Welcome back to another episode of the Say Less Pod.
I'm your host Caroline.
And today we are actually going to be talking about a Christmas hot takes.
This is going to be filmed in coming live on December 6th.
So anyway, with all of that being said, Christmas season.
And I will try to do a podcast maybe on mental health and the holidays.
If you want me to do a podcast on that and how to set up boundaries during Christmas season,
just let me know.
But that's what I'm kind of considering.
Also, these are some hot takes that I have found.
I will start off with some of my hot takes and then we'll go into some other people's
hot takes that they have had.
One of my hot takes is nutcrackers.
Why are they a thing?
Who literally said, hey.
You know that thing that traumatized you as a kid?
Let's make this a staple across America and just be like, you know what?
This could literally, like they're literally freaky.
So kind of like the, in my mind, two things that kind of like freaked me out.
Well, not even like freaked me out.
They just like, work freaky.
It's like dummies.
Like, no, I mean like the ventriloquist dummies.
Something about them, I don't know how to, but it literally makes me cringe inside.
I don't think that they were like that cute of a decoration piece with nutcrackers.
It's kind of like the same thing to me, like a Christmas ventriloquist dummy type of thing.
Do you call them ventriloquist dummies?
Because I don't know what they're called.
But anyway, that is something that I will never understand.
Another thing is fruitcake, like is it bad that I want to try fruitcake?
I want to find like a recipe for fruitcake just so that then I can say that I've had
it and that I can either, it slaps or I'm going to pass.
It's a slap or pass.
Because I really don't know.
Because anytime they're like, oh, he's a fruitcake.
She's a fruitcake.
It's never a good thing to be that person.
So I'm like, what is so bad about fruitcake?
How did that even become a Christmas festivity that, hey, let's watch, like, you know, let's
just go ahead and bake fruitcake and give it to people that we truly do not like.
Like, another thing, white elephant gifts.
Because the reason, and I am pretty sure on this because I like elephants, it was actually
because white elephants were so rare that they would give it to an enemy because you
would still have to clean up their poop.
You would still have to do all these different things to for that elephant and feed it and
care for it.
So white elephants gifts are basically like this cheap present that was free, but it comes
out as expensive.
So that's where the origin of it came from.
So why do we even give white elephant gifts?
And that's just like an thought.
Okay, so I will also see if some of these, these ones that other people have put out
are some of my heart takes.
One person just says, I can never get sick of the All I Want for Christmas issue song.
I think it's kind of funny because I think every single year we just kind of sing that
song.
I honestly know that the part that I like about that song, and it's maybe I don't even
like the whole song.
It's just like this, and I don't want, and I like all the eyes like in the song, something
about it just like scratches the part of the brain that I can't really explain.
But like that's the only thing that I kind of know about it.
But honestly, I probably wouldn't listen to it otherwise.
Here's another one.
Ugly sweaters are not ugly.
They are actually pretty and invoke warm feelings.
I feel like some ugly sweaters are ugly though.
Like someone just had a good look on people.
And I thought that was the whole premise that you wear something that is completely disgusting.
I think it's cute though when people go to like an ugly Christmas sweater party and they
try to like make their own ugly sweater.
Like maybe it's like Christmas tree.
Maybe instead of like ugly Christmas sweaters, we should call them like tacky Christmas sweaters
because some of them are like more gaudy than anything else.
It's just like, wow, okay.
I feel like I could just die right now because I feel like I'm going to pass out just by
looking at your shirt.
So that is where I think the ugly Christmas sweater comes in.
Someone actually says, I actually prefer my fake tree.
It's convenient and it doesn't drop needles.
Sometimes I don't know.
I think that I want like I literally just want to go one year to a Christmas tree farm.
Just same thing with the like fruitcake.
Just to say that I've done that in my lifetime.
Like I've picked out a tree.
I was able to flock it.
I did this.
I did that.
And I just felt like it would be like cozy vibes.
Like you get your hot chocolate or you drink your coffee while you're on the farm and you're
like picking it out.
And maybe that's because every single like movie has made that sound like such a vital
like or like a staple that you need to do.
