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out Your red sweater. Oh. My.

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God. Oh yeah,

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you see that snowballing? oh

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gun. Hot cocoa ready? Oh,

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go on it, you aren't

0:44

careful. Bring it home. Maybe

0:47

hot Toddy? Oh, tell me more

0:49

about this, Todd. But anyway, ah,

0:51

eighty of them. But it is

0:53

the most wonderful time of year.

0:55

I'm telling you a are you?

0:57

are you Holly Jolly Because I

0:59

got a. Lot of. Holly Jolly Music So if

1:01

you're not, You're out

1:03

a lot. Okay oh

1:06

my goodness. Gop Dahn come on

1:08

Hybrid. Hey listen I am a

1:10

hello joe like a mofo the

1:12

understanding that but I'll a jolly

1:14

I am still holly jolly. I've

1:17

got the spirit even I don't

1:19

have any. Decorations. Up this year.

1:22

You. And you're not gonna put

1:24

near. well. There's some harder thing

1:26

you know is that no. I.

1:29

Don't think I have time. With.

1:36

This. Doesn't sound very Christmas Eve of thought.

1:38

well maybe they did. I am Christmas the

1:41

I mean I'm feeling good I feel I

1:43

when the mood for at all. You know

1:45

I if I was at a mall which

1:47

I'm into into long I would go and

1:49

walk by a look at Santa I would

1:51

but hold on would you go and sit

1:53

on Santa's. Well.

1:56

I married. I'm

2:01

didn't set it. Up!

2:04

Hello Iraq Matthew in I'm Ross

2:06

a Zesty since high school best

2:08

Hungerford and even though we live

2:10

on opposite sides. Of the countries, we talk

2:12

on the phone every single day. And what

2:14

we talk about most? Oh this. Yes.

2:17

food. In your nonexistent dating like.

2:21

But mostly food. I'm a cookbook author

2:23

yeah you are an ice taking the

2:25

reins of my health by cooking every

2:27

single day a call them, smile or

2:29

asked the people he cracked the code

2:31

on delicious food that actually good for

2:33

you. And now we're sharing the

2:35

food. Obsessed conversely have every day with

2:38

all his you. Yep, it's

2:40

all about food, friends,

2:42

and fun. This is

2:44

Hello Rothys. Why

2:46

yes I it is. Hello Rothys I'm Ross

2:48

and joined of Glorious. I'm like oh Beth

2:50

evening say hey Okay so here's the deal.

2:52

So I really am. I really am in

2:54

a holiday spirit but I just had been

2:57

so busy and traveling and then that like

2:59

isn't it doesn't feel like to. You like?

3:01

It's warp speed holiday season. And

3:04

this holiday season in particular.

3:06

Is very. Odd.

3:09

Indifferent for me, that. I

3:11

am. I don't think alone in saying this that the

3:13

i think a year or is it just that. Were

3:16

older, I think we're

3:18

old. Sir. But. Ends

3:21

as we're not old work

3:23

work early mid forties. I've

3:27

got aches and pains. I'm

3:29

like I'm a woman and

3:31

her soon to be mid

3:33

forties. And I

3:35

I'm going to be hidden. Menopause.

3:37

Zero Nic. All this. Does.

3:40

Is gonna be happening so soon

3:42

and I thought the holidays everybody.

3:49

You. Know.

3:51

They'll I'm I'm sensitive, I'm in

3:53

the mood. I'm wearing a red

3:55

sweater and I speak. I has.

3:59

Become fair like New Uk where they

4:01

hear twinkle a twinkle legs. Yeah yeah

4:03

I'm ready to go up. Ah my

4:05

kids and I are gonna go get

4:08

it Christmas tree this weekend. Oh

4:10

so you're doing that. I, I, I am.

4:12

I have usually like you know we are

4:14

either Christmas cards out. did you get yours

4:17

yet? I. Did it. So you

4:19

mean young cells as I as I told you

4:21

I mean those than the spirit in the mood.

4:23

I just haven't had time to do anything and

4:25

then you know we're actually going to going. On

4:27

to Palm Springs for the holiday. You know

4:30

where? I'm in New York now. So I

4:32

that's why I decorate here and then leaves. So

4:34

when it gets a of. On things up

4:36

at the tree up a can I make an

4:38

admission to you kill him as I as the

4:40

same tree that's already decorated. Are

4:42

just let. Tell. Me:

4:44

Why would you assume that. Because

4:47

you look guilty. He outside last year I just

4:49

put it in the garage and the Samson taken

4:51

Allegra to plug it in a. Hurry

4:53

Done! I. Love the last year like

4:56

oh my god I gotta take it apart and

4:58

put in a boss and take all the ornaments. not.

5:00

So. They can and I just left it and all yeah

5:03

every every day that I would pull in the garage

5:05

and look at and be like a real time killed

5:07

fact. Now I'm just going to bring it

5:09

inside. I hope you looked at

5:11

it and thought I. Am

5:13

one smart cookie. Because.

5:15

That the best. Brilliant. I

5:17

think that's brilliant is it though isn't The point?

5:20

is decorated. Treated gather round with the family

5:22

and listen to you know, Nat King Cole

5:24

or do you guys. Who's

5:27

losing? The. Regular

5:30

the that. I know you know

5:32

you get invite hot toddy over and yet

5:34

hang up your hang it. You

5:36

know I'm curious though to be honest.

5:38

yeah but my my tree is well

5:40

hung. I have to say oh my.

5:43

I homo the i'm insecure. I'm

5:45

sure you took a lot of great

5:47

care in the hanging. Or

5:49

similar, I donned my gay apparel.

5:52

An I voted to

5:54

assess assess. The Hun my

5:57

stockings as. with

6:00

hair. Of course, I did. You've heard. Okay, no,

6:02

it's so but you know what I am excited about.

