12-6-23 After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 3

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Tell them big Snoop Dogg sent you. We're not quite halfway through the month of December, but we're getting closer and closer to Christmas or Hanukkah. We celebrate that instead. Some families celebrate both if they happen to be blended families.

I grew up with a few families and have a few friends where they do both sides. We are certainly getting ever closer. I cannot believe that Wednesday is December 6th.

Wowzers. This time next week I'll be in my final two hours of the radio show until after Christmas. So we're getting down to, well the extended break, something I've never done before. That's actually going to be pretty tough for me because I've never been away from my radio show here at CBS Sports Radio for longer than a week at a time. So that's going to be different. I told Bob by the time we get through Christmas, so post-wedding through Christmas, he's going to be begging me to go back to work because I usually don't talk about sports when I'm away from the show, but I may be going through NFL withdrawals by then.

As I mentioned, we'll be getting closer to the national semifinals in college football and I'll just need someone, anyone to talk about football with. Maybe I'll just grab my microphone at home and just record my own little show. Could you imagine?

No, it won't be that bad. I really miss it at the end of any break I take, but while I'm on a vacation, I actually don't think at all about work. I usually am in bed by 11 o'clock, so long before the show ever goes on the air. Different though is that producer Jay and I are going to be off the same schedule for two and a half weeks. We're actually going to go from the time I leave on December 13th, so my last show will wrap up on the morning of December 13th, and then Bob and I have a drive to Houston. Penny's coming too. Oh, I did check into some mild sedative options for Penny to make this upcoming road trip with us.

I'm supposed to practice, by the way. I have to go pick up the sedative from the vet on Wednesday because she's older. So I didn't just want to go willy-nilly and find some type of Benadryl or whatever. I wanted to be sure that the vet approved it because she's 14 and she does not do well with anesthesia. So whenever she's come out of being under a couple times in her life, she's very disoriented. She doesn't like it. So I was really leery about a heavy sedative that would cause her to sleep because I just don't want her. She's also diabetic.

I just don't want anything to interfere with her body chemistry or her diabetes or insulin. And so I checked with the vet and they recommended a mild sedative that essentially doesn't stop the dog from thinking. Right. So she's not asleep.

Right. She's not in a coma. She's still thinking and processing and looking and watching. But the thoughts of what to do. So get up, move around, be anxious, try to bolt out the door, those types of things.

They never quite make it to action. So their thoughts maybe. So her mind is still very active. But her thoughts are not ever really translated into action because her body just can't really follow through. So her body is much more relaxed, but her mind may still be really active. So they said that that's the easiest on the dog, though. She said the next step up is a heavier sedative. But the issue with that one is it only works about half the time. Weirdly enough, some dogs are completely impervious to it.

It doesn't have any effect on them. And then the third step would be the heaviest, which is the Xanax, which would actually have her kind of being a comatose. Not quite unconscious, but yeah, she'd be pretty conked out. And there they would like to do that as the last option. They don't want to give that to a dog of her age if they don't have to. So we're going to try it, but they said you want to give it to her, settle in her stomach for a couple hours, or settle in her system for a couple hours, and then take her on a road trip. I don't want to take her on a road trip. I don't have time to take her on a road trip. Well, just take her on a nice long drive. I guess we could just go sit in traffic around New York.

We'd be out there for a long time. So I don't exactly know where I'll be taking her, but maybe I could do a run to the grocery store or something like that where she's in the car for a little bit of a longer period of time. Yeah, again, I have no idea where I'm taking her exactly. Do you need gas? Well, I know, but I could get gas within a mile of my house.

I don't know. She'll be in the car for a little extended time. Yeah, no, they want me to take a nice long drive. Okay, well, I do have Friday off, so I suppose I could take a little road trip, but where would I go exactly?

Just burning some rubber? Just kind of cruise, I suppose. Yeah, cruise it like when I was 16. When I was 16 and I used to visit my grandparents in Northeast Ohio, the Youngstown area, our next door neighbors or my grandparents' next door neighbors. There was a friend of mine who was about a year older, and so she had a car and not just that, but it was a convertible. So on Saturday nights in the summertime, my mom, I had to ask mom for permission, but when I was 15 and she was 16, we would go cruising. Pause and tune.

