Weekly Pet Roundup: PET DANGERS with Elf on the Shelf

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And how is everybody surviving
the holidays?

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Because we are in it.
We are in the holiday season is

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December 9th.
I'm going with not well I well I

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I have not put a single
decoration up which is very

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unlikely.
I normally put 5 trees up like.

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Why 5?
Because I like Christmas.

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I normally like Christmas and I
have a big house.

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I have a room. 5 is a lot.
I know.

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Your cats have their own, like
domain, their own compound.

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I have one cat.
Yeah, and they get their own.

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Tree.
They get their own tree usually.

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Yeah.
What?

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Kind of tree do.
They get, it's like, I mean it's

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really cute.
Like it, it's a little 4 foot

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tree.
I have a bunch of four foot

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tree.
I actually have like 5-4 foot

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trees.
I just didn't put all of them up

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last year.
And so they get their own little

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4 foot tree that's pre lit and
then I put it has like cute

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little like miniature stockings
on it and then some like Winnie

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the Pooh ornaments and stuff,
stuff that's like for my other

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trees, they're generally themed.
So my cat tree is kind of like

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crunchy.
Crunchy how?

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Like.
Like like typical 90s, nothing

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matches.
Kind of like and I I don't do

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that with my other trees.
Like I, I like that.

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That's kind of how mine is most
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Like, kitschy, like kitschy kind
of like, you know, just like a

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mishmash of sentimental things,
is what?

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Mine is well, and I think when
you have kids, especially young

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kids, like that's just kind of
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Well, right now I have the kids
and the cat who does like attack

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the tree.
So there were all anything that

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was glass or metal like heavy
was not put out this year.

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Last year I didn't put out any
ornaments.

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I just put out the tree.
I remember that.

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Yeah, so this year I did
decorate with some ornaments

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that are not valuable.
Some of them are beautiful, like

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wooden ornaments handmade in
Europe, but they're not

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breakable, right?
So like he, he could, he's not

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going to hurt them other than
dropping them.

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And they won't break if they
fall because they're solid wood.

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So those are fine.
But I cannot light the tree.

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I'm not comfortable lighting the
tree yet because he does get

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into it and I'm scared he'd be
not like he'd gnaw on the on the

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wires.
So right now I have like these

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little spotlights that I bought
for my kids, like 5th birthday.

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He was doing Sonic like glow in
the dark at this like local

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place.
And so I bought these little

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spotlights and I put them on the
bottom of the tree in red and

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green for the kids to like kind
of see some light in there.

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But yeah, it's not the same.
I don't like love my tree.

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We actually bought this unlit
tree last year, smallish and

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it's just like kind of plain
because of the cat.

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I have a beautiful pre lit
Christmas tree.

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I don't do natural trees.
I don't like it.

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I feel like it's wasteful.
I also worry about all of like

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the the fire hazard, especially
because it's so dry here when it

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like, you know, like it can
overheat.

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I don't love the pets like
drinking the water because of

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all the chemicals in there.
So there's a lot of reasons why

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I like as much as I love a
natural tree in like Ruidoso or

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Cloudcroft, which is like
nearby, which is like a

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beautiful like very green wooded
area.

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I love to see them there.
But like here, I'd rather just

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do my made in China tree that I
can use for years and years and

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years.
And then once I'm done with it,

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I can give it away because
they're usually still in such

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good shape for so long.
They are that I feel like we can

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really use those over and over
again.

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But yeah, Nope, no lights, no
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Which sucks because it's like at
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Yeah, you want to see that Like
it's very calming and

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comforting.
And then yeah, I get that.

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I get that.
I don't think I like, I have

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plugged in trees in my cat room
before, but I think the past

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couple years I didn't just out
of like an abundance of caution,

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yeah.
And you have older cats too, who

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are smarter.
I feel like my cat is is

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actually really good.
And he only now attacks the tree

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if I'm hanging another ornament
on it.

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He's like, oh, we're doing this
again.

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The day that I put it up, he was
all over it, right?

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Like, Oh my gosh, couldn't get
enough of it.

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But now that he's kind of gotten
used to it being there, if I

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approach it and mess with it,
then he's like, what are we

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doing?
But otherwise, I don't think he

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spends any time in there.
And I've been working from home

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all day today and I, I've not
heard him mess with the tree

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once.
I do think the kids are messing

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with the tree more than the cat.
And they already asked where,

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when the, the, the presents are
going to be put under the tree.

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And we went to Disney This World
this year.

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So we went to Disney World for
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It was very expensive trip.
You know it just as much as you

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try to be responsible at Disney,
you can't.

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So we that was the Christmas
present for everybody like that.

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All the souvenirs we bought, all
the things we did that was

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Christmas presents.
So my in laws did send them some

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presents that I have to wrap
this week and put under there.

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But I'm scared because they're
at the age that I feel like

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they're going to open them.
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And like I could even see maybe
more Noah than Mila, but like

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trying to like sneakily open it
and wrap re wrap it kind of

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that's.
What I used to do as a kid, so I

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know him exactly.
So I know him well enough to

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know that he would totally do
that.

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Mila's not like she doesn't have
the malice yet.

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She'll develop, Yeah, I'm sure.
But she's like, still little.

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But yeah.
So we do have the elves to help

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us with that though.
So the elves.

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So whoever's joining us that
didn't see this is the weekly

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pet roundup.
We do this every week about a

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different topic that's kind of
trending.

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And this one is something that I
recommended just because it's

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not trending as much as it
should be.

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And it's the Elf on the Shelf
trend, right?

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The these elves get into mayhem
and you know, they have these

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antics every year from like
December 1st through Christmas.

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And there's a lot of different
variations of how the elves

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behave.
But a lot of what you see online

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on social media is like them
getting into messes.

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And a lot of these, my mom
thinks it's adorable.

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So she sends me these videos and
a lot of these are very, very

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cute, super imaginative, super
fun.

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However, they use some really
dangerous ingredients for our

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pets.
So I don't know how we aren't

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speaking about this more.
I know for my clients, I've been

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encouraging them to talk about
this topic, their pet industry

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businesses that you know, that
they do a lot of marketing

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that's kind of content marketing
where you like share information

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and best practices and stuff.
And a couple of my clients have

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been putting out blogs about
these elves this week and last

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week.
But like, I haven't seen it

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enough.
And that's why I wanted to talk

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about it because while it can be
a fun tradition, we need to make

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sure we're not putting our four
legged kids at risk, right?

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While we're like making our two
legged kids giddy with joy

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around the Christmas holiday.
So I just want to say before we

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get into the whole like pet part
of this, the reason that I am

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not a big fan of Elf on the
Shelf is because they're there's

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some rationale for the idea that
I don't what it's Sandra

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something I don't know who
created it.

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So Elf on the Shelf has only
been around since 2005 and

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somehow people, a lot of people
like it is so ingrained in

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tradition that like people don't
remember a time without.

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I remember a time without.
I never had it I.

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Never had it.
I never had.

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No plans of implementing it in
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I've never.
Yeah, I never had.

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A0 interest in them because it
wasn't part of my tradition at

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all.
But the the marketing behind

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this came out strong.
It is always from the very

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beginning said a Christmas
tradition.

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And some of the lore behind this
is that because she apparently

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said, and I was trying to find
it on the website, but

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apparently she said that like
this idea came to her from an

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elf from her childhood.
And fairy or fairies are, if you

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have any, like knowledge of
folklore.

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And I think it's wise to maybe
dabble in it just a little bit.

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We we don't know what we don't
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Like there is so much out there.
Like literally there are there

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are like UUFOS over New Jersey
right now that people are like,

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what is going on?
Like it's OK to be like there's

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stuff that we don't know or
understand in this.

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World, that person who says I
have no idea, could be, could

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not be.
And if there are UFOSI just

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don't want them to appear to me.
Yeah, I don't want the way that

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I feel about witches.
Sorry, she's just, she's just

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her.
So it, and I don't want to get

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down the rabbit hole of the UFOs
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but I just say that to say that
we don't know so much, so very

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much that nothing surprises me
anymore.

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And I don't take anything for
like, I try not to be super

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naive about anything.
Like, OK, I'm going to bank

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that.
And I'm going to say right now,

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I don't know that I believe in
that, but I'm going to bank it.

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Yeah, exactly.
I completely agree.

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Like I I never say never.
So fairies specifically if you

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get into this.
So I went to, so I, I've seen

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like from people who have
masters in folklore and things

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like that, like that.
I, I have some weird stuff in my

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algorithm now.
I went to ChatGPT.

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I have some weird stuff in my
algorithm.

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I love that so much.
You do Harley beer?

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I can only imagine.
I went to ChatGPT and I said act

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as if you have a master's in
folklore and tell me why we do

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not want to invite Faye into our
home and it gave me a whole

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bunch of reasons.
Basically, they have their own

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sense of justice, etiquette, and
logic that can be not just

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foreign but dangerous to humans.
Inviting them into your home

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might obligate you to unknowable
or unreasonable terms.

