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The following podcast is a Dear Media Production. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club Podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman. And that woman is me. Hi, guys. I'm Alison Kuch, and today I'm joined by special guest.
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Very special guest.
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What's your name again?
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Isaac. Rochelle.
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Keep them humble. So today we are going to be doing a fun little holiday slash juicy gossip episode.
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Whoa, I. I didn't know the topic coming into this.
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It's not that juicy, Isaac and I just honestly love to yap. And I feel like with the holidays, maybe you guys are driving to a family function. Maybe you guys are dreading the family function you're going to. Maybe you have drama with your family and you're not spending it with your family. Let us be your family. You can throw this on. This is going to be an easy, like, episode. We're just gonna yap and talk about the holidays and all that.
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I was gonna say, have you seen the tick tocks where it's like, people, this is not gonna go political at all, but, like, a lot of yikes. A lot of people that, like, already.
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Starting off on a great note. Let's talk about politics ahead of the holidays.
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Yeah. No, but people who didn't vote for Trump are like, oh, I can't wait to go to the Thanksgiving table this year. Like, it's. It's funny.
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I've seen multiple tick tocks of people saying, like, if you and your family, if there's an argument at your family's holiday table, go on live.
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I'm telling you right now, people couldn't.
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Handle if I went on live during my family's arguments. Sorry if my mom is listening.
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I'm not going to air out your family's tea.
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Do not.
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I said, I'm not going to air out your family's tea. But Ali's family, Ally's most passionate person I've ever met, and I say that wholeheartedly. You are passionate. Meaning if we're talking about whether that water bottle is butter yellow or yellow, it. It could turn passionate, which is fine. Your family's the exact same way. So you guys have debates about random stuff, and it's like, what? Wow, we're deep in this.
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Also, if you guys are curious, my dad is generally, like, more conservative leaning and my mom is way more liberal leaning. So it's just always been an interesting dynamic with our family when it comes to, like, politics and stuff.
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Let's be specific, though. Your dad.
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My dad didn't vote for Trump.
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He's like old conservative. Like he, he's like 2000 conservative. Yeah, 2002 conservative. He's not, he's not 20, 25 conservative.
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Yeah. I think it's different.
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I think it's.
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Anyways, we're already, we're already getting into it, so.
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You're adorable.
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You. We all know the holidays are about family and juicy gossip, so you guys sent in some juicy gossip. But we're going to get into some of the holidays.
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We've got, we've got fresh goss from like unheard goss.
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The sports stories. Throw it in.
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Man, I love this.
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So let's go ahead and jump into the holiday questions and, and, and then we'll lead into a little bit more of a juicy. What are you most excited for this holiday season now that Scotty is a little older? Everything Christmas. I'm like, we are screen time. Like, yeah, we are. We are watching movies.
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We're through the roof.
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You are watching Santa Claus.
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She doesn't under. I think we could start to introduce Santa. Like I could see her start saying like Anna, like making up her own version of the word. Like we need to start really forcing it.
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But I do think on Christmas morning when she sees all these presents, I think it is going to be magical. And we're going home to my family.
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Mine.
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Yeah, we're going home to my family. Like the house I grew up in for Christmas and she is the one and only grandchild on my parents side so people are going to be spoiling her.
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She's also never seen snow. So if it's snowing, it'll be the first time she's ever seen snow. Like my dad's going to be there, your family's going to be there. It's going to be like a really, really special.
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And the older she gets, I'm like, wow, we can really start introducing family traditions and like decorating Christmas cookies and going and getting a Christmas tree.
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Oh, cider mills during Christmas. Do people not do that during Christmas? No. That's dumb. Why would you not go to a cider mill during Christmas?
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Is there anything like specifically you're looking forward to a Scotty this year for Christmas or.
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I'm really, really, really excited about going to your families. Yeah, I think that's going to be a really special memory for us. I think. I love California, but you're not getting like a traditional like where you put the jackets on and you go outside and it's cloudy and gross.
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Like my family is the true nostalgic Christmas. My mom is like, they're gonna go all out.
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My mom is going all out.
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My mom is going all out.
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You have to. You have to think about this too. It's not about Scotty. Like, think about it bigger than Scotty. Your family hasn't had the entire family at the house in years.
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Yeah.
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And my dad's going. They love my dad.
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It's like, so this brother has a girlfriend.
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Like, yeah, this is like a true. Like, you're.