So that is something that I could possibly you know just eat up.
Like I would eat that up like no problem.
I did one time although I have I've never gone to a Christmas tree farm but I have gotten
like not for myself personally.
I worked out a place and then we got like these real Christmas trees.
I think they were donated or something.
The problem was that I found with real trees and there might be several problems.
People who've had a real Christmas tree can probably like state more on the topic.
The one thing that I noticed is that you would have to like water them more because they do
they are like a living plant a living thing.
And then also you had to the hardest thing that I noticed is you had to like screw like
these things into the tree and do not get your head in the gutter with that.
But you had to like literally screw different types of I guess so that then it would just
like stay put.
And you didn't want to have to do it more than once because one time I wasn't able to
get it situated because someone was helping me and so like the tree was kind of crooked
so then we had to like unscrew it and then like screw I don't know exactly how to explain
it but this person saying that they don't like drop needles this person who put out
this comment but every time that for Christmas every single time like whenever we're putting
up our Christmas tree with my family because we usually do it like the day after Thanksgiving
because my parents I don't know if it's like my parents are getting older and they just
like need people to help or because I have my own place but they're just like they need
people to help or if it's just like oh this is a family tradition I don't know which one
it is but anyway we've always had like needles just falling out of the ground even like with
our reefs so I wonder what part of the needles that they're talking about because literally
we have to get the broom and dustpan out every year.
So here's another fun one this is all from the same person actually they were saying
that the color blue is not like actually for Christmas.
I would say different hues of blue but sometimes I do like a pastel like whimsical type of
theme for Christmas like I say I am like more eclectic in my style so even like with my
wrapping paper I have like this like light baby blue type of thing and then I have like
a lighter pink for like the wrapping paper and then as you know the cute little trucks
hauling the Christmas tree I know everybody makes fun of that but it's like it's so cute
and aesthetic like so some of that I do white but I don't do a whole lot of blue.
I would say it depends on maybe the type of blue if it's like a pastelly like baby blue
type of color I could see that.
I'm not much of like the bold like you know I'm kind of like more of neutral colors for
Christmas even if it's like okay let's do the green but I don't really like the solid
green and red anymore like I know some people are that type of vibe for Christmas.
Totally fine if you are I just I don't necessarily like it it's not appealing it's not aesthetic
to me it just kind of gives grandma I guess grandma Christmas but yeah whatever.
So this one I can't relate to but just because I've never seen the movie they say bad Santa
is like a funny movie and then they're just like saying it's depressing AF if you don't
know what AF is.
It's I don't need to be reminded of my childhood thanks it's all that person that says and
you can like look up these comments too it's like for the general public.
I honestly don't I had never seen bad Santa so I don't necessarily know what that if that's
a good movie if that's a bad movie.
So someone said that they don't really like Hormone movies I think it's kind of funny
because I'm not I feel like all Christmas movies are kind of cheesy anyway especially
like the newer ones but there's something cute about like that as long as you don't
have like the toxic boyfriend situation and oh no they got to move to this town where
they don't know anybody but somehow they fall for this person yeah it's someone else's late
night man before Christmas isn't a Christmas movie I don't know if anybody's ever said
that.
