Thankfully Shady (Minisode)

Black Friday girl. Oh no, I've right. Have you ever done that, like stood in line at like four in the morning at Walmart to get a TV? No, but let me tell you who does My brother and his wife do it not to buy something, not for like the discounts. They are excited about like the rush of it, all right, They're excited to like they want to people. They want to be in the midst and they want to be trampled. They want to run in to see

like the nonsense. So it's their tradition. Really. Yes, they wait on the parking lot and they wait for the stores to be open, and they run in and do they buy stuff? They go to side and eat hot in hot chocolate, promise you crazy? Do they like laugh at the people fighting? Like fighting in the aisles. I shouldn't talk about my brother because he probably want me to tell y'all, but yeah, y'all are goofy my brother

and his wife. You know what, that's so funny. It's like I've never done that, but I almost feel like maybe that's something I should experienced once, just as a life experience. There's that that we should have experienced. And the have you ever been to New York when the ball dropped New Year's even New York, I've never done that. I feel like you should do it once. I agree, I agree. Yeah, we can't do it now though why, I don't know. Baseball hats on glass, it might be

a little problematic. I don't know anyway, the housewives outside, but it's weird, would be weird. All those you just peel like a hat on and okay, good, okay, all right. The people. I'm not a Black Friday girl, but I'm a huge Cyber Monday girl. Yeah, I love Cyber Monday. I'm the biggest online shopper ever. I might be bigger than you. I don't really, yeah, because you always have body Yeah, you always have boxes coming to your house. Don't go to rob the house, y'all. That doorbell gonna

ring about fourteen hundreds every fifteen minutes. It's UKs, FedEx, DHL. They coming. And I'm like a good like I know how to find all the discounts. Yes, you know, I used my you know, cash rewards cards and you know all that stuff. I'm getting my promo codes and yes, my rewards yes, um so, yes. I love Cyber Monday too, but it's kind of sad because I shop for myself mostly on Cyber Monday, as you should. Oh so are we supposed to be buying for the kids for Christmas? Now? Yeah?

Oh kiss for Christmas? Okay, But I'm like, I can't. I can't focus on the kids because I see stuff I want for myself. There's never been a time. This is how terrible I am. This is horrible as a mother that I didn't like when I buy stuff for my kids. Like, for instance, if I if I'm buying my kids like some new tennis shoes or something, here too, ain't the only ones getting these gifts? Now? If they want like sweatsuits or like some hoodies or something. I

meant to absolutely as the words you deserve it. I totally freaking deserve it. Now. Thanksgiving it was like great, you know, I got all the food that I told you I was gonna order. I slept on all my crab legs. It was amazing. And you know what, I'm happy that Thanksgiving has morphed into like we're thankful, We're grateful, and that's what the holiday is about. Yes, because some of y'all folks out here, y'all had Thanksgiving dinner and you left in a worst place then you came in.

What no, I was gonna say, because I'm happy we're not celebrating Christopher Columbus no more. Oh that too, Yes, yes, yes, you know it's so funny, like I think about when we were like, you know, younger, and in school you learn about the the Pilgrims and the Indians, and like we really didn't know what. We didn't put two and two together. Yes, that this was like problematic that the Indians got slaughtered because they don't put that in the books. Yeah,

So I'm just happy we're we're moving away from that history. Yes, I mean don't. It's wrong that happened. Oh but we're not celebrating Christopher Columbus, right, No, we're celebrating just being thankful for the things that you know, you have in your life, your family, the blessings that you have. But like I just remember, like wow, like when you think of the imagery, it's just like that's horrible. It's beyond horrible, and this country should be giving them a whole lot.

But on a nothing note, because it was Thanksgiving and the families got to gether against robbin. Has never been a time where your family got together for for holiday and it got so crazy, it went so left that it carried on to like Christmas for ever and ever forever. Yes, I mean, so I can say my brother and my cousin are kind of like oil and water. So it's this two men, my brother and then my female cousins.

