Holiday Bare Minimum

Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness

Kim Holderness

Holderness Podcast, Self-improvement, Parenting, 40s, Laugh Line, Gen X, Penn Holderness, Laugh Lines, The Laugh Line, 50s, Kim Holderness, Aging, Getting Older, Humor, The Holderness Family, Marriage, Education

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If you’re here for a perfectly curated tablescape, a stunning holiday gift guide, or expert tips on how to make your mantle look like the cover of a magazine… sweet friend, this is not that podcast. Welcome to the season of doing less, and honestly? It feels amazing.

This week, I’m declaring a personal holiday revolution: I am officially going medium. No more crying on Christmas Eve because I tried to hand-bake, hand-tie, hand-craft, and hand-everything my way into the “perfect” holiday. Penn and I talk about the art of letting go, the magic of setting boundaries without apologizing, and why aluminum foil might be the world’s most underrated wrapping paper.

We also hear from you on Laugh Line including an unwanted-gift exchange that absolutely needs to be a nationwide movement and the emotional fallout of Presidential Physical Fitness Test. (Sidenote: "I lied or actively cheated" may be our most favorite line of the year.) Finally, we talk about holiday traditions of yesteryear and what we would bring back. This year, the cookies might be store-bought, the tree might be fake, the gifts might be wrapped at a solid C+, but the joy? The joy is staying.

We love to hear from you (and tell us what you want in 2026!) leave us a message at 323-364-3929 or write the show at podcast@theholdernessfamily.com. You can also watch our podcast on YouTube.

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Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness is an evolution of The Holderness Family Podcast, which began in 2018. Kim and Penn Holderness are award-winning online content creators known for their original music, song parodies, comedy sketches, and weekly podcasts. Their videos have resulted in over two billion views and over nine million followers since 2013. Penn and Kim are also authors of the New York Times Bestselling Books, ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD and All You Can Be With ADHD. They were also winners on The Amazing Race (Season 33) on CBS.

Laugh Lines is hosted and executive produced by Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness, with original music by Penn Holderness. Laugh Lines is also written and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, and edited and produced by Sam Allen. It is hosted by Acast. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	If you are looking for a show that will help you perfectly curate a table scape, that will give you the perfect gift guide, that will just tell you where to buy over-the-top decorations and how to style them, change the channel.
0:14.8	This is not your show.
0:15.8	Yeah. We get older every day. Got more wrinkles, that's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age.
0:22.8	Life is like a comedy stage.
0:26.5	And that's what we got Laugh Lath Lines.
0:32.7	Hi, everybody.
0:34.3	I'm Kim Holderness.
0:35.3	And I'm Penn Holderness.
0:36.4	Happy holidays from all of us at Laughlin's.
0:39.9	If your mom got in an altercation over Cabbage Patch doll at the Montgomery Ward or the best,
0:49.2	if you lived in Braden, Florida, there was a best. Did they have cabbage patch at best?
0:53.1	Yeah, because I saved my money and finally bought one. Anyway, you are home if you remember that. If you know what Montgomery Award or Best is. They had Best nationwide. So they had one at our house, but it was a bit of a drive. My mother was too smart to wait in line for a cabbage batch doll. And she had a job and they were expensive and she
1:12.6	wasn't going to get in a fight. But I will say our moms in the holidays in the 80s and 90s were
1:20.5	doing the most. Oh yeah. And their moms out there like fighting each other for like a Furby or a
1:27.4	tickle me Elmo like they were doing
1:29.6	the absolute most that is why I am honoring my mother by this holiday season oh to honor my mother
1:37.1	I'm doing the absolute I'm doing the least oh I am doing the least I can't say I saw that coming
1:43.0	yes okay I I'm calling this the holiday bare minimum, thriving at almost 50 with about 30% effort.
1:52.5	I love this theme.
1:53.5	Okay.
1:54.0	So this show is going to be this new mindset honoring your mother.
1:59.6	Well, just honoring the moms. And the moms, yeah. Who, I mean, I'm telling you, and I'm sure,
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