Speaking about movies though is Die Hard a Christmas movie that is something I just want
to put out there because a lot of people will say that it is I don't necessarily think that
it is I think it's just something that kind of happened around Christmas but maybe that's
like the only mention of Christmas ever being in the movie but some people would say that
it is I like I just I think the events happen around Christmas um LED someone else's like
they don't like LED Christmas lights I would say there's a way they tastefully decorate
and then there's a way that it looks like Christmas just throw up at your house for me I do not
like the inflatables there's like this one house that like put up these like little pink
ones and they're cute little inflatable pink ones I just don't like inflatables like I
don't know why it's just it's not really like a tasteful decoration to me I think sometimes
like the if you have like garland up around your house or even around your media console
and you might have like a little reindeer here and like maybe a little um those little ones
that you get from Target um they're like the little birds I think those are cute or if you
just like hang certain things up and try to make it combine well I think that that is
a cute book but I don't necessarily like LED lights I don't like the projectors either
because I feel like projectors are the lazy man's way of decorating I'm like did you seriously
think that looked good when you put that onto your house do you like this looks good I'm
just gonna leave it like I just feel like that's the lazy person's way of decorating
um
okay so someone else like said the Polo Express is not that good of a movie I I think like
the um in scenes yeah there's some things that really bothered me as a kid like you
find out that it was all a dream um I do think like the behind the scenes of how they did
that movie is kind of cool if you want there's plenty of videos on YouTube of how it's a
similar technique to how they made like Avatar with like having the little they're not stickers
but they kind of look like stickers that you put over your face and they're kind of like
the sensor too that send them um that kind of gravitates towards like how um your body
moves it's really really interesting um but there's some YouTube videos on that so if
you want to go look that up on like the behind the scenes of Polo Express I think that is
pretty intriguing but yes I would say like Polo Express it's great when you're a kid
and you have Polo Express days and you get the dress up in your PJs and go to school
and do all that fun stuff once you become an adult it's not probably like the best Christmas
movie but it is like a fun time when you're like a kid um oh here's here's an interesting
heart take that's the one said it's a wonderful life it's not a Christmas movie I I feel like
maybe because it I mean they are saying oh well Christmas is coming I know that's become
like a Christmas movie over the years um but also here's another thing that kind of takes
place um they're like it's what was his name George Bale George that's what it was um it
takes you forever to get the one like I do um some people have even said like Chronicles
of Narnia the first one is a Christmas movie I don't know what I think that that is I feel
like it's more of a winter movie than it is a Christmas movie but one time a friend had
me watch it because they're like let's watch a Christmas movie and I was just like okay
and I but it's a wonderful life I will say now that this person like mentioned it um
it's yeah it's not really mentioned till like the end of the movie they're like oh it's
Christmas George every time I know I don't know if it's Christmas or Christmas blah blah
blah and I do have maybe that was like the first well I don't know about that either
but um I was trying to explain it to like one of my friends one a couple of weeks ago
but you it takes you forever to actually get into the meat of the movie I don't really
like that with movies like it's a what like a three three hour movie hang on so technically
it's two hours and ten minutes is the runtime of it's a wonderful life but I would say like
the first hour is just you trying to even get into the meat of the movie I know that
like some of my family really enjoys that and I would say I probably followed suit just
because they watched that movie but yeah I can I can understand what this person is
saying um never I always thought that it was a Christmas movie but yes I can kind of see
where that person's coming from um here's another funny funny one I consider uh peppermint
flavor things are terrific but then when it's like a scent of things I I like things that
are sugar cookie scented but I don't honestly if it's a flavor I can actually do it but
I am allergic to mint and honestly I don't even know if it's I'm allergic to mint is
that I'm allergic to any kind of mint like if you give me a hand lotion or things be
prepared because I don't know if it's scented or scented I did recently go through like
a whole like medical thing um we're still trying to figure that out but I don't know
if like that is caused by it or if it's just more um what's the word I'm looking for like
more prevalent now that I have that but I will literally break out into rashes whenever
I have any kind of mint one person gave me like a eucalyptus and mint like it was kind
of like bath salt and bath bomb it was like this whole like self-care it was not a form
of self-care because I was like spending the next few days like itching like the heart
was good in the matter it just they just know and I actually did to know either until I
was like literally breaking out um so yeah I mean I'm sure the peppermint scents would
