The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Answering CONTROVERSIAL questions w/ my parents *Christmas edition*
Wed, 11 Dec
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Matt and Abby are joined by Matt's parents for a special Christmas edition, tackling controversial holiday questions like regifting, keeping Santa a secret, and "doing it" at other family members houses. They also share heartfelt stories about the most generous Christmas gifts and Matt’s dad navigating job losses during the holidays. This episode is sponsored by Hiya, HexClad, Rocket Money, Chime & Liquid IV. Hiya: Go to https://hiyahealth.com/UNPLANNED and receive 50% off your first order. Get your kids the full-body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. HexClad: For a very limited time, shop the biggest sale of the year and find your forever cookware @hexclad at https://hexclad.com/UNPLANNED ! #hexcladpartner RocketMoney: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://RocketMoney.com/unplanned. Chime: Turn everyday purchases into steps toward your financial goals with Chime’s secure credit card. Get started today https://chime.com/UNPLANNED. Liquid IV: Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to https://LiquidIV.com and use code UNPLANNED at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the holiday hot takes discussed?
Four or five years ago. What? So Josh was home, and I'm out there painting, and it was really hot, and I had a safety harness on.
Praise God.
So when I fell, it caught me, but I was dangling like a puppet, and my ladder went one way, and the chimney was this way, so I was dangling like a puppet like this. It's like Christmas Vacation. And I was thinking the neighbor's going to see me because he had seen me the night before after work. He said, be careful. I said, hey, Jeff. Be careful.
And then when I fell, I was like this, thinking Jeff isn't going to say, I told you so. But nothing was said. And I'm just dangling there. So I started pushing myself. Finally got down. And I went inside. And Josh goes, what was all that banging? I was like, well, thanks, Josh.
That's such a Josh thing to say. When you were ringing the doorbell, he hit your door. Remember when you got off? Josh heard a bunch of banging. He didn't come check on his dad.
And he's like in there eating his, whatever he's eating. That's such a Josh thing to do. Just like when you guys got locked out.
Yeah, we got locked out of the house. I told him we should be banging. And he goes, I went back to sleep and you guys were locked out of the house.
oh my gosh no uh for anybody who's confused my little brother's josh and a couple years ago he's also an adult he's 22 years old okay he's more than a few years he also looks like he's older than me yeah this was like seven years ago anyway but we were stuck outside of our house for the entire night because nobody in my house would answer the freaking door well you did have a key
And you didn't have an owner. We did not have a key, mom. We did not have a key. There was no key. We did not. And we couldn't get the garage door open. Because the batteries were dead. The batteries were dead on the garage door opener. And we were banging.
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Chapter 2: How do the parents feel about real versus fake Christmas trees?
No, I do our tree in about five minutes. It's so quick. Not ornaments, obviously, but setting up the tree itself. I don't want to fasten a tree to my car like that. I just want to put it in my trunk. We would definitely get into some sort of altercation if we were trying to chop a tree down. We tried not to.
Hey, life hack. If you want to decorate early... Go and put your tree up in around October and put a sheet over it. Make it look like a big ghost. And then when Halloween's over, you pull the sheet off and you're ready.
I saw it and I told him. And now he's acting like he made it. You probably saw this on Instagram Reels, didn't you? No, I did a chat GPT. Okay. Wait, hold up a second. You guys aren't on TikTok, but you're on Instagram Reels. Yes. Is that what everyone over 50 is doing these days?
I think they're on Facebook. Facebook. I just saw it on an Instagram. Somebody had done that. And I thought that was a cute idea. That's kind of funny.
Because we used to never, ever, ever get anything out till after Thanksgiving. Because I feel like it's a ripoff for Thanksgiving. We should be thankful and grateful. But it's such a short time period. And this year, it's especially short. And we are traveling here for Thanksgiving. So we were like, we have to get this stuff out.
But if you want to do it really early, you can put the sheet over it and have a ghost in your house. And That's cute. That actually is. It is cute.
That is kind of cute. You're very protective of my younger brother, Josh, because he is your youngest. He's still my baby. He's 22 years old with a beard. But, you know, the thing is about Josh is you were always like, we can't decorate for Christmas because that'll ruin Josh's birthday. But it's like, it's not like we don't celebrate Thanksgiving to not ruin Josh's birthday.
So that always threw me off. You're kind of like, why holding off on Christmas until Josh's birthday? Yeah. Well, it was more Thanksgiving. It's a combination, Josh's birthday and Thanksgiving. Because Josh's birthday is the 26th, and Thanksgiving is always a day or two around that. Do you have Thanksgiving decorations? We'll fall.
That must be so hard for Josh, celebrating a major holiday right on his birthday every year. Man, I feel so bad. His life must be awful. That's so tough. He's scarred for it, yeah. That is really, really tough for him. That's why he got an ice cream cake last night. Dad, how have you dealt with having your birthday so close to Father's Day every year? It's been rough. He's been ripped off.
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