[SPEAKER_01]: This is Cynthia Gannock and you are listening to the mesmerized podcast.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right friends, welcome to podcast.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you're doing great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for being here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I need everyone to know that we just had daylight savings and so we fell back an hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't really know why I'm telling you that as if you didn't experience the same thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Most of you, also, experience the same thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But right now, as I'm taping this, it is 704 PM and it looks like it's midnight.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's taking everything I have to stay awake.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you give me just a touch of cold, it's not even cold, like even a slight bit though, and this early darkness, and I mean, I literally tonight looked over at Mike.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, well, we should have JB take a shower and go to bed and Mike's like, he has baseball practice in 30 minutes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what?

[SPEAKER_00]: When did we start having middle than I baseball practice?

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I want you know, I'm struggling over here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm struggling.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the goodness.

[SPEAKER_00]: Melissa Radke is back week two on the podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's hilarious.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's so funny that my daughter who edits this Kate is always listening to podcasts and she'll always shoot me a text or something that kind of struck her or something interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: She said, I couldn't quit listening to this.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to listen to it over and over.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because Melissa's that funny you guys and so I'm so [SPEAKER_01]: Thankful.

[SPEAKER_01]: She gave us two weeks of her time this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are hitting the holidays and yeah, maybe it's too early.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know everything feels middle the night dark to me So maybe I'm just hilarious, but I think it's okay to start talking out the holidays people are putting up their Christmas trees for goodness sakes We have people putting the lights on our house this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're gonna talk about it Well, it's not gonna hit Thanksgiving.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna hit Christmas.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna talk about some funny stuff some serious stuff and everything in between and so I'm glad you're here for it [SPEAKER_01]: And again, if you haven't checked out her book, check and write a women.

[SPEAKER_01]: You need to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can also watch the Radkees show.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's available.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can actually watch it on the internet or you can listen to it like a podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: All the links are in the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: Notes.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go with Melissa Radkees.

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa, we're back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna say back and better than ever, but I don't know that we were that great of four.

[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe just back.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, somebody right now is turning off their podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh, you said they're back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe turning down the volume of the minimum, we ended on a pretty, pretty bad note on that last one.

[SPEAKER_01]: When I was talking about mammograms and tweezers, I thought I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, people, I didn't bring that up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I brought up Pete in the shower.

[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all thought that was bad, but she was able to take us to a new lobe.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine what it's like if we're not on air, so never let us go on a girl strip.

[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, okay, so we're going into the holiday.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we're gonna, let's pre-game it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about, like you know, like they have all these people, are y'all on the sports over there as your husband and the sports?

[SPEAKER_01]: every Saturday is dedicated to college football, every Saturday.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not as big in a felt, although he loves it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Saturdays, I mean, he went, remember in the 80s when we woke up on Saturday mornings giddy because it was cartoons, cartoons came on, that's how he wakes up on Saturday mornings.

[SPEAKER_01]: He gets out of bed like this.

[UNKNOWN]: It's what did that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Again, he's getting nuts.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's my, yeah, Mike, Mike's the same way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mike, I'm not convinced he didn't have a bed sore from all the college football.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a lot of sitting.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so he doesn't enjoy that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, so you know how they pre-game stuff and they get all ready for the season and like Mike was watching stuff in August.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we were gonna know, and it's been a hard hit for Mike Janoff.

[SPEAKER_01]: He loves University of Texas and they came out pre-ranked number one and they're just stinking it up bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, [SPEAKER_01]: You really want to talk to me about rank, and I'm the University of Arkansas.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we've got our coach after our third game.

[SPEAKER_01]: David wakes up on Saturday's specifically to watch his best friend who is belt buckle.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's belt buckle same?

[SPEAKER_01]: Pat McAfee.

[SPEAKER_01]: Pat McAfee.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pulling belt buckle.

[SPEAKER_01]: You would think you would think him and David were roommates in college.

[SPEAKER_01]: David talks to the TV like he knows Pat McAfee.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Arkansas is doing terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we have our hopes for next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: You do.

[SPEAKER_01]: You do.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, don't we all.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I live in Dallas.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we have high hopes for the Cowboys every year and nothing happens, but yeah, but we can only dream.

[SPEAKER_00]: But so let's pre game the holidays because it's coming and I feel like you and I need to just shed a little light on a few things and we're going to start with Thanksgiving and whether or not we're going to wear sweaters knowing that it's not going to be cold.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am actually, as I were talking, you're going to see me riding, and it's because I have a lot of questions to ask you about Thanksgiving and about Christmas, and as I think come to me, I'm going to write them down so I don't forget.