be great if I could at least do it without having my skin break out on me but um yeah
I do enjoy I even got like a peppermint bark like coffee today um so um I think
it's tone deaf but like um like when they're saying like when people just kind of like
scream Christmas is here like with these little kids you I feel like every Christmas you always
have people that just kind of scream sing like especially little kids I I cannot stand
when like I feel like it's a special at Christmas especially if you're watching like a Christmas
play or some Christmas production and they have like the tone deaf like it is a wholesome
moment that you should be enjoying but you can't because there's like some tone deaf
children um yeah I think that's what they mean um so artificial cranberry I don't I don't
necessarily I don't like cranberry sauce but I can do cranberries funny thing um okay so
here's some more hot takes I had to take a minute to actually find some hot takes here's
one our Christmas cards in the mail still a necessity still necessary I would actually
okay so for me like I would be just half as happy getting an e-card but I feel like with
yeah I would I would be just as happy getting an e-card so I don't think that it's still
necessary to go out of your way and give a Christmas card at all now if someone wants
to give happy mail and kind of like put like some things in that Christmas card you know
I'm not gonna say no to that but because once you know you're an adult when all of your
mail is just like bills and you're just like happy mail you know um and it's kind of difficult
from like transitioning over from like a kid and then to adult responsibilities but that's
something else um okay so here's another hot take that what is your all-time favorite
holiday song I don't I so here's the thing music is kind of like free therapy for me
in case you just know so my favorite holiday song this season um I like anything on like
the food cake album list from Sabrina Carpenter but also I do I'm just gonna go with
because it's so hard for me to pick I'm gonna like tell you like my favorite some of my
favorite Christmas songs of course I may be missing some here and there but I'm gonna
try to tell you as many as I possibly can I do enjoy Santa tell me by Ariana Grande
um I enjoy something about like Christmas in the sand by Colby Calla is that how you
pronounce the name um mistletoe by Justin Bieber oh here's one of my hot takes I don't
really enjoy the drummer boy song because who in the bright mind brings a drum set like
Joe off king but who in the right mind brings a drum set to a baby shower if you will like
who's like you know what rumper pump pump and then he's like shall I play for you rumper
pump pump you will rumper pump pumping this whole time and now you're gonna ask for permission
like I'm sorry who no one wants you no one invited you here sir my dude why do you think
that this is a good idea why why is the baby screaming I don't know maybe because you bought
your rumper pump drum set to a major scene my dude like why why anyway that song that
literally looks me to no end but um someone says silent night by the temptations I don't
know that one um I someone does say drum boy but yeah I'm I'm just like no that's not um
candy cane lane by seah is a pretty good song I also like um make it to Christmas by Alicia
carer um am I like missing any of them I don't know but oh I heard this one funny song the
other day I don't know if it's been around for a while but it was like text me Merry Christmas
and it was like oh make sure that you survive emoji make sure that you know it was kind
of like it just made me laugh because I'm like that's literally me but it's just like
um text me Merry Christmas like um okay so here's another hot tape what time should dinner
be served someone says four o'clock and then someone says like cocktails at five or cocktails
at four thirty four okay I really wonder um we don't really do that so here's the thing
um I guess it depends on if you're doing like friends or if I'm doing like a friend miss
I would probably say like five thirty but with family and a standard family prop I think mainly
we gravitate towards like early afternoon like one thirty two thirty usually like for all
our dinners whether that's like Easter whether that's Thanksgiving I think our dinner at Thanksgiving
was one thirty so yeah um so oh here is a funny one when should significant others be
allowed to come to holiday festivities I would say that actually depends on the person um
someone says after you've been dated for for for a whole year four seasons and then one
person says I ran away as long as they don't mind answering the question whatever happened
to so-and-so but I would say it really depends on the person and maybe it's like one partner
truly believe they're like I want you to meet my family okay let's go but if the other person
doesn't feel comfortable meeting their family that's then maybe you should wait for at least
meeting their family at least I don't know that's something that you decide upon for
me personally it takes a good three to five months if I know if you are compatible with
me so depending on when you start we started dating so as I was saying I think I took a
break there but as I was saying for me I can yes as long as you know that they are compatible
with you and you feel comfortable around them you feel safe you feel free to be you that's
literally that's how I measure a significant other point period like I don't you can have
like a track record as big as anything I truly don't believe that the mistakes that you made
in the past should define you then they shouldn't be a part of you anymore and you shouldn't
have like if you have a high body count okay let's let's talk about that why first of all
