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Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I think it's both. I think you like to follow the directions, but you also love creating something. And I just want to like be of service to people. So I just love serving people food that I've made. I think that's what it is.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I'm always thinking that. I'm like, well, maybe they're just saying that. So my poor husband, I'm constantly like, do you actually think it's good? And then he tells me and reassures me, but I don't always buy it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I'm quitting. Okay. I can't even use second and thirds because my family and my husband's family, they would do second and thirds maybe even if it wasn't their favorite. They're just that type of family on Thanksgiving where they're really loading up.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
It's a holiday, so you just have to just go for it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Not me so much. Maybe my husband and my brother-in-law might have it on. I've heard vaguely that they're doing better this season.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, we're going to go ceramic, I think, just to be on the safe side.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Well, thank you guys so much. I know you hear this all the time, but thank you for everything you do. I am like a day one arm cherry. I get so much out of the show. This is surreal, but I really, really appreciate everything you guys do over there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
That's really lucky. We're critical, you know. I know. I know. High bar.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Oh, my God. No, you guys deserve it. You guys are doing awesome things.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Absolutely. We'll see if it holds. Fingers crossed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Very much. You'll appreciate actually this shelf collapsed recently. And yesterday I forced my husband to fix it because I was like, I'm talking to Dax and Monica. I got to get in the closet. Wow. So it's got to be perfect. So we're back in tip-top shape here.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, I won't say how long it has been down for his sake, but it was more than a day. Ha ha ha.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, I'm thrilled that we're back in action here because I, like you, Monica, I love my clothes. I want them to have their special space.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, yeah, you got it. I am in Richmond, Virginia.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I like that. You're spreading the word. Absolutely.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
It does. This was probably 2018. And actually, at the time, my husband and I were living in New York. We're high school sweethearts, so our families actually all live in Richmond. And so we'd always come home for the holidays. And we hadn't really joined the families together yet for like a big holiday meal. So this year, we actually just got married.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
And so our moms were like, hey, we should do one big Thanksgiving meal with everybody together. And my mom offered to host, which was great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Very. Our parents knew each other well, but it's the first time hosting the big family thing. There was some pressure. She wanted it to go really well. And my mom is...
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
great cook great host but one thing i will say about my mom which she wouldn't cover your ears mom to admit but she's not the best when it comes to time management oh sure it's hard in the kitchen it's shockingly hard people make schedules for the day of like this goes in the oven at this time this come and that comes out and this goes in you got to be organized yeah yeah my mom's more like i've got this she's not writing anything down really and
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Absolutely. She always pulled it off. The guests would never know. But my sister and I, we know. We experience it. And that hour before people arrive, it can get pretty dicey. So Monica, fun fact, I'm a Virgo too. So knowing this, I was like, I got to keep this on track. I'm going to show up early just to help her out, make a schedule, keep things going.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
To my surprise and to my mom's credit, she's got it under control. We've got the turkey on track. Table is set. Things are really going well. And I stopped and was like, we're going to really pull this off without any last minute meltdowns, any chaos. And I'm sure you can sense where this is headed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, I want to say we're like a 4 p.m., 5 p.m. type of Thanksgiving. Like not afternoon, but not normal dinner time. So an early evening was the plan.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
This was, I think, maybe 4 p.m. That is definitely not the time we ate, though.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
So about an hour before everyone arrived and my mom was like, hey, we got to take the mashed potatoes out of the fridge. She had made them the night before again. Great preparation ahead. She took them out of the fridge, but the potatoes were in like a cold glass casserole dish. So she's an experienced cook. She knows like dishes like that. You can't just put them right in the hot, hot oven.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
So she's like, let's sit them out and let them warm up a little bit before we stick them in the oven. The place that my mom chose to sit the potatoes to come to room temperature was on top of the oven, which had obviously been on all day cooking the turkey. But also, we've had things on that stove top all day. We had just taken something off.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
And luckily, my mom had walked to the other side of the kitchen to grab something because at least what felt like within a few seconds, the potatoes and the dish completely exploded. Explosion, yes.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Yeah, I knew that could happen, but I guess in my mind, I thought it would crack sort of. This was a full, I mean, essentially a bomb.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