[SPEAKER_01]: So let us keep you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let us keep you as you take notes over there.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: But one of the things that there's not much that stinks about being a Texan, not much.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love being a Texan, but it is the dad gum weather at the holidays.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I want everybody to look like the picture of everybody else at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want everybody in sweaters and, you know, and my kids are wearing flip-flops and tinny, you know, and shorts because it's so dang hot.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's, and I, I convinced myself it's not because I'm like, oh, I look at the lows.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like the lows are in the 40s.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's fine, ma'am.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's going to be 79 and I'm a parent's house and my parents of the age where they don't turn on the air anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm just gonna sweat profusely, and my makeup is gonna be running, and my hair curls up, and so I'm just just wondering, I just want to have that conversation if we're gonna, if we're gonna just come to the party, and we're either gonna embrace the short sleeve sweater, which I think is an oxymoron worth getting rid of, but the short sleeve sweater, or we're just gonna like, I nearly said we're gonna wear jams, people wear jams, people wear jams, [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to wear leggings, okay, spanks leggings, they're super super comfortable and they come up in their elastic waist, right, like spank leggings.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to wear a flowy top over it so that my gut can spill out and I don't care.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's probably going to be short sleeve.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have spanks leggings.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need those.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need spanks leggings.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, those spanks leggings are to die for.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are great.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just going to wear a long, flowy, kimono-y-like top that I can eat in and be comfortable and lay around and have an app in, but it doesn't wrinkle.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just got to be short sleeve.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm too many puzzle to do anything else.

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, I think that's fair.

[SPEAKER_01]: Unless you have a question when asked I was going to move on to the food if thanksgiving and then the people or we can't don't We don't talk in here.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, not these people so keep going to fade.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay best and show on the things The bet on the Thanksgiving table.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's best and show for you?

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know our family probably like yours.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have the same standard meal.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah [SPEAKER_01]: And the crowning achievement is not the turf, but the helm, so we're ham people.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we always get it from Honeybaked Ham.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's the same every year.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the real crowning achievement there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can get back here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going and buying the helm.

[SPEAKER_01]: But so I don't really know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we have a delicious spinach salad recipe to everybody loves.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a big, that's a big eat.

[SPEAKER_01]: The corn casserole, but only if certain people make it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is it the Jiffy winner you have like a real one?

[SPEAKER_01]: There is Jiffy mix in it, there is a Jiffy mix in it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think we do it a little, a little bit different, maybe not that much different, but, but if, oh, if one of my family members signs up to bring it first [SPEAKER_01]: before the good family member can bring it, we are all like crap.

[SPEAKER_01]: What are we going to do?

[SPEAKER_01]: Cause nobody has had the guts to tell her girl.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't make it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Corn casserole should not be this thick.

[SPEAKER_01]: It should be this thick.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you don't have anything.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: So don't you all have family members that you don't want them to make the baked beans?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, it's the sweet potato casserole for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this, um, you got to have the right consistency on the top.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm basically, I don't want the sweet potato.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want the pecan brown sugar butter situation on top.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.

[SPEAKER_01]: And and do not do not think about putting a marshmallow on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: No ma'am.

[SPEAKER_01]: And real.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's been, with the marshmallow shows up or we're lean on the topping.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, this isn't, this isn't, but we don't have a sign-up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we should do a sign-up like [SPEAKER_01]: Like when you get the late evite, like you know you weren't originally invited, but apparently everybody said no.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they added the evite and everybody already said yes, seven days ago, and you're like, oh, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hey, what do you mean you'll don't do a sign-up?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's interesting to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think my mom will send out a text and be like, okay, thanks, give me what's everybody want to bring, and then everybody just text back.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I forget, and it's a whole thing, but yeah, there's no sign-up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to get that sign up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, do you have like a Google Doc, like a, what do you, no, no, no, no, it's a text and then my, my mobile will send it out and then she'll put, ship, because we will have a turkey, a little one should put turkey dash and then she'll put corn casserole dash, mashed potatoes dash, and then you fill in what you want it to bring.

[SPEAKER_01]: I say, well, yeah, same, I think we're kind of the same concept, but, but essentially, but don't sign up for that hand, because that honey bank, you'll have to put a mortgage on your house.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, we leave that to my parents.

[SPEAKER_01]: They can afford it, and then, you know, they don't have to do anything else.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, my mom makes the dressing, and the dressing be good.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that is, I love dressing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we are not talking any kind of stove, top-stepping, you know, what have you.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's real, Southern dressing, and it's great.

[SPEAKER_01]: That she cook any inside the bird.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, because my mom will put some in the bird and I'll eat it, but I was like you're going to die of Sam and all and I'm like, come, Lord Jesus, I don't know where I'm going in the bird we don't even care about the bird, you know I'm saying I'm just a couple of pieces of turkey and like [SPEAKER_01]: the third stinks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, your family's crazy and the best way ever.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love, I mean, just from reading the book, everyone, chicken fried women, incredible out in the last year, most of the new book.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you don't have it, you need it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's awesome.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's an awesome Christmas present.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you can give that to anyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: A teacher of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I loved it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I talked out of some last podcast, but I like savered a chapter a day because I thought it was so good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, but in that you hear about her crazy family and friends and all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, who's the wild card?

