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  • The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 04 | Thanksgiving

    In this episode of The Jack & 'Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss American Thanksgiving traditions.

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    Xochitl

    You are listening to the Jack and Chill podcast.

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    Xochitl

    Alright, Jack, today we are going to be talking about Thanksgiving, which our listeners may or may not know is a family holiday celebrated here in the US.

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    Xochitl

    It traditionally was supposed to commemorate.

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    Xochitl

    Sharing between the pilgrims and Native Americans, of course, we know that.

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    Xochitl

    That's not historically accurate at all.

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    Jack

    Right. Or it's a very oversimplified description of the situation, yeah.

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    Xochitl

    The situation but.

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    Xochitl

    Today, it's kind of divorced from its original meaning mostly, and it's kind of just a family holiday where you eat food together. So.

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    Jack

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, I want to ask you, our viewers may or may not know there's some typical things you usually eat during Thanksgiving. I would say Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy.

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    Jack

    Mashed mashed. Yeah.

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    Xochitl

    I think those are the ones that like you basically can't skip.

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    Jack

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    And and then each family has. Sorry, go ahead.

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    발표자 3

    It's just.

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    Jack

    No, I was going to say that's exactly right. If there's no stuffing that it doesn't really. It's like that's one really important component of, like, Turkey Mashed potato, stuffing and cranberry sauce like you.

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    Jack

    Have to have.

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    Xochitl

    Like cranberry sauce gravy gotta have that.

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    Xochitl

    And then most people have something green, like a green beans or a salad or some kind of green side. But I would feel those are like the.

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    Xochitl

    Staples. And then each family has things that pretty much just their family makes. Oh, sweet potato casserole or sweet potatoes. And some preparation is another big popular food. Yeah.

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    Jack

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    I would say for the ones that my family makes, it's Kush which is like a cornbread dish with hard boiled eggs and green onion.

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    Xochitl

    And then oysters, which is like oysters, literally strained canned oysters in a casserole dish with like, a bread crumb topping.

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    Xochitl

    It's really good, you know both.

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    발표자 3

    OK.

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    Xochitl

    Of them sound weird, but they're both really delicious.

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    Jack

    Yeah, yeah. I mean we, our, our weird one was lesa because we're the Scandinavian, right? My, my fan no left side is like a a potato pancake with just it just literally has butter on it and then sugar and then you roll it, roll it up. Yeah. I mean it's it's.

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    Xochitl

    That sounds good.

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    Jack

    It's full on, like causes diabetes, you.

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    Jack

    Know what I?

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    Jack

    Mean like you could trace it right back to to that. But but it's so good. It tastes so good.

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    발표자

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    Right. So my oh, and my thing is ever since I started making the Thanksgiving spread pretty much on my own, I started doing this since I was about 24 every year, I pretty much make the whole spread on my own. This year, my mom made the oysters, which were probably the best thing, actually.

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    Xochitl

    Besides that, I've pretty much made everything else myself.

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    Xochitl

    And ever since I started making this spread myself, I only make fried chicken instead of Turkey.

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    Jack

    OK, wow. Alright. A substitution. A different bird. Yeah.

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    발표자

    Yes. Yeah.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, I just Turkey is like a lot for a kind of smaller family gathering. I don't like the flavor as much. And then for like, one person cooking most of the main dishes, it's really hard for, like, one person to prepare the Turkey on their own pretty much.

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    Jack

    And everyone likes fried chicken.

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    Xochitl

    Is this something?

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    Jack

    I mean you can.

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    Xochitl

    Ohh yeah.

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    Xochitl

    Come on.

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    발표자 3

    You know.

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    Xochitl

    Can't go wrong.

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    Jack

    For for I prefer the Turkey like I'm a I'm a purist. OK, so.

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    Xochitl

    How about you do you?

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    발표자

    Sorry, go ahead.

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    Xochitl

    You're freaking furious. Wow. Betrayed.

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    Jack

    I'm a I'm a.

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    Jack

    Thanksgiving purist like I I need my my Turkey. I I, I and I'm I'm the worst. Like I'm I'm such a typical American that I like the breast like that. You know the white meat which is like everyone knows it.

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    발표자 3

    No, you betrayed.

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    Jack

    That's the least flavor and the and it's the driest part.

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    Jack

    Of the of the bird.

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    Jack

    But I it's just like a tradition, like I when I was a kid, you know, we were picky. We I didn't want the dark meat. I wanted only the, you know, pure the muscle part, you know, just the the whitest of the white meat and a big old slice of it, you know.

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    발표자 3

    That's the.

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    Jack

    Heaping slice of of of dry as.

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    Jack

    White, white meat. Turkey. Yeah. Turkey breast.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah. Yeah, I'm.

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    Xochitl

    The opposite, even as a kid, I always like dark meat, so I'd always want the Turkey leg. And now that I can make it on myself, I'm like, why would I even make Turkey when there's better proteins out there like fried chicken?

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    Jack

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, just and.

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    Xochitl

    Then you can.

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    Xochitl

    It's so easy to make gravy with the fried chicken.

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    Xochitl

    Like so. That's just it just knocks out two birds with one stone. Haha. Pun intended.

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    Xochitl

    And yeah, so.

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    Xochitl

    To me. So. So you're on the opposite.

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    Xochitl

    OK, other unpopular Thanksgiving opinion? I did not know. I was on the unpopular end of this one.

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    Xochitl

    I prefer homemade cranberry sauce to canned. I won't even eat the canned stuff. It's nasty.

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    Jack

    No, no, no, no.

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    Xochitl

    How about you?

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    Jack

    I'm again. I'm a purist. I.

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    Jack

    It has to come out of a can. It has to make the like plopping sound.

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    Jack

    You know where you like it, kind of like.

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    Jack

    You know, it falls on the plate. Like if it doesn't make that kind of weird sound when it comes out of the can as it slides out of the can. I'm not eating it. I mean, I'll eat it. Of course I.

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    Xochitl

    Oh my God.

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    Jack

    Would eat it. I'm I'm not.

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    Jack

    I'm not rude, but but I prefer that kind of Jelly cranberry sauce.

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    Jack

    From the can.

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    Jack

    And I don't know. For me, it's like the perfect combination to the kind of salty, savory gravy and mashed potatoes. Then you get that super sweet, almost like a gel, gelatin, kind of cranberry sauce, you know, I know it's really crazy.

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    Xochitl

    Oh my.

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    Xochitl

    God, so I lost.

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    Jack

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    So much respect for.

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    Xochitl

    You I cannot. My dad always.