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A casual welcome can be
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stay indefinitely or to act
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They that that kind of sums it
up, but there's a lot more.

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Like they it says they demand
reciprocity.

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They they are literally the
definition of give them an inch.

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They will take a mile
misinterpretations, a lot of

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misinterpretations between
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Like you have to be Uber Uber
specific and try to dot your IS

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and cross your T's and not leave
any loopholes because they will

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find a loophole or make a
loophole because they have their

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own set of rules that they live
by.

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And it's they're very, very
mischievous, tricky creatures.

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And basically the, the kind of
lore behind elf on the shelf is

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that this elf that this lady
grew up grew up with, she made a

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deal with this fairy and said
that she wanted to be rich.

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And the elf said let's do it
because I want to be powerful.

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And so she has since made many,
many, many, many, many, many

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millions of dollars and put this
fairy in many, many homes,

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millions of homes.
And basically people cannot

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remember like he is ingrained in
Christmas tradition and people

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like he is.
He is almost as powerful and all

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knowing and all seen as Santa
who could potentially also be

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considered they.
So I love you.

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Thank.
So much.

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You are such an oddball.
I love you so much.

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You are such an oddball.
This is not at all where the

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conversation was, I know, headed
in my head, in my mind.

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I.
Had this is not where we're

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going to start, but I love that
we're starting here because I

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like, I'm not a huge fan of Elf
on the Shelf either.

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And obviously giving like a
carte blanche to like a creature

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in my home.
I've already done that with

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Satchmo the angry dog and Van
Gogh the the sweet cat and Kira

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the mess of nerves dog.
So like I feel like I don't want

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to give up any more of my power
to this home full of like we

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have 7 creatures in this home
including myself.

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It's a lot of oh.
My gracious Yeah.

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But we don't need any more like
influences here.

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I the so the Elf on the Shelf
was given to me.

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I have two of them.
I don't have one.

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I have two.
OK, I have a male and a female.

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OK, I was given them by my
friend Debbie who used to live

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up the street from me and she
was, she gave me a ton of hand

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me downs, including these elves.
And she was like, I'm going to

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give them to you.
My kids already outgrew them.

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Her kids are teenagers now and
you know, if you want to use

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them.
So I didn't think much of it.

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My kids, I think we started it
last year and, and in my case

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only because I was like, I
already have them.

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What do I do?
Do I use them and like, you

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know, they're becoming trendy so
I was like, I'll use them.

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So what we do with them in my
house is they're actually the

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bringers of the candy of the
advent calendar.

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They're the ones who bring the
candy.

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That is it.
They are not informants for for

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Santa Claus.
They are, they're not sneaky,

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but they're kind of, they don't
communicate in the same way that

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we do.
So they kind of leave messages.

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So the first day they came,
there was only one.

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I could only find one of them.
The other one I only found his

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hat.
So I put her out.

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Her name is Molly.
And I put MO his hat out and I

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didn't put anything else.
So then no one went to school

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and told them about that.
And he said that apparently he

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came back and reported to me
that apparently there was a

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snowstorm in the North Pole and
a lot of elves were delayed.

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I.
See, so maybe that's why we only

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got his hat and not his whole
being.

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The next day he showed up, him
and Molly just hung out and they

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just be.
When the elves are there, they

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know that they open up the
little box of the advent

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calendar we have that I got at
TJ Maxx or HomeGoods.

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Like not a fancy thing.
They open it and there's candy

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inside one, one piece for each.
So that's it.

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That's what our elves do.
However, I do find that the

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elves are good motivators.
And that's where you get stuck

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in this like situation where you
almost fall with this informant

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situation.
Like I don't like the Big

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Brother idea that my kids are
being watched like Santa Claus

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is not watching here.
Like I, I don't have that

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message for them.
I feel like that's creepy AF.

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I don't like that.
Like my kids should feel that

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they are safe and not being
watched by anybody in their

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home.
That is how I feel like I should

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be able to live.
So I feel like my kids should

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feel that way too.
They know where we have cameras,

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like they have a camera in
certain areas.

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And so I tell them like don't
change in front of the camera,

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blah, blah, blah.
So I really do like try so hard

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to not make them feel like they
gave up their privacy, even if

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they're four and seven.
But the other day I had the

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elves kind of do fun things.
The first night they were just

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there was only one.
The second night they were

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together.
The third night, I can't

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remember what they did.
The fourth night they were like

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sitting on my stove with like a
little bowl of like red noodles

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with it's like this Mexican
candy that's chili based and

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like chopsticks.
So they were like cooking or

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eating.
And then then I put them fishing

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in like I have a fishbowl glass.
Of course I do because I'm boozy

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and I put like a little fishing.
I made like a little fishing rod

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and I put some Swedish fish in
there.

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And so it said like gone fishing
and like that's what they were

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doing.
They were just fishing.

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The next day I was Chris was
gone.

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He travelled this weekend.
He just got back, went straight

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to pick up the kids.
So thanks Chris.

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So I could do this and he left
me obviously in the middle of

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Christmas, so much stuff going
on, blah, blah, blah.

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And so I just put the two elves
in the fishbowl the next day,

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like the fishbowl that they had
put big fishing from, I just put

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them in.
And then my kids started being

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like, Mila's not that into it.
But Noah really is, he's 7.

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And they're, they talk about it
at school a lot.

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So it's like very much ingrained
in the tradition, like you said,

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because they talk about it
constantly.

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And he was like, why are they in
the fishbowl?

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Like, what are they doing in
there?

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And like Noah's trying to like
read between the lines, figure

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stuff out.
And again, I'm limited with how

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creative I can get because of my
pets.

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And we'll talk about like
certain things that people are

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doing that concern me.
But then Noah started being

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like, oh, I think, and I said,
because they hadn't, they hadn't

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showered in a minute.
So I was like, I think they're

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trying to tell us that we all
need to take baths.

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Like we all need to take showers
or baths.

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Like, let's see if they're happy
with us doing that.

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And so they took a shower.
Mila took a bath on Saturday.

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They both took showers
yesterday.

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And so I put away the fishbowl.
Like it went away.

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Like, so they took their shower.
Awesome.

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And and I don't say for sure
that that's the message.

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We kind of try to interpret it
and see like where our

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creativity takes us.
That's the only thing I could

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come up with being like, oh, you
guys, maybe you need baths.

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And then yesterday we have a
little thing that I bought at

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home goods that's like the
naughty or nice scale.

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And then in the middle it's it
says needs work.

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So I put them next to that and I
put it on needs work just so

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that I can encourage them to,
you know, do their best and

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behave well.
But you know, the, the elves, I

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guess, are the ones delivering
that message.

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And Noah was like, elves are
mean.

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I hope you leave.
I'm not.

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I don't need work.
And I'm like, I think you do.

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Like yesterday you did this and
this.

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It's that you got in trouble at
school last week.

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So maybe they're just trying to
remind you that like you have,

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there's room for improvement and
you can do it.

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They believe you can do it, so
that is what they did yesterday.

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So here are a few things I have
planned for the remainder of the

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Christmas holiday.
And mine don't get into messes

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every day.
I don't have time for that.

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My kids also sleep with me so
it's hard for me to like sneak

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away because they're so spoiled
when it comes to sleep.

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And like I can't fight them
anymore on sleep.

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They won't sleep by themselves.
That's a whole other topic for a

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whole other conversation, and
probably a whole other audience.

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But I cannot, I just can't fight
with them anymore about sleep.

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So I just like lie down with
them.

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I eventually just like fall
asleep or I work while they fall

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asleep, whatever.
So tonight, because Chris is

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back, I'll probably do one of
the more creative things that I

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have.
And it's I got a potato and I'm

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going to draw a little scared
face on the potato like, and I'm

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going to put it next to a cheese
grater and then on the cheese

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grater.
And then I'll put Pringles on

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the bottom so that it looks like
we're making potato chips with

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that potato, potato the the
chips.

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I'll probably add the chips in
the morning when I let the dog

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out before the kids get out of
bed.

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So that but the potato, it's
going to be whole, like the cat

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won't get into it, I don't
think.

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So I'm OK with that.
I don't love leaving stuff out

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all night just because you don't
know what your pets are going to

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get into, especially a cat who
has access.

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So I might just like cover it
with like a Tupperware and then

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just like uncover it really
quick so that they don't catch

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because again, it's like this
balancing act and so stressful

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for no reason because it's so
stupid.

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But that's one thing I'll do.
And then I have another idea for

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like Skittles.
You're supposed to put like a

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plate with like Skittles and
then you just leave a note that

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says like use hot water to
create a rainbow and like so you

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like put the water in and then
it's really cute.

