OLP 027: We Know This Is A Short One, But Please Thaw Your Turkey

Please. we're begging. Take it out of the freezer if you haven't already.

In this short holiday episode, Lex and Jordan share a few reminders you might need for your Thanksgiving prep, plus, a quick update on Jordan's extracurricular activities, and, as always,  take care of yourselves and take care of others.

Thanks for listening!

CW/TW: Mental health, ADHD, explicit language, loud noises, yelling, rambling,  mouth noises, coughing, garbled speech, mild bullying, discussion of food


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Cover art by: Krizia Perito

Theme: There Is A Dark Place

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:00

There is a dog play, but I'm not going. No, no, no, no. Um, uh

Speaker 2 0:26

[inaudible]

Speaker 3 0:28

Hi, I'm Jordan. And this is or learn park or

Speaker 4 0:32

Sure is it's a podcast about ADHD done by two adults who have ADHD.

Speaker 3 0:38

I feel, I know logically that we are adults, but it feels weird that you specified it because I try not to think about it.

Speaker 4 0:45

And I think I specify every time. Yeah. I'd just say to people, but I think I've said it before and like, we are adults who have ADHD.

Speaker 3 0:54

I know, I believe that we have ADHD, but then sometimes people are like, you're an adult. And I'm like, are you sure? Are you sure? Yes.

Speaker 4 1:01

Oh no. You're not a child. No, I know. So what else would you be

Speaker 3 1:06

A plant? Optimally.

Speaker 4 1:08

Yeah, but like, unfortunately that's not the case. It is not. So within like the realm of human reality, as we understand it, you know?

Speaker 3 1:17

Yes. No, you're not wrong. You could

Speaker 4 1:19

Be like one of the Fe, but I suspect they have children and adults too, you know? Like they do also have some concept of time

Speaker 3 1:28

Sure. That they do. I wouldn't know. I don't know. That's possible. Yes. Anyways, we're hearing with the Thanksgiving episode,

Speaker 4 1:36

Sorry, mercy on us one day, Saturday. Okay. Listen. It's the same. So you just shut your mouth for a second. Let me say sweet mercy on a Sunday, even though it's a Saturday, because everything has been happening so much all at once and everything is on fire, generally speaking. And just this weekend today, you know, today, the day we're recording is trans remembrance day and yesterday was Friday. So it was the day we all were notified. I don't know about y'all. My notification came from Twitter. I don't know when Twitter decided that they could send me news notifications about the jury decision on the Kenosha shooting trial. So short but bad, bad times, bad all over. And it's not anything we are unused to as a country, but, uh, it doesn't make it any, any more chill in subsequent times that it just keeps happening. So that said, we still wanted to pop in, say hello? Hi. Uh, yeah. Hello? Hello. Hello friends at home, but it's gonna be short one. Yeah,

Speaker 3 2:46

We are doing a lot. I'm sure y'all are doing a lot too. This episode is going to drop on the Monday before Thanksgiving. So we just wanted to pop in. And if you were listening today or any day before Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving. Thank you. Just give you a couple of reminders today that you might need. If you are prepping for a large dinner or a family gathering or anything like that, and the number one reminder we have for you today, please God uncrossed your Turkey. It takes days, pause this episode and go take it out of your freezer right now. If you want to eat a fully cooked bird on Thursday, I am begging you. If you have a 20 pound bird, I'd hope you actually already took it out, but please just that's the number one thing I wanted to say.

Speaker 4 3:37

Yeah. My number one piece of advice given the state of the world and the fact that we are in a global pandemic still, I don't know why people keep pretending it's over, cause it's not, but in light of all that, just like give yourself permission to leave. Like if things get weird, uh, I know a lot of us in the U S spend this holiday with family and maybe friends, but like a lot of people. And when you have that many people in a group, sometimes people don't agree very, very much on things, especially in this day and age. So that's my thing. It's just give yourself permission to just give them the Irish goodbye. Don't even say anything. Just, just dip. I mean, if you want to say something you can like, you don't have to, but like I'm a big fan of an Irish goodbye when things get weird, like[inaudible] so that's my big thing. So like take care of yourself mentally, but also do do go to

Speaker 3 4:27

Sometimes that means take the Turkey out, excusing yourself from the situation, taking care of yourself mentally,

Speaker 4 4:33

If you need to use the Turkey, say, oh, I'm going to go check on the Turkey. And people would be like, it's already cutting on the buffet. And you're like, well, I'm going to go check on it.

Speaker 3 4:42

Yep. That's much more emotionally astute advice than anything I had to bring to the table today. But I do have years of high yield pie experience. So that's what I'm bringing to the table. This Thanksgiving episode.