6:04

Of course, that the decoration is a nightmare. We

6:06

could have to take it down. Yes. But you

6:08

know, it

6:10

is not a nightmare is like, what

6:12

are they food? Oh my god. Oh,

6:16

oh my gosh. I'm so okay. I'm

6:19

going to tell you something I make

6:21

every year. And it's

6:23

something me. I

6:26

eat a cheese ball every

6:28

year. I don't make a

6:30

cheese ball every year. Okay.

6:33

So since I was three years old,

6:35

we lived, we moved next to

6:37

some next to a family

6:39

the abbots and Barb used to always make

6:42

sausage bread for Christmas.

6:45

Keep talking. And she

6:47

would bring it over to she

6:50

would deliver it to different families. And we

6:52

always got a whole ring because it's it's

6:55

a circle. A whole ring

6:57

like a wreath. Kind

6:59

of it's a sausage. I've told

7:02

you I've seen something like this

7:04

made on the British Bake Off

7:06

show multiple times they do that.

7:08

Aha. Yes. Well, Brits love sausage

7:10

rolls. They do. That's a whole

7:12

thing. So you don't live in

7:14

fact, sausage roll was my name

7:17

in my fraternity. Stop it. Was

7:23

not my sorority. Makes

7:27

more sense. Thank you. So you basically you

7:30

make some bread dough or you buy frozen

7:32

bread dough. And then you

7:34

roll it out into

7:36

a big rectangle, you fill the

7:38

like hot, hot dog ways. So

7:41

not hamburger ways, hot dog ways.

7:43

Fill it with sausage

7:45

and cheese and herbs. And then what do you

7:47

mean hot dog way versus hamburger way? What do

7:49

you mean? So

7:52

if if something is if you

7:54

have a piece of paper, yeah,

7:56

and you fold it in half like

7:59

a hamburger. Then it

8:01

would be square or the lot

8:03

you're saying so you sort of the fold of the rectangle way which

8:06

is a hot dog fold. Okay. So you roll

8:08

out your sausage roll and then fold it like

8:11

a taco and then what? Okay

8:14

so I was a little inaccurate you

8:16

put all of you put all of

8:18

the sausage and cheese and herbs into

8:20

is it cooked sausage? Yes.

8:23

Cook sausage and then what kind of cheese

8:25

would you use something that melts? Mozzarella. You

8:28

do mozzarella. And basil

8:30

in oregano and marjoram.

8:37

The herb marjoram not like margarine.

8:40

Not margarine. What

8:43

does marjoram taste like? Sausage

8:46

bread. Would

8:51

you ever do some red pepper flakes in there

8:53

too for some heat? I just think that'd be

8:55

lovely. I'm just so used to it this particular

8:58

way. You could do a spicy sausage. That

9:01

could be awesome. Great.

9:03

Great. Okay. Okay so let's think

9:06

of this conversation say it's spicy

9:08

sausage. Oh wow that sounds good. Okay great

9:11

I'll have that. How'd you get that idea?

9:13

I just I come up with these

9:15

things. So then you roll it hot

9:18

dog ways. Okay. And then you feed

9:20

one end into the other

9:24

end. You make a wreath out of it. Cute.

9:26

Do you braid it at all or twist it?

9:28

No. You make a wreath. Could you? No. It's

9:33

filled with cheese and sausage. Okay.

9:38

But then you then you let it rise and

9:40

then you slice little slices

9:43

along the top so that when it

9:45

cooks all the sausage and cheese starts

9:48

poking out through the top. Yeah the

9:50

moisture comes out right. Oh yes. Yeah.

9:52

That for me tastes like

9:54

Christmas and now I make it every year. Tell me you

9:56

dip it in something like you dip it in I would

9:59

dip it in marinade. That sounds so

10:01

good. I have dipped it in marinara. The

10:03

thing about sausage bread is that it's excellent

10:06

for breakfast, lunch, a

10:08

snack, happy hour and

10:10

dinner. Oh

10:12

my God, Becky. I

10:15

didn't know that until you just said all

10:17

those meals. Wait,

10:23

let me get this straight. Midnight

10:25

snack. What? Don't include

10:28

that. Hold on. Elevens is in

10:30

the UK. Elevens is a snack you have

10:32

at 11 o'clock. You

10:35

know, honestly, it sounds delicious. I'm giving you

10:37

a hard time, but Barb Abbott's sausage bread

10:39

could get it. It

10:41

gets it. And you can do a

10:43

vegetarian version with just spinach and spices

10:45

and cheese. You could also use, they

10:47

have great vegetarian, like beyond spicy sausages

10:49

they have. I grill them for my

10:51

husband who doesn't eat like regular hot

10:54

dog things when he barbecues that.

10:56

He'd love that. He'd be great in

10:58

it too. Okay, sausage bread. So you're making it. So good.

11:02

I have, so I'm taking

11:04

the easy way out this year,

11:06

which, because I have a lot of family stuff

11:09

going on. So I'm taking the easy

11:11

way out. I bought frozen bread dough.

11:13

Okay. So I bought that yesterday

11:16

and then I'm going to buy some

11:18

sausage today in some mozzarella

11:20

and I'm going to get sausage

11:22

breading. Wow. You know who

11:24

I heard is dating? Oh

11:27

no. What? A hot

11:29

toddy and marjoram. Okay. So

11:31

here's the deal. And that's the,

11:33

I love that you eat that kind of

11:35

thing every year. I love like food that

11:37

we... Traditions. Exactly. Like why

11:39

couldn't you eat that in the middle of the summer?

11:41

I don't know. But I understand that it's a

11:44

thing you want. We have all that kind of stuff

11:46

too in my family. We would, it's

11:49

so weird because everybody's gone now. You know

11:51

what I mean? It's so sad. I

11:53

think a lot of people... You've got Aunt Bonnie.

11:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, of course. But I mean,

11:57

you know... And you still have plenty of family.

12:00

But your your mom and dad. Well, I have my

12:02

brother. I have some aunts and uncles, you know, that

12:04

I love. And of course, my mom's best friend. But

12:07

like, you know, my mom, my dad, my grandma just

12:09

passed this year. And

12:11

so like, it feels different.

