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Celebrating the M3P Podversary & What’s Next for My Third Place · My Third Place Pod

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Welcome back to the M3P Podcast. It is Saturday, January 4th,
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2020. Sixth, this is episode 268.
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And not just any episode, not just any episode.
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This one's special. This is the anniversary episode,
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the first episode of a brand new year.
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That moment when we look back at how this whole thing started and
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forward at where the M3P universe is headed next as the
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familiar New Year feeling we've known since we were kids.
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The calendar flipped, the playlist resets.
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The notebook is still blank enough to feel dangerous.
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Back when New Year's meant staying up way too late,
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listening to the radio countdown the top 100 songs of the year,
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finger hovering over the record button, praying the DJ wouldn't
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talk over the intro. And no, you lost.
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You lost the saying because you forgot to go buy some cassettes,
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so you run to the store for a blank cassette tape like it was
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mission critical, and then you mess up track 7 because you hit
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stop half a second too late, but you kept it anyway.
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Fuck it, might as well. New Year's also meant saying New
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Year. New me with your whole chest,
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fully convinced this was the year you'd break every bad
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habit, start every good one, and somehow become a completely
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different person by February and then by March you're like, all
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right, we tried. So instead of resolutions,
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because we all know how do that usually goes, we're calling them
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New Year inspirations. We're calling them New Year's
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inspirations, ideas, intentions, things we're curious about, not
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promises we're going to punish ourselves over later.
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And if you zoom out, this moment hits even deeper because this
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decade didn't exactly start gently.
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The early twenty 20s came in hot with a pandemic, isolation,
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uncertainty, and a stretch of time where everything felt
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paused except the stress. Plants disappeared.
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Time got weird, days blended together.
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In 2020 was five years. 2020 felt like 5 years.
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That whole year. Felt like 5.
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Years for a lot of us. Those few three.
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Those first few years though weren't about thriving there by
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surviving. And now here we are bro.
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Stepping the second-half, the 20 twenties, a little older, a
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little more tired because look at this beard.
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I didn't have this beard to start 2020, but also a lot more
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honest, still hopeful that what's the head feels lighter
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than what came before. Oh, and it's wild.
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I think about everything that's happened in just the last 10
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years. This was the era of Pokémon Go
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pulling us outside at midnight, wandering neighborhoods like it
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was a side quest, chasing before in with 0 shame in places that
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we weren't supposed to go, and then them coming out with
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fucking their shotguns. Like get out of my property,
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stay out of my lawn. Yeah, that was rough.
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Fidget spinners somehow becoming a personality trait.
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I know I have mine. It's not a personality trait,
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but, you know, I like to spin it around the mannequin challenge
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where entire classroom froze while Ray shrimmered played on
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the background. How'd I do Shrimmer?
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Yeah, because I've been like, trying to practice Shrimmer this
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entire time and. And it's like a race.
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And finally, like it clicked. You know let me say how just
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elongate elongated, you know shimmered like alright cool the
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bottle flip era when landing it once made you feel unstoppable
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let's try it let's try it I'll try it later I'll try later The
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dab is. That how you do it.
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I'm gonna do it to in. Front of the.
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Kids like, is this how you do it?
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The tab showing up everywhere and I believe did not belong.
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And the clown sightings when the Internet collectively decided
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no, no, no more clowns, we're done with clowns.
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We're going to go. We're going to destroy these
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clowns. Yeah.
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This is also the decade that gave us Stranger Things bikes
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since Nosebleed and a reminder to nostalgia could still feel
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brand new. The decade where we lost Prince
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and the world stopped for a second because it felt
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impossible that someone that iconic could really be gone.
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And now we're standing in a year full of milestones.
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I hit a little harder than we expect. 30 years of Pokémon. 3
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decades of trading cards, link cables.
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Game Boy Battery is dying at the worst possible moment in a
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franchise that somehow grew up right along a silence. 30 years.
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30 years since Tupac's death. A reminder how culture, music,
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and storytelling ripple across generations and the wave of
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movies, albums, and moments from that same era that quietly
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shaped who we are, whether we realized it at the same time or
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not. And somewhere in the middle of
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it all, this podcast happened. What started this conversation
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that began with A Greg, what are you watching?
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What do you what do you want to watch?
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Hey Greg, have you ever seen this movie?
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Hey Greg, have you ever seen The Last Dragon?
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You want to talk about The Last Dragon, Greg?
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You know, conversations that began with that turn into lore,
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traditions, inside jokes, comfort episodes, and the place
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people kept coming back to week after week.
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And that's really what this year is about.
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This year, MVP is about showing up, keeping the light on and
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letting the conversation grow into whatever it needs to.
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Not forcing it, not rushing it, just being here together and
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seeing what unfolds. So if you're new here, welcome
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in. Every week we pull up a chair in
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our corner of the Internet, not to escape life, but to make
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sense of it. Together we talk about the
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things we love and the things that shaped us. movies and TV
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from comfort re watches to brand new chaos.
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Pokémon halls cracked open with the same excitement we had in 99
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comic books. Fresh off new comic book day.
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Marlboro Rivals matches where we breakdown Bill Door and doze.
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Why was that so hard? Moment?
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Wrestling, music, fandom, and the everyday stories that sneak
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up on you and stick around. It's part review show, part
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fandom hangout, part running Diary of a life still in
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progress. We're in 90s and early 2000
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nostalgia, but not stuck there. Less about escaping to the past
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and more about bringing the best parts of it forward to you.
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The feeling of a Friday night at Blockbuster.
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A Pokémon pack that somehow feels heavier than the last one.
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A mixtape that only makes sense to you because it reminds you of
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them. You know.
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And if you know, you know, you know.
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And the street lights coming on, knowing it's time to head home,
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but not quite ready to end the night just yet.
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So you tell your mom, give me 10 minutes.
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And in those 10 minutes, what do you do?
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You do exactly the same thing your parents did when they said
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goodbye to their families. Those 10 minutes ended up being
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30 minutes of just fun. So.
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So whether you're here live in the chat or listening on the go,
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welcome to the M3P5, where community creativity and shared
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memories collide every single week and for the day one
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listeners, you already know here's where we're going getting
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where's where we're getting into tonight.
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We have pod decks. We have one pod, a few pod
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decks, maybe one that I asked to the crowd and the other one
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we're just here. It's the podcast birthday.
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I got stuff to say about that. We got, we have fresh stuff to
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talk about that podcast lore, how this show started, how many
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names had and when we are now. We also doing a watch list check
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in what we've been watching for the last few weeks, maybe this
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weekend, this past week, and then we're going to get straight
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to the M3P road map. What's ahead, what's coming for
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this new year? And then we're going to talk
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about New Year's Eve, then how we celebrated it versus now how
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we celebrate it. Now joining me for this
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milestone episode, rocking New Year energy, anniversary vibes,
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and the confidence of someone who survived Y2K with absolutely
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zero prep. No kidding.
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Greg, AKA Millennium Menace, AKA to Y2K Survivor, AKA Still
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waiting for the computers to revel because because he sure
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does hate. Hey, I I'm telling you right
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now, he's here. Does this man is in the studio
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tonight before we get into what we got cooking like quick
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housekeeping follows on Instagram Twitter, blue sky,
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TikTok and YouTube for live streams clipped and bonus chaos
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rate the show so the algorithm knows we're not just talking to
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the void. And if you're listening on
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Spotify, drop a comment good or bad, we read them all right new
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year, new inspiration, same chaos.
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Let's celebrate how we got here and talk about where we're going
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next Greg, how are you what's. Good brother.
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Pretty much. How?
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How was your week? I mean, I was out for, like I
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say, 2 days. 2 days. Yeah, I went in Monday, now was
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out Monday. That's snow day Tuesday.
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He went in Tuesday, then was out Wednesday and Thursday for the
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new year, then we went back Friday.
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So it's just all craziness. I mean, oh God.
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It was crazy. Who's in the chat right now?
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It is menace and Josh Josh Howe, coach, reader and writer lately
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Josh has been hanging out with the chat with us for a while now
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during the podcast, during the live streams and the podcast.
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He's a he's a big time writer big, big you're big time now,
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Sir wish he's wishes he's writing a book called the crew
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in the conductor. He sent me a some snippet of it
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a chapter 1 saying is 11 pages. So I won't be able to read the
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whole thing. But what I read so far, it is
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pretty good. Wish you could do the subnosis.
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If you can, Josh, at this moment, let me know what how we
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can introduce this and I will we'll we'll talk about it as
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soon as you do that. Let's start off with pod decks.
