FEELING THINGS: Kat’s Feeling Disturbed + Our December Mantra: Take Care of Your Money, Your Chicken, Your Mentals

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – “FEELING THINGS: Kat’s Feeling Disturbed + Our December Mantra: Take Care of Your Money, Your Chicken, Your Mentals”

Date: December 21, 2025
Hosts: Amy & Kat

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Episode Overview

On this episode of the “Feeling Things” segment, Amy and Kat candidly explore a quirky range of emotions and everyday observations, centering on Kat’s feeling of disturbance—sparked by an unexpectedly unsettling discovery during vintage Family Feud rewatches. The conversation branches into personal and funny takes on holiday traditions, quirky hygiene habits, gift giving etiquette, and the December mantra: “Take Care of Your Money, Your Chicken, Your Mentals.” Engaging games, listener feedback, and playful banter fill the show with warmth and laughter.

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Main Discussion Points

1. Opening Chatter: Odd Hygiene Habits & Dishwasher Realizations

• Amy poses a question never before considered: “Do you wash your hands before you unload the dishwasher?” (04:11)
• Both Amy and Kat confess they do not; are surprised that others do.
  • Quote (Kat, 05:50):

    “That’s never crossed my mind. But it makes so much sense.”

• Analogy drawn to laundry and other “clean” tasks that don’t get pre-hand-washing attention.

2. Kat’s Feeling of the Day: Disturbed—Classic "Family Feud" Kisses

• Kat is disturbed after watching old episodes of “Family Feud” where host Richard Dawson famously kisses female contestants on the mouth (08:00–11:20).
  • Quote (Kat, 09:24):

    “Personally, I find it disturbing. Like, look up a clip of it. Every episode we watched, he kisses them on the mouth.”

• Discussion of changed social norms: Amy and Kat discuss how this behavior was normalized in the past, but would be totally unacceptable today.
  • Quote (Amy, 10:59):

    “Modern audiences and networks deemed it inappropriate, leading current hosts like Steve Harvey to refuse to do it, citing respect for their wives and boundaries.”

• Both reflect on awkwardness of power dynamics, the evolution of TV, and discomforting public behavior.

3. Holiday Decor, HOAs, and Inflatable Santas

• Kat and Amy exchange thoughts on yard decor, Christmas lights, and holiday Homeowners’ Association (HOA) rules (13:53–15:32).
  • Quote (Kat, 15:32):

    “Neighborhoods have HOAs where you have to get things approved like planting a bush, yet you can put a blow up of a Santa pooping on a chimney...”

• Differentiation between decorative tastes; Kat is not a fan of inflatables, Amy’s boyfriend has a gigantic blow-up Santa.

4. Holiday “Would You Rather” Game

(22:29–35:19) Amy leads Kat through a lighthearted lightning round with questions like:

• Host a holiday party or clean up after it?
• Be stuck behind a slow shopper or slow driver?
• Candy cane breath or gingerbread cookie breath all month?
• Re-gift and get caught, or keep and use a terrible gift forever?
• Wear an itchy sweater or pajamas that don’t fit?
• Untangle Christmas lights or wrap 20 oddly shaped gifts with no boxes?

Notable Exchanges:

• On regifting etiquette:
  • Amy, 25:32:

    "If you’re gonna regift, go through the effort. Scrub all the evidence."

• On obsessive Christmas music listening:
  • Kat, 33:50:

    “I like the same. I do the thing where I listen to the same song over and over and over again…”

5. More Quirky Holiday Traditions & Pranks

(26:12–31:12)

• Kat tells about a prank where she changed her mom’s phone autocorrect so "no" became "hell yeah", causing some family drama.
  • Quote (Kat, 26:30):

    “One time I changed the autocorrect of my mom’s phone…every time she typed 'no', it would say 'hell yeah'.”

• Fun holiday “find the weirdest thing in the house” game, described by Amy, encourages familial laughter and nostalgia.
  • Quote (Amy, 29:38):

    “That brings up feelings of nostalgia, joy, laughter… a cute little activity.”

6. Sweet Gift Ideas: Build-a-Bear with Recorded Voices

(31:19–33:06)

• Amy shares a heartwarming story about recording messages for her daughter’s Build-a-Bear, noting the emotional value even for older kids.
  • Quote (Amy, 32:51):

    “No matter the age of your kid, you never know when they might need to press that button and hear your voice.”

7. Hygiene Habits Revisited: Washing Clothes, Underwear, and Sheets

(35:19–37:56)

• Kat and Amy realize they do not always wash new clothes or even underwear before first use; ponder cleanliness and what’s “normal.”
  • Kat, 36:01:

    “I’m gross. I don’t wash my hands before I put my dishes away and I don’t wash my swimsuits after I buy them...”

• Debate etiquette and rules around returning underwear; what retailers do with them, and whether staff can refuse “soiled” returns.

8. Retail Stories: Shoplifting at the Mall

(39:46–41:48)

• Kat recounts working at Limited Too and catching shoplifters.
  • Her boss’s response: “Don’t ever do that again”—raising safety concerns over confrontation.
  • Explores feelings of injustice, justice meter being triggered.

9. Listener Email: Derailing Conversations (Feedback Discussion)

(48:48–51:17)

• A listener writes expressing disappointment that Kat derailed an emotional story during a previous episode.
• Amy and Kat address how their ADHD and chemistry lead to frequent topic detours—they encourage specific listener call-backs if something important is missed.
  • Quote (Amy, 51:01):

    “If we don’t circle back to something…remind us and then maybe we can pick back up.”

10. Gift With Purchase: Who Gets the Freebie?

(52:32–54:59)

• Kat and Amy debate if a “gift with purchase” should go to the gift recipient or the buyer.
• Both ultimately agree: the buyer gets to decide, guilt free.
  • Amy, 53:31:

    “You bought them the gift you intended. The money paid for their gift, you get the free gift.”

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On the old Family Feud host:

  • “He goes to every episode because we watched multiple. And then I said to Patrick, I can't watch this host anymore. To ruining the whole game. It's. You're in the whole show for me.” (Kat, 09:26)

• Holiday decor rant:

  • “You have to get approved to plant a bush. But I can put this ginormous monstrosity that is not aesthetically pleasing in my yard whenever I want.” (Kat, 15:24)

• Sign-off Inspiration:

  • Discussion of Marshawn Lynch’s viral saying (56:17–57:45):

    “Take care of your money, your chickens, and your mentals.”
    – The new motto for December

• Listener feedback honesty:

  • “We derail our conversations equally the same. Even ourselves. Like, I might derail my own conversation.” (Amy, 50:24)

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Important Timestamps

• Handwashing & Cleanliness: 04:11–06:00
• Kat’s disturbing Family Feud discovery: 08:00–12:45
• Christmas Decorations & HOAs: 13:53–16:28
• Holiday Would You Rather Game: 22:29–35:19
• Gift Giving: Regifting & Pranks: 25:32–31:13
• Build-a-Bear idea: 31:19–33:06
• Washing new clothes/underwear: 35:19–37:56
• Shoplifting story from Limited Too: 39:46–41:48
• Gift-with-purchase dilemma: 52:32–54:59
• December Mantra Discussion (“money, chicken, mentals”): 56:17–58:25
• Listener Email Feedback: 48:48–51:17

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December Mantra & Sign Off

• The show closes on the playful adoption of the month’s mantra, inspired by athlete Marshawn Lynch:
  • “Take care of your money, your chickens, and your mentals.” (57:45)
• Amy and Kat riff on what “chicken” and “mentals” might mean—whether it’s literal, money, or mental health—and decide it’s the perfect sign off for listeners heading into holiday break.

