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Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 54 You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast.

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Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of The Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm with my scrumtrelescent. Yeah, that's a fake word from, I think it's like, Talladega Nights.

My scrumtrelescent co-host, Chris Graham. Chris, how you doing today, buddy?

Chris Graham (0:34)

I'll take it. I'm great, man. How are you?

Brian Hood (0:36)

Man, I'm doing great. Just living life. It's Thanksgiving week.

Got plans with the fam. I'm sure you do as well. You got anything planned for Thanksgiving this week?

Chris Graham (0:45)

Yeah, well, the big thing for us that we just started doing last year is we do ethnic Thanksgivings other than American.

Brian Hood (0:53)

Wait, what? Explain.

Chris Graham (0:54)

So Thanksgiving is kind of rough because it's like, hey, let's go have the same meal with every part of your family. So like with your dad's side, with your mom's side, with her mom's side. Like there's just all these. Let's go all have a different take on an identical meal three, four times. That's awful. So at my mom's house, what we do is we pick an ethnicity.

And last year we picked Italian. So we had Italian Thanksgiving.

And this year we're either going to do Greek or Thai.

Brian Hood (1:22)

Okay, so that brings up, I just got a lot of things to talk about here, even just related to that. We're not getting to the episode yet. First and foremost, do Italians even celebrate some sort of Thanksgiving? Obviously, we don't have the same.

Chris Graham (1:33)

We have Italian food or Thai food.

Brian Hood (1:36)

Every country has some sort of independence they celebrate or something. And I don't think they're the same feel and vibe and like status of American Thanksgiving. So if you're from overseas, you have no idea what we're talking about.

Once a year, we celebrate some horrible things we did to Native Americans by eating turkey and a really weird holiday.

Chris Graham (1:56)

I don't know. It's weird. So in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and in something like, what is it like?

No one even knows.

Brian Hood (2:04)

That's all I know of that rhyme.

Chris Graham (2:05)

At some point, more people came over to America and it didn't go super well at first. And then the Indians wanted to be friends with them.

And they had dinner together and it was Thanksgiving. That was like the first Thanksgiving. And now we celebrate it every year. And it was pretty much downhill from there for the Native Americans.

Brian Hood (2:26)

So, yeah, that's the history of Thanksgiving in America. So just for the quick and dirty version for those of you who are foreigns. But anyways, I like that idea. I don't do a whole lot of like family stuff. We just have like the immediate family thing. And then this year we'll probably do what we call a friends giving here before, just for friends that can't really go home or that are stuck here in Nashville. I just have a bunch of people over my house. I can seat 10 at my dining table.

Chris Graham (2:48)

So that sounds great.

Brian Hood (2:49)

That kind of stuff's fun to do.

So that's my week. Hopefully our listeners have something planned of some sort. If not, just know that I'm thinking about you.

Chris Graham (2:56)

Well, Thanksgiving, like this begins the holiday season. And it's weird for us as audio engineers and for me as a mastering engineer, because in the one hand, it's like, everyone's celebrating a holiday and no one's making records right now.

Brian Hood (3:08)

Yeah, it's a lot of time to eat for most people.

Chris Graham (3:10)

It's kind of annoying.

Brian Hood (3:12)

With all that in mind, we're going to keep today's episode pretty short. We just kind of have a singular topic that we want to quote unquote riff on.

Do you like that term? Do you like? I just do that out there. It came in my head.

Chris Graham (3:22)

I thought we're audio guys riffing. That's what we mean.

Brian Hood (3:26)

So this is going to be a shorter episode today, but it's going to hopefully leave you with some food for thought for your Thanksgiving holidays.

Like what I did there. How was that one?

Chris Graham (3:33)

That was good.

Brian Hood (3:34)

That one out. Good, good, good, good. Chris has a passage from a book that he wants to read, and they're going to discuss that passage. Chris, do you want to start us out here? Anything you want to preface with?