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We're going to we like to kick things off with a little
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icebreaker from our pod decks, our sacred stack of random
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questions, Chaos prompt, and why would anyone ask this
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Conversation starters is our version of passing notes in
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class or flipping through a Tiger B quiz while waiting for
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your hot cocoa pop tart to cool down.
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But now we level it up because this isn't just our warm up
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anymore, it's yours too. Welcome to Botex Question of the
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Week mash up where we pull a question card, toss into the
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digital snowstorm Instagram, TikTok thread, Blue Sky, YouTube
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and Spotify, and let the entire MPV community cook.
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KT Turtle, please, how you doing?
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Welcome in your take your memories, your unhedged
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opinions. We read them, react to them,
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celebrate them, and occasionally wonder why we gave you just much
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power. But that's the fun.
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It's a guy in Group chat where we all accidentally over share
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and then just keep going like nothing happened.
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So buckle up, Our answer just beginning.
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Yours are what make this segment legendary.
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Hey friends, how you doing? How are you?
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How are things? Well, how was your week?
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What was your win for the week? I went for the week, yeah.
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Just making it to the make it to another New Year's written next
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in a whole another year. No, whatever thing that I dealt
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with past year, you know, I'm saying just yeah, able to see
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another new year and yeah. And we're going to see more New
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Year's coming soon. Yeah.
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And the next we're going to get to see 2030, brother.
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We're going to get to see it. My week, my win for the week.
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I think that I wasn't nauseated. This time around.
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Do you? But do you ever now?
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I guess now I'm at that stage in my life where the Tums are like,
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helping, but I'm also picking the color and like, oh.
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I like the color. Like, let me, let me fucking eat
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this. I like this flavor.
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Like, what are we doing? What are we doing with our
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lives, man, when that's happening?
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Now you know. Everybody in the chat, what was
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your win for the week? Let us know.
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But yeah, those those were, that was my win.
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Being like able to say, you know, I'm not hurting as I was
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these past. Few weeks.
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And now it's. Getting better.
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What brought you joy this week? Brought me joy this week.
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I was just saying, man, just when I was, I mean when I was
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off, I mean, I just, I just keep big watching movies and I was
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just watching like watching every Die Hard.
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And it brought back so many memories of my mother 'cause
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that was the first R rated movie she let me watch.
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And I just, I just, I just thought about it brought me joy.
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I wouldn't feel as sad or nothing.
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I actually felt this. Laughing just ain't bad.
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Old times. That's what brought me joy.
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That's good, man, That's good. What brought me joy was being
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able to celebrate New Year's Eve.
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Oh, not New Year's Eve. OK.
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Brought me joy was to being able to celebrate New Year, the new
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year here. Right, everybody right now.
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With me, New Year's Eve was fucking New Year's Eve was a
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different story. New Year's Day, the E like when
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it transition over to January 1st at midnight on 12/30 and
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stuff. I got on stream and everything
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and like, Oh my God, they were all here hanging out with me
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like, and I had fun. I brought out the, I busted out
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the, the New Year's Eve hat everything we're good.
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Everything was fun. It was fun.
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It was fun seeing everybody here.
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Let me go back. MENA says her win for the week
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is reorganizing her closet. KT got to spend time with her 20
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year old kiddo for New Year's Eve.
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That's that's great. Thank you for reposting the live
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my my New Year's Eve, however, ended up being me crashing out
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over a video game because, you know, I was on Marvel Rivals
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thinking we're going to do. Something.
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You saw that? You saw that.
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I posted a video of it. So I was already playing a game.
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I was already in a lobby by my way, you know, playing a game
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and everything. And I left that game to go check
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out the New Year's Eve at. Times where?
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Of course I got the penalty. You, you left your teammates
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high and dry and shit. I.
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Didn't. I left, I didn't finish the game
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and then I go and leave and I and I go into Times Square and
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it's already 12:00 12/12 o'clock 5 seconds later and everything
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has already done as everything's already dropped and it was a
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digital ball drop from the sky. The same thing that they do in
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the. Real.
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Yeah, Square. And I'm like, looking around for
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the whole thing and that's it. We're not going to get like a
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whole, like something at least, you know, give me something
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else. And yeah, that's it.
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And I looked and I even, like, messaged everybody.
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It's like, hey, is that it? Or did anything happen during
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the whole thing? Just the digital thing?
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It's like, OK, so I turn it to Iron Man Immediately altered the
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entire screen, altered the fucking Christmas tree, started
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air humping the Christmas tree started air humping the fucking
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frosty the snowman. It was like I crashed out hard
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and just like I ate this, I don't want to be here anymore
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because I couldn't ended that game.
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You know, we could have won. We were losing, but we could
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have won. But I was so like, all right,
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let me go, let me go. Let me get out of this freaking
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game and go, you know, to Times Square.
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See what happened. But no, totally forgotting the
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fact that I'm still, you know, live streaming on YouTube and
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everybody caught that moment where of me just freaking
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crashing out and when I like everybody, it was like Menace
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and Liana. So like, are you OK?
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We just saw that. I was like I forgot I was live.
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Streaming myself and I. Left.
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It. Was like I authenticity is not a
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bad thing. I love it.
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I love that it was fun. It was fun though.
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It was just like me just going off and alting everything and
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then air humping the entire place.
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Next question and I asked this in the in the on a post.
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What are your New Year inspirations, ideas and
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intentions? I said not pressure, not
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perfection, just the energy you want to carry into the year
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ahead. Drop yours in the comment.
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Let's inspire each other and just and build this year
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together. Christine says commit to
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everyone everything. I promised to myself a onion.
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I wrote a list of 40 things I want to do with my best friend
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this year and it reminds me of what's it called does this.
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There was this show on MTV a while back.
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Myspace era, so 2008 around there is like a bucket list
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bucket list show where like 4 guys would travel the world and
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do stuff with their best friends and stuff.
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I forgot what it was called but it's pretty cool show and every
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like inspired me to do like A blog of of everything I wanted
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to do before I died at 25 years old.
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At 25 years old. I'm thinking about that too,
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like hey, this is what I want to do before I die.
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OK, cool, Leanna says. This year I want to be the
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person people can come to with everything, with anything.
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You want to laugh, we can laugh. You want to cry?
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I got you. And anything in between.
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I want to always make sure all my people are OK and have not
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helped them through it. I love that, love that.
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We should definitely do that, Keels Ranch says.
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I would like to finish this story I've been writing to for
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forever to and just got financially stable this year in
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general. I told him you have 360 more
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days to work on that story and get your shit together.
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MENA says I want to be better friend.
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I want to be a better friend by communicating and checking on
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the ones who need it who might not realize it.
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Love that. Keep doing it menace.
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Lauren Lowberry says, like the way you put it, that I like the
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way you put that inspirations. Elena says I'll get back to you
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on that one. She never did the liver.
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Ricky says love the ones who deserve it and steer clear of
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the other, but try to make people laugh.
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Yeah, that's what we're doing. Definitely.
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We're definitely doing that. Katie's in the chat saying
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finding more ways to bring my stress level down in a kind way,
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whether than a judgmental way. I turned 40, I turned, I turned
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4 into 7th. So I've been doing a lot of self
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reflection. Hell yeah, dude.
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Like the self reflection part. Yeah.
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As soon as you turn a certain age, you just start to like, you
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know what, it clicks, it clicks. It just goes there.
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It's like, you know what? I need to do better.
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I need to do this, I need to do that.
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I need to change my mindset. And you do it.
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You do it. You start doing that stuff.
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Grudge. Well, grudge, grudge, grudge.
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Welcome in. Thank you for liking the live.
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What is yours? This year what?
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What do you want to do this year?
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What do you want to inspire? What is what are you inspiring?
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What do you your idea? What is your intention?
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What do you? Want more patience?
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What do we want to do? More patience and understanding,
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really. I've been working on that real
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hard lately, you know, and I'm in a turn of 40 in in a couple
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of weeks. You're.
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Not 40 yes Nah, 39 man hit the big I'm the.
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Only. One that's yeah, it's a big fall
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on the 17 man. It's a big 40 on the 17th.
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This. Yeah, man, great.
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I think, I really think I see it though.
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Tell the truth. But you know, more patient
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understand being here. So it looks like it's January
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17th and on a Saturday. I know, I looked it up.
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That's gonna be crazy, huh? Do you want?
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Do you want do? You want to go out or do you
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want to stay in? And have ain't going nowhere.
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I ain't gonna be going nowhere. So I'm gonna be here.
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Shit. Fuck that.
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I ain't it. It's all thanks though.
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There's somebody got some shit playing, which I had a doubt.
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But you know, you know, I'll be here.
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We'll just have a big celebration on here.
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Shit. Fuck it.
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As well, five years with the podcast and your birthday, your
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40th. Hell yeah, Grunge says.