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, maybe we don't go by name.

[SPEAKER_00]: We could just go by personality type.

[SPEAKER_00]: Although you've already thrown that whole family under the bus.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what are we looking for?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking about them for pizza.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_00]: So who's the wild card at the Thanksgiving table?

[SPEAKER_01]: And what makes them the wild card?

[SPEAKER_01]: There was a TikTok trend that went around not too long ago where people would take their phone to the family event.

[SPEAKER_01]: And what it was was you would say to the very first [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, if I was bringing a new person to Thanksgiving dinner, who would you warm them about?

[SPEAKER_01]: And then you'd go to the next person.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I was bringing a visitor over for Thanksgiving dinner, who would you warm them about?

[SPEAKER_01]: Needless to say, if I did that trend, everybody would say me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am the wild card one hundred times.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what I'm gonna say.

[SPEAKER_01]: They don't know what I'm gonna bring up.

[SPEAKER_01]: They don't know what opinion I'm gonna throw out.

[SPEAKER_01]: But second after me, when it comes to, and I'll be totally honest, when it comes to saying something funny and out of left field, my mother.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what she's gonna say.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what randomness it's gonna be.

[SPEAKER_01]: As far as judgmental at the table, my ain't mellba, okay?

[SPEAKER_01]: Case in point.

[SPEAKER_01]: Case in point, a couple of years ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: My mother said, we were eating Thanksgiving, and my mom said something like this.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I just don't understand her.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've gone to church with her for years.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know she's talking about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've gone to church with her for years, and I don't understand why this has happened in her life.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[SPEAKER_01]: And everybody with the table was kind of quiet, and might Milba said, because she got a tattoo at everything goes down heel after that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that people that get them are trash, and I think tattoos are trash.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's half the people at our table.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have 10.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'll cover it up for everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are tucking their arms into their shirts?

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, that's what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, we don't know what these two sisters are going to say, but once funny and kind of Ziony and the other one's judgmental.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you just don't know which way it's going to go.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have to have that right in yours.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, we do.

[SPEAKER_01]: See, I think my husband, I give, I give the award to him, not because he says outlandish things, but he's a button pusher not with us, but with his, especially his family.

[SPEAKER_01]: And my father and all's very political.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm just going to tell everybody, stand down, he's very political.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it can't, it doesn't occur to him that other people think differently.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like how could you not?

[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you're smart, you're going to think this way.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so my husband, I mean, we can't say I'm five minutes.

[SPEAKER_01]: If my father was there, where my father doesn't bring up something political, I'm like, really, like, next let's talk about religion and then I'll talk about our money.

[SPEAKER_01]: Every [SPEAKER_01]: We just get all the things you don't talk about it things, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: But my husband knowing it drives me nuts.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will drop a political bomb and he'll say something that he knows is contrary to what my father and all believes.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he gets up and goes to watch football.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like, no, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did not drop it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Desher has been truly believed differently than the father-in-law, or does he just do that on purpose?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he does not purpose.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, he does.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think my husband is not as far as my, you know, politically on the same leaning at that far.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably a little more in the middle of the thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, he'll say things that he knows are like, he's just a prisoner.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, and then he goes to watch football.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, do not drop a bump and he'll leave [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's worse.

[SPEAKER_01]: That are signing me up for the half marathon, but it's not good, it's not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you were the wildcard.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, I tend to be on good behavior.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why.

[SPEAKER_00]: I tend to be on good behavior there on Thanksgiving lunch and I'm not, and I'm not gonna do that this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm just gonna be, I'm gonna channel my Melissa.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Melissa Radke.

[SPEAKER_01]: You'll have fun, you will have fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now nobody will want to sit with you at dinner, but you'll have a great tub.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, okay, let's talk about this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just on a little bit of a serious note, something you're most grateful for in this last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, mercies, I sent Rimmie off to college and I'm really grateful for that that she has the chance to go that we were able to afford it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's a big deal nowadays, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: The economy and everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when you are an author that does not make you a millionaire and I'm just really grateful that she has that experience.

[SPEAKER_01]: We may have to, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: fall for bankruptcy next week and bring her home and not really, but I mean you can't buy the honeybag tam this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just say that's that's that's exactly it but I'm really I'm really grateful that she's having that experience and that she's learning what she's learning and she's living in a different state and doing well you know yeah yeah okay how far is it like what is it a driver fly?

[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't it come to the hours in the car?

[SPEAKER_01]: We normally drive it because if we want to fly anywhere, we got to drive to Houston.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's two hours.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, but what about you?