12:13

It feels different. But the,

12:16

you know, it's funny. We used

12:18

to host Christmas Eve all the time.

12:20

And we were like Scandinavian Norwegian. We

12:22

are. I am. Right. And

12:24

so we had like traditional things

12:27

that were so gross, like pickled

12:29

herring. What do you

12:31

eat pickled? Pickled whitefish? I

12:34

have not eaten

12:36

it myself, but I

12:38

did buy a huge jar of it from Costco

12:40

for a friend. I just

12:42

I told my husband Wellington about it this morning. I

12:44

said, we pickled herring. And he goes, What is that?

12:46

And I said, it's pickled whitefish. And he said, Yum,

12:51

it does sound good. Doesn't to me.

12:53

I have had it. We

12:55

had less thought, which is left as

12:57

like a potato tortilla kind of you

12:59

put like margarine or

13:02

butter with my mom always put sugar

13:05

and cinnamon on it and rolled it

13:07

up. So good. Yeah. We had Swedish

13:09

meatballs and credit.

13:12

Yeah. My aunt Sandy makes them. And

13:15

then it was so funny. I was just

13:17

thinking about this morning. My mom always made

13:20

these cookies. What were they called? Spritz?

13:22

Spritz cookies? Oh, with

13:24

like like Mexican wedding cookies. No,

13:26

no, no, I don't know. Really?

13:28

Even though I had a Mexican

13:30

wedding. Yes, you

13:32

did. I was there. We didn't have

13:35

a spritz. No, she had a like

13:37

a gun that was her nana's and

13:39

she made this dough that was very

13:41

crumbly after it cooked. She

13:45

had a gun? Yeah, it was almost like a

13:47

cocking gun. And so you would put it all

13:49

the dough in there and then you could change

13:51

the top of the gun to like, yes, come

13:54

out like, you know, a almost

13:56

like you were piping like a piping gun kind of. I have

13:58

seen this. I'll

16:00

let it gun. We're baking

16:02

spritz cookies. Yeah. Oh, wow. I

16:05

want one that looks like my mom's looked. Oh,

16:07

here it is. Metal. Hers was metal.

16:10

I'm going to get one that most... Okay, ready? Here

16:13

it is. Stainless steel cookie

16:16

gun. Spritz it. Okay. Does

16:18

it say gun? Yeah. Okay.

16:21

Sorry, I judged you for saying gun. No

16:24

worries. Okay, I'm ordering it. I'm

16:26

going to have it delivered to Palm Springs before

16:28

Christmas and I'm doing it. This

16:31

makes me so happy. Okay,

16:34

fine. Now I just need to Google a

16:36

recipe, but I'll do it. Yeah. And

16:39

guess what I'm going to give everyone for Christmas? Oh my

16:41

gosh, this is going to make me cry. I'm going to

16:43

give them a spritz gun because

16:45

I'm never going to use this one. You

16:50

better. You better use it.

16:54

Okay, it's ordered. It's ordered. It's

16:57

ordered. So on Christmas

17:00

Eve every year when I was growing

17:02

up, and this might be a German

17:04

or Czech thing, I'm not really sure,

17:07

we would have chocolate covered

17:09

cherries. Oh gosh. And

17:14

the kind with the juice in the middle,

17:16

not the brandy or whatever, but

17:18

it's like this sugar juice. Comes in a

17:20

try. Oh yes. I know the one.

17:23

Yes. And then, so we would

17:25

have chocolate covered cherries and...

17:28

How many of those would you eat? I just

17:30

ate a whole box a couple of weeks ago.

17:33

Yourself? My self. How many

17:35

are in a box? Probably

17:38

like 12. And

17:41

how long did it take you to eat 12? It

17:43

took me a couple of days to be fair. You

17:46

say that like you're bragging. You

17:49

know me. The fact that I didn't eat them

17:51

all in one sitting. I mean, just last

17:53

week on this podcast, you

17:56

admitted that I have bowls of candy in

17:58

my guest rooms. it went about

18:00

these saying I walk in the bowl is empty

18:02

and there's just wrappers everywhere. I

18:05

have zero self-control. Understood.

18:07

So I actually bought the chocolate

18:09

covered cherries thinking like okay I'm going to stay

18:11

to these for Christmas because they were on sale.

18:14

Great. And I couldn't couldn't stay

18:16

away. But we would have chocolate covered

18:18

cherries and shrimp

18:20

cocktail. What a

18:22

combo. Right? That's not weird. No, it's

18:25

terrible. But we had to have both

18:27

things on Christmas Eve because we would

18:29

celebrate Christmas Eve and not Christmas Day.

18:33

You know what else my mom not we wouldn't

18:35

have this on Christmas. My mom would always have

18:37

cooking like in the winter on Sundays especially for

18:39

like football. Fair and this

18:41

is a controversial topic. Okay. I actually and

18:43

I want to get your hot take on

18:45

it. Okay. It's time for hot take. My

18:51

mom would make pork like

18:54

pork shoulder. That's not

18:56

what I'm getting your hot take on. I

18:58

want your hot take on

19:03

sauerkraut. Love love

19:05

love love love I love sauerkraut.

19:07

How have we never discussed sauerkraut?

19:10

We have and we both friggin love

19:12

it. When we discuss sauerkraut? Probably

19:16

once a week. I've

19:18

never known that you like sauerkraut. Really? I

19:21

feel like we've talked about it. I

19:23

love sauerkraut so much. My brother studied

19:25

in Germany or no he just visited

19:27

Germany and when

19:29

he came back he brought sauerkraut and was

19:32

like this is a really weird thing they

19:34

have there and I

19:36

tasted it and something in my brain exploded.

19:38

Yes. It is a most like acidic um

19:43

sour sour. Yeah

19:46

but it's the name. Cabbage that's just been

19:49

like fermented. Yeah almost like it's kind of

19:51

like a German kimchi almost. You know what

19:53

I mean? Yeah. It's been I

19:57

Guess fermented. It's like almost like rotted.. Weird

20:00

with sounds. did nothing When you better get

20:02

Roman patient. Is that the spike

20:04

as a calculated rot. But.

