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Happy Hour #202: Crashing Out and Checking In · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha Holcome stuff. I never
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  Speaker 1: told you A production by Heart Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to the first Happy Hour of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Woo cheers everybody. We hope that all of you are well.
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  Speaker 2: We're glad that you are joining us. As always with
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  Speaker 2: these segments, if you choose to drink or whatever you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: please do so responsibly.
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  Speaker 1: Samantha, are you up to anything?
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  Speaker 3: I am?
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  Speaker 4: I have thrown I'm drinking a throwback essentially because I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what's this big for you guys in.
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  Speaker 3: Like your teen years.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I say this as a millennial forty something year old,
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  Speaker 4: mountain dew was the rage. Like as a teenager, mountain
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  Speaker 4: dew was in everybody was drinking that or sprite, but
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  Speaker 4: mainly mountain dew, especially in our hick Pound. And for
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  Speaker 4: some reason, because when I go and buy a soda
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  Speaker 4: it has to be a deal because I refuse a
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  Speaker 4: payable price.
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  Speaker 3: Uh so U usually have to buy like two.
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  Speaker 4: And get three free or two get two free, like
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  Speaker 4: it's that kind of thing. And so I want variation
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  Speaker 4: because I like my go tos. And then I was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe I'll get this and maybe I'll get this. Well,
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  Speaker 4: the Mountain does zero Baja blast called my name. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's what I'm drinking right now because I had little sleep,
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  Speaker 4: a little tired, and our days. As little as we've
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  Speaker 4: done today, it still feels like we're doing a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where I think for yourself, I've done today.
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  Speaker 3: You've done a lot.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair as little as I've done, the small amount
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  Speaker 4: of recording compared to the typical amount of recording with you, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: But what about you? What are you up to over
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  Speaker 3: here under happy hour days?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I just have to let you know
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  Speaker 2: that A Saver has done an episode on Mountain two
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  Speaker 2: and it's very interesting. Tell me, tell me, okay, Well
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  Speaker 2: it was basically developed to go along moonshine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. But I was growing up during the time where
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  Speaker 2: anything that was that color there was a rumor that
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  Speaker 2: is false, but there was a rumor that it would
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  Speaker 2: deplete your sperm.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, that was not a thing here.
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  Speaker 1: It's false. I just want to say it, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard that. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I didn't really get into It's not like
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  Speaker 2: I have sperm. But I was just like, WHOA mean
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  Speaker 2: while I drinking like Jolt and serge as if.
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  Speaker 4: We had Mountain Dew loyalty here and there in l J, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: We stuck to that pretty hard kind of like.
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  Speaker 4: But which is odd because Mountain is a pepsi company
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  Speaker 4: and he come to the South and you don't have
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  Speaker 4: coke Coola as your preference, you might be in trouble. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and you will be being judged. You will be judged.
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  Speaker 4: So to have like Mountain Dew as like one of
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  Speaker 4: the drinks of a small town LJ. But then again, Appalacho,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not the mout like the foothills of Appleacho, So
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  Speaker 4: it makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: There was a whole lore with it.
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  Speaker 2: There is, there is, and go check out that episode
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  Speaker 2: if you'd like to know more. None of what we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about sponsors, we I promise you. I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about this other day. So we have and I are
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  Speaker 2: very careful about that because we can be shuge. Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 3: Like TikTok and social media, would you.
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  Speaker 1: Get away with it? A lot?
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  Speaker 4: They act And we're going to talk about this because
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, you don't realize you're being fed and
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  Speaker 4: ad because they have this whole scenario that goes viral
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  Speaker 4: and then you turn it turns out this company took
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  Speaker 4: other people's images and made this story anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, else's because I you know, we've said it before.
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  Speaker 2: We don't listen to podcasts a lot, just because it's
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  Speaker 2: our job. When we do listen to other podcasts, it's
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  Speaker 2: because of our job. So I was listening. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of my friends like podcasts, which I'm in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in for it because I'm like, you're helping
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  Speaker 2: me do. But I was listening to one of their
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  Speaker 2: shows in the car and they were taught. The host
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  Speaker 2: were talking and I was like, is.
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  Speaker 1: This an ad and it was.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, we could never get away with that.
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  Speaker 2: We could never get away with that anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Just so you know, get it's like quorderly trainings about
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  Speaker 4: watch yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do, we do.
