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Holiday Cookies and Beliefs about Santa Claus

The speakers discuss the tradition of decorating festive holiday cookies and share their experiences and beliefs about Santa Claus, including receiving a handwritten response from Santa and leaving cookies and milk for him. They also tease a special episode in the future.

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Speaker 1
I have a bunch of cookie cutters and that's the only time we ever use them is for holiday cookies. Some of those actually are my mom's cookie cutters from when I was a kid. Then we picked up some other scents then. You do a candy cane, you're not going to stripe that. It's just a J. Or a question mark that's backward. You got to stripe that thing. Stripe that baby. Otherwise, what are you
Speaker 2
doing? Thank you for an upgrade. Stripe the baby.
Speaker 1
No, no, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2
I know, I love it. It's great.
Speaker 1
This is a good motto for the show. Frost them. This is what you need to do. That's my feeling about Andrew's point, frosted or unfrosted. The frosting is fine. I don't care. I feel like though, the key thing is if they're in shapes and they need to be elaborated on so that they aren't just sad playing cookies, if it's like a circle, I mean, you could take it or leave it, whatever. But if it's like in a shape, you got to do you got to do festive things on that shape. Otherwise, it's just a sad silhouette and nobody wants their Christmas sugar cookie to be a sad silhouette.
Speaker 2
And Bront wants to know, did you both grow up believing in Santa in your households?
Speaker 1
Yes, absolutely. My belief was reinforced by the time that Santa responded to a letter I left for Santa and handwriting I didn't recognize, which I think was just, I don't actually know which parent probably my mom, but it was like she did a wild handwriting that it was not like my parents handwriting. So it was very, very convincing and that extended it a year. I was very impressed with that that Santa had left me a message. And then the other thing I'll say is there was that awkward couple of years where I knew that Santa didn't exist, but I didn't want to lose Santa presence. So we kind of like pretended that it was until finally we had the moment of the, you know, there's no Santa right? And I'm like, yeah, I know. And then we, and then actually my mom would still put presents under the tree that were from Santa and we would all be like, oh, this one's from Santa. And we all had a chuckle. But
Speaker 2
that's cute. Right. That's my
Speaker 1
story. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2
You didn't answer. Well, maybe I don't want to answer. You know, maybe I still believe in some. No, I, one, he's one of these things. Well, I know I did, but I don't remember it, but I know I did. You know what I mean? Like I have no memory of believing in Santa, but I don't know. I believed in Santa. Sure.
Speaker 1
We had a fireplace in our, our, our tree was right next to the
Speaker 2
fireplace too. So it was really conducive to that whole thing. I remember doing the cookies and milk and, and carrots and stuff like
Speaker 1
that. So my pal, my pal, Phillip Michaels, I don't know. I just find this amazing. Their daughter old enough now to know that there's no Santa, but for a while there, he just was very clear that what Santa really wants is bourbon. I, I always appreciated that that in, in Phil's house, you leave, you leave bourbon for Santa. Makes sense. Sorry checks
Speaker 2
out. Santa likes to go to the Michaels house.
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, he
Speaker 2
does. Good gifts. If you would like to send in feedback, follow up on questions for a future episode, please go to upgrade feedback.com. You can find Jason at six colors.com, the incomparable.com and here on relay FM where you'll find me too. And over at cortex brand.com. We're a master done. Jason is at Jason. Now on zerplin.flights I am at I'm I come like that social. You can find the show as upgrade on relay.fnd.social where you'll also find video clips of the show, but they are best viewed on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. We are at upgrade relay on all of those. On threads, I am at I'm like I am Y K E. Jason is at Jason L. J S N E double L. Thank you to our members who support us about grade plus. And thank you to our sponsors of this episode, notion ladder and Fitbod. However you celebrate, have a happy holidays and we'll be back next year on New Year's Day. Oh, very special episode. Very special episode. Join us then.
Speaker 1
That's right. Happy holidays. Happy New Year.
Speaker 2
See you in the future. See you next year, everyone. Bye.

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