20:07

When it dies. Like when you put

20:09

it in a if it so it's it's

20:11

yet but it's so yes it's right but

20:13

it tastes delicious Cake and we have put

20:15

it on it means Eric is in a

20:18

crock pot for example it really hundred eyes

20:20

Is it that although I haven't really breaks

20:22

it down so the pork so it becomes

20:24

so moist and we would serve that over

20:26

what did we started over. Potatoes.

20:29

Mass which are mashed potato. How is

20:31

this? It all controversial book is sauerkraut.

20:33

I don't know that love people are

20:35

going to be fully on board with

20:38

our property just because you haven't been

20:40

crowded, right? Practices.

20:42

Such as yes to

20:44

get crowded. In the right

20:47

way. Yeah, before you can really

20:49

appreciate some out that yeah I'd

20:51

made. Sauerkraut. But

20:53

I didn't fully for meant it had

20:55

get. So. I

20:57

got a German cookbook that's in

21:00

and with that American that then

21:02

English am from we had at

21:05

two different German oh parents who

21:07

lived with us. Okay,

21:10

suffer about a year each and l pair

21:12

when you're in. That's like a nanny or

21:14

ain't. Yes And that. Yes,

21:16

so they live with view. It's like

21:18

having an exchange. Student do that.

21:20

Reiterate, Betty lived in London

21:22

for seventeen years, twelve, twelve,

21:25

In is your name is Matthew right? he

21:27

gets a sixth grader and then you just

21:29

and back here and so yes there for

21:32

twelve years and new Hadza you have like

21:34

what would your kids are really little you

21:36

hard like that and and okay or a

21:38

nanny living with the other yes which sounds

21:41

very fancy but it's actually a very affordable

21:43

childcare in in the Uk and your whatever

21:45

insistence I got this cookbook that I still

21:47

have. in it has

21:50

all sorts of beautiful type very

21:52

german recipes and i tried to

21:54

sauerkraut recipe when i was catering

21:56

for this little event in it

21:58

has like greeted apples in it

22:01

and most sauerkraut doesn't have apples in it.

22:04

No, but it had like anise

22:07

seed, which we've talked about unfortunate name

22:09

delicious. I tried to buy the other day

22:11

and I couldn't find it at a Whole

22:13

Foods. It wasn't there wasn't even an

22:16

empty space where it would have been. There

22:19

wasn't an empty space

22:21

for your anise seed.

22:24

Oh, well, this had like all

22:27

sorts of delicious stuff. And I

22:29

made this huge spread for this

22:31

thing I was catering and the

22:34

most popular dish was the sauerkraut.

22:36

It was spectacular. Homemade sauerkraut. Well,

22:39

you should maybe share that. Did you share that

22:41

recipe in the Facebook group? Okay, good. Yes, I'll

22:44

pull out that cookbook and take a picture of

22:46

it. Speaking of the Facebook

22:48

group, can

22:50

we talk about what you asked me about last week? What

22:54

did I ask you about last

22:56

week? About getting things together in

22:58

this new year and you came

23:00

through this idea. Yeah. Yes.

23:03

Do you want me to say it? Yeah,

23:05

I want you to tell I want this is

23:08

your journey. I'm on my own journey. You came

23:10

to me with this journey. And so I thought

23:12

you should explain it to the audience. Okay.

23:14

I mean, I have talked about

23:17

how I bent over and split the crack of

23:19

my genes because

23:23

I went on a food

23:25

journey, which basically is my way

23:28

of saying an emotional eating journey.

23:32

But I'd listen everything you were going and

23:35

it's the thing. Everybody's

23:37

going through stuff, right? Yes.

23:39

And you were going through I

23:42

don't know how detailed you want to get, but

23:44

you know, international move, escaping

23:46

a bad situation that I

23:49

won't, I can't legally go

23:51

into details about and there's

23:53

court proceedings. It's a lot.

23:56

It's a lot. And it's all very heavy and

23:59

expensive. says, but I

24:02

am an emotional eater. And so

24:04

when I'm stressed, I get

24:06

comfort from food and it works,

24:08

which is why I do it.

24:11

And it works. It does work.

24:13

That's the thing people say like,

24:15

Oh, you emotionally and then you

24:17

feel horrible about yourself afterwards. No,

24:20

I do. Sometimes I

24:23

do, but I was

24:25

making a choice to comfort myself

24:27

with food and

24:29

have backed

24:32

off from doing that as much as I

24:34

was. Can I just say, I mean, there

24:36

were many times I would FaceTime you and you would

24:38

be in the middle of eating a whole pizza and

24:41

it would be like your second one

24:43

by yourself, you know. And I remember

24:46

one time, Bethy with crumbs on her face said

24:48

she answered the phone with a mouth of pizza

24:50

and said, shut up. I'm on a food journey.

24:53

And I said, I said, under

24:56

stud. Yes. No

24:58

judgment. Zero judgment. And

25:00

I also love you as is wherever

25:03

you are. Always. You're welcome. Always, always,

25:05

always, always. And it goes for everybody

25:07

listening. Step

25:09

one is loving yourself at your,

25:12

where you are now, where you have been and wherever you're going

25:14

to go. Yeah.

25:17

So I am heavier now than

25:19

I've ever been in my life

25:22

and none of my clothes fit. And

25:27

just catching a glimpse

25:29

of myself in the

25:31

mirror after a shower, it just

25:33

feels like whose body is

25:35

that? Surely it cannot be

25:37

mine. I just want to say,

25:39

you know, like, just a little perspective,

25:42

but this is the heaviest you've ever been. I

25:44

mean, you were so gorgeous. It's not even funny.