I understand this I'm not going to necessarily hold out against you because I got my own
baggage you got your own baggage so let's try to figure out a way that we can make this
work but my measurement is that I feel safe I feel free to be me and that they just respect
me as a person that's my measurement for significant other now that we've got that straightened
out of the way then what is the appropriate time to bring that significant other around
your family once I know okay that you are that safe person you are my safe space when
I know that I feel like I can bring you around because your whole identity is not actually
going to be shattered and honestly people who listen to this please do not think that
this is a direct slam at you and if it is if you do think so then you know I there's only
so much I can do but if I feel safe if I know that you're the right person then to me your
whole identity is not going to be shattered by being around my family because we respect
each other that's really all that matters no matter what they what that individual says
or anything it's not really going to hurt us in the long run because people are going
to have their opinions about your life no matter what so if they're going to talk about
something you might want to give them something to talk about in a positive way in a positive
direction and sometimes people are going to put like knives into your heart it's okay
I'm like I say I'm going to try to do a podcast on mental health but I definitely think like
once when you know you know when you know that they're the right person specifically
it doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks because at the end of the day you're
the only two people in that relationship or you should be unless you are seeking a counselor
and but honestly your family should not be the ones that you bring into the fight say
oh my boyfriend treated me so badly I I don't think that you should do that it's you and
them the problem the issue is the problem it's not the person so it's like don't fight
with each other fight for a solution so yeah you shouldn't bring your family or your friend
now maybe if you're trying to ask for advice that's something different but yeah just don't
there's so many I can name different instances where that has just been like a sorry excuse
for bringing your family into the relationship that they shouldn't be in okay so here's another
one what so like I say I know maybe I didn't really answer that hot take as much as I wanted
to but I feel like once you I'm trying to figure out the best way the phrase is like
making sure that you know that that they are the right individual then you can bring them
around the family and set a place for them but definitely if you'd like only been like
dating for like two weeks and then it's like Christmas time I don't necessarily think that
is the right time to bring them around the family if you know what I mean like it's just
yeah each individual's having has a different perspective on that but that's just my personal
take on that if they want again once you kind of know that they are your person then I think
that it's okay because anything that in the end of a door whether positive whether negative
now something could still happen for sure but whatever like any family member has to
say about that individual or friend you know at the end of the day they're your person they're
not going anywhere and they're for life so that's that's kind of how I feel it so what
is your favorite Christmas what is the best Christmas movie out there I don't okay so some
of the I can watch like certain Christmas movies but so I've seen like we just at my
workplace we recently had like this trivia game and they were saying like what home alone
what place were they were going to in the OG version of home alone or whatever and I was
like Paris but I did not think that I was gonna get that one right because I've definitely
seen home alone but not enough to like literally it probably sounds like I'm not like that much
of a movie buff I'm really not like some some people say like a movie quote like I've seen
maybe I just didn't remember that movie quote I just but so I mean I've seen home alone
I've also like Polo Express I've seen elf I feel like is a classic Christmas movie I
don't know if it's necessarily like the best Christmas movie out there there was probably
like a lot of good options so also funny fun fact I've never actually seen miracle on 31st
Street and if if I am wrong with that definitely have not seen that if I can even know the
title I always think that sort of first street I think it's 34th Street but never seen that
movie so I mean I don't yeah I feel like there's a lot of cringy Jooky whichever were Christmas
movies like out there I just so I don't really know if there's anyone that's really that great
but I mean I will watch any Christmas movie for sure and then also also here's another
one that people have and this is something that I will say Santa was entitled he had
some ulterior motives but the hot take is that Santa was a joke to Rudolph I think he
was just like a major L all the way around like Santa you didn't want me talking from
Rudolph's POV here you did not want me until I actually could benefit you huh am I am I
wrong with that so he even like he was like oh Conor you should be ashamed of yourself
for what having the son who has a red nose I don't think so Santa like you just talk
sick like how does this how does this even help for you oh here's another interesting
one there's the Grinch was a victim you want and honestly I've heard some people like make
the joke or there's been like a meme that says you know the Grinch didn't like Christmas