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It's gonna be weird sleeping in my childhood bedroom. But, like, I have a child.
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It's a whole child.
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It's so cute.
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It's actually the best. I can't. I'm so excited.
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Are there any traditions you want to bring into your new family?
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No, she's not really old enough. Where I feel like we're like hardcore traditions that she's going to get excited about.
A
Yeah, I kind of agree. I think next year will be more of like, what traditions do we really want to start doing?
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Yeah. Like we're one. One gift on Christmas Eve, family.
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I. I did that.
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Yeah.
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My grandma gave us all like one gift on Christmas Eve. We got to open it.
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I think we're going to do Santa.
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Yeah. We will be doing Santa Elf on the shelf. Just because I selfishly play into that talk.
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Okay. That this year.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Rochelle with her will be really, really fun. You should do it every single day and make videos about it. That's so fun.
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I already plan on doing that.
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Oh, wow. That's going to be so cute with her.
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So. Yeah, I think we'll. We'll kind of do the traditions more so next year. But it's also hard because we don't have family that live near us. So like the traditions of like, oh, we're going to like grandma and grandpa's on Christmas Eve and then we'll do Christmas morning here and then we'll go like, we really don't have that yet.
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Which is why I'm thankful we're going.
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Yeah. So I'm really excited to be going. One thing that I do want to do every single December is there's a boat parade. It's most California Christmas thing you've ever heard of. But there's a boat parade where people will decorate there million dollar yachts and you get on a different boat and you go around like the harbor and look at the lights of these million dollar mansions too.
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I will say this California.
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Have you ever seen somebody with unlimited funds decorating for Christmas?
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It's absurd.
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It's beautiful.
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California. Even though we don't have the snow. They. They do Christmas, right? And it is chilly. Like, you put throw on a parka. It's going to. It might be 45 at night, 60 degrees during the. No, no. It might get down in the 40s, like, on at night.
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If Scotty could make the holiday plans, what would the day look like?
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She'd be watching TV all day, you think?
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No, I think she loves playing outside now.
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She loves being outside. I don't know what she would do.
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I think it would have to do with, like, going and make and, like, baking Christmas cookies and decorating them, but eating the icing. She loves mix. She goes, mix, mix, mix. And if I make. So I'm like, okay, I'll make pancakes. But she eats the pancake batter. So I'm like, I have to hold off on the eggs until right before I'm ready to cook them, because I want her to get salmonella. What's one. What's one tradition from your childhood that you absolutely want to keep versus one you're happy to ditch?
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I feel like we. I wasn't, like, a hardcore tradition family. We weren't, like, we got to do the same thing every single year.
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H. I think one thing that I'm. I'm gonna want to keep is, like, the. The present on Christmas Eve. I think I'm gonna want to keep Santa. I know a lot of people are, like, controversial about the hat, which is. I'm like, yeah, I will lie to my child to have a little bit of magic.
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Teaches him heartbreak. That might be her first heartbreak.
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I think I'm pretty insistent that, like, we're not gonna do any, like, vacations during Christmas.
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I'm not, like, anti Christmas vacation, really.
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I like the idea of waking up on Christmas morning going downstairs.
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Yeah, you don't want to wake up. You don't want to wake up in a hotel. Yeah, you need a fire.
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Maybe when they, like, maybe when our kids are older, like. Yeah, when my friend Sydney, her family now, instead of doing presents, they go on a family trip. Every Christmas, I go to Jamaica.
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I. Yeah, I can. I can rock with that.
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Anything you want to ditch?
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No, I don't. We'll see. We're not. This doesn't need to be an intense answer. We'll just see how our traditions develop.
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I want you guys to write into my DMS and tell me, like, any really cute Christmas traditions you guys have, because maybe we'll copy you. Yeah, maybe we'll copy. Do you two do any cute gift exchange, just the two of you?
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No.
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No, I think because our family is just you, me, and Scotty, that we don't really need to do that.
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Yeah, we don't do that.
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I do remember my parents every single year would say, like, oh, we're not getting each other presents. Like, this is, like, it's fine. Like, we'll just do an experience together or whatever. And then every single year, my dad would surprise my mom with some, like, very beautiful gift that she had, like, been wanting or mentioned once, and she would always cry.
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Really?
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Every single year.
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Oh, wow. Will that happen this year?
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My dad is definitely gifts.
