December 19, 2024 • 18 mins
Would you buy a house in a neighborhood that required you to be festive with everyone else? You'll be surprised at how Martha Quinn answered this question but first...some shenanigans with Christie & Producer Karena Velazquez!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk Talk begins.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. Oh. Yes, you know.
This is the good thing about riffing is that sometimes
it's so fascinating to see where it's gonna go. I
like it because you just plunged right in, Karna. You
just opened your mouth and you just went for it, like,
come on, God of inspiration, I'm starting catch up with me.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, somebody likes sing with me. It's like a singalong,
but not really. Oh gosh, I think it's the coffee
this morning. That's just hitting. It's just hitting.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
There are some days when I say to myself, I
just want to drink coffee all day. I don't want
to eat. I just want to drink coffee all day.
Is that bad?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't think it's bad. Martha Quinn, welcome to Talk Talk.
By the way, thank you so much for being here
on our podcast. What coffee do you drink? I just
wanted to ask that because you do love coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do, and I drink La Colum if you must know,
it is my favorite coffee. Thank you for asking. In
episode number what Karna?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
This is number two hundred and twenty seven y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Two d and twenty seven of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn,
the podcast that unites the Morning Drive with Christy Live team,
which is Christy and Krea of Alaskaz. Let me promo
the fact that it is the best morning radio show
not just in the Bay Area, but in the country
on the planet. I am telling you this because I
(01:28):
believe it from the bottom of my heart. So I
am lucky enough that I get to work with the
Morning Drive with Christy Live crew, which is Christy and
Kreean of Alaskaz, and that crew is kind enough to
work with my crew, which is me a Karama of Alaskaz.
So I kind of have an inn there. You got
the Morning Drive with Christy Live crew. Yeah, Kreamy Alaskas.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I didn't know Michael Jackson made coffee.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
La colone, Oh latcha moon La chamone. Yes, that's Michael
Jackson's call feet Shamon Show. Yeah. Wow, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Not to be confused holidays or is it I didn't
know cosmetics companies make coffee land com Okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Think about this. It's the holidays. Eggnog has kicked in.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Get it Chrissy.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, you're just moving on. We get it because it rhymes. No,
that's good. You've heard of land Combe.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, you've heard of Landcom Lancom cosmetics. It's like it's
like maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I understand, I understand. I'm just saying the way that
it tied into shamone is because it rhymes. Do you
understandscus No, it's because Christie? Am I crazy? Right now?
Is am I crazy? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Because you said referee here? I would just like to
hear about the coffee really booth.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now I have okay, okay, okay, this might Okay, Christy
explain that lang Comb joke.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, we don't have to pause, we don't have to pause.
Let me hear what Christy has to say. I want
to hear. Okay, Christy, Christy, you're gonna be the reference.
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Because the coffee was called La Colone and I said, oh,
Michael Jackson la chow mown, and then Karina said lang
Comb because it rhymed with La colone, and so that
was the joke.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And now I'd just like to hear about the coffee.
Back to your coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Way, okay, So I drink La Colone Coffee, which is
why I am ready to go for today's podcast. Now
I have a question for you ladies, Okay, because everywhere
you look, there's twinkling trees, there's decorations, there's reindeer, there's wreaths.