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Takeaways

• Be mindful of holiday stress—take care of your money, your family, and your mental health.
• Quirks and tangents are part of the human (and holiday) experience—lean into laughter, nostalgia, and connection.
• Wash your hands and your underwear, maybe even your sheets and dishes, but don’t stress if you forget sometimes.
• Communicate with loved ones—sometimes the smallest gestures, like a recorded voice in a teddy bear, are most meaningful.
• If you’re a listener and want the conversation to circle back, don’t hesitate to reach out! Amy & Kat value your thoughts.

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Next episode airs Thursday – tune in for more “Couch Talks” and remember: Have the day you need to have!

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[Kat]

If you ever have feelings and you just want some, maybe a cat got you covered like a num brother. Ladies and fellas, we just follow in.

[Amy]

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[Kat]

The real stuff to the chill stuff and the in between, sometimes the best thing you can do is just stop and feel things. This is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat.

[Amy]

Happy Tuesday. Welcome to Feeling Things. I'm Amy.

[Kat]

And I'm Kat.

[Amy]

And before we get to our feeling of the day, I thought you'd be excited to know that I have a question that doesn't come up.

[Kat]

Okay. I am excited.

[Amy]

Does that give you a feeling of excitement?

[Kat]

Yes. Which I need that because my feeling is not a positive. Well, it's not excitement today, so thank you.

[Amy]

All right. Do you wash your hands before you unload the dishwasher?

[Kat]

No.

[Amy]

Right. I know. Pressing question, isn't it? Because it really makes you think. Because I am not deliberate about. I don't. I never think like, I'm about to unload the dishwasher. I need to wash my hands. I might think before I eat or before I, you know, do something medical, like, I'm gonna wash my hands, but never to unload the dishwasher. Do I purposefully wash my hands? And this is a question that I saw online.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

And apparently there's people that do that. And if you think about it, it makes sense because you're unloading clean things from the dishwasher, and then you're doing it with your dirty hands. Well, I'm dirty.

[Kat]

Well, so I guess I'm dirty, too.

[Amy]

You're dirty.

[Kat]

I thought maybe you just maybe saw me doing that and were trying to call me out, but you don't do this either.

[Amy]

No. And fun fact, I've never seen you unload the dishwasher. Like, I feel like I know that I was just at your house the other day, but you were definitely not.

[Kat]

I wasn't unloading the dishwasher. No. Okay. I thought maybe I was. That's never crossed my mind. But as you said that I'M like, well, I don't wash my hands before I fold my clean clothes.

[Amy]

But it's different because, like, okay, you're touching a shirt with dirty hands versus you're touching a plate and silverware and things that like a cup. You put your mouth on the cup. Like, you're just transferring germs directly to things that you might anyway do with that. What you will. Maybe now you'll start washing your hands, and maybe you won't. It doesn't really matter. I've clearly been living my entire life without doing it. But just think there's a corner of the world where before they unload the dishwasher, they wash their hands every single time.

[Kat]

When. What is so interesting, I guess, about that question is that that's never crossed my mind. But it makes so much sense.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's. It's a question that has never come up.

[Kat]

Never come up.

[Amy]

Okay, same.

[Kat]

Cool. Well, now that actually leads me to my feeling of the day, which is disturbed, because it's kind of disturbing that I never thought about that. And I've just been, like, getting my grimy hands all over my clean stuff. Okay. I would like to know if you knew this was a thing. So for my birthday, we had a game night, and my friend brought this Family Feud game, which is so fun. So fun. Highly recommend it. So then before we were going to bed, I was like, patrick, let's watch Family Feud. Like, let's watch a couple episodes of Family Feud. And he watched, like, the old one with, I think, the maybe original host. Do you have any idea where this is?

[Amy]

So that was before Steve Harvey.

[Kat]

Before, before Steve Harvey. Before, before. Before. Because.

[Amy]

Oh, before, before. Oh, y' all went way back.

[Kat]

This is from, like, the 60s. Okay, so did you ever watch Game Show Network that had all the old.

[Amy]

Shows which, fun fact, did you know that I was on a Family Feud with Steve Harvey? Stop.

[Kat]

Because we looked up how to get on the show.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah, you were on it. Yeah, I went on with Bobby. We played Andy Roddick's family. Well, Brooklyn Decker and Andy Roddick are married. And I think Brooke brought her family. So it was like, Andy, Brooke, her mom, dad, and maybe her brother. And then it was Lunchbox Bobby, Me, Lauren, Elena, and John Pardee.

[Kat]

So random. Wait, could we look that episode up and watch it? Probably.

[Amy]

I'm sure you could. Occasionally it'll re air, like, I guess on gaming networks or something, and I'll get an email like, oh, my gosh. Or I'll get a DM on Instagram. Like, I just saw you on Family Feud.

[Kat]

Wait, I'm going to do that maybe tonight. I'm gonna look up the episode and just, like, play it and see if Patrick's like, what the heck? Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah, like, I know her.

[Kat]

It would be so fun to go on that show. I feel like.

[Amy]

Oh, I got into a little tiffy tiff with Steve because I felt like my buzzer went off when I was still thinking. Like, I don't feel like I had fair warning. I'm not saying I didn't, but I didn't either. Understand? Exactly. And it's all sort of a blur.

[Kat]

Wait, your buzzer went off when you were still thinking, but you hit the buzzer yourself?

[Amy]

No, I think Brooke did. I don't even remember, but I think she did. She guessed something, that it was going to be my turn. And I didn't know when the countdown had started. And I. I had an answer, but then it never came out of my mouth. And he was like, okay, next. And I was like, wait, what? And then I. I gave it, like, I had to go back to stand in line behind the podium thing, the bar thing, and I sort of, like, hugged him, and I think I threatened him. Like, you're gonna make this right, Steve? Because I don't remember. I was in, like, game mode, sort of as a blur.

[Kat]

But we'll be able to see that on the episode.

[Amy]

You won't hear what I said, even though there are mics there. But I confessed to my team when I got back what I had done, and I was like, I think I just threatened Steve Harvey. Yeah.

[Kat]

Did you win? Oh, wait, don't tell me, don't tell me. Oh, you did tell me.

[Amy]

No, that part of the game.

[Kat]

Okay. Yeah. Okay. So the original Family Feud. So Steve Harvey. Then it was the guy from Home Improvement that was on the other side of the fence. Not the guy. Not the other side of the fence guy. But the. It doesn't matter. Yeah. This is a long time ago in the 60s. I'm watching this show, and to my surprise, every time the host goes to a female, he kisses them on the mouth.

