My Vacation Was Almost RUINED...

Intro / Welcome back
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Welcome back to Katching Up With Katie.  It’s been a couple weeks. I actually   went on a little vacation. So, we went to  Antigga. We’ve been back for a few days now.
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This will be airing after the Christmas Cup,   the KVS Christmas special. So, if you  haven’t watched that, go watch that.
Vacations and travel catch-up
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So, I guess let’s just catch up, because  Katching Up With Katie. I know that Nate
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went on a vacation. I went on a vacation. So,  I guess it’s just like, let’s chat about it.
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Antigga, were you trying to  prove that I was saying it wrong?  No. That’s how every I was not trying, I was  not trying to prove that you said it wrong. I
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say it wrong. Antigua. That’s how I thought  it was. And that’s what everyone thought it   was. But I thought you just came back from  there. There’s no way you’re saying it wrong.
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Well, I found out there’s an Antigua city and  an Antigga country. They’re spelled the same.
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Oh, okay. And so   depending on where you are, it’s said differently. Okay. I could have got my wires crossed, but I was
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like, Antigga. I was just in shock and disbelief.  I had to double confirm my incorrectness.
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I just remember, but that was, I was also on  the trip. You learn something new every day.
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Are we doing that? Sure.  Okay, real quick, how we say it. Are we like,  we ran into Abigail while we were there.
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No, they were dating. I don’t care. I actually, like two days ago,   on the way to Christmas, I told him, I was  like, I’m going to post some pictures of us.
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Okay. It was a really fun, relaxing trip,   honestly. Needed that sleep. I slept a lot on  the trip, honestly. We didn’t do any excursions.
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Jonathan and his brother did a fishing trip. Like they went on a horrific fishing
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trip. It wasn’t good. Oh no. That’s a bummer too.  No. I felt so bad. So we had decided,  hey, if y’all are going to go fishing,
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we’re just going to go to the spa. We’re going  to go get a massage while y’all are gone.
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of your favorites before they’re  gone. And now back to the video.  So, I have a lot of things about this trip  because I’ve now been to two Sandals. I don’t
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think I warrant an all-inclusive because  I don’t drink. And so, I think a lot of   the cost that’s built into the trip is the drink  package, and I don’t think that’s… yeah, I think
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I could probably plan a trip a little bit more  accordingly to what I need. For the same money.
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But anyway, so they booked an excursion to go  fishing. Jonathan asked profusely trying to
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figure out some sort of details on this trip.  He was like, “What are we fishing for? Where   are we going? Can we have some details?” And every time he’d be like, “Can I get
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some details on this trip?” And they’d  be like, “You leave at 7.” And he’s like,   “Okay. What else?” Like, something else. And so what it ended up being was it was a
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big boat, and it was I think six people fishing  with the guide, or the captain, whatever.
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And I don’t know if it was due to the waves.  There was like 10-foot waves the whole time.
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Oh, it was due to the waves  that they were trolling.  Yeah. So trolling, if you don’t know fishing, you  can either cast, jig, or troll. Trolling is where
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you literally put the fishing lines on the end of  the boat and you just pull it through the water
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and you hope something gets it. Just drive around. And so because they couldn’t cast because it was
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so horrible weather-wise and wave-wise,  they just sat there getting beat to death.
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There was three fish caught the entire time. And Austin and Jonathan were trying to be the nice   guys, so they let the other people do it first,  and then they didn’t catch anything else again.
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Well, I guess Austin got one. But yeah, they came back sick. It
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was like an hour car drive there, hour back.  It had to be plum across the whole island.
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Jonathan probably. Yeah, it’s not very big.  No, Jonathan was like, I sat there and I  heard the captain say, “We’ll be back 10
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to 12,” or something like that. And he said, I  sat there and I kept looking at my phone. It was   like in five-minute increments because I was  just trying not to throw up. I’ve never been
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sick in my life on a boat and it was just rough. There was a husband and a wife. Jonathan’s like,
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“They’re divorced now.” One hundred  percent. Like, it was the worst.  The other guy, I think there was four people.  The other guy was just there by himself,
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and he said his wife was going to come, but  he that day was like, “You’re not allowed
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to come because we’re going to get into an  argument,” and he didn’t want it to happen.  And he was like, “I’m so glad she didn’t go.  I would have to have a helicopter come pick us
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up if my wife had come on this trip.” And Jonathan’s like, “I think same.”  And I’m like, I’m so glad. And then I accidentally, I didn’t ever
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say “couples.” I just booked it on our room to go  get massages and facials. Because we were like, if
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they’re going to be gone for four hours, let’s go. And so we walk in, they’re like,
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“Couples massage,” and we were  like… and they’re like, “That’s   what we booked for you.” And I was like, oh. So we had a couple’s massage. I was like,
Abigail and I had couples massages
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you don’t have to, because me and  Jonathan had one too, I was like, you   don’t have to put our hands together at the end. So we just got massaged right next to each other,
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but it was fine. So a couple’s massage is  just a regular massage in the same room.   You’re just in the same room. And then they  join hands at the end. We didn’t do that.