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Yeah, He's a gift giver.
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I think because my family isn't traveling to California, which is very expensive, I think that they'll probably give each other gifts for each other. Yeah. Are you doing Santa this year? And if so, have you talked about the rules yet?
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Santa's coming to the house this year? Yeah, I. But it's kind of a tease because I want to do, like, the whole. Bake the cookies, leave carrots out for Santa. Like.
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Yeah. The thing about Santa, though, is I do want to be cognizant of it as Scotty gets older is I want to make sure that, like, her Santa gifts aren't, like, super, like, luxurious. Not that I plan on getting her G wagon, but, like, I want to make sure that, like, her Santa gifts are more low key.
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Yeah. They're supposed to be, like, wholesome.
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Like, because I would hate for her to go to school and be like, yes, Santa got me an iPad. And then the kids at her school are like, oh, Santa got me, like, a board game.
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You know, I. I pictures like Santa's. No, well, it's gonna happen to her the other way around. Then, like, I got the board game, and her friend's gonna be like, I got the.
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Okay, well, I'll know in my heart that I'm a better parent than those kids. Parents. So I'm okay with that. But I'm saying, like, if we get her, like, a nicer item, I want it to be from us.
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Do we need to put a trigger warning about. We're gonna talk about Santa, because I don't need some parent in their car listening to this with their children. And then we're like, yeah, we're gonna lie to our daughter.
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We're gonna do Santa. They're like, what are they gonna do to him?
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Why are they.
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Yeah, I'm sure nobody's kids are of age. Well, I. That's a lie.
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Yeah. We. You're gonna have to insert at the beginning of this episode, like, trigger warning for families. We're gonna be talking about Santa. He's real. But just in case your kids are in a car, just letting you know.
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How do you deal with the pressure to make the holidays magical? As a parent, I don't think I deal with that pressure yet.
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Holidays are magical no matter what our household. When November 1st hits, our household's magical. There's no way around it.
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I think, like, the smell of, like, the fur, candles, cranberry, I wanted. I don't feel like I'm, like, struggling to try and make it magical because I think it just is going to be magic.
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It's magical. It's the best time of the year. If you're not listening to Christmas music November 1st, you're robbing yourself of that magic.
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I am robbing myself of that magic. I don't listen to Christmas music until December 1st.
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The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
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Can we not forget about the turkey yet? Someone was like, what. What Thanksgiving music are you listening to? Gobble me, Swallow me. Wow. Like, actually, yeah.
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Like, honestly, I think, like, when I think of Thanksgiving, I think of making my. My Christmas margarita with cranberry juice, the rosemary.
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I don't drink a lot of alcohol, but, like, the second I'm pregnant, I'm like, I just want a margarita.
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I'm insulted. If I go to a Thanksgiving function and you're not listening to Christmas music matter.
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Oh, for sure.
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I want to be eating Thanksgiving dinner and have the Christmas tree twinkling in the background. Are you kidding me?
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Sorry.
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It's insulting.
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I think that.
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How is Santa supposed to deliver gifts if your Christmas cheer isn't up?
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Isaac, the turkey's not even out the door yet. Santa's not fitting down the chimney yet.
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You don't think Santa's eating Thanksgiving dinner?
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Isaac, you've been a bad boy. You're getting coal. What I was gonna say. Thoughts on matching Christmas pajamas?
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All in. Although we've. It's taken us. It's taken us years to find a pair that fits me.
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It has.
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They don't. Because here's the issue. And we don't need to spend a lot of time on this. I'm 6 5, 250 pounds, so I wear a 2x2XL in the traditional sense is a guy who's like 511 and weighs like 300 pounds. So then they make them wider, but they don't make them longer. So then all pajamas I've had are, like, crop tops and high waters and they. But they're big now. We finally found From Ever J.
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No, not from Ever J. It's from Gap.
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Gap.
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Yep. And we got.
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They fit. They're still pretty big, but they fit. They're long enough big and.
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Well, you got a 2 XL. You could have got an XL.
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Yeah, but then they would have been too short.
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No, they're long.
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Who cares? It works. I'm all in on matching PJs.
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We are all in on matching PJs. But we. It's. It is hard, though, because we have so many different people in our family. Like, we have our family, then we have my family, and then we have your dad. Then we have, like, there's just a lot.
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A lot of body types. Yeah, a lot of body types.
