Armchair Anonymous: Thanksgiving III
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm... And I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Hi.
It's that time of year. The seasons are upon us.
It's holiday time.
It's the holidays. I love the holidays, Monica. Me too. Me too.
It makes me feel very, very dusty.
I feel bad for Bah Humbuggers. A, I'm sad that they're missing out on the joy I have. But then additionally, can you imagine if you didn't like it and then everyone around you loved it? That would really compound it.
That'd be hard.
It'd be really hard. But that's not us, luckily. We love it. No, we love it. Yeah. Of course, for this holiday of giving thanks, we have Thanksgiving disasters. Thanksgiving's always good for some disasters, and we have them today. Please enjoy Thanksgiving disasters.
Hard times come and go. Hello.
Hi.
What fake name are we going to go with?
Whatever you want to give me.
Okay, I'm looking at you. You've got kind of a cool dark vibe about you.
That's just because I'm in my dark closet.
No, it's a good vibe.
Okay, how about Jenna?
Oh, great. I love it.
You know how I got there?
Tell me.
Dark vibes. Wednesday with Jenna Ortega.
Oh, very nice. And you seem to have behind you a shirt that I've been looking for for 15 years and just recently got, right? That's a checkered button-down lumberjack-y shirt.
Me, my husband, and both of my kids all have matching shirts of that, actually.
Oh, I want to hang with you guys. I hope you went to a cider mill matching.
Every weekend, yes.
Okay, so you're somewhere in the Midwest-y?
Yeah, I'm actually in Naperville, so Rob would know it. Oh, he'd know it very well, he would.
Inside and out, some would say.
Yes.
What Thanksgiving disasters are shared in this episode?
Okay, so you have a Thanksgiving disaster store, or just Thanksgiving. I don't know if it'll be a disaster.
It's a disaster.
Oh, okay, great. You could have won the lottery on Thanksgiving. I guess that'd be worthy of a... That's a story.
That would have been a preferable story to this one.
Oh, great.
So I grew up in the Midwest, and I have a very big family. So this story takes place about 20 years ago. And my dad is one of 12, and eight of them are girls. Lots of us. Yeah. So because of this, our holidays were always crazy, chaotic.
Yeah, what do you guys rent an arena to have a Thanksgiving? How the fuck do you accommodate this many people?
Sometimes we would try to like break off into groups, but that always had its own drama of who was going where and when. So about 20 years ago, my aunt, I'm going to call her my Aunt Sally, is newly married and had just bought her first big girl house. So she wanted to host Thanksgiving. And this was a typical 90s house. So there's carpet everywhere, white carpet, including in the dining room and the living room and pretty much everywhere besides the kitchen and the bathroom. So there's just white carpeting on the floor.
Ambitious.
Especially for hosting your first Thanksgiving. And there's about 35 people there. And my aunt is very high strung. So think Monica from Friends is very much how my aunt is. And Monica from Armchair Expert.
Yeah.
And so she's spending a lot of the time making sure coasters are under drinks and sweeping up crumbs to make sure nothing is staining anything in her brand new house. So we all get there. It's probably around noon and we are not eating until five or six. So there's been five hours of just mingling, eating, drinking. And for my one uncle, who's an alcoholic, at this point, he's been having liquid snacks up until we sit down for dinner. And he's had between one and two, two liter bottles of Coke with Jack. So his drink of choice was Jack and diet. That's taxes.
So he went through four liters of Coca-Cola, which means he went through a fifth in change of Jack.
What's normally the ratio.
If you're responsible, a third Jack, two thirds Coke. If you're pretty normal, half, half. If you're like Aaron and I, you want like 70% Jack, 30% Coke.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:22
2
What Thanksgiving disasters are shared in this episode?
2:22–6:50
3
How did a Thanksgiving dinner turn chaotic?
6:50–12:09
4
What happened when Uncle Eddie had too much to drink?
12:09–18:01
5
How did a family gathering lead to unexpected chaos?
18:01–27:16
6
What challenges arise when hosting Thanksgiving for a large family?
27:16–45:40