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But also, when you go into the room, they’re like,  okay, hang your robe on the door and then go get
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under the thing. And the door is across the  room from the bed, a ways away. So we’re like,
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okay, well, who goes first? Oh, it was good though.
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The only thing is that I have an issue with  this massage. It was fine. And the facial I
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actually really enjoyed. I need to force  myself to go do more facials and stuff.
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We asked for a head massage as part of it.  It was supposed to be 30 minutes as a scalp
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massage. You can only, with just your  fingertips, no nails, you can only do
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this for so long in the same place before I’m  like, this is nothing. All right, let’s just…
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And so at one point I was like,  do you mind just playing with my   hair? Because I was like, just do some scratches. Some spoke. I spoke. I was like, I heard it. I was
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like, can you just play with my hair or something? She’s like, okay. Starts slicking it back,   just like petting me like a dog. There’s  oil in it at this point too. And so it’s
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just like, wow, I can’t believe you spoke. I’ve only gotten a massage a few times in
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my life. And I mean, they probably could have  beat me up with a hammer and I would be like,
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they’d be like, “Too rough?” I’d be like, “Nope.” See, maybe it’s because Jonathan and I,
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we’ve been doing this for years, our date  night. Sometimes we go months without it,   and then sometimes we do it pretty frequently.  Usually we do it more during the winter. We get
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massaged, and we have one massage therapist  that comes to our house and does it.
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And so we know her, and so I get massages  at least six times a year, if not more. And
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we talk the whole time, or we have a really open  dialogue. I’m like, right there’s really too hard.
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And so I don’t know if I’m just used to that. I  would like that. I would like to be able to say,
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“Actually, that’s a problem spot. Can  you do a little more right there?”  But you get in the room and then they, it’s so  quiet. They just leave you in there alone for
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like five, six, seven, it could be 30 minutes by  yourself before they come in. And by that point,   it’s like you’ve been quiet long enough that  when they come in, it feels uncomfortable.
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Is that your first massage? Yes.  And they come in, they’re being really  quiet, they got that peaceful music going,
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and they’re like, “Is that enough  pressure?” And I’m going to say the bare
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minimum in this moment because I feel awkward. Yeah. Like when I turned over, I think it was
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the first time she said something to me. She’s  like, “Are you enjoying your massage so far?”
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And I was like, okay, so here’s the thing. That  massage was not a good introduction into massages.
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Because here’s the thing. The way I would describe  it is, I’d rather have it than not, but that’s
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not what I would describe as a good one. It was a lot of just like this rather than
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like this. So it was a lot of, we were slick  with oil, so it was a lot of just rubbing in
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big circles and not a lot of getting in there. There was one spot on me that she was digging
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into, but then the rest of the time I was kind  of like, is this a good massage or is this… no,
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it’s not. It was not like a mid massage. And after that experience I was like,
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I enjoyed it. Would I pay to do it again? No. Yeah, that’s the thing. I wouldn’t quit massages
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because of that massage. I’ll try again. I loved the facial. I really, really
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liked the facial. I’d like to find  somewhere and do that around here.  But anyway, is that the first facial you’ve had? Second, I think. I got one.
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There are better facials too. If you liked  that one, there are definitely better facials.  Yeah. I went to one and it  hurt doing all the extractions.
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Oh yeah. Did she do that to you? Yeah. But I think because they had   steamed my face so much and done all the prep, it  didn’t hurt really. It didn’t hurt so much as it
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was uncomfortable, and I wasn’t expecting that.  Because I was like, this is going to be relaxing,   and then it’s like, I’m going to get these  blackheads right here, and I’m like, okay. I
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thought I was just taking my nose off. I feel like because of all the prep,   they were popping out easy, so she  wasn’t really having to do much.