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I saw a tech look of girl whose resolution wants to be a cutie
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patootie and still be a menace, and I was inspired.
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She sounds epic. She sounds epic.
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She sure does. That's awesome.
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I love it. Let's go.
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My near inspiration is to do more key like we're always going
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to keep the light on. That's the new thing for the
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TikTok, for the TikTok, for the podcast.
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For now on keep the light on here.
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You feel like you're not being seen.
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Come on over with you. We like to like all the new
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people that are hanging out with us.
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Fucking hell yeah. I love that.
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New ideas, new intentions. You are you're the inspiration
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around here. You guys are the ones that are
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inspiring me to do better and I love that.
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We're gonna do so much better this year.
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We're gonna do so much stuff this year and I like that.
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Like I said before, it's the anniversary of the podcast.
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So happy birthday to the podcast.
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We're gonna celebrate all month long in January cuz you know, we
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celebrate birthdays all month. So why not celebrate the podcast
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all month? So from now till like the end of
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January, happy birthday to the podcast.
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With that in mind, we have a new logo.
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As you all can see, you've seen already.
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The the new logo is of all the lights are on in the logo.
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It's like it's bright, it's brighter than usual.
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I did it over to like, I was thinking of like something new
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rather than the one that I already had because I just felt
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like it needed it needed something new.
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Hold on, I wrote something down. The core idea is having 2026 M3
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P. The connection in the noise, you
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know, it treats the pocket as a signal cutting through chaos, a
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third place as a live electric and welcoming even when the
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world feels loud. The microphone, it's much more,
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it's upgraded now it's much more front and center.
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It still stay, it's still in the front and center, but it's no
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longer flat or static is glowing.
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It's symbolizing rote since 2022, confidence in everything,
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conversations that matter. We're always going to be on
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streams, lives, lower drops, late night talks.
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That's going to still going to be remain the same thing.
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And the reason why is neon and gradient.
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It's because nostalgia plus the future.
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We're talking about the past, but we're also remaining here.
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We're calm, but we're hype. We have comfort, but we're
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excited. And then it looks like a city in
27:02
the background. The skyline circuit lines aren't
27:07
literal buildings. They're just the community.
27:09
The community is everything for me because I love when people
27:12
show up. Menace, Liana.
27:15
Katie, Josh, everybody just showing up and just means like,
27:20
OK, it's working. Every light is.
27:21
A voice either. The Co host, the listeners, the
27:25
chat, the guest. Absolutely.
27:31
And this isn't just a podcast, it's a place people show up to.
27:35
Katie says just follow an Apple Pat on Apple podcast.
27:38
I'm on Apple. Am I still there?
27:44
I didn't realize that. OK, cool.
27:46
I no, no, no, it was like I love that either like I'm there, but
27:50
I thought I like took it off because I have to pay money for
27:53
it. I don't know.
27:57
So hopefully 268 still there is there now by tomorrow episode.
28:04
But Katie also says, I didn't realize this was a podcast until
28:08
the night Cool on Saturdays. It is on every other night.
28:14
It's just a stream where we get to hang out with my favorite
28:17
people. You're one of them of she says
28:22
awesome love the live stream regardless, here to support
28:24
awesome. Great.
28:28
So that was my idea. That was the you know, we're
28:34
doing that. We're doing we're going to do so
28:36
much stuff this year, basically. Also I have new merch.
28:41
For the podcast. Hell yeah.
28:45
The the the new logos, Leanna's in the building.
28:48
Thank you welcome in new merch. The new T-shirts are going to
28:53
have the new T-shirts are going to have the the new logo that's
29:00
up there right now and then the other logo which is going to be
29:04
in. I'm going to put it up in the
29:06
summer is like, remember last year when we decided to do.
29:12
Yeah. And like started off and
29:15
everything and it looked like a Nike stuff like say.
29:17
Yeah, yeah. It's gonna it it's, it's
29:21
updated, it's new, but it feels like.
29:23
Nike Oh hey. So, so that looks the same
29:27
basically, Hey, how are you welcome in.
29:35
So those are the new T-shirts, 2 new T-shirts.
29:40
Get them like if you need to they're on T public if you need
29:44
the the Greg anybody else? If you guys need the the link to
29:49
it, let me know I'll send them to you.
29:54
You're good. All right, awesome.
29:56
Welcome in. We're deep in this conversation.
30:01
Podcast lore, how it started, how many names had where we are
30:05
now. This whole freaking hi menace.
30:10
This whole podcast started off as a wrestling podcast dude.
30:16
You know that everybody knows that.
30:19
What you guys don't know is that I was shut up.
30:28
What everybody don't know is that I need the link.
30:30
I'll send you the link. What everybody don't know is
30:32
that I left TikTok in 2021. I basically ghosted a bunch of
30:41
people because I just felt like I needed some stability in my
30:45
life. I was going through.
30:51
It was the first year that I got diabetes in April on my 40th
30:55
birthday. I was going through some heavy
31:00
stuff. Some someone that you've been
31:03
going through as well, depression, seasonal and then it
31:09
was around Christmas and it's probably why I don't like
31:12
Christmas anymore. Just step away.
31:17
I was sure there's people that met me and there's they thought
31:22
they connected with me and I'm just like, I need a break.
31:26
So I took a break during the whole thing that like I was just
31:30
thinking like, Hey, I need something to do with my life.
31:35
So I started looking around for podcasting and podcasting stuff
31:40
and what should I do? What should I do?
31:42
Which can how can I start? And in doing so, it's like get
31:46
paid to do a podcast. I was like, alright, let me do
31:49
that. So I started the podcast as a
31:54
wrestling podcast and it was just gonna be me just me talking
31:58
randomly about different stuff that I like.
32:02
The first episode ever, it was horrible and it had music.
32:08
It really had music. But then Spotify decided to hide
32:13
it because. Copyright infringement so.
32:18
So my first episode ended up being in January 3rd, the first
32:22
actual episode was in January 3rd and then since Spotify hit
32:27
it I couldn't use it anymore. And even YouTube side not you
32:31
can't use this at all. So like the next week, which was
32:37
I don't think it was out on 16th.
32:38
I don't know, I don't remember the 10th.
32:43
This is the second episode ended up being the first.
32:46
So that one I ended up just talking again, everything that I
32:53
love, everything that I enjoyed, my entry level into wrestling
32:58
and all this other stuff. Pretty soon I just like kept
33:02
posting and posting and posting and I didn't know who was
33:05
listening. I didn't even know who was going
33:08
to listen to. It was just going to be me
33:10
talking to the void, speaking into the void, not knowing who
33:15
would listen. I would Twitter like here's my
33:17
podcast if anybody wants to listen to me just ramble on
33:20
about wrestling and my takes and stuff.
33:25
Pretty soon I like heard stories.
33:27
That podcast tend to end at episode 12 and I was like, Nah,
33:33
that's not going to happen. Let's not make, let's not have,
33:36
let's not let that happen. I got one of my best friends to
33:39
do the podcast with me because he was going through some stuff
33:42
as well. So he said, I like I'll do it
33:44
with you. It's like, alright, so we ended
33:46
up doing whole different episodes of backstories,
33:51
wrestling, pay per views and like stuff that happened behind
33:57
the scenes back then, backs, Meng stuff.
34:03
Remember Meng when he would like beat up people and at airports
34:07
or bite their nose and start real fights with other
34:11
wrestlers? Just like all kinds of random
34:16
shit and we just post it. Eventually it turned into this
34:21
whole thing and at first I called it all seems wrestling
34:26
and not knowing that there are other podcasts called all things
34:31
wrestling as well. All right, so I had to change
34:34
the name of it. I changed the name of it to from
34:39
under the Apron and then found out there's a restaurant podcast
34:46
called Under the Apron. So so like I had to like tell
34:52
people make sure you put down from under the apron and they
34:57
wouldn't listen and be like, so you're a restaurant person.
35:00
I was like, no, son of a bitch anyway.
35:07
So I did that and then it's just like telling stories of it.
35:12
What's up by Shannon Rod? How you doing, brother?
35:13
Welcome in Appreciate you guys showing up.
35:17
So it's like every time, like I would post something, it'd be
35:19
like me at conventions talking to, telling, doing episodes of
35:25
me meeting Mick Foley, Virgil, who put me in the middle of our
35:29
dream, me having a dance off with Brian Christopher, Kevin
35:35
Nash, just all these people, all these wrestlers.
35:38
And it was like, this is what I love about wrestling.
35:41
Why I love wrestling because it like took me away from a bad
35:46
family environment and brought me here before before got a
35:53
group of your desired name hard people before going public and
35:56
pushing. OK, so so I was like, all right,
36:01
so I did all that and then I came back in March of TikTok
36:06
again because I wanted to push my podcast out there and it's
36:14
like, hey, you're back. No, I just.