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, one thing I'm great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to think about this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even though I put the question on our notes, I'm like, huh, I mean, there's a million things.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think what I am most thankful for, [SPEAKER_01]: is, and this is like, I mean, there's a million other things everyone don't be like, oh, it's all about her.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think a thankful that I got through another book.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is not yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Writing those books is tough business.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if you feel this, but I'm so extroverted to be an introverted mode to write a book and be by myself day after day.

[SPEAKER_01]: It makes me a little, like, I'm a little lunatic.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I want to, like, I want to end it all some days.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, this is terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'm very thankful that we're on the other side of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, do I love the whole endorsement and then promoting and all, it's not, I mean, I just, but I believe enough in the message and if the Lord opens the door, I'm not going to complain about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it is, I mean, it is a process.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, that's why I'm, what do you, I, I, I do not think that's making that all about you.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I completely agree that it's difficult and you should be grateful for that.

[SPEAKER_01]: What do you say to girls who will come up and ask, and I know they do, because they asked me too, and I'm not nearly as experienced a writer as you are, who come up and say, I feel like I have a book in me, what should I do?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, run for the hills.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, run for the hills, check.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I always tell people, I'm like, listen, because people ask me, I believe this from the bottom of my heart, like the Lord or Dane for me to get a book deal, because it's impossible to get them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you have to have a platform.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I always say, like, listen, [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm not into saying build a platform, but if you care that much, you have to have some sort of platform or a story that just blows things out of the water, but I'm like, there's so many non or maybe non, something untraditional ways to publish now that just look at all the options people do it like through Amazon or what I mean, there's a million ways to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, I'm always just like listen right every day.

[SPEAKER_01]: get the message out, pray hard over it, and then get it out of your system and write it out.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then just hold it loosely, and I feel like the Lord may open the door for a commercial publishing, but you and I vote to the commercial publishing, that's not the only way to do things in life.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or what do you say?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what's your best advice?

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the same thing, and I, I'm not always make sure to say, um, make sure that the whatever the story is that you want to write, you're also telling it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking it, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: You're telling people about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, to see that if it, does it resonate with them?

[SPEAKER_01]: Before you put all the work into a book, does this topic resonate with people?

[SPEAKER_01]: So don't just write it, talk it as well, write every day, and then don't think that you have to always say, don't think you have to do it the big way, the loud way, which is going to New York and getting some publishing deal.

[SPEAKER_01]: But who is your publisher?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's Esther Prass through David Cook.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you sound like a several book deal?

[SPEAKER_01]: Some people do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I'm going to spare all y'all.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting ready to move on.

[SPEAKER_01]: But like, I had a thankfully out of opportunities with Nelson.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only different ones.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I just felt like the Lord led me to the one I went to.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been an incredible experience.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's still just hard work.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I would just say this.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is obviously coming from girl who's about to put out a second book.

[SPEAKER_01]: So take it for what it's worth.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you really enjoy people, like, [SPEAKER_01]: by their books, support them, pre-order them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't understand.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not because either of us are making a fortune on books.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's not it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean.

[SPEAKER_01]: barely making money on books.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's, I just feel like if someone works that hard and the Lord gives us a word to share and encourage, like let's do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's people, especially in our Christian world, that like, I mean, they know all the people in the same big huge names promote the same big huge books and they're all the best sellers.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's a million other people that write really great books.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so just support people on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you like the audio, that's great too.

[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, I am so thankful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have the opportunity.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will be two books, three years was kind of hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm two books and yes, that's why I thought too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and and and will you write another one?

[SPEAKER_01]: I will, and I kind of already think that I know where I want it to go.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm already sure, but you know, I brought it up to David, the other day, and David said, I love that you're already thinking about book three, but we're still promoting book two.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and sometimes that is a problem with me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, okay, well, I'm done.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's out.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're moving on.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's my ADHD big term.

[SPEAKER_01]: But as a person with a platform, we have to keep pushing it, pushing it, and I forget that all the time.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's check in front of women y'all and it's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: So get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, friends.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm jumping in here for a minute to let you know again, that is officially pre-orders season for Cynthia's new book.

[SPEAKER_01]: How do I miss that?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, that's the title.

[SPEAKER_01]: How do I miss that?

[SPEAKER_01]: And the whole book is just a funny, comical reminder of the little things or the big things.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the things that don't seem significant in the moment, end up being significant and that the way we live our lives.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, [SPEAKER_01]: makes a big difference in the lives of the people around us and in our faith.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so my hope is that you will laugh, that you will also get lots of spiritual truth.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you love this podcast and you enjoy what we're doing here, I would love for you to support this by supporting my book.

