Full Transcript BackFit Cares Golf Classic Recap 0:06 Alright, so we had a really great fourth annual BackFit Cares Golf Classic a couple weeks ago. 0:13 Just wanted to take a minute here and thank all the people that participated, that came out to golf over at Whirlwind. 0:19 Whirwind did a great job helping us put our event on. 0:22 And all of the sponsors, we have so many sponsors. 0:24 This year we sold out weeks before the event, we had 144 golfers, over 30 sponsors, and we raised just over $185,000 in one day, 0:35 which was amazing. 0:36 We had our beneficiaries out there as well, Sunshine Acres and St. 0:41 Joe the Worker, so it was cool to have them out. 0:42 I just wanted to take a second to Thank everybody that participated. 0:46 I hope you had a great time. 0:47 There was some really fun engagement on the different holes. 0:50 The golfers had good time from launching golf balls to the drone and all the things that were there. 0:56 We hope everybody had great times. 0:57 If you didn't make it out this year, hopefully next year you'll get the alert. 1:01 Keep your eyes out for it and we'd love to have you out there again next This episode is going to be our Thanksgiving episode. 1:10 And we wanted to have this just to talk about what we're thankful for. 1:17 We don't necessarily want to tell you what to eat or not eat because you should enjoy. 1:24 it's way easier to be like right like really you're gonna have another piece of pie um and i don't eat turkeys so that's a whole nother thing so um i i 1:35 dont like poultry because i feel like poetry including pig products are probably probably the most filthy animal there is even if it is organic so i won't 1:47 even touch it it has But the rest of us need it, so let's move on. 1:54 So why don't you start with saying what you're thankful for this year? 1:58 Well, I think that before that, since we didn't really plan on talking about this, but I easy to recall. 2:09 In our family, Thanksgiving was always hosted by our parents. 2:12 That was like the holiday that I know our mom really wanted to always have everybody at her house and all that stuff. 2:21 So it was never a, hey, where are we going for Thanksgiving? 2:24 Yeah, we always knew it was there. 2:26 It kind of is now, but it works out. 2:27 Because everybody's busy. 2:28 We get it. 2:29 And we're busy too. 2:30 But growing up, it always was a given. 2:32 we knew exactly where we were going. 2:35 Obviously, when we lived there, I obviously missed that. 2:40 The whole family knew, It was always going to be at our house. 2:42 Oh yeah. 2:42 Nobody even tried to say, Hey, want to do Thanksgiving this year? 2:45 It's like, you don't bring that up. 2:47 No, but it was a great tradition. 2:50 And I think that's why when we host respectfully on different years, I know I always think about that from preparing a turkey and all the fun stuff that
Thanksgiving Traditions and Family Gratitude 3:03 I remember doing with mom and dad. 3:05 and stuff like that. 3:06 So I'm thankful for the tradition that was kind of embedded in us growing up as far as it's not about the food. 3:14 It's that about that dessert. 3:17 Not about any of that stuff is all about. 3:19 And our Thanksgiving, mind you, wasn't like traditional. 3:23 it was a lot of it is a. 3:24 A lot. 3:24 Of Persian food, it.s A. 3:25 Lot of diversity, which, you know, is fantastic. 3:29 But a saffron. 3:30 Yeah, a little saaffron, but it it s not even about all that, just about everybody getting together. 3:34 Well, also you forgot one main thing. 3:37 My birthday. 3:38 Nobody cares about that. 3:40 I'm joking. 3:41 But yeah, sometimes your birthday falls on Thanksgiving. 3:43 And this year it does. 3:44 Is that your second or third birthday that falls onto Thanksgiving? 3:47 He's got four birthdays. 3:48 Yeah, I have one. 3:50 So, but anyway, that's what I am thankful for is the tradition that was kind of embedded in us. 4:08 Whatever. 4:09 We don't care. 4:11 But of all the traditions and things that we do, Thanksgiving always brings me back to all of the things they did and they hosted and all that tradition 4:21 they maintained growing up and up until the last seven, eight years. 4:27 So I'm thankful for that because I look forward to this holiday probably more than any of other ones. 4:33 Yeah, because it's my birthday. 4:35 Well, yeah, primarily because it's your birthday, and we don't have to buy presents for anybody. 4:39 But no, that's what I'm really thankful for, just getting together with everybody. 4:44 It's awesome. 4:45 Yeah. 4:46 It is my favorite. 4:47 I'd say it's my favor holiday, not because it is around my birthday. 