36:15
Wanted to push my podcast. You know you missed us.
36:26
No, I just want to like shove my podcast to everybody that, you
36:30
know, likes me. Hey, I have a podcast now.
36:33
It's like, oh, you do. Let me listen a second.
36:34
Here you go. It's about wrestling.
36:36
It's like, OK, so we did that. The Queens are here.
36:42
Hi. So we did that and what I, I, I
36:47
was only here for like a few months because I left again and
36:51
just like, I can't do this. I rather be focusing on the
36:54
podcast and worried about something else, you know, like I
36:57
can't be doing this anymore. So I left TikTok and just focus
37:01
on the podcast for a year and a half came 18 months because I
37:06
came back in 2024. We decided, you know, let me
37:11
recall, let me rebrand it again. Let me call it something else.
37:14
My third place podcast, and it's because, you know, it was no
37:20
longer about wrestling, it was about me and my diabetes and
37:24
what I love and all the fandom stuff that I love.
37:30
So I changed it because like, you have your home, your first
37:35
place, you have your work, your second place.
37:37
What is the third place where you usually show up at online
37:41
streaming with your friends? Twitch, TikTok, all that stuff.
37:46
So my third place is my podcast where my stream where I get to
37:51
talk to everybody, all my friends, some of them who ended
37:55
up being not my friends anymore. So you know, it just felt so, so
38:05
cohesive. It felt better than just
38:08
whatever was out there at the time.
38:12
So I changed it again. And this time it's stuck.
38:15
I'm keeping it like this for a while, forever, for good.
38:18
It's no longer being changed. It's it's, it's this is going
38:22
forward, this. Was.
38:24
It's about all of us, it's about you, it's about me, it's about
38:27
menace, it's about Shenrod. It's about people that are in
38:31
the chat, watching, listening. It's about YouTube.
38:35
It's about, you know, the family, togetherness, the
38:40
community. It's about the community.
38:42
Basically. And you know, by by last year, I
38:49
decided like, hey, what are you doing?
38:52
It's about all of us. It's about all of us.
38:55
What do you and I'm like, Greg, what are you doing?
38:57
And you're like, what do you mean?
39:01
Did you want to talk to? Did you want to talk about the
39:03
fucking the last dragon? I was like, yeah, we can, but
39:08
you know, I got this other shit that I'm doing at the moment.
39:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're like, fuck, fuck that
39:17
mess. Is that what you said?
39:18
Fuck that mess. Let's do the last.
39:20
Round fuck the bullshit, the free fuck it.
39:23
Oh, let's. Let's go from one karate shit to
39:30
the other karate shit. Yeah, because this is something
39:33
completely different, though it wasn't.
39:36
It wasn't the same old bullshit you haven't did with that
39:39
bullshit ad drama. So never mind.
39:43
I'm no, no, never mind. I wouldn't.
39:50
I said I wouldn't go. I said I wouldn't go.
39:54
Whatever. But but we go, we go from one
39:58
karate bullshit to the other one and just like, all right, let's,
40:01
let's think about what we're going to do.
40:04
Yeah, Last Dragon is phenomenal, I know.
40:06
But we never got to talk about it because somebody kept saying
40:13
like, no, we're doing this. We have another karate stuff to
40:22
do to 1st. I'm just like Greg, I got you,
40:27
bro. We'll do it someday.
40:30
And then this past year we decided, you know what?
40:32
Let's let me. Dude, what are you doing?
40:36
Why? What's up?
40:38
Come with me. Hang out with me fucking.
40:40
Let's talk shit. Let's talk the shit like we.
40:43
Always. And who would have thought them?
40:45
Who would have fucked who? Who would have thought?
40:48
Who would have thought? Look at us, look at us, look at
40:51
us. Real.
40:53
Not us, we wouldn't. That's how it happened though.
40:58
That's real shit at most. Real time, because we said it
41:04
the entire time. That first episode that we did
41:06
together. Real talk for real though.
41:09
That was all that should that first episode when I was I was
41:14
talking this shit about what was that?
41:19
Now that was the first episode. Was it cover Kyle or was it
41:23
wrestling? OK, then I did OK and wrestling
41:28
then I did the cover cow one. That's when real I laid they had
41:32
a foundation because I was talking shit on that episode.
41:35
How I talk shit today. I should have been part of that
41:40
shit then. But you know why?
41:43
But but you know, I'm gonna say this.
41:49
I'm gonna say this though. It's it's it's been amazing.
41:53
You know I'm saying, like I say, it's saving.
41:58
It really has, you know, You know what I'm saying?
42:02
For real, man, you. It shake me because I don't know
42:07
what I was going to do. Like I was doing so for like a
42:14
few weeks. I was doing the solo episodes
42:16
and it was just me talking about hey, you know, Pokémon stuff and
42:23
doing the solo episodes by myself with Marble Rivals.
42:26
And then Shenrock came back and he's all like, you want to do
42:29
it? I was like, let's go wrestling
42:32
episodes with men, obviously, but I wasn't like, you know, we
42:37
got to 2000 downloads last year, but we didn't get to do 2200
42:42
episodes until like later in January because I was just like,
42:47
you know, I wanted some time for myself to reflect, to worry
42:51
about my own well-being. Some people didn't realize that.
42:56
Some people are like too fucking clueless to realize that you
42:58
need to break. You want to do karate in the
43:03
garage. Did we just become best friends?
43:05
Oh yeah, Mercy, I made no dance. It didn't, but but here we are.
43:15
Here we are was so fucking better.
43:17
And now is that we get to talk about everything now.
43:23
Like I'm looking over here at the calendar that I have because
43:26
I've been saying like we're going to write stuff on the
43:28
calendar from now on. That's how that's how the
43:31
difference become. I have a calendar right next to
43:34
me where I want to write stuff of what I want to talk about for
43:37
the next year. And so the podcast, this is
43:49
where we are now. Three different names.
43:52
That's how it started. And where we are now is like,
43:56
it's the whole fandom saying everybody can get involved.
44:00
I have book writers. Was Josh writing a book and
44:07
we're talking about his book and I'm reading out loud.
44:10
I had. We're talking about Pokémon
44:11
stuff. I have cards.
44:14
I can freaking oh, we're going to do that again.
44:17
Last year's stuff, I'm going to do it again.
44:19
I'm bringing it back. ASMR stuff.
44:23
I got marble rival stuff, me crashing out on marble rifles.
44:27
We're going to talk more about the fucking Holt on the tree.
44:35
What else there was the wrestling stuff.
44:39
We're going to talk more wrestling.
44:41
We're gonna do more lore. We're gonna do more back story
44:44
stuff. We're gonna do movies, TV shows.
44:55
Here's a list of what we're gonna do.
44:56
OK, here's what we got. Here's what we got.
44:59
We're I'm gonna tell you right now the the road map.
45:02
Here's the road map. Pod X.
45:04
Obviously we're not hot. We're gonna do our Ice Breakers
45:07
and community engine. We pull a card from our
45:09
projects, a mix of random questions, chaos prompts, and
45:12
why would anyone last this moment?
45:14
We let us park in the real conversation.
45:16
What starts as a warm up usually turns to stories, debates,
45:19
memories, and accidental oversharing.
45:21
It's how we invite the audience to the room and set the tone
45:23
every episode. See how everything came together
45:26
earlier on, like 2 or what, 30 minutes ago?
45:32
We're at 46 minutes. We're at 46 minutes.
45:36
Oh shit, We have news. We talk about what's happening
45:40
right now, entertainment, pop culture, tech, Internet, chaos,
45:43
and anything trending weird or worth unpacking.
45:46
We're not here to be breaking news.
45:48
We're here to react, reflect, and figure out how it actually
45:50
makes. Us feel.
45:52
Ah, Vine coming back last said that like a few weeks ago.
45:56
Vine coming back would be great. 6 seconds and still just like 10
46:00
minutes of stuff on TikTok, you know, like it's it, we're the
46:04
Vine generation. We can only act for like 6
46:07
seconds and like our, you know, ADHD transfers into somebody
46:13
else. Like what did we just watch?
46:16
We have Pokémon, comic books and toy hauls.
46:19
Welcome to the nerd corner. The segment covers what we're
46:22
collecting, what we just pulled, what we're reading and which
46:24
figures we absolutely didn't need but bought anyway.
46:28
I have new stuff up there. I have a Magneto and a Punisher
46:34
Funko Pop I bought. I pre-ordered the John Cena
46:38
Funko Pop which is going to be here in September next this
46:41
year, September. And I can't wait for that to
46:45
show up so I can show it to you guys.