25:46

I have a very high metabolism, which is why

25:48

I can eat all sorts of

25:50

things. But at this point, for me,

25:53

this is the heaviest I personally have

25:56

ever been. What does that do to you

25:59

mentally? I know the answer because I've been

26:01

there. So but I'm asking you, like, what does

26:03

it do to you? It gives

26:05

I have low self

26:08

esteem. At the moment, I

26:10

just I feel them be

26:13

I feel self conscious.

26:16

I don't feel confident. And

26:18

I'm normally a very and

26:20

I, you know, I'm still

26:22

socially confident, like, I feel

26:25

like I need to pull

26:27

my belly in. I have a very

26:29

significant double chin situation that is

26:31

with me even at my thinnest. But

26:34

it's gotten very prominent. Well,

26:39

I do laugh. Well, I guess we're

26:41

best friends. We laugh about everything. But

26:43

I mean, what we're saying,

26:45

what you're saying, Bessie, is so vulnerable

26:47

and so universal

26:50

to those of us who are, you know, who have

26:53

struggled. Yeah,

26:55

I know. I was my friend, I want to tell you to stop

26:58

and be like, Shut up, you're talking about my friend, and I love

27:00

her, and she's perfect. And don't talk about her like that. But I

27:03

well, I felt the same way and feel the

27:05

same way when you say those

27:07

things, you know. But it's

27:11

different when you're in that body. And

27:15

also, I just I want to

27:17

get healthier. So I've got

27:21

young kids still. And

27:23

then the other big thing that's going on in my

27:25

life right now is

27:28

that my

27:31

dad is dying.

27:35

And I'm going

27:37

to try not to cry, but it's it's

27:39

sad. And I'm only

27:42

trying not to cry because if I start,

27:44

then I don't stop. Yeah. But my dad

27:46

has just moved in to

27:48

my house. And your mom and

27:51

your dad, right? My mom and my dad have

27:54

moved in with me. And I

27:57

am doing the majority of the

27:59

caretaking. And

28:02

it's a lot physically. I

28:05

tried to, my mom had

28:07

a fall and I was trying to get

28:09

her up in the middle of the night,

28:12

up off the floor. And I just thought,

28:14

I am not in any way, shape or

28:16

form physically ready for this.

28:19

And so do you know what I did? Well, you

28:21

do know. I do know. And I can't believe

28:23

you did. I mean, I can't believe you did it. But

28:26

you know, a lot of people in that

28:28

position saying like, oh my gosh, I have

28:30

all this responsibility and I'm not feeling physically

28:33

able to do it, would try

28:35

to find a solution, someone else to come in or something.

28:37

You didn't do that. You did what? I

28:40

joined a gym. Yeah, you did. Yes.

28:44

And the hilarious thing is

28:46

that they have a pool.

28:48

And so my mom wants to go

28:50

water walking in the pool. Love

28:52

that. And so we signed up under

28:55

a senior couples deal. Oh

28:58

my God. Oh,

29:00

wow. Beth, you buried the lead. I know.

29:03

Isn't that so cute? So I have a

29:05

senior couple subscription.

29:08

What's the word? Membership

29:11

to a gym. And I

29:13

joined about a week ago, week and

29:16

a half ago. And I have gone

29:18

one time. That's

29:21

one more than you went before. It

29:24

had been about five years since I was in a

29:26

gym. Well

29:28

the reason I got, well,

29:30

you know, I'm invested in you. And so

29:32

I, of course, this is the stuff you and I, in addition

29:34

to food, this is the stuff we talk about a daily basis,

29:37

right? But when you

29:39

asked me if you could, you

29:41

know, about not if you could, like I'm

29:43

the gatekeeper where you can and can't do, but you asked me what

29:45

I thought about sort of opening

29:47

this up to the, the recipe and Talking

29:50

about the journey. Cause I'm, you know,

29:52

I've talked about my journey. I was

29:55

like, please, Bethy, if you are comfortable

29:57

talking about as much as you can,

29:59

talk about. What's going on with you? I

30:02

think the more we can share the better

30:05

because. People. It normalizes it.

30:07

It means it. It normalizes. It

30:09

yes, I thought so alone when I

30:11

was going in of Christopher Alone. When

30:13

I was when my. Mom.

30:15

Was dying and and my Dad had died. I

30:17

can is it's gonna be. Oh

30:21

My. God. The crane To me now. This. General

30:23

be twenty years since my dad?

30:25

No, yes. No, Just admit. That.

30:29

I would not possible to doesn't for. One.

30:34

So. Although the hope. To.

30:38

Raise in the in those. Places.

30:40

In the really with after my mom passed

30:43

and you are so they are for for

30:45

all of that in a my mom passed

30:47

trap you that you came in on and

30:49

we went together and everything and. You

30:52

know that was. I learned

30:54

so much after the tragedy, but you know,

30:57

I said it would tragedy. For

30:59

me it was tricked tragic right? Yes of a

31:01

tragedy that I have to us living. I

31:05

learned so much and that's when I decided to

31:07

get myself my health together and go and this

31:09

is Ernie and try to be the stick around

31:11

long as possible. A new. When I asked how

31:13

you were doing today you the answer is that

31:16

how you doing before we started recording you said

31:18

grateful. And I. I.

31:20

Said I was so grab So glad you are

31:22

already at the place of gratitude right now that

31:25

you that you get to be there and. Be.

31:27

Present and into her. All this

31:29

I'm also so. A happy

31:31

that you're are already at the place of wanted

31:33

to carry yourself. Too young

31:36

to the ground for for so long

31:38

and yes and ammonia grateful. What will

31:40

continue? This is your story. I was

31:42

a separate you know you says. I'm

31:46

also grateful. That you.

31:49

Are. Eve offered

31:51

to bring our. In our

31:53

list and our family our roster peeps. On

31:56

the journey with you because I think you know I

31:58

can come on and say. Hey, they

32:00

didn't that I did. But when.

32:02

You can come on and say this

32:04

is what I'm gonna deal and you

32:07

wanna come with me? Did. As

32:09

exciting. Yes, Absolutely.

32:12

And I. I

32:14

feel like it's gonna hold me accountable. Because

32:16

it and it just me on my own.