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Yeah, mine were, they were in there. We pretty much had breakfast every
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morning together, and then we had a cabana every  day so that we had a home base. And honestly we   probably didn’t even need it this trip. I just  remember last time we went to Sandals it was
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very crowded and hard to get chairs and stuff.  So we went ahead and booked a little cabana area.
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And so then we would just kind of hang out  at the cabana all day, go back and forth,
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go nap, come back, things like that. Am I allowed, now that it’s out of the bag, am I
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allowed to give it to him to post the canoe video? Oh, sure. It’s a kayak. The kayak video.
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So there was one day they did more fun stuff  at the pool towards the end of our trip. They   didn’t do all that fun stuff in the middle. So one of the days they had a kayak race in
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the pool. They had a race with couples. I  was so sick and I chickened out. Jonathan,
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at one point we were like, we should do  it, but then we convinced them to do it.  So the first partner raced down in the kayak,  then usually it was the wife or the girlfriend
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would get in at the end and then race back. And they were cheated. So they were cheated.
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The time that we were trying to beat was  43 seconds. We got 41. So we beat the
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shortest time out of like 20. Like, they won. And then after us, this other couple goes,
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and the guy that was timing it, the host or  whatever, he was like, “They tied for 41.”
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And then all these people were like, “But I was  recording it and I think they got 40,” and so
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they reviewed a bunch of videos that people had  taken on their phone. It was just kind of extra.
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And then decided that they beat us by  one second. They didn’t review ours,
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but they looked at theirs like three  times and were like, “Oh, okay. You won.”  And it didn’t help that it was like a parallel  universe of who won. The guy looked just like
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Austin, and we were like, “That’s your evil  twin.” We’re like, “That’s your arch nemesis.”  And then he actually was, because  you’re upside down. He cheated us.
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Anyway, it was very fun. Other than that, we only had a
I was food shamed
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couple of instances that weren’t the best. Which  was just other people being kind of gross. I’ve
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talked about it on Snapchat a little bit. So like, hibachi is my favorite food ever.
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Really? Oh yeah.  I didn’t know that about you. Really? I don’t think I did.  Well, hibachi as in fried rice, chicken  on the grill, and rice with no vegetables.
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So basically chicken and rice is her  favorite meal, but like fried rice, right?
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Okay. Right. And so I generally   order my fried rice, I’m like, can y’all not put  veggies in it? And the tiny little, I pick through
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it. Just like a few peas. Can you pick those out? No, they just didn’t add them in. They weren’t
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added in. That’s why I specified at the beginning. I said, “Sir, I would not like any vegetables
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on the side. If I could have just chicken and  steak.” Because you don’t order, they give you,
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everyone gets the same thing. So everyone  gets a little bit of everything on the menu.  And I was like, I’m not going to eat the seafood.  Can I just have the steak and chicken, and if you
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don’t mind, my portion of rice, if you don’t put… And it was easy. It was that simple. It wasn’t
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creating a stink. It wasn’t like whatever. So we were sitting there, because at hibachi,
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you know, you sit with strangers if you don’t take  up the whole table. So there was, they told us
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they were 60, a 60-year-old, they said they were  from Liverpool. British couple, English couple.
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Everything was nice enough at first. We were  chatty, small talk. It was fine. It was nice.
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Everyone was just chatting back  and forth waiting on the food.  Well, I fascinated them with my choice of no  vegetables, and they don’t know me normally,
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so they don’t know this is my norm. So I was like, “Yeah, if I could   just have mine with no vegetables.” She’s like, “No vegetables? What?”
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And I was like, “Oh yeah. I’m on  vacation. If I don’t want vegetables,   I’m not going to eat vegetables.” And she was like, “Oh, okay.”
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And so she was thinking about that, and  then as we’re going and he’s creating,   and he puts it on my plate, she’s  like, “Really, no vegetables?”
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I’m like, no, I’m good. And it  wasn’t hindering her food at all.
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And then as we’re going, they’re just… Yeah, they were kind of judgy, just staring.
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And you know, we’re just like, okay. And I’m eating, and she’s like, “You’re
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just really shoveling that rice in.” I was like, “Yep, I really am. I’m
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shoveling it in.” And then she like…  So they had tiny appetites apparently. Which,  or maybe we have large appetites, I don’t know.
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But they skipped the fish and the shrimp,  so they also only had chicken and steak.
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And after she ate a little bit of rice and  some of the chicken and some of the steak,
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she laid down over in the chair. And he  was like, “She just can’t eat very much.”