46:47
I'm going to buy more toys when it comes out.
46:52
I'm going to buy more comic books.
46:53
I'm going to buy more Pokémon. You can't ask me to stop.
46:57
Did you change your background? It's pretty wicked right from my
47:03
the orange envelope. For those that don't know, I do
47:06
a monthly thing. We open an orange envelope from
47:09
the92.com packed with pure 90s nostalgia.
47:13
It has post it notes, slap bracelets, concert trivias,
47:16
concert tickets, Trivium, forgotten treasures.
47:19
It's part unboxing, part memory unlocking, part Oh wow, I forgot
47:23
that existed. We do wrestling predictions once
47:26
a month. We step into prediction mode,
47:29
premium live events, wild take bold calls and just enough chaos
47:32
to make it fun. This isn't about being right.
47:34
It's about the energy, the incentivation and talking
47:36
wrestling like fans again. We do it with Greg, we do it
47:40
with menace, sometimes both the same time.
47:44
All three of us get together and you know, it's it's gets it's
47:49
going to get wild on WrestleMania season.
47:51
So come hang out with us for that Marble Rival Season review
47:55
with Shenrod. A monthly deep dive.
47:57
A monthly deep dive into the current Marble Rival Season.
48:00
We breakdown gameplay, characters, builds, balance
48:03
changes, and moments that cause emotional damage.
48:05
Equal parts strategy, storytelling.
48:07
And why did this just happen? All three sounds powerful.
48:11
Oh Sir, go listen to 267. It was powerful.
48:18
Like, let's get all four of us together actually for wrestling.
48:20
See what happens? Physical media files a love
48:23
letter to physical media. Greg has so many fucking DVD's.
48:30
Sorry man, it's just like love the fact that he has so many
48:34
look look like if you're watching this on YouTube, look
48:37
at his background. And that that that's from what I
48:40
don't know, that's left from what I don't know that's did
48:42
that shit. That's crazy.
48:50
But, but I'm, I'm starting to buy DVDs again.
48:54
So it's a we revisit DVDs, VHS tapes, cassette tapes and CDs,
48:58
not just for what's on them for for how they make us feel.
49:03
Menu special features, liner notes, commentary, tracks and
49:06
memories tied to owning something tangible.
49:10
I know I have the last Dragon on DVD and it has commentary.
49:14
So I'm going to freaking find it and look for it and like, watch
49:17
it. I think we're up here though.
49:27
Find it. I bought Superman on DVD on
49:29
Blu-ray so I have it now. I'm gonna go buy more for this
49:36
next month and do like a DVD DV doosday.
49:40
Like Attack on the Attack on the Show used to do that.
49:43
For those who don't know what Attack of the Show was.
49:46
That was our fucking our fandom. Everything.
49:50
That was our nerd culture right there.
49:53
I have very few DS video game gaming stories from the week on
49:57
console controller live stream. From rage quits to comfort
50:00
games, me rage quitting from chaotic multiplayer moments to
50:03
quiet solo places where games become stories instead of stats.
50:06
Fandom. A space to talk about fandom
50:08
culture itself, why we love what we love, how communities form,
50:11
how fandom changes over time, and where passion turns to
50:14
something deeper. It's about belonging, identity
50:16
and shared language. Language.
50:18
Don't trust these streaming services y'all see you're not
50:22
the only one. You're not the only one who
50:24
thinks that way. Just letting you know.
50:27
It's like you convinced me to buy DVD.
50:29
So here we are. We're we're doing the stuff
50:33
coming to and leaving Netflix. Your head's up corner.
50:36
Speaking of streaming services, it's the only place with
50:41
dropping on Netflix this week. Well you should start now and
50:43
with leaving at the end of the month before it disappears
50:45
forever. Blockbuster Friday night energy
50:47
with modern streaming anxiety. So I think they took out all the
50:52
premium live events on Peacock and they added it to Netflix.
50:58
True. 'Cause I went into Netflix and I
51:01
saw WrestleMania and then I saw fifteen seasons 25.
51:05
Seasons, something like that. I was like, I was just on there,
51:08
Kyle, watching Summer Slam 93. So yeah, this is on there.
51:13
It's on there. Does have commercials.
51:16
On mine, on mine, on mine it does come cheap and I went
51:20
paying them $20.00. So.
51:24
So you got the ads on there? Yeah, maybe.
51:29
So if one of y'all out there who listening got the tear, that's
51:33
$20. Let us know if the ad's still on
51:35
there, but I doubt it's still on there for $20.00.
51:37
But for mine is somewhere though.
51:42
I don't want to go to ESPN, that's all.
51:44
I don't. Want I don't want to go, but I
51:46
hope that that I don't know why they just didn't just fucking
51:51
strike a deal with Netflix in person right in the first
51:55
fucking place. That's terrible.
51:57
But that ESPN, she ain't gonna last long 'cause ESPN can get
52:01
tired of their ass and they don't have to go merge over the
52:04
Netflix. You know I'm saying this.
52:09
How much I pay, I'll pay. I'll pay a lot of money just to
52:12
stay on Netflix for those pay per views.
52:16
We have nostalgia movie lore. Not reviews.
52:19
Memory archaeology. Revisit N nostalgia movies,
52:22
unpack why they mattered, where we were when we first watched
52:26
them and how they hit now. The lore isn't just a plot, it's
52:28
the feeling. The last dragon.
52:32
We keep saying The Last Dragon, but it's more than just that.
52:35
We have Double Dragon. We wanted to talk about video
52:42
games turn into movies. Double Dragon, Mario Brothers,
52:46
Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat. We want to talk about basically
52:49
everything. Cartoons turn into movies.
52:53
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I know you want to talk about
52:55
that and I love it. What else?
53:01
The Master of the Universe, The list.
53:10
What else? We just want to like the
53:13
nostalgia movies. Everything from what we used to
53:16
watch when we were young. And like anything that anything
53:20
of these movies. Movies that shaped us, movies
53:22
that raised us. Music as albums and songs tied
53:26
to specific moments in our lives where you visit the music that
53:29
soundtrack break up road trip late night and growth and inside
53:33
winter he still hits still living rotational station back
53:36
to very tired. We said earlier I said Prince.
53:40
It's been 10 years since Prince passed away.
53:43
And then Stranger Things. And like me remembering that
53:50
when Purple Rain came out, the movie my mom took me and I was
53:55
three years, I was three years old and all I remember is her
54:02
covering my eyes or the lake of when I knocked the thing.
54:07
Because, you know, we can't have.
54:09
Yeah. And then me falling asleep.
54:13
So. Yeah.
54:15
So, you know, like, I want to review that album because it,
54:19
like, hit me because that was, what, three years old?
54:22
Yes, I was three years old. Geez, like I and then like what?
54:30
Not Taka Lake Minnetaka. Thank you.
54:34
That whole, that whole album, that whole album, you ain't got
54:38
to skip no tracks on that motherfucker.
54:40
That whole album, I'm telling you.
54:43
And that's, that's what I want to do.
54:45
No, Skipped albums. Everything from the first song
54:49
to the last. And was I supposed to listen to
54:53
this album when I was young? No, But hey, my mom took me to
54:56
Costidas so might as well. Music that shaped does movie
55:01
that raised the film that taught us lessons before life did.
55:04
Movies that shaped our humor, morals, confidence, fear, the
55:07
worldview. Whether they meant to or not.
55:11
I forgot your mom was single. Mom.
55:12
Sorry. Yeah, for a while.
55:16
Like then some dumbass. Sorry.
55:20
Sorry, brothers and sisters, sorry, I know your dad.
55:23
But some dumbass came over and decided shut the fuck up anyway,
55:30
Morris, I got it. They're not going to listen.
55:34
My mom will. She'll be like agreeing.
55:35
Yes, yes, that's true. It's true.
55:37
I I fucked up. I sent you to Nicaragua now,
55:42
like, all right, thanks mom. Appreciate that.
55:44
Rewatch a second look with fresh eyes.
55:46
We're visit shows or movies we've already seen and talk
55:49
about what changed, what we noticed, what still works and
55:52
what hits differently as adults. Gentle resets, low pressure,
55:55
cozy conversation, comfort media, soft reflection and slow
55:59
by for weeks when energy is low but connection still matters.
56:02
A reminder that rest counts. Seasonal monthly spotlights.
56:05
Plan themes for two that rotate with the year, from nostalgia
56:09
months to genre spotlights, anniversaries and culture
56:11
moments. These segments are mapped weeks
56:13
in advance so the show can move with the seasons.
56:14
No rush through them. Wait until February.
56:18
We already discussed this. What?
