Reasonably Thankful (Minisode)

get into. We don't get too but I just always appreciate it just being thankful for everything that I have and like my kids, my family, whatever job I had at the time, just being grateful. God is like in the blessing business. He has like so blessed my life, and it's always time to just like pause and say thank you Lord. Yes, I agree. Yes, Now how do you feel about it? Now? Oh? Because you I said it used to be yes? Yes, So now I'm back to my birthday? Is my favorite holiday? My birthday? Yes?

I like that. I like that, you know, I don't know, it's weird. Um, I don't know about you, but like holidays with my family. When I was younger. I think when I was like a kid, holidays were so exciting. Yes, you know, first of I was like, oh, I get off school for a few days, and then I get to see my family and it's like you like look forward to it. And my family is really small, and so as we've gotten older, we've kind of gotten smaller and smaller. And now it's like my holidays just aren't

the same. Unfortunately, aren't the same in a bad way, Like what do you know, because we're just because my family is so small, and so it's like literally and I don't know, it's just like okay. So for for my family, my grandmother was the matriarchs of the family and everything was centered around her, you know. And then like when she passed, it's like, you know, it's like as people pass away, it just you kind of like passed the baton to someone else. So nobody picked up

the baton. Your mom didn't pick it up, not in that sense. So my mom is um not from here. So it's my dad and his family that's from Baltimore. My mom's family is kind of distant, to be honest. Well, she has a brother that's in St. Louis, and we see him, you know, every now and then. But like I'm so envious with people that have like a ton of cousins and aunts and are I'm telling you, I have like two first cousins and I love them. I love them dearly. But like, you know, I have my

one brother, my two first cousins. You know, it's like we all, like everyone in my family had like two children and that was it, you know what I mean. And and it's just like so my grandmother had two kids, and then my father had two kids, and then my aunt had two kids, and then a lot of family is good, but then it gets problematic because it's always asking you for money. People always like, oh can I borrow some shoes? You never see him again? This is problematic.

I would rather have that, like the just excitement and you know, different relationships and you know, always someone around than like you know, my family where I just feel like we're so it's just because they're so first of all, I see my my you know, my parents and all that all the time. So it's like Thanksgiving it's no different. You're like, it's average Tuesday. Yeah, So it's like it's not like I'm not traveling somewhere to see family or so the Holladay is as an adult for me just

you know, aren't as exciting. But we might be hosting our Thanksgiving, so you're okay. So if you're hosting Robin, that means you're cooking or you are interesting, you are in your responsibility, is I know? And that's what we need to get to this food because I hate Thanksgiving for I hate Thanksgiving. I don't look forward to any of it. I don't care about a turkey, uh stuffing kill me? What else? Smashed potati, potatoes, cranberry dressing, sweet potatoes.

I don't like it. I don't like Thanksgiving food. I don't like it at all. So I don't It's like, oh and maybe that's why I like. Thanksgiving for me has kind of like fizzled because as I get older, I'm like, I don't really like that food, So like I'm not excited to go sit around the table and eat food that I don't like. Okay, first, okay, so have you ever done the whole Thanksgiving like prepared, cooked the whole Thanksgiving extravagance? Okay? I have. I was in

the bed for like two weeks. That ship wore me out, like I was so tired. I didn't want I was tired, I was pissed off. I had an attitude. I didn't want to sit there and I just want to wait on the couch. I was mad. I was so mad. And you don't even like the food and I don't even like this. This is just some bull. Yeah, I don't know. As I feel really bad because I feel like I'm robbing my kids of that experience because I don't really like that food. And so but like I

don't want to cook a turkey. I don't. I don't want to cook souur kroud, like I don't just who I eat surowd. Mother loves sou fresh sheet. She's like, I'll bring the sour kroud, okay, so you and my father caun't eat it. And don't get me wrong, like I do feel like there's something to be said about food brings people together and all of that. I think

that that is magical. But I just like I remember back in the day because my mother is a great cook, and she would cook all of those things that we just laid out that we said we hate, and I remember just like my stomach being big, and like I felt I couldn't button my paints, and I'm thinking to myself, why have I done this to myself? Why have I stuffed myself? Because it's not like anybody who's gonna take the food white. The food is still in the kitchen.

I know it's the weird thing. And then so so I have on Thanksgiving holidays and like Christmas holidays cooked like um, shrimps, campy or crab cakes, you know, kale Like I just I cannot. I don't want that stuff. So last year, my kids, thank God, they're like, we don't like none of that food. We don't like because we've we've done Thanksgivings at my brother's house and his wife cooks traditional Thanksgiving. My kids are like over it.