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It like creates a rainbow
because of the dyes and the

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Skittles and then the Skittles
go to the trash.

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So that's good hopefully, or at
least they're white and they

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don't have all the dyes, so the
if they eat them, I don't know.

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So those kinds of things are
fine.

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Then there was really cute one
that my mom sent me where it was

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like the little tiny Oreos, the
elves were stuffing them with

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toothpaste.
And that was like where my first

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red flag went up.
Like what's in that toothpaste?

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Right?
Because xylitol.

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Xylitol will kill your dog.
It is not.

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We're not sure how bad it is for
cats.

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Like I've never been able to see
like how bad it is for cats, but

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it can't be good.
So even a lick of it, I don't

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want my cat getting into like
even if it may not kill, I don't

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really want to take that risk
for a dumb Christmas tradition,

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especially because this is like,
like you said, like this

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fabricated tradition.
So what I decided to do was put

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like hand cream and like my hand
cream is totally safe.

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Like totally.
And so I'll keep it covered, but

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I'll have like the Oreo kind of
open and like supposedly the

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elves stuffing the Oreos with
hand cream instead of toothpaste

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because again, the toothpaste
could be super toxic.

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Another thing that they also get
into is like stuff with like

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shaving cream, shaving cream.
You don't want shaving cream all

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over your house like because
your cat's going to walk on it.

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And like we've talked about
before, walking on it is the

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same as ingesting it because
they're going to lick it.

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And like what chemicals are in
there?

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What like surfactants and like
nasty stuff and soaps and stuff

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are in there.
We don't want that.

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We want our pets like bellies to
thrive, not like be like covered

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in like who knows what chemical
from shaving cream.

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So that's a no go for me.
There's a lot of stuff with like

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gum, for example, and like you
cannot find gum anymore really.

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It's hard to find without
xylitol in it.

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So like it's like the idea is
it's kind of cute.

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It's the elf sitting with like a
balloon from its little from its

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butt and it says don't swallow
your gum.

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So you but but the way they have
it set up is with like pieces of

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gum that like like he chewed it.
So you could still do that with

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a balloon, assuming your cat
won't break, because my cat

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likes balloons and he likes to
break them.

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And then you're the concern is
that he'll swallow the the

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rubber balloon.
So you could still do that.

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If you have like a dog and he
won't get him, he or she won't

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get the balloon.
You could still do that, but

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just skip the gun, right?
There's a lot of stuff that has

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to do with candy.
The only reason that I felt

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comfortable with the candy
noodles is because they're

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chilly and my cat won't touch
that.

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Like they're spicy even like my
daughter wouldn't touch that.

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That's like it's, it's, it's
like hot spicy, like gummy

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noodles.
They're Mexican.

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It's Mexican candy.
I'm in El Paso so I find Mexican

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candy everywhere.
And so like anything Mexican

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candy with chili in it I could
probably use because they don't

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use xylitol for those.
They are definitely not sugar

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free and they're not appealing
at all to my pets.

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Even though I feel like this guy
Satchmo who's sleeping over

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here, he's the little schnauzer.
I feel like he would eat it

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before he even tastes.
Yeah.

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So the other challenge is not
just what's on the counter, it's

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also what falls on the on the
floor, right?

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Because my cat will drag stuff
and then he'll drop it.

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And so it's, it's not just my
cat that's in danger, it's

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everybody.
Yeah, it is.

446
00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,200
And you have to be very aware of
your pet as well, because even

447
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,520
if it's something that they
normally wouldn't eat, I mean,

448
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,520
there are pets that have like,
was it Pika?

449
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,520
Yeah, exactly.
Or, you know, I mean, there are

450
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,760
and there are certain certainly
are instances where you know an

451
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:17,160
animal will get into something
just because it's there to get

452
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,160
into it, right?
I mean, there's, there's so

453
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,400
many.
Smells, I just can't.

454
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,960
I'm just gonna swallow it and
then I'm gonna ask questions

455
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,880
later and then it's like, oh
God, that's terrible.

456
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,440
But it's already ingested and
I'm also the pet the the elf

457
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,280
itself.
So like I don't have high

458
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,680
chewing dogs but the elf itself
is totally looks like a chew

459
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:34,880
toy.
It looks like a toy.

460
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,760
It totally, I mean, it would, it
would be a great chew toy for a,

461
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:44,200
for a dog because it's like kind
of like heavy on one side, kind

462
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,320
of like floppy on the other.
So it's like a lot of textures,

463
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,560
a lot of fun, and it's stuffed
with stuff you don't want your

464
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,480
pet ingesting.
It's got plastic on the head,

465
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,400
like face the little, the
little.

466
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,920
I mean, a Lab could easily
swallow the hat like this before

467
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,000
you even know that it's gone.
So that is a huge concern for

468
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,040
me.
It's not a true toy, like at

469
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,120
all.
And it shouldn't be like placed

470
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:08,600
somewhere that your dog can
think.

471
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,600
It's a true toy, not only
because of the dog, but also

472
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,600
because your kids will lose
their minds because nobody's

473
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,360
supposed to touch them otherwise
they lose their magic.

474
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,520
So your kids will be upset and
like nobody wants that.

475
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,000
And the dogs going to be in the
ER and you're going to be like,

476
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,480
why did I do this to begin with?
So it really is like this dumb

477
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,240
tradition that I like kind of
like started.

478
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,400
I, you know, I don't, I don't.
My mom thinks it's so cute.

479
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,280
The kids really enjoy it, but I
haven't like gone full throttle.

480
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,960
I'm, I'm like a doer.
I'm perfection, like

481
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,000
perfectionist all the way.
Like if I'm going to do

482
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,760
something, I'm going in and I'm
doing it to the best of my

483
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,720
ability.
I'm phoning this in because I

484
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,520
don't want to like have to like
one up myself every day coming

485
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,160
up with ideas, right?
And like it's already enough

486
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,160
that my kids are getting a piece
of candy every morning for a

487
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,000
month.
Like that's not necessarily

488
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,720
great, but that's the advent
calendar tradition.

489
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,080
So I have to be super careful
with what candy I put in there.

490
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,320
And I have to be super careful
about what candy my or what I

491
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,960
used for the elf like mischief.
And there's a lot of stuff.

492
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,880
I mean, there's so there's
somewhere I am going to do this

493
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:27,040
one.
There's one where you tape like

494
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,800
your toilet seat and you put
cereal in there and spoons and

495
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,480
like the elf will just be having
breakfast.

496
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,080
The toilet, which it makes the
kids laugh.

497
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,840
But again, like it has to be
done in a room in a bathroom

498
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,480
where like none of my pets will
access it and I'll close it and

499
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,080
then they'll open it and be
like, Oh my gosh, there's cereal

500
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,960
on the toilet.
I'll come in and clean it up

501
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,040
immediately.
So you have to be like on it.

502
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,960
If you're going to do these
things, you have to be on it.

503
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,960
And obviously we don't eat any
cereal with like xylitol in it.

504
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,840
The cereal we would eat, it's
like some healthy version of

505
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,080
Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
So it wouldn't be the end of the

506
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,240
world if my dog or cat got into
it.

507
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,360
But like I'd be super careful to
just clean it up before they got

508
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,840
before they got it.
Another one is like sprinkles,

509
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,040
like holiday sprinkles in your
sink.

510
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,760
And like, you fill the sink with
holiday sprinkles.

511
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,720
I'm not doing that.
Like, that's just a waste of

512
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,760
money.
I'm not doing that.

513
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,640
Like, I'm not filling my dirty
sink.

514
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:28,280
I mean, I clean my sink every
night, but still, like, I'm not

515
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:33,560
filling my sink with sprinkles
that I have to pay like $8 for

516
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,160
at the grocery store.
Yeah.

517
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,320
You know, that's another thing
like you are.

518
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,840
Wasting some wasteful.
I, I remember I was trying to

519
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:49,320
look it up because the country
singer Brad Paisley years ago, I

520
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,760
don't think he, I don't know, he
may not be very active on social

521
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,760
media anymore, but he used to
be.

522
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,160
And they used to get really into
Elf on the Shelf.

523
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,560
And that's the thing that I
think like a lot of adults get

524
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,600
into it and then put elves in
very adult situations.

525
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,320
Like what happened to Vegas
stays in Vegas kind of

526
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,480
situations.
Yeah, like I just, I went, I

527
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,280
scrolled back far enough to
where it was like, OK, his Elf

528
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:27,720
on the Shelf is with like found
in this like bed with wonder.

529
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,520
Like it's, it's a whole thing.
Yeah, yeah.

530
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,440
Yeah.
No, we're not doing that.

531
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,880
We're not doing any of that.
What is this one?

532
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,920
I haven't gotten that this one
I.

533
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,480
Just I don't the, oh, the other
day they were in the Mousetrap

534
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,760
game, so they just like sat and
played like a board game.