[Amy]

No, he doesn't.

[Kat]

Yes, he does.

[Amy]

Why?

[Kat]

It is. Personally, I find it disturbing. Like, look up a clip of it. He goes to every episode because we watch multiple. And then I said to Patrick, I said, I can't watch this host anymore. To ruining the whole game. It's. You're in the whole show for me. So we had to. The next host. I forgot who it was. Great. Richard.

[Amy]

Okay. Richard Dawson. Kisser the host of. Oh, wow. He sure does.

[Kat]

He sure does.

[Amy]

So that's like his thing. Like, you knew going on there. If you were a female contestant, you were going to have to kiss him. You just knew. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but you would have to know.

[Kat]

Well, okay, I don't know, because what if you were just. Your friend was like, hey, let's just go do. Or your brother's like, let's just go do this. And you don't know that much about the show because TV was different and there was no Internet. So, like, did everybody know?

[Amy]

Okay, see, I know that Steve Harvey hugs this contestant because I hugged him and threatened him.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But there was no.

[Kat]

It's even not a kiss on the cheek. It's.

[Amy]

No, I'm looking at it. He's kissing. But some of these women, they, like, did not mind.

[Kat]

Yeah, well, I like, they're like, he maybe. Okay, but maybe they're uncomfortable. And so, like, I feel like women do that a lot. They, like, act true. Like, they like something when really they're uncomfortable because they don't want to make a scene. And Patrick was saying, like, maybe it wasn't that big of a deal, and maybe they, like, didn't mind. Same thing. But I was like, but the point is, this is a long time ago, so times have changed. He is in a position of power. He's the host of this show. You're not going to, on the show be like, oh, I don't want it.

[Amy]

Right, right, right. And you're a contestant. You're trying. Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

Catch you off guard. But even if. Even if nobody thought it was weird, that's weird that nobody was like, you can't just, like, kiss everybody.

[Amy]

Well, obviously, I think eventually something evolved, or they probably would have kept that tradition going. Host to host. Right.

[Kat]

Ew. No, I hope that's not. I don't think that was a Family Feud tradition. I think it was just this man. Oh, it wouldn't be. Steve Harvey kissed you on lip.

[Amy]

This is very bizarre. Like, why have I never.

[Kat]

It's okay. Watch an episode and you will be. Are you watching videos of it?

[Amy]

Well, right now I'm just doing images because. Oh, I don't want the sound to.

[Kat]

Play, but go watch a clip of it. I had to turn it off. Disturbing. Hence my feeling of the day.

[Amy]

Yeah, disturbed.

[Kat]

So then now we're. Last night we watched Steve Harvey and was much better viewing experience.

[Amy]

Yeah, he's great at that. Like, you watch someone work the room, like, we got to see it behind the scenes. And he's working the crowd. He's great with the contestants even when he's not on air being filmed. He is. He is a good host. I have no idea about him as a person, but he was legit. Like, he was good. Like, I was like, oh, wow, he was born for this kind of thing.

[Kat]

Oh, my gosh. Okay, I have to read this.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Kat]

Shannon just found us this information. The Family Feud kissing stopped primarily due to changing social norms, health concerns like herpes.

[Amy]

Oh, God.

[Kat]

And a desire for less politically incorrect television. Though host Richard Dawson initially tried to keep it going by polling viewers who overwhelmingly voted for him to continue, it was a charming way for him to calm the nerves of content. This is gross.

[Amy]

So he. He only kissed the women, though, to be clear, like, he didn't.

[Kat]

Only women.

[Amy]

What about the nervous men? What did they do? What did he do to calm them?

[Kat]

I don't want to know.

[Amy]

Probably nothing, because he. He wanted to kiss women. But I'm just saying, if it's truly to calm your contestants, this also is.

[Kat]

Like, they would be. There would be like, my husband. I'm here with my husband. He's on my team. And then you would just kiss me in front. On the lips in front of my husband. And he's like, oh, I'm just calming your wife's nerves. Don't worry about it.

[Amy]

Yeah. Modern audiences and networks deemed it inappropriate, leading current hosts like Steve Harvey to refuse to do it, citing respect for their wives and boundaries.

[Kat]

Respect for women of all kind from all places. Yeah.

[Amy]

Your disturbance is valid.

[Kat]

Thank you.

[Amy]

I stamp you with valid disturbance because I don't know that I can stand by you with another thing that you're disturbed by. Now, this is a completely different category, but since we should poll our audience and be like, are cats feelings valid about this? Which I guess.

[Kat]

Well, they're always valid.

[Amy]

Yeah, I was gonna correct. Just because we are mental health minded and all feelings are welcome. I just don't know that I could give it my stamp of approval because I didn't know you felt so passionately about Christmas decor and it being a certain vibe, which I am not gonna put some of this stuff in my yard that you're talking about, but I also don't mind it. Some stuff I would put in my yard. But, like, if Santa's really pooping in the chimney like you say, that's not really going to be in my yard. But I'm not going to be mad if one of my neighbors has it. But, like, my boyfriend has this massive blow up Santa. Like, Kat, I'm telling you, it is the biggest thing I've ever seen. It's huge. Like, huge. You could see it from space.

[Kat]

It's big. It shows up on the Google maps. Yes.

[Amy]

It's like, well, there's his house. So it's pretty awesome. I. And I don't hate him for it. Like, I think it's kind of fun. Oh, you would approve of his Christmas lights because they're all white.

[Kat]

Oh, colored lights.

[Amy]

Oh, wow. You have colored lights. I'm shocked.

[Kat]

Patrick was.

[Amy]

Patrick, I don't think you wanted them.

[Kat]

I didn't want them, exactly. I'm like, we have them. I'm like, we're progressive.

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[Amy]

Be the trust tree. This is a safe space for you.

[Kat]

To be honest, I hate them. You hate them. Okay. I actually chose to have colored lights two houses ago because my house looked like a gingerbread house when I had them on. I don't mind colored lights in general. I think they're festive and fun and the kids love them. I didn't want them on my current house. I thought it would look nicer with white lights.

[Amy]

Well, tell people what you said when you walked into my house. Just say what you said and then we can figure out how we feel.

[Kat]

Okay. This is twofold. I came in and I was like, you know, it's really interesting that neighborhoods have HOAs where you have to get things approved like planting a bush, yet you can put a blow up of a Santa pooping on a chimney. Reading the newspaper in front of your house like that is crazy to me.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And I'm not the biggest fan. I'm not going to put up the blow up Christmas things in my yard. I'm not the biggest fan of them. However, I don't want to take that away from people. The pooping one. I don't know. I feel like we could do something more tasteful because I think kids, again, really like the blow up things. But my biggest gripe was you have to get approved to plant a bush. But I can put this ginormous monstrosity that is not esthetically pleasing in my yard whenever I want.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

That's kind of confusing, right?