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Not being able to drink for you, Finding a dog sitter, it's all like random annoying things.
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Yeah. Actually nobody talks about how annoying it is finding a dog sitter for the holidays.
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It's been a huge issue. Matter of fact, if you're listening to this, we need a dog sitter and.
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We'Ve never boarded our dogs and I don't want to start now. We've are. We've contemplated driving to Michigan from California.
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Say that again please.
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We've contemplated Isaac driving from Michigan or from California to Michigan so our dogs could not be boarded. There's nothing.
B
Again, I would, I would.
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Nothing wrong with boarding your dogs. We just haven't. And I, I think now at this age Frankie would actually have a panic attack.
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But even driving across the country, she would have a panic attack. She hates driving.
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That's why I'm like, why can't we just fly private Isaac?
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Yeah. Next question.
A
He'd be the dog's Christmas.
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That's. It's not even like an Isaac thing. That's just simply out of our budget. Like I'm.
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No, absolutely.
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40 grand to go one way. Did people know how much private jets are? It would call for us to go to Michigan. It would cost us 35 to 40 grand.
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But my solution, and bear with me on this one, JSX is a like semi. It's like a, it's like not, it's like semi private but like you, you buy a seat and other people can buy a seat. It's a plane, it's an airline. And they have different locations across America apparently. Like they closed down their Nashville one which is really inconvenient because that would have been really confusing.
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Oh, that have been like eight hours.
A
It would have been convenient to fly there, stay at Adrian and Tiana's house with the dogs and then drive up.
B
We'd have left the dogs there. For real?
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For real. But now the closest JSX airport because you can fly with dogs on JSX and they don't need to be a service animal. So we could fly to Colorado and we also have my brother and sister in law, Scotty's cousins are there See them and then drive from Colorado. But that's still like, doing it.
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I'm getting a dog.
A
What is that, 18 hours still for me to drive? I'm like, what college student isn't going home for the holidays? What. What college student in California hates their family?
B
No, we'll figure it out. Up.
A
It stresses me out, though, because those are my literal children.
B
Still, we're okay.
A
I'm. See, I'm stressed, though, but when it comes to being pregnant, I don't really feel like that's going to affect anything. Yeah, I'll be a dd.
B
We're fine. That's going to be great for us in Napa.
A
Yeah. My husband is. We're filming this before Thanksgiving. My husband is taking me to wine country pregnant. I'm like, great. Can't wait to go and look at all the vines. Sounds.
B
Literally sounds like a nightmare. Going there and not being able to have.
A
Drinking isn't everything. But when you're with all of your friends, your best friends, when you're going.
B
To wine country, drinking is everything. Like, it's quite literally the point of wine country.
A
It's funny.
B
You don't go there.
A
Big drinker. But I'm like, I don't like when people tell me what to do. But you know how some people are like, oh, I can have a glass of wine my third trimester. That. That has never in my mind been, like, something appealing. Why the. Would you do that?
B
Yeah.
A
One. You're not gonna get anything out of that.
B
You'll take a sip of my wine, though, just.
A
Just to squish it around. But I'm like. I gargle it and spit it out.
B
You could wine taste. You could literally take one sip.
A
There's. There's no, Isaac, you're gonna get canceled. That's. There's just no taking. There's no benefit in that. That's the thing is, like, when people would be like, oh, you can have a glass of wine in your third trimester. I'm like, the. Why would I ever one want to be any kind of, like, tipsy when there's a child in my body?
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That's super weird.
A
Right? Like, that would gross me out. The idea of being tipsy and being like, oh, I feel a kick. Ew. Ew. That's weird.
B
That's weird. Yeah.
A
And it's like, it's also really not.
B
Good for your kid.
A
No. Yeah. I'm like, what's even one sip could harm your child?
B
So I'm like, syndrome.
A
Well, I don't know about that. But mama's like, there's just no, there's no, there's no benefit.
B
Yeah.
A
So why would you do it? Right.
B
I agree.
A
Now when it comes to like eating unhealthy when you're pregnant, like the benefit. Happiness. Yeah. I smashed strawberry French toast this morning.
B
Gobble, gobble, gobble me, swallow me.
A
Oh man, I'm pregnant. So you already.
B
Anyways, you're a dirty dog for that.
A
How do you handle the unsolicited advice from family around the holidays?
B
Our family's show?
A
I can't.