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And she was like, “I’m so full. I don’t know how  you’re doing. I don’t know how you eat that much.”  And we were like, we’re American. That’s how. And so I was like, maybe I’m the fat American.
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Because she just kept being like, “You  really like that food, don’t you?”
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And we were like, yeah, they left before dessert.  We were still eating the main course. They left.
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And I wish I’d been like, you going  to finish that? Go ahead and pass
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that plate. Just to shock them. Are you gonna waste that food?  Oh. Oh, we don’t do that. We don’t waste food.  That should have been the angle. You mind?
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So yeah, that was the only unpleasant, because we  were just like, were they really that blatantly
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rude? Because it was like the staring. I had an interesting experience on the
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flight there with a lady who I think probably,  such as yourself, has flight anxiety. She may
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have taken something before the flight. And she was sitting right next to me,
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and I was in the middle, and she was  by the window. I don’t even think I can
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summarize the conversation because I don’t even  remember. Nothing she was saying made sense.  She started talking about how we  were sat together for a reason,
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and I was supposed to learn something from  her. And she was like, I’m sensing matrimony.
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And we were like, no, no. And then she’s like, are you
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planning on proposing on this trip? And he was like, yeah, yeah I am.
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And she was just like, I knew it. You  actually just spoiled it. You have such
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good intuition, actually. That’s wild. It was insane. And then she passed out
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for the remaining three hours of the  flight. Didn’t wake once. She was out.
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And then I saw her at the airport  afterwards in customs line with us.   She was standing there reading a book.  Normal. Just normal. Back to normal.
Interesting plane ride
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I’ve heard some crazy stories on planes when  you’re fighting it and you’re not going to sleep   yet. And she did, she looked a little tired. On the plane ride back, I had an interesting…
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this is where I always wonder  how you would have handled this.  Because on the way back I was starting to  feel a little sick on the last couple days.
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Like really congested, nose running, just  didn’t feel good. And I got car sick on
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the way to the airport because it was like  80 degrees in the car and very stop and go.
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So they were in the line when we got there,  and then we got pulled to the side because we
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had priority tickets. So we were like  next in line, we’re like okay, cool.  So the people in front of us, to put our  bags on the conveyor belt, which was broken,
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so we couldn’t even do that. But to  get our tickets, it was four people.  And I don’t want to judge them for having  a lot of bags because I don’t know how long
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they were there. I don’t know how long their  trip was. But it was a man and three women.
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And so I was just standing there, and  y’all know me, my face, it’s not the
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prettiest when it’s relaxed. Like it’s just not. I was watching the Christmas special and you just
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get lost shaking my head a lot of the time,  because it’s also not really like a mean face.
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No, not all the time. Like I’m picturing you just   standing there blank-faced. It’s not like, I  feel like I look mean when I’m just resting.
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But I feel like you’re more like… you  have a tendency to err on the side of a
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little annoyed. You err on the side of  a little lost, a little confused. It’s
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not by much. It’s just a slight lean. Well, okay. So I was standing there not
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feeling good, car sick, no service on the  phone, so I’m not scrolling on my phone.
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Just blank-facing it. I’m not talking to Jonathan.  We’re not conversing. We were just standing there.
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And I’m not going to lie, the main  woman, I’ll call her the main one,   because she was in my head the main character,  and in her head too. And so she was very loud,
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making a big thing about all of her bags. Well, I’m just standing there. The man, he had
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long turquoise hair. That was an interesting fact. And so I made eye contact with him and gave him a
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little smile. Not like a… yeah,  no, no, no. I didn’t do that.  I was just like… like we made eye  contact. I mean, we were there forever.
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And so he starts whispering, and I’m half  paying attention. The main girl turns around,
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she’s probably like mid-30s, I would say. I actually found her on the internet afterwards.
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How? Because she made it known what her name was.  Okay. She was there   with her cousin. She used to play softball, so she  used to cheer. I found all this out pre-internet.
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So she turns around and looks at me and  goes, “Oh, are you having a bad day? Oh,   you’re just having a bad day. We don’t want to  leave. We don’t want to leave either. You just
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don’t want to leave.” And I’m like, what?
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I wish I was exaggerating that. She was so  aggressively pointed, and I was just like, what?
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I didn’t even get to answer, and then she  turns around. And I go to look at Jonathan,
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and then I look back, and again  my face is probably very confused.  And she and her cousin, that I now know is  her cousin, they were taking selfies with
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me in the background. And then taking it and  looking at me and pointing at it and laughing.
