Riley Gaines' First Christmas as a Mom!
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This Christmas is special for our family because it's our first Christmas as a family of three, and we had Margo at the best time of year: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, and the day after Christmas.
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This Christmas is special for our family because it's our first Christmas as a family of three.
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I really think we had Margo at the best time of year.
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Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.
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We've experienced kind of like all of the first, which she also just had her first belly laugh.
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There aren't many things that will make a grown man cry, but that'll do it.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast, which will not be called that much longer.
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We just announced we have some very exciting news for the future of the show.
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A total rebrand, we are revamping it, is now going to be called the Riley Gaines Show.
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The first episode drops January 7th, but until then, we're still rocking and rolling on the Gains for Girls podcast.
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And if you're watching at youtube.com slash Outkick, which I hope you are, that's where you can subscribe to the new show.
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But if you're watching on youtube.com, then you see.
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I'm joined by my favorite co-host, my amazing husband, which I think the last time you came on was after Margo?
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And there were so many comments talking about your accent.
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Oh, it's all messed up. I'll own that one. It is.
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It's like halfway over the Atlantic, is what we say.
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So, always just a joy to be joined by him and to share our conversations with you guys.
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And Merry Christmas, by the way, the best time of year.
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I hope you guys are spending some time with your families, with your friends, honoring the Sabbath, taking time off,
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and just resting, recovering, enjoying, and recognizing the reason for the season.
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That's one thing we do say. We say Merry Christmas around to you.
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We just got back from AmFest, which I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast, you know what AmFest is.
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AmFest is turning points like Super Bowl, if you will.
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So, always around this time of year, this is my, I think, third AmFest I attended.
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But, of course, it's the first AmFest where Charlie Kirk was not in attendance, at least not here on this earth.
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I have to imagine that he's watching down from heaven, smiling ear to ear.
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And naturally, I think you do this, where you oversell tickets because you – inevitably, some people can't be there.
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And so you want to be able to fill every single seat.
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And so you had people who were lined up outside, waiting in the lobby, who were naturally frustrated that they couldn't get in.
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But it speaks to the movement that Charlie was building and had developed, the impact that he had with his time here on this earth,
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and how that – his mission really has now turned into his legacy, which I believe is, if you can believe it, more powerful in death than it was in life.
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I had the opportunity to take the stage, which I was talking with Louis.
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I could talk about – I mean, there's 100 things I could talk about.
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We could talk about the wins that we've seen surrounding gender ideology and parental rights and the safeguarding of children, especially.
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Thank you to President Donald J. Trump, the most pro-life, pro-woman, pro-child president in modern history.
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I could talk about some of the work that is still necessary.
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There's a big Supreme Court case coming up, heard in just a few weeks.
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That will be incredibly monumental for the fight of keeping men out of women's sports.
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Some of those speakers touched on the trans stuff.
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I spoke to the value and the inherent purpose of life.
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And I think that felt especially relevant after having our baby girl just 12 weeks ago now.
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No, but it was nice to hear that because I think across a lot of the speakers, there were very similar messages.
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You know, with it being the first AmFest that Charlie wasn't with us, there was definitely a theme.
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And so I think a lot of the audience as well, I think they enjoyed that it was just a little bit different from what they'd been hearing.
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And it was super cool because when you're looking at the audience and you're kind of observing the different demographics that were there,
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I'm talking like high schoolers, college-age kids, especially young women.
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And so reaching out to that demographic, I think there's a lot of confusing messages, even within our own party,
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that are being put out there for young women to really hold on to right now.
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So I really wanted to try and reach those people.
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I forget what the stat was, but the number of students compared to previous years to this year was,
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it was either two-thirds of the tickets sold or 50% more or something.
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The number of students that was there was, I'm sure the NS go and fact-check me on that one,
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but there was a huge increase in students there, which was amazing to see.
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And when I was on stage, you're looking out, that's what you see are the young faces.
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On the last day of AmFest, we saw, of course, the vice president was there,
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but there was a surprise that we had been keeping for a while.
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We hadn't told the public that Nicki Minaj was going to take the stage at AmFest.
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Yeah, no, it was, I wish you could have been there in the room to hear the audience
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when Nicki Minaj walks out on stage hand-in-hand with Erika Kirk.
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It was one of the most amazing spectacles I've ever seen.