B
We. There's no point in even. We don't have to like because we don't get our family's chill. Like I don't feel like we get unsolicited advice.
A
But that's the thing. I think my, I think my family is as stubborn as I am. So they know that. They give me advice. I'm probably not going to take it.
B
Yeah, I feel the same way to Ali's family.
A
Unsolicited advice. I don't have. I never. I don't have a big family. I want to preface that. I don't have like I have one cousin. I have three aunts, one uncle, one cousin. All my grandparents are dead. So it's like it's not a very. My family gatherings were never like huge. My family did have a very open door policy. So like that I'm super thankful for. But when it comes to un. Came to unsolicited advice, it was never like you're single or like I would see an aunt I haven't seen in like years. That never happened.
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Yeah. No.
A
Do you have nothing to say?
B
No, we, we just don't get unsolicited advice. I feel like families, our families have been chill.
A
Are you planning a specific last holiday as a family of three? Moment.
B
No.
A
No.
B
I don't know if we'll travel again like hard. It'll be a while before we travel because like traveling with a one year old almost or eight month old and Scotty will be a lot.
A
Wait, really?
B
Like I think we would.
A
Scotty's entering her easy traveling phase.
B
Yeah. But I'm saying I think we'll.
A
I just travel. I just went on a six hour flight with Scotty, just me and her while pregnant and we shared a seat and she slept for two and a half hours. My queen.
B
Yeah. I just think we'll have people come to our house next couple years, I think. Oh, I'm saying like we'll have family. We're just like, we're not gonna do this bring. I mean, an eight month old. It's like, where's the bedside bassinet? Like, we're like. It's. It's a lot. Not really.
A
They can sleep in a room.
B
Yeah, they sleep in bed with us. Oh, Scotty. And non gendered child.
A
Non gendered child. Anything else you want to say about the holidays before we head into them?
B
Yeah, I can't wait for them.
A
I'm excited that the nostalgic Christmas is coming back.
B
Yeah. No, it's beige. Wait, that's.
A
Who wanted.
B
That's what this feels like. This feels like a nostalgic Christmas.
A
It does.
B
I haven't. I haven't felt this Christmas energy in years. I really haven't. I don't know if it's because we have a kid, but this year I'm like, overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed. Moved.
A
Okay, well, with that being said, let's go ahead and jump into some juicy.
B
Is it holiday goss?
A
It's not holiday goss, but I guess Christmas seasons are on the holidays, so whatever. And I'm gonna cancel out the team names just to.
B
Can we stop?
A
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B
I knew it. I knew it was gonna be hung.
A
It's not. I got flown out to a NFL game not knowing he had a whole girlfriend. He then took me to dinner with all of the wives and fiance's of his friends after the game. I was not dressed for the occasion, literally in jeans, sneakers, T shirt, jacket. Imagine a 20 year old who frequents Francesca's while these women were dressed head to tone designer, made up for the most exciting day of their week, Cartier etc and had their babies and nannies with them. I was a child myself and stuck out like a sore thrum. Not to mention I didn't eat meat at the time and we went to a Brazilian steakhouse where they came to the table a million times with large chunks of meat. At one point I went to the bathroom and threw up not knowing one of the wives was in there. When I came out we Laughed hysterically about how he didn't think through this whole evening. She was so kind and real, and I couldn't have been more grateful. I found her in the moment. Worst experience ever. Also, the girlfriend found me on social media after the weekend and messaged me saying he picked a weird fight and about the color of her manicure and went to book her a flight to see her friends to get some space so that she wouldn't be around for the weekend that I was there. Proceeded to tell me that I could keep him. He was most certainly not mine to keep. And then she cancels her return flight and sent for her stuff and moved in with her friend. He got cut the following season and now sells cars.
B
I knew he wouldn't make it on it. That's crazy. Bogo to Chow is a crazy play anyways. For my boy is reckless. My boy is reckless.
A
Why do you like.
B
If you're gonna fly in a mistress, just go to the crib. Like, just keep it at the crib.
A
But why would you even need. If you have a girlfriend, what's the point of. Isaac, answer this. If you have a girlfriend, what's the point of flying in another.
B
I don't know. I don't.
A
That's the right answer.
B
The. The idea of, like, spending legitimate money on some random person to fly in.
A
He flew out his girlfriend to fly in another girl.
B
Yeah. I told you, this is.
A
I think these guys have trauma.
B
I don't know what the deal is. I don't know.
