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Happy New Year! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today is
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  Speaker 2: one of those episodes. Are Ben and I are just
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  Speaker 2: doing a little chat. We want to talk to you
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  Speaker 2: guys about the new Year. I hope you guys have
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  Speaker 2: a very safe and happy New Year. And now Ben
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  Speaker 2: and I will reveal how we are spending our New year. Ben,
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  Speaker 2: I don't ever make plans for New Year's Eve. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember when I ever had a plan for New
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  Speaker 2: Year's Eve. The best New Year's Eve I've ever had,
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  Speaker 2: besides ones of like my childhood teen years, which is
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  Speaker 2: like always fun with your friends and doing crazy things
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  Speaker 2: like going into Times Square at eleven thirty pm and
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  Speaker 2: getting let in by coops and seeing the Jonas brothers
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  Speaker 2: and all that when I was nineteen. It's great new
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  Speaker 2: Year's put it as an adult New Year's My favorite
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  Speaker 2: ones I've probably just been with a few close friends
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  Speaker 2: in sweats playing games. What about you?
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  Speaker 3: You know how I know I'm lame.
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  Speaker 2: You've never seen it back into Times Square at eleven
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  Speaker 2: thirty pm.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I've definitely never done that. I I'm lame
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  Speaker 3: because in my twenties.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you fell asleep. You always fall asleep.
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  Speaker 3: I really tried hard. There was two New Year's distinctively
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  Speaker 3: that I remember. I tried hard going into him, being
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  Speaker 3: like I'm going to party, Like I'm getting out there
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  Speaker 3: on the town. I'm gonna like kind of get dressed up.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go to a nice dinner, and then we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna go to the clubs or the bars or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna like, I'm gonna put down the money, We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna buy a table. We're gonna like do it up right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those are two of the worst like night memories I
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  Speaker 3: have in my life. It sucks. It's awful. Everything's so expensive,
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  Speaker 3: it's packed. It's like butt to hump throughout the whole bar.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get a drink, you can't get food. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: is like either like mad that they're there or going
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  Speaker 3: one thousand miles per hour forward. It's busy. And here's
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  Speaker 3: the part that just drives me crazy. You the party
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  Speaker 3: doesn't start till that ball drops. Really, this is how
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  Speaker 3: much I've gone out on New Year's. It's like it
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  Speaker 3: picks up. I guess that when the ball drops. If
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  Speaker 3: you're not like getting like it'd be. I think both
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  Speaker 3: those nights, you're coming in at like three o'clock in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, which is just outrageous to me. And it's
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  Speaker 3: been outrageous to me, not because I'm thirty six years old.
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  Speaker 3: When I was twenty one years old, it was outrageous
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  Speaker 3: to me that that was a thing in this world
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  Speaker 3: where you would give up a whole next day of
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  Speaker 3: your life for a three hours of more like whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to call it fun because it's
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  Speaker 3: not fun to me. Uh So, here's what we're gonna do,
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  Speaker 3: which what we've done. Jessica and I have both very
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  Speaker 3: similar in this manner. We're going to go or cook
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  Speaker 3: in or go out to a great dinner. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a drink, and we're gonna talk about the year.
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  Speaker 3: And this is one of the traditions that we have.
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  Speaker 3: We also on New Year's we have this thing that
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about before where we share our top five
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  Speaker 3: favorite meals from the year. Those can only be two
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  Speaker 3: meals that have been cooked at home. The other three
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  Speaker 3: have to be out like at a dinner. And they
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  Speaker 3: are not based on the best food, but they're based
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  Speaker 3: on not only good food, but the good vibe and
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  Speaker 3: memory and feeling that we had around them. But we
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  Speaker 3: don't share them with each other until we sit down
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  Speaker 3: at dinner. You don't make it.
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  Speaker 4: You just remember the meals.
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  Speaker 3: No, we don't make them. We remember them and we
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  Speaker 3: do our top five and she makes hers and I
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  Speaker 3: make mine, and then we share them with each other.
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  Speaker 3: And so sometimes the two of them align. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 3: have crossovers. Sometimes we don't.
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  Speaker 4: How do you hide each other from the kitchen?
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  Speaker 3: No, we don't make them. These are like meals that
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  Speaker 3: we had previously throughout the year. This could be a
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  Speaker 3: dinner in New York City that we had in February
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  Speaker 3: of this year. This could be the dinner but we
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  Speaker 3: had before the night before Whennie was born. And we
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  Speaker 3: write down, like, oh, this is one of my top
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  Speaker 3: five meals from the year, and we just talk about
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  Speaker 3: the meal. We don't remake it.