Speaker 4 4:54

Yes. And it is needed and it's appreciated. And if someone who lives with you and does reap the benefits of your particular Thanksgiving preparation. Yeah. I I'm, I'm in full support of everyone else having that same pleasure, you know of good delicious food that is hot all the way real. Yes. That's pretty nice

Speaker 3 5:14

Big San of food that is properly cooked. If you are prepping for Thanksgiving today, here are a couple other things that you can do ahead of time. And you should, because if you are thinking, oh, well, I'll just get a Thanksgiving morning and do it before people get your, or before we have to drive, that's a demon talking to you and they are lying and they want you to suffer. So if you're making fruit pies, you can make an apple pie today, Monday and leave it on the counter. Don't have to worry about fridge space. It's fine. It can just sit there for a couple days and it will be just as good. You can heat it up beforehand. If you want to just make it today or at least make your pie crust, it does have to sit before you roll it out. So just do it any casserole, any pretty much anything that has casserole in the name you can also make today and just heat up. If you need to throw that last layer, cheese or layer of French fried onions on the top Thanksgiving morning, you're going to thank yourself. You can sleep in. You just toss that bad boy in a preheated oven and not have to worry about anything else. If you do it today. So do that. And uh, you have any vegetables to chop. You can also chop those.

Speaker 4 6:24

Yeah. I mean, I will say this is all really helpful, but I do love like the so inaccessible way that you're explaining this to everyone who is an audience to our ADHD podcast in which you've said at least twice, just do it. So I will say that comedically is going very much against our ethics.

Speaker 3 6:43

The external pressure of me yelling at you will encourage people. Yeah.

Speaker 4 6:49

And that said, you don't have to eat traditional Thanksgiving food on Thanksgiving. And also, I know a lot of people are abstaining from gatherings this year and like, we're not medical doctors and we can't tell you what to do, but that seems like a good, it seems smart. So maybe these tips are useless if you're not going to a big gathering. Cool. Sorry. No. Okay. That's not the way. Okay. Let me rephrase it because that's not what I mean. I

Speaker 3 7:16

Was, like I said, I was going to say is when we talked about the episode

Speaker 4 7:19

Before. No, no, I know I was, I am giving you a hard time about the delivery because you, you have said just do it like three times, which is hilarious, objectively funny.

Speaker 3 7:32

We like external pressure. I'm not going to do what if I say I do it. But if someone else says go do it, then I'll well, I'll either do it or I'll say, well, now I'm not gonna.

Speaker 4 7:42

Yeah. And we did determine that's an oldest sibling versus youngest sibling thing. Where if you tell an oldest sibling to do something, they won't do it. Versus if you tell a youngest sibling to not do something, they will go out of their way and expend excessive amounts of time and energy to do it.

Speaker 3 7:57

We have discovered that. And if that rings true for you as well, take from that, what you will,

Speaker 4 8:02

Jordan is an oldest sibling. I'm the youngest sibling. You probably knew that already. So listen, listen, not useless tips, but if you find that they are not useful to you at this time for this particular holiday and week, that's fine. You can go listen to another pocket.

Speaker 3 8:21

You can, in fact, you can go listen to another podcast that I worked on. Oh yeah. That's part of the reason that this is a short episode this week go listen to feminist fairytales. Wonderful, wonderful people. I got to help edit their most recent episode. Lena. And I'm also working on their part two episode, which comes out next Friday, I believe, or this Friday, I guess, by the time we release this episode. But yeah. So just wanted to also let you all know what's been going on in heat, LLP verse.

Speaker 4 8:50

Yeah. I have not seen Jordan for like the past two weeks, which is totally fine. I'm introverted. I don't need it, you know, but, but I do. Yeah. Yeah. my roommate. Yeah. This is very different energy. Cause I think last week I literally was like, oh, it's just the, I love you. And this week I got to keep y'all on your toes.

Speaker 3 9:13

Got it. Got it. Knocked me down off my pedestal. I've just been getting too confident.

Speaker 4 9:17

You've just been too. Insufferably arrogant. You no humility whatsoever. Total. Head what? An absolute. Canoe.

Speaker 3 9:30

Yeah. I said I was not bad at something. And lax just kicked me right in the shins. I

Speaker 4 9:35

Did. It was brutal.

Speaker 3 9:37

And I deserved it

Speaker 4 9:42

To clarify. We are not in an abusive roommate.

Speaker 3 9:45

Yeah, no, that doesn't happen. My shins are in excellent condition. I can't. I'm sorry. I didn't mean excellent. They're okay. They're fine. They're fine.

Speaker 4 9:55

Yes. If you haven't guessed or don't know from other episodes, if for some reason this is your first episode listening a sorry, B a B really that's our bad and see Jordan. And I do love each other very, very much for your best friends, co cat veterans. But I did use the incorrect word instead of these tips may be useless because I know that

Speaker 3 10:20

We might be useless to you if you're not making Turkey or fruit pies or casserole or anything fudge doubles when it

Speaker 4 10:25

Yes. Yeah. But they're not useless tips overall.

Speaker 3 10:30

Like everything else you say on this podcast, we're full of. Most of the time. So take what serves. Yeah.

Speaker 4 10:37

It was hot air. Nothing else?

Speaker 3 10:39

Yeah. Like the one episode or we talked about balloons.