A
You know what? The NFL should be providing a therapist.
B
Here's the issue. Do you know how dumb you have to be to fly in another girl and take her to a team? It's not a team dinner, but like a dinner with teammates and their significant others.
A
I wish one of your teammates did this. I wish they would have done this because I would have been like, you said, the. I'm FaceTiming her right now.
B
Look, you're. You wouldn't have done that. You'd have been the girl in the bathroom being like, this is crazy to the girl. You wouldn't have been like, oh, and.
A
Like, you know, he's a girlfriend. Not my relationship, but I used to work for a minor league baseball team. One of the players. Girlfriends would always ask for intel since she didn't live in the state he played in. I, being an employee, couldn't share details with her, but her boyfriend was kicked out of a host family's house because he kept bringing back strippers. Whoa.
B
Bringing back a stripper is just a Crazy play anyway.
A
Dirty.
B
Yeah. I mean, that's not to say strippers are dirty while we're here in Vegas, but it's crazy. And also, are you paying for that?
A
That's dirty.
B
Is that like a stripper being like, here's like. I don't know. This is. I don't want to just start labeling strippers. You know, there's women out here working hard for their money.
A
A baseball player I was talking to for months and hooking up with was talking to many other girls. He would cook me dinner, pick me up from bars or friends houses, drive me to the airport, and I had no idea he was talking to other girls. Stupid me. And so I was driving back to college and he posted on his story of him cooking for another girl. Goes to say, I blocked him and they started dating. Or already were. I don't know, but I don't know. Then she cheated on him with one of his teammates, so. Lol.
B
Oh, my God. You. You actually never hear stories of the women cheating with teammates?
A
Really? I've heard of girls when it comes to football.
B
Tell us a story.
A
No.
B
Yeah, maybe girls just keep it tight. Like they know and they just don't like girlhood. Maybe.
A
I. I know of a few girls who have dated multiple NFL players.
B
Have you had teammates? Have you. Have you had my teammates? Significant others. Have you heard stories of them hooking up with multiple guys on the team? Team.
A
In the NFL.
B
On my teams. You're too PR trained to actually answer the question.
A
A lion. My PR team was like, you would.
B
Never actually answer that, but that was a yes anyways. That's crazy that you had that happen on my team, Isaac. I can't believe that.
A
I can't believe that my ex didn't want to attend my birthday dinner because it was the Eagles home opener, so he faked six so he could leave early. Same ex came to my niece's second birthday party sick and also left early to go drinking at his work while the Phillies playoffs were on. Months later, when we were broken up and no contact, he found me at a bar crawl and followed me to. He followed me the entire day and then blamed it on me. I'm still single and it's been 20 months.
B
Tell me you didn't make your high school basketball team without actually, like, this. This dude who's faking sickness to watch a game. Boy, if you don't pull out your phone and just watch YouTube TV, like, what's up?
A
Isaac's job is literally watching every football game. Every.
B
I wouldn't do that.
A
And I'm like, buddy, we are still going to the grocery store. We're still going out and about. And he is glued to that phone. And I'm like, at least he's present. That's so weird.
B
Guy's a weirdo.
A
Ew. I had been dating a guy for two years. We were very serious, and we were at a PBR event. Yes, bull riding is a sport.
B
Lol.
A
And they even showed us on the kiss cam. I was so excited because they never do stuff like that. And this straight dodged me like I was a stranger on the kiss cam. I'm telling you, this is my future husband. We were very serious. He tried very hard to make up every excuse in the book, but ultimately I found out he had another girlfriend who was at the same damn PBR event. She saw me in the kiss cam with him despite not kissing and confronted him because he told her he was staying home to watch a movie with his mom because we were visiting from out of town at college.
B
There's so many layers to this.
A
He wanted to say he lost both of us that day, and she and I are best friends now.
B
He wanted to stay home with his mommy and watch and watch a movie with his mommy. Couldn't hang out because he had to stay home and watch a movie with his mommy. And then ended up on a kiss cam. It's giving Coldplay concert.
A
Wait, wait. What friend told us this story? I'm gonna tell the story, and I'm not. I don't remember what friend told us this story, but it's a good one. Wait, I think I know. I think I remember who. I don't remember who. Our friend told us a story that. Speaking of boyfriends and moms, she went over to his family's house.
B
Wait, who was it?