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    Xochitl

    Made it from scratch and I started making it from scratch. It's so easy. You just open a couple of bags of crap.

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    Xochitl

    Berries with a little bit.

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    Xochitl

    Of water, boil it in a pot with some sugar and I like to add in a little bit of I squeeze half an orange in there.

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    Xochitl

    At the end.

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    Jack

    Oh, a little citrus, a little little, a little zest.

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    Jack

    To it or something a little.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, a little citrus zest and umm, it is pretty sweet. I try to add enough sugar so that it's not.

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    Xochitl

    Too sour and try.

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    Xochitl

    To make it.

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    Xochitl

    Eat, of course. Cranberries themselves kind of have a naturally bitter sour flavor, like they're also bitter.

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    Xochitl

    You know, but I I just prefer that so much that I honestly, I the canned stuff makes me gag. I hate the texture.

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    Jack

    I love that texture. It's like Jelly or jello.

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    Xochitl

    And it's like.

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    Xochitl

    Oh God.

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    Jack

    Or something gelatin. I know it's.

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    Jack

    It's some gross too.

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    Xochitl

    Oh my God, no I can't.

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    Xochitl

    Go ahead.

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    Jack

    Well, I'm. I'm just trying to think like, why?

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    Jack

    Do I like?

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    Jack

    It do I like it because it makes me. It's because of sentimentality. Or is it because I actually like the taste? And I think it might be a combination of both it.

    00:07:48

    Jack

    That's what we had when I was growing up. So that's what I want. When I have a Thanksgiving dinner.

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    Jack

    But I wouldn't. You know, I would not be disappointed if someone brought in like a homemade cranberry sauce made from scratch. I mean, I'm not. I'm not in insane person. Like, I would definitely enjoy that and appreciate it. I just. I'm totally satisfied with the can. I guess that.

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    Xochitl

    Right.

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    Jack

    And like look.

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    Jack

    Here's the thing about the can.

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    Jack

    It's like.

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    Jack

    It's probably 95% sugar.

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    Jack

    You know, 5% cranberries. You know what I mean? Like, it's probably just a sugar bomb, and that's why it's so sweet. You know, like yours is a much healthier version of it.

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    Xochitl

    It is, it's almost spring.

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    Jack

    You know, and it's probably.

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    Jack

    Got of numerous chemicals in there too. To preserve it, you know, because.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, to me, get that texture.

    00:08:41

    Jack

    Yeah. Well, the texture that does not exist in.

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    발표자 3

    It's like.

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    Jack

    Nature at all.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, it's horrible. God congealed.

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    발표자 3

    Just, yeah.

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    Xochitl

    Ohh no, I just can't.

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    Jack

    Yeah. Congeal cranberry juice.

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    Xochitl

    I can't.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah. Oh, my God. No other one. I wanna ask you, Jack.

    00:08:58

    Xochitl

    Pumpkin pie? Is it overrated? And do you prefer another dessert? I didn't make a dessert this year. I had too many other things to do. I personally just. I don't. I didn't want to make pumpkin pie. I was going to use leftover cranberry sauce with apples to make, like, a cranberry apple crumble.

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    발표자 3

    Right.

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    Xochitl

    And I also am thinking I have some cans for like canned pumpkin pie and I was gonna make into like a pumpkin pudding with like layers. You know how people make banana pudding with the layers of cookies. I think I'm gonna make a pumpkin pudding pudding with.

    00:09:35

    Xochitl

    But I just personally don't like pumpkin pie. I feel like the textures texture is always kind of off.

    00:09:41

    Xochitl

    It tastes kind of like tofu or something, and it's like it's not sweet enough. It's just not. It's not.

    00:09:47

    Xochitl

    My cup of.

    00:09:48

    Xochitl

    Tea. How do you feel about it?

    00:09:50

    Jack

    I love pumpkin pie.

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    Xochitl

    We're on opposite, we're on opposite spectrum today.

    00:09:56

    Jack

    We're we're having two completely different meals right now.

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    발표자 3

    Yes. Yeah.

    00:10:03

    Jack

    I. So here's the.

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    Xochitl

    Mine is better. Mine is a better meal.

    00:10:04

    Jack

    Thing when I was a kid, I didn't like pumpkin pie cause I was just like, it's like a it was a vegetable and it's like a vegetable pie, you know, like it.

    00:10:13

    Jack

    It just seemed odd to me because I when I think of pie, I think of fruit pies, right or pecan pie, something like that with with nuts.

    00:10:22

    Xochitl

    And yeah.

    00:10:23

    Jack

    UM, so my mom would always make a pecan pie and A and a pumpkin pie. Or my grandmother would make an apple pie, and I would always choose the apple pie, obviously, because I mean, apple pie is clearly the winner.

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    Xochitl

    I actually don't like apple pie. The texture is nasty to me. It's like hot apples. No thanks.

    00:10:43

    Jack

    Ohh yeah no, I like that too. Yeah, that's that's funny because.

    00:10:46

    Xochitl

    Wow, just like I want to know, at the end of this, all our listeners pause right now and write a comment down below.

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    Xochitl

    Who? This house?

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    Xochitl

    Would you rather eat at mine or Jack? Mine is the right answer. I'll.

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    Xochitl

    Let you guys know.

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    Jack

    If you want, if you want the authentic 1985 American Thanksgiving, you come to my house. But.

    00:11:07

    Xochitl

    Oh my God.

    00:11:08

    Jack

    Social is, you know.

    00:11:09

    Jack

    Younger and you guys are. You know, you've been watching Top Chef for your whole life, you know, so, you know, you guys are like, I'm gonna make a an apple cranberry crumble, you know, with a citrus. Yeah. And.

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    Xochitl

    Do an improved.

    00:11:15

    Xochitl

    That's so true.

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    발표자

    Oh my God, you got me. You got me.

    00:11:27

    Jack

    But I, but I I appreciate I respect it. I I do. I mean, I know that yours culinary yours is a a culinary delight and mine is like a just a traditional kind of gruel like a you know a meal that.

    00:11:43

    Jack

    You know.

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    Xochitl

    You're like big Midwestern energy.

    00:11:47

    Jack

    I do. I I'm.

    00:11:47

    Xochitl

    Like the big white like white.

    00:11:50

    Xochitl

    If you want to like white middle class Midwestern meal, it's like Jack's house is the where it's at.

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    Jack

    Oh my gosh, we are we. We are the epitome of the right white middle class Midwestern, you know, we're big farmers and we like our big birds, you know, like a big Turkey and a giant mountain of mashed potatoes with like, you know, a lava.