Near the mall. Of course, of course. That was fun. Anyway, it's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Your chance to ask Amy anything, not the last time. We will do one more hump show next week. That, whoa, that'll be very sentimental. My last ask Amy until I'm a married woman.

That's it, the last one. Did I tell you that this little boy that I teach in my Sunday school class, his name is Jackson. He's a fifth grader. I've had him now for about three years and I'm close to his parents, so I've been over to his house and stuff. In fact, one time I went over to visit his parents and I ended up spending the entire time playing soccer and baseball with Jackson. So, you know, we're buds. And he wanted me to watch the game with him. He made me cookies one time. BFFs.

Yeah, or BFFs. Anyway, so he made a sweet card for me and it was, he drew me and Bob as well as the pastor on the front of the card. And there's a rainbow and I hope you have an awesome wedding. But inside the card, this is how he addressed me. Ms.

Soon to be Mrs. Amy. That's incredible. It was so sweet. I may actually post a photo of it on social just because he really, he spent, excuse me.

Sorry about that. I could see him. So again, I was hanging out with his family and a group of friends last week on a weeknight. And he had come in from a basketball game and I could see him over at the kitchen table working really hard. Didn't know what he was doing. I thought he was working on homework because he's in fifth grade.

So sometimes they work hard on that. Yeah. And then I realized he was working the whole time on a card for me. That's awesome. Fifth grader Ms. Soon to be Ms. That's impressive. I don't think his mom actually told him either because I think he wrote the whole thing himself.

He's very smart, which is one of the reasons why we get along so well. So yeah, I don't know what it is. But oh my gosh. I'm dying before my wedding. I'm dying. Give me some oxygen. Don't make me laugh. Stop it. Now I'm crying. How did I all of a sudden turn into Jerry Jones? Was that me or Jerry?

That's the question. I mean, my wedding flowers go astray. I'm starting to have a coughing fit right before my wedding. Is this do you think this is pre-wedding jitters?

No, the flowers jitters are normal, I think, but they're going to come today. So that's fine. Are you sure? You're sure? I know it.

Okay. You feel it? Feel it. Right. I feel it.

I just know they're coming today. But now pre-wedding jitters? I don't think so.

I don't think you have that. Well, I don't have jitters about marrying Bob or getting married. I have jitters about things going the way that we've planned because people keep saying, Oh, just be ready for it all to go horribly wrong. Be ready for something to go.

Thank you, Jay. When you get married, I'm not going to say, Oh, by the way, be ready for it all to blow up in your bleeping face on wedding day. People are just so mean. Why? Why would you say that to someone?

Not to mention. It's not even advice. Yeah, exactly. It's not advice. It's almost like they want a ring to my parade.

Exactly. And so that along with me kind of venting a little bit. I don't know if you saw my tweet earlier on Tuesday afternoon. In fact, a bunch of my friends, this is kind of funny. Friends that I don't even know are on Twitter were sending me text messages.

Oh, I saw your tweet. I'm sorry about the flowers. I'll be praying, you know, or how are you doing?

Are you OK? You know, it's going to be all right. They're going to show up.

My sister in law is like, they're going to show up. Anyway, people telling me, Oh, it doesn't matter. Well, it may not matter to you, but it matters to me. And just don't ever say that when you get married, Jay.

And I give Bob all the credit in the world. He he is also as concerned as I am. So he was helping me, talking me down off the ledge. But he was he's just as, as hopeful about the flowers arriving on Wednesday as you are because he wants them.

They want that to happen. Anyway, he did not say it doesn't matter. But yeah, don't ever tell your fiance, your bride to be.

Oh, it doesn't matter. Who cares if we had flowers? I wouldn't recommend that.

No, I wouldn't. Because there really aren't very many elements that matter to me because the theme of our wedding is simple and elegant. So it's not like a flower shop threw up in the chapel.