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What would you have done in that? Probably my initial reaction, when they’re saying,
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“Oh you’re having a bad day,” I probably  would have been like, are you talking to me?
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And they say, “Oh yeah, having a bad  day,” I would have said, I’m actually   having a great day. Are you having a bad day? And then when they started taking pictures,
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I could have seen myself going along  with it a little bit and be like,
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can we actually do one more? If you make it  less fun for them that you’re in on the joke.
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Oh wait, I blinked in that one. Can  we do one more, please? Like really   act like it’s not bothering you. Yeah. Turn the situation around,
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make them uncomfortable. Probably something along those lines.  But also, I truly was not feeling  good. And so I was just like, what?
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And Jonathan’s painfully oblivious to all  of it. He’s just looking around, probably
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looking at trail cameras on his phone. So then I’m like, okay, they’re done.   They finally got done. We got our  bags. I was like, we’re moving on.
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We hung with them the entire time. They’re  on our flight, and she’s sitting next to
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me on the flight. That’s hilarious.
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And so we sit down. I’m like,  whatever, I’m just going to read
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and go to sleep. This isn’t anything. I have the window seat. She sits down,
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it’s the end of the world that she and  her cousin aren’t sitting together.   So she’s like, “How do we fix this?” She’s  from Charlotte. Again, I know all these things.
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So she’s like, “How do we fix  this?” trying to figure it out.  And I’m like, listen, my husband’s over  there. I’d love to sit with him. If y’all
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figure out how to work it around, I’ll move.  I’ll move to whatever so I can sit with him.
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They’re like, okay, okay. So they start doing Jenga   over here, or whatever. Tetris. Then they figure it out. And so
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I end up not moving and Jonathan comes  and sits with me. So they’re across the   aisle from us, she and her cousin. The man and the older woman are up
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front because we were in the business class. So this entire flight… I knew it was a red
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flag at the very beginning when the stewardess  would come out, and she was so sweet getting
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all of her drinks. She’s an older lady. And they were so overly nice to her at the
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beginning. I was like, that’s a red flag. Because they’re like, “Mary, Mary,
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you’re so beautiful. You are so gorgeous. We  love you, Mary. Thank you so much.” Like so
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over the top that I was like, okay. It’s also a thing of like, you’ve
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probably never worked in a job with customer  service or having to deal with other people.
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Who, me? No, the girls.
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I know you have. The girls. And it’s like,
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being over the top nice like that makes you  uncomfortable and it makes you feel kind of   stupid. It was condescending. It really was. And they had made… I don’t want to dog
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on them even more, but like, I do. They were being very loud the entire   time about like, “Well, you should have seen our  Europe trip last month.” “Be careful with that.
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That’s Louis Vuitton.” Very, you know, like that. So they’re loud. It’s whatever. I’m reading
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my book, and as the flight goes, they  are ordering drinks, and I go to sleep.
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So the rest of this is relayed by Jonathan. I woke  up at the end and he’s like, “You missed a show.”
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So apparently at some point she got up and  went and rummaged through the fridge at the
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front and got herself a Truly. Well, they can’t do that.  So she did that, got it, came  back. They were drinking heavily.
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The woman that they were with from the front  came back and sat in the middle of them,   in their laps, and they started singing karaoke. The flight attendant came back, was like, “Ma’am,
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you’re going to need to go back to  your seat. If we could have y’all be   a little quieter.” She was trying to be nice. And they were like, “How big is the plane?
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It’s an American Airlines.” Like, this is in the  business class section. So it’s like a 33 or a 22.
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A 22. Okay.  But then it was 33 behind it. Yeah.  So there’s only like 10, 16, I think,  something. It’s a small number of like two-twos.
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They’re in the front. And so she’s like, “Can y’all be quiet?”  And she’s like, “What? Excuse me? This has  been the worst flight I’ve ever been on. This
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is like a GD Spirit flight. We can’t even get  a… just… we can’t even get an effing water.”
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And mind you, this lady has been so attentive.  Like, I’ve witnessed her be so attentive.
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And the woman’s like, “I’m so sorry for your  inconvenience, but we need you to stay calm.”  And they start patting her, like, “Okay,  we’ve heard enough. You can leave. All right,
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sweetie. Goodbye.” Just being so rude. So like, I wish I was exaggerating and
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making it up. I hate that someone is  like that out there, but they were.