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    Jack

    Flow of gravy. You know, coming down that mountain of mashed potatoes with a big old plop of cranberry sauce. And I'm trying to think like, what my.

    00:12:17

    Xochitl

    In the middle.

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    Jack

    My mother used to make.

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    Jack

    This one, you'll know like this is a a traditional 1A sweet potato casserole with marshmallow.

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    Jack

    Melted on the top.

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    Xochitl

    Yes. So my mom and my grandma on my dad's side both make this and I.

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    Xochitl

    I well, my grandma actually has started making it a little differently. She doesn't put the marshmallows on it anymore, but I personally think my sweet potatoes are the best. I mean, I'm kind of arrogant because I definitely think I'm the best cook in the family. My, my grandma actually on my dad's side has some really great recipes. I'm like, I'm gonna hang out around Christmas. I'm definitely gonna collect a bunch.

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    Xochitl

    Of recipes because she has some good ones.

    00:13:05

    Xochitl

    But for me?

    00:13:07

    Xochitl

    I like to make candied yams.

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    Xochitl

    Instead of the sweet potato casserole.

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    Jack

    OK. Yeah, that, that's cool.

    00:13:12

    Xochitl

    And I put.

    00:13:12

    Xochitl

    Like cinnamon and cardamom in it, and it's really good. I I really enjoy it.

    00:13:17

    Jack

    That I would. I would really enjoy that. You know, I I live in Korea now where this. I've never done this before until I lived in Korea. I just eat hate or I like to eat just a plain sweet.

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    Jack

    Yeah, I just put it in the oven. Bake it.

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    Jack

    And I don't add.

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    Jack

    Any sugar I add nothing, and I even eat the skin of it and it's just got lots of fiber and nutrients and you know, it's high in carbohydrates, but.

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    Xochitl

    Yeah, that's popular in Mexico too. There's a thumb up there which is like a guy that sells sweet potatoes, and he goes by and you can hear his sweet potato.

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    Xochitl

    Cart whistling and he goes. Come on, come up.

    00:13:59

    Jack

    Oh, nice.

    00:14:01

    Xochitl

    This and he's.

    00:14:02

    Xochitl

    Like calling out sweet potatoes, sweet potato in that voice and that, like, annoying like, come on. Sounds like that. And people come running out of their houses. Go grab sweet potato. Roasted sweet potato. Yeah.

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    발표자 3

    That's right.

    00:14:09

    발표자

    Yeah, yeah.

    00:14:13

    Jack

    To get a sweet potato.

    00:14:16

    Jack

    I I love them. I think it's great. I mean, you know, it made me think like, why do we?

    00:14:20

    Jack

    Dress up the sweet potato.

    00:14:23

    Jack

    You know, like with with melted, you know, marshmallows.

    00:14:24

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:14:28

    Jack

    On top it's.

    00:14:28

    Xochitl

    Water is.

    00:14:28

    Jack

    Like putting sugar on sugar. You know what I mean? Like it, it doesn't need. Yeah.

    00:14:31

    Xochitl

    Yeah, it's sweet.

    00:14:34

    Xochitl

    I think my.

    00:14:35

    Xochitl

    Theory about why we do that in the US.

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    Xochitl

    Is that our?

    00:14:38

    Xochitl

    Our viewers have never been the US might not know this or our listeners, but I think the produce is a lot less flavorful in the US, which is crazy because the US has optimal growing conditions. But because of how our food supply chain works, we pick most things before they're fully ripe.

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    Xochitl

    And treat them with a bunch of chemicals so they'll last and they'll have a really long shelf life. And so because of this, most things that you're buying like don't have the sweet, the natural sweetness that they would in other.

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    발표자 3

    Right.

    00:15:10

    Xochitl

    Like in Mexico, if you're going to eat a pineapple or strawberry or something, it tastes really sweet. And in Korea as well, if you have strawberries, they're like, really sweet and delicious and succulent. And in the US, you're gonna get this giant strawberry the size of my.

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    Xochitl

    Fist it's going to be so.

    00:15:24

    Jack

    Right. But it tastes like a glass of water, you know.

    00:15:27

    Xochitl

    It's flavorless. It's like it's like chewing on the.

    00:15:30

    Xochitl

    As of fibrous.

    00:15:31

    Xochitl

    Water. It's nasty.

    00:15:33

    Jack

    Right, right. It looks beautiful. Like a a picturesque strawberry from a commercial that it. It tastes like a like you said. A fibrous glass of water. Like it's just got nothing. Yeah.

    00:15:44

    Xochitl

    Yeah, it's nasty.

    00:15:47

    Xochitl

    Yeah. Anyway, I guess those are unpopular food. Well, you have to tell me first before we, before we transition to the next one. What do you like about pumpkin pie? Because I think I.

    00:15:57

    Xochitl

    Used to I.

    00:15:57

    Xochitl

    Used to pretend to like it as a kid because I felt like I.

    00:15:59

    Xochitl

    Was supposed to like.

    00:16:01

    Xochitl

    It and I really didn't because it's kind of.

    00:16:04

    Xochitl

    Bland and texturally it, it tastes like whipped tofu.

    00:16:08

    Xochitl

    And I like pumpkin, can't in Mexico, we have like candied pumpkin. You cut it into slices and you Stew it with a bunch of, like, brown sugar and spices.

    00:16:19

    Xochitl

    And then you just eat. Eat it.

    00:16:21

    Xochitl

    Like that, and it tastes really good.

    00:16:23

    Xochitl

    Because actually the flavor penetrates it fully, but with pumpkin pie, it's like hard to whip it into pie form and have the flavor fully.

    00:16:33

    Xochitl

    It's not like it's.

    00:16:33

    Jack

    Yeah, if you're making it from scratch, you know, like, like there there, you could make it like you can just buy the already whipped up.

    00:16:33

    Xochitl

    Like not speeding much.

    00:16:43

    Jack

    Pumpkin, I don't know what you call, like the filling part, right? You can buy it in.

    00:16:47

    Xochitl

    Yeah, but I'm sure that's how you guys made it back home, right? Because, well, my my dad actually made it from scratch sometimes, and I that was even worse. It tasted like stringing. It's totally. Yeah. Like it isn't worth it. Look, stringy, pumpkin. Ohh. No, I just.

    00:16:51

    Jack

    I'm sure.

    00:16:56

    Jack

    More like pumpkin.

    00:17:03

    Jack

    Don't. Don't use leftover Jackal Lantern.