56:19
We're going to talk them in February.
56:21
We have some black excellence movies.
56:23
We have some ROM coms, the album Madri Madri at the Ammo.
56:35
We have some Father's Day Father June like the dads that raised
56:42
us on in TV and movie for May. We have the moms who raised us
56:47
in TV's and movies. We have some blockbuster movies
56:51
in July and August. We have some MCU stuff that's
56:55
all mud. We have horror of course.
56:58
Reactions in life takes real time reactions to movie
57:01
trailers, TV previews, game reveals, memes, TikTok enviro
57:04
moments, unfiltered first impression, instant takes and
57:08
the kind of reaction normally yell at your screen.
57:11
If I see if someone sends me a thing to blind react that is a
57:15
trailer, I will do it and I will post it on here on the podcast
57:20
because I want to do that from now on.
57:22
I want to blindly react to trailers and stuff and then how
57:26
it all fits to this. Thank you for the heart me baby
57:29
ink. I appreciate that every segment
57:31
feeds into the same goal building a place where pop
57:34
culture, nostalgia, community and real conversations collide,
57:39
She says. OK, you guys, she came at the
57:41
wrong time for that, I think. OK, you know what?
57:45
No. Let's do it.
57:47
If you're gonna. You're gonna send me some beaner
57:49
blind react. I'll post in the pocket.
57:50
It's fine. Already said it.
57:53
She came at the wrong time. Let's go do that.
57:55
We'll do it all right, so we have all that to look forward
58:01
to. Blind reactions are fucking
58:05
hell. I love it.
58:06
This is why we like you in here. Run it, Jen, Ross said.
58:09
Run it. Run it.
58:11
Ye, I fucking love this. The chat is freaking on the
58:18
edge, bro. The chat is unhinged.
58:21
Like, I never thought I'd say this, but the the chat is
58:23
unhinged, all right? We're not going to talk about,
58:28
we're not going to do spoilers for stranger sings.
58:31
No. OK we're going to wait a week so
58:34
y'all can like wait and actually watch this whole.
58:38
Thing Yeah, yeah, better watch this shit I got I had some talk
58:41
about but I'm gonna say for next week no.
58:45
We're going to talk. We're going to talk about the.
58:46
Music. OK, alright, alright.
58:49
But also, Stranger Sings series finale, released in theaters
58:52
over the New Year's 2026, earned over 25,000,000 in box office
58:57
revenue, with sources reporting figures from 20 million to 28
59:01
million, primarily through concession sales and ticket
59:04
purchases, marking a significant success for Netflix.
59:07
For Ray into theatrical events, though, theaters kept most of
59:10
the revenue. Love that people watch Stranger
59:13
things and everything show. Well Dang.
59:17
Total gross around 25 to 28 million across the US AMC alone
59:22
generated 15,000,000 from over 750 to 8000 views viewers.
59:28
Theaters retained most of the earnings as Netflix didn't
59:30
receive significant box office revenue due to the existing
59:33
Guild clearance issues. The theatrical run was a massive
59:37
hit with sold out shows in the high demand for tickets proving
59:39
the shows enduring popularity. While not a direct profit Center
59:43
for Netflix due to revenue structure, the event was a huge
59:46
win for buzz and attracting retaining subscribers,
59:48
potentially paving the way for more Netflix titles in theaters.
59:51
Can we do that? Can we do that?
59:55
Can we like do more of that? But premium live events?
1:00:01
I wouldn't go to a theater. I think they I think to do this
1:00:03
some places though they're offered them PLA like theater or
1:00:08
something like that though I've heard that.
1:00:12
OK, and other movies as well. Maybe TV shows, maybe TV
1:00:16
finales, serious finales, you know, like let's do more of
1:00:20
that. Hey, Sandra, how you doing?
1:00:23
Welcome in. But I would love that.
1:00:28
OK, so Stranger Things ended the music.
1:00:40
They waited for that last, see, the last episode to like, hit me
1:00:45
with that Prince. And I just remember when they
1:00:51
did the Prince thing, the whole thing, I was like, wait a
1:00:53
minute, that's the album that stays.
1:00:55
No, I mean, it's an epic album. Yeah, it's a good album to like.
1:01:06
What they did, yeah, but. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm
1:01:09
trying. Go for it.
1:01:10
I was putting, I was putting it all together.
1:01:13
How did how did it actually happen?
1:01:16
Because, you know, he was notorious about people use the
1:01:20
shit. Yeah.
1:01:22
And so, OK, when Purple, when Purple Rain was released, it was
1:01:32
released by Warner Brothers, the soundtrack and the movie.
1:01:38
Who owns Warner Brothers now? Netflix.
1:01:42
Netflix. Son of A.
1:01:44
Bitch. So I'm pretty sure they cause
1:01:51
the estate. I I was, I was doing my
1:01:53
research. I did my research on this.
1:01:56
The estate owns half and Warner Brothers on half.
1:02:01
So they made a deal. I knew it's, I know, I knew it
1:02:06
was the real album because when you fuck it, when you, when they
1:02:11
show it, they show the album. And I know that album.
1:02:14
I know that album, the record, the final, I know it like the
1:02:17
back of my hand. So, yeah.
1:02:20
So they, they not know fools, you know what I'm saying?
1:02:24
And and and I know they struck a deal with their state to to use
1:02:29
it now these years. Netflix did some good stuff
1:02:34
there. I love it.
1:02:35
You have never heard his shit on any of these shows ever.
1:02:41
Any he only showed up on the New Girl once.
1:02:45
Yeah, yeah, before. That one time and he was going
1:02:48
to do more stuff, but he passed away before that ever happened.
1:02:51
And just the impact of that song.
1:02:56
Dude, that first chord Ding. I'm just like, no.
1:03:01
Oh shit. Oh no.
1:03:06
And I know and I know Purple Rain cut.
1:03:07
It was a time where I couldn't even listen to Purple rain.
1:03:12
I was dealing with a separation at the time and OK, and that's
1:03:19
on here. It was time I wouldn't even
1:03:21
touch program tick tock. I would not do it at all, you
1:03:25
know, And yes. I I saw that I.
1:03:28
Saw those videos and and then yeah, later on, you know what
1:03:31
I'm saying? I did it, did it yesterday.
1:03:33
But anyway, but yeah, that just the meaning of that sound is
1:03:39
perfect for those who haven't seen it.
1:03:42
We ain't going to ruin it for you, but I'm going to tell you
1:03:45
it's it's it's going to be epic. You're going to love it.
1:03:49
Not just they use doves cry too. Dubs cry Purple Rain and dubs
1:03:55
cry right after, back-to-back because the the whole album,
1:03:58
like the spinning and everything.
1:04:00
And then once that second Hot song hit, I'm like, no, yeah,
1:04:04
are they gonna go through the whole thing?
1:04:06
And it didn't, They didn't. I'm luckily didn't because I
1:04:09
would been like dude this whole album is a fucking vibe.
1:04:11
But I but. Not only that, Fleetwood Mac the
1:04:17
whole soundtrack to the last episode.
1:04:21
Yeah. Was legit.
1:04:26
They got Fleetwood Mac, they have at last.
1:04:29
They had at last in there and I'm like, damn, this is this
1:04:34
whole fucking yeah Fears finale. This whole the songs are just
1:04:40
like, damn. Let's go.
1:04:42
The good thing about you know what the good thing about that
1:04:45
he jump back to that Prince is shut is letting these youngsters
1:04:53
experience this because the youngsters don't even know.
1:04:57
You know what I'm saying. And so I was reading today since
1:05:03
New Year's Eve proper, Ryan, Strange, strange numbers, 500
1:05:10
million plus When doves cry, 300 and 300 million plus since New
1:05:19
Year's Eve on Spotify, on Spotify.
1:05:22
Stranger Things is notorious for that.
1:05:24
They did that last year with that.
1:05:26
What's baby girl name? Kate Bush.
1:05:28
That's something up the hill. It's just like every time that
1:05:35
fucking song came on, I'm just like, all right.
1:05:37
They should they should have a number one hit just because of
1:05:40
Stranger Things and Strange thing got vinyl and shit now
1:05:46
it's crazy. They're notorious for the
1:05:57
freaking trailers too. Yeah, because damn it, I did not
1:06:02
see Steve in any of the trailers.
1:06:05
Yeah, and they had me fucking worried.
1:06:12
I'm like, you motherfuckers, how dare you do y'all, Tassie, How
1:06:18
are you going to do that to me, Not have this person in the
1:06:20
trailers? And then you have to sit there
1:06:22
and watch the entire From episode coming back 4567.
1:06:30
Yeah. And like, OK, All right, OK.