32:19

Than. That's a lot harder to show

32:21

what one of the last. One.

32:23

Of those last pieces of

32:25

straws that broke. Ah,

32:28

that really made me think since

32:30

then again. I had

32:32

a to fall at my head I have to

32:35

get a pulled. A smiling

32:37

at the Cameron you can see. I make

32:39

gas. Is a way

32:41

in the back to only. Within a big as

32:43

O Roberts laugh at that we rarely

32:45

see ah. Yes, Am.

32:49

I've just been ignoring my

32:51

own house. And so

32:53

many different. Ways am and

32:56

I went. Back to change

32:58

in I once their help

33:00

and support and hopefully. Participation of

33:02

the recipient the going to be

33:04

there and I would love it

33:06

if some recipes wanted to join

33:09

me on this journey and we

33:11

can hold each other accountable and

33:13

on that member and I do

33:15

about couple weeks go with accountability.

33:17

Whole is no. Be putting it

33:19

out there so people Now I'm

33:21

on this journey so. Easy

33:24

to sneak Things are keep that secret

33:26

for yourself. What you're doing, You know

33:28

what you're eating. Them to

33:30

ceiling. But when you have to be

33:32

accountable to other people and you have

33:34

to hold people accountable it really bring

33:36

makes you bring yourself to the table.

33:39

Yes, rain and so I will and I

33:42

need to accountability to you know I went

33:44

on them with this tour this summer. And

33:47

I have been so disciplined and because

33:49

of the crazy schedule. And my doing my

33:51

shown that I would have dinner told eleven or midnight.

33:53

And ninety five pounds came on and I became

33:55

Six pounds. And now here I am and like

33:57

Will and I know that sounds. So. Nothing,

34:00

but it screws with you mentally, right?

34:03

So I'm on this journey too. I wanna get

34:05

back on it and really sort of

34:07

take the reins and like what better time than

34:09

the new year? So I wanna find

34:12

a way for, if you're comfortable sharing your

34:14

journey and the Ross peeps wanna join, maybe

34:16

there's some sort of challenge we can do.

34:18

We can utilize the Facebook group where there's

34:21

so many thousands of Ross peeps in there

34:23

already, maybe we can have that conversation in

34:25

there. I think we should, we

34:28

need to name it. Oh, okay. We need

34:30

to name this challenge. Okay. So

34:33

you have any option, any wanna throw any out?

34:37

No, I think the Ross peeps should

34:39

help name my challenge.

34:44

What about, what about FUPA

34:46

be gone? Bessie's

34:48

FUPA challenge. FUPA

34:52

no more. Okay.

34:58

Can you talk

35:00

that Ross? Can

35:04

you, so Ross, we need you to do better

35:06

than FUPA no more. The

35:08

FUPA no more challenge. That's what we need

35:10

you to, Ross

35:13

is googling what a FUPA is, right? Oh

35:15

my God. I'm so, you brought it up.

35:17

I did. I did. I always bring up

35:19

FUPA. No,

35:22

once in high school. I want everyone to

35:26

come join us on this health journey

35:28

and also help us name it. And

35:30

I encourage you, you

35:32

know, I've told

35:34

you, I've been open about what motivated me with the lessons

35:36

I learned after losing both my

35:38

parents. Bethy has

35:41

been vulnerable and open talking about what it has

35:43

been for her that's been this trigger to make

35:45

this kind of change. So I wanna talk about

35:47

that. What's your trigger? Like what's your, what's

35:52

the thing that has, that makes

35:54

you wanna stick around here for so long? You

35:56

know? Why are you worth it? Why

35:58

do you deserve it? I want Rafi to

36:00

have that conversation with us in the Facebook group.

36:02

And I also want, I want

36:05

us to, if you want, if you want, no pressure, or

36:07

if you're not there yet, don't worry about it, but if

36:09

you want to join us. And

36:12

let's do this together and celebrate our victories

36:14

and pull each other through our hurdles and

36:16

let's, let's get to the mountain top together.

36:18

I'm in. If you're in, are you in?

36:21

I'm in. Fupanomo.

36:24

Fupanomo. That's going to be the name, isn't

36:27

it? It's

36:29

one word. Be the name. Okay.

36:31

Everybody should just figure out something better. Hashtag

36:35

Fupanomo. I

36:38

refuse. I refuse. Fue. I

36:40

refuse. Okay. Here's the deal. Listen,

36:44

when we come back, I have a

36:46

holiday surprise for you and our listeners. Okay.

36:49

I know. It's big time. Tell

36:51

them we come back. Oh, hi,

36:53

Rossipice. It's me, Ross. And your co-host,

36:55

Bethy. Hi. Hi. Ross,

36:58

we need to get people rating

37:00

our podcast and they can review

37:03

it on iTunes. Does

37:05

that really matter? It really makes

37:07

a huge difference and it helps

37:09

other people find the podcast as

37:11

well. So what, what do

37:13

they do? How do they rate it and review it?

37:15

So if you go to iTunes and

37:18

you scroll down to the bottom

37:20

of our podcast, it will

37:22

give you the option of reviewing. You do need

37:24

to sign in to your

37:26

iTunes account and then

37:28

you can give us a five star review

37:32

and a little, yeah, a

37:34

little blurb about why you love the podcast

37:36

and that will get other people listening

37:38

to it. Truly. I

37:41

like how you describe it. Anyway.

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38:47

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38:49

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38:52

yourself as model in the beginning. I used

38:54

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38:56

love to and then as I get older

38:58

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39:00

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39:02

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39:04

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39:21

hi hi hi hi.

39:24

I am. I was reading an email

39:27

and to think assume it's going Iran.

39:30

After this, I'm kind of on holiday break. Oh

39:33

great and Phantom of the in Palm

39:35

Springs is my spritz gun and skinny

39:37

a crazy and. I.