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  Speaker 2: And so I just had the holidays. My mom gave
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  Speaker 2: me more new wine from where I'm from, Thalniga, and
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  Speaker 2: this one is a very like.
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  Speaker 1: I can't put down the taste. It tastes like acorns,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know if I should know.
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  Speaker 2: What the acorns taste like, but it's got like an
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  Speaker 2: autumnal something going on. Thank you, thank you so much us.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so we are easing into twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a lot of big ideas. As always, we'd.
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  Speaker 1: Love to hear from you what you would like to
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  Speaker 1: hear more of, so just let us know. But for
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  Speaker 1: this one, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: We would just check in because honestly, Samantha and I
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  Speaker 2: haven't talked about we haven't had the chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about our holidays and how they went. So, Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: how did it go?
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  Speaker 3: We made it? Yes, you know, that's kind of the whole.
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  Speaker 4: Where I feel like as a victory that no one cried.
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  Speaker 4: It was enjoyable. We had a good family time with
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  Speaker 4: my partner's family, which was well deserved because it's been
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  Speaker 4: a rough year for everybody, I think, and it was nice.
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  Speaker 4: So we did a lot of games. We played so
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  Speaker 4: many games. We played a Lord of the Ring games
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  Speaker 4: and it was fun. I call it was.
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  Speaker 3: It a no so it was a card game.
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  Speaker 4: But you have like goals, and it's almost like they
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  Speaker 4: because I've never played I think I played spade once
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  Speaker 4: and never played bridge. But it's kind of like that
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  Speaker 4: what everybody has their individual goals but those individual goals
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  Speaker 4: is you are not going to win unless everybody meets
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  Speaker 4: us goals. But you can't tell each other like all
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  Speaker 4: of you know, like it's an interesting like team play,
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  Speaker 4: but if you don't get all of your goals done,
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  Speaker 4: then you're defeated and you have to try to round again.
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  Speaker 3: So it was one of those games and it was
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  Speaker 3: really really fun.
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  Speaker 5: Nice, Yeah, what about you?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you do? How'd it go? Well? Oh face, big face,
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  Speaker 3: here we go.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not that I don't want to make it
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  Speaker 1: into something more than it was, but I, as we've.
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  Speaker 2: Discussed before, and I often feel guilty about talking about
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  Speaker 2: this because I I speaking for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I love this job and we're very lucky. But we
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  Speaker 1: have talked.
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  Speaker 2: About how when the end of the year comes, or
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  Speaker 2: any holiday comes, it is it's a crunch. It is
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  Speaker 2: a real crunch to get stuff done. And I was
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  Speaker 2: working up until the Tuesday before Christmas, and like late
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday and I had friends come over that I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't seen for a while the day before, and it
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  Speaker 2: just became very apparent to me that I was like
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  Speaker 2: wound up tight, like I was stressed. They brought it
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  Speaker 2: up later to me and they're like, you were given
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  Speaker 2: off like vibes, oh, because I was just so I
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  Speaker 2: had all this to do and I had to find
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  Speaker 2: the way get back home, and they're being so nice.
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  Speaker 2: They were helping me wrap my presence because they knew
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  Speaker 2: terrible at wrapping presents.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So my mom noticed it, by the way, you best
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  Speaker 2: believe She's like, nope, and not something like doing me
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  Speaker 2: a favor. And I feel bad that I was giving
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  Speaker 2: off so much of that energy, but I was. And
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  Speaker 2: then it was just like it continued when I went
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  Speaker 2: home for Christmas and I was there for two days
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  Speaker 2: and it was good, but it just has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of like you know when you go visit and it
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  Speaker 2: feels so out of place, like it just it felt strange.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, something just felt strange about it. I
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  Speaker 2: had a great time with my mom, but it's like
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  Speaker 2: when things are so the same but so different, like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people. I haven't seen my brother in
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  Speaker 2: like a year, and he was different, and so it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of jarring in that way. And I was
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  Speaker 2: just exhausted because it's a lot to do and I'm
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  Speaker 2: giving off the vibe. Again, It's a lot to do
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  Speaker 2: and people do want to catch up, which is great,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: But I was just like, I need to finish this
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  Speaker 1: meal right now. We have to talk right now.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, and also I never get that much sleep
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in that house. But anyway, my friend drove me
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  Speaker 2: there and she drove me back, so I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: have to drive.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice. I car got some drive in.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't drive my car, but it did get some
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  Speaker 1: driving in.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, I I yeah, this is something else
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to learn. And I know we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this before. I'm trying to learn how to just accept
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  Speaker 2: people's help without it examining it too much. She also
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  Speaker 2: helped me avoid my landlord.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah, it was very fantastic. This is
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  Speaker 1: a good friend right here.