It was so loud. My mom and I, I don't know why this was our first thought, but we both thought someone had like fired a gun in the house.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
dad's firing his gun again on thanksgiving didn't take as long to realize what happened because there was glass and potatoes everywhere in the kitchen this is a normal size kitchen but i'm not exaggerating when i say there were shards of glass every square into this kitchen other side of the room in the sink fuck what about the other food in the other food yeah oh it
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
working on the stovetop completely filled with glass. We have just set the rolls out to rise and they're just laced with shards of glass. This is devastating. It's devastating. And of course, she works so hard to do this on time with her And it's just a wash. And so we like kind of processed what happened. And then I looked at my mom and was like, are we still hosting Thanksgiving?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Like we have this turkey in the oven, but like that was pretty much all that was left. And people were bringing a couple of dishes. The things you're looking forward to at Thanksgiving were pretty much ruined other than the turkey. Oh. And looking back, we really should have called the whole thing off. I was married to my husband. Like, who are we trying to impress?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
My mom and I are borderline approval junkies. Show must go on. So we were like, we'll just make it work. Not really thinking through what the next couple hours are going to look like. So first things first, I call my husband and I'm like, one, you got to tell your parents, like, we're not eating anything. at four or five or whatever it was. Like we got to push this whole thing back.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Don't get into it with them on the phone. Just tell them there was an incident and we'll explain later. And then of course I was like, and then you need to get over here because I need an extra set of hands on this cleanup. Like this is like an hours long job. So he gets over there.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
And then one Easter egg that I forgot to mention, which is we actually weren't able to get everyone together on Thanksgiving Day. This was the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. So luckily, grocery stores were open. So I called my sister and was like, hey, you got to go to the store and pick some store bought potatoes and rolls and gravy up and bring it over.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
So we have something to serve with this turkey. Of course, my mom's listening to me like rumbling, like, I can't believe I have to store store bought food on Thanksgiving. And I was like, there's been an explosion.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Absolutely. My mom was looking around and was like, oh man, what a shame. Like I have all these extra sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts I didn't end up using, but those things take so long to actually cook and like soften up in the oven. So we just don't have time. We had 30 minutes before his family was going to show up. It was Black Friday.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I had done some shopping that morning and I had gotten my mom an air fryer. And it was in my trunk. And I was like, I don't want to ruin her Christmas gift early. But I know she wants this to go really well. She wants to serve like a full Thanksgiving meal. We didn't have any vegetables to serve. So I was like, hold on a second.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I go out in the trunk, get the air fryer and was like, Merry early Christmas. It's 2018. She's like, I don't know what an air fryer is.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Well, this was just Brussels sprouts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
But she, of course, was like, what am I supposed to do with this? And I explained, like, we can have crispy, delicious veggies ready in, like, 20, 30 minutes. So we popped that open. We chopped up some veggies. And we had them on the table, like, by the time everybody was there to eat. And, of course, it wasn't as good as it would have been if my mom had... made it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
But we have pretty much all the hits for Thanksgiving. And also it made for obviously great conversation over the dinner with everybody. My mom still jokes that she finds pieces of glass in her kitchen to this day.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
Oh, yeah. We were shoes on in that house for months. My mom had to wear shoes forever. It was a disaster.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
My mom could never. She's like using the old family recipes.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I guess we've sort of alternated who's doing it. I have somehow decided that I would host this year.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving II
I'm like you, Monica. I love to cook. I'm excited, but I hope nothing like this happens. I've really learned my lesson. This is a PSA, honestly.
On Fire with Jeff Probst: The Official Survivor Podcast
You've Been Marooned | Survivor 48
I have autism. And that's a really big part of my life. It's not something, but that's not something I wanted to advertise in the game. And I wanted to share that with you because you're the person I trust the most out here.
On Fire with Jeff Probst: The Official Survivor Podcast
You've Been Marooned | Survivor 48
I've never seen it as a roadblock, but when I was a little kid, told my mom I would never live independently, that I would never hold a job, that at most they could hope that I would like marry someone with autism as well.
On Fire with Jeff Probst: The Official Survivor Podcast
You've Been Marooned | Survivor 48
And my parents were like, we're not settling. We're not going to give up on our kid. They always raised me to believe that this was not a problem, that this is not something bad or wrong with you. You just have this thing, and it makes you unique. And so I'm so thankful that they believe in me.
On Fire with Jeff Probst: The Official Survivor Podcast
You've Been Marooned | Survivor 48
Oh, my God, Lina! Oh, my God! How would you like to be on season 48? No way! Yes! Oh, my God! Get out of here.