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  Speaker 4: You just talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Something I could never do with Jared because he does
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  Speaker 2: not care about food this much.
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  Speaker 4: I would love to do it now. I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 4: it time.
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  Speaker 3: And it's fun because we've done it since two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and eighteen, and so we have this list that goes
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  Speaker 3: back since twenty eighteen of all of our best meals
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  Speaker 3: from the year. Yeah, my parents do it. It's fun,
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  Speaker 3: it's enjoyable, and it gives us these memories to look
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  Speaker 3: back on, Like a lot of those meals were in
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  Speaker 3: Italy when Jess's parents and my parents and Jess and
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  Speaker 3: I went to Italy and that one year we can
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  Speaker 3: look back and say, oh, my goodness, like remember that
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  Speaker 3: dinner and remember that time, and maybe one day we
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  Speaker 3: can go back to that restaurant when we're visiting, if
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  Speaker 3: we're ever visiting that certain area. So that's what we
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  Speaker 3: do on New Year's and then we go to bed.
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  Speaker 3: We watch the ball drop on the East Coast and
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  Speaker 3: we say, hey, happy New Year, I love you, good night.
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  Speaker 3: And that is the best way to do New Year's.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, you know what I do that. This
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  Speaker 2: will be my third year. This is our tradition. Dawson
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  Speaker 2: and I. We get burger king and we sit and
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  Speaker 2: we watch people do the what's the dip? You know
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  Speaker 2: when people are crazy like you would be, they run
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  Speaker 2: in the water the ocean.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the polar plunge.
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  Speaker 4: The polar plunge. Yeah, we get burger king and we
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  Speaker 4: watch people do the polar plunge from the car.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you don't New.
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  Speaker 4: Year's Day, that's New Year's Day. No, I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 3: I could see Jared doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I could see Jared doing it too, but this has
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  Speaker 2: just been Dawson in my tradition thus far.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and then Jared.
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  Speaker 2: Loves the jaw the ball drop. He just loves Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Zeacress rocke Andy. Heves like that is his classic nostalgic thing.
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  Speaker 2: So we will probably usually do like dinner out to
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  Speaker 2: We'll go out to dinner but early, be home by nine,
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  Speaker 2: nine thirty. And then last year we stayed up with
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  Speaker 2: we had both boys up at midnight. Don't know how
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  Speaker 2: that happened with Hayden and Dawson. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: that happened with Dawson, but there they were in bed
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  Speaker 2: with us and it was kind of adorable and I
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  Speaker 2: don't hate it. I don't know that we'll do that
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  Speaker 2: again this year, but you know, if they happened to
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  Speaker 2: be up, then they happen to be up, and that's
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  Speaker 2: totally fine.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's special Like I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: New Year's is like terrible, because I think there's a
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  Speaker 3: really special ways to do it, and I enjoy my
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  Speaker 3: New Year's now because Jessica knows that if any of
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  Speaker 3: her friends or any of my friends say, hey, we're
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  Speaker 3: throwing a New Year's party, it's just a no, like
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  Speaker 3: we're not.
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  Speaker 2: Really. If it was a friend's house, I would totally
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  Speaker 2: do it, but not like a New Year's Eve party,
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  Speaker 2: but more like a New Year's Eve get together where
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  Speaker 2: you can we're you don't have to wear a skin
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  Speaker 2: by sparklay dress because the thing is it's too cold
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  Speaker 2: for a sparklay dress.
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  Speaker 3: It just is Ashley, I'll be honest with you. This
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  Speaker 3: time of the year is so wonderful for so many reasons.
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  Speaker 3: There's celebrations, there's gatherings, there's work commitments where people get
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  Speaker 3: together to party. All these things and they're wonderful things.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to not say they're wonderful. I am
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  Speaker 3: an advocate for getting together with people and connecting with
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  Speaker 3: people and sitting with people in person. I think they're fantastic. However,
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  Speaker 3: there is a line where I become over socialized because
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  Speaker 3: most of my life is being out with people at
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  Speaker 3: events and conferences and gatherings. So that's my whole year.