[SPEAKER_01]: And pre-orders are important.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said it last week, but it makes a big difference in whether or not Amazon and other places order lots of copies.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're looking at pre-orders.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the way that you can bless me is by pre-ording a copy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Heck, pre-order copy for your mother-in-law or the teacher at your kiddos preschool or whoever it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: It makes a big difference.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, thanks you guys for supporting me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And thank you for pre-ording a copy of how I missed that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, give me your Christmas, which one, which you prefer.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Christmas by long shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: But my favorite holiday, you're going to be shocked, is Easter, hands down, love Easter, love everything about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you talking because he is risen or the devil eggs are both?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I love the theme of Easter.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love the time of year of Easter.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love the look of Easter.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love what Easter does in my heart.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love the praise of Easter is my favorite.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's my favorite.

[SPEAKER_01]: But out of thanksgiving and Christmas, I guess Christmas, which is interesting, little serious note here for the listener.

[SPEAKER_01]: So David and I had a son, his name was Elijah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Elijah actually passed away on Christmas morning in 2005.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, a lot of people, when they know my story, will think that I dread Christmas.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually quite the opposite.

[SPEAKER_01]: And interesting, I was praying one day and I asked the Lord, why Christmas?

[SPEAKER_01]: I asked him this very soon after I had, like a month or so after I had a lot of shit, because Christmas I thought would be forever talented for me, forever dark.

[SPEAKER_01]: You tell me that God is not precious.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said in my prayer time, why Christmas?

[SPEAKER_01]: Why Christmas day of all things?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to think about this, you know, always.

[SPEAKER_01]: And God spoke so clearly to me, Cynthia.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like I could hear him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He said, I'd chose a day that I knew you would never have to be alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I have never been alone on Christmas soon after that.

[SPEAKER_01]: We adopted Rimee soon after that we adopted Rocco.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happily married.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a mama and a daddy in tons of cousins here in Texas.

[SPEAKER_01]: And on that day, I never wake up alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: I never wake up sad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I always it's a beautiful fun day.

[SPEAKER_01]: So even though there's loss on that day, there's also so much meaning.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what a what a word from the Lord.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking when you were saying I was thinking that you were going to say the Lord is speaking to like he gave a son that eventually would lose life too, but just that that gift of, I don't know, the gift of salvation which leads into your Easter love.

[SPEAKER_01]: But now I understand you more fully, and I love that, and the Lord is good and you're never alone on, on Christmas.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're never alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now let's get to the real business.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: The real about Christmas.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here are my questions for you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a big family?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not talking about you and your husband and your three kids.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about that extended family that comes over on Christmas or Christmas Eve and you all up and gifts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a big family and if so, do y'all draw names?

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so no, it's not it's not huge, but big big enough that so we don't draw names But we only give for that kids, but now the kids like are like a lot of my grown adults But we only give for the kids like I don't give my brother a gift We give our parents a gift and the all the kids the cousins and that's how it works out now It's um, it's a problem because the parents can we Can some of the love of all that's good explained to me why our parents are now asking for gift cards [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are we giving?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want a DSW?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a shoe store in Texas, y'all.

[SPEAKER_01]: You want it?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I think you can afford a pair of shoes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't need a gift card.

[SPEAKER_01]: At their age, they have everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: There is nothing you can get my parents.

[SPEAKER_01]: They don't already have.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: My dad asked for his birthday for some e-e-e-e-e-out gift cards.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, my parents are fine financially.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is with the one he wanted.

[SPEAKER_01]: I kid you not he would like a red lobster [SPEAKER_01]: and in a Olive Garden.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if those are your favorite spots, I do not want to throw shade on you, but we live in Dallas, Texas.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have everything you could ever want to eat.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah!

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, I am buying, so I'm at the Crogor or wherever, buying gift cards in one of my daughter called, and she's like, wait, you know, I was like, oh, I'm buying gift cards.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, oh, for a JB's teacher, I'm like, no, for your grandfather's birthday, to Olive Garden.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like what that's for the man who created this family for the head of our whole.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but but they have everything else.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't even buy them people.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've even got people.

[SPEAKER_01]: They got a pool guide, a yard guide, a lighting big police house.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's not even people I can get old, you know?

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm gonna buy?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna buy a gift card to the AC company.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll turn down the dang air.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's what I'm gonna get them this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what that is right?

[SPEAKER_01]: I love my parents and my mom will probably hear this loveie Dorothy, but do you know my parents are giving us right now that's really tough and so I'm going to set this up as bad presents you might get and I again love you mom, they are giving us, oh my gosh.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what they're called.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're like coins that are like, they're coin collection, like, chest.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's like, maybe in my great-grandfather, there's somebody else and there these minted coins.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they're called.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they come in a two pack and they wrap them.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, I see my son over there, they're like, oh, I got coins.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm like, and then my daughter's like, oh, I did two, and then I got coins.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, what I wouldn't give for a gift card dollar [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, gate Dorothy, if you're listening, I'll pay you Dorothy two coins to never give them coins again.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird thought you got to stop with the coins.