535
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,320
So that was easy.
Yeah.

536
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:50,040
My my elders are pretty low key
and I told I keep telling my

537
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,720
kids like if they make a mess
they're gone.

538
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,800
Like I will throw them in the
trash and my son said.

539
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,360
I see.
My son said, you know, I think

540
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,800
they can come back in their
magic.

541
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,080
And I was like, yeah, well,
I'll, I'll drive them somewhere

542
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,520
else or I will flush them down
the toilet.

543
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,480
My, my son knows I'm not going
to do that because he

544
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,880
understands plumbing enough to
understand why I wouldn't do

545
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,600
that.
But I was like, no, I'll put

546
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,880
them in the mail and send, send
them back to the North Pole.

547
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,600
I don't want them making a huge
mess.

548
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,360
They're not allowed.
And I keep talking about them

549
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,560
like kind of like mainly like
these dumb elves now.

550
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Like they're sitting here and
now I can't move them and like

551
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,360
they're in the way.
And so it's.

552
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,040
Not like I'm glorifying the
elves, they're kind of annoying,

553
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,840
but I am just it's like finding
the fine line between this pet

554
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,680
safety and having fun with the
elves is has been really a

555
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,640
challenge for me.
Like tinsel and ribbon is a no

556
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,280
go right?
Like there's a ton of stuff that

557
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,640
you can do with tinsel and
ribbon, but you can't do that

558
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,760
with your cat.
Especially no gum and candy.

559
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:49,000
When I tell you I went all over
target looking for not sugar

560
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,440
free gum like even juicy fruit
now is really.

561
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,760
Sugar.
Free, yeah, like everything that

562
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,280
we grew up with that was like
$0.25 for the five pack, those

563
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,840
all are now sugar free and have
xylitol.

564
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,960
Chocolate.
Can't do anything with chocolate

565
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,600
because like, my cat won't
probably eat it, but he might

566
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,240
drop it.
So no chocolate like cookies and

567
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,040
stuff.
Like my cat would he?

568
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,280
He does.
I mean, he doesn't have a sweet

569
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,480
tooth because he doesn't taste
sweet like any cat, but he likes

570
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,680
to taste things.
He likes to enjoy things.

571
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,200
So I can't leave anything like
that out.

572
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,560
So I'd have to do that like very
early in the morning.

573
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,240
The sprinkles, they contain
artificial colors and like, I

574
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,200
don't even want my kids having
that, let alone my pets.

575
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,160
The raw potato itself, like I
don't want my pets eating raw

576
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,360
potato.
That is not a healthy digestible

577
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,520
meal.
Like shaving cream.

578
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,080
Like I said, raw dough.
There's somewhere they're like,

579
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,840
you know, baking bread or
whatever.

580
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,120
You don't want your pets eating
raw dough because like they

581
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,760
could get if they eat enough of
it, and a lot of people don't

582
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,080
know this, is that they could
get alcohol poisoning from the

583
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,720
yeast, like fermenting in their
stomach.

584
00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:00,200
So you definitely don't want any
dog or cat eating raw dough.

585
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,920
So like if you're making bread
or they're making, or you make

586
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,480
your homemade play dough for
these elves, put it away.

587
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,560
And then the milk, like some of
them have like milk and cookies

588
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,560
and stuff.
And like milk is fortified.

589
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,920
So like most milk that people
are buying is fortified.

590
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,640
I don't want my kids or my pets
eating that.

591
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,400
I mean, I, my kids drink milk at
school.

592
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,360
Makes me crazy, absolutely crazy
because we're supposed to be

593
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,280
dairy free because of his sleep
apnea, because dairy causes

594
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,800
inflammation.
So I'm definitely not buying

595
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,760
that.
But also, if I leave like a cup

596
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,560
of milk out, you know my cat's
going to be drinking.

597
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,840
That.
Oh yeah, yeah, I see one that's

598
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,080
actually kind of cute.
I have to share it.

599
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:48,440
So one of the elves is on the
Mantel with a slingshot and the

600
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,360
other elf is stuck to the
window.

601
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,040
It's cute.
OK, that's see those are

602
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,440
harmless.
Yeah, you could do that in the

603
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,160
middle of the night and your dog
doesn't.

604
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Yeah, you'd have.
To mouth?

605
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,680
Yeah, you'd have to.
Really my?

606
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,600
Dogs are not chewers.
So I feel like that would be

607
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,200
fine for me.
But again, it's like this risk

608
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,280
you take, right?
Like you wait.

609
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,520
You know how many times we've
woken up in the middle?

610
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,400
Like we've woken up and then
like, Oh my God, the dog pooped

611
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,400
inside.
How did that even happen?

612
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,640
You know what I mean?
Like, when did we not let him

613
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,800
out?
Like when was the last time he

614
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,240
peed?
Did we let him out in the yard

615
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,440
too early?
Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah.

616
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:20,680
And you're like figuring this
out.

617
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,560
You don't want to do this like
every day during Christmas

618
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:29,640
season because of this elf.
So I came up with some ideas for

619
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,160
like elves to do more, more pet
friendly stuff.

620
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,440
And so I have some
recommendations for people.

621
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,840
Well, first of all, have all the
mayhem occur in one room.

622
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,560
So like, maybe your elves can
take over like the guest

623
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,320
bathroom and they can go in
there and see and like, the door

624
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,320
remains closed and you teach
your pets like, oh, you know,

625
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,920
we've banished them in here or
they've chosen to be in here

626
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,800
because of the pets.
And like, this is not safe for

627
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,240
pets.
So This is why they closed

628
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,160
themselves in here and did this,
blah, blah, blah.

629
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,520
So you're also teaching at the
same time.

630
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,880
Like my kids know that
chocolate's not safe because my

631
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,800
daughter is such a mess, but
they don't know that toothpaste

632
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,199
is not safe.
Like, you know what I mean?

633
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,840
Like I've tried to explain it to
them, but we try to buy stuff

634
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,000
that doesn't.
So it's not like everyone has.

635
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,480
So they're little and they can't
understand like, yes or no.

636
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,199
But like, all chocolate is off
limits.

637
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,199
The other day Mila did drop a
piece of chocolate on on the

638
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,840
floor and it was so tiny, but it
was like one of these Hershey's

639
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,960
and I was like, there's hardly
any actual chocolate in there,

640
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,520
so I'm fine.
And they were all like, no, it's

641
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,159
super serious.
And I'm like, actually in this

642
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,000
case it's not.
So I don't want to like confuse

643
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,280
them.
So I just say like just

644
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:45,400
toothpaste is a no go period.
And then also like having a an

645
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,800
elf that's not so naughty.
Maybe it could read books.

646
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,800
Maybe it could walk your dog
like you just like have the the

647
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,440
elf sitting like by wherever you
keep your leash and like be

648
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,560
like, oh wow, like it walked the
dog or whatever while we were

649
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,200
sleeping or something like that
where it's like, you know,

650
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,360
harmless.
You don't have to use

651
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,080
ingredients for it.
You already have it in your

652
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,200
home.
You have a leash and like the,

653
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,960
you know, the elf like sitting
there, you know, with maybe some

654
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,320
poo bags, like open, I don't
know, like something that's not

655
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,120
like necessarily dangerous.
Like I don't think my pets would

656
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,560
get into a poo bag at all.
Like a roll of poo bags.

657
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:25,080
Like if it's all closed up, they
wouldn't even look twice on it.

658
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,520
Or keep your elf in your
entryway, like have your elf get

659
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,560
into trouble out there.
It's a really good way to get

660
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,520
your kids early up early and out
of the house in the morning.

661
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,520
You know what I mean?
Because like they're, if they're

662
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,720
going to go out to the entry,
they're going to need to like

663
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,720
get out of their PJS, get out of
there, like and go put on their

664
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:45,440
coats and stuff.
So it might like motivate the

665
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,720
pet, the kids to get up and like
go out.

666
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,040
Mine right now they're only in
the living room, family room

667
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,840
area, dining room, family room
area.

668
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,760
And again, I'm just limiting
what ingredients I use.

669
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,320
But if you really want to go all
out, if you have pets, you

670
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,520
really have to come up with
tight like plan A&B&C, because

671
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:11,880
doing that, like doing the Oreo
stuff with, you know, yeah,

672
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,400
toothpaste, white toothpaste is
not, is not going to be safe at

673
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,840
all in a pet home.
Because even even if you're not,

674
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,800
you don't have a counter surfer.
The pet might be tempted to surf

675
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,800
the counter.
That yeah.

676
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,000
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I was just thinking like I was

677
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,880
trying to think of some other
things that might be interesting

678
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,840
or cute.
But like, I guess it again,

679
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,520
depends on if you.
I think most people even with

680
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:43,360
pets do decorate their trees but
like have the elf decorating the

681
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,960
tree so like every night there's
like another row of ornaments or

682
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,800
something and they go up the.
Tree.