It's it's very streamlined, actually. But the part that and at some point I'll share a photo of these because they're absolutely gorgeous. I'd have to ask Bob's permission and probably won't be till after the wedding. He built a set of barn doors. So three barn doors. He built them from nothing but boards and he put the doors together.

The frame. Then he painted them. Then he stained them.

Then he finished them. So they look like they're old weathered barn doors. Yeah, they're amazing. Oh, there I am so impressed with this handiwork and I'm so proud of the fact that we're going to be getting married in front of these doors that are up on our stage with us. And that was kind of the whole point is that the doors are providing the backdrop for the flowers and the draping and that kind of thing. And so it really isn't like we're decorating to the hilt. It's just the flowers match the bouquets and the flowers. Yeah. So it kind of matters.

I kind of need these flowers. Thank you, Jay. I mean, thank you.

No part of it doesn't matters more or less than it's just good training for you when you do get married. You've had to walk through the whole thing with me. And so you kind of know what matters and what not to say. Everything matters. How's that?

Thank you, Jay. Well, I mean, for instance, I don't care that my nieces and my sister in law who are my bridesmaids don't have the same dress. Couldn't care less. As long as your dress is the right color. I don't care what it looks like. I mean, pick a dress that's that's right for you. Same thing for my friends who are asking me what color should I wear and what should I wear?

What makes you happy? Wear what you love. Wear what you're going to be comfortable dancing in for a few hours. Yeah, we're not we're not do it's not the type of wedding where everything's printed up perfectly and it looks like something out of a magazine.

So there's a few elements that are important to us and flowers are one of them. So I'm with you. I'm trusting my God, but also trusting you, Jay. You spoke it into existence. I'm trying. We're speaking it.

Thank you. When I call you screaming at the top of my lungs, you'll know. Oh, I can't be screaming this close to the wedding because I can't lose my voice. You can you can talk lightly, but I'll understand your tone. Guess what?

I'll take that as the scream. OK. Also, I have to tell you how I decided. To transport my vows to the front of the chapel, so there is no pocket in my dress, obviously. So I had to figure out I didn't want a piece of paper either because I didn't want to be all flimsy and crackling and all that jazz. So my mom actually has a printer that prints on cardstock.

So we're going to have they might be purple. We're going to have some four by six cards where my vows will be printed so that I see I can hold them and not have to. Now, rummaging around in the paper. Yeah, like turning the paper over, folding the paper. Plus, if it's on a piece of paper, I was worried that people might be able to see it.

And I don't really want that in the photo either. So classy little printed cards, maybe purple. Mom said I'll check at school to see if there's purple cardstock. That's nice. So anyway, these are questions that you don't need to ask as part of asking me anything.

That's coming up in about twenty five minutes now. Thank you so much for all your kind words. I've been inundated on my blog, my latest blog post, which actually you can see the flowers.

Oh, there's there you go. So people wondering what kind of flowers in my latest blog post. And I can reshare the latest blog post. I actually give you photos of the bouquets.

If you're looking for the link, it's on my Twitter blog post, but it's also on our Facebook page. I thought it'd be fun to offer a sneak peek of what the flowers look like. So there are a couple of the bouquets that are in the blog post. They're very special flowers.

They're sweet. And many of you have have been concerned with me and have offered your support. So thank you. Thank you for all the kind words.

You seem really happy for me. Eleven days. Eleven. And Jay, remember when it well, it was never eleven months because we weren't we weren't engaged that long. But it seemed like eleven years going back, say, I don't know, to July or August.

Remember? Oh, yeah. And you said to me, it's going to fly by.

Everyone kept saying that. Like, no, it's dragging. It's dragging because we're doing long distance. And now it's eleven days.

Eleven. Eleven days. And honestly, it feels like it was just yesterday we were saying, oh, it's going to be, you know, like you were just saying, it's going to take so long. I was like, now it'll be right here. It feels like it was yesterday. It's crazy because the I mean, the long distance itself has made it feel as though it's the longest year in the history of time, of Father Time. But now that it's here, it's like, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh.

Yeah, I could use a couple extra days if you don't mind. No, I would never say that to Bob. Sorry, Bob.