[SPEAKER_01]: Our people given weird stuff in your family is there a cheap person?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is there if you're drawing names that I guess you all do?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like is there you like gosh I hope that I don't I hope David didn't get my name because he's just going to give me bath and body crap I already have or [SPEAKER_01]: I can honestly say in our family we have a big family we all draw names and this was the other thing I was going to ask you but y'all don't draw names.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I was going to ask you how much you spend.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've had to increase our spin.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, the tariffs, the tariffs have gotten the best of us.

[SPEAKER_01]: The tariffs are getting like so what we've done now is we say it's we don't go over $60.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So don't go over 60.

[SPEAKER_01]: So what you it's not that people will buy you bad gifts.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's that you don't want the person that's the cheapest.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because they'll say, well, I wasn't supposed to spend over 60.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: You weren't supposed to spend over 68 Melba, but don't keep it around $27.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_01]: But so you don't want the cheapest person to get you, but generally I would say overwhelmingly in my family, they keep it around 60 bucks and they get you what you want.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I will be I'm one that will say just get me an old to gift card and they'll get me a $60 old to gift card or I'll say I found this old maybe sweater.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll find exactly what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think we all are pretty good about we don't want crap.

[SPEAKER_01]: So let's get them what they want and and our family sticks to that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't think of what I want as part of the problem and that's my own.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm just set myself up for a big fat coin fest.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because everyone's like, what do you want?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, maybe some airing fat coin fest.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I want?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's too minted going for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's my kids will be like, that we have.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I always have this favorite things party.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wish it'd come to Dallas.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'd have so much fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: So everybody, you know, brings our favorite thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: 50 bucks or less.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's so fun because there's always I just went to one Cynthia.

[SPEAKER_01]: My best friend turned 50.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I had never been to a favorite things party.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I loved it.

[SPEAKER_01]: How did you do yours?

[SPEAKER_01]: We do it every year.

[SPEAKER_01]: We know for like 10 years and everybody brings a gift.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember the number.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we always say no gift cards, no candles, no food products or wine.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because everybody has their favorite candle.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't need that crap.

[SPEAKER_01]: So people like literally everything from their favorite mascara to a cooking product, now there's always the one person that shows up.

[SPEAKER_01]: One year, well, I have say to say, I don't think it's personal lessons, but they brought some salmon stone that you cook salmon on and we're like, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't want that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would love that and you can switch around so you could have switched for the salmon stone But so I do that every year, but my friend and January has an unfavorite thing's party and we bring our worst gift To the unfavorite the first thing we got and it is so fun and that's also yeah You need to put that into play there, okay, and I feel you get a bad gift.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can send you one [SPEAKER_01]: I can answer you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to house the favorite things party this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you find that you'll do it before the holidays and people get mad at you because they're like, oh, I'm already so busy.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, if you do it, nobody does it early on in December and on a Sunday night works for us.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, okay, now Sunday night, early, don't get either really early or really late, like literally the Sunday before Christmas, if it's not a Monday, but like or do it really early in December, but don't hit those middle weekends, people are too busy, but it's so fun, and my birthday is this, my birthday is December 1st, I want to do that for my birthday, so fun, but what's it at this, you just said a minute ago, you go, here's the thing though, I don't ever know what I want.

[SPEAKER_01]: I always know what I want to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I make, I, I write down things throughout the year that I want right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you, David Radke, can I tell her what I'm asking for for Christmas?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm leaning in to the video everybody, so that's empty.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can see my face.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cynthia, do you know what I'm asking for?

[SPEAKER_01]: I hope it's something to sterilize your shower floor.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is half a lot three times in 15 years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody calm down.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, what?

[SPEAKER_01]: a facelift from Turkey, from Turkey, from Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go to Istanbul and I want to get a facelift.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, I need another 30 minute thumbs podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: Stop it, wait, why, why Istanbul?

[SPEAKER_01]: And I've already contacted them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've already contacted them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've already talked to them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to, like the, the, the, the, I came think of the government.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like who did you contact in Istanbul?

[SPEAKER_01]: I found a hospital there that does chin lipo chin lipo they suck it out what when they suck it out because of my age my skin would sag.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and by the way, this stuff like this, this doesn't go away with losing I could lose 40 more pounds, which is what I would like to lose and and it's still going to be there, this can is a hereditary, okay, so they're going to suck this out, but then that skin is going to sag so what they do is they do a chin lipo slash jaw lift.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but thank you so much for letting me know if her showing me what this is going to do is something everyone.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but they say your face won't look uniform if they just do it here because then you've got all this so they'd like to go ahead and do my face lift because I sit on pictures videos I had to do all this turn to side to side to side to side to you and then quoted me a press.

[SPEAKER_01]: How much are we going to talk about this how much.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's not going to tell us.

[SPEAKER_01]: A North or South are not going to tell you because David Racky said, and I quote, not no, but heck no, what do you think we're made of?