[Amy]

Are you just bitter because you haven't been invited into the Facebook group in your neighborhood yet? And that house down the street that has the big blow ups, they're. They're in it?

[Kat]

Yeah. I feel left out. So I'm trying to find problems with them. Probably that could be part of it.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, I get it. Like, there can be some stuff where it just goes a little too far. Like at Halloween, like, I was a little disturbed by some people that had these really freaky, scary looking dolls that were also holding the heads of like other dolls. Like, that disturbed me. Yeah, some people just like to go all out for. For certain holidays. And now we know where you are. You're a little scrooge.

[Kat]

Well, you don't even have Christmas lights.

[Amy]

Not on the outside. Yeah, way to bring up that. I don't have a man.

[Kat]

Okay. I hung my Christmas lights on my old house by myself.

[Amy]

Okay, I'm not gonna do that.

[Kat]

Okay. Remember I had to get on the roof and then I didn't have to call somebody to come help me. But I. Who did you call? Somebody I had dated in the past.

[Amy]

They were a man.

[Kat]

They're okay. Yeah, but.

[Amy]

But I mean, I. That I. If. If it was that important to me, absolutely, I would fig and I would get lights up there. I'm not saying I'm not capable and women aren't capable. However, it's not that important to me and that I see as the man in my life. Should he be in my life at some point one day? Again, like, if I have that role in my life, that would be their role. Like I would designate that. Except for Alex. He. I mean, he puts his inflatable Santa up himself. But I said he has his white Christmas lights up. He has some company that comes to do.

[Kat]

I was gonna say you. A lot of people hire people. Did you used to put Christmas lights or have you never been an outdoor Christmas lights?

[Amy]

I mean, Ben and I would do trees. Like, I don't know that we ever lined the house because a lot of times for Christmas too, we were always going to Colorado, so it felt like all this work when we're not even there. But we would do trees.

[Kat]

Oh, like just. Honestly just as fun.

[Amy]

Do the tree and make that. And it would be white lights. Not gonna lie. Shout out. I know you love it. And my Christmas trees are up and I have wreaths outside on all my windows.

[Kat]

Yeah, your house actually does red bows. Your house looks really good from the outside.

[Amy]

It's festive without the. Yeah, it's got your stamp of approval.

[Kat]

I love it.

[Amy]

I do have a holiday. Would you rather edition for you?

[Kat]

Okay.

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[Ed Helms]

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[Kal Penn]

And hi, I'm Kal Penn, and we're the hosts of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[Ed Helms]

This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Jenny Garth, host of the iHeart podcast. I choose me to discuss the new Audible adaptation of the timeless Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. This is not a trick question. There's no wrong answer. What role would I play?

[Amy]

You know what? I can see you as Mr. Darcy. You got a little Colin Firth.

[Ed Helms]

Okay, that's really sweet. I appreciate that, but are you sure I'm not the dad? I'm not Mr. Bennett here. Listen to Earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Amy]

I do have a holiday. Would you rather edition for you?

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

You know, like, would you rather Da, da, da.

[Kat]

I know how the game works.

[Amy]

But before you answer them, we have to kiss before I ask you, before we play the game, are you nervous?

[Kat]

I don't need. My nerves.

[Amy]

Do you need to be relaxed?

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[Kat]

That was funny.

[Amy]

Okay, would you rather holiday Edition? Would you rather host the holiday party or clean up after it? Host Be stuck behind a slow shopper or a slow driver?

[Kat]

Stuck behind a slow shopper. What does that even mean?

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Kat]

Okay, just like.

[Amy]

Like you're trying to, like, check out. Yeah, they're taking forever.

[Kat]

I went to home goods this weekend. It was crowded and it was. Yeah, I'm gonna say slow driver because I just was like, I gotta get around you.

[Amy]

Get one perfect gift. Like, receive it or get five surprise gifts. That could be amazing or terrible, but the one gift you get is perfect.

[Kat]

Oh, I want five surprise gifts.

[Amy]

Okay. Have candy cane breath all month or gingerbread cookie breath.

[Kat]

Candy cane.

[Amy]

I go gingerbread because it's minty. Yeah, but gingerbread is sweet and gingerbready. I just feel like the candy cane breath all month. Wouldn't that affect, like, when you're drinking water? Because if I eat something peppermint and I drink water, I'm like. Or I drink a diet Coke. It's like, ugh. But if you eat gingerbread and have water or a diet Coke, you're fine.

[Kat]

Yeah, you're right. You're right.

[Amy]

You have to really think these through, Kat.

[Kat]

I'm not taking it seriously.

[Sophie Cunningham]

I'm sorry.

[Amy]

Taking this seriously. Re Gift something and get caught or keep a gift you hate and be forced to use it forever.

[Kat]

I would never want to be caught re gifting. Well, unless I like. No, no, I think keep a gift I hate and have to use it forever. Like, you have to keep wearing a sweater your dad bought you or something.

[Amy]

I used to know someone that was a notorious re gifter. And everyone knew it and would laugh about it. So they started to look for how they were getting re gifted something because. And the thing is, this person is very, very wealthy. Like, very. So let's just say they own places. Okay. And each place, like, when you have stores, like, say they have a number. Like, oh, this. Like that Home goods is somewhere in a system as store 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Okay. And so that store operates as that. Like, that's how they acknowledge themselves within the company. Oh, hey, I'm Amy. I work at store 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Well, so let's say store 1, 2, 3, four, five got this person a gift. And on the bottom of the gift, they wrote love, store 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Well, then my mom was the recipient of that gift. And it was kind of funny because then my mom knew to look and she looked on the back and it was like, love, store 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It was funny.

[Kat]

I know you.

[Amy]

It's a really long way to say that, but it's like, if you're gonna regift, like, go through the effort. Scrub all the evidence. Yes. Yeah. Like, scrub the evidence.

[Kat]

Have you. Do you regift? So I will give something away if somebody gives me you.

[Amy]

That's the thing. Like, she. My mom didn't even fault it. It's like, if it has not been used.

[Kat]

Yes, that's fair. And it's like a good gift, and that person would love it.

[Amy]

But am I gonna use something several, multiple times?

[Kat]

Well, that's not re gifting. That's like.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's like.

[Kat]

What is that?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

That's like, I gave you just one of my items for my house because.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Wait, wait, wait. This makes me think of this. I saw this, and I want to do this so bad, but I think my mom would get so mad. So have you ever changed the, like, autocorrect in somebody's phone? So one time I changed the autocorrect of my mom's phone. Whenever she would say no, it would autocorrect it for to hell yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, no, I didn't know you could do that.

[Kat]

So I did it to her. So she kept sending texts that said, hell, yeah. I think one of them was like a work text. And she was like, I don't know why it keeps doing this. I'm trying to say no, but every time she did that it would just say I'm trying to say hell yeah. Anyway, she didn't talk to me for like three days after that. So I just feel like my mom doesn't like to be pranked. So she changed her password on her phone after that. Okay, so this is an idea for anybody else to everybody wraps items in that home. Like if I, if you're my grandma and I'm at your house, everybody just like picks out one of grandma's items and puts it in a box and wraps it. And then people unwrap those on Christmas and so then the grandma's like oh, I used to have one of those. Oh, okay, I have a blanket just like that. Or like, oh, I used to have a pot like that. It looked just in to the down to like a figurine. And then like eventually they catch on. I would love that's do it to your sister or something. I would love to be able to do that.