he just hated the hoos which is fair that's that's valid but honestly if you understand
the reason why he became the Grinch and I feel like the Jim Carrey version it has like
the psychological implications of why he became the Grinch for one he was like bullied like
threw out his entire childhood no one really wanted to be friends with him just because
he was different he was green and he also people thought that oh he needs the manscape
he needs to do this because he kind of like viewed at the time that he was what nine or
something so and then he was like I hate Christmas it wasn't that he necessarily hated Christmas
he was just a misunderstood individual and that's truly how I feel about the whole situation
is the reason why his heart now some people say that his heart was too small I don't know
like necessarily his heart like grew out of love out of but sometimes it's different individuals
that kind of suck that life out of us or want to make us feel insecure they will comment
on things that really we cannot change about ourselves and then people like oh who hurt
you well I'll tell you who hurt me people like you like and the problem is not that
the Grinch like I said the Grinch didn't hate Christmas it's the story of how some people
have said it's the story of how one can change but I feel like he always had it in him to
be this individual who but he wanted to seclude himself he lived on that carpet he was away
from everybody else because people have made his life miserable see and so sometimes things
can turn us away from people and people wonder why would disgruntle or would dissatisfied
with certain things maybe you have to look back at how you can make the situation better
or how you can be there for someone I think that's why he because if you realize if he
was that much of a jerk and everybody hated him when Cindy Lou was just like why are you
taking on Christmas tree if he truly wanted to he wouldn't have been like oh well let
me get you a glass of water let me pat you on the head and be comforting if all I have
and I think like at that point when he saw that Cindy Lou seen him and heard him for
who he was they didn't like see this monster because he would try this get her away but
she wasn't frightened she was like you know what maybe we just need them love on him be
altruistic do these different options maybe he will see something different some people
like no people can't change it was because the other people sometimes when the other
people chose to change he could actually the Grinch saw that as a reflection and wanted
himself to be there but even when he was invited to that one celebration if you watch
the Grinch Jim Carrey version like I say I think that is the best one that kind of explains
what the Grinch went through and why he became the Grinch but on that one there's a scene
where he's invited to the party and he's excited to actually go he's like maybe this time someone
will actually see me will actually hear me will actually respect me whatever the case
is he gets there and just to find out that there's still those people that are nonchalant
that are bullying him there are sometimes people will try to make you feel insecure about the
thing that they are so desperately insecure about and so I think that they're just like
projecting their insecurities on the Grinch but in different ways in different factions
but then once he realized that he's being bullied again now maybe it's not the best
way to take up for yourself and like grab the razor and shave someone else's head and
all that maybe that was a little maybe the Grinch did too much there but in a way it's
also him like I say maybe it's not the best way to self advocate but it was his way of
self advocating to see like okay I'm not gonna put up with this BS anymore so that's that's
my I could probably do a whole thing on that but yeah that's one of like my heart takes
on that someone says like the Santa Claus is it's been a while since I've watched that
so he was of interest in one clearance from it's a wonderful life and like over and we
won't go there that's not Christmas maybe but didn't deserve his wings I've sometimes
thought about this also because I'm like what did he actually do that was just serving of
his wings like and maybe maybe along with this but I have often thought this like on
it's a wonderful life was it because he rescued him out of like the pit of despair is that
what they were trying was that the main objective of the storyline of the plot that he rescued
him and he was he was basically saving not saving time that's a whole different movie
saving this character I keep forgetting his name George that he was saving George from
himself is that why he deserved his wings or why did he deserve his wings I don't know
send me a DM if you have other thoughts on this but yes I have often thought that that
did wait did clearance actually deserve his wings okay here's another one Kevin Nick
Alastair from Home Alone is a dangerous little boy I think he is dangerous but moving not
in the way that some people like actually see danger the one scene that I just really
the one movie quote if you will like I say I'm not that huge of a movie buff but it's
like it's thirsty for more like I don't know why but I think it's really interesting that
I've heard people mention this but I think it's kind of interesting how he's like freaking
out about like packing this suitcase but he can babysit his whole house if I was him I
would just like have my Google home like set up everything and be like hey gee I can't say
it's gonna set off my my Google if I say it so like set up my operation I would do that
if I was him also here's another thing that if you watch like a YouTube video of people
reacting to the different traumatic events that happen to the guys kind of like the villains