4:50 But really, it really is because I feel like Christmas is so stressful. 4:59 You're trying to figure out what are you going to get the kids? 5:00 You got to put the damn tree up. 5:02 There's just a lot to prepare for. 5:05 And this year I'm hosting Thanksgiving, which I don't mind. 5:10 What do you mean you don' mind? 5:13 I shouldn't say I don't mind it. 5:14 Would you rather just attend and bring ice and dessert like you said before? 5:19 No, because... 5:22 I feel, like you said, mom and dad always hosted it. 5:26 So I think it should always be me hosting it because you always do Christmas Eve. 5:31 Okay, you heard it here. 5:32 We're only going to have it at your house. 5:35 But who cares? 5:36 It's potluck. 5:37 It sounds like it's a lot of work. 5:38 Some of the things are more difficult to prepare. 5:42 This year, it is really exciting because we have a tandoori turkey and then we also have saffron turkey. 5:51 Oh, that's good. 5:51 So it's going to be really. 5:52 Who's really a saffron turkey? 5:53 Tom. 5:54 Oh really? 5:54 Yeah. 5:55 Wow. 5:55 Yeah, interesting. 5:57 Well, I'm, it was going be like me doing it, but he's doing. 6:01 It's cool. 6:03 Um, so it'll be, uh, yeah, It'll, be it will be a really good, and we, feel like the family's getting smaller and smaller, 6:10 which is a little bit. 6:12 That's sad. 6:13 Sad. 6:13 Now we're only down to 30 people. 6:15 Really? 6:17 Whereas it used to like 50. But you know, people move, they get married and whatever, so it just happens. 6:25 So that just means you have to kind of be grateful for every Thanksgiving, because every thanksgiving can be a little different, 6:33 right? 6:34 Yeah, and I think about like when our kids are older, I don't think my kids will want to live here when they're older. 6:40 Like in your house? 6:43 No, like in Arizona. 6:44 They're going to move out of your home. 6:46 We spent 18 years in her house. 6:47 I know yours are going live in you house forever. 6:51 But mine are definitely not going to live in my house. 6:54 But I don't think they're going be local here. 6:57 So it'll be interesting to see what happens. 6:59 That's always challenged. 7:00 We've never had to split Thanksgiving. 7:04 You know, a lot of people have to do that and they do it. 7:06 They figure that out. 7:08 nobody in our family has ever had to really split to go here and then go hear, right? 7:13 Cause you know, our folks are always like, just come to our house, bring everybody together. 7:17 And, and, you knows, even, when we have friends, not family, but friends that don't have family around, like you had mentioned this morning, 7:26 um, Just bring them over. 7:27 You know? 7:28 Like just the, that's what it's about. 7:29 That's again, another part of Thanksgiving I think is, is great. 7:33 It's just, uh, Just getting people together and whether they know each other, they don't. 7:38 But it's a day where you can break bread and get to know people and have fun and watch football and just not be stressed out. 7:46 So what's your favorite thing? 7:47 What's you favorite food? 7:50 Like for our Thanksgiving? 7:51 Because it is not going to be like the traditional Thanksgiving. 7:53 Let's do both. 7:54 Do traditional and then do ours. 7:58 I mean, I like Turkey. 7:58 I really like turkey, you know, and I usually smoke a turkey. 8:02 This year I'm not. 8:03 He's opted out. 8:04 Thank God I did that. 8:05 Done that for so many years. 8:07 So I liked Turkey, um, And I think for like the Persian side of things, like I the cranberry rice or the zeresh rice, or whatever rice people make. 8:17 You have such an accent. 8:24 Have you seen that girl on TikTok or Instagram that's Persian that does the country accent while she's speaking Farsi? 8:33 So funny. 8:34 She lives in like Texas or something. 8:36 Yeah, we should have her on. 8:37 She's hilarious. 8:38 But yeah, I like that. 8:39 And then whatever, you know, other Persian dish that tends to get eaten first, the stuffing is sitting there while the Tadiq is gone. 8:47 Yeah. 8:47 Something like- And the tadi, Justin, is this part of the rice. 8:50 Like when we, when make rice, we boil it to like al dente and then we steam it. 8:56 We put it back in the pot with oil on the bottom. 8:59 butter, usually butter or oil, and then we steam it and the bottom fries. 9:05 So you get this thick layer of like fried crispy rice. 9:10 And you flip it, you flipped the whole thing over. 9:15 encased cake, rice cake thing. 9:18 And then you cut it and that, that top part is the tadeeg, which is that everybody fights over it. 9:25 Yeah. 9:26 Everyone fights for it too. 9:27 Like even those little things, people like fighting over that at the, in the kitchen and all that stuff. 