Speaker 1: It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and by now
Speaker 1: most people are coming to terms with the idea of
Speaker 1: doing Thanksgiving differently this year. Yeah, you know, heating up
Speaker 1: a packet of Swanson's process turkey and microwave bravy, getting
Speaker 1: up real close to that TV, turning on Channel one
Speaker 1: thirty three and watching the Yuill log burn while you
Speaker 1: sob into your dinner. Okay, that was I mean, I
Speaker 1: was hoping it was going to be more hopeful than that.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, I've got news for you. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be that bad this year, thank you, at
Speaker 1: least not according to our own Brooke Fox and our
Speaker 1: producer told me. Apparently, Brooks on board with making this
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving the most memorable for her family that she possibly can,
Speaker 1: considering the circumstances that are happening in the world right now.
Speaker 1: You know, every year we spent it with my in laws,
Speaker 1: and they're so sad that we're not going to all
Speaker 1: be together this year. They're like, legit depressed. So I
Speaker 1: took it upon myself to get them out of the
Speaker 1: depression and come up with some good ideas. I never
Speaker 1: said they're sad that we're not spending time together, but
Speaker 1: you didn't say I'm sad. She is trying to think
Speaker 1: positively about this and figure out how to save Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: this year and make it a little bit less depressing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cuber moms are always good for saving the day. Well,
Speaker 1: and I thought you like just being on Zoom for
Speaker 1: dinner kind of lame, like, let's let's up the annie here.
Speaker 1: So Brooke actually came with a list of ideas on
Speaker 1: how to do that. She sent them to her family,
Speaker 1: I guess through an email, and she also sent them
Speaker 1: to producer Boyd, who passed them on to me, which
Speaker 1: you're the only response I've gotten so far. My family
Speaker 1: has replied, not my husband. I even told my husband
Speaker 1: it took me a long time to come up with these,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, I'll read it later. Yeah. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's a reason that he hasn't replied because Brook, I
Speaker 1: appreciate your optimism, but I think I speak for all
Speaker 1: of us in the room when I say we're skeptical
Speaker 1: about your so called ideas. Come on, let's go over
Speaker 1: them and see how Brook plans to say Thanksgiving. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're first idea, Yes, it says do a morning scavenger
Speaker 1: hunt from unused pasta to mama's old bras, digging the
Speaker 1: closet and pantry to find all the scavenger hunt items.
Speaker 1: Prizes will be awarded for first place, and you can
Speaker 1: wear crazy outfits while you do it. Yeah. So everybody
Speaker 1: in our family were in three different cities, gets the
Speaker 1: same scavenger hunt list, and whoever reports back first with
Speaker 1: all the items wins. You've tried to save every holiday
Speaker 1: with a scavenger hunt. You did scavenger hunt for Halloween,
Speaker 1: for the candy. You did a scavenger hunt for fireworks
Speaker 1: on Fourth of July. They were fun. Okay, mom, We're
Speaker 1: done searching. Ye Brook. Your next idea is kids craft time.
Speaker 1: It says, meaning Mama kicks back with a glass of
Speaker 1: wine while grandparents do an art project with the kids
Speaker 1: over zoom. Yeah. I think that's cool aka pun the
Speaker 1: kids off on the elder. Is that what the holidays
Speaker 1: are for? I mean, like, why have grandparents? If you
Speaker 1: can't do that, Jeffrey, let's move on. The Next one
Speaker 1: that you have on your list is called toast and jokes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone has to come up with one thing they're thankful
Speaker 1: for and one Thanksgiving joke. As you're passing the roles,
Speaker 1: you say the thankful thing, and then when the cranberries
Speaker 1: come around, you tell the Thanksgiving joke. You know I
Speaker 1: could do it on the joke half of that. Do
Speaker 1: you want to listen to every single person tell a
Speaker 1: joke that googled online? That's Jeffrey joke of the day
Speaker 1: when we do care, don't care, it's one of the
Speaker 1: highlights of my week. You see your three families, three
Speaker 1: different dinners happening at once, so everyone's getting cranberry at
Speaker 1: different time. No, Nope, that's that's the scheduling part that
Speaker 1: you have to really take a hold of. Everyone. Everyone
Speaker 1: needs to sit down at the dinner table at the
Speaker 1: same time if you're going to do virtual Thanksgiving together,
Speaker 1: But how do you know who's time? Because I will
Speaker 1: be the grand master of ceremony. That would be fun
Speaker 1: and everyone that's the role. No. I mean, here's the
Speaker 1: thing with Zoom. It can get a little boring and
Speaker 1: tired if you just kind of leave it out on
Speaker 1: the table for people to just talk. So if they
Speaker 1: have some direction of what they're supposed to say, and
Speaker 1: it's more of a performance, I think everyone, the viewers
Speaker 1: get a lot more out of it. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: so that that's really it as far as activities go.
Speaker 1: But of course Brooke does have a big list of
Speaker 1: rules that everybody must follow. Does okay, I'll call them suggestions.
Speaker 1: Suggestion number one designate a tech captain, which is one
Speaker 1: person to help the less tech savvy relatives figure out
Speaker 1: how to work the zoom. Yeah, it's have you ever
Speaker 1: tried to get old people on zoom and get them unmuted?
Speaker 1: Thank you get paid? Yeah? Let's see rule suggestion number two,
Speaker 1: no sweatpants. Yeah? Oh, She says, if you really want
Speaker 1: to be the hostess with the mostess, I can't believe
Speaker 1: you wrote hostess the things are down that you're flowing there,
Speaker 1: I pretty stow it. She says. If you really want
Speaker 1: to be the hostess with the mostess, email your guests
Speaker 1: a formal dress code and make sure they bring items
Speaker 1: to show virtually like a homemade dessert. Yes, so like
Speaker 1: you show off the cooking that you did in nice clothes.
Speaker 1: This is still Thanksgiving dinner. But it also says someone
Speaker 1: needs to bring a custom T shirt. It's a suggestion, customers,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's either dressed nice or I'm like one
Speaker 1: of those dorky family shirts. Everybody honestly, no, you replied,
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm so done. It's just like everyone can
Speaker 1: wear together so they feel like they're together even though
Speaker 1: they're apart, because nobody else throughout the day really read
Speaker 1: to feel like you're all together. Gay people are going
Speaker 1: to be texted in for us to put these onlines.
Speaker 1: They can steal them for their own family, no doubt. Okay,
Speaker 1: give them back, we'll remember three, it says. Don't forget
Speaker 1: the virtual family photo. She says. Sure, it's weird to
Speaker 1: take a family photo over zoom, but it'll make you
Speaker 1: laugh when you look back on it in years to come.
Speaker 1: I love this one. Nothing bad to say about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds nice. Hey, Grandpa, look at this picture. Remember
Speaker 1: our worst Thanksgiving ever? Where we have seven outfit changes?
Speaker 1: That was fun? Text into seven eighty five nine two.
Speaker 1: Do any of Brooks's ideas for the holidays over zoom
Speaker 1: sound good to you? If you don't text in, we'll
Speaker 1: take your silence as an answer. We have your phone
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