1:06:33
Yeah, OK. We're good.
1:06:34
We're good, Yeah. And then still no trailer of
1:06:37
him, no side of him in the trailer for 8:00.
1:06:40
And you're just like, bro, if he, if something does happen,
1:06:44
we're just gonna fucking beat some shit up.
1:06:46
I tell you these people and then people lose their fucking mind.
1:06:49
But I'm I'm a clean. I don't see any reactions.
1:06:53
Oh, we they little boy, without fail.
1:06:56
I like God damn. I saw the reaction at the movie
1:07:00
theater. They all gasp and I'm like,
1:07:04
pretty much, yeah, I I get. It hell I I just started cussing
1:07:09
though when I watched it. Like, yeah, it was.
1:07:16
It was fun though. It was.
1:07:17
That whole ending was fun. Yeah.
1:07:21
Two hours, 2 hours. A lot like, obviously, if you've
1:07:26
all ever seen fucking Lord of Rings, how they like false
1:07:33
endings. Oh, you think it is the end?
1:07:35
No, there's more. You think this is the end?
1:07:38
Nope, no, not yet. Right.
1:07:41
Like motherfucker, just get to the ending already.
1:07:44
This felt a little bit like that.
1:07:45
Like alright, can we end this? Is it over?
1:07:47
Yeah, I would like that. Still got more today.
1:07:49
I like this still. It's still like 4 to 5 minutes
1:07:52
left of this shit. How much?
1:07:53
What? What the fuck is they gonna do?
1:07:56
She's like to be like, I was at 30 minutes left.
1:07:58
I'm like, why? What else do you guys need to
1:08:02
say goodbye to? Really.
1:08:03
Yeah. Like and then it finally ends
1:08:06
and I'm just like, Are you sure? Like no, after credit scene is
1:08:10
not Marvel. We're good.
1:08:14
Game of. Game over, we're done.
1:08:17
I don't ever want to talk about this fucking show again.
1:08:19
Until next week. We're going to talk about next
1:08:21
week or. I'm going to watch it again, the
1:08:24
people who ain't seen it see the shit so we can elaborate more.
1:08:28
I'm a go back to the beginning of the show, season 1, and like
1:08:32
go through the whole thing. I was like and watch it again
1:08:35
and be like, oh shit, I missed that.
1:08:36
Oh, damn. All right.
1:08:38
OK, so that was it. That that that was fun.
1:08:41
That was the best part about it. We talked about a little bit
1:08:48
about our new year and how it went.
1:08:52
But, you know, we're nostalgia. We love talking about the past.
1:08:58
How'd you used to celebrate your New Year's Eve?
1:09:01
Man, as a child, I mean, I ain't really do shit though.
1:09:05
We used to just watch the bottle drop, but then I go to sleep.
1:09:09
Then then when I got a little older, you know, I'll be I'll be
1:09:13
chilling out with the pot. My boys and shit, we smoking and
1:09:17
drinking and shit. Then then I got older and I just
1:09:24
fall asleep. I don't celebrate shit.
1:09:27
Hell, hell fucking shit. This week I I was like, I watch
1:09:33
Stranger Things. I watching the.
1:09:36
Dick Clark that the Dick Clark Dang would see Chris.
1:09:40
I fell asleep and so haven't I woke up.
1:09:43
It was 1140. That's oh shit.
1:09:48
When I saw the bowel drop and I said I had one.
1:09:51
I had one, but like that was it and I went back to sleep.
1:09:58
I don't party hard like that no more for New Year's that way.
1:10:02
I saw the bio drop though, I'll give you that.
1:10:08
For those of you still in the chat, what do you used to?
1:10:11
Do for nearly versus what you do now.
1:10:14
Let us know like I used. We used to do like I used to
1:10:22
hang out with friends and. Stuff and go to like concerts.
1:10:26
Not concerts, but like, you know, raves and stuff.
1:10:33
We used to gather in the living room, basement rec rooms and
1:10:37
whoever else, whoever like did the party, the house party and
1:10:40
shit. Like alright, we're going to do
1:10:42
a house party here. We're going to hang out for a
1:10:43
bit and then 12:00 hits, we're just going to fucking say Happy
1:10:46
New Year and that's it. Yeah, awesome.
1:10:51
Like pair families used to watch the ball drop on network TV.
1:10:55
Obviously there's commercials for that.
1:10:58
We used to do. We used to use disposable
1:11:02
cameras or no photos at all because we couldn't afford a
1:11:05
disposal camera. But you know, like the next day,
1:11:08
like, hey, here, here's. A camera film.
1:11:11
You know, take it. People used to pass around
1:11:15
noisemakers. Party has some plastic champagne
1:11:17
flutes that those fucking annoying little things.
1:11:21
And the party had it was. Fun like.
1:11:25
That back then people used to fall asleep on the couch before
1:11:29
midnight or get woken up right at 11:59.
1:11:32
All right, I start counting down and you woke me up for that.
1:11:38
Like children younger than that would play board games, rented a
1:11:41
movie or let the radio run all night.
1:11:43
I used to do that where I just like record all the songs, the
1:11:47
top 100 songs and like I have like 5 cassette tapes of that
1:11:53
and just like hey, the songs that you listen to all year
1:11:56
long. And sometimes it was annoying,
1:11:58
other times it was like, oh shit, this is #1 Leona says.
1:12:04
We used to go to families where the.
1:12:05
Goal was to drink. Never got into it of course.
1:12:09
OK, how it felt. It was.
1:12:13
Slower it was. Warmer, it was imperfect, the
1:12:16
best way. The moment belonged to the room,
1:12:19
not the world. You didn't worry about capturing
1:12:23
it. You were inside it.
1:12:24
You were having your own fun with your own people.
1:12:28
You weren't like, you know it was.
1:12:30
It was the wild, Wild West at the time.
1:12:32
You didn't fucking. You were doing your shit, you
1:12:35
know? You were doing your own crazy
1:12:37
shit. You were fucking skinny dipping
1:12:41
and pools and flashing other people at late at night or
1:12:46
fucking banging pots around the neighborhood and nobody fucking
1:12:50
took pictures, Liana says. Now I drink an energy drink of
1:12:53
of a wine glass out of a wine glass at home, covered up on the
1:12:56
couch. She was drank an.
1:13:00
Energy drink out of a wine glass.
1:13:02
She. Wanted to be fancy for one night
1:13:05
and just fucking drink it. I love that.
1:13:07
We were. Like hell yeah, let's do that.
1:13:13
But you know. Nobody.
1:13:14
No, you didn't, Tran. You didn't like send that what
1:13:18
you just did out into the world. You did it to yourself.
1:13:21
You did it for yourself. You didn't have phones.
1:13:23
You didn't have anybody else telling you no, don't do that.
1:13:26
You're going to get canceled for doing that, girl.
1:13:31
Like back in the day and shit. And I used to do that.
1:13:36
I didn't do the fucking skinny dipping, but like fucking
1:13:39
hitting the plots and pans out in the neighborhood because it's
1:13:43
like 12:00. Time to wake up, motherfucker.
1:13:47
You know, I did that. And the listening to the radio
1:13:56
and recording the stuff and, you know, renting movies and
1:13:59
watching them and just like, all right, it's 12:00, let's go,
1:14:02
let's do this versus what we do now.
1:14:07
You split the tension between the party and the phone.
1:14:10
So you're hanging out with. Friends, but same time you're on
1:14:12
their device and for. Some, like you, want them to
1:14:18
hang out with. You but then they're like, you
1:14:20
know, hey, this person says this like I don't care about what
1:14:24
that person says. I care about what you're doing.
1:14:26
You know, you're you're here with me.
1:14:28
Come hang out with me that don't get off the phone.
1:14:32
Do something else. Live stream TikTok countdown
1:14:37
apps, group chats firing at midnight.
1:14:40
I did it after midnight although I was on.
1:14:45
The fucking gaming. That night.
1:14:48
But like in the past, the past five years, I've been doing it
1:14:53
after midnight. I've been fucking straight live
1:14:56
streaming after midnight, coming on after midnight and doing all
1:14:59
that stuff like around 12:30. And like, you know, like once
1:15:02
the whole thing has been died down and we're just like done
1:15:05
hanging out with family. OK, let's hang out with our
1:15:08
friends now I hang out with my nieces and nephews.
1:15:12
On New Year's Eve. That's good.
1:15:16
What we do now is take photos for proof rather.
1:15:18
Than memory here's. Proof of me being with people,
1:15:23
you know, instead of just like, hey, remember that one time at
1:15:26
New Year's Eve when I did this? No, here's the proof of what I
1:15:28
did. Like, I hate that.
1:15:32
Like why do you take pictures? Why do you take selfies if?