Just kidding. OK, coming up, Micah Parsons tells you his choice for MVP. It actually gives you a list.

And you won't believe which young quarterback he's a huge fan of. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Send your questions to our show, Twitter, After Hours, CBS, and then also our Facebook page. Thanks for joining us on The Hump Show here on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Hungry for a taste of the most delicious audio of the night?

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One of the hazards of the business. But I'm still here. Woo. It's after hours. CBS Sports Radio.

As you heard the voice gods say, chomp chomp, a little bit of extra audio for your listening pleasure, but also so you can chew over it. Micah Parsons, boy. He is a guy that I really enjoy listening to, but he's also got some hot takes. So we're going to give you the information that I value and then one other rant of his where I think he is kind of out of his he's out of his area of expertise.

He's out from underneath the umbrella. Now, first, every week on The Edge with Micah Parsons, his podcast, he ranks his MVP candidates. Five right now for me. I'm going to go with Lamar Jackson. Number four, I'm going to go with Tua.

Actually, I'm not even going number four with Tua. I have to go with Tyreek. Number three for me will be Brock Purdy.

Number two, Jalen Hurts. And number one will be Dak Prescott. And I did this because I know it's a QB based award. So that's why Tyreek didn't make my top three. But Tyreek is easily in the top three, if not number one. If he breaks his record, he has to be MVP. He's taking screens for 60 and 70 yards.

He is going absolutely berserk. Dak, he is the best quarterback in the NFL right now. It's a QB based award. He will be MVP most likely and Tyreek will end up being offensive player of the year.

So how about that? Dak Prescott, not a surprise, but I would agree with him that Dak is playing otherworldly right now. And because of all the different QB injuries, his numbers are even more inflated and even more impressive.

And he's battled his own injuries, obviously. But to see what he's doing with the ball in his hands ever since that game against the San Francisco 49ers. In which we got the laugh now cry later from Micah Parsons.

Laugh now, cry later. Dak is over 3,200 yards passing already. He's got 26 touchdowns versus just six interceptions. And I swear three of them came in that game against the Niners, right? Isn't that the game in which he played really poorly? He had one game with three picks. But otherwise, he is locked in since then. And the Cowboys, I believe, have served notice that they're not just a house of cards.

They are a legitimate contender. Yes, Dak does lead the NFL through Week 13 with those 26 touchdown passes. Josh Allen and Tua Tango Valoa are right behind him at 24. Then he mentions Tyreek Hill. And unless Ty breaks the record, now the record being no receiver has ever caught 2,000 yards in a single season. Then he's thinking that should make him an MVP, but otherwise, Offensive Player of the Year.

But Micah also, as he raves about the cheetah, Tyreek Hill, he is hoping that he has an off game coming up. Look at this crazy stat, right? Tyreek has more receiving yards than every Cardinals receiver, every Patriots receiver, every Giants receiver, Judge wide receiver, and Falcons wide receiver. That is an insane stat. That's an insane stat.

Like, I don't even think people are realizing how crazy of a stat that is, that one man is accomplishing. Tyreek, keep doing what you're doing. Just don't do that on Christmas Day. I'm going to see you then, cheetah. You know you're my dog. For real.

I'm going to see you on Christmas Day. Just don't do that stuff against me. I'm not trying to be chasing you all up with that shit. And that's a fact. I'm not trying to be chasing you all up and down the field.

Yeah, I wouldn't even bother, actually. You're going to have to stop him before he gets the ball or be ready to tackle him as soon as he gets the ball. That's a crazy stat, though, isn't it? Tyreek Hill, as he gets closer and closer, he's on pace right now to have over 2,000 yards receiving this season.

As he gets closer, there will be a major watch. Through 12 games, 1,481 yards. 1,481 yards. And then you think about the teams he mentions, the Patriots, the Jets, the Cardinals.

I can't remember all of them. They have so little production from their receivers. And a lot of it does have to do with the quarterbacks, but not all. Some of it has to do with the receivers. So, yeah, Tyreek is a one-man wrecking crew.