    00:17:06

    Xochitl

    Then my dad did that. My dad would literally do that would use like leftover Jack Lynch and he would like, freeze it or something and then just like, make like five of the.

    00:17:14

    Xochitl

    Later it was.

    00:17:14

    Xochitl

    Like stringy. Ohh God.

    00:17:16

    Jack

    Yeah, that's right.

    00:17:18

    발표자 3

    What do you?

    00:17:19

    Xochitl

    Yeah. What do you like about pumpkin pie though cause?

    00:17:22

    Xochitl

    I feel like.

    00:17:23

    Xochitl

    You like when you buy it in a can form or you buy it premade from the store. That's like the best version and it's.

    00:17:28

    Xochitl

    Still not good to me.

    00:17:29

    Jack

    Because it's it's loaded with.

    00:17:30

    Jack

    Sugar, I think all of these things are are just completely loaded the sugar. So I I like pumpkin pie because, well, actually I didn't start liking it till.

    00:17:43

    Jack

    I was an adult. It's kind of.

    00:17:44

    Jack

    Like one of those things that I grew into. So I started with.

    00:17:50

    Jack

    You know, eating just apple pie or pecan.

    00:17:53

    Jack

    Pie. When I was a kid.

    00:17:55

    Jack

    And then as an.

    00:17:56

    Jack

    Adult. I'm like I'm going to try a slice of pumpkin pie. I like it with whipped cream on top, which is kind of cheating, right? It's like I. What do I like more? Do I like the pumpkin or do I like the whipped cream? But if you get if you get a a.

    00:18:05

    Xochitl

    Yeah, my sister covers everything.

    00:18:11

    Jack

    If you get whipped cream and pumpkin pie together.

    00:18:13

    Jack

    In one on the spoon.

    00:18:15

    Jack

    Then it's tolerable.

    00:18:19

    Jack

    But like, I think you're right.

    00:18:20

    Jack

    I think pumpkin.

    00:18:21

    Jack

    Pie is like at its best is just tolerable.

    00:18:24

    Xochitl

    It's like mid, you know, slang in mid like it's just in the like mid range like it's not amazing, it's not horrible. It's just mid like the best pumpkin pie is mid to me.

    00:18:34

    Jack

    Right, right. The best one big pie is is is is.

    00:18:38

    Jack

    Not better than the worst blueberry pie, yeah.

    00:18:39

    Xochitl

    Of great.

    00:18:41

    Xochitl

    Yes. Oh, my God. Blueberry pie is my favorite. I like to make that for Christmas though. But yeah, I was gonna. That was.

    00:18:45

    Jack

    Yeah, blueberry pie.

    00:18:47

    Xochitl

    Going to be my other question to you is like, do you eat it loaded with with, with with cream which?

    00:18:52

    Xochitl

    You said you.

    00:18:53

    Xochitl

    Do because my sister. That's how she eats it. She just. She's like eating whipped cream pie with some pumpkin on it. And. And just like at that point, you do, you just like to have an excuse to eat a ton of whip cream that has, like, a slight.

    00:19:08

    Xochitl

    And slavery.

    00:19:11

    Jack

    You know, I I actually.

    00:19:13

    Jack

    I do enjoy it like I like.

    00:19:15

    Jack

    When you when you.

    00:19:16

    Jack

    When you get like.

    00:19:18

    Jack

    Like I said, like a like a spoon of whipped cream and a bit of pumpkin filling and then some of that nice breaded crust.

    00:19:27

    Xochitl

    Yeah, the question is.

    00:19:27

    Jack

    It all in one.

    00:19:28

    Jack

    Bite it is a very.

    00:19:29

    Jack

    Nice like I do like it. I do. It's.

    00:19:32

    Jack

    Like I'll I'll.

    00:19:33

    Jack

    I'll really enjoy a Costco pumpkin pie with my wife, like we'll get the the whipped cream and we'll buy the pumpkin pie and I'll have a slice. You know, every night until it's gone, you know.

    00:19:47

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:19:49

    Jack

    You're right. Like, I mean, if I were, you know, of all the pastries that you could choose in the world, why, why do we choose pumpkin pie? I think again, it's. It goes back to, like, sentimentality. It kind of reminds me of home. It, like, makes me feel like I'm back in America eating a Thanksgiving dessert.

    00:20:09

    Jack

    So it's more like a nostalgic eat than like a ohh this is the taste is wonderful. Like I just love the taste, which is kind of stupid. I mean it's it's a weird thing to eat.

    00:20:21

    Jack

    For nostalgia purposes, then to.

    00:20:24

    Xochitl

    But it's such a.

    00:20:25

    Xochitl

    Specific flavor. It's like of course that it would bring up, because if you're eating like a hot dog, I mean, you can get that anywhere kind.

    00:20:33

    Xochitl

    Of but like.

    00:20:34

    Xochitl

    Or, you know, Mac and cheese, but it's just brings back a certain holiday memory to have the pumpkin pie.

    00:20:41

    발표자 3

    I think that's.

    00:20:42

    Jack

    What it is? I mean, it's like it's like eating a a childhood memory like. But it's the. But The funny thing is I never started eating pumpkin pie till I was an adult. So it's just like, put the smell and and I don't know.

    00:20:50

    Xochitl

    An yeah.

    00:20:56

    Jack

    I've I've probably had a few.

    00:20:56

    발표자

    The memory.

    00:20:57

    발표자 3

    This is.

    00:20:58

    Xochitl

    Yeah, when you're eating it, it just reminds you of Thanksgiving, which is an logic memory for us in the US, yeah.

    00:21:02

    발표자 3

    Right.

    00:21:05

    Jack

    Yeah, I've only had. I've only had maybe 2 Thanksgiving meals in the last 20.

    00:21:13

    Jack

    Four years probably. I remember I had a neighbor from America and he invited me over on Thanksgiving, and he was trying to make a Thanksgiving.

    00:21:23

    Jack

    You know in Korea and he was an American guy. He was worked on the military base, so he got a bird. Sorry, we bird is slang for Turkey.

    00:21:33

    Xochitl

    For tricky.

    00:21:34

    Jack

    Yeah, that's how.

    00:21:35

    Jack

    Midwest, am I right now he. So he got a Turkey and he got a bird and made mashed potatoes and stuff and we.

    00:21:39

    Xochitl

    We got a burn.

    00:21:43

    Jack

    But it was really awkward like.

    00:21:44

    Jack

    I didn't really want to.

    00:21:45

    Jack

    Be there. I was just like I.