[SPEAKER_01]: Where's the money tree in our yard that you think we had?

[SPEAKER_01]: OK, but is it $60 or less?

[SPEAKER_01]: Could Mel book you have it to you?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, because she thinks women who have stepped into their face are trash.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're just trying to stay young.

[SPEAKER_01]: How much kind of tape did you get a tattoo before Thanksgiving?

[SPEAKER_01]: I did get a tattoo, so yeah, I just got one with Rimey.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: She came in for fall break and we got a tattoo.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did you not see it all me?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, where?

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, no, that's an age spot.

[SPEAKER_01]: What am I looking at?

[SPEAKER_01]: Look, it is a little micro hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: Right there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need this, I literally, I have that on the front and it's just called an age spot, okay?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I, okay guys, I gotta tattoo too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't micro hard, it's so small that we were having a cookout at my parents the other night.

[SPEAKER_01]: I swatted my hand three times that thought it was a mosquito.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, does Melby know you've ever seen and I will say to people, did you not recognize me because of my new tattoo?

[SPEAKER_01]: I did, does Melby know?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I want to facelift from Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: People aren't celebrities are talking about how if you go to Turkey, they do incredible, incredible plastic surgery for grid prices.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, if that doesn't work out, I just want you to know that it's partners card and Dallas.

[SPEAKER_01]: You probably don't know what that is, but it's like a charity thing and you get 20% off at all these stores.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I was looking through the list and in the partners card 20% off or some plastic surgeons.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I could at least offer you a partner's card and Dallas and get 20% off it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I cannot, I don't know how, I mean, we could start to go fun me, but I don't know how to get you to Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's, hey, I'm gonna tell you something.

[SPEAKER_01]: I might take you up on that 20% off.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, do we have a good reason to do a fun, go, go, fun, me?

[SPEAKER_01]: Does this not offensive to you if it is help?

[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa, remove it, but I don't know if that's, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's people for real problems.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just didn't, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just did a, and that is a real problem.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I see you in the real problem.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see you and I don't judge you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that what you told where's supposed to say?

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.

[SPEAKER_01]: We, we listened and we don't judge.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was, I was, I was, um, doing a podcast with Candace Cameron Buray, you know, precious, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm so sick of you dropping names.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, and bending over and picking on back a.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was next week.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I Louie Giglio, Candace Cameron Buray.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know how much I love Candace Cameron?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, do it with me next time.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me tell you what happened.

[SPEAKER_01]: She shared the real off of my social.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like if I post it, oh good 5,000 people She post it like 300,000 people saw it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know and if you listen to my other podcast, you already know I'm gonna say because you've heard it Do you know Honest to goodness someone posted [SPEAKER_01]: Get Botox, your forehead has wrinkles.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, they weren't talking to Candace.

[SPEAKER_01]: Have you seen Candace's forehead?

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh, it looks like it's 12-year-olds.

[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't talking to 50 again off.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, there we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Show enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got called out for wrinkles on my forehead on Candace's thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is, okay, I got a good stand pool.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need somebody to go with me, if you want to go, you can.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have, but this is a fire thing I could borrow, do we have a buy one?

[SPEAKER_01]: You do not listen to that.

[SPEAKER_01]: You do not listen to that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Every line on your forehead is, you know, how you people say it's every line I have.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's due to like a good memory that I want to remember.

[SPEAKER_01]: But for you, Cynthia, every line you have is self-induced because you never took your makeup off.

[SPEAKER_01]: For every line you have, you did to your own self.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, because you slept with your mic up, you know, who don't sleep in their mic up?

[SPEAKER_01]: Candice Cameron Burai, you know who don't pee in the shower?

[SPEAKER_01]: Candice Cameron Burai.

[SPEAKER_01]: If we, if we were on a show with Candice, we couldn't talk about the, the, we couldn't talk about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Boo, you couldn't even say chafing around.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, you couldn't say boob hair.

[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't say boob hair.

[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't say eriola.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say that, I'll watch that with you, they're actually.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, this camera burrite is just a better part than that as she is.

[SPEAKER_01]: For many reasons, number one, her grace, number two.

[SPEAKER_01]: She can tuck her shirts in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, she can run six miles and then feel like I do today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, um, okay, well, I wish you got speed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also get into Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am willing to donate some minted coins to get you.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna be real sad if Dorothy is just laughing at this because she knows those coins are worth millions of dollars.

[SPEAKER_01]: What if I go on one of those shows like the antique roadshow, I don't even know if that exists anymore and they're like, you're a billionaire and I'm like, I've been right in books for scraps and I got this your mother is a Russian princess, yeah, you didn't even know it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's end on this because we got to go because we got to keep keep you on time and so let's end on this.

[SPEAKER_01]: favorite or worse Christmas song.