And I was reading about a street in Seattle, and
we have them here in the Bay too, But this
(03:52):
is the particular street that brought this topic to my mind,
Candy Cane Lane in Seattle. Each of the nineteen twenties
era Tudor homes twenty three to be exact on the
lane feature unique decorations, including six foot candy canes crafted
decades ago from old pipes. There's a merry go round
(04:15):
which was designed and built in the sixties by resident
engineer Bill Whoever. And I was saying to my husband,
I said, if we were looking at a house and
the real estate agent told us that it was one
of those houses where everybody decorates their house on Halloween
(04:36):
and Christmas, like everybody like there's no one who can
turn their lights off on this street during the holidays,
would you buy the house? I will reveal what we
said at the end, Karina, would you buy your house
on a street, that's one of those. Okay, everybody decorates.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Heck, yes, I am all for the holiday spirit, the
Halloween spirit. I actually wish I've lived in a neighborhood
where people would participate and set up some lights. But
in my block there's only maybe three houses and we
are one of them that decorates. But yeah, if they said, oh,
(05:17):
that would be a place where I would definitely move
to one percent Christy.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I would move there.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I hate Christmas, but I do like a community
environment and I feel like if everyone's doing it, that
means that's a good sense of community and togetherness. So
Halloween is my jam, and I think I would work
to try and make it bigger and better, or try
and work some charity aspect into it. It could go
(05:43):
kind of horribly wrong, though, because what if there's like
light wars or what if this person's trying to outdo
the other person. Hopefully it wouldn't be like that, and
it's more just like, hey, guys, what are we going
to do to make it more awesome this year? But yeah,
I think I would do it because that just shows
that the community is really to get Yeah, you know
that they're all on board. To do this thing. There's
(06:04):
a couple of blocks like that in Alameda, and everyone's
on board to make it spectacular because there's a specific
part of Alameda where people come every year for Halloween
and for Charristmas, same thing. So little neighborhood of houses,
so it's kind of like a candy Cane Lane, and
without fail, that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There's also a place called Candy Caye Lane out in Vaccaville, California,
where every single house, I mean, that is what they're
known for.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Everyone participates.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know of like maybe that's why people bought
their houses, but every single house around this entire neighborhood
is just decked out in Christmas stuff like everything. But
I like a little competition when it comes to decorations
in the front of the house.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I'm like, bring it on, overachievers.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Martha Quinn, I already know that you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I know your answer. I already know your answer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Really Okay, well we got to hear Martha, So would
you buy a house in an neighborhood where they tell
you have to participate in either the Halloween decoration or
the Christmas decoration, all the reindeer games, all the Reindeers.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, I'll tell you this. If it was my ideal house,
like I looked at it and I said, this has
everything I want in a house, then in that case,
I would say, oh, I am so sorry, this will
not work for me.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I know you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. I know
you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't have
the decorating gene. I just don't. When my kids were little,
I tried, I really did. I tried. I would get
like a couple of those for Halloween, you know, rest
in peace foam what do you call it? Styrofoam tombstones,
(07:48):
and I'd put a couple little janky ones on my yard.
Maybe I'd put up a little you know, witch that
I got at Walgreens or something and hang it from
the tree for Chris, the same thing. I have like
one wreath that I, you know, drag out of the
garage I put on the gate.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I just don't have it. I don't have it in me.
I for for Christmas, like I said, I tried so
hard to go against my own self and do it
for my kids. But now that my kids are gone
like Halloween, Oh my god, nothing, I Karina. If I
lived on your block, you would be like, look at
(08:30):
that house over there. They don't do a thing. My
house would be toilet papered if I lived in that
kind of neighborhood. Because I'm only just don't we don't
do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Is Jordan in the same way worth it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Really, God, I know, I know they wouldn't do I
would think Jordan would be like, that's too much, damn work,
I'm not doing all that for what?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
For what?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Well? Because because, I say, because my sister's fiance, Mike,
does a lot of it, just because it makes my
sister happy. Like she's all about the decor everything everything,
you know, glitter bombs, whatever, everything.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
She's all about love that. She loves it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She does love her, she plans it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But Mike's like, Mike's more like, oh God, like I
don't want to do it, but he just does it.
So I'm just I was just curious that, but Jordan doesn't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
He's not a fan. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I just don't know what it is. I will say,
and I think it may be in response to the
fact that we never really came to the table with
that kind of thing. My daughter Annabelle is more into
that kind of decorating and making it look beautiful. Christy,
I will say I loved your take about the fact
(09:42):
that having that community event where everyone participates. I do
love that. I think that's very nice. We did one
year get it together to have a little kind of
luncheon in our cul de sac. Does that count?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah? It does.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And I think if it was me in my house
in the neighborhood, I wouldn't be doing it myself. I
would hire someone Like so, I'm not decorating an inside
my house would be like nothing, but the outside of
my house that's what everyone in the neighborhood was doing.
Then okay, but I'm not here for me, And.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I would be more than happy to get my kids
in the car and drive down your street and drive
down your street. Karina of Alaska's, I would be more
than happy to do that. I love that. I love
seeing all the lights and the you know, mechanical reindeer
and all of that. One year I was on CBS
(10:34):
News and I did a whole little piece on a
street down in Los Angeles that was like that, and
it's so fun and so magical, and I would never
do it. I think part of me is insanely lazy.