39:40

Have a you know I had an idea

39:42

that the and I think it because the

39:44

is a holiday season they don't know if

39:46

you are really in the holiday mood like

39:48

I know now I am. I like the

39:50

sun better one. Season. Like isn't. oh

39:54

say oh and hey this is

39:56

barbara i got my jingle bells

39:59

on system Those bells you're hearing, I've

40:01

actually got bells attached to my elbow. Yeah,

40:03

he does. Yeah. And his

40:05

ears. Yeah. Yes, I am.

40:07

Oh, I'm exhausted. I'm so tired. Can I just

40:09

stop? Because I'm also playing the drums. I have

40:12

like cymbals between my knees. Hold on

40:14

just a minute. Oh my God.

40:16

I'm exhausted. That was too much. Cymbals with

40:18

trims. Is that what

40:20

you call them? Yeah. Oh

40:23

yeah. You got cymbals between your knees? You're just happy

40:25

to see me. So here's the deal. I

40:28

was thinking, you know, our show is all

40:30

about, it's holiday season of course, and our show is all

40:32

about food. So what if you and I put an album

40:34

together out? An

40:37

album? A holiday album. You

40:40

know I am a professional singer. I

40:43

know you are. So I've written some,

40:46

I've tweaked the lyrics just on a couple. Could you just

40:48

give me like, what if, because what I would do is

40:50

I would take holiday classes, right? And

40:52

put our Rossopy spin on it. So

40:54

you know, for example, why

40:57

don't I just text them to you one by one

40:59

and then you have to see them and read them.

41:02

See them, read them. Yeah

41:05

sing them. See something, sing something. Got it?

41:08

Oh my word. There you go.

41:10

First one's there. Okay. It's

41:17

the most indulgent time

41:20

of the year. Great.

41:24

Now we're going to follow that hit up with this.

41:26

Okay. Oh my god. Okay.

41:29

Do you know what it's like now? Yeah.

41:32

Yeah. Because that's

41:34

the other thing is that I'm guessing what you're

41:37

trying to say. Yeah go. Have

41:39

yourself some mayonnaise on a

41:41

biscuit. I don't know but

41:43

it went with it. Okay.

41:47

It should be chicken. Have yourself a chicken and a biscuit. Keep

41:50

going. Oh

42:01

my gosh. Okay. I'm

42:03

dreaming of white

42:06

cheddar popcorn. I

42:09

am. I really am. Continue. Okay.

42:17

This one was confusing to look at. Okay.

42:19

Can you figure this one out? I

42:21

think I can figure it out. You're the

42:23

biggest confusing. There's so many

42:25

syllables for what you're trying to do. Okay. Try to

42:27

figure it out. Ranch

42:31

corn nuts, Cheetos.

42:35

I think it's a little on the right. Ranch

42:38

corn nuts, Cheetos and

42:41

a pizza pie. Yes.

42:45

It's really about hitting the ranch. Just

42:47

not roasting. Ranch

42:49

corn nuts roasting. Ranch

42:53

corn nuts, Cheetos and a pizza

42:56

pie. That's what I'm trying to

42:58

get. That's good. What are you... You

43:00

smell a hit? I

43:02

smell one, two, three, four hits. Thank

43:04

you so much. If you smell it, you dealt

43:06

it. How about this, you hit? Oh,

43:11

okay. Okay. This isn't

43:13

your best work, but I'll sing it anyway. Come on.

43:16

Crockpot and around the

43:19

Christmas tree. Crockpot and

43:21

crockpot and around the Christmas tree.

43:23

Okay. Come on. What about this

43:25

one? I say anyone. Okay.

43:27

And then you also sent with this one, you

43:29

sent what the song actually is. Okay. Go. Ate

43:35

the whole pint. What?

43:38

That's all I came up with. It's a silent night. Ate

43:42

the whole pint.

43:44

That's all I got. All

43:46

in one night. Oh, that's

43:48

good. Hold

43:51

on. No, I have two that I wrote

43:53

down, but I don't remember what songs they went to.

43:55

Can you figure these ones out? Oh my gosh. I

43:57

don't know. Oh,

44:01

oh, oh,

44:05

holy beef I just drank all

44:08

the eggnog. That's right. That's right.

44:11

It was Gramma got run over by a reindeer. Yeah.

44:14

Holy crap I just drank all the eggnog.

44:16

Yeah. Okay. And then

44:18

this other one, the line is, my God, I ate 10 tacos on

44:20

Christmas day, but I don't know what song that went to.

44:23

Is it, I saw three ships come sailing

44:25

in on Christmas day? I don't

44:27

know that song. No. So it

44:29

wouldn't have been that I ate 10 tacos on

44:31

Christmas day. What

44:34

is the one that goes Christmas day on Christmas day?

44:36

No, that wasn't that one. Oh, that's still, I saw

44:38

three ships. Oh my God. Oh,

44:41

I should have written what song they went to. That

44:44

would have been helpful. I mean, I'm glad you

44:46

did for eight the whole pint because I would

44:48

not have come up with Silent Night.

44:51

Yeah. God, my, my God,

44:53

my. No,

44:55

no, I don't. I didn't want

44:57

to figure that out. What about this one? Oh,

45:02

I'm beginning to eat

45:05

too many calories. Yes.

45:08

Yes. Good. Good.

45:11

Good. Okay.

45:14

What do you think? Hold on. I

45:17

ate 10 tacos on Christmas day. Yeah. What

45:20

is that? We don't know. We don't

45:22

know what that is. Okay. Okay. I've

45:25

got this one. Okay.

45:31

Said my liver to

45:33

my gallbladder. Did

45:36

you eat what I ate?

45:39

Yes. Yes. Yes.

45:41

Yes. Your gallbladder.

45:43

Yeah. Said

45:46

my liver to my gallbladder. Oh, okay.

45:49

That's better. Did you eat

45:51

what I ate? Did

45:54

you eat what I ate? No.

45:57

Santa Claus is putting on the

45:59

pound. All

46:01

I want for Christmas

46:03

is food. Yes.

46:05

Same. Same. One

46:08

more. It's the most fattening

46:10

time of the year.