683
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,480
I love that idea.
That's a good one.

684
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,440
I don't know.
I was just because that that's

685
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,600
pretty innocuous, but also could
be part of the I don't know.

686
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,040
I still don't want it in my
house but.

687
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:05,200
I my, again, mine served the
purpose and bringing the candy

688
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,440
and like what what I do with the
candy advent calendar is

689
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,480
actually I take the small
candies from their Halloween

690
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,760
bags right after Halloween and I
use those.

691
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,800
So really I'm not buying candy
for this purpose.

692
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:24,440
I did buy a bag of something
recently and I put Rolo's in

693
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,680
there because I had bought like
a bag of Rolo's for something

694
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,360
else or like a bag with like
different candies for something

695
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,080
else.
And they were like, EW, the

696
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,360
elves left these like these like
a little and I was like, what?

697
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,800
They threw them away and I was
like, you could have asked me.

698
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,080
I know I like rollers.
Like I don't I, you probably

699
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,760
won't catch me eating anything
Hershey's because I don't I, it

700
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,120
means I'm, I was born in Ecuador
where we have like really good

701
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,120
chocolate.
Like, you know, in the Latin

702
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,360
culture, we eat and drink very
good chocolate.

703
00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,800
So for me, like Hershey's,
chocolate is terrible.

704
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,400
So anything Hershey's you're not
going to find me eating.

705
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,480
But I will definitely tell you
Rolo's, I would eat a whole bag

706
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,440
of those if you give it to me.
So I was surprised that they

707
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,080
didn't like it.
But then if they come to me and

708
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,760
they complain about the Rolo's,
I'm like, take it up with the

709
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:17,760
elves all.
Right.

710
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:23,800
I have nothing to do with that.
And if they forget one day to

711
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:30,200
fill that little box of
chocolate or candy, I say you

712
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,280
guys must have not, you know,
must have not deserved them.

713
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,880
What did you do that Like they
didn't, they didn't put candy in

714
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:44,520
there and they they will leave a
note the next day being like

715
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,360
open two boxes or whatever, you
know what I mean?

716
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,920
Last year they left a lot more
notes.

717
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,560
This year they're just kind of
like being like subliminal.

718
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:55,680
Yeah, it was while you were
saying that it was like, I

719
00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:00,480
wonder if you could also use it
to like, I don't know, get them

720
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:05,920
to do things that are more
creative and not on devices.

721
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,760
So like you have to present the
elf with like a drawing or

722
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,360
something every day to be able
to get your cans.

723
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,720
I don't know.
So that they're spending time

724
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,040
actually doing something with
their hands and being creative

725
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,360
versus like being on their
tablet or whatever.

726
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,760
Exactly.
No, I love that.

727
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,400
And my daughter says that
coloring is her hobby.

728
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,040
So definitely she would love
that.

729
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,160
Yeah.
You could even like get a like a

730
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,160
a coloring book and have them do
one page through Christmas and

731
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,080
like every page that you do, you
get, you know, a surprise from

732
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,400
the elf or whatever.
Yeah, the the whole like

733
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,640
informing Santa, like I feel
like that's isn't that the way

734
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,160
it was originally intended or is
that like something that it

735
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,080
evolved into?
Yeah, I know.

736
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,320
I think that was kind of the
original intent was like it.

737
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:58,640
The elf is there as like Santa's
helper.

738
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,720
Santa's helper, like Big Brother
looking over, like watching you

739
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:05,400
at all times.
Yeah, I don't love that concept

740
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,200
and that's why I was never gonna
do it.

741
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,520
But.
Molly concept of Santa anyway,

742
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:11,360
right?
Exactly.

743
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,960
Well, I guess if you'd spin it
that way, I we don't really talk

744
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,520
about Santa a lot.
And I'm gonna be honest, I feel

745
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,680
bad lying to my kids about these
things.

746
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,320
I know it sounds really dumb.
And our parents lied to us

747
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,640
constantly when we were little.
But I don't like lying to my

748
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,760
kids about stuff.
Yeah.

749
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:36,560
Well, it's funny because as we
were starting this talk today, I

750
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,640
was thinking about back to when
I was a kid and I've been doing

751
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,880
a lot of that like thinking
lately.

752
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:50,440
I think that's because so
obviously I have been, but also

753
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,200
like, not only is Mercury in
retrograde, but Mars just went

754
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,480
in retrograde.
And so there's a lot of that

755
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:03,200
coming up for a lot of people.
But I, I started thinking about

756
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,960
it because I was, I was, I was
the oldest.

757
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,280
I had, we had two older step
brothers, but they were like,

758
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,720
they kind of did their own
thing, you know, So as far as

759
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:19,400
like me and my siblings, how we
interacted with each other, I

760
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:27,280
was the oldest and I, I was
pretty young when I started

761
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,000
realizing that all of these
things weren't real, the Easter

762
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,280
Bunny and Santa and all of that.
And I got in a lot of trouble

763
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:41,280
for trying to tell my younger
siblings that it wasn't real,

764
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,320
that it wasn't true.
And I kind of look back and I'm

765
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,840
like, but I don't think I was
being malicious.

766
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,840
I don't think I was trying to
like burst their bubble.

767
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,520
Bother being good, there ain't
no big guy with a bag.

768
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,280
Of toys.
No, like I think it's, I think

769
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,840
it was more than that.
I think it's like, I've I found

770
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,200
this out.
I don't, I'm not lying to you,

771
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,800
by the way, Like I don't, I
don't like you.

772
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:11,240
I don't like and you didn't.
Want to, I don't want yes, and

773
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,400
but I got in a lot of trouble
because I I wouldn't just say

774
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,720
like, Oh, I don't believe like I
would actually pretend I was

775
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,240
asleep and wake up and then
catch my mom putting stuff out

776
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:23,120
or it's like this.
I'm like, see, I told like I

777
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,120
remember one time I was like,
see, I told you, I told you the

778
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,040
Easter Bunny isn't real because
you're putting the stuff.

779
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,000
So like, I was that kind of
child.

780
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,960
You sound like Noah.
Noah would totally do that.

781
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,000
But I do think it was just a but
also I'm a Libra, right?

782
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,120
So I do think it's this like
this like sense of.

783
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,440
What's right?
Justice and equality.

784
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,760
Yes, yes.
And like, I know what's right

785
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,600
and I know what's wrong, and I'm
not going to let my siblings

786
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:54,160
vote.
You know what?

787
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,880
Like I think that's what it was.
Correct.

788
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,400
Yeah, No, it's true.
What's funny is when I was

789
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,280
growing up in Ecuador, I was
born in Ecuador.

790
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,160
I moved to the US when I was
four or three, almost four.

791
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,200
And apparently I don't remember
this at all, but like when I was

792
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,200
very little in Ecuador, it
wasn't Santa that brought

793
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,080
presents.
It was El Nino Dios.

794
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:18,160
Baby Jesus brought you presents.
OK, I can't speak to all of the

795
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,680
Latin culture on that.
I can't speak to all of Ecuador

796
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,680
on that.
But in my family, it was a Nino

797
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:27,160
Dios who brought presents.
And apparently my sister had

798
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,080
been a jerk at some point.
I was like two or three.

799
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,720
My sister must is 2 and a bit
older than me, two years, two

800
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,160
months older than me.
And she had been a jerk at some

801
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,480
point.
And my my uncle had had a

802
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,680
birthday and she, like wanted
his gift.

803
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,280
And it was his birthdays this
week, actually, next week,

804
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,400
actually.
So she had like got in a fight

805
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,200
with him over his birthday
present.

806
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,800
I think she had broken something
because she couldn't have it.

807
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,200
And my mom was like, El Nino.
Dios is watching in Spanish,

808
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:57,920
obviously.
Yeah.

809
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,240
And watch it.
Be careful you're not going to

810
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:06,360
get any presents at Christmas.
And somehow my mom was young and

811
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,400
my mom's hilarious.
My mom was young and was at the

812
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,200
market in Ecuador and apparently
they had because it was

813
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:18,240
Christmas like fake poops that
this is where the story is

814
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:19,160
going.
OK.

815
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,000
Because like we would get, we
never did, but we were like

816
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,960
threatened with coal in our
stock, correct.

817
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,760
So kind of a similar.
I guess so like, I guess it was

818
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,400
like a gag gift so people could
like wrap up.

819
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,040
It was like a poop.
And I do remember this because I

820
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,320
saw it later in life, like when
we were living there, like, you

821
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,240
know, like you store stuff away
and like it came out and I

822
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:44,160
remember seeing it and it was
like a poop, like a plastic poop

823
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,800
that was kind of like think of
like soft serve ice cream shape.

824
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:49,760
And it had there were two of
them.