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  Speaker 3: All I want for a day off for me where
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  Speaker 3: I know nobody's working and I'm not going to get
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  Speaker 3: any emails and I'm not going to have to make
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  Speaker 3: any phone calls. All I want at some point in
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  Speaker 3: the year is for there to be no expectations for
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  Speaker 3: me to have to be around anybody other than my family,
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  Speaker 3: because it just doesn't happen very often. So for me,
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  Speaker 3: New Year's is always that excuse where I'm like, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: going to be hungover, everybody's going to be tired, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: getting together. What does that mean for me? I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get mad Sunday scaries like I do after
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  Speaker 2: New Year's is over because you had the whole week off,
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  Speaker 2: and really you and I will have days off for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but like a whole straight week where there's no work
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  Speaker 2: coming up because it's all kind of closed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little different for me because I work
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  Speaker 3: the weekends during the holidays because of Generous it's a
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  Speaker 3: big time for us, and so I don't get it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: my break is the break after like the first week
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  Speaker 3: of January is when I can out take a break,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, I definitely will, but I look forward to it,
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  Speaker 3: so that's how I utilize it. It's kind of those
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  Speaker 3: it's like the It's one of those moments for me
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  Speaker 3: where I'm like, I'm going to treat myself and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to do nothing because that just sounds good, and
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  Speaker 3: I know it sounds good every year. Call me lame Ashley.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not lame at all.
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  Speaker 3: Like I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I would absolutely do it too.
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  Speaker 3: It works.
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  Speaker 4: You guys should figure out how to have your favorite
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  Speaker 4: meals during your little tradition too.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be good. Some of these are like Michelin Star restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to do that. Besides that, i'd
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  Speaker 3: be smart, though. It'd be fun. Spend the whole day
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  Speaker 3: just cooking up cool, cool stuff. I am it will
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  Speaker 3: be Funhi, it is a wonderful New Year's We wish
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  Speaker 3: you the best in twenty twenty six. Make sure you
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  Speaker 3: go out there and grab your three month gym memberships
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  Speaker 3: that you'll use twice. Make sure that you make all
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  Speaker 3: of your plans for healthy eating. I'm not a New
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  Speaker 3: Year's resolution guy because I.
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  Speaker 4: Just don't keep on Nope, nope, nope.
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  Speaker 3: But here's something fun. Here's my only thing this is
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  Speaker 3: what I do and I don't know yet. Every year
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  Speaker 3: I pick a new word. This year's word was connection,
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  Speaker 3: and twenty twenty six will be a different word, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll kind of pray over it, think about it, look
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  Speaker 3: back at some of my journaling and writing from the year,
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  Speaker 3: and say, okay, what in twenty twenty six is one
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  Speaker 3: word that when I wake up in the morning, I
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  Speaker 3: say it. I don't know what it's going to be,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what I do. And then every I try
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  Speaker 3: to keep it, you know, on top of mind for
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  Speaker 3: the whole year.
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  Speaker 2: I think mine, when you asked me last year, was
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  Speaker 2: present or like enjoying the moment that you're living in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have been more thoughtful about it, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you have been because you've had a big year.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five has been a big year for you,
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  Speaker 3: full of a lot of different balls tossing in the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yet you are still saying.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley, thanks, I think so. I think that's a good job.
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  Speaker 3: I've told you when I think you're not clicking thanks, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: you're crushing it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know what am I going to
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  Speaker 4: do this this year? Yeah, let me think about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get back to you in the New Year on
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  Speaker 2: that and you do the same with me and your
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  Speaker 2: word and all that. Hey, Ben, before we go, I
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  Speaker 2: do want to say, remember the one New Year's where
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  Speaker 2: we kind of spend it together the New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 2: or we had to wake up at like four point
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  Speaker 2: thirty in the morning on New Year's Day to be
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  Speaker 2: in the Rose Bowl parade together.
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  Speaker 3: That was That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I got to send.
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  Speaker 2: Her our producer pictures of that. That is so cute,
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  Speaker 2: such a good memory. I just thought, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I'm on a float with
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  Speaker 2: Ben Higgins. Ben Higgins is so cool and such a celebrity,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't believe I've included with this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I mean, that was a wildly fun day.
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  Speaker 3: It is a day I'll never forget because it was
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  Speaker 3: so magical.
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  Speaker 4: Turn twenty sixty. It was turning twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Right, probably twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know you were about to be the
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen Bachelor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it was pre bachelor. Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Ben, look at this, Oh send it. Do you
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  Speaker 4: know what that means?
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  Speaker 2: That'll be ten years this New Year's Day it's been
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  Speaker 2: ten years.
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  Speaker 3: My goosh, oh my god, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, Ben, and that's so crazy. You've been friends for
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  Speaker 2: ten years, for real, for real, Look good us.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're still doing.
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  Speaker 4: It anyway, keep going on and on. You know we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna bore the audience because they weren't there.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make sure to post this picture. Happy New Year
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  Speaker 3: to everybody. Happy twenty twenty six and there are great
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  Speaker 3: things ahead, believe it. Until next time, I've been Ben.
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  Speaker 4: I've been Ashley. See you, guys, Love you.
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