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I think that, Hulk Hogan, that was another one at Madison Square Garden.
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These were moments where I'm like, what in the world is politics in 2025?
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I guess Hulk Hogan was in 2024, but you have Hulk Hogan, Madison Square Garden,
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he's ripping off his shirt, following him was Dr. Phil.
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I'm like, okay, I think we just need a factory reset on all politics.
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You want to know who my favorite guest appearance was?
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She came out with Benny Johnson and Jack Posobiec, and that was awesome to see.
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It was just cool because she's just a normal person.
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I think she came out again with Glenn Beck, and he was asking her,
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like, tell the audience some of what you told me backstage.
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She was like, I don't feel like I deserve this because I'm just normal.
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He's like, Jeannie, that's exactly why you deserve this because you're normal.
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And I think that's what was powerful about Nicki Minaj as well.
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This Christmas is special for our family because it's our first Christmas as a family of three.
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Or really, I should say seven with our three dogs and horse.
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First Christmas as a family of seven, which I really think we had Margo at the best time of year.
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Her birthday is September 29th, so that's a month until Halloween,
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which she dressed up as the cutest little bumblebee you've ever seen for Halloween.
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Those wings were three times the size of her at that point.
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And then you go into Thanksgiving, and then now Christmas, New Year's.
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We've experienced kind of like all of the first.
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There aren't many things that will make a grown man cry, but that'll do it.
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Should we explain the context of this first, or should we watch the video first?
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Let's kind of preface everything that was going on there.
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And then we started to, I guess, just smell something.
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We're checking into the hotel in the lobby, and we're like, okay, she's fine.
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So we get up to the room, go to pick her up, and everything is just like wet.
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This little girl, she probably lost a third of her body weight.
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It, like, I don't smoke, but I needed a cigarette after that one.
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But yeah, so little girl decided that, you know, well, she...
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Newborns go through that kind of poop regression stage.
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Whatever that was, she literally opened the gates of hell when that thing came flowing out.
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So yeah, I guess the next part I'll let you explain.
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Well, because she hadn't pooped in, like, several days at this point, which, again, we didn't really know that was normal.
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Our pediatrician says, look, babies go through that.
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And so we brought, you know, a certain amount of wet wipes.
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Because she had used the bathroom, gone number two in her diaper four times after not going for several days, we ran out of wet wipes.
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So we have this huge blowout, little baby, no wet wipes.
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What do you do when you're in a hotel that doesn't have a bathtub, by the way?
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You put her in the sink, which now we're going to play the video, which ended up being a very special moment.
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She was probably laughing at me gagging in the hotel room.
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But I think we just show that to show, number one, how special it is to witness all the first, but I think especially that first laugh, that first belly laugh.
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Like, it probably went on for two minutes straight of her just giggling, cracking up.
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She thought the situation that we were in, me and you, like, poop everywhere.
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But now we're in this dilemma going into her first Christmas as, I guess she'll be three months old, almost three months old at the time.
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Trying to Christmas shop for her because, I mean, she's at the stage where she's not really playing with anything.
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And so, you know, what, do we just go to more pacifiras and, I don't know, a couple blankets, which we have 200 of already?
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It's been tough trying to think of what to shop for a three-month-old for Christmas.
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We found this out, which swore we weren't going to have screen kids, which I'm telling myself that at the age she's at, it's good for her development to see, you know, bright colors and slowly moving objects on a screen for her eye focus and different things.
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Like, when it is on the TV, I don't even know how we discover this, but when it's on the TV screen,
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oh, she's, like, fully locked in, and you can see her eyes, like, following the pineapple going across the screen.
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It is a live stream of these Dancing Fruit on repeat.
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We've got to the point now where, based on the song that's playing, we know which fruit is coming out next.
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And we'll walk around the house, and we'll be dancing to it, and I feel like I'm losing brain cells.
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So after you finish this episode on YouTube, go over to the search bar and type in Dancing Fruit,
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and you will be able to perfectly visualize me and Louie dancing in our kitchen to this watermelon that's, like, dancing across the screen.
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Are there any traditions that we want to start with our family going into Christmas?
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I don't know if it was intentionally or not, but I was very much of the mindset, Christmas tree goes up day after Thanksgiving.
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First off, I don't even know how you got the Christmas tree up.
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But, yeah, I guess I think that November 1st Christmas tree, I've enjoyed having the Christmas tree up.