I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't think so either, And I think it wouldn't
it be funny though, too, Like if you lived in
the neighborhood like that, and you know, and then you
just put out a little wreath, or I'll Trader Joe's
has those little Grinch Christmas trees, so one I buy, Yeah, Christy,
and you just set that out and be like, all right,
well here you go.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That'd be funny, Christy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You would love what I got recently at Wayfair. I'm
sure other places have it, but I just happened to
see it at Wayfair. And it's like one of those
ceramic Christmas trees that you're familiar with. Those they're like
little ceramic sculptures of a Christmas tree.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
H huh, but tiny, and I got one even tinier.
It's a night light that's super cute. I have my
Plato Christmas tree. I think I've showed it to you
guys before. It's made out of play dough. I've had
it for about did you ever see your years?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And it's probably about maybe two inches tall. It hasn't
dried out or it's tried out. That's why it sticks around.
And I keep it in a drawer. And every holiday
season I put up my forty nine or sock or
what is it called, yeah talking, and set down my
little Plato Christmas tree on a counter somewhere, and that
(12:00):
is my decoration.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then I have a for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I have this kind of purple pumpkin that my friend
Christian gave me, and when it's Halloween time, I take
it out of the door and I put it on
my counter.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But I'm surprised that that's all you would have for Halloween, Christy,
because for well, for those who don't know, Halloween's your jam.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Christy hates Christmas. She's the granch.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You do love giving gifts, though, I will say that
you do love giving gifts, which is nice because you
take care of your mom and your family and everybody else.
But I'm surprised that only on Halloween that's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
All you would have.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
When Halloween is your jam is your jam.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
My costume is my my thing.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But I mean my house.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I don't need decorations in my house that I'm gonna put.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It up and then take it down and oh no, yeah,
but it makes it so festive now on no, I
was like no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, I'm like, yeah, somebody else is on my team.
But there are some people who just you know, they
get super into it. They love it, and I think
that's cool. Yeah, I think that's really nice. I love her.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, thank you, Martha. My sister loves which I do too.
But she she's.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Got about let's see, maybe like five trees.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
She's got about five trees. She decorates her whole house.
Each tree has.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
A theme and she has her inflatable in the front
of the house.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's her thing. She really, she loves it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
She loves Lately we've been we do Christmas Day at
her house. But yeah, she sets up all to decorate. Well,
Mike helps too. Yeah, she likes it. She's got her
trees up and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's one thing I always admire in National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation is Beverly de'angelo. I forgot her name. What her
character's name was. It was Clark Griswold. And what was
her name, Ellen? Maybe Ellen? Ellen?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That she was a supportive of him. She loved all
the decorations too. She was on team decorations. She wasn't
going like, oh, why are you doing this? She was,
you know, totally into it too. So I admire that.
But yeah, a street where you have to decorate for
a Halloween or Christmas, Like, if we bought a house
and then I found that out, I would be so horrified.
(14:10):
I'd be like, no, we got to cancel this closing.
I can't do it. I can't do it. Everyone will
hate me. I can't move on to this street.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Well, where my sister lives, it's a gated community, so
she didn't find that out about like the whole Halloween
and the whole Christmas, not so much Christmas, but more
of Halloween that everybody participates because she lives in a
gated community and there's a ton of kids there, Like
everybody in freaking Vallejo goes over there. So it's kind
(14:38):
of like a thing. And they send out newsletters to like, hey, guys,
if you need extra bags of candy, let us know.
We'll drop We'll drop you guys off extra bags of
candy so that everybody can participate.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hint, tin tint. Yeah, so don't beat the family.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And then there was some neighbors which we met via
Halloween because they were really cool. But when they passed by,
they came and they were like, oh, yeah, it's a
thing here. You know, we share wine, we share beer
and whatever. They're like, it's a thing here that you
have to partict. You don't have to, but they really
highly encourage everyone in this gated community to hand out
County for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
God, I wonder what we would do in this situation.
What would we do? I just don't know. If you're
listening right now, where are you at. If you could
buy a house on a street where you have to
decorate or you know it's the tradition where everybody decorates
for Halloween or for Christmas, what do you do? Do
you buy the house or you do go I gotta buy.
(15:35):
I gotta buy a house on Slacker Street down the
block a bit. I gotta buy my house on Slacker Street.