[Amy]

Anyway. No, that's a good fun like little prank idea.

[Kat]

Great prank for somebody who is a good sport when it comes to.

[Amy]

Who would be a bad sport about that?

[Kat]

I don't Cracker cat said probably me. Well, it wasn't even like your gift. It was people giving it. Like somebody's giving all your stuff to everybody else.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's. It's obviously just a joke.

[Kat]

Yeah, it's a joke.

[Amy]

Oh, the speaking of being at your parents house, your grandpa's grandparents house for the holidays, I got sucked into this TikTok video of these three sisters and they were older, like maybe in my like 40s or 50s age. Like when I say older, like grown out of the house. Probably had their own families and they were tasked like they were either at their parents house or their grandparents house and they had to each go find three very random objects, one each. And they came back to the table and they're filming the whole thing and then they had to drink a cup of a sip of water and hold the water in their mouth. When the person reveals the one item that they went in collected and they can't laugh, but you grab something so random or obscure, like if you think of all the trinkets and things like in your parents house, I'm sure you could find something that would make one of your siblings die laughing.

[Kat]

My mom still has our baby teeth.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Yes.

[Amy]

Like you could go collect all of your teeth. Yes. When my mom died, I found my teeth in her jewelry box.

[Kat]

Why do they do that?

[Amy]

Well, because we're also going to put.

[Kat]

It in the trash.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think it thought it was kind of sweet.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

That my mom still had my teeth.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

In a Ziploc bag.

[Kat]

I can make a necklace of your own tea.

[Amy]

So the. But this could be a fun thing to do. Like if y' all are going home for the holidays.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Get your siblings, get some water. You each take a sip and then you have to go find the most random funny thing or trinket.

[Kat]

Yes.

[Amy]

And lay it in the middle of the table. And they would start laughing and they would be trying to hold the water in. And I don't even know these people and I'm watching them online and then they're spitting their water and then I'm laughing. I don't know. Just one of those things that was funny.

[Kat]

I could do that at my mom's house because my mom, like I said, she keeps everything.

[Amy]

Like that brings up feelings of like, nostalgia, joy, laughter. Like, this is a good types of feelings that you want to have in like a cute little activity. And who knows what kind of conversations will come from that. Like, oh my gosh, like one of them was this really creepy looking doll that the girl went and gathered. And another one was like a picture of their brother from like back in the day. Looking really, you know, weird. Like your husband.

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[Amy]

Cat's husband. I was at Cat's house the other night for her birthday and she has all her ornaments on her trees. Which Cat, I must say, you have some solid ornaments. She has like a beautiful box of Cheez. Its a Diet Coke.

[Kat]

That's a food on my tree.

[Amy]

Like all. Oh, they're fun. And then there's this one picture of your husband from when he was a kid and it.

[Kat]

Yes. The sports.

[Amy]

Hilarious.

[Kat]

Goggles on.

[Amy]

Yes. And he's just like a little chunky cute. And I was like, cat, what is this? And he gave that to you.

[Kat]

You go, did you make this? I was like, no, he put this in my stocking the first year we were dating. I'll have to post a picture of it. It's so funny. And the reason I found that picture is because when I went to his mom's for the first time, she was like, oh, let's go look through Patrick's baby book. It's like something.

[Amy]

Wait, the first time you went to her house?

[Kat]

The first time I met her, it was just like the first I went to her house.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Kat]

Because a lot of their family stuff they do at other people's houses. So I'm looking through them and I, I was like, this is the cutest photo I've ever seen of any kid in the world.

[Amy]

Yeah, he's just so cute.

[Kat]

So that could be something. People would not be able to hold the water in if I put that picture on the table.

[Amy]

Speaking of things to hug and squeeze and start talking about gifts. This might be something special, like depending on the age range of your kids. But I will say my daughter's 18, so this could work for older kids too. I had never thought of this, but Ben and I took Stashira to Build a Bear the other day and she had us record our voices into one of the little things which I'm sure parents of young kids, y' all know that y' all can do this, but I don't remember paying much attention to Build a Bear and what all they can do. I think we took the kids there maybe right after we adopted them, but I don't know that we did the whole recording and that whole thing. Yeah, but she picked out the bear and then the way they stuff it.

[Kat]

Is so cool how you jump on the do. Yeah.

[Amy]

And they like talk to it and then you put a little heart inside of it. But anyway, Ben and I did a little recorded message inside her. Build a bear for her. And it was so sweet. And I think it's something that she, she asked for, but I think she was. Yeah, it was her idea. But also that makes me think that just because they're 18 or if you've got kids that are going off to college, like, I don't know, they may on the surface be like, oh, what? This is lame. But to be able to go to bed at night and press a button and hear your parents voice and then saying something encouraging to you.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And then she asked for one from her grandparents too. It's from Ben's parents. Those are her only living. I don't have any on my side. But anyway, gift idea of like for grandparents or parents of something special to do no matter the age of your kid because you never know when they might need to press that button. Yeah.

[Kat]

That's really sweet.

[Amy]

And hear your voice.

[Kat]

That was her idea.

[Amy]

Yeah. I guess it's something that she thought would be helpful for her or maybe that came up with like some friends recently, I don't know. But yeah, it was her idea. We were at dinner and then she was like, do we have time to go to Build a Bear?

[Kat]

And you're like, sure.

[Amy]

And we were like, okay. So we went and we did it. Yeah. It was just me, Ben, and Stasher. A little special time for her. We got gelato and hung out and talked and kids, they surprise you. You never know. We do have.

[Kat]

Was that the whole. Would you rather. Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

I'm not done. We got derailed. Okay. Wow. We have more.

[Kat]

Okay, I'm ready.

[Amy]

Okay. Wear an itchy holiday sweater or matching pajamas that don't fit.

[Kat]

Well, as long as the pajamas are too big. I'd rather wear that. Yeah.

[Amy]

Listen to the same Christmas song all season long. Same one or no holiday music at all?

[Kat]

Same one. Because I like the same. I. I do the thing where I listen to the same song over and over and over again.

[Amy]

Even Christmas.

[Kat]

Well, I have a Christmas playlist that I always play and I only like, like three of the songs on it, so. Yeah.

[Amy]

Have cold toes all month or dry cracked hands all month? I pick cold toes.

[Kat]

I hate cold feet, though. I always have to have socks.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you can get toe warmers or something.

[Kat]

But you're. They're cold.

[Amy]

Dry, cracked hands.

[Kat]

But you can't have toe warmers because your toes have to be cold.

[Amy]

I just don't say anything in this game about not being able to manipulate the cold tolls cold.

[Kat]

But if you. If you put toe. Toe warmers on, then your toes aren't cold anymore. I'm thinking too deep about this. I think the toes, but it hurts me to say that. Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

It's not real. It's not real.