    00:21:47

    Xochitl

    Ohh no wait. Why was it awkward? Because.

    00:21:50

    Xochitl

    This brings us to our next.

    00:21:50

    Jack

    I wasn't really close to him that much.

    00:21:52

    Jack

    I think he was trying to like reach out and and I was just kind of like, you know, my wife's not here. She was at work and I'm.

    00:21:59

    Jack

    Just sitting there.

    00:22:00

    Jack

    At this like guys house eating Thanksgiving food.

    00:22:03

    Jack

    Good. But we're we're we're both.

    00:22:05

    Xochitl

    Are you with anyone else?

    00:22:07

    Jack

    No, it was just like me and him. And like his kid, I think was there maybe his wife. I can't. No. Yeah, it was really awkward. And I was just like.

    00:22:11

    Xochitl

    That's really awkward.

    00:22:17

    Jack

    Yeah, I I was. We were.

    00:22:18

    Jack

    We were both just trying to to recreate our own childhood memory, you know, to go back to our past and try to create something over here. And I I realized that it's just not. You can't do it. Like it doesn't work. You have to. You need a you need a group of people.

    00:22:37

    Jack

    That are all really gung ho, like excited about.

    00:22:43

    Jack

    About trying to be creative Thanksgiving. So what you need is like a lot of foreigners, you know. And so when you get a lot of foreigners together, they'll they'll put together a big old like you said, a spread like a spread. It's like a a lot of a lot of different foods. And you can do a big Thanksgiving feast. But.

    00:22:48

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:22:55

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:23:03

    Jack

    When it's just.

    00:23:03

    Jack

    Like me, I tried to do that with my daughter.

    00:23:06

    Jack

    And my wife. But it was just it's it's just too difficult so.

    00:23:11

    Jack

    I just said you.

    00:23:12

    Jack

    Know what? We'll we'll celebrate the Korean Harvest Festival, which is the tussock holiday and all.

    00:23:21

    Jack

    You know, forget about the Thanksgiving one, but hopefully someday in the future, before I die, I would love to go back and have, like, a proper Thanksgiving dinner in America. That would be. That's one of my dreams.

    00:23:37

    Xochitl

    No matter where I am, I always make the Thanksgiving. So I wasn't in Korea for that Thanksgiving, but I was in Mexico, and I did make the spread, but it was just me doing it by myself.

    00:23:49

    Xochitl

    And one of my friends who came, like, insulted my food. I really wanted to kick her out at that point. I was like, don't insult like it just made me so mad because I worked so hard to make everything. And yeah, it was really mean.

    00:23:59

    Jack

    That's awful. What?

    00:24:03

    Jack

    Does she doesn't understand Thanksgiving or she's she's not American?

    00:24:07

    Xochitl

    She doesn't know she's not American, but I don't.

    00:24:10

    발표자 3

    OK.

    00:24:11

    Xochitl

    I don't know. It was just it was weird, but I think later she felt bad about it. But I was like, I was mad. I.

    00:24:16

    Xochitl

    Was like OK.

    00:24:17

    Xochitl

    Well, you don't have to eat.

    00:24:19

    Jack

    You just pulled the.

    00:24:20

    Xochitl

    It just like, yeah, so.

    00:24:20

    Jack

    Mom card. Well, then yeah, no desserts for you. No, pumpkin pie. No pumpkin crumble. Crumble cake for you.

    00:24:29

    Xochitl

    OK.

    00:24:29

    Xochitl

    But the thing that I did mess up and this was before she even got to that part. So this is not what she was criticizing. I undercooked the chicken.

    00:24:38

    Xochitl

    My God, it was so funny because I didn't realize the the elevation makes cooking time for meat and everything different.

    00:24:46

    Jack

    No, I didn't know.

    00:24:47

    Xochitl

    Yeah. I mean, no. Yeah, I didn't know that. And so the chicken was like undercooked, but it still went well, I think, because the sides were all really delicious, even though the the chicken was undercooked. And my boyfriend came the next day, and he we have leftovers together. And he really liked the food. And I reheated the chicken, so it cooked.

    00:24:47

    발표자 3

    That either.

    00:25:07

    Xochitl

    All the way through.

    00:25:08

    발표자 3

    So it's like.

    00:25:08

    발표자

    Yeah, they.

    00:25:09

    Jack

    Yeah. You don't wanna give anyone the.

    00:25:10

    Jack

    Hot chicken well.

    00:25:12

    발표자 3

    The thing that.

    00:25:12

    Jack

    I think we're forgetting about Thanksgiving is the leftovers.

    00:25:16

    Jack

    Because there's nothing like a the the Turkey sandwich. You know, the Turkey gravy sandwich the next day. So you take a piece of bread and you heat up the uh, you heat, you heat up the Turkey and you heat up the the gravy and then you put the Turkey on the bread and then you do pour.

    00:25:38

    Jack

    Gravy on it and it soaks into the bread.

    00:25:41

    Jack

    And then you.

    00:25:41

    Jack

    Eat that Turkey sandwich with the the bread you know soaked the gravy soaked bread and that is even better than Thanksgiving.

    00:25:54

    Jack

    In my.

    00:25:55

    발표자

    Right.

    00:25:56

    Xochitl

    Yeah. See, I've never eaten leftovers like that. I hear a lot of Americans eat like the Turkey sandwich and stuff for us. We would just reheat everything and eat it again. Yeah, but it's so good because sometimes flavors, like, have a chance to meld more together in a dish within a dish. Like.

    00:26:13

    Xochitl

    And so the next day.

    00:26:13

    Jack

    They just gets better and better.

    00:26:16

    Xochitl

    Yeah. It's like more flavorful. So yeah, I I really like the leftovers, and I think it's the best part is like, you can eat.

    00:26:22

    Xochitl

    That food for.

    00:26:23

    Xochitl

    Like 3 days and you don't have to worry about making new food. One thing I like to do is just like add on. So since I do everything by myself now.

    00:26:31

    Xochitl

    I do things in.

    00:26:32

    Xochitl

    Shifts. So like the first round was like.

    00:26:35

    Xochitl

    Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, stuffing, oysters, green beans, cranberry sauce and the 2nd shift was like sweet potatoes. Kush like just I made different dishes each so we could just like bring them together.

    00:26:49

    Jack

    Right.

    00:26:50

    Xochitl

    The next day.

    00:26:50

    Jack

    You know, it's, uh, it's the best. I mean I it I.

    00:26:54

    Jack

    Know a lot of people.