9:32 Those are all just, it's memories and tradition and things that you've experienced and you hope your kids have experienced. 9:40 It's just different. 9:41 We don't know what our traditional Thanksgiving is like. 9:45 what's traditional to us is what we're accustomed to, which I think a lot of people obviously who have, um, you know, different, 9:52 uh, cultures and stuff, just do their own style. 9:56 Doesn't matter what you do. 9:57 It's just, so I'm thankful for, for that. 10:00 I I am thankful all the things that were, like I said, that we grew up with, with that, ya know? 10:06 That's the best part. 10:08 Yeah. 10:09 And I, I that it's, Like you said, it's just about getting together really and not really worrying about like preparing for gifts and all the material things. 10:22 One thing I don't like though is I hate the hecticness in the grocery stores. 10:27 Yeah. 10:28 It drives. 10:29 It's like that's inevitable. 10:30 You know, you're always going to forget something like I got to run to sprouts or fries or whatever. 10:34 Yeah. 10:35 But it's, like, it like ever since, once Halloween hits, oh, the grocery stores, they're so busy. 10:43 I'm like what are people doing? 10:45 How are you possibly buying stuff already? 10:48 Halloween finished. 10:49 He woke up Saturday morning and there was Christmas trees everywhere. 10:52 We walked around the neighborhood last weekend. 10:55 So many people were putting their lights on. 10:57 It's the first. 10:59 I know. 10:59 So I noticed that too. 11:01 This year I felt like, I still don't feel like we're in the holiday mode yet. 11:05 No. 11:06 And I went to, Sawyer and I, went home goods and we went go get some Thanksgiving decor because I didn't have anything. 11:14 There was one small little section that was on clearance because it was like already 70% off because you're late. 11:21 Because I'm late, this was literally on Halloween. 11:24 It was Easter. 11:26 It's crazy. 11:27 But yeah, so it's a fun day, obviously, to be with your family and to enjoy food and whatever you do and the traditions and games. 11:36 That's one thing we don't really do. 11:37 We don' play a lot of games on Thanksgiving. 11:39 Well, I think there's too many of us. 11:41 Yeah, but you could still, you should bring, do that. 11:44 You should do a different theme in every room and have our different game. 11:49 Have like a backgammon room. 11:51 Can you be the event coordinator? 11:52 No, no, I'm sure you're hosting. 11:54 you said earlier that you shouldn't host it every year. 11:56 I should host every. 11:57 Bring the games. 11:59 But I need an event. 12:01 Since you are so good at games, what was that Christmas game you had with them? 12:06 Our Christmas games are the best. 12:08 We put the, Tissue box. 12:11 Yeah, with the back and then you have ping-pongs in there and you try to find out you're working the whole time. 12:18 It's really appropriate. 12:19 Great. 12:20 Nothing like seeing your 80 year old uncle twerking. 12:25 You can never teach your kids how to talk early enough in life.
Holiday Food, Games, and Family Stories 12:30 It's awesome. 12:31 But those are all fun traditions and fun things to enjoy. 12:34 And you want it to be where people don't leave. 12:36 Yeah. 12:37 Unless they have to go to another family. 12:40 We don' really have that. 12:41 Sometimes a little bit, but not really. 12:45 That's kind of what I'm grateful for. 12:48 What else? 12:49 Well, once Thanksgiving hits, it's like, before you know it, it's Christmas, and it' done. 12:56 But remember that one year, the only time I ever- You're bringing the hot dogs back up? 13:00 No. 13:01 Okay. 13:01 About protein, not family stuff. 13:04 Listen, when we were kids, he used to take raw hot dog out of the fridge. 13:12 That's not true at all. 13:13 Go ahead. 13:14 No, The only I have ever done the whole Black Friday thing, was with you. 13:21 You made me go to Walmart at like midnight. 13:24 Yes, because our nanny at the time wanted some freaking TV from Walmart and I was like, honey, can you take her? 13:31 I'm like... 13:33 Okay, you know, and it was a nightmare. 13:35 That was the last time I ever went to that, or ever did that. 13:37 I'll never do that ever again. 13:41 And then Walmart had everyone in pods. 13:42 Remember that? 13:43 They had like different lines. 13:45 It's weird. 13:45 Now it seems like places don't even close on Thanksgiving, which is crazy. 13:50 Like it used to be Black Friday started like at nine o'clock on Friday, but now malls open up at midnight? 13:57 That sucks for those people that have to work, they can't be with their families. 