This week on Spawned with Kristen and Liz is one of our very favorite annual episodes: Answering all of our listeners’ and readers’ burning Thanksgiving questions!
Wondering how to get the men to actually do dishes this year? Trying to feed 12 people with 14 different food aversions and allergies? Desperate to fill a 10-hour car ride without electronic activities? Got kids’ table issues? Dreading those inevitable political conversations that make you hate everyone and hide in the bathroom with your own pie?
And hey — why do uncles get all those “your racist uncle” stereotypes anyway? We have to stand up a bit here for cool uncles, yo!
For lots of tips, advice, and plenty of love and commiseration, take a listen right now on your Podcast app, or just click on this link right here!
And don’t forget to subscribe Spawned with Kristen + Liz on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcasting app, and save the episode so you can listen offline as well. Thanks so much for joining us — and extra thanks to everyone who sent us a question.
Links from this week’s show
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Top image: DysFUNctional family Thanksgiving wine labels, Loose Lipped Labels on Etsy
–The 10 essential Thanksgiving pies
-The ultimate list of Thanksgiving cooking help
– The SPLC tips on responding to everyday bigotry
– How Michelle Obama suggests we respond to racism.
– How to explain to someone that taking a knee as a sign of reverence, not disrespect.
– Lee Siegel on the reverent history of why Kaepernick takes the knee
–Superfight Card Game and Dinkee Linkee for family car trips
–On Broadway station on Sirius XM
–Children Will Listen from Into the Woods
This Week’s Sponsors: Nintendo
The 80s and 90s were…quite a time. And so we cordially invite you to laugh with (at?) us as we depict some of the stuff we don’t miss a bit.
From the hell of cassette tapes to scrunchies to shoulder pads up to our ears, we had the best time bringing some of our least favorite aspects of the 80s and 90s to life (while totally humiliating ourselves and our kids) in this short video for our awesome partner, Nintendo.
Take a look and see if you can spot all 11!
As parents, we love that the Nintendo 2DS system plays any Nintendo 3DS games (what?!) in 2D. And hey, it’s kind of cool to get the parenting cred in, knowing the ins and outs of one tech toy before our kids do.
Right in time for the holidays, you can now get the Nintendo 2DS New Super Mario Bros. 2 bundle in stores at a price that’s totally throwback.
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Our Cool Picks of the Week
Kristen: The new collection of Holiday TOMS that blew up our Facebook page – like these glow-in-the-dark shoes.
Liz: The Good Wishes Quilts Etsy shop makes gorgeous handmade Christmas stockings and she owns a whole set. They’re wonderful! And the owner is a delight.
Bonus: Shout-out to new movie Wonder, based on one of our favorite children’s books — perfect weekend to see it (and read it!) as long as we all have kindness and gratitude on the brain.