    00:26:56

    Jack

    My friend Kevin, you, you know, Kevin, his favorite holiday is Thanksgiving by far, like he likes it more than Christmas. He likes it more than any other holiday. I think it's because of that, like eating and drinking together and the.

    00:27:12

    Jack

    I don't know it it.

    00:27:13

    Jack

    Puts you in a like.

    00:27:14

    Jack

    You know it's supposed to be a.

    00:27:15

    Jack

    Time where you reflect.

    00:27:17

    Jack

    On the year and you're thankful for.

    00:27:21

    Jack

    The things that you have, you know, and I think we forget about that because.

    00:27:25

    Jack

    Because the very next day after Thanksgiving is probably the the the lowest point culturally for us, which is the Black Friday where it's all about consumerism and excess. And you know it's about fist fighting over a, a television that's on, you know, sale.

    00:27:35

    Xochitl

    Oh my.

    00:27:45

    Jack

    You know, I mean it's like.

    00:27:48

    Jack

    So it's funny how we we flip flop from like this. Really thankful kind of thoughtful mode to the kind of aggressive shopping mode of Black Friday. And so I I think people forget, you know, I I don't.

    00:28:06

    Jack

    Know that's.

    00:28:07

    Jack

    I I love Thanksgiving because I I love the food and I love the family. And yeah, it was it. It is a a wonderful holiday. I do. I do love it.

    00:28:20

    Xochitl

    We are kind of forgetting about the other side of the coin though, which is like Thanksgiving family drama, which I feel like always comes out during those times. I saw this really funny meme. That's like, remember to bring up politics during Thanksgiving so you can save on Christmas presents. That was.

    00:28:28

    Jack

    Right.

    00:28:41

    Xochitl

    I've I think I've had drama every year. Probably my family's a little bit dramatic this year. I got mad because I actually get mad most years.

    00:28:51

    발표자

    That's not new.

    00:28:53

    Xochitl

    This year I got mad because I.

    00:28:53

    Jack

    You cook the food and then you storm off, right?

    00:28:56

    Xochitl

    Yeah, I like made all the food and then today.

    00:29:02

    Xochitl

    I guess it wasn't Thanksgiving anymore, but I think we had a fine Thanksgiving, but then it wasn't Thanksgiving anymore. Today we were, like, reheating stuff.

    00:29:10

    Xochitl

    But I was that.

    00:29:10

    Xochitl

    We were doing it in shifts, so I was supposed to make like.

    00:29:12

    Xochitl

    The stuffing and.

    00:29:13

    Xochitl

    Some other stuff today and I was all ready to do.

    00:29:16

    Xochitl

    It. But my grandma like.

    00:29:19

    Xochitl

    Was mean. I don't know why she gets in like a bad mood. And this is on my mom's side. And so she like said like.

    00:29:28

    Xochitl

    Oh my God. Are you going to make more food or something? And it just made me.

    00:29:32

    Xochitl

    It just like, hit a nerve and like, well, you don't have to eat it.

    00:29:36

    Jack

    Right, right.

    00:29:37

    Xochitl

    You can just eat your own food if you want.

    00:29:39

    Xochitl

    Like you know what I mean? Like.

    00:29:40

    Xochitl

    I wasn't making it for her specifically. There's more other people.

    00:29:44

    Jack

    No, it's just it was just kind.

    00:29:46

    Jack

    Of a crappy thing to.

    00:29:47

    Jack

    Say cause it's just like, well, like why?

    00:29:51

    Jack

    Yeah, no one's.

    00:29:53

    Jack

    Forcing food down your your throat, you know it's.

    00:29:55

    Xochitl

    Yeah, no one's.

    00:29:56

    Xochitl

    Trying to make you eat it.

    00:29:57

    발표자 3

    Yeah, yeah.

    00:29:59

    Xochitl

    So I was like, well, you don't have to eat it. Yeah, I was mean. So that made.

    00:30:02

    Xochitl

    Me upset and then?

    00:30:05

    Xochitl

    I said I wasn't making it anymore. I got mad and said I wasn't making. I wasn't cooking anymore, and then I just didn't cook. My mom supported me and said I didn't have.

    00:30:12

    Xochitl

    To cook, I was like.

    00:30:12

    Xochitl

    Alright, good. Me too we.

    00:30:14

    Xochitl

    Cook. I just it just. I think sometimes it makes me mad and I understand. Like now I kind of see things through a different lens now that I'm older and that the responsibility of making all the food is.

    00:30:29

    Xochitl

    I get why?

    00:30:30

    Xochitl

    Women would get so like angry and frustrated during the holidays when I was a kid, like you would see your mom getting.

    00:30:35

    Xochitl

    Mad and stuff. And you're like you now you realize like, OK, because a lot of people are really unappreciative of all the work that you're putting in to make.

    00:30:43

    Xochitl

    All this food.

    00:30:45

    Jack

    Right. And my family's traditional. So my my grandmother, my mom and my aunt, they would all make the food. Although my uncle would make the bird, he would cook the Turkey. He's kind of like at, you know, like, like putting water on it and whatever.

    00:30:59

    Jack

    The you know.

    00:31:01

    Xochitl

    You're basing it? You mean? Yeah, yeah.

    00:31:01

    Jack

    Pasting it like pasting the Turkey.

    00:31:04

    Jack

    UM.

    00:31:05

    Jack

    And uh.

    00:31:06

    Jack

    So and then afterwards, the men would just sit and watch football and the women had to do all the cleaning as well, so they would be cleaning up in the kitchen and preparing the dessert.

    00:31:12

    Xochitl

    Yeah, and drink beer.

    00:31:17

    Xochitl

    God yeah.

    00:31:21

    Jack

    For the men and I'm, I'm like, you know, it seemed normal to me at this time and so.

    00:31:27

    Xochitl

    It never seemed normal to me. It made me mad, like ever.

    00:31:30

    Xochitl

    Since I think I was always like.

    00:31:31

    Jack

    Yeah. Well, because I'm, you know, I'm the I'm the lucky gender. You know what I mean? Like, I'm the beneficiary of, like, all this, this tradition, it's like.

    00:31:31

    Xochitl

    Why is everyone? Why the men? Just.

    00:31:35

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:31:41

    Jack

    What? What do you what?

    00:31:42

    Jack

    Do young boys learn they?

    00:31:43

    Jack

    Learn to that women do the cooking and the cleaning.

    00:31:47

    Jack

    And the men do the eating and the football watching.

    00:31:49

    Xochitl

    Drinking and the football watching. Yeah. And the I had the same thing happened with my grandma. Another.