But here's my question. Who would be the MVP, him or Tua? I mean, Tyreek definitely has a ton of yards after the catch. In fact, here's a stat that I think is really interesting. Of his 1,481 yards, 604 of those yards are after the catch. So that's where the speed comes in, right? So without the yak, the yards after catch, he's about 800 yards through the air. But it's what he does with the ball after he gets it that makes him so valuable and the fact that he can snake through traffic.

And you can see him, but you can really barely lay a finger on him. Yeah, really impressive stuff. I like that. Yak, such a good stat. But see, the thing is, you can't just say the word yak like that. It can't be just like yak. It has to be yak. Right, Jay?

Try it. Yak. Yak.

No, you got it. Yak. Nice yak on that play. He yakked all over himself on that play.

That means something different. It's After Hours here on CBS Sports Radio, The Edge with Micah Parsons. Okay, so I like this because we had just talked about the Packers on our last show with Andy Herman who joined us from Green Bay. Packers are now six and six and they're talking playoffs in Wisconsin. Well, Micah Parsons, this is his version of I Told You So. Yeah, I said the first two games he was 6-0.

Last four games he was 4-0, 7-0. A lot of people said we should move on from Jordan Love. We shouldn't do this. We shouldn't do that, right?

And this is where I always try to get on you guys about it and I say this is completely wrong. We should not be doing this to young quarterbacks who are still progressing in that league. We're doing that with Bryce Young. We're doing that with Jordan Love. And that's our common thing. We're like, oh, they're not playing well. We do it with Zach Wilson. They're not playing well.

Let's get rid of them. We got to find a new guy. In reality, you need to stick with these guys. You need to build confidence in them. It does not come easy, right? It does not come easy.

The Edge with Micah Parsons. See, I like it because as a defensive player, he can see what these guys are doing, right? And as a veteran defensive player, the more quarterbacks you see, the more you can recognize whether or not they actually are reading what's happening on your side of the line.

Whether or not they can tell. Whether or not they're susceptible for interceptions or if they leave themselves exposed. They don't get rid of the ball quick enough. You're seeing all of this firsthand at field level. For him to say, you got to give Jordan Love time to develop, right? You've got to give Bryce Young time to develop. It's way too early. I think speaks to the fact that all these guys recognize there is a transition.

The speed of the game is what I hear over and over about the major difference and why you have to get acclimated. And then think about it. The quarterback is the only guy on the field that has the ball in his hands as much as he does. And he's the target for all of these defensive players, right?

So it's, I wouldn't say it's one versus eleven. Yeah, there's an offensive line. You've got guys who can chip and guys who can block. But the entire goal of a defense is to get the quarterback and get the ball, right?

Well, at least pass rushers like Micah Parsons. So I think that's quite an endorsement. The fact that he is a fan of Jordan Love's and look, now you're seeing what he is capable of. If you missed that conversation with Andy, I did post it on our Facebook page, but I had, I don't know what happened to me, a mind blank or something and I forgot to post it on Twitter, but I will.

So check it out either place and also send your questions for Ask Amy anything. Alright, one more and this is Micah using his podcast to join the chorus. This is the most popular hot take this week about the college football playoff and Florida State not being included in the Final Four. Do you believe FSU was snubbed?

I do truly believe they were snubbed. I understand this was one of the hardest things to do, but you cannot do that to a group of men who are trying to build the sport. This was absolutely wrong. This should have not been done. This is a mockery of the sport and this is why people are starting not to take college football as seriously because of things like this.

I feel bad for FSU. This shouldn't have been done to them. They beat top matchups.

Even without Travis, they are winning. The people who chose the top four, what they did this year makes no sense. No sense. Alright, that's full of hot takes. That 30 seconds, it may not even be 30 seconds, may have had 30 hot takes in it. Not to mention these sound effects. How do we take Micah Parsons seriously in one of his rants when there's all these like Nickelodeon sound effects in the background? Can we hear it again just for fun?

Even like part of it with the sound effects? This was absolutely wrong. This should have not been done. This is a mockery of the sport and this is why people are starting not to take college football as seriously because of things like this. I feel bad for FSU. This shouldn't have been done to them. They beat top matchups. Even without Travis, they are winning.