46:13

Beautiful. Thank you so much.

46:16

Beautifully done. Anyway, I just, we put

46:18

out an album. Maybe next year we can do

46:20

it. It's a very Hello Rossipice Christmas.

46:23

I love it. Volume two.

46:28

Keep your eye out. Stock those stuffings. Stock

46:30

those stockings. What is it? Oh

46:32

my God. Stock those stuffings. Stock those stockings.

46:35

Stock your own stuffing. All right.

46:37

Lots of our show coming up. And

46:39

welcome back to

46:41

our really weird emotional

46:43

rollercoaster of a holiday

46:59

show. Yes.

47:05

I love it. Which

47:08

by the way is exactly how the holidays

47:10

go. Yeah. I know. We

47:12

want to kick it real here and we always do. So thank

47:15

you so much for indulging us.

47:17

And actually it's funny I say indulging

47:19

us because you know at the end of every show

47:21

we talk about a doable that we can all do

47:23

this week. So

47:26

my suggestion for a doable this

47:28

week is indulge.

47:33

Okay. Okay. I just think

47:35

like this is the time of the year where

47:38

you should kind of let yourself have

47:40

a little more. You know have the

47:42

piece of pie. Have the

47:45

spritz cookies. Have the thing that you

47:47

eat every year with your family. One

47:50

day one holiday is not going to make

47:52

you fat. Not

47:54

eating on one holiday is not going to

47:56

make you thin or healthier. You know like

47:58

take the day. And if you have

48:01

family traditions, don't sit out because you

48:03

think it's going to sabotage your progress,

48:05

you know? Well, I guess

48:07

if you go in with a

48:10

plan, you go in saying, I'm

48:12

going to have sausage, bread and

48:14

cheese ball. And

48:17

if that's the plan, and you're going in there to

48:19

do that, so you're, you're, yeah, talk to

48:21

me. I'm going to

48:23

have sausage, bread and cheese ball. But

48:26

to what most people mean when they say that is a

48:28

little bit of the cheese ball, what you mean when you

48:30

say that, I'm going to have

48:32

a cheese ball. It's okay. So

48:35

that's something we should talk about. That is what

48:37

I heard. Because if I'm going to

48:39

indulge, I'm going to eat that

48:41

whole cheese ball. No, what I

48:43

mean by indulge is like, I have missed out

48:45

on some like family things. Like when I was

48:47

trying to be a health trainer, I was like,

48:50

I'm not eating that. I'm not eating that. And

48:52

like what I would give to go back and

48:54

eat one of

48:56

my bunkers, my grandma's cookies or my mom's

48:58

cookies. You know what I mean? Okay.

49:02

Like just experience life is what I mean by

49:04

that. You know, don't like sit out because you're

49:06

trying to be strict or you're trying to do

49:09

what you think Ross and Bethy would say, or we would

49:11

point our finger or the group would do this. You

49:13

know what I mean? Like we can be on the 24th

49:16

and we can be on a journey on the 26th. We can

49:18

be on our journey. But

49:20

if you want to on the 25th, don't beat

49:22

yourself up for taking part in life. You know,

49:24

don't. Yes. That's what

49:26

I mean by indulge. Don't feel guilty about living a

49:28

little bit. All

49:31

right. But it doesn't have to

49:33

be an entire cheese ball. No. Plus,

49:36

he didn't leave you any. So you're out of

49:38

luck. Bethy,

49:40

I love you so much. I

49:42

love you. I want to thank you for,

49:44

you know, sharing so much with me, of

49:46

course, every day. But, you know, with the

49:48

listeners, there sometimes is a lot of times,

49:51

sometimes a lot of times there's a wall

49:54

up between what is,

49:56

you know, really, really going

49:58

on. And I love

50:00

when that wall becomes a window

50:03

that we can keep open and sometimes

50:05

close if we need to. But

50:07

we can also sort of see in and check in. Okay.

50:10

Yeah. I love that beautiful

50:12

rock. Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah and

50:14

Kwanzaa and all of the things. Yes.

50:18

Merry everything. Everything. Everything.

50:21

Or happy nothing if you know and

50:24

God bless or no God whatever.

50:26

God bless. How about this? How about

50:28

this? How about how about how about do you?

50:31

Yes. Stop your staking. Stop your

50:33

staking. Do all of them. Do

50:37

you want Santa to come down your chimney? I

50:39

hope it happens. You know what I'm saying? I

50:42

think you're going too far but yes. Yes. Agreed.

50:45

Oh now I didn't you understand. I didn't understood. All

50:48

right. Ho ho ho. I guess is

50:50

what I am. Happy holidays everybody. And

50:54

we will see you with our new game plan.

50:56

We'll see you during the holidays too in the

50:58

Facebook group and then we'll start strong in January.

51:00

We're going to do this. So let's name it.

51:02

Let's commit if you want to and

51:05

we'll do it together. All right. If you

51:07

follow Bethy she's at hunger mama and all

51:09

social media. I'm Hello Ross on social media.

51:11

Our show is Hello Ross pot on Instagram.

51:14

Of course rossabees.com. There's a link to the

51:16

Facebook group there. So

51:18

many Rossabees for you and so much more.

51:21

CNX. Yeah. Oh

51:24

my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. I'm

51:27

not done. Yeah. Hi Rossabees.

51:29

It's been a happy holiday. Do

51:39

you love Lala Kent on Vanderpump Rules? May

51:41

I get to know her on Give Them Lala? I

51:43

don't know that I would call it respect that I have

51:45

for Sandoval but the world hated him. He

51:48

still went out, performed shows with his head held high.

51:50

He showed up to the reunion when we all were

51:52

going after him. Like he didn't skip a beat. The

51:54

way he's handling it, if I were in his position and

51:56

I said it stood up to the entire audience, thousands of

51:58

people, I would tell you all. and

52:01

the room was that much what mama

52:03

is talking about on youtube or

52:05

search for give them lala wherever

52:08

you listen