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If you'd have asked my opinion about it, I would have said not a chance you're out of your mind.
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Now, are we going to be real Christmas tree people or fake Christmas tree people?
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But we have three domestic terrorists of dogs that will probably, I mean, they never pee inside.
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But if we put a Christmas tree, that might entice one of them, too.
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So I think just for practicality reasons, and we've got a beautiful fake tree this year.
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So I think for practicality reasons, we'll probably stick with the fake.
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I do love decorating early, though, because, like, do you think of the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas?
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One of the things that I want to do, I actually saw someone talking about this online, but something they do with their family,
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is before opening gifts on Christmas morning, they read the story of Jesus together as a family.
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And I think this is a fantastic idea to reinforce what this season is about.
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But none of that would be possible without the gift of Jesus Christ, who walked this earth, who died on the cross for our sins,
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who rose again three days later with the hope and the promise of eternal life.
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So I think that's something that I want to start.
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And obviously, Margot, this Christmas, she's three months, she won't remember a single thing of it.
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But the idea of starting the tradition now, and it's something that we can do with her as she grows up,
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hopefully one day she can continue on with her family.
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Hopefully we can get to a point once there's a few more babies where they can start reading it to each other as well.
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What about, again, Margot now, she's not old enough to really understand the concept of the elf on the shelf or go looking for the elf.
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Would you be opposed to maybe next year or the year after getting a little devious elf?
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I could find some fun places to hide that thing.
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Because Santa, in our household, loves cookies.
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I think when we grew up, we used to, every now and then we'd leave a beer out for him.
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Your Santa's going to get, yeah, he's going to get pulled over.
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Like being here now, this is your seventh Christmas in the U.S.?
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How does Christmas in the U.S. differ from Christmas in England?
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I don't know if this is just your family or whatever, but you guys do like presents on Christmas Eve.
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We do presents on Christmas Eve with my grandparents, which my family, we have a very large family, and we're all super duper close.
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And so on both sides of my family, my mom's and my dad's, my mom's side, grandparents, so my mom's parents, we're like this.
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It's like my grandma, feels like my sister, my grandpa's like one of his best friends.
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And so we do gifts and presents with them, which is like this extravagant event because, again, our grandparents are like, I don't know, like mom.
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I've been so fortunate to have the best grandparents.
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I guess in England, kind of how we would do Christmas would be wake up early, go downstairs.
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Santa would have been, and so the stockings were full.
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So there was usually a trail of carrots and, you know, where the reindeer had come in and they'd just left some little crumbs as they were on their way out.
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And, you know, the milk or the beer would be half gone.
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And you guys don't have mince pies here, do you?
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Like, it's dried fruit and something else, and it's just known as mince meat.
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It's, I can't stand them, but they're very British, Christmassy thing.
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It's like a little, almost like a little pie thing, I guess, minced pie.
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We'll have to put a picture in of a mince pie somewhere.
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If it's anything like black pudding that you guys eat over in England, which is disgusting.
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The good Lord himself doesn't even know what's in that, so I'm not even going to attempt to.
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You go down, you know, towards London, you don't see it as much.
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But yeah, Christmas Day, carrots and everything left everywhere, presents under the tree.
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We'll come downstairs and then see what Santa brought for us.
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Do you have Christmas lunch before the speech or after?
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So we would eat before the speech, so somewhere between 1.30 and 2, eat,
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and then everybody goes to sit down to watch the king's now or queen's speech.
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And is it kind of just like an address to the nation?
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I think Trump should do that on Christmas Day here.
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A lot of these are going to be like British Christmas versus American Christmas.
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First and foremost, are we going to lie in, sleep in on Christmas Day,
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You'll be up at 3 o'clock trying to figure out what Santa brought.
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Me, I wouldn't say lie in, but I would say don't wake up extra early.
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My siblings and I growing up, we would set an alarm for like 2.30 in the morning.
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It was like that childlike excitement of Santa coming to your house.
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Father Christmas is, I guess, it's a British thing.
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I'm one of those good immigrants where I'm like assimilating a little bit,
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I hate eggnog, but I also, I'm not a fan of the spices for mulled wine.
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Yeah, I'm going to, I'm just going to have to be Switzerland and neutral on that one.
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Which, who, eggs are like in, I feel like everything, first of all.