on Home Alone they would would have unaligned themselves and it's just like it's true like
it's like but it's something that when you're like thinking about all these different things
is like a funny like comic relief type of movie so you don't really necessarily think
that this is things that would happen also hot take on home alone I feel like Kevin was
an undisturbed little kid too like it's like dude I feel you like if someone ate my pizza
and I like explicitly like that's like drinking my iced coffee like one time I was like working
and someone's like oh can I have a drink of your iced coffee I'm like no and they're like
oh but Kali you're always super nice and I'm like touch my coffee and you see how nice
I truly am like you want to go there like do you want to die today I I'm trying to do
you a favor here and so honestly I feel like Kevin and much the same way he was just really
misunderstood like people would always say look what you did he was again maybe it was
not the best way to handle himself under pressure but and I think that he truly did care about
his family they just never really seen him they didn't he kind of faded into the background
like even in the very beginning of the movie I was just like kind of like had something
on in the background but I really wasn't watching home alone but in the beginning of the movie
I think it is they're like oh can you give me a package suitcase or something Kevin and
I literally forget what what they ask him to do and he's like get off the phone and make
me why don't you it's yes is that the best way to say it probably not but was he at
least it was like a deeper issue saying hey you never pay attention to me anyway you know
you don't really care something happens to me and people can say oh I care about you
I think it's what you do in that moment that's truly like important is vital it's kind of
like this if you are telling someone something very important and they are on social media
or they're texting someone it's it's okay if maybe at a particular point you need to
respond to that call but if I'm telling you something can you at least give me the common
decency to look up from your phone and I know sometimes I've even like said different things
like Kevin where I'm just like why don't you get off your phone and make me like and that
that went over well but it's it's usually stemming from a deeper issue a deeper root
cause oh I don't feel important I don't feel valued I don't feel loved so in my thing my
aspect of thinking you cannot out love whatever love you can say I love you I love you I love
you I love you all you want it doesn't really matter to me like you can tell me that if
I'm always your second choice though if I'm all like texting you reaching out to you then
maybe I don't really matter as much as you think I matter to you that's probably also
like to another funny quote that I think is funny at least in that movie is I made my
family disappear like it's like when also when he goes up into the attic they're like
oh I don't want to go up into the attic it's scary man there's cobwebs there's all of this
the mom was not emotionally intelligent enough to I have several hot takes on home alone but
the mom was not emotionally intelligent enough to say hey okay I'm sorry there's not like
even trying to settle the emotional damage like it's like it might not it's like you're
going out there type type of deal I forget like what the exact words were but there was
no emotion on her side and maybe it was emotion but it was all the wrong type of emotion the
one time I felt like she did here like Kevin is when he's like oh I don't want to sleep
with him he's going is it actually me what what is it called when people like med what
but anyway there's like a specific to him for it he doesn't want to sleep with his one
cousin it's home alone is sometimes a very interesting movie because you have all these
different events that take place but I feel like the one time that she actually did listen
to him is when he said hey I don't want to sleep with him because of this and yes it
was like a fed up type of emotion like it's like fine you don't have to sleep I will find
someone else this take his place and there might be some people that have different hot
takes on this like whether she was a good mom or whether she was a bad mom I don't think
that she was that good of a mom honestly because when she's on the plane and she's like I'm
forgetting my son am I a bad mom if you have to ask that question you probably are plus
you've got your kid she's not supposed to be home alone like I mean I know that's the
whole plot of the movie but she could have noticed a little bit more notice what was
going on a little bit more emotionally and no one ever did they're like oh like you're
incompetent you're this you're no one wants you blah blah blah and so even there's one
scene in the movie where he has all these different people like telling them different
things like oh he'll never make it he'll never do this and sometimes when you have all those
voices you actually believe it to be true so I just think that Kevin McAllister was another
Christmas character that was just heavily misunderstood yesterday have some anger management
problems yes but also if people would have just taken a look inside and then like look
I'm sorry that I never really gave you the time of day I'm sorry that I never did this
whatever it is because they always expected Kevin to be the bigger person and rise above
even things that weren't necessarily his fault so I just I truly believe that with everything
in me he's one hot take and I'll just kind of
and I'll just like end with this they say that buddy the elf was a danger to the other