So well, okay, listen, everybody's going to drive by Karina's
house this Christmas and see you are one of the
three houses decorated. Can't wait to see it?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, because I texted you a while ago and you
were like, oh, I'm outside decorating and I was like, oh, wow,
she's already, She's already on it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, I got to set up.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I usually do the lights on the outside of the
house just because my parents are older and it makes
it easier for me.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
However, this year, I don't know what got into my
dad that he just keeps buying more and more lights.
So we've just been putting them outside. And it's funny
because he's moving in front of our house. It's it's
the van, and so he moves the van every night.
We live in a court or a cul de sac,
and so he moves the van because he's like, I
want everybody to admire my lights if they drive here.
I'm like that, ain't nobody driving here. He wants the
(16:29):
neighbors to see that. Now he keeps buying all these
more lights. It looks like a little National Lampoon's house
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You gotta post a picture.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's funny. It's a good time. But yeah, I'm
here for the festivities.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And then you have to take them down. Isn't that
kind of a bummer.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Up.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I actually prefer the taking down rather than the putting up.
The taking down is fast. I put that clay tree
right back in the drawer.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
The drawer Christie's one stuff needs to take our little
rip styrofoam little tombstones, get them back in the shed.
There you go. Next year, my goodness, well you guys,
next time we hang out, Christmas will be behind us,
(17:18):
Hanakah will be on the way, the twelve days of
Christmas will have started. The partridge will already have landed
in the pear tree. So really, I do encourage us
all to enjoy every twinkling moment because it is kind
of wonderful to have the world be decorated except my house.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
South Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate, however you celebrate,
we do thank you for being a part of the fun,
all three of us.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And Bambag.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She doesn't mean that she listened to Christy. She's all
about the community spirit. But I get it. I get it.
You know, everybody's got that holiday that speaks to them more,
and that's why we love you, Christy. So anyway, thank
you for checking out episode number.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Two hundred and twenty seven of Talk Talk.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
With Martha Quinn. Until we Meet Again, which will be
episode number two hundred and twenty eight. I know you're
impressed with my math skills. Until then, I'm Martha Quinn.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I'm Christy, I'm Kaarina of Velaskaz.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Miss You're ready.
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk Talk begins.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. Oh. Yes, you know.
This is the good thing about riffing is that sometimes
it's so fascinating to see where it's gonna go. I
like it because you just plunged right in, Karna. You
just opened your mouth and you just went for it, like,
come on, God of inspiration, I'm starting catch up with me.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, somebody likes sing with me. It's like a singalong,
but not really. Oh gosh, I think it's the coffee
this morning. That's just hitting. It's just hitting.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
There are some days when I say to myself, I
just want to drink coffee all day. I don't want
to eat. I just want to drink coffee all day.
Is that bad?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't think it's bad. Martha Quinn, welcome to Talk Talk.
By the way, thank you so much for being here
on our podcast. What coffee do you drink? I just
wanted to ask that because you do love coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do, and I drink La Colum if you must know,
it is my favorite coffee. Thank you for asking. In
episode number what Karna?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
This is number two hundred and twenty seven y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Two d and twenty seven of Talk Talk with Martha Quinn,
the podcast that unites the Morning Drive with Christy Live team,
which is Christy and Krea of Alaskaz. Let me promo
the fact that it is the best morning radio show
not just in the Bay Area, but in the country
on the planet. I am telling you this because I
(01:28):
believe it from the bottom of my heart. So I
am lucky enough that I get to work with the
Morning Drive with Christy Live crew, which is Christy and
Kreean of Alaskaz, and that crew is kind enough to
work with my crew, which is me a Karama of Alaskaz.
So I kind of have an inn there. You got
the Morning Drive with Christy Live crew. Yeah, Kreamy Alaskas.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I didn't know Michael Jackson made coffee.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
La colone, Oh latcha moon La chamone. Yes, that's Michael
Jackson's call feet Shamon Show. Yeah. Wow, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Not to be confused holidays or is it I didn't
know cosmetics companies make coffee land com Okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Think about this. It's the holidays. Eggnog has kicked in.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Get it Chrissy.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, you're just moving on. We get it because it rhymes. No,
that's good. You've heard of land Combe.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, you've heard of Landcom Lancom cosmetics. It's like it's
like maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I understand, I understand. I'm just saying the way that
it tied into shamone is because it rhymes. Do you
understandscus No, it's because Christie? Am I crazy? Right now?
