82. Giving you elf on the shelf, gift giving, and thoughtfulness
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
It’s the season of giving! But Jon says stop. STOP BUYING GIFTS! People have to much stuff anyway and in this week’s episode, Alex and Jon discuss the culture around gift giving and how out of control it is. It’s time to start spending money on experiences and not on toasters! If it were up to Jon, everyone would get coal. Luckily, Jon is not Santa Claus and he has Alex to give the perfect gift on behalf of both of them.
0:00 - Intro
46:42 - Gifts for Nieces and Nephews
48:59 - Do I Get Him A Gift?
48:41 - Teacher Gifts
52:51 - I Do A Lot For My Friend’s Kids
55:51 - Holidays with Family
59:50 - How Do I Reject Gifts?
01:08:19 - Is My Nana Santa Claus?
01:11:42 - I’m Done Doing Everything For The Holidays!
01:24:16 - Recs of the Week
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:03.1 | Thank you so much to Google Shopping for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:05.9 | We're coming up on our first holiday season since becoming parents, which is so exciting. |
| 0:10.8 | But honestly, we have less time than ever to go gift shop for our friends and family. |
| 0:15.4 | Enter the Google Holiday 100. |
| 0:18.0 | Have you guys heard of this before? |
| 0:19.8 | Each holiday season, Google puts together the |
| 0:22.3 | list of the top 100 holiday products of the year based on search trends, which makes it so |
| 0:27.9 | much easier because I feel like you're like, what are people actually looking up? |
| 0:31.3 | Google makes it easy for you. It's broken out into categories like apparel, accessory, electronics, |
| 0:36.7 | toys, et cetera., which massively helps |
| 0:39.0 | when you're gifting for all the different types of people in your life. I even scrolled through |
| 0:42.3 | it for John because this year I wanted to get him something that could be an activity for both |
| 0:45.8 | of us so we could prioritize time together as new parents. And also just because John said that he wasn't |
| 0:51.3 | giving me a gift and then he told me that this year he actually is. |
| 0:55.3 | I'll be looking for that gift under the tree. |
| 0:57.3 | So I went to the Holiday 100 and found him this really cool TV projector under the electronics |
| 1:02.5 | category. |
| 1:03.1 | John, don't listen to that. |
| 1:04.0 | Excuse me? |
| 1:04.3 | Perfect for an at-home date night when we put Lucy to bed. |
| 1:08.3 | For help with all your holiday shopping this year, head over to g.co slash shop slash holiday |
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