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  Speaker 3: Is a good friend.
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  Speaker 1: But then I guess what really is.
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  Speaker 2: It was fine. All of it was good, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy I saw everyone. But as you know, Samantha, that
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  Speaker 2: like last week of the year is my like treasured week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, or I just do whatever.
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  Speaker 3: That was one of our big goals to make sure
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  Speaker 3: we had that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I uh, I had the biggest crash out
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  Speaker 2: I've had a long time, and.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like was it therapeutic? Did you enjoy it
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  Speaker 3: afterwards or at least a call?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was therapeutic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but it like last I guess what I'm mad
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  Speaker 2: at is I wanted to read a lot of fan fiction, right,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do all of these things, and instead,
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  Speaker 2: I guess my body was like, no, you have not
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  Speaker 2: been dealing with stuff, so you're just gonna cry randomly
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  Speaker 2: for days and just lay down.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so mad about it, but I think I
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  Speaker 1: needed it.
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  Speaker 4: I oh no, Yeah, your body was like when you
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  Speaker 4: finally had a moment that you thought you could relax,
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  Speaker 4: your body was like, okay, the only way that you
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  Speaker 4: can get to that point is if you go through this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, big marker, and it's going to make.
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  Speaker 3: You do it, especially when you think you can just
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  Speaker 3: buy Oh.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like all my fault. I know it, But
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  Speaker 1: I needed it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I needed it, but man, I had so
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  Speaker 2: many things. I was like, I'm going to do this, this, this,
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  Speaker 2: and this, and it was it was interesting, like I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of introspection that came out of nowhere
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  Speaker 2: that made me think like, oh, I must have in
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  Speaker 2: my subconscious been thinking about this lingering.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like, like you said, nobody, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anybody listening has probably had a great year, and I
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  Speaker 2: just like world we live in. I started thinking about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff, and like I definitely started be
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  Speaker 2: examining just some thoughts I have about being queer, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to come back to in a future episode.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about it right now. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still like, WHOA dealing with this? And it wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 2: It was I'm making it sound horrible, but it was
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  Speaker 2: just like, oh, I must have been thinking about this
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  Speaker 2: and didn't really realize it, and so it was just
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  Speaker 2: like not it And we were we were joking about
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  Speaker 2: this off mic, it's like not a good omen for
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, but we all came in.
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  Speaker 4: With like, yes, it can't be that bad, and then
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  Speaker 4: you kind of quiped in with it it could be.
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  Speaker 1: It could be.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I must stop. I must stop saying that.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a good start.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some bad things.
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  Speaker 1: There has been some bad things.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean I think as I've gotten older,
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  Speaker 2: you and I have talked about this too. I don't
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  Speaker 2: put as much pressure on the new year. No, I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel like I do have goals. As I've mentioned recently,
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  Speaker 2: I want to organize my apartment, trying to learn asl
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  Speaker 2: but I don't put a lot of like by this
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  Speaker 2: day you haven't done it, then you've failed already.
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  Speaker 1: Right, That's not how I go about it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was excited about the like couple of days
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  Speaker 2: where I was just gonna like read.
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  Speaker 3: Where you could just let it all go for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm still behind. I'm writing it too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, people are gonna be ups.
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  Speaker 1: I've already gotten some messages.
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  Speaker 2: I've already gone so messages SMITHA and I'm like, I'm listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm dealing with something.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be I'm crashing out.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty it was pretty wild. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening here?
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  Speaker 4: But you know the fact that you haven't had as
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  Speaker 4: many crash outs. Instead your body has just been like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to go to the hospital, you know, stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. Sure, sure, sure, it's really surprising.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I know, and I think everybody's stressed. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to make it sound like this.