Is am I crazy? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Because you said referee here? I would just like to
hear about the coffee really booth.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now I have okay, okay, okay, this might Okay, Christy
explain that lang Comb joke.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, we don't have to pause, we don't have to pause.
Let me hear what Christy has to say. I want
to hear. Okay, Christy, Christy, you're gonna be the reference.
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Because the coffee was called La Colone and I said, oh,
Michael Jackson la chow mown, and then Karina said lang
Comb because it rhymed with La colone, and so that
was the joke.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And now I'd just like to hear about the coffee.
Back to your coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Way, okay, So I drink La Colone Coffee, which is
why I am ready to go for today's podcast. Now
I have a question for you ladies, Okay, because everywhere
you look, there's twinkling trees, there's decorations, there's reindeer, there's wreaths.
And I was reading about a street in Seattle, and
we have them here in the Bay too, But this
(03:52):
is the particular street that brought this topic to my mind,
Candy Cane Lane in Seattle. Each of the nineteen twenties
era Tudor homes twenty three to be exact on the
lane feature unique decorations, including six foot candy canes crafted
decades ago from old pipes. There's a merry go round
(04:15):
which was designed and built in the sixties by resident
engineer Bill Whoever. And I was saying to my husband,
I said, if we were looking at a house and
the real estate agent told us that it was one
of those houses where everybody decorates their house on Halloween
(04:36):
and Christmas, like everybody like there's no one who can
turn their lights off on this street during the holidays,
would you buy the house? I will reveal what we
said at the end, Karina, would you buy your house
on a street, that's one of those. Okay, everybody decorates.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Heck, yes, I am all for the holiday spirit, the
Halloween spirit. I actually wish I've lived in a neighborhood
where people would participate and set up some lights. But
in my block there's only maybe three houses and we
are one of them that decorates. But yeah, if they said, oh,
(05:17):
that would be a place where I would definitely move
to one percent Christy.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I would move there.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I hate Christmas, but I do like a community
environment and I feel like if everyone's doing it, that
means that's a good sense of community and togetherness. So
Halloween is my jam, and I think I would work
to try and make it bigger and better, or try
and work some charity aspect into it. It could go
(05:43):
kind of horribly wrong, though, because what if there's like
light wars or what if this person's trying to outdo
the other person. Hopefully it wouldn't be like that, and
it's more just like, hey, guys, what are we going
to do to make it more awesome this year? But yeah,
I think I would do it because that just shows
that the community is really to get Yeah, you know
that they're all on board. To do this thing. There's
(06:04):
a couple of blocks like that in Alameda, and everyone's
on board to make it spectacular because there's a specific
part of Alameda where people come every year for Halloween
and for Charristmas, same thing. So little neighborhood of houses,
so it's kind of like a candy Cane Lane, and
without fail, that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There's also a place called Candy Caye Lane out in Vaccaville, California,
where every single house, I mean, that is what they're
known for.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Everyone participates.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know of like maybe that's why people bought
their houses, but every single house around this entire neighborhood
is just decked out in Christmas stuff like everything. But
I like a little competition when it comes to decorations
in the front of the house.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I'm like, bring it on, overachievers.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Martha Quinn, I already know that you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I know your answer. I already know your answer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Really Okay, well we got to hear Martha, So would
you buy a house in an neighborhood where they tell
you have to participate in either the Halloween decoration or
the Christmas decoration, all the reindeer games, all the Reindeers.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, I'll tell you this. If it was my ideal house,
like I looked at it and I said, this has
everything I want in a house, then in that case,
I would say, oh, I am so sorry, this will
not work for me.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I know you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. I know
you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't have
the decorating gene. I just don't. When my kids were little,
I tried, I really did. I tried. I would get
like a couple of those for Halloween, you know, rest
in peace foam what do you call it? Styrofoam tombstones,
(07:48):
and I'd put a couple little janky ones on my yard.
Maybe I'd put up a little you know, witch that
I got at Walgreens or something and hang it from
the tree for Chris, the same thing. I have like
one wreath that I, you know, drag out of the
garage I put on the gate.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I just don't have it. I don't have it in me.