1:15:37
You're going to like, fucking show it off on Instagram.
1:15:40
You know, like keep it in your camera real, keep it in your
1:15:43
phone, keep it to yourself, send it to 1 friend only and that's
1:15:47
it. Don't just take photos for proof
1:15:51
and like for like millions of your followers on Instagram.
1:15:56
And I don't do that. I I don't like doing that.
1:16:02
Celebrate with people who aren't physically there.
1:16:04
And that's real now that's fine, that's fine.
1:16:08
I. Celebrated after though.
1:16:10
It's like I like alright, we celebrated with the people that
1:16:13
are there, but I'm going to celebrate with the people that
1:16:15
are not there and just want to that are ones that I want to be
1:16:18
there. Like, you know, I should have
1:16:19
celebrated with you. I started to celebrate with you,
1:16:21
but I ended up celebrating with other people or by myself.
1:16:24
You know, sometimes you choose quiet on purpose candles.
1:16:29
Playlist International. Solitude, OK, how it feels
1:16:33
louder and quieter at the same time, more connected yet more
1:16:36
curated. The moment often live in the
1:16:38
online after it happens. So every year I do this with
1:16:43
other family members. We take 12 grapes and at
1:16:48
midnight we eat the 12 grapes, each grape representing the
1:16:53
month of the year. And you know for good.
1:16:59
Lucks, good sorrows. Good, all that stuff like what
1:17:02
do you want your month to represent?
1:17:05
I usually do 13 for that one extra big good luck, you know,
1:17:09
just for whatever. So I didn't do it immediately
1:17:15
like around 12:15 12/30 I came on I was like, let's do it
1:17:19
together. I want to do something new.
1:17:20
Let's do it on here for now on on TikTok live and I want to do
1:17:25
with you guys. Let's do it here and I start
1:17:26
eating those 12 grapes, the 13 grapes with everybody on here.
1:17:31
I think some of them decided to do it with me as well and get
1:17:36
the grapes and like, eat it as well.
1:17:39
And yeah, there's like, you know what I like?
1:17:42
That better? Than doing it by myself, right?
1:17:46
You know. So yes, why it matters?
1:17:51
Presents versus documentation. In the 90's, the memory lived in
1:17:54
your head now lives on your camera roll.
1:17:57
And sometimes we miss the feeling while trying to save it.
1:18:01
Yeah, we do miss the feeling. Like I have a lot of pictures
1:18:06
from back in the day and they're Polaroids and they used to mean
1:18:15
so much. And now?
1:18:16
It's just like it's in my. Camera Roll and it's like, I
1:18:18
don't know what to do with this. Nobody's going to see it, just
1:18:21
me. I wish we could, like, print it
1:18:24
out and just have him in a freaking photo album.
1:18:27
I was like, when was that picture taken?
1:18:29
Oh, that's fucking 2020. Yeah, the world was ending.
1:18:36
No, not. 2020-2021 The world was ending.
1:18:40
Committee has changed, not disappeared.
1:18:42
Whoever was in the house we would hang out with now.
1:18:47
Friends are across city states, timelines different shape, same
1:18:51
human need to mark time together.
1:18:54
Now we just like, talk to each other through the phone and
1:18:58
instead of being there together, Oh yeah, we're more intentional
1:19:01
now. Back then, New Year's Eve just
1:19:03
happened. Now many of us choose to how to
1:19:06
spend it loud, soft, alone or aligned.
1:19:08
Because life taught us to protect our energy.
1:19:12
And nostalgia isn't about stuff, it's about.
1:19:14
Safety. Simplicity being.
1:19:15
Present without performing. That's why those memories hit so
1:19:18
hard. Mm, hmm.
1:19:21
And so whether it was. A 90s living room with static
1:19:24
on. TV or midnight group chat
1:19:26
lighting up your phone. New Year's Eve has always been
1:19:28
about the same thing. Pausing long enough to say I'm
1:19:31
still here and I'm bringing something forward with me.
1:19:35
That part hasn't changed and it will never change.
1:19:38
And that why it still matters to me.
1:19:43
Also, you guys are awesome by the way.
1:19:48
Everyone of you guys in there. Because like.
1:19:57
Is it? You know I love being here.
1:20:00
I love had doing the chat, I love doing the freaking podcast,
1:20:03
I love doing the stream and everything and yeah, like, and
1:20:09
I'm protecting my energy. Like you guys protected as well.
1:20:13
You're both we're both awesome by the way, they said.
1:20:16
I appreciate you all three. What else think that's it.
1:20:28
That's just, that's all I got to say about that on like New
1:20:33
Year's Eve was awesome, but it's not something I would stay up
1:20:39
for, right? Like I stayed up a while back
1:20:43
when. It was Dick Clark when?
1:20:44
I was actually Dick Clark doing it.
1:20:46
Yeah, now, just like that guy that was on Total Request Live.
1:20:51
Nice. That whole ass motherfucker who
1:20:53
was on. American Idol.
1:20:56
Oh, American Idol. That other guy.
1:20:57
OK, fuck that guy too. Yeah.
1:21:02
Dude like Carson Daly and. That guy.
1:21:05
Yeah, I already have Carson Daly up there doing that shit, and
1:21:08
that's right. You know what I'm saying?
1:21:14
All right, that's where we're going to start wrapping things.
1:21:17
Up for this episode tonight was about resetting the energy, not
1:21:21
reinventing ourselves, but remembering why we showed up in
1:21:24
the 1st place. The conversations, the chaos,
1:21:27
the comfort re watches, the late night thoughts that somehow turn
1:21:29
into an entire universe. And as we move deeper into this
1:21:32
year, there's a lot of head new movies we'll be breaking down.
1:21:35
Blockbusters, cult classics, anniversary watches and the ones
1:21:39
that sneak up on us out of nowhere.
1:21:41
Music albums that deserve full conversation, not just quick
1:21:44
takes. Games will be losing sleepover.
1:21:48
Books that stay with you longer than expected.
1:21:50
Trailer reactions, Netflix specials, live moments and
1:21:53
anniversaries that deserve more than just a passing mention.
1:21:57
This is the year we opened the road map wider, What's staying,
1:22:00
what's evolving and what 2026 is actually asking the M3P universe
1:22:04
to become quick call to action. Brand new projects drop next
1:22:10
week. And with Stranger Things
1:22:12
officially hitting his 10 year mark in just over a week since
1:22:14
the final episode next week, we're going full spoilers.
1:22:18
So watch the damn show so we can talk about it.
1:22:21
Damn right, damn right we are. Going to talk.
1:22:26
About it all right, show some. Love follows on Instagram.
1:22:31
Twitter, blue Sky, TikTok and YouTube for live stream chaos
1:22:34
hot takes. And at the moment we probably
1:22:37
shouldn't record, but always do rate the show so the algorithm
1:22:40
knows we're not just whispering to the void like a forgotten AOL
1:22:43
chat room. Drop a comment on Spotify or
1:22:46
read them all, Even the unhinged ones.
1:22:47
Especially the unhinged ones. Thank you to everyone, the chat,
1:22:55
the talkers, the lurkers, the yappers.
1:22:57
And yes, even the creepers, you know, the ones that are watching
1:23:02
from outside, you're always, you're always welcome here.
1:23:06
Don't be shy. Say hi please if you don't want
1:23:14
to come. In, that's fine as well.
1:23:15
It's all right. We'll be celebrating the podcast
1:23:18
anniversary of Mont Long. We're visiting the moments that
1:23:21
shaped the show, the inside jokes that turn into lore, and
1:23:23
finally opening up what's coming next.
1:23:31
Shout out to the chat menace. KT, Josh Liana, Grunge, Shenrod,
1:23:37
Baby, Inc Thank you for hanging out and, you know, yapping and
1:23:42
talking and all that stuff, telling us your entire night.
1:23:47
Thank you for spending your night with us.
1:23:50
Before you go, whatever today handed you, stress, noise, wins
1:23:54
or losses, you don't have to carry all of it into tomorrow.
1:23:58
Thank you for spending this time here.
1:24:00
In my third place not. Home, not work, just a space
1:24:03
where we show up as ourselves. Take care of each other, take
1:24:07
care of yourself. Anybody has one word to chat to
1:24:14
describe tonight? This is the Empty Peak podcast
1:24:17
where community creativity in a place where we leave the light
1:24:20
on always come together. Menace says fun.
1:24:25
Leanna says amazing and everybody enjoy tonight and
1:24:29
menace had fun. All right, we're done.
1:24:34
This is the M3 podcast. We're community creativity in a
1:24:36
place where we leave the light on always come together.
1:24:39
We'll see you next time. Thanks.