    00:31:51

    발표자 3

    Yeah, right.

    00:31:59

    Xochitl

    Year which is I made all the food. My dad insisted she didn't want to have a Thanksgiving. This is my grandma. My mom's side. Again. She want to have Thanksgiving because she says that it.

    00:32:06

    Xochitl

    Always ends badly or something and.

    00:32:10

    Xochitl

    My dad insisted that he wanted to do it, but I ended up having to make all the food my dad made like one dish. But I made. I had to make everything else, and then we brought it and then she was like, oh, this is so nice.

    00:32:20

    Xochitl

    Thank you so much, Tad. Like to my dad.

    00:32:23

    Xochitl

    And I was like.

    00:32:27

    Xochitl

    I was so mad and then my dad did to his ever living credit at least say I didn't make anything. Uh, my daughter made everything. But my grandma already knew.

    00:32:34

    Jack

    Right.

    00:32:35

    Xochitl

    That so it.

    00:32:36

    Xochitl

    Was just like insult to injury. At that point, I.

    00:32:39

    Xochitl

    Was like I.

    00:32:40

    Xochitl

    Think it just, it sucks when you make all those food for people and they don't appreciate it. I think that's what like is hard for women too.

    00:32:46

    Xochitl

    Like you're under feeling unappreciated for all the effort you put in, cause it's a lot of work to plan everything, all the ingredients and do it all.

    00:32:55

    Jack

    There's there's a trend. I mean, I read articles about this in Korea. So Korea has a a harvest festival called the Chusak holiday. And women are so responsible for everything that they some, some women actually faked like injuries.

    00:33:15

    Jack

    Like you would wear like a cast on their arm or something. They're like, oh, I I broke my arm. I can't, you know, attend. I can't do the, you know, the holiday because the holiday.

    00:33:19

    발표자

    Oh yeah.

    00:33:28

    Jack

    It's like it's like worse than your job. It's like a it's like going from what we say. We have an expression in English, like, out of the frying pan, into the fire, kind of. That's the expression. So it's kind of like you get your time off.

    00:33:42

    Jack

    From work to work harder.

    00:33:45

    Jack

    Catering this you know to the needs.

    00:33:48

    Jack

    Of all the men in the family.

    00:33:49

    Jack

    Like cooking and cleaning and nonstop food preparation and cleaning and childcare.

    00:33:55

    Jack

    And all these things.

    00:33:57

    Jack

    Now I think in recent years, though, it's starting to change, you know, like I think.

    00:34:03

    Jack

    That men are starting to realize, like, OK, if if women are going to work full time jobs.

    00:34:10

    Jack

    Then it's only fair to split the the cleaning and the cooking duties. 5050, you know what I mean? Like it's just it's it. That's the lesson that young kids should be learning. Is that like, you have to cooperate together and you know, prepare this this meal. And so I don't know what it has happened in my family.

    00:34:31

    Jack

    Because my family is so spread out now, I think they have their new families, you know? So like all the cousins.

    00:34:39

    Jack

    They all have their family with my aunt and uncle together, and now my aunt, uncle are the grandma and Grandpa and the same with my other family and my parents and my parents are the only ones that really get left out because both of their kids, my brother and I live, you know, thousands of miles away.

    00:35:00

    Jack

    So they so they, we never celebrate Thanksgiving together. And so it's it's one of those things where my you know, when it comes to.

    00:35:09

    Jack

    Like the drama of the family I like.

    00:35:13

    Jack

    I if if we had like a traditional Thanksgiving where it was like all my my aunts and uncles together now after Donald Trump has been elected, it would be.

    00:35:24

    Jack

    On a like a knock down, drag out battle of like like we'd have to. We have to set ground rules like. No, we will not discuss politics.

    00:35:36

    Jack

    Because, because they're, they won't even talk to me right now. Like they they they haven't talked to me.

    00:35:36

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:35:42

    Jack

    In like years.

    00:35:44

    Jack

    Like if I if I send them like like a if I send like a message.

    00:35:44

    Xochitl

    But being less me.

    00:35:47

    Jack

    To them like, hey, happy birthday. Radio silence.

    00:35:51

    Jack

    Just nothing, you know, so.

    00:35:53

    Xochitl

    Yeah, I mean.

    00:35:54

    Xochitl

    Honestly, you're better off without racist people in your life.

    00:35:57

    Xochitl

    Though I mean.

    00:35:57

    Xochitl

    To me, in my opinion, but you know, it is what it is, but I get it. Yeah, I think that a lot of the modern times are the holidays. Just don't hit the way they used to. Like it just hit different now, like.

    00:36:13

    Xochitl

    They're not. I feel like holidays used to be such a thing.

    00:36:18

    Xochitl

    And now it just feels really watered down and I can't tell if it's because I'm getting older or if times are just changing. I feel like it's both probably.

    00:36:26

    Jack

    I think times are changing. I think people are like realizing like, OK, I've got I work hard and I've got this, this this week off or these three days off and like do I want to be miserable with my family or happy with my friends. And I think young people like millennials and.

    00:36:42

    Xochitl

    Yeah, fighting out.

    00:36:47

    Jack

    And Gen. Z people are like you know what? I'm already.

    00:36:48

    Xochitl

    And the.

    00:36:53

    Jack

    I'm already getting screwed over in the economy.

    00:36:55

    Jack

    Like I'm not making enough money. I'm you know.

    00:36:58

    Jack

    Now I gotta fly home.

    00:37:01

    Jack

    To to to deal with.

    00:37:01

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:37:02

    Jack

    This nonsense, you know, so to listen.

    00:37:05

    Jack

    To my uncle.

    00:37:06

    Jack

    You know, talk about how great Donald Trump is, you know, to, you know, I mean, why would I go home to that? Like I would, you know, so I think I think young people are are are creating their own holiday traditions within their friend group friend groups.

    00:37:10

    Xochitl

    Right. Don't.

    00:37:10

    Xochitl

    Do that.

    00:37:23

    Xochitl

    I'm not feeling.

    00:37:25

    Xochitl

    Thinking myself.

    00:37:28

    Xochitl

    After having done the holiday spread three years in a row and never having been appreciated for it once, not once did anyone ever say wow. Thank you. You disagree affected 4 years because it was. I did it when I was 242526 and now 27. So it's technically four different Thanksgiving that I did completely by myself.

    00:37:46

    Xochitl

    And never, ever anyone ever seemed appreciative at all. At that point, I'm like next time I'm just saving my grocery money and my time and going on a trip somewhere.