I for for Christmas, like I said, I tried so
hard to go against my own self and do it
for my kids. But now that my kids are gone
like Halloween, Oh my god, nothing, I Karina. If I
lived on your block, you would be like, look at
(08:30):
that house over there. They don't do a thing. My
house would be toilet papered if I lived in that
kind of neighborhood. Because I'm only just don't we don't
do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Is Jordan in the same way worth it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Really, God, I know, I know they wouldn't do I
would think Jordan would be like, that's too much, damn work,
I'm not doing all that for what?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
For what?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Well? Because because, I say, because my sister's fiance, Mike,
does a lot of it, just because it makes my
sister happy. Like she's all about the decor everything everything,
you know, glitter bombs, whatever, everything.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
She's all about love that. She loves it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She does love her, she plans it.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But Mike's like, Mike's more like, oh God, like I
don't want to do it, but he just does it.
So I'm just I was just curious that, but Jordan doesn't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
He's not a fan. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I just don't know what it is. I will say,
and I think it may be in response to the
fact that we never really came to the table with
that kind of thing. My daughter Annabelle is more into
that kind of decorating and making it look beautiful. Christy,
I will say I loved your take about the fact
(09:42):
that having that community event where everyone participates. I do
love that. I think that's very nice. We did one
year get it together to have a little kind of
luncheon in our cul de sac. Does that count?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah? It does.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And I think if it was me in my house
in the neighborhood, I wouldn't be doing it myself. I
would hire someone Like so, I'm not decorating an inside
my house would be like nothing, but the outside of
my house that's what everyone in the neighborhood was doing.
Then okay, but I'm not here for me, And.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I would be more than happy to get my kids
in the car and drive down your street and drive
down your street. Karina of Alaska's, I would be more
than happy to do that. I love that. I love
seeing all the lights and the you know, mechanical reindeer
and all of that. One year I was on CBS
(10:34):
News and I did a whole little piece on a
street down in Los Angeles that was like that, and
it's so fun and so magical, and I would never
do it. I think part of me is insanely lazy.
I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't think so either, And I think it wouldn't
it be funny though, too, Like if you lived in
the neighborhood like that, and you know, and then you
just put out a little wreath, or I'll Trader Joe's
has those little Grinch Christmas trees, so one I buy, Yeah, Christy,
and you just set that out and be like, all right,
well here you go.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
That'd be funny, Christy.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You would love what I got recently at Wayfair. I'm
sure other places have it, but I just happened to
see it at Wayfair. And it's like one of those
ceramic Christmas trees that you're familiar with. Those they're like
little ceramic sculptures of a Christmas tree.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
H huh, but tiny, and I got one even tinier.
It's a night light that's super cute. I have my
Plato Christmas tree. I think I've showed it to you
guys before. It's made out of play dough. I've had
it for about did you ever see your years?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And it's probably about maybe two inches tall. It hasn't
dried out or it's tried out. That's why it sticks around.
And I keep it in a drawer. And every holiday
season I put up my forty nine or sock or
what is it called, yeah talking, and set down my
little Plato Christmas tree on a counter somewhere, and that
(12:00):
is my decoration.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And then I have a for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I have this kind of purple pumpkin that my friend
Christian gave me, and when it's Halloween time, I take
it out of the door and I put it on
my counter.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But I'm surprised that that's all you would have for Halloween, Christy,
because for well, for those who don't know, Halloween's your jam.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Christy hates Christmas. She's the granch.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
You do love giving gifts, though, I will say that
you do love giving gifts, which is nice because you
take care of your mom and your family and everybody else.
But I'm surprised that only on Halloween that's.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
All you would have.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
When Halloween is your jam is your jam.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
My costume is my my thing.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But I mean my house.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I don't need decorations in my house that I'm gonna put.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It up and then take it down and oh no, yeah,
but it makes it so festive now on no, I
was like no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, I'm like, yeah, somebody else is on my team.
But there are some people who just you know, they
get super into it. They love it, and I think
that's cool. Yeah, I think that's really nice. I love her.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, thank you, Martha. My sister loves which I do too.
But she she's.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Got about let's see, maybe like five trees.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
She's got about five trees. She decorates her whole house.