825
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,200
One of them had corn in it and
the other one had lentils in it.

826
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,560
It was really gross, but kind of
hilarious because it's obviously

827
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,440
plastic.
And so my mom after this

828
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,520
conversation, which is really
traumatizing now, I would never

829
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,160
do that to my kids.
Now I think it's hilarious that

830
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,400
she did this, but we didn't
know.

831
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:14,160
So she put those under the tree,
one for me and one for my sister

832
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,760
instead of any presents on
whatever.

833
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,520
It's always Christmas Day.
That's so in the Latin culture,

834
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,720
we celebrate Christmas Eve with
our gifts exchange.

835
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,240
It's Christmas Eve with your
family and then the only thing

836
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,960
you open on the on the 25th is
whatever Santa or baby Jesus

837
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,200
brought you.
So we, you know, we had gone to

838
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,800
bed late.
Everybody's happy, you know,

839
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,080
Hope can't wait to see what
Santa brings.

840
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,520
And my sister wakes up early,
runs down and then what the

841
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,400
story that I've been told is she
comes to to me at like 2 years

842
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:51,400
old and says you have to see
what baby Jesus left for us.

843
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,440
Like, she's mean.
She was like getting me all

844
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,960
worked up so that I could go see
the poops under.

845
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,680
And I apparently I was the only
one who cried about it.

846
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:00,800
My sister thought it was
hilarious.

847
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,680
She was a devious 5 year old.
So she thought it was hilarious

848
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,480
that she got a poop.
And she thought the poop was

849
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,000
great.
She thought it was the best gift

850
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,040
that baby Jesus could have given
her.

851
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,160
But I cried because obviously I
was like, I'm getting a poop

852
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,120
instead of like Barbies or
whatever it is that I wanted at

853
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,720
the time.
So yeah, these things are kind

854
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:20,440
of gross.
We would never do that to our

855
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,000
pets.
Instead for our pets, we're

856
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,880
like, I'm going to buy some like
amazing thing for my pet.

857
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,920
Like I was just looking at bears
bites.

858
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,880
Does Chris like holiday meals
where she like freeze dries,

859
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,960
green beans and shrimp and steak
and.

860
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,160
Because.
All this stuff and for the pets

861
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,720
and here we are like putting
poops under the tree or coal in

862
00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:45,080
a stocking for kids who don't
behave well.

863
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,160
And we all know kids want to
behave well.

864
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,640
So like I have a kid who's very
difficult and like we're having

865
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,880
him evaluate it for a bunch of
stuff just because he's he's

866
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,720
very disruptive in class.
And like, I know even though

867
00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:01,720
he's my kid and I know like, he
pushes everybody's buttons very

868
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:05,200
effectively, like I know he deep
down really wants to do really

869
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,720
well.
And so, like, I hate the idea of

870
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:11,440
like Santa's, you know, you
didn't get this, you know, you

871
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,760
got in trouble at school, so
Santa's not coming or you're

872
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,720
getting in a coal or whatever.
And I feel so bad for kids

873
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:22,200
because I do think that children
like dogs, like cats, they

874
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,280
really want to do the right
thing, right?

875
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,120
And like they don't always have
the tools to do the right thing.

876
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,480
And as they get older, right,
like most of our pets are what

877
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,520
like the the mental age of like
a 2 year old, right?

878
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,600
They have the cognitive ability
of like a 2 year old.

879
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,040
Even when they get to seven
years old, they still like don't

880
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,880
have the cognitive ability of a
44 year old, right?

881
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,120
And like we expect them to be
like grown-ups after a certain

882
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,080
age with our pets, we have a
little more grace.

883
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:50,120
I can passion.
Give them.

884
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:51,720
A little.
Well, the good ones are less.

885
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,440
The good pet parents give our
pets more compassion and more

886
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,280
grace.
But like our kids get all these

887
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,520
like threats around the holidays
and like, like you, I don't, I

888
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,840
just don't like it.
I feel like it's I gotta go with

889
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,840
it because you're not.
I have friends who like don't do

890
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,960
Halloween, like they're very
Christian and they refuse to do

891
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,400
Halloween and I'm nothing but
the utmost respect for them.

892
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,600
I love Halloween.
I don't take it that seriously.

893
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,960
I love a ghost story.
It's it.

894
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,160
I mean mine with me putting a
tree in your home and decorating

895
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,160
it as a Pagan tradition, but
exactly, exactly.

896
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,000
Well, and a lot of these friends
may not even do Christmas trees.

897
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,760
They may just do like, you know,
Jesus, right, celebrating the

898
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,920
birth of Jesus or whatever.
I don't know what their

899
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,880
Christmas traditions are, but I
know that they don't do

900
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,040
Halloween and I've nothing but
respect for them for, you know,

901
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,880
like having that conviction to
be like, we don't celebrate that

902
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,920
holiday because we don't like
the idea of putting like dead

903
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,400
bodies on our porch to be like
happy Halloween.

904
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,640
And I get it, like it's dark,
but I love it so.

905
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:58,480
But I kind of like, I haven't
found that like one thing that

906
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,040
I'm like adamant about.
Like I'm not doing that with my

907
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,880
kids.
Like, look, I literally have

908
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,440
like the night before Christmas,
like a little Garland behind me

909
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,240
for the night before Christmas
in my office because I I love

910
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:12,240
everything Christmas related.
I love the elves.

911
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:15,800
I think they're adorable.
Like, I definitely don't use

912
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,800
them to their full potential
like a lot of parents do.

913
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,160
And I think it's so fun when
those parents go all out and do

914
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,360
fun things.
And those kids will have awesome

915
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,520
memories.
Yeah.

916
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,920
Of that time the elf like
filled, filled the toilet with

917
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,840
cereal, right?
Like, yeah, they will think that

918
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,960
that's so funny and they'll go
tell their friends.

919
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,800
And like, you know, I also do
worry about the kids who don't

920
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,600
have this happening at home and
they feel like left out right?

921
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,920
Cuz like with every trend.
Especially.

922
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,560
There's always something who's
not following.

923
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,120
It.
Yeah, if they're making such a

924
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,400
big deal out of it at school,
like school is hard enough for

925
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,400
kids, right?
And then to feel left out about

926
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,280
one other thing.
Yeah, that's pretty.

927
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,240
Sucks and like it's the same
thing with like Santa bringing

928
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:04,040
like really expensive gifts.
Like in my house, Santa does not

929
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,560
bring technology.
Santa does not buy iPads.

930
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,480
Neither does mom.
In my house, you get whatever

931
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,680
old phone somebody's no longer
using.

932
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,680
That's what you get at my house.
And you don't get to call it

933
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,000
your own.
It's still mine.

934
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,840
It's my old phone.
It's not yours.

935
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,640
But a lot of stuff that happens
around the Christmas holiday

936
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:30,480
really does like stress us out
first and foremost, takes us

937
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,120
away from like what we really
want to be doing.

938
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,480
Because like I guarantee you
last night when I had to go move

939
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,960
those damn elves, like I would
just wanted to stay in bed.

940
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,240
I just wanted to stay in bed.
I didn't want to go get those

941
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:45,360
elves and move them somewhere
else.

942
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,840
And then I couldn't delegate to
my husband because he was in

943
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,680
Philly.
So I had to just get up and do

944
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,160
it.
And like, there's a lot of stuff

945
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,680
that we could be doing that
we're like focusing on these

946
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:58,600
dumb things decorating our front
porch.

947
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:03,440
Like, I yesterday I put out my
Christmas lights and my home

948
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,480
feels cluttered with all the
Christmas decor and like, like

949
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,840
you, I feel like, what's the,
what am I doing?

950
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,840
But I, I, I get why you don't
want to do it.

951
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,840
Like you're just like, it's not
your priority right now.

952
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,240
I have like little kids.
So like, I feel obligated to do

953
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:21,280
it, you know?
But like, I do wonder if I

954
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,360
didn't have kids, if I'd just be
like.

955
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,520
Yeah.
I don't, I know, like I might

956
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:33,480
just have a tree.
I there were like two things

957
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,920
that I wanted to say off of what
you said that we're just letting

958
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,880
you know.
I'm trying to remember one of

959
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,720
them.
I do remember about baby Jesus

960
00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:47,160
because Talladega Nights is like
one of my favorite movies and

961
00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:50,160
all I kept thinking every time
you kept saying was baby Jesus

962
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:54,480
was like that.
That's the Jesus I want to pray

963
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,080
to is little baby Jesus.
Thank you, little baby Jesus.

964
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,760
It's like he's my favorite.
Like, I want a little baby Jesus

965
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:05,120
he has to think of.
I love that movie.

966
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,080
I have to watch.
I have to watch that.

967
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,320
And Anchorman.
There's so many I wanna watch,

968
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:10,920
like rewatch.
But yeah.

969
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:12,800
Remember what the other thing
was?