    00:37:56

    발표자

    You're going.

    00:37:57

    Xochitl

    Going to bother with it. That's how I.

    00:38:00

    Jack

    Yeah, go on a cruise or something.

    00:38:03

    Jack

    Or go to.

    00:38:05

    Jack

    You know? Yeah, the nice.

    00:38:07

    Xochitl

    I don't even get an Airbnb in like the next town over and just drink wine.

    00:38:13

    Xochitl

    Like that all day? Not really.

    00:38:15

    Xochitl

    But it's just it's so.

    00:38:18

    Xochitl

    Kind of demoralizing, I get why people don't want.

    00:38:20

    Xochitl

    To deal with.

    00:38:22

    Xochitl

    Deal with it anymore, in a way.

    00:38:23

    Jack

    Yeah. No, I'm I, I agree 100%. I think it's good, you know? Yeah. Maybe like it's too much. It's it's too much family. It's it's too much, you know, Thanksgiving and then Christmas.

    00:38:36

    Jack

    Is right around.

    00:38:37

    Jack

    The corner I think for for young people in their 20.

    00:38:41

    Jack

    One of the one is OK, like just do a Christmas and forgo the Thanksgiving or do the Thanksgiving and skip the Christmas. I don't know, but I think it's OK, yeah.

    00:38:46

    Xochitl

    The thing is.

    00:38:53

    Xochitl

    Yeah, I did.

    00:38:54

    Xochitl

    Thanksgiving this year, with my mom's family and I am doing Christmas with my dad's family because my grandpa passed away. So.

    00:38:59

    Xochitl

    I want to see my grandma, but next year I'm saving my money both times and just going on a vacation some other time, just like I don't want to be.

    00:39:00

    Jack

    Right.

    00:39:13

    Xochitl

    I just don't want to be here and deal.

    00:39:16

    Xochitl

    Comments and have to make all the food and just at the end of the day, no one is happy. It's like I wasn't happy. I put in all this effort and no one appreciated it, and apparently they're not happy that I did all of that. So I'd rather just save my money and go on a on a cruise or a.

    00:39:32

    Xochitl

    Trip or something, you know, at the end of the day.

    00:39:33

    Jack

    Yeah. Yeah. Well.

    00:39:36

    발표자 3

    I mean, I think that's that's that's.

    00:39:37

    Jack

    Fair. You know, like it's if it's not fun, it's not happy.

    00:39:43

    Jack

    Why are we? We're just doing it. We're just going through the motions of it for no reason. You know? It's just like because because we have to. I think that's what people realize. I think it's what young people in America realized is like, oh, wait, I don't have to do this.

    00:40:00

    Jack

    Like nothing is gonna happen, you know, like nothing bad is going to happen. I'm not going.

    00:40:03

    Xochitl

    If I don't.

    00:40:05

    Jack

    To get struck.

    00:40:06

    Jack

    By lightning, if I don't go home for Thanksgiving, but we're so conditioned as children to like.

    00:40:14

    Jack

    Follow these these traditions and you know it's they're they're just traditions like you. You can break them. That's fine. Like there's no nothing bad will happen.

    00:40:26

    Jack

    You know it's your family.

    00:40:27

    Xochitl

    Yeah. And then have something good on.

    00:40:28

    Jack

    They still have.

    00:40:28

    Jack

    To love you, you know.

    00:40:29

    Xochitl

    Right, exactly.

    00:40:32

    Xochitl

    So yeah, I don't know. I think for all the young people out there, if you're not feeling it this holiday spirit, you know, don't and don't feel like you're selfish because of it. I think that.

    00:40:43

    Xochitl

    We get to.

    00:40:43

    Xochitl

    A little time to relax and actually have vacation and stuff nowadays. It's like you gotta take every chance that you can get.

    00:40:50

    Jack

    Yeah, yeah, I I agree with that, you know.

    00:40:55

    Xochitl

    All right. Well, if you have a holiday similar to Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival in your culture, tell about it with us. If you also celebrate Thanksgiving, let us know how it's going for you. Do you agree that women usually have to do most of the work? I definitely agree you think. Are you down with that? Are you happy about that?

    00:41:11

    발표자

    And the.

    00:41:15

    Xochitl

    Or do you actually want to?

    00:41:18

    Xochitl

    Stop following the tradition and go on vacation next year or go treat yourself next year. Yeah, and let us know who's house you'd rather eat at mine or jacks, I think.

    00:41:28

    Xochitl

    Mine is the.

    00:41:28

    Xochitl

    Right. One you.

    00:41:30

    Xochitl

    Want to get on my good side say.

    00:41:31

    Xochitl

    My my house.

    00:41:34

    Xochitl

    Yeah. And then leave a comment down.

    00:41:35

    Xochitl

    Below and we will see you guys next time.

    00:41:38

    Xochitl

    Make sure follow our podcast Jack and Chill podcast. Check what is our e-mail on our website.

    00:41:42

    발표자

    What you mean?

    00:41:44

    Jack

    So our website is A-Z englishpodcast.com so we're.

    00:41:48

    Jack

    Still using the.

    00:41:49

    Jack

    A-Z englishpodcast.com website but.

    00:41:49

    발표자

    OK.

    00:41:52

    Xochitl

    Right.

    00:41:52

    Jack

    You can send us an e-mail.

    00:41:54

    Jack

    You know A-Z English.

    00:41:55

    Jack

    Podcast@gmail.com.

    00:41:57

    Jack

    Or the Jack and chill podcast@gmail.com. Both of those are OK.

    00:42:03

    Xochitl

    Yeah. And we'll see you guys next.

    00:42:04

    Xochitl

    Time. Bye bye.

    00:42:05

    발표자 3

    Bye bye bye.

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  • The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 03 | Friends, Family, and Holidays

    In this episode of The Jack & 'Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the Mexican holiday The Day of the Dead. Then, they talk about close friends and family members who have passed away. Finally, they discuss Christmas and how magical it feels when we're young and how we cannot hold on to that magic as we get older.

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  • The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 02 | Halloween, Ghost Stories, and "Phrogging"

    In this episode of The Jack & 'Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss Halloween celebrations, ghost stories from Mexico and Korea, and "phrogging."

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  • The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 01 | Before the Internet

    In our very first Jack & 'Chill episode, Xochitl and Jack discuss the following topics: 1) How did you meet your friends before cell phones and social media? 2) Why don't people host parties anymore? 3) Why aren't grandparents involved in their grandchildren's lives these days?

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