Hello everyone and welcome back to Do We Know Them? Episode 297. I almost said 296 because I just can't believe that we're almost there. Almost 300. You look like a snow princess. Oh, thank you. All I see is just like, you look like a Hallmark movie star. Oh my God. Where's my Christmas tree farmer? Is that what their jobs are? There's always like weird ones, but I've seen a few TikToks recently where it's like, POV, I'm the character in a Hallmark movie. And there was one where it was the, from the perspective of like the fiance that gets left for the like small town person. It was so funny. He's like, yeah, my fiance left me. We were together three years and I like helped her through graduate school and got her this job and blah, blah, and then she left me for a guy.

She dated in high school for three weeks who works at his parents' Christmas tree farm.

Love that.

It's been three Christmases now since Jessica left me for her high school ex-boyfriend, who they dated for about three weeks, though we were already engaged dated for three years

I paid off her college debt I helped her get a promotion for a marketing job but I took a phone

call past 5 p.m. so how was Jessica doing not I don't think they're doing good actually her

fiance Nick was running a Christmas tree farm which has since gone out of business because

no one buys Christmas trees anymore life's been good good. The big city, the fun. I mean, sorry, I wanted to choose a town that actually had Wi-Fi instead of middle nowhere, West Virginia, where the mayor was a reindeer. Well, I mean, I didn't do this on purpose, but we are going to be talking about something that does have to do with Christmas. So it was kind of a sleigh getaway,

or what is it? Segway, not a getaway. We're not getting away, honey. No. Love Christmas. Let's extend it as much as we can. I love Christmas too. It is truly a happy time in the same way to me that Disney is a very happy time. In the moment, you may not know what I mean? You may be feeling a little bit like, oh my God, things are too overwhelming.

Everybody's freaking out.

Everybody's in a bad mood because my mom signed up to, like, cook. you may not know what I mean you may be feeling a little bit like oh my god things are too

overwhelming everybody's freaking out everybody's in a bad mood because my mom signed up to like cook 17

dishes you know what I mean but then after you're like so beautiful that was wonderful I love that

I just feel like the overall vibe I don't know if it's also because like the weather is like

finally cooler in California and it's like otherwise 80 degrees you're right just feels nostalgic cozy

yeah no I get that it does and I love nostalgia you know what it is I think I need to decorate because

I'm not feeling the Christmas fair at all and I have not decorated anything I should send you some of

mine because my living room right now I'm telling you I look like a Christmas hoarder it's like okay

maybe you went a little too far I need to spread it all out though, though. I have a lot of surfaces. So right now, it's all just like together, but I think once it's spread out, I'll be good. One of the things that lately I have been enjoying, like, for, you know, Thanksgiving, we donated some turkeys for Christmas. We're actually going to do some of the angel trees in our local Walmart. And I really do

enjoy the giving spirit of Christmas. I think it's very beautiful. And if you don't know what an angel tree is, that's what we're going to be talking about. An influencer by the name of it's cookie dough. Okay, I don't know her real name. She went to Walmart to do her own angel tree shopping. So basically how it works is you go to the front they have the angel tree you pick out which kids you want to shop for

you get the gifts. It's all anonymous. They're never going to meet the people. Not usually. You don't meet the people you buy gifts for. I just saw one recently where the girl got them a kitten. Oh, our researcher put it in here. She's like, if you want to start not being mad, maybe watch this first. It was a calico kitten. And they wanted a girl, I think. Anyway, they found it. It was so beautiful.

But yeah, she got it. It was not like a kitten. It was a cat. And like got her all the stuff she needed to, she's like, and she did get to meet them afterwards. I think she like gave it to the parent, but then they introduced her to the kid.

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