970
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:18,040
But it doesn't matter.
Yeah, I just, I think we do put

971
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,640
so much pressure on ourselves
and I don't wanna do that this

972
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,360
year for the first year ever, by
the way, like ever.

973
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,040
In your whole life.
Well, and I also think that like

974
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,800
the reason I wanted to talk
about this topic is because I

975
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,280
feel like, you know, I would
hate to see somebody trying to

976
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:39,840
do so well by their family and
their kids and like come up with

977
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,960
this amazing fun elf, you know,
antic only to end up at the

978
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,240
emergency vet and maybe not even
know why, right?

979
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:51,760
Like you may not even know that
xylitol is dangerous.

980
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,000
You may not even realize that
the peanut butter you picked up

981
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,920
for this elf has xylitol in it.
So the only, if there's one

982
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:04,080
thing I can say to any parent
that's participating in Elf on

983
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:09,760
the Shelf is please be aware of
the ingredients, materials you

984
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,080
use for the ELF antics.
Please, I beg you.

985
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:19,160
Because the last thing anybody
wants this holiday season is to

986
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,280
end up at the emergency vet or
worse with saying, having to say

987
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:27,160
goodbye to a pet because it got
an intestinal obstruction.

988
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:32,800
It got poisoned because of
xylitol, it choked on some kind

989
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,680
of toy or thing.
And like, what would be more

990
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:39,920
traumatizing for your child than
their beloved pet being killed

991
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:41,280
by an elf?
Yeah.

992
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:47,080
Well, and I think that kind of
brings up just in for me, I, you

993
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,520
know, it's easy for me to sit
back and say this, not having

994
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:55,200
kids because I have definitely
like preached in the past about

995
00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:02,400
like if you are gifting anything
that is edible, don't wrap it

996
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,520
and put it under the tree.
And you know, there, there are

997
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:09,400
lots of because your, your dog
can smell so much better than we

998
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,200
can.
They're going to smell it.

999
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,520
They're going to get into it.
Very possible like that.

1000
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,200
Yes, there are some good dogs
that are not going to get into

1001
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,160
it, But do you want to take that
chance?

1002
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:24,480
But I think just in general it
can be very overwhelming for a

1003
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:31,320
parent to just be a parent, and
often times how something would

1004
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,120
affect their pet is not a
thought.

1005
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,320
Like it's just exactly.
It's it's too much, it's too

1006
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:39,920
much mental load and it's not
thought about enough.

1007
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,880
And so there are like, it was
one of the things that bothered

1008
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:50,480
me the most about being a dog
trainer is that people don't

1009
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:54,240
take their pets into
consideration with a lot of the

1010
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:57,120
things they do.
They just want their pet to not

1011
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:03,880
do XYZ, to stop doing XYZ.
Like, I mean, just one example

1012
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,880
is like you leave your shoes at
the door and your dog shoes

1013
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:13,240
like, OK, the simplest solution
here is to not leave your shoes

1014
00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:15,160
at the door.
And I get that.

1015
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,440
Like if you have small children,
they're not, they're not going

1016
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,320
to.
I don't understand that at all.

1017
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,960
You know what I mean?
Like I get that, but also like.

1018
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:25,960
No, my kids have been, but at
least my kids have been putting

1019
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:27,880
their.
That's literally the only thing

1020
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:29,920
that they really do is put their
shoes away.

1021
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,400
They put them it also my house
is kind of set up in a way that

1022
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,720
makes that easy because I have a
den right on this and like you

1023
00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:39,320
walk into my house, there's a
den.

1024
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,440
That room is like a catch all
room.

1025
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,640
We have shoes in there.
We have a litter box in there.

1026
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,840
We have some storage in there.
So like it's like it's set up

1027
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,800
nicely.
We have like ATV if we want to

1028
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,160
work out, that's where we have
our like free weights and

1029
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,680
things.
So it's like a catch all room,

1030
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,120
but it's easy for my kids to
open the door, put their shoes

1031
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,800
away and close the door.
Again, since we got the cat, we

1032
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:04,000
actually have like a little, a
little kind of latch that only

1033
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,560
allows the cat and cats don't
choose shoes for the most part.

1034
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,640
So not a big deal.
But the reason the latch is

1035
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:10,840
there is because the dog would
go into the litter box.

1036
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,640
So you do like management is so
important when you're adding a,

1037
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,680
a pet.
Like two years ago, like before

1038
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,360
Van Gogh came, I wouldn't have
had to worry as much about a lot

1039
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,880
of things because he's a cat.
He can jump on a counter.

1040
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,640
You have a little Yorkie.
Like, I'm not so worried about

1041
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:32,200
the, you know, the, the, the
setup of like the cookies with

1042
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:37,520
the xylitol toothpaste, right?
Because, like, your Yorkie's

1043
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,120
probably not getting on the
counter.

1044
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,520
Probably.
But you have a big dog.

1045
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,040
Yeah.
Those Oreos that are there are

1046
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,040
going to call the dog's
attention.

1047
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,240
So you have to kind of figure
out what you have and what would

1048
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:54,400
work for your family.
And honestly, like, most people

1049
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,240
have no idea.
My mom is the one who sent me

1050
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,880
the videos of, like, these ideas
for Elf on the Chef.

1051
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:01,880
But they're trending.
They're all over the place.

1052
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:06,480
People are getting like, it's
like that kind of like gang

1053
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,800
mentality.
Like you're almost like forced

1054
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,000
to like do this or you're not a
good parent.

1055
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,760
And so my mom is like sending me
look how cute these are and like

1056
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,320
she's like she's been a pet
parent.

1057
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,360
I guarantee.
You she never even look like

1058
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,960
thought about how these
ingredients or these things

1059
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:24,440
could be dangerous for pets.
I can.

1060
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:32,760
Imagine that social media is
what catapulted off on the

1061
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,800
shelf.
Oh, for sure, because all these

1062
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:40,120
videos.
It is so much about look, look

1063
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,800
what I did and I've got to top
this Last Post that I saw.

1064
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,880
And so I can definitely see
where.

1065
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,120
And I mean, more power to you.
As long as you're being

1066
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,120
responsible.
Yeah, more power to you.

1067
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,880
Well, I have a friend in Miami.
Her name's Terry, and her kids

1068
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,840
are grown now.
I think they know that Elf on

1069
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:05,840
the Shelf is manufactured by
their parents, but they're super

1070
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,000
festive.
They have like a whole, their

1071
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,760
dining room table, their dining
room becomes like a whole

1072
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,920
Christmas village with all these
like things like they're over

1073
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,120
the top Christmas and like they
always went over the top for

1074
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:19,120
their kids when they were
little.

1075
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,600
And they still to this day, the
elves still get into antics,

1076
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,240
right?
And like the kids are older and

1077
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,800
the kids still love it and it's
part of their tradition.

1078
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,280
But I just feel like it doesn't
have to be part of everybody's

1079
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,760
tradition.
They also have like one dog.

1080
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,160
I, I know she had a, she had a
Great Dane for a long time and

1081
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,080
maybe the dog was super chill.
A lot of great Danes are like

1082
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,840
super chill.
Like maybe the dog didn't even

1083
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,400
look twice at the hell.
But like, you got a lab.

1084
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,840
You can't do all that she does.
You probably can't even put up

1085
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,400
the Christmas village with a lab
because the labs eat inedible

1086
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,760
things, you know what I mean?
So you really have to know who

1087
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,560
you have and what you're doing.
And like, one of the biggest

1088
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:59,000
things is obviously knowing how
these new ingredients, these new

1089
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:03,720
products could put your pet at
risk because they're only tested

1090
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,560
for safety in the most minimal
level.

1091
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,480
When I say safety for human
consumption, right?

1092
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,600
Like, do we even really know
that's all safe for us when it's

1093
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:13,800
killing dogs?
I don't know.

1094
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:18,760
Like I'm not convinced.
Yeah, I think, I think there's

1095
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,520
definitely problems with it for
sure.

1096
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:27,000
I know that dentists have been
sold on it for dental health,

1097
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,440
but yeah, I'm not I'm not so
sure either.

1098
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,920
There's.
Helps one part of the body

1099
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,880
doesn't mean we can like fry the
other part you know what I mean

1100
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,320
like we've done that already
with fluoride, right like we

1101
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,400
can't just be like, oh, this
helps prevent cavities, but it

1102
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,760
like burns our brain or like it
like causes blind.

1103
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,640
I'm just I'm giving an example.
This is not what fluoride does

1104
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:52,880
but like let's say that like
xylitol causes blindness to 80

1105
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:54,960
years down the road.
Do we really care about our

1106
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,880
teeth more than our eyes?
No, so we don't know yet, but I

1107
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,600
I'm not convinced that it's
super safe and I just want

1108
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,000
people to have a happy.
Holiday season without, you

1109
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,440
know, emergency vet visits
because those will happen

1110
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,360
inevitably, right?
We talked about food last year.