They're kind of like oil and water. It doesn't take much for my brother to be annoying and irritating and for and for my cousin to like be annoyed, and then it just you know, like we're you know, we're with you know, family, family stuff. It's nothing too bad, but just there would be times when it's like, oh Lord,

like what is it now? Say now, what happened? And then my brother is the type like he's he's very antagonistic, you know, he's just okay, so he's just trying to poke the bear, Yeah exactly, exactly, Okay, you know he's getting a response. So so, yes, we've definitely had issues where it's like, um, I just I can't remember one time,

I don't. I just feel like, yes, like those they we have an issue with between my brother and my cousin and it carried on for like not even just till Christmas, probably like for years where like you know, they just don't barely speak to each other to this day. Well, no,

they're fine now, they're fine now. But it literally it's just so funny how family like you can like really hate your family, no question, you know what I mean, like really hate them, but like they're still your family, so you like love them and care about them, but like you spend time around them whatever. But like there can be people in your family that just don't mix

and there's nothing you can do about it. There's absolutely not, especially when there's dynamics of like because you know your your core families, your core family, and then you your family marries people. That's when it gets ugly. Y. Yeah, that's always problems. So my this was maybe about ten and twelve years ago. I hosted Thanksgiving at my house. I had just kind of moved back to um the Beesta area from Baltimore, and I hosted. And so my

kids were kind of young. They were like, you know, four or five, six is maybe very impressionable, sweet little girls. I don't know what they are now, but back then they were just the sweetest things ever. Okay, so you know, Thanksgiving, it's right before Christmas. Okay, so my brother's family comes over. He is older sons. They were all like about to eat and like the kids were all together and so all of a sudden, on by what, my children start coming to me and kind of like whispering to me,

and I'm like, what are y'all saying? Trying to tell me? So they were like he told us about Santa Claus. I was like what what? So my nephew told my daughters in a private room in my house that Santa Claus does not exist. That your mommy and your daddy by your Christmas presents, and that's how it was your nephew at that time. He is in high school. He's he was in high school. Was in high school then, yeah, so he knew better. He did. He did it on purpose. And I would say his name, but I'm not gonna

say his name. But he did it on purpose, okay, and my kids it was funny. My kids were horrified. My kids were like what, So did you like say yeah, okay, or were you like, don't listen to him? I said, he said what so my kids, and for me, exactly what he said, and I said, Thanksgiving is over. Everybody needs to get that get the out. You spoiled Santa

Claus from my I was spurious. I was like freaking because I'm like, if if I don't want my kids to believe in Santa Claus anymore, that's for me, for you, not for my bone head, and for you to do Oh my god. I was so angry. I was like, that's it, never again, and y'all can get the hell out. Oh my gosh. Okay, wait, so did you let them believe like so then? So did you just let it go and say, okay, right, Santa Claus doesn't exist, or did you like make nothing else. No, I I said, yeah,

Sant Claus doesn't exist to me. That by you, I mean Sant class was over in that moment when they were five, there's like five six. Yeah. Look, my kids, even to this day, they'll be like, we know Santa Claus doesn't exist. I said, well, you keep thinking that and see if Santa Claus brings you something, and they'd be like, no, I'm just joking at Santa Claus is real. Okay, for the record, your kids are too old to Santa Claus. For the record, at this point, they just they're just

playing me. Yes. But but I that Thanksgiving when my nephew did that, I was piste off for a very long time. I've not hosted Thanksgiving dinner since then, not because of that incident, but just because I was just like, I don't need all these people in my house and in my space because I don't know what you're gonna say out your mouth. Wow, and you're in my house, was talking crazy. And I'm on a television show, which I have to deal with that sometimes, so I da't shure,

don't want to do it on my personal time. You aren't on a television show that I know. But I'm saying now now, I damn sure ain't gonna do that anyway. So I'd like to keep my my dinners, my Thanksgiving holiday dinners very small. Okay, yes, yeah, I get that. I get that, And then and then I feel like that goes back to our last episode where I was like, I wish I had a really big family. Yeah, and you're like, you don't want that. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think family is great, but you know,

doses and doses. Yeah, yeah, and again, you know, everybody raises their kids differently, and when kids come to your house and they're talking, they're talking reckless about santi claws. That's not cool. Now, have you ever had any moments in which the food tasted like ship, because listen, let me tell you something. You've been going to people's houses for Thanksgiving and the food is dry, or the food