elf I don't know I feel like this is a proper and this might like just like nature versus
nurture debate it's kind of you know the whole scenario of this one individual and she goes
to like he thought he was like I'm a cotton-headed knitting muggins that he couldn't do anything
perfectly but then he makes like this whole like elaborate landscape of and some of the
things I did not know is this that's really interesting to like mom's like oh this is
a light bright this is this and I'm just like okay like that's nice um but he could make
this whole thing at Gimbal's and just kind of run with it and he literally like I think
he had some biz going on like he was up on Joey yeah Joey like you know maybe maybe not
the best first but you know I feel like he had some the other thing too is people I there's
so many hot takes with this one so he ended up in the bag from that orphanage okay how
did Santa not know that he was in the bag if he's supposed to know every single thing
that goes down like how did he literally not know that he was in the stocking one second
of all just because he had was buddy the only place that had like these buddy diapers was
that only like the orphanage that had these diapers like how do you know that um I do
think that he was a danger to the other elves but I don't think it was like an intentional
thing um also people were nice to him just because of like necessity not because they
necessarily because I would like to buddy on so many different levels um like I'm gonna
be behind on quota a little bit this year you know totally get that but if he can make
that whole thing at this whole presentation at Gimbal's I feel like he really went off
and that was kind of and he was like so his novelty is like so funny um sometimes you
know like oh are you an elf are you and I don't know if he even knew like what sarcasm
was but he was like oh well I got a restraining order so it worked out pretty well I don't
necessarily think I think that they should have went and found his parents I don't I
don't know if he should have spent his whole life at like the North Pole don't really think
that he should have but because I feel like he was developmentally delayed because of
that and like his child child development um so I you know but I also feel like with
that old scenario I kind of jumped around and went into so many different bunny holes
but with all of this being said another whole story that this dad gives his daughter a car
and he says hey go take it to this place so she takes it to this other one place and I
think it might be like a Facebook marketplace or something and they say it's like because
it has dents and scratches it's but it's an antique car that it's only worth like $100
she goes to this other place and it is a thousand she goes to a car dealership it's worth more
and it's all about knowing your value right so with that being said buddy really didn't
have a whole lot of value and his self deprecating tendencies came from that value that that
misplace value that he had because he was saying okay well everybody else has these
other talents and sometimes we compare ourselves to others and and I think that was part of
his problem too like he was comparing himself to these people that maybe have done it longer
than he has um maybe had a higher degree whatever the case is in in elf school you don't have
higher degrees but you know what I mean and hopefully you do anyway so I think that he
should have they should have tried to find the orphanage as but it would have the storyline
would have been complete the plot would have been completely lost if you didn't say I've
been with both so that's a whole another thing but I feel like he did have those special
talents all along it was just where he was appreciated and where he he thrived he thrived
in this world where he could be himself where he like actually knew his interests knew his
goals and I will find that that's true for most people when they actually know who they
are they can thrive in that kind of setting in that environment for instance I sometimes
when you look at other people they are great with certain things they are and sometimes
because I am good with crafts people's like oh you can build a bookshelf I can't do that
maybe if I took the time and actually wanted to become more invested in it maybe I could
maybe it's a math thing maybe it's always different topics there are some things that
I know my limits there are some other things that yes I probably should give myself more
credit where credit is due and that's literally something like I do have great group of people
I work with now and in like a healthy work environment so there are certain aspects of
myself that I can kind of like thrive when I'm doing the work that I was and like I
say maybe it's not like a long term goal that I have to be in this position but I can still
thrive where I'm at right now whereas before there were some jobs that I felt like I was
just disappointing people at every different turn and so I wasn't able to thrive so it
all depends on where you're placed and when you know your worth and you know what you
are capable of even like some people they're like oh you need to give yourself more credit
even people I work with because you can be great at these different options I am yeah
so I definitely definitely think that that is where I stand on that topic and with just
like elf and different hot takes this holiday season so if you want me to do another hot
take if you want like mental health and the holidays if you want different opportunities
that I can look into for you I would be more than happy to like do a podcast on that but
as always have a great one and like I say this episode should go up on the 6th of December
so yeah see ya so yay done!