Speaker 4 10:42

Yeah. Anyways. Yeah. So go check out. Feminist fairytales. Jordan has been working incredibly hard on that and I'm very proud of them and uh, well I haven't been working on anything, so hell yeah. Right. Season of rest. Yes. I should say that more people might just want to take some naps. Think that might make the world generally a lot better as if we all just like legitimately think about how much better everything would be if people would just like take a nap. Yeah.

Speaker 3 11:14

I wholeheartedly second,

Speaker 4 11:16

Take a nap, take a lap, take a crap. It kind of just depends on your reflection. Yeah. What can't be solved by, you know, people just taking some naps, laps and craps. It's probably a lot of stuff out there as we've seen, but uh, one can dream

Speaker 3 11:34

Taking care of yourself. That might not be a bad place to start. Yeah. We're gonna, I don't know what I was going to say. Yeah. To me.

Speaker 4 11:44

Yeah. So you know, here's to prepping your holiday food early here's to giving yourself permission, to just like leave full on cheers to an Irish goodbye baby. And you know, life is pretty rough. And if you're wanting to like, you know, get a little bit more comedy and uplifting and stuff in your life, may I recommend, well, go watch some Letterkenny or taskmaster. Yeah. You know, get, get some of the good laughing juice going. Cause that is not a cure all by any means, but it helps, I guess it does. So yeah. You know, the usual take care of yourself, take care of others.

Speaker 3 12:25

We'll see you in two weeks. Yeah. This has been or learn par core from wholehearted production company.

Speaker 4 12:32

You can find us on Spotify, apple podcasts, and most other places. People isn't a pod

Speaker 3 12:37

[inaudible] special. Thanks to Cretia Pareto for our cover art design. You can find her at pedal hop. That's P E T a L H O P on Instagram, Etsy and Twitter. I'll say hi. Hi. Nailed it.

Speaker 4 12:54

Uh, thank you as well to Tom Rosenthal for our intro and outro song, there is a dark place off of the album. Keep a private room behind the shop.

Speaker 3 13:00

You can follow us on the social media@orlearnparkcoreontwitteratwearewpconinstagramandatwearewpc.com.

Speaker 4 13:10

You can find all of those links as well as links to our transcripts. And uh,

Speaker 3 13:16

And also some Thanksgiving helplines, if you are prepping for anything this week, we'll have those in the show notes this week as well. If you enjoy this podcast and would like to hear more, don't forget to follow us, subscribe to this feed, click that button. You know how this works by now.

Speaker 4 13:33

Yeah. You could also, you know, word of mouth shared around. You could give us money on our,[inaudible] got links to that and only tree. Uh, you know, if you're so led, leave us a review.

Speaker 3 13:46

We got a very nice review last week. I want to give a shout out to user Keeley, Wong. Uh, we love you very much. It made our whole day. And if you would also like to make our whole day or not, you don't have to leave us a good review.

Speaker 4 14:01

Yeah. I mean, a lot of the times I'm motivated by spite. So like, if you want better content B be romaine to me, give it

Speaker 3 14:09

A go. I will

Speaker 4 14:09

Cry. But no, no, no, not Jordan. Just me. I'm not giving full permission here. If anyone's mean to Jordan, I will fight you. But if people meet me out back at the Denny's, I will fist fight

Speaker 3 14:20

You. People are mean to you. I'll fight them though.

Speaker 4 14:22

So, yeah, but if people are mean to me, I I'm, I'm asking for it as a motivational thing.

Speaker 3 14:27

Okay. All right. I'll I'll hold back if you T if you, if you say so, I'll hold back, but only if you say so,

Speaker 4 14:33

I mean, if you like dox me or some don't dox me, but you could be rude on social media. Leave us a bad review. Give me something to fight.

Speaker 3 14:41

If the spirit so moves you, you can leave us some Crowner review. Anyways, do we have a natural question? What's your favorite pie, Jerry. Okay. Wait, no fried banana cream pie.[inaudible] I thought I knew you were going to say no, sorry. No. I was thinking fruit pies specifically, and I know banana is a fruit, but it's not like a fruit pie in the way for Kaiser. Cause you were talking about, so I think I was just like fruit pies to be clear, to circle back around banana cream pie is a pie and it's a great one, but it's not one that you can make ahead of time and leave on the counter. Please. Please refrigerate it. Yeah, no, that one does need to be refrigerated. Yep. Yeah. What's your, uh, favorite casserole at Thanksgiving? Oh, my favorite casserole. Unless you want to say what your favorite pie is? I have too many favorite pies. We'd be here for a long time. And a really hard question for you. My favorite casserole is probably like a sweet potato marshmallow situation. Okay. It's very simple. Just chunks of sweet potatoes, some brown sugar, salt butter. Know what those bad boys roast. You put a whole dang dang bag of mini marshmallows on top. And it's very good. Yeah. All right. That's what we've got. I'm Jordan and this has been or learn[inaudible]

Speaker 2 16:33

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Speaker 5 16:37

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