Each tree has.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
A theme and she has her inflatable in the front
of the house.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's her thing. She really, she loves it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
She loves Lately we've been we do Christmas Day at
her house. But yeah, she sets up all to decorate. Well,
Mike helps too. Yeah, she likes it. She's got her
trees up and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's one thing I always admire in National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation is Beverly de'angelo. I forgot her name. What her
character's name was. It was Clark Griswold. And what was
her name, Ellen? Maybe Ellen? Ellen?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That she was a supportive of him. She loved all
the decorations too. She was on team decorations. She wasn't
going like, oh, why are you doing this? She was,
you know, totally into it too. So I admire that.
But yeah, a street where you have to decorate for
a Halloween or Christmas, Like, if we bought a house
and then I found that out, I would be so horrified.
(14:10):
I'd be like, no, we got to cancel this closing.
I can't do it. I can't do it. Everyone will
hate me. I can't move on to this street.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Well, where my sister lives, it's a gated community, so
she didn't find that out about like the whole Halloween
and the whole Christmas, not so much Christmas, but more
of Halloween that everybody participates because she lives in a
gated community and there's a ton of kids there, Like
everybody in freaking Vallejo goes over there. So it's kind
(14:38):
of like a thing. And they send out newsletters to like, hey, guys,
if you need extra bags of candy, let us know.
We'll drop We'll drop you guys off extra bags of
candy so that everybody can participate.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hint, tin tint. Yeah, so don't beat the family.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And then there was some neighbors which we met via
Halloween because they were really cool. But when they passed by,
they came and they were like, oh, yeah, it's a
thing here. You know, we share wine, we share beer
and whatever. They're like, it's a thing here that you
have to partict. You don't have to, but they really
highly encourage everyone in this gated community to hand out
County for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
God, I wonder what we would do in this situation.
What would we do? I just don't know. If you're
listening right now, where are you at. If you could
buy a house on a street where you have to
decorate or you know it's the tradition where everybody decorates
for Halloween or for Christmas, what do you do? Do
you buy the house or you do go I gotta buy.
(15:35):
I gotta buy a house on Slacker Street down the
block a bit. I gotta buy my house on Slacker Street.
So well, okay, listen, everybody's going to drive by Karina's
house this Christmas and see you are one of the
three houses decorated. Can't wait to see it?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, because I texted you a while ago and you
were like, oh, I'm outside decorating and I was like, oh, wow,
she's already, She's already on it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, I got to set up.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I usually do the lights on the outside of the
house just because my parents are older and it makes
it easier for me.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
However, this year, I don't know what got into my
dad that he just keeps buying more and more lights.
So we've just been putting them outside. And it's funny
because he's moving in front of our house. It's it's
the van, and so he moves the van every night.
We live in a court or a cul de sac,
and so he moves the van because he's like, I
want everybody to admire my lights if they drive here.
I'm like that, ain't nobody driving here. He wants the
(16:29):
neighbors to see that. Now he keeps buying all these
more lights. It looks like a little National Lampoon's house
right now.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You gotta post a picture.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's funny. It's a good time. But yeah, I'm
here for the festivities.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And then you have to take them down. Isn't that
kind of a bummer.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Up.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I actually prefer the taking down rather than the putting up.
The taking down is fast. I put that clay tree
right back in the drawer.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
The drawer Christie's one stuff needs to take our little
rip styrofoam little tombstones, get them back in the shed.
There you go. Next year, my goodness, well you guys,
next time we hang out, Christmas will be behind us,
(17:18):
Hanakah will be on the way, the twelve days of
Christmas will have started. The partridge will already have landed
in the pear tree. So really, I do encourage us
all to enjoy every twinkling moment because it is kind
of wonderful to have the world be decorated except my house.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
South Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate, however you celebrate,
we do thank you for being a part of the fun,
all three of us.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And Bambag.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She doesn't mean that she listened to Christy. She's all
about the community spirit. But I get it. I get it.
You know, everybody's got that holiday that speaks to them more,
and that's why we love you, Christy. So anyway, thank
you for checking out episode number.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Two hundred and twenty seven of Talk Talk.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
With Martha Quinn. Until we Meet Again, which will be
episode number two hundred and twenty eight. I know you're
impressed with my math skills. Until then, I'm Martha Quinn.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I'm Christy, I'm Kaarina of Velaskaz.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Miss You're ready.
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