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And the fact that there’s two of them, even  if the other one wasn’t as outspoken and she   was just going along with it, is crazy to me. So, I found out her name, went and looked her up.
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It’s in the description. We tagged her below. Went and looked her up. Every post, Bible
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verses. Every post, “God gave me this,” whatever. It was so upsetting that to some people that is
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the standard of Christian love. You know what I’m  saying? It’s not. But it was the stereotypical.
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And you know, we’re in the airport,  like, I got to get back to the south.
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That sounds like an eventful… Would you have said anything on the   flight if you were witnessing all of that? Mind you, I very much thought about it at
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some point, not on the flight, but like in other  circumstances. And I was like, these people seem   like the type that they would go crazy. If you  chirp, they go high and start going way above and
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beyond. And I’m like, I’m not dealing with that. I could have seen myself doing more of like
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a serious chirp, almost like a,  hey, I’m going to give you some
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advice type of chirp, really just piss them off. But I would be having this internal struggle of,
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somebody needs to say something. Should it be  me? Do I wait and see if someone else does?
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And I feel like in that scenario, I’m less  likely to say something in general public.
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Especially if I’m with Macy, because things  can turn violent and escalate very quickly.
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And I don’t even put myself in those  situations. I try to avoid those at all   costs because most of the time it’s stupid. Anyway, on a plane, what are you going to do?
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You going to fight me? Yeah. You going to fight me? You’re going   to get duct taped to your seat if they’re not  going to play with you doing something on a plane.
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Nobody wants chaos on the plane. Let’s just get  home. It’s already a stressful, tiring situation.
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But I could see myself saying something  if they’re being mean to Mary.  Yeah. And I would say the extent of
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mean to Mary was like them… if they had patted me,  they were patting her being like, “That’s enough.”
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And I’m like, oh, you love Mary. I saw it coming  when they were being so lovey. I’m like, oh,
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you’re going to go so the opposite way  if she says no to you. Very entitled.
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Oh, the antics of Antigga. But again, now that we’ve   talked about the trip the entire time…  Nate, anything to say about his trip?
Nate’s trip
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He went to Arkansas. I did. I got to go home.  Oh, exciting. Which I’ve rarely done in the past few years.
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Which one? The Christmas one.  Oh, isn’t it so cute? Yeah, so cute. Got all the lights
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on the courthouse and so many people out there. Was that your baby’s first time going to Arkansas?
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Yes. That’s fun.  It was. She enjoyed it. It was  good to see family. Trips are
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never long enough, you know, but it was good. We had the Starlink on the roof while we were
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driving, so we gave that a good test run. Oh. Did you…  Oh no. She doesn’t watch screens. I was about to say,
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did you do that to have a movie for… Okay. No, but it’s… what was it for then?
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Just testing. I was just testing it out. I  thought there may have been a chance I would   need to upload a video while we were there. And  I didn’t trust any of the internet. So I thought,
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does it work driving on the road too? If y’all didn’t know that, she heard
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things going on downstairs. But get back out of  there. Legitimately will be a game changer for
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you. Like, it’s actually crazy. How long were y’all there?
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We got there on a Thursday and  left Sunday morning. So, two days.
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Now that y’all have gone to your family’s side,  are you doing anything big for Christmas? Because
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we’re filming this a couple days prior to  Christmas. Or are y’all just going to be   low-key at the house with the baby? We’ll, I think for the most part,
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be low-key at the house. And I  think it’ll be the first Christmas
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either of us has ever been able to be low-key. One of Macy’s sisters lives across the country,
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and so her dad flew there and is spending  Christmas there. So there’s no… and all
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the other family Christmas have been done, right? So we don’t have anything to do on Christmas Day
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but wake up and just be at home, right? And I may never go back.
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Yeah. I think we’re going to get a taste of it  this time, and then next year when they’re like,   “Oh, well, we’re doing this on…” we’re not. Or I mean, you could host.
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Yeah, you could host. The way we always did it   growing up was because my mom’s side is  big and my dad’s side is small. And so,
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we always did my dad’s side as Christmas Eve. And  they were totally fine being the Christmas Eve.
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And it gave us a whole evening with them. And  there was no back and forth on the day of.
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So my Pap was always Christmas Eve and we  played games. I was the only grandchild,   so it was really small and intimate,  and we did presents and everything.
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And then the next day we always did low-key  morning. Just us. Maybe my Nana came over,
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but it was just us for the morning. And then  we’d go to my Nana’s house in the evening.  So even though we went  somewhere, it was always low-key.