Okay, first of all, the swooshes. It sounds like someone is swinging a driver near his head and just completely whiffing, right? That's what it sounds like. Someone's got a driver.

He's sitting next to a driving range and someone is swinging the golf club as hard as he or she can and completely whiffing, making no contact. No sense. No sense.

No sense. I think that's what it is. Someone's swinging a driver right behind his head and then the pop. That's like pop a top. So bad for FSU.

This shouldn't have been done to them. They beat top matchups even with... Let's see. It's either a ball... So you know the lottery balls?

They pop up into the little tube. It's either that or... I'm not the kind of person that can pop my cheek. Can you do that? No. A little bit. That's it right there. That's the sound. It's just got a little bit of a higher tone to it.

They beat top matchups even with... It's close. It's close. Or you know what else? When you were a kid, did you ever play boggle? I know that, yes. Well, it had some balls in underneath it but you pop that pop down, right? That little dome. With the pain, right?

You pop it down and it pops back up. That's kind of fun. Can we change the entire focus of the show where all we do is rhyming? Let's see.

He went through the sticks with his kicks to make the Bengals in the mix at 6-6, right? If you missed all of that, well I'm so sorry. Many of you were really getting into it.

Then he has his pick of the chicks and many twicks. So we had fun with that in our last hour of our previous show. But if we're not rhyming like Dr. Seuss, maybe we can just make sound effects. That's cheating. Can you do that? Can I do... No.

I can do this one. That's good. Do you know what that was? Ow. That was a face palm. I'm going to have a red mark.

I can't have any red marks before the wedding, Jay. Stop doing that. Go do that sound effect again.

Go ahead. Ow, ow, ow. I can't do... How do you do that? Are you playing something on the computer at the same time? No, that's me. No way. Oh my gosh. See, I can't do it all the time. Wow.

Why are we such children? You used to do that in high school in the back of the class and people would be like, who is that? Great.

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This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Time to ask Amy anything. Sort of. Hit me with your best shot. Fire away. We've only got two of these left before 2024.

How about that? I suppose theoretically, except that Jay and I won't be working together. We could do one on the last show that I'm hosting before New Year's Eve.

So that'll be December 27th. The problem is I don't know who's going to be in the chair and I'll be in Houston and the producer filling in for Jay will be here. So that makes me less than confident that we aren't going to have a complete and total blow up show.

I am really nervous. I actually got in touch with the manager, asked him who. So he had put on the schedule the dude who stood us up the last two times. So I said right away, negative ghost rider. Yeah, we can't we can't trust him. He stood us up with hours to go before the show started the last two times.

Yeah, the worst. It's time for your questions to get answered. If you have wedding questions, Christmas questions. Well, we actually tackled a big chunk of your best questions on our latest video. So look for it on YouTube after hours with Amy Lawrence. I haven't put the link up on social yet, but I will. But it's easy. Ask Amy walks down the aisle at Christmas.

It's a combo. So we'll do more Christmas and there are great Christmas questions and you got to go check out. Yes, but we'll do a little bit of Christmas here as we'll do more next week.

We're going to do a little teaser here. So Gregory asks, have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? I haven't started my Christmas shopping yet. So part of my Christmas gift giving this year is wrapped up in the wedding.

So, for instance, my bridesmaids, I'm paying for them to get their hair and their makeup done and mom, too, actually. But a lot of what Bob and I are doing as Christmas gifts is experiences. And so we're not necessarily having to wrap something because with a move and two cross country drives and a wedding and everything that's involved with all the people who are traveling.

La la la. Yeah, I don't think we're going to be wrapping a bunch of boxes, but we do have some fun surprises for our families that are more about experiences. Well, you brought it up before I get back to Christmas. Teresa asked, while driving cross country, would you be listening to music or audio books or what's the entertainment? Well, so here's what we have to do on our drive. One of the things we have to do, we have to put together the seating chart. And since we're going to be stuck in a vehicle to get well, stuck, sorry, sorry, babe.