They're like, we don't even like that food. So last year I did crab legs for Thanksgiving, which was phenomenal. I ordered them. They came from Maine. They were hell of expensive, but they were very good. Um, so I think I'm going to do that this year. Okay, now I think I know I've already ordered them. Okay, okay, so I ordered my crablegs. But I'm gonna my sister's coming, so I'm gonna add some ribs, so I ordered those from like Memphis. Yeah, okay, I like that. I ordered

a cake from Atlanta, Okay, some crumble cake. It's gonna be amazing. And I ordered all of my sides from Founding Farmers, which is a restaurant here in d C. Or Potomac all sides. Okay, I'm done. Yeah, that's good. That's good. And how many people? So it's just gonna be your sister. It's gonna be my sister. My kids, their dad might show up. He's going to be in Africa. He might show up at the table because because that's

normally what he does. So well, I mean in anybody who wants to come, not y'all who was listening to this, but anybody in the family that wants to come can Yeah, okay, I like that. I like that. Maybe we'll come. Robin, you can't come is you're hosting. And now that you say that you're hosting, what the hell are you ordering? I don't know. I gotta figure it out. And you're hosting how many people? I don't know? Because so this

is the thing, like so Wana has a big family. Okay, so you know we kind of said, okay, who ever wants to come over, they can come over, but like, I don't know who that is black people, because they it's either they all come in and nobody's coming right exactly, So I don't know what, you know what. After we finished this here, I'm going to make some phone calls. Okay, So what do you want on your menu? What's your

menu looking like? So, I mean, I know there are people that like traditional Thanksgiving food, so I will order Thanksgiving. Traditional Thanksgiving food, by the way, for the most part, is so food. So like, yes, you know, as black people, we eat that kind of like all the time all the time. But I'll have someone like do like a turkey, turkey, ham turkey, Yeah, fried turkey, okay, yeah, fried turkey, ham, mac and cheese, green beans, collards, potatoes, yes, okay. Dessert

what we're doing for dessert? Dessert? You know you gotta get like a good like I don't that's what. I don't like sweet potato pie. I don't like sepie. Y'all, y'all can have it. I don't like pumpkin anything. I don't like pumpkin pie is bad. We're like literally everyone, I'm sorry if we're poo pooing or your Thanksgiving meal. I'm sorry, give me chocolate cake, but chocolate cake, or like a cheesecake, like a good you know, I would do like a maybe not a sweet potato cheesecake. But

I don't even want that. But I don't know. I've got some stuff to think about. You. You've got a whole lot to deal with. An hands Okay, So Porsche, you know my good girlfriend, Porsche Williams. She swears by this honey baked ham, right, and so she orders it. You don't have to be Thanksgiving. She orders it all the time because she orders it just because. So she just opens and refrigerating. There's a big old ham. Okay, soorsh Porsche, just telling your business right now. So she'll

order it on a regular day. And you know how there's there's things that you like to snack on, right, So I like to snack on sweet things. She likes to snack on backhm, honey baked ham. Okay, Barti Williams, I'm telling on you. So what she does is she goes into the kitchen and she opens a refrigerator. She's told me this is superbatum. She pulls the top part off because the top part is like I guess, like chewy, and it's like I guess the honey baker is on

the top of something child. I don't know, but she will sit there in the middle of the night, go downstairs like one two o'clock in the morning and get the pieces of the honey dam and she is happier. Oh my gosh, she's ever been. That is some Southern That is a Southern thing. First, So I'm telling you that Porsche swears by it. So maybe you should add that robin to the things that you order. Okay, okay, because that's that's easy to get. This is what I

totally love. Though I do feel like Thanksgiving is all about apple cider. Yes, yes, yes, so I love. I will make a m apple cider and fireball cocktail. Really, Robbie, you've never let me try this. It's so good. Oh my goodness. So is it? So do you heat it up? Is it hot or is it cold? Um? Cold? It's cold, So it's apple cider. But you can eat. You can heat it up too, because I've gone like trick or

treating with hot apple cider and fireball. Yes, I've done that hot apple cider and I just put you know, my great goose in it. But fireball is going to be even it's so good, gosh, it's perfect. Okay, I'm loving that. Okay, So that's our drink for you guys for this Thanksgiving or cold apple cider with some fireball. Baby. We do want your you all to have a happy Thanksgiving. And you know what, this year, I feel like we're thankful for reasonably shady. Oh we are, absolutely, we have

so much to be thankful for. But you know, reasonably shady is something that like we you know, we didn't know how it was going to go or how we were going to do. But I'm thankful that it's been received very well. Yes, you all are enjoying it. We're enjoying it. We appreciate our time that we spend together as friends. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed. And don't let the fact that we have totally trashed all Thanksgiving food be a deterrent on Thursday. Eat your food if that's what

you like. Yes, I'm enjoying pato. Yeah I'm gonna be sucking on my dry turkey. And wait a minute, what is this is my this is what kills me? How many different ways are they going to do stuffing stuff. So there's like corn bread stuffing. Oh, it's just stuffing turkey stuffinitely, all this damn stuffing, Like I don't want no parts of stuff. And y'all enjoy your stuff, and though enjoy it, yes, yes, all right, we love y'all. We just want to give y'all a little something of us.

Reasonably Shady. This is like a mini little episode because we want you to enjoy each other for this holiday season. Happy Thanksgiving by Reasonably Shady is a production of the Black Affect podcast Network. For more podcasts from our heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. You can connect with us on social media at Robin Dixon, ten, Giselle Briant, and Reasonably Shady. H m hmm,