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And now my mom hosts, and so I  just show up, which is great.  I was going to host this year, but she decided  that she could do it. So I decided to give the
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people that work in the barn, you know, leave  early. I’m just going to go feed and then head   to my mom’s house. So it’ll be pretty low-key. We never did anything on Christmas Day growing
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up. As far as family get-togethers, I only  really had my dad’s side. So on Christmas Eve
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that’s what we did. But then on Christmas  Day it was always just lock in with the   presents. It was always just the four of us. I did decide to do a little prank while I
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was there. We drew names and did all that  stuff, and then I decided I’m going to get
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my grandma a gift from my grandpa. So, is your grandpa with us?
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Yes. Okay. That would have been crazy.  So I decided, you know what, I’m just shopping  around. I see a little lingerie on the clearance
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rack. Oh.  So you got lingerie for your grandma? Yeah. I picked one up and then wrapped it and
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I put, you know, “To my grandma, from my grandpa.” Well, he has no idea. So they’re passing out
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presents, like, “Oh here you go.” And he’s… I  already see his face. He’s like, did I wrap that?
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But at this point he’s like, I’m not  going to say it. I don’t remember.  And then she starts opening it. She’s like, what? And then she sees it and now she’s so embarrassed.
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She’s like, “Why did you do that?” And he’s like, “I didn’t do that.”
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That was a big hoot. I never told. I think she still thinks you did it.
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I didn’t tell. I thought, you know… And then, well, here’s the thing. Also,
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I decided, I think I’m going to try standup again. You know, we went and saw Nate Bargatze and he’s
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what, 45, 46? I think he is like 46. And I’m like, that’s 15,
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16 years from now. I could still give it a shot. Yeah, you could be where he is 15 years from now.
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So I had a situation happen that I’m going to  try to figure out how to work it out into a joke.
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But my grandparents, they’ve always been young.  Some people’s grandparents, you see them, you see
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an old person, you’re like, that’s an old person.  You’re on the way out. Like you use a walker going
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to the bathroom around the house. Like you’re old. My grandparents have always been very young.   Spry. Travel. Let’s go on this trip.  Let’s do this. Quick wit, good mind.
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Very blessed for that to have been the case. I’ve just always viewed them that way until
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a few days ago. We were at their house for  Christmas, and then we packed up the car,
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we left, we get halfway home, and I  realize I left my phone at their house.
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At this point we’re way past bedtime. This is  about to turn into a whole ordeal. So I said,   you know what, we’ll just go back. And then Mason’s like, “Well,
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do you need to tell them that you  left it and that you’re coming back?”  I said, “No, don’t do that. Because they’re  going to say, ‘We’ll meet you. We’ll bring
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it to you.’” And I don’t want them getting  out. It’s late. They’re old. They’re mid-80s.
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So I said, “We’ll let them know right before we  get there that we’re about to knock on the door.”
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So let them know, show up, they open the  door, they are stressed and in a panic.  They’re like, “We found your phone and we tried  to let you know that we would bring it to you.”
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I’m like, oh. They’re like, “We tried to call   you and tell you that we had your phone.” So I’m like, oh, y’all have to bring it.
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I don’t really realize what they’re saying. I get my phone. They found it. They called me,
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watched my phone ring, and went, “We  didn’t get him. We’ll try again.”
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So they tried eight more times and sent two texts. What about calling Macy?
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No, no, no, no, no. They called my phone, watched  it ring, and went, “Didn’t get him. Missed him.”
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Why don’t you try calling him again?  Try calling another eight times.  I had nine missed calls on  the phone that they found.
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Did they think maybe you had  an Apple Watch and it would…  No, they don’t know about Apple Watches. They  don’t know. They just called the phone and
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watched it ring and they were like, “God, we  didn’t get him. Why don’t you try him again?   I hate for him to have to come back.” And I went, oh, you’re… that was an
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old moment. That was an old moment for sure. Tired. It was a long day. It was a long night.
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Yeah. It was well after, and they thought,  “Well, 7:00, we’ll just text him.”
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And the texts were 10 minutes apart.  So they went, “Well, why don’t you   just try shooting him another text?” All the while, your wife has her phone.
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Yeah. She texted them to let them know we were  coming back. They didn’t respond to her. They
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just kept trying you. That’s hilarious.