[Amy]

You're gloves all month.

[Kat]

It's not real.

[Amy]

Untangle Christmas lights or wrap 20 weird shaped gifts with no boxes.

[Kat]

Oh, I want to wrap the weird gifts with no boxes. I love wrapping presents.

[Amy]

You do?

[Kat]

At Christmas time. At Christmas time, I get really into it and I watch the. Because you thought if you go on tick tock, there's like accounts that teach you how to wrap weird shaped things in cute ways. And like, I learned how to wrap shirts to look like it's a shirt. You're looking at me like it's not cool.

[Amy]

Like, so it looks like a shirt.

[Kat]

Yeah. And like a. Like a neck and a tie and like.

[Amy]

Oh, that's kind of cute.

[Kat]

Yeah. Yeah. So I'd rather do that.

[Amy]

Well, the more, you know, speaking of clothes, and we talked about washing your hands earlier before the dishwasher. What about clothes? Like, if you get new clothes as a gift, do you wash the clothes before you wear them?

[Kat]

No. I feel like we talked about this recently.

[Amy]

We did.

[Kat]

It could have just been personally. Oh, because you love Washing stuff as soon as you get it.

[Amy]

Oh, maybe we did talk this. I do have deja vu right now. It just came up because we're talking about new clothes and we were washing hands. Maybe I was curious again. Yeah, I will ideally like to wash the item before. I guess it depends. If it's a shirt, I like to wash it. If it's jeans, no way I'm throwing it on. It's fine.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

If it's a swimsuit, I don't wash.

[Kat]

Even swimsuits, which is gross now that I'm. I'm gross. I don't wash my hands before I put my dishes away and I don't wash my swimsuits after I buy.

[Amy]

What about underwear? Oh, you don't wear underwear.

[Kat]

I'm not wearing underwear.

[Amy]

What about underwear, though? You watch that, right? Let's just say.

[Kat]

Let's just say I've never thought to do that. I've never have. Wait, people don't try. People don't try underwear on, do they?

[Amy]

What if they do?

[Kat]

Well, I'm not buying that kind. Yeah, I know. You try. What? And if you would turn underwear to Victoria's Secret, they throw it away.

[Amy]

What?

[Kat]

They can't take back underwear, even if.

[Amy]

It has tags on it?

[Kat]

Yeah, because, like, I don't think they keep. Yeah, I heard it. I heard a legend that they throw it away.

[Amy]

Really?

[Kat]

Or that maybe they. Maybe the workers get to keep it. But I don't know that I would want to because, like. You don't know. You don't know. Exactly.

[Amy]

You don't know. That's my point. Like, you. You don't know.

[Kat]

You should be washing the underwear. Okay, I've never thought about it.

[Amy]

What if I buy sheets?

[Kat]

You know the answer. If I'm not washing my underwear, I'm not washing my bed sheets.

[Amy]

Wait, brand new bed sheets.

[Kat]

You're gonna put them on, but they're in a package.

[Amy]

Yeah, but I don't know, like chemicals and stuff. I think maybe I'm just making up.

[Kat]

I think you're just. Yeah, the underwear. I think you do have a point there. I. I probably should. But if you buy underwear that's in like a package, like, you know how men's underwear usually comes in like a pack? Would you wash that? Yeah. Even though. No, there's definitely. Nobody's put it on before.

[Amy]

Yeah, but what else is in there? Or what does somebody do before? Like, we're acting like anthrax. Like, the people that work at these places are just all law abiding citizens.

[Kat]

They're probably washing their. They probably have to wash their hands before they start work that day.

[Amy]

Sure.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. See, I feel like my luck. I'll get the disgruntled employee that sprinkled the underwear with, like, anthrax, some crazy thing or some, like, ghost pepper powder or something.

[Kat]

Okay. But. Okay, here's my. Okay. Okay, wait. You are. I would want to wear those because then I can sue them and become a millionaire. Oh, yeah. You're taking away opportunities to make money.

[Amy]

Okay. See, I'm not a very litigious person, so I don't think of lawsuits right away.

[Kat]

But if you. I'm like, I've never, ever sued somebody. But.

[Amy]

But you're just waiting for the right moment.

[Kat]

I'm waiting for somebody to put ghost pepper powder in my underwear. Okay.

[Amy]

Shannon said that. Yes. Victoria's Secret generally destroys returned underwear, especially if they appear worn, soiled, soiled, or unsellable for hygiene and safety, marking them as damaged out.

[Kat]

Okay. I want somebody. If they've worked at, like, a Victoria's Secret or, like, an area or something like that where they, like, know. Or a soma, where they're. That's what they do is underwear. Can you say, like, man, these look soiled? Like. Like, we're not liking these?

[Amy]

To the customer.

[Kat]

Yes. If somebody's returning underwear. And I can. I'm like, ma', am, these look like you wore them. I can. I can't take these. Like. Or do you just have to be like, oh, okay.

[Amy]

Like, is. Is the tag still on them?

[Kat]

Yeah, but you could. Somebody could put them on with the tag.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Kat]

Or like, I guess they should have to. Is the rule that has to have the tag on them? My. My question is, can you confront somebody and say, like, I'm not taking these back.

[Amy]

Are you supposed to just, like, customers always? Right. Yeah.

[Kat]

Well, because when I worked at the mall, we weren't allowed to. Like, if somebody was stealing something and you knew that they were stealing it, you weren't allowed to say anything.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. Loss prevention. You're supposed to just let them go. You're not supposed to, like, chase after them.

[Kat]

And one time I did.

[Amy]

Ooh, tell us more.

[Kat]

So I worked at Limited 2 growing up, and it was just me and my boss, and I'd worked there for, like, three years at this point, so I thought I was pretty confident in my job. And when. When people would come in to steal, you could tell because a lot of times they had, like, big bags. They were lined with, like, aluminum foil or something, whatever. And so These ladies came in, and you could. You knew that they were stealing. You knew it. We could stall them.

[Amy]

And they lined foil bags. That's for sensors, I guess.

[Kat]

So I don't know if it works. But they knew that we knew, too. Because when you notice somebody doing that, what you're supposed to do is just. Or this was 15 years ago. What we were supposed to do back then is just give them extra customer service and just kind of follow them around the store. And so I saw this woman put this. She was baiting me. I saw this woman put something in her bag. And so I said, like, my manager's name, whatever her name. I don't remember who was there. Let's say her name was Angela. Angela. She put something in her bag. And the woman looked at me like the stealer, droplifter. And she goes, honey, I think she called me baby, baby, I ain't got to steal nothing. And reached into her bra, into her shirt, down her shirt, and just pulled out globs of money and threw it on the table. And I blacked out after that. I guess she gathered her money and left. But of course, when she left, all those sirens went off. And I was like, you know what? This might be a core wound of mine, because I remember being so upset that, like, somebody could do that, like, purposely get away with it. I just. My. The justice meter was going off. I wanted, like, somebody catch her. You're like, they do in the. Yeah, the movies. But I got a lecture from my manager about that. She's like, don't ever do that again.