14:01 you know, that's wild. 14:02 You know? 14:03 So, cause obviously we grew up in the retail retail, our parents, uh, working in retail and having jewelry stores and we were running home at whatever 14:13 time they put Thanksgiving together, you now, and same as Christmas Christmas Eve, we wouldn't get done at the mall until like four or five. 14:20 And then how about that? 14:22 One time we, came home. 14:23 This was a long time ago. 14:26 We were in elementary school, maybe, maybe junior high. 14:29 I don't remember, but we came home. 14:31 It was, it was Christmas and maybe Christmas Eve. 14:35 Yeah. 14:36 And We had something happen where we had to bring inventory from one of the gold stores into the house and we broke it. 14:45 And then when we went to dinner and uncle Mike was with us, we want to. 14:50 Dinner and then we get back to the. 14:51 House and the lights are on in the House. 14:54 and Uncle Mike. 14:55 Was like, you know, the karate samurai. 14:58 We saw people running out of. 14:59 The house. 15:00 Yeah. 15:00 So he, he made us all wait in the car. 15:03 He went and ran after them and like caught one of the guys in back alley while my parents called the police and with a phone. 15:12 We, yeah. 15:13 With the landline. 15:14 Yeah, so, um, that was, those crazy because I was like, Oh my God, He's actually running after the criminals. 15:22 Yeah, probably not a good idea to put a bunch of jewelry in your living room. 15:27 Yeah. 15:27 With no alarm. 15:29 Hey, Bill. 15:31 Happy Merry Christmas. 15:32 We're just putting these diamonds in the living. 15:34 Right. 15:36 So but yeah, we have a lot of crazy Christmas and. 15:39 Thanksgiving stories like most families. 15:40 Yeah. 15:41 And making the boxes for the jewelry, like putting the box together and how we'd like, I don't think child labor laws existed back then. 15:49 They made us work. 15:50 We had a full, they had these like fold these boxes that you had to fold to put together. 15:55 Can I take a break? 15:56 No. 15:58 My fingers hurt. 15:59 Oh, well, now your back's going to hurt because you just pull landscaping duty. 16:06 Hmm. 16:06 Anybody else's fingers hurt? 16:08 100 more boxes. 16:08 You're like, OK. 16:10 Like, hey, here's just five bucks. 16:11 Stop complaining. 16:12 Go get some Chick-fil-A or whatever we have. 16:15 They didn't have Chick fil-a back then. 16:16 Yeah, they did. 16:17 At Metro Center, they did. 16:19 Chick-fil-A and yeah. 16:20 You would know that. 16:21 Because you would not eat your French fries until the last thing. 16:23 And you'd save your french fries to the end. 16:26 I love that I thought that was at McDonald's. 16:29 Oh, fries in general. 16:31 Did they have Chick Fil-a back then? 16:32 Yeah, for sure they had it. 16:34 Yeah. 16:34 It was in the mall. 16:35 But I remember that vividly at Metro center. 16:39 25 years ago. 16:40 Metro Centre for Sure had that, yeah, and McDonalds. 16:42 We need to fact check that Justin. 16:44 Can we fact-check that? 16:46 It's your first Chick-fil-A open in 1980 at the Metro Center Mall. 16:49 Look at that. 16:51 Was that the first one? 16:53 That was the 1st one in Metro center. 16:56 And now Metro centers not even there. 16:58 That's the best mall ever. 16:59 You used to ice skate down there? 17:02 That was fun. 17:04 So if anybody listening or watching has any funny stories or traditions they have for Thanksgiving or Christmas or the holidays, 17:13 please message us with it. 17:15 We love to read and see what everybody else does. 17:17 What are your favorite foods or what are some of the things that you do or your family does if there's a multicultural Thanksgiving? 17:24 What foods do you guys eat along with the traditional turkey stuffing?
Listener Callout and Closing Remarks 17:28 green beans and all that. 17:29 It's really just so that we don't feel so weird. 17:31 Yeah, right. 17:32 Be interesting to see that, so yeah. 17:35 Cool. 17:35 That's a wrap on that yet. 17:37 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. 17:38 Thanksgiving. 17:40 The information provided in this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. 17:47 While we may be licensed health care professionals, this content should not be used to diagnose or treat any medical condition or to replace the advice 17:55 of your personal health-care provider. 17:57 Always consult your doctor or a qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. 18:04 Listening to this podcast does not create a doctor-patient relationship. 18:09 Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.
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