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I don't mind egg in stuff, but scrambled eggs, fried eggs, hard boiled eggs.
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You get so grossed out when I eat a hard boiled egg.
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You made these hard boiled eggs not too long ago, and in the bottom of the bag, I can only
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So no, egg, anything to do with egg is a hard pass for me.
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The only thing worse than chicken poop is pig poop.
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But y'all heard him say there are other things that aren't off the list.
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Stockings on the mantle or at the foot of the bed?
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Which, again, no one in the U.S. puts stockings at the foot of their bed.
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I think this was more for the parents to be like Mission Impossible, to try and get in while you're asleep, fill the stocking up, and sneak out without getting caught.
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So the stocking, okay, so Santa does the stocking.
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In my family, which I think this is different for some families in America, but my family, your parents fill up your stocking.
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And then Santa, my family, okay, so Santa would do presents, and we were able to differentiate what Santa brought versus my parents because Santa didn't wrap his gifts.
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My parents wrapped their gifts, and my parents do the stockings.
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But y'all have them on the foot of the bed, and I think that's very bizarre.
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Some, you know, I guess the Mission Impossible challenge of trying to not wake the child up while you fill the stocking up.
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So some people will put them by the fireplace because that's where Santa comes down, and you want to make it easy for him, so he puts more stuff in your stocking.
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Okay, gingerbread houses or Christmas pudding set on fire?
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Okay, explain that because, again, foreign concept to us Americans.
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A British Christmas pudding is probably one of the greatest creations on earth.
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It's one of those love, you either love it or you hate it.
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It's like a cake with a bunch of dried fruit in it.
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But then the fire part, you take, typically it's brandy, some people use whiskey, and you take a ladle, fill it with a couple teaspoons of brandy, you warm it up, and then you light the alcohol in the ladle, and then you pour it on top, and then your little Christmas cake is on fire.
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Another very British tradition with Christmas cakes, you should take a sixpence, and then it goes in the cake somewhere.
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And if it's your piece of cake that gets it, it's supposed to bring you good luck.
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I think we do something like that around Mardi Gras.
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And there's like a little plastic baby baked somewhere in the cake.
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And you keep cutting slices, and whoever gets the slice with the baby, I think it's good luck.
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Well, I'm surprised that like RFK doesn't have anything to say about baking a plastic doll in a cake.
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I don't even know what Boxing Day is, but I know that's a thing in England.
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So Boxing Day, the history behind it was it's December 26th, so the day after Christmas.
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It goes back to like old England when people would have house workers, and it's almost like the public servant day of gratitude is probably the best way to put it,
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where you would take boxes, and you would give them to the groundsman, the house workers, the milkman, the mailman, all things like that.
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Um, so yeah, and it was there, it was, it was, you would give them, that's when they would get their gifts.
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Um, so yeah, that's where the kind of Boxing Day comes from.
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Uh, I think over the last, I mean, as long as I've known, Black Friday has, has taken off in England.
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So now, being a good immigrant, I would probably say Black Friday.
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We talked about AmFest being Charlie and Turning Point Super Bowl.
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I don't, I don't feel like I have very, like many, like, stereotypical, like, girl things.
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Yeah, that's what you go to the gym for all year, is to carry those bags and...
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She, they leave obnoxiously early in the morning, and now, there's not even lines.
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Yeah, took Margo hunting, which we talked about, I think, on this podcast.
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Yes, how you took our, who knows how old, maybe, like, eight or nine-week-old baby in
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I was petrified, though, when I didn't know what they were doing, and I get a text that
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I was working out, and I get that text, and I'm like, what do you mean, shots fired?
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Um, okay, going into the new year, any New Year's resolutions, which I will say I have
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always, or at least the past four or so years, been really, really big on New Year's resolutions.
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I think there is real value in sitting down with either your spouse, your friends, your
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I don't know if it's, like, the athlete in me, but even when, when I was competing, like,
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I just really loved having and setting tangible goals, um, that you can work to achieve.
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You tell other people your goals, they can help hold you accountable.
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You, I always wanted to know their goals, so I could do what I could to help them achieve
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Um, I'm not much into, like, the whole, like, manifest thing, but I do think there's value
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in having a vision for yourself, and you, you remind yourself of that, like, writing
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on your mirror, whatever it is, however, every single day you can set your sight forward to
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achieving those goals, uh, I, I really buy into those things.