[Amy]

It's not like she was doing it to you. She was doing it as Limited too, which technically. Then she's doing it to the owner of Limited, which technically also, isn't he, like, wasn't he bad?

[Kat]

I was. Well, I don't know that we were.

[Amy]

The guy in Ohio, the Limited and.

[Kat]

Limited two were not the same company anymore. By that point, they were separated. It. Ltd. 2 was its own entity.

[Amy]

Also, I'm not saying just because someone is bad, that is the CEO or owner, that now you can treat it however you want.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's just where my brain went. It immediately went to the owner of, like, Victoria's Secret, you know, the guy in Ohio. That girl wrote a song about it. Like, oh, yes.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Like, I'm not even gonna say, because this is such a buzzword right now, but I want to say this is allegedly. And this is from my brain. I'm not quoting it because I need to look it up.

[Kat]

Jax was her name singer.

[Amy]

She wrote song. Yes. I met her in Vegas once and I was like, I love your song. She was at iheart Festival. Wasn't he one of the guys like tied up with like Epstein?

[Kat]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Amy]

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[Kal Penn]

Hey audiobook lovers. This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with musician, producer and walking encyclopedia Questlove. We're talking about Mark Ronson's memoir, Night how to Be a DJ in 90s New York City. All right, like we talked about before, Mark Ronson found sanctuary in the DJ booth. What's a tool or piece of equipment in the studio or on stage that gives you the most control?

[Ed Helms]

So I have two microphones on stage. We have the microphone that you hear as the audience. Then we have a second microphone in which we communicate with each other. I feel like that second microphone kind of saved all of our friendships. No band likes each other after 20 years or 25 years. The Beatles broke up in seven and a half years and we're going on 35.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to earsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Amy]

Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap. You're almost at the finish line. But first, There the last one. Enjoy a Coca Cola for a pause that refreshes.

[Kat]

That is true. I've never heard that. Or maybe I've just ignored it, blocked out of my brain. But I. I think your point too is that like, it's not like that woman was stealing from me, but I still felt so strongly about it. My boss said she could have had a gun. Don't ever do that again, was her point. Because when she reached into her shirt, she could have been reaching for a gun. And would that be worth it? No, not at all. That's why they're like, just let them steal the merchandise.

[Amy]

Okay. Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands, which is the parent company of Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works, had a decades long personal and professional relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein.

[Kat]

Oh, okay.

[Amy]

Epstein served as Wex Wexner's personal money manager and was given board powers, including power of attorney over Wexner's finances. Now that is does not mean he knew exactly what Epstein was up to, but I knew there was a connection.

[Kat]

Yeah, good memory.

[Amy]

Thank you brain, for not being wrong on that, because I don't ever Want to, like, tie people to him unnecessarily. But yeah, they.

[Kat]

I thought her song was just, like, about, like a man owns Victoria's Secret. Like, this is crazy.

[Amy]

It is. I was tying multiple things together. I don't think she was singing about anything of that, but just sort of that. The standards of who Victoria's Secret is was created by a man.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And, like, what women were thinking they needed to be before Victoria's Secret diversified. I think since then, they have become more diverse. Are they in their representation at time? Yeah. Like, I go in the mall and there's pictures of.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

I think it's like, when the Victoria's Secret catalog first started getting mailed out, it was like, one type of woman. Now the fashion show. I don't know how. I don't know. I don't really watch that. Do you watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show?

[Kat]

I think I've ever watched it.

[Amy]

Oh, I guess I just see clips later.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We do have an email.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

To close things out Now, Kat, before I read the email, I will say, this is her, not me. And she did say some kind words about my son Stevenson and him raising money for Haiti with the running a couple of weeks ago. So there's that. I won't read that part. We're going to focus on something else. But this is her, not me. Okay. Dear Amy and Kat, I'm a longtime listener and generally enjoy your podcasts. Regarding the podcasts from 1212025 titled Inconvenient Truth, Amy came in hot with a great subject about needing to cry. Why did Kat keep derailing this subject, even to the point of Kat talking about lipstick after Amy said something compelling about what she said to her boyfriend in the ride from the airport? This could have been a very compelling and very helpful podcast episode. Thank you and happy holidays. I don't know.

[Kat]

I don't know.

[Amy]

I'm asking if you know what she's talking about. But also, you knew we were going to read this email, too. You're not, like, I'm not, like, springing this on you. We both decided, let's read this. To be like, was there something compelling? Because I don't know. I know that I was talking about how when I went to pick up my boyfriend, I know that my feeling of the day was, I feel like I need to cry. And then my ride with my boyfriend was that he was not having a fun ride. I went to pick him up. I went out of my way, inconvenienced myself to pick him up. And then he said I was creating a not fun environment.

[Kat]

Well, I.

[Amy]

Which is true.

[Kat]

Sorry, I don't want to do. I'm going to derail you because I'm having thoughts. I'm sorry, were you done?

[Amy]

Well, I could easily do that to you a lot. So if any listeners ever get, like, frustrated because Kat and I don't finish a certain thought because one of us catches us off first of all, no. That we're not doing it on purpose. We both have adhd. Not using that as an excuse. But we derail our conversations equally the same. Like, even ourselves. Like, I might derail my own conversation. I might derail one of Cat's thoughts and vice versa. So if we do that, we would love to circle back, but we might need more info about where you think we were going or where we were going to go and maybe we never meant. So this is more of a psa and. Sorry, this is work for you, listener, or any listener out there. That if we don't circle back to something, if you want to email us, like, and you have more details, remind us and then maybe we can pick back up.

[Kat]

Yeah, I'm trying to. Because I watched that back because I have to edit the video. So I'm like, maybe I wasn't paying attention or maybe I thought you were. Or maybe I wonder sometimes because sometimes I know stories that you're telling. So I'm like, I wonder if in my head, I'm like, oh, I've heard this. Not like I don't want to hear it again, but like, I think that you've said something but that you hadn't. But I just know because you already told me.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

So I want to say I'm sorry if I derailed railed you, because I do remember bringing my lipstick up, and I'm like, well, did I bring that up in the middle of an important story? Because that would be annoying.

[Amy]

I'm sorry, Was it because. Yeah, it was the lipstick you were excited about because it changed colors.

[Kat]

We didn't really change colors. I just like the way it looked.

[Amy]

To your ph, though.

[Kat]

Didn't felt like that one. Okay. It had the same texture, but it. I don't. I think it looks different on people because people's skin tones are different.

[Amy]

Oh, I know. Was it Clinique?

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh. So then. And then I derailed and started talking about my former stepmom, how she got mad at my dad for buying me Clinique powder. So you never know. Like. Yeah, then we go on a total different trajectory. Because, you know, my dad's only supposed to buy me Maybelline because I'm a high schooler.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so now I have uncomfortable feelings when I go past the Clinique Powder or stand the mall.