Since we're going to be in a vehicle together for 24 hours, that's when we'll be doing the seating chart for our wedding reception. We also are going to shoot what? Oh, we're going to actually go through and write down all of our Christmas experiences. So we know what we're giving everyone, but there's something else we're supposed to be doing.

Shoot. I knew this is why I write everything down. There's one other thing that we have to do while we're driving. But no, we'll end up talking most of the time. I think we do have a few podcasts that we're going to listen to together in advance. And he loves Christmas, so probably some Christmas music. The hope is that with the other person driving, one will be sleeping.

But I don't sleep well when I'm on the move, so I don't think that's going to be me. So, yeah, we'll definitely have to keep ourselves entertained. But I'm sure a mix of podcasts and Christmas seating chart and some other final wedding details before we actually arrive in Houston. Should fly by. Hopefully. You think 24 hours behind the wheel with Penny? Let's see. Let's go back to Christmas here. You've got to bear with me for a minute on this one.

It's a little long, but it's interesting. Oh, OK. So this comes from Patrick and he wants to know what events in the World Santa Claus Championship do you think you would do the best in? And he lists a couple of events here.

So he says chimney climbing, snowball throwing, gingerbread decorating, show snowshoe obstacle course, sleigh races or gift wrapping contest. Well, absolutely. The snowball throwing because I have an arm. It's a cannon for an arm.

Jay's seen it. So I do have an arm. So definitely snowball throwing.

Plus, I grew up in New Hampshire, so I did a lot of that. I would also say the snowshoeing just because I love the mechanism. It's so completely awkward and it makes for the best falls.

Oh, my gosh. Snowshoeing is fun. But once you get the hang of it, it's actually it's cool. And gift wrapping, because I'm a champ at the gift wrapping.

The thing is, if it's a race, I don't know if I would. I'm meticulous about it and I make really nice packages, but I don't know that I do it faster than anyone else. It said gift wrapping contest.

So I'm going to say that's just who can wrap the best. I even know how to squiggle the ribbons. You know how to make the ribbons curly? With the scissor? Yeah, with the squiggles. I actually can't do it, but I've watched my mom do it.

Every time I try to, it just doesn't work. I don't know. Can I throw a Christmas question out here really quickly? That'll be fun. Of course.

Let's pop up on Twitter from our crazy granny, TJ. What's our favorite Christmas morning meal? Oh, well, we eat cookies on Christmas morning. Yeah, we eat Christmas cookies.

That's a we. And then later we'll do like a big egg omelet thing. But while we're unwrapping gifts, it's it's cookies. Like Santa.

Uh huh. Perfect. Last one with Christmas. Connie wants to know, do you mail Christmas cards?

I do periodically. So last year I did mail a bunch of Christmas cards the year before I mailed a few this year. Again, none of the cards that we're mailing out right now are well, first of all, we sent the invites going back way back.

But thank you. Cards is what I'm mailing right now. So no, of all the things that I'm juggling at this point to get ready for the wedding and the move and purging my house. I know when I'm overextended and I'm overextended. I just.

Yeah, Christmas is on the back burner and I feel badly about it, but I hope people understand. Well, you just led me into this next one where Karen asked, how many lists are you managing right now? You should see my wedding book. I could publish my wedding book as a how to manual on planning a wedding in six months.

Now, it doesn't account for when your flowers get lost somewhere in transit in the Lone Star States, a large state, a very large state. But yeah, I've got so many lists and I'm very organized. I've gone by month. I've gone by week.

I've gone by category. I've got a list for everything in a giant planner book that get this has purple flowers on the front. My mom gave it to me last year as a Christmas gift. And it's amazing. How did she know?

How did you know? Purple flowers on the front. And that's perfect for our wedding. So, yes, I do have so many lists. I'll say at this point, probably 50 different lists going back to July, which is when we picked our venue. 50 of them easily. 50. All right, let's get into some food here.

This one is so simple, but I don't know why. I love this question. Well, I'm sorry.

What? Did someone say food? Oh, OK. Mike wants to know, OK, do you buy precut pepperonis or stick pepperoni? What could use some pepperoni right now? Well, when I was a kid, my grandmother bought the stick pepperoni. And that's how my brother and I grew up eating it, is that she would cut the slices for us and put it on a slab of bread with butter. Oh, that was our favorite snack. Oh, my gosh.