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Yeah, you should make that into a bit. I feel like I could work   that out. It’s very funny. I honestly, comedians like Nate Bargatze who are
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clean comedians, any age could watch him, which  I can appreciate. I mean, I like a raunchy joke
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just like anybody, but I like his clean comedy. A lot of his bits are based on his parents and
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his childhood. I think it’s great. And  just the way he says things is so funny.
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We went and saw it. It was a great show. If  you have the chance to go to a Nate Bargatze   comedy show, because the openers were good. The host, Julian something, they were great.
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I’ve never been to a comedy show ever. I haven’t either. That was a good one.  It was fun. I will say though,
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floor seats seem great. Never going to do it  again. I was so uncomfortable. And I couldn’t see.
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I think we unknowingly had the worst floor seats. Well, originally we had fifth row, so I think
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that would have been great. I was not  able to sell those tickets, so I ended   up giving them to Rachel and my cousin Aaron. So people went, and they said it was great.
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We were so far back in row 18 the other night  that we were just like this. It’s a little too
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far to really see the guy, but it’s not far  enough back. Too close to see the screen.
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I think if you’re in the first four,  five, six rows, because they also had
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big TVs up there for when they turned  around, I think floor seats are awesome.
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And I think even floor seats, maybe row 25, might  be awesome because then you’re just screening it.
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I don’t want to be one though. Now, I could see you being a   front row guy because they’re picking  on the front row guys the whole time.
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Mostly because they’re making jokes about, you  think it’s better down here, like this is a comedy
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show, you don’t need to see, you need to hear. And so they’re picking on the people at the   front a lot, which I would hate.  But I feel like you would thrive.
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It’s my worst nightmare, but  secretly I would enjoy that.
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It’s more interactive in the front. But I think we need to do something   like that again. I thought it was a fun  group night where we went to dinner and
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went and saw a show. It was a lot of fun. I liked that Matt and Nate paid for dinner.
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I loved that. That was my favorite part.  I think we should do that more often.  I do too. My favorite part was when they said, “Get whatever
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you want.” “Yeah, we’re buying. We meant it.” And then I did.
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I’m glad. You know what,   I was going to hold back a little bit, but then  y’all started ordering apps, and it set the tone.
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I did try to do that. I tried to go overboard  with my order just to make it really clear.
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Get whatever you want. Don’t feel like, well  Nate’s paying so let’s try to be a little…
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And then if you had ordered like one crab cake,  I would have been like, oh no, like I can’t order
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something nice. He’s sacrificing himself for me. So I tried to go a little crazy so y’all would
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feel comfortable getting whatever  you actually wanted to eat.  This has been planned. They wanted  to take us out for a long time. I
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don’t think this included me though. No, I was just there and got paid for.
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When y’all were taking the bill, I was kind  of like, this doesn’t seem right. Like,   I don’t know why they’re paying for me, but  I let it happen and no one said anything.
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Could you imagine we split it? I know. I’m the only one left   out because they asked me before anyone.  They were like, “Is this all together?”
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And I was like, I’m not answering that. And then Maddie took over and was like,
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“It’s on them.” I was like, oh,  thank you, Maddie. I was so glad.  I think she had a great night. Matt’s wife is very  early on in her pregnancy, and so she’s been sick
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lately. We sat next to them, and she busted a gut  the entire time. I was so happy she wasn’t sick.
That’s all folks!
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Yeah, that was fun to watch. But anyway, okay. Well,   that’s kind of catching up on what we’ve done  the last couple weeks. I hope y’all enjoyed.
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I know cat’s out of the bag a little bit over  here. So some of y’all are going to be like,   “I knew it.” There’s going to be a Reddit page.  There’s going to be all kinds of things. I won’t
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be looking at it. Yeah, me either.  But anyway, hope y’all  enjoyed. Stay tuned for more.
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I think this is the last… is this the  last Katching Up With Katie of 2025?  Yes. That’s crazy. I think so. No, the 30th is like next Thursday.
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Okay. Yeah, the 30th. So we’ll have one more. One more.  Okay. So let us know if there’s anything  special you want us to talk about for our
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last Katching Up With Katie of the year  because we could do a Q&A with everybody.   Just kind of make it like a wrap-up session. And then we will plan on doing like a 2025
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wrapped video like we’ve done the past couple  years. So stay tuned for that. Follow on
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Snapchat and I’ll see you in the next one. Oh, hold on. Hold on. We got to end it with,
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“We’ll see you in the next one.” Yeah.