[SPEAKER_01]: It can be a Carol, a him, any of them favorite or worse.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can start because mine is my worst.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you don't know this about me, you need to know right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I cannot take that darn red shoe song.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those little red, I know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why the Christmas shoes?

[SPEAKER_01]: They're Christmas shoes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's no ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's about to die.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you in line by and shoes, kid?

[SPEAKER_01]: And why there's I can't, I won't.

[SPEAKER_01]: I will not have it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's awful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I hate it too, Cynthia.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm half-abbing you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Your best bumping is, are you fist bumping me?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fist bumping you right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mine is.

[SPEAKER_01]: these words right here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, bring us some piggy pudding.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, bring us some piggy pudding.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, bring us some piggy pudding.

[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to this and bring it right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cause we won't go until we get some.

[SPEAKER_01]: We won't go until we get.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, where are these privileged idiots at?

[SPEAKER_01]: I hate that song and I'm not going to sing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to be a party to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: bring me tickets to Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's bringing me to Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, tight in my jaw.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like that song.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's out here at the end talking.

[SPEAKER_01]: I heard a comedian talking about one time and I was like, he is so right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who are these people demanding this outside of the house?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, so ending the year, any goals, anything will end without anything for 2026.

[SPEAKER_01]: I keep calling it 2025, I don't even know what year we're in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anything for 2026 that we need to know that Melissa Radke has, she's dreaming for a spark, besides Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: Dreaming?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I was gonna say, but it really is my face lift and Istanbul, that's really what truly, truly what I want.

[SPEAKER_01]: And David goes, would you talk about it online?

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I've take people with me every step of the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll watch this whole thing play out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want it.

[SPEAKER_01]: David's just saying because he's trying to figure out if it's a ride-off, can you talk about it online?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a win!

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm not a big resolution person.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to continue to get healthy in the in 2026, but I am really praying for some kind of some breakthroughs.

[SPEAKER_01]: I hate to throw something so serious in there, but there's some things that I've been praying for and I really believe that I'm going to see God move in my family in 2026.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got some big things going on in our family right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got illness.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just think 2026 is going to be a powerful year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to watch.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would say this.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you guys haven't done um [SPEAKER_01]: Mark Batterson's Circle Maker book.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just finished.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has a diva with it, and it's a 30, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: 40 days of prayer or something, and I shouldn't as, because I'm doing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I've been doing it every morning.

[SPEAKER_01]: After I caught time, I read through the daily one.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so 40 days, I've been circling my youngest, some stuff I need to break through on him.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm getting ready to, I'm on day 39.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm getting ready to do 40 days on my book.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just at the Lord with do something powerful, whatever he wants for it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But if you haven't, like if there's things like that for this next year, I [SPEAKER_01]: highly recommend that circle maker book.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's so good and the devo, but it's just a good way Like he just has so many great incredible stories But just this concept of like just saying the Lord like I'm circling this Lord and not like figgy putting I won't leave until I get it not that but kind of like Lord I'm gonna stand here and be like that nagging widow in the Bible that like you know like just keep saying Lord like man I know you're powerful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grasping at your road because I know the power you have [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't walk away until Lord, I know that you've done your best Whatever your best is for a situation and even if your best is finishing something in me True, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Truly before we see the bright.

[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe the bright thing that I'm praying for is actually me I don't know, but what I need to do is work and I think we'll something I'm gonna see it so [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, I'm here for, you guys, so listen, follow the red key show.

[SPEAKER_01]: She and follow her on social and Melissa, if you don't already because you get the ins and outs of what's going on for better or worse.

[SPEAKER_01]: She's going to say it what it is and she's going to call out things like, take your makeup off at night and so follow that, the book is chicken fried women, it's amazing, I loved it so much, great Christmas gift and really if we're going to get her to Istanbul, y'all are going to have to buy more than one book.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, think about two or three books, situation.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got one free, I think, from the publisher, and now I'm feeling like I'm a total failure, so now I'm going to have to order a couple.

[SPEAKER_01]: But let's get heard it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is it everybody that listens to you about two books each?

[SPEAKER_01]: I could get halfway to Istanbul.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say quarter the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: We could get you.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_01]: We could get you to Houston on the plane.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's all that we could do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Action, thank you, Zach, they're going, well, that I can do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, that kind of money I have.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, thank you for doing this and this show before.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for always being a friend of this show and side track and the things we do and being funny and real and just big fan.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, thanks.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy any time you want to laugh.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your girl, call me up.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, friends, a huge thank you to Melissa Radke.

[SPEAKER_00]: Galley, she's so funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could talk to her forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so grateful that we've got to spend some time with her.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, she's gonna be back in the new year interviewing me on my book.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's gonna be very fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you guys the next few weeks, like we have some fire content coming your way.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, literally some amazing people speaking into Christmas and all kinds of stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: So make sure you're subscribed to the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, thanks for being a part of the mesmerized family, you're the very best.