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Feast of the Seven Fishes and Awkward Family Christmas

from We Are The News · #23

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2 min

Tim describes his stepmother's family's chaotic Italian Christmas Eve seafood feast and an awkward encounter with a stranger named Ben at a blended-family holiday gathering.

In this bit6 moments
  • 55:05Tim reflects on the reality of the holidays and family dynamics.
  • 55:18Smith and Wollenski's steakhouse does a private room on Christmas Day.
  • 55:38The restaurant serves cold shellfish platters, lobster, shrimp, and crab meat cocktail on Christmas.
  • 55:52Smith and Wollenski's does probably 1,000 or more dinners on Christmas Day, making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  • 56:10He and his mom drove around Long Island for two hours trying to get a restaurant reservation on Christmas.
  • 56:22Half the restaurants were closed; the open ones had been booked for months.
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