1111
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,200
So if you want to go back to the
feed the pet parenting reset,

1112
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,960
she's shared all of our lives.
So they're there from last year.

1113
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,520
We talked about like dangers of
like feeding people food and

1114
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:26,840
like cooked bones and other
things that could be very, very

1115
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,440
toxic to our pets or very
dangerous to our pets this time

1116
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,280
of year.
And we're just going to add Elf

1117
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:32,880
on the Shelf antics to that
list.

1118
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:37,880
So Jess knows you don't want to
end up at the at the ER, at the

1119
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,520
vet.
Nobody needs that kind of

1120
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,960
expense.
Everybody's tied on cash these

1121
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,840
days.
Nobody needs that.

1122
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:45,520
And the vets don't want you
there.

1123
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:51,200
No, it's, it's so difficult to
get into a vet on a good day.

1124
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:56,840
I I yeah, please, please, please
just the extra, extra cautious

1125
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,440
and.
We're such a silly thing, I.

1126
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,560
Mean so.
Sad to see any time get hurt

1127
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:06,200
because of something so silly.
So anyway, we're going to come

1128
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,520
back on Monday and and I don't
know what we're going to be

1129
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,400
talking about.
One more this month.

1130
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,760
Is that what we're?
I mean, I'm good for whenever,

1131
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,360
but good?
For whenever I'm not traveling.

1132
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,960
So yeah, the 16th.
And then, yeah, we're not going

1133
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,920
to do the 23rd or the 30th just
because you know what I'm doing.

1134
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:27,080
I Speaking of my children ad
nauseam, I am moving my kids

1135
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,160
into their own rooms because
they keep fighting.

1136
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,120
Now they're in the age where
it's four and seven.

1137
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:34,160
And like, that's my toy.
No, that's my toy because we

1138
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,840
have a playroom.
And now I feel like I need to

1139
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,640
first of all, get rid of half of
the toys in the playroom.

1140
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,320
Give them each their own room
with their toys in the room so

1141
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,520
that everybody knows what is
theirs, what is rightfully

1142
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,200
theirs, and everybody can Start
learning how to make their beds

1143
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,040
and how to take care of their
things and stuff.

1144
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,440
They do that kind of, but not
enough.

1145
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,920
I wonder if Elf on the Shelf can
take a bunch of their toys back

1146
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:03,160
to the North Pole to give to
other boys and girls that need

1147
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:07,160
them.
Elf on the Shelf going to have

1148
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:11,480
to get over my try it my sons
colds and hands.

1149
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:17,000
I'll tell you that right now, my
kid, so I every single weekend I

1150
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,920
get a box and I donate stuff,
donate or throw away.

1151
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,920
Like my trash can for the past
two weeks has been full of just

1152
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:28,520
stuff that's like not worthy of
donating and it's just trash now

1153
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,360
and I can't have it and nobody
else needs it.

1154
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:34,200
So throwing away or donating and
every single day that I, every

1155
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,480
Saturday or Sunday, when I do
that with my stuff and my

1156
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,680
husband does it, we do it with
household things.

1157
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,360
We asked our kids to do it.
And Noah the other day came

1158
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:43,680
down.
No, it was Mila.

1159
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,400
It came down with a toy this
big.

1160
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:46,840
I can't remember what it was and
I was.

1161
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,960
Like a Polly Pocket.
It's no, it wasn't even a doll.

1162
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,800
It was like an accessory to a
toy.

1163
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:54,320
And I was like, this is
ridiculous.

1164
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,320
You guys need to do better.
And every week I asked them and

1165
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:01,920
hopefully I'm hoping that they
will understand it as they get

1166
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,000
older.
We are on the border with

1167
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,480
Mexico.
They do know that there are the

1168
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,040
life is very different in
Mexico.

1169
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,520
They see it literally.
We drive and you can see like

1170
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,320
what the houses look like in
Mexico.

1171
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,920
And it's not what they're used
to seeing here.

1172
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,520
But my kids, you know, because
of the cost living, of living

1173
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,080
being so low here, we can do so
much for them.

1174
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,360
We are probably too generous
with them.

1175
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,560
And my in laws are too generous
and my mom's too generous and

1176
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,240
Santa's too generous.
And I've come to the conclusion

1177
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,720
that we need to start being very
careful with that.

1178
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:39,600
Like where now I feel like
they're going to start realizing

1179
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,000
before and I feel like even Mila
doesn't notice.

1180
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,600
She has so many, she's begotten
so many hand me downs that I

1181
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,080
don't feel like Mila's the
issue.

1182
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,640
She loves everything that's a
hand me down.

1183
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,040
Like she loves it if her friend
Ava gave it to her.

1184
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:54,320
She thinks it's the coolest
thing.

1185
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:58,080
So like Mila, I'm not too
worried about Noah is more like

1186
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,960
money focused and like thinks
that we have so much and I'm

1187
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:03,480
like, whoa, whoa.
The only reason we have what we

1188
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,160
have is because we choose to
live in a place where it's very,

1189
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,520
very affordable.
If we lived with the same

1190
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,400
salaries in DC, we would be
strapped.

1191
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,240
So just know, you know what I
mean?

1192
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,360
Like we would definitely not
have a house like this and we

1193
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,480
would not do all these things.
And he's 7.

1194
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,560
So now he's starting to learn.
So we're, I'm hoping that with

1195
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,960
little nudges, maybe not like,
you know, Elf on the Shelf

1196
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:28,320
robbing and entering, you know,
breaking and entering into our

1197
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:33,240
playroom, but at some point,
yeah, I would hope that they are

1198
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,040
ready to part with things.
I do think that moving them into

1199
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,000
their own rooms where they see
that there's finite space and

1200
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:40,440
it's not going to be
comfortable.

1201
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,360
Hopefully we'll encourage that
too.

1202
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,720
Hopefully I can teach them
practicality and generosity all

1203
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,160
at once.
So for the 16th, if you guys

1204
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:54,200
have any recommendations for a
chat, whatever you want, pet

1205
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,440
related or not, we can talk
about anything.

1206
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,520
Just let us know.
Think about it for sure.

1207
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:05,160
And yeah, please, like leave,
leave some suggestions in our

1208
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:08,520
DMS and we'll go through them
and thank you very, very much.

1209
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:13,480
And I'm just don't invite Faye
into your home is all I notice.

1210
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,440
That too late.
Man, too late.

1211
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,320
No, I get it, I get it.
But thank you, Isabel, for

1212
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,200
bringing so much incredible
information this week.

1213
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,120
I appreciate it.
Thank you.

1214
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,960
Thank you for bringing crazy
information over here with Ben.

1215
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:34,160
Hey, and like mischief and like
unknowing.

1216
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,000
Or what is it?
I thought I had to.

1217
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:41,400
I I just, I thought I needed to
bring something knowing that I

1218
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:45,120
don't have Elf on the Shelf or
kids to participate in Elf on

1219
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,560
the Shelf, but.
You have, you have so many kids

1220
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,000
in your life that.
Yeah, but like, that was super

1221
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,200
cool.
Like info.

1222
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:54,440
I really do appreciate it.
I think you're so odd because

1223
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,480
you're so fascinated by all
these things.

1224
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:57,840
I love you.
Obviously.

1225
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:01,240
You're one of my besties, but I
think it's so funny that that's

1226
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,760
what you led with.
It would not expect anything

1227
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,480
less from you because you are
into all that stuff.

1228
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,760
And I love that you open my eyes
to all that stuff too.

1229
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:14,360
Like I'm like, like you said, I,
I don't, I don't deny the

1230
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,200
existence of UFOs in New Jersey
right now.

1231
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:21,320
Yeah, it's a it's a thing.
Apparently the government is

1232
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,480
like not not even going to shoot
them.

1233
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,040
Damn.
Like, I don't know, I guess

1234
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,280
you'd have to be scared.
That's the that's my thinking.

1235
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:30,880
Like I would be scared.
I guess I'm not.

1236
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,480
Before shooting them down,
either I I say just yeah.

1237
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,480
Like if.
They like.

1238
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,320
Find out what it is.
Apparently they're like SUV

1239
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:43,000
size, so they're not just like
some dude at Costco and bought a

1240
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:44,480
drone, you know what I mean?
Like.

1241
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:48,760
OK, that's a whole other
conversation for a whole other

1242
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,160
day.
I'm going to go do some good.

1243
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,800
Wait, send me a podcast I can
learn about this from.

1244
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:56,640
I'm just.
I'm going to go walk my dogs.

1245
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:58,800
I need to.
I need to hear about these UFOs.

1246
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:01,880
All.
Right.

1247
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,320
Thank you guys for joining us.
We'll see you next week.

1248
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:06,880
Bye.