[Kat]

Oh, I have a question, and this is a little bit. I'm just gonna do it. This is us. I had this thought earlier, and it didn't come out. When you get. And it makes me think of. Clinique made me think of it. When you get a gift with purchase, when you're buying a gift for somebody, do you give the person that you're buying the gift that free gift with purchase, or do you keep it for yourself?

[Amy]

Depends what it is.

[Kat]

I like your answer. Why? It's like, if I want it, I'll keep it. If I don't, I give it to them.

[Amy]

Right.

[Kat]

Because I bought something for my nieces, and I only got one gift for per. With purchase. But I bought two things, and I said, like, shoot, like, I guess I'll just figure out how I need to give this to them. Or maybe I'll keep it for. I don't know what I said, but Patrick was like, technically, that free gift belongs to them.

[Amy]

No, it doesn't. Technically, you bought it.

[Kat]

I only got it because I bought somebody else something.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you bought it.

[Kat]

Okay, I like the way you're thinking. Sounds like, shoot, I'm so selfish.

[Amy]

No, no, I think it depends, but I don't think it means it belongs to them. You bought them the gift that you intended to buy them, and then because your money paid for their gift, you get the free gift.

[Kat]

Okay, so technically, it's definitely mine.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what I think. I think it depends on how you want to look at it, but if I were a judge, I'd be like, it's yours.

[Kat]

Yeah. Well, the good news is I don't really want this, so I'm gonna give it to them. But I just was like, am I thinking about this wrong? Am I being selfish?

[Amy]

No.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

Like, I ordered my daughter some stuff from Free people, and it said, if you spent a certain amount, you'll. You'd get. Like, you sent. Spent the certain amount. You got free money. Like a gift card back to free people. Well, so everything I bought her was for her for Christmas. So should she get the gift card that they emailed me?

[Kat]

So my husband would say, yes, but I think I'm like, no, I want that.

[Amy]

No, they're sending it to me. They're sending me a gift card for the money I spent yeah, no, I.

[Kat]

Get what you're saying. I like your logic.

[Amy]

But it was genius of them because I did end up adding to my order so that I could get the gift card.

[Kat]

Yeah, they all get you that way.

[Amy]

They get you what is.

[Kat]

Oh yeah.

[Amy]

Okay. So it's at free people. I think they still have it going on right now. Like even while you're listening to this. But TBD apparently coming up on December 17th, they're going to email me my gift card.

[Kat]

Is it good?

[Amy]

So I. Yeah.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

Cat cryo Cat saying that their. Their word is good for it and it's $150. Yeah, I got to.

[Kat]

This is such good marketing because now I'm gonna go buy something. I don't need anything.

[Amy]

And then you have to. Now here's also where they get you. You're it in your email on December 17th.

[Kat]

When do you just spend it by?

[Amy]

I believe by January 10th. But I can do that.

[Kat]

Well like so can I. But like I love having a gift card in my wallet. Like being like spend me. You have money to go. I like looking forward to.

[Amy]

But if there's a deadline, isn't it nice that you actually will.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Be forced to do it. Cuz then sometimes like I forget about it and.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Shoot. I did all my Christmas shopping already.

[Tide Advertiser]

You're done.

[Kat]

I need one more thing for my dad. Dads are really hard to shop for and my Dad's birthday's the 20th and then Christmas so I have to get more things for him.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Kat]

But then. Yeah, I'm done.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Look at you.

[Kat]

Good job.

[Amy]

Thanks. Okay, well, wash your hands before you unload the dishwasher. I think that's. Is that our main takeaway from wash your hands today?

[Kat]

Wash your underwear when you buy it.

[Amy]

Wash your hands, wash your underwear. I was trying to think a third.

[Kat]

That makes me think of.

[Amy]

Who's that guy? What's his name was like Deshawn.

[Kat]

Oh, your mentals and your tricky.

[Amy]

Hide your husbands, hide your kids, hide your wives, hide your kids, hide your husbands. Baby. Raven. Everybody up in here. He was on the news.

[Kat]

Something so different for you. I was thinking of the guy that says take care of your family. Your chicken and your mental.

[Amy]

What is that? Well, what is yours?

[Kat]

I don't remember now. I don't know. It's like some. Some athlete. It was like a saying like take care of your money, your chicken and your mentals.

[Amy]

What are your mentals?

[Kat]

Like your brain, your mental health or something. And chicken maybe was chicken stand for family. I could have actually made chicken up. I just remember there's something.

[Amy]

Did you say children or chicken?

[Kat]

Said chicken. I don't know.

[Amy]

And you're Marshawn lynch, the football player. Said, I'm just here so I don't get fined.

[Kat]

Wait, really? I don't know anything about.

[Amy]

So he was at a press conference once, and I guess they were trying to ask him a question. He was like, I guess if you don't go to the press conference, you get a fine. And so he just looked at me. He goes, I'm just here so I don't get fined.

[Kat]

Well, good for him being honest. Wait, do we know what it was that he said? Yes, I was right. He said, take care of your money, your chickens, and your mentors.

[Amy]

Well, now I need to know what I think. Chicken.

[Kat]

Chickens is like your family. What else would it be? It could be actual chickens. Oh, your bread. Well, then he says money twice, then. Well, that's our. That could be our new sign off.

[Amy]

Take care of your money, your chickens, and your mentals.

[Kat]

Amen. It doesn't have the same.

[Amy]

Have the mentals you need to have.

[Kat]

Have the chicken you need to have.

[Amy]

Well, we don't have control over our chicken.

[Kat]

You're right. Well, kind of.

[Amy]

You kind of do over your. Your chicken attitude.

[Kat]

My money attitude. Yeah, let's. Okay.

[Amy]

I need to know if people really refer to money as chicken, because I'm gonna do that. I mean, like, oh, I gotta go make that chicken.

[Kat]

I kind of like that better than bread.

[Amy]

Gotta go make that chicken.

[Kat]

Go make that chicken. I gotta go get my chicken from free people.

[Amy]

Yeah. You get 150 chickens, but you have to spend some chicken.

[Kat]

You gotta spend some chicken to make some chicken.

[Amy]

You have to spend some chicken to make the chicken. But I will say, in order to what you have to spend, you're sort of getting it back, but you're not getting it back in cash. You're getting it back in spending more free people.

[Kat]

But it's like half off of what you bought.

[Amy]

Literally had stuff on her Christmas list from free people. And I was like, oh, that's a win. And that's my money. The money I'm getting back that I spent on her is mine. It's not.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah. And then. Yeah. Do y' all know the guy on the news? Like. Like, I haven't found that part yet.

[Kat]

But yeah, I remember that.

[Amy]

You know, I'm talking about. So take care of yourself.

[Kat]

It's.

[Amy]

It's dangerous out there.

[Kat]

Dangerous out there.

[Amy]

And hit us up. We want to hear from you. You can leave us a voicemail 877-207-2077 or you can email us hey there feelingthingspodcast.com and we'll see you on Thursday for couch talks half the day.

[Kat]

Sorry I cut you off.

[Amy]

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[Kal Penn]

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[Kat]

All.

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[Kat]

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