A
And his. Her boyfriend and his mom ended up sitting on the same couch and cuddling. Cuddling and, like, spooning each other and falling asleep. And she was just, like, on the other couch.
B
Wait, I want to remember who this was. So bad.
A
I think I know who it is.
B
Just say it so I can.
A
No, I don't want to say it.
B
Okay. Oh, yeah, that's who it was. That's definitely who it was. Oh, she was actually really funny telling the story, too.
A
Not my story, but my BFF met an NFL player while in Vegas the next season.
B
Here we are.
A
What year, Isaac? I don't know.
B
Okay, go ahead.
A
Season. That team was playing the Chargers at my old Qualcomm Stadium. She met him at the team hotel. He Snuck her into the team hotel, they hooked up, and he gave her two tickets to the game. We straight up were sitting with the team's family members, come to find out he was married.
B
Whoa.
A
The.
B
What Raiders player. Could. That.
A
It's not. It wasn't Raiders.
B
This is so juicy.
A
I think we will. We'll do two more.
B
Okay.
A
Oh, e. Okay. Wow. This is a somebody. Name dropped.
B
Wait, who?
A
Jesus Christ.
B
Can I see the name before you tell? Come on, show me the name before you tell the story.
A
I don't even think he's married anymore, so he's. There's a lot of issues my friend had. Say this dude's name had intimacy with Blank a while back while his girl was out of town with their kids. On the way out, we. On the way out, he gave her a fat head of himself and autographed it live in front of her. She told him he was a joke with a whack dick. Lmao. And she left the fat head.
B
By the way, this is so juicy, because we have a name. This. This gentleman is crazy.
A
He's not. He's not married.
B
He's definitively crazy.
A
Anyways, okay, I was dating this NFL player for a minute, and the third time I came over, he whipped out a fat blunt, psychedelic mushrooms, and a bottle of Costamigos. Obviously the diet of a champion. And I knew he must be riding the bench. Also, his clothes all smelled like mildew.
B
Ew, bro. Come on. Clean up. Do the laundry.
A
At a minimum, if your teammate smell bad, would you ever say something?
B
I've had hella teammates smell bad, and you better believe them. Boys are getting made fun of because personal hygiene is a choice a lot of the time.
A
I know, but what if their family doesn't teach them that?
B
I. I have one teammate, and I would never say his name.
A
Oh, God.
B
It was a running. It was a running situation that no, people didn't make fun of him, but it was like everybody kind of knew. Like, what's up with bro?
A
Isaac, cut that out. That's so mean.
B
No, you don't have to put it in there. Okay, let me re. Answer the question. If a teammate smelled, would I tell them? Me personally? Probably not. I think the environment would probably let them know that they needed to shower or improve their hygiene. That makes me so sad that somebody smells.
A
Yeah.
B
I don't know why do you understand? In the NFL, you work out in the morning, you practice. Like, if you're the type of guy who's not showering after your workout, and then you're also practicing and going to meetings and being like, oh, I'll just shower before I go home. Like, that's nasty. That's like, poor hygiene. That's not an aw. That's sad moment. It's like, boy, get in the shower.
A
You think they're lazy?
B
I don't know.
A
Okay. My college boyfriend was the star quarterback, like, the guy on campus.
B
That's a red flag.
A
After graduation, he went to Denver to trade for the NFL. And while he was out there, he somehow managed to hook up with not one, not two, but 15 girls who all looked exactly like me.
B
Wait, can we pause? Who. What type of data are you collecting to know it's 15?
A
I mean, they were together, so maybe it was like, okay, it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't 20. It was 15.
B
15 is a very specific number. Okay?
A
Basically, a lineup of all my identical twins. When he came back to visit, my gut told me that something was off. And so, yes, I went through his phone. Not my proudest move, but I call it feminine intuition. And sure enough, I found everything. He did end up getting picked up by the blank for a hot second, Say the team, but they dropped him pretty. The Chargers, for a second, but they dropped him pretty quick. And now he's begging me to get back together while still having a girlfriend on the side.
B
I wonder if he plays still.
A
Probably not. For context, I am attracted to all genders. Back in 2017, I broke up with my ex over summer, and he was a grade above me, so he had already graduated. Football season came around, and he came to the first game, as did I, with my friends. He saw me with one of my friends sitting in between her legs, a bleacher below, if that makes sense. Mind you, I'm single. He lost his shit. He accused me of cheating on him. Even though it had been months of us not being together. All of our mutuals told were told I cheated. And my entire senior year was spent with me putting out these rumors. Me and that girl never even had anything going on. We were literally just friends. I mean, we were flirty friends, but, like, again, I was single.