it's just like some nastiness. And then you think to yourself, I could have stayed home, or you think to yourself, I could have just picked up some Popeye's chicken. Yes, yes, okay, so okay, don't be mad at me if you hear this. But one year, um my cousin, who at the time, was a college student and like her college friend, were volunteered to make Thanksgiving dinner. Okay, that's that's nice. But who said didn't y'all said, okay, so yeah, we we at that at that time, we were going over to

my aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner. And you know, they said, oh, Kelly's gonna make Kelly and her friend are gonna make Thanksgiving dinner. And their mother said, that's that's what we're doing. That's what we're working with. Yes, the people who were hostings, Okay, this is what we're doing for Thanksgiving. This get good. Okay. So, so know I was, I was, you know, a little a little skeptical a college student cooking Thanksgiving dinner. You

know you didn't. You didn't. You haven't lived enough life to put enough season in in your food yet. So so I was already not I was already very skeptical. So you know, we go. But I had a backup plan. I had a whole Thanksgiving meal that I was going to serve at my house after Okay, wait a minute, how did the food taste? Okay, that's your that your cousin made, the college kid, so it's okay. You don't even have to tell me what it was. I am. I hate to say it, but it was not good.

One of the dishes was green bean casserole like on the back of the Campbell suit. Yeah. Yeah, I was like with with those crispy onions time. Okay, no shade to white people, but that's what white people do. So so the college from was white, Okay, Okay, So I like, I'm sorry. I appreciate the effort. I appreciate somebody taking the wheel and saying I'm going to help, but yeah, no, not I on thanks, Just did y'all leave because because

you saw that that was just disgusting? How fast did you leave your Yeah, we stayed and we fellowship and and and I feel like like like it's like me and my mom, Me and my mom and wanting But anytime somebody says fellowship, that means they don't want to be there. Okay, Oh I stayed and I fellowship with people.

We just yes, we just knew, like because my mother is from the South, She's from North Carolina, and and she typically, you know what, cook a lott of like thanks Giving and Christmas meals and and and my father is very peaky with this food, and so I think they just knew, like they didn't know what they were walking into. And so we arranged to have our own little situation, yes, in case of emergency meal. And the emergency cracked the bottle like it's just cracked the bottle case,

mecy crack this, crack the glass. But I mean, I love them, you know, I love the aft. I appreciate the effort. But but y'all are wrong for not being honest to say this is some ship, this is some not good food because she's gonna make it again. We haven't had that again. I don't. I don't think anyone's letting that happen. And I'm sorry, I will speak up if they were. If someone is like, Okay, some and so always cooking, please know you could skip the green

being casserole. You can skip it. Don't don't make that off the back of the cable soup. Don't make that. This is what I'm also get y'all to stop doing. Okay, all of y'all posting y'all's Thanksgiving plates on Instagram? They look nasty, look like a bunch of mush. Stop posting y'all look likes giving plate on Instagram look like a jailhouse meal talking about Yeah, it's gonna go down. I put my foot nets. No, it's it looks like mush. Some somebody threw up slops. Listen, stop doing that. Stop

posting these pictures. They don't look right. No, No, So, like I'm gonna need y'all next year because y'all blew it this Thanksgiving because y'all was posting that nasty as ship. Next year, do not post any Thanksgiving food pictures. No, unless it's like a cake, Yes, but I don't want to see a plate full of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, And and it's like on top of each other, like you're like like you're literally about to eat fifty pounds of food. Rights, Like,

who are you barbarians? Y'all are barbarians. Y'all have a little plate and it's a mound of food. Y'all are greedy cook. God, we gotta get out of here, y'all because this is just back to shot. Let's get back to shopping, all right, I'm going back. Yes, it's cyber Monday. Get your cyber Monday. And thank you so much for listening to reasonably shady. This is, you know, we just want to come in here today and just say Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you're enjoying your family or you enjoyed your

family over the past long weekend. We love y'all. We'll be back next week. Don't forget to live your life, reasonable or shady. We're both fighting 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.