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So, that being said, do you have any New Year's resolutions?
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Well, do you want to talk about kind of how we break them down?
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Because, you know, it's not, we don't just have, like, two resolutions, there's different
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Well, first, I use the, well, we use the SMART method to set our goals, which, acronym,
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S-M-A-R-T, S is for, so for each goal, it has to be specific, it has to be measurable,
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it has to be achievable, it has to be relevant, and it has to be time-bound.
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All of those things, so you could set a goal to, like, be kind, that doesn't fit the SMART
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It has to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
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So, for example, and here are the, kind of, the different sectors we break our New Year's
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So, think of, like, your physical goals for yourself.
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Our second sector is spiritual goals, how you can grow individually and also simultaneously
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together in your spiritual journey, your relationship with Christ.
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Our third sector is personal goals or relational goals.
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So, those are kind of the four sectors, which we, every year, try to have, like, a New Year's
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So, us, some of our other friends, family, will come over and, like, sit down and make,
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So, I haven't really, really sat down and thought about my goals, but I have a few in mind.
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So, one of the things that I would love to do, and this is kind of, like, health and
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wellness mixed with career, is I would love to be able to talk more about fitness on this
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platform, on Instagram, on TikTok, with you guys.
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Obviously, I think, you know, the platform I have was awarded to me for my takes on political
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topics and for using my voice on these, the cultural stuff that's happening around the
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world, but I feel really passionate about fitness.
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And so, one of my health and wellness slash career goals is to be able to speak more to
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I think, in terms of physical fitness, if that is something you prioritize, you will live,
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obviously, a healthier life in terms of how long you live, how good you feel, but you're
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I think fitness is such a fantastic outlet for stress, for anxiety, for anything that is
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And it wasn't always this way, but you work for it to be this way.
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Now, I use fitness and going to the gym and running and lifting as an outlet to kind of
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Definitely been working on the father figure for the last few months.
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I haven't had anything to work towards fitness-wise in probably way too long.
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One of them does absolutely nothing, and the other one goes and signs up for my
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No, that's one of the things I'm not a big fan of.
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But something I've been thinking about, and I've mentioned it to you a few times, is something
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that I kind of want to look to sign up for, and I guess I'm going to shoot myself in the
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foot by saying that on here, is signing up for one of the tactical games.
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And it's a cross between CrossFit and shooting, kind of all compiled together.
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And so it's a combination of fitness and shooting, lots of running, lifting heavy objects in awkward
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ways, getting your heart rate up, and then still having to shoot accurately to score well
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So I think that's something that I'll have fun doing.
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Also going to have to start getting rid of the father figure.
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So yeah, I think that'd be one of my health and wellness ones, is just getting my backside
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Personal, relational, I think we've been bad about this since Margot's been here, but going
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on dates, I don't know if we've really been on one since she's been here, and she's maybe
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Well, it's hard because I feel like we go on dates, as in like we'll go eat or whatever,
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but we'll be on our phone or occupied by other things.
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So what I'm hearing you say is just being more intentional about our dates.
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And having someone look after the baby so it's just us to get some time.
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I think every week would be ideal, but with all the travel and schedules, I think that
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But I think once every two weeks is something that we can definitely commit to.
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Um, a New Year's resolution for me is to have another kid by this time next year.
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Maybe there will be another, another Barker baby running around our household this time
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It's so funny because, um, to like speak a little bit to the, the pregnancy and like
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conception journey that we had, we were able to conceive Margo in the first month of us
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Um, so I didn't find out until later, which nowadays you can find out at like three weeks
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I didn't find out till later because I felt fine.
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he was like, so, you know, they're getting all your information and they ask you, you
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Uh, they put in all this and he came out and he said, so, you know, um, she was conceived
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Um, yeah, that wasn't, we didn't mark the calendar and think, wow, today's a celebration.
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Uh, thank you all who have tuned into the gains for girls podcast over the past, gosh, I guess
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Um, your support, it means the world to me personally, um, to our family.
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We have lots to look forward to in the new year, but today, uh, the rest of this week,
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I hope you remember, uh, why we are gathered in the way that, that we do for Christmas.
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Well, we appreciate you guys and we will see you guys soon on the rally gain show, but
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we'll see you next week on the gains for girls podcast.