It was so good. So I grew up loving pepperoni. I don't actually like it on pizza because it gets very greasy. So I don't I don't like crispy cooked pepperoni. Oily.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan. Now I buy it precut just because I use it with crackers and with cheese. In fact, I have some of my fridge at home, but I prefer the stick. So now and then mom will give me a stick of pepperoni for Christmas.

And it's like the greatest Christmas gift of all time. Ever been right into it? No, no, no. I don't want to lose a tooth in my stick of pepperoni. Another food here. Michael asks, do you have any? Oh, excuse me.

Not without Michael. This comes from David, who wants to know what's your favorite way to cook or eat eggs? Oh, gosh. Well, I routinely make omelets. Love, love, love omelets. So I'll wrap them up in a tortilla.

I'll put tajin. It's my new favorite seasoning. Tajin or salsa. Put cheese in the middle. But I also will do an omelet with a bunch of veggies. I don't mind the dunking. So the sunny side up where you dunk the bread into the yolk.

I really enjoy that as well. But I don't eat as much bread these days. By the way, Jay, I'm a week and a half into no desserts. And it's got to be the toughest thing I've ever done.

It's right up there with running a half marathon in a hurricane. I could imagine. You declined my Snickers yesterday. Bob's a big fat jerk because he's like, oh, I actually had my first craving for dessert today. Like, oh, my gosh. Yeah. First time every five minutes I have a craving for dessert.

But here's the crazy part. Here's my test of my amazing willpower. Do you think that I'll be able to do this? I am baking cookies.

Friday is my cookie baking day for Christmas and for the wedding. Do you think I'll be able? He doesn't believe me that I'm going to be able to go all the way through that without eating a cookie. Gosh, it's going to be hard.

I think you can do it. I can't even lick the batter off of the mixer. But that's but I can't. That's the that's dessert. That's not cheating.

That's just a little. Come on, Jay. You are no good for me. I wouldn't be able to do it. I know you wouldn't. My gosh. Michael wants to know, do you have any favorite comedians, old or current?

Oh, that's a good question. Not really. It's not necessarily my genre. I do think that Chris Rock is really funny. And so I enjoy Chris Rock. I think I mean, these are not necessarily comedians. Well, Steve Martin was really funny, too. I really enjoyed Steve Martin. Not necessarily comedians, but trying to think of who. I mean, gosh, Will Ferrell's hysterically funny. So, yeah, I'm not really comedians, but those are funny guys.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind. Listen, I really like it's not what's his name? Tim, the tool man, Thomas.

Yes. Tim, the tool man. Tim Allen. He's really funny, too. So those are just people I think are funny.

I'm not really a comedian person. Rich wants to know if you could host any game show. Family Feud, Family Feud, Family Feud. I'm a huge actually I want to participate in Family Feud. I love Family Feud.

It is the best game show. Jean wants to know who are some of your favorite authors. Oh, gosh. Well, Francis Matthews, Francine Matthews is one of them. Agatha Christie is another one. Let's see. Timothy Zahn. He's the great science fiction writer and has written a ton of incredible Star Wars material. So that's another one.

Yeah, those are probably my my top ones right now. All right. This one's before rapid fire. Kevin says my six year old just started in Perry. Sorry. In Perry Mysteries. My fault.

Go. Kevin says my six year old just started to learn about Star Wars and wants to watch. Do I start with Episode four or from Episode one? He only knows Darth Vader and the droids. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

You have to start with Episode four just because you need to march him through the progression of this is how I learned about Star Wars. And you can experience it again like you did when you were younger. And we rapid fire rake or shovel shovel cook or be cooked for. Oh, cook cook group project or solo work. I do not like group projects. Solo work.

I end up doing all the work. I think you answered this before, but speed or accuracy. Pandas or koalas? Oh, gosh. Polar bears.

All right. A nine hour flight or a 12 hour train ride. Nine hour flight. Mariah Carey or Michael Buble? Michael Buble. It's after hours.

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