B
That's so sad, though, that, like, the idea. I'm assuming this is high school, kids. The idea of a whole high school senior year being ruined because of drama is so sad.
A
It's like, then you care about drama.
B
Yeah, but it's like, literally, like, you only have four years of high school. They're super influential, and you're. That's what you're always gonna remember. Like, yeah, my senior year is actually trash because of drama.
A
I. I hated drama in high school, and I honestly still think about it, and it's like, anyways, okay, well, hopefully that's enough drama for your holidays. And hopefully you don't have any drama coming up for the holidays. So thank you guys so much for tuning in to Sunday Sports Club Podcast. Be sure to tune in every Sunday wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube, and we'll see you next Sunday.
B
Bye.
A
You're not invited.
B
I won't be back.
A
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Episode Title: Holiday Chaos & Juicy NFL Gossip
Host: Allison Kuch
Guest: Isaac Rochell
Date: December 21, 2025
Producer: Dear Media
In this festive and lively episode, Allison Kuch welcomes her husband, NFL player Isaac Rochell, for a candid conversation about holiday traditions, the reality of navigating family gatherings (and drama) during the holidays, and plenty of juicy NFL and sports-related gossip as submitted by listeners. The episode balances the warmth and chaos of holiday family life with humorous takes and surprising behind-the-scenes NFL stories, all told in Allison and Isaac’s unfiltered, playful style.
Building Traditions with Young Children (03:15-07:16):
Managing Family Distance:
Matching Pajamas Struggles (13:57-14:43):
The "Magic" of the Season:
Gift-Giving:
Traveling and Hosting as Parents (22:23-26:10):
Unsolicited Holiday Advice (27:10-28:17):
A round-up of submitted stories, with reactions from Allison and Isaac:
Notable Stories and Moments:
NFL Player’s Double Life — “Worst Experience Ever” (35:46-37:17):
Team Dinner Gone Wrong:
Minor League Baseball Strippers (38:32):
Cheating, Social Media, and Revenge (39:20-40:07):
NFL Girlfriends Hooking Up with Multiple Teammates (40:16):
Ghosting Over Sports Games, Dodged Kiss Cams, and Weird Family Moments (41:05-44:03):
Actual NFL Name Drop – The Fathead Gift (44:19-44:57):
Teammates with Bad Hygiene (45:32-46:53):
The Star College Quarterback, the 15 Lookalikes, and NFL Dreams Cut Short (47:01-47:58):
Flirty Friends, High School Drama, and Toxic Rumors (48:00-48:54):
On Family Passion:
"Ally's the most passionate person I’ve ever met… your family’s the exact same way. So you guys have debates about random stuff…"
—Isaac (01:36)
On Keeping Santa "Humble":
"I want to make sure that her Santa gifts are more low key… so she doesn’t go to school like, yes, Santa got me an iPad, and the other kids are like, Santa got me a board game."
—Allison (10:55)
On NFL Player Shenanigans:
"If you’re gonna fly in a mistress, just go to the crib. Like, just keep it at the crib!"
—Isaac (37:29)
On Dog Sitter Struggles:
"We've contemplated driving from California to Michigan so our dogs could not be boarded."
—Allison (22:50)
On the Magic of Holidays:
"If you’re not listening to Christmas music November 1st, you’re robbing yourself of that magic."
—Isaac (12:28)
NFL Fathead Story:
"On the way out, he gave her a fat head of himself and autographed it live in front of her. She told him he was a joke with a whack dick… and she left the fat head."
—Anonymous story, read by Allison (44:21–44:57)
The tone throughout is energetic, irreverent, and comfortable—filled with off-the-cuff banter, mutual teasing, and candid storytelling. Both Allison and Isaac freely mix vulnerability (about parenting, travel, and family) with dry humor and playful digs, making the episode feel like you're hanging out with old friends.
This episode offers a mix of light-hearted family banter, genuine insights into parenting as an NFL family, and plenty of raw, unfiltered NFL gossip you won’t hear on sports networks. If you’re craving a blend of sports, holiday magic, and a dash of real-life chaos (with a side order of juicy locker room stories), this episode is a must-listen!