And number five, who would I love?

Oh. I would love to smoke a J with Willie Nelson. Oh yeah. I feel like that's gotta be on everybody's top fives. Mm-hmm. I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put two together. I think Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson together would be an epic. Great time. That would be it. Mm-hmm. That's a solid. I don't really smoke. Well, you, you already told me I don't look cool on a smoke, so.

She doesn't, that's why I don't, that's, that's not the only reason why, but why I don't smoke, which is totally cool to not look cool while you smoke. , I just wanna be there. I don't wanna smoke, but I just wanna be there. Listen to the conversation hand. Hi babe. Yeah, that's awesome. What a great shout out to, I'm assuming the person texted that in is also partaker so.

That's awesome. Daisha, you got a fan? Or at least your habits have a fan. Yeah, my habits have a fan. Oh yes, absolutely. Awesome. Well guys, we're gonna keep this one a little bit shorter, but we are wishing you the happiest of holidays and whatever way you celebrate, whether that is by yourself and protecting your peace because the holidays and being around your family and gives you anxiety, people in can be peace derivative.

Yeah. Or if you are celebrating with those that you call your family but are maybe not your biological family. , The ones you get to choose, and sometimes those are That's right. The better ones the better. Yep. That's the fact. , Or if you just got a whole sleuth of people that are showing up to just celebrate holiday and it's complete madness and you're exhausted, but at the end of the day, you still love it.

Whatever way you choose to celebrate, we hope that you have the best holiday season, , and kicking off the new year. And, , we have got our next episode. The ki that we kick off the new year with is gonna be with a sex therapist. Yeah. So if you're looking to spice up your 2026, make sure you turn in tune into the next episode.

Daja. With that, I just wanna say ho, ho, ho, my ho. Keep rambling.

Love you. Bye.