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  Speaker 4: Was an your ability to cry it out through Last
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  Speaker 4: of Us helped you maintaining the crash out till the
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  Speaker 4: end because you haven't had that outlet in a few
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  Speaker 4: several months.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Well, maybe that's what it was. That's as
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  Speaker 1: we've discussed.
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  Speaker 2: I do love that, and I know that's not for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: but I do love that. But I also think, like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the holidays for me at least, is.
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  Speaker 1: The like everything's great, I'm so happy to see you
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  Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And I think at this point my body was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna lay down.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, uh, You're just gonna go on the floor here
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, Anna, Oh okay, your neighbors may be worried.
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  Speaker 1: They probably are. Well, landlord here, he's here all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so you made it. I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did have my mac and cheese, and I had
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  Speaker 2: my suit, Yes, my champagne.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: How about you? Did you do any Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So you know, sometimes we will try to go to
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  Speaker 4: our local barbecue place because they have like a whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: We went to a different one that we like, the
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  Speaker 4: new one that we really like. Try not any name
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  Speaker 4: names because I'm not trying to do sponsorships here unless
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  Speaker 4: they wanted to call us all that to say, but
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  Speaker 4: they did not have peas. So we came home and
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  Speaker 4: my partner had like pork that we had made he
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  Speaker 4: had made previously that we frozen, added that to the
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  Speaker 4: instabat and did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't like peas.
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  Speaker 4: I like, I don't like beans that are too hard crunchy.
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  Speaker 4: It bothers me. It feels like grainy and not cooked.
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  Speaker 4: And I know people have different I would like mine
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  Speaker 4: cooked the hell to the point that it's mush almost
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  Speaker 4: and I'm okay with that. It tastes like meat like
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  Speaker 4: that's me and being so, he did a good job.
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  Speaker 4: We insuppoted. So we came home, brought the leftovers, had
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  Speaker 4: the collars. I made corn bread and I make from
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  Speaker 4: a TikTok recipe that I love with some changes that
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  Speaker 4: I have discovered work as well. And then yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: had a good meal and it.
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  Speaker 3: Was just two of us. The night before I stayed up,
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  Speaker 3: we drank our little champagne. I drank a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of champagne and.
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  Speaker 4: Then I drank a lot of water because I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not about to have a headache on new Year's
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  Speaker 4: Day and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then we just stayed at home. Nice happy New Year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen to all the gunshots around us. Oh, so
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  Speaker 4: many gunshots, so many. Yeah, but it only lasted an hour,
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  Speaker 4: so you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for listeners who don't remember Samantha telling that story,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of a thing that happens. Happens to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of places, but definitely around.
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  Speaker 3: You, like war like we were in the war zone.
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  Speaker 4: Like why do people have that many automatic semi automatic weapons.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed, it doesn't make sense. Okay, our degree.
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  Speaker 4: One of my highlights, but also sadness of this year,
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  Speaker 4: I will say. So, we went down to Jacksonville when
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  Speaker 4: my partner's family, who owns a pool, loves the pool
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  Speaker 4: and my dog Pecha's loves to swim. But she's getting older,
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  Speaker 4: she's getting more tired, and poor baby would sink. So
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  Speaker 4: I had to buy her life jacket so she didn't
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  Speaker 4: sink as much. But she had the time of her lives.
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  Speaker 4: But she was limping because she was so sore because
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  Speaker 4: I haven't exercised her like that for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: She wanted to swim every day. So even though it
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: was still like seventy. They were kind enough to like
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: put the pool temperature up so she and my partner
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: was in the water with her could swim in some
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: of the cutest peictors. And then we took her to
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: the beach and she had the best time running after
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: and chasing the waves.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: It was lowly. It makes me wish I could.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Live closer to the water so she can do stuff
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: like that, because the water here in Georgia, the streams
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: have killed dogs, so I'm very.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Scared of those areas. But yeah, it was nice. It
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: was nice.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is nice.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Good memories. Her life jacket is ridiculous.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. I am miss Peaches. I haven't
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: seen Peaches in a while.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: You need to come over. Actually, we need to do
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: our Christmas exchange, by.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: The way, Yeah we do, Yeah, we do. This is
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the thing.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: This is what I feel about this new year this
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: time is it feels so like delayed, like I'm.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Just kind of everything was like And one of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: things that my partner's family did this year was not
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: do Christmas gifts, which was odd to me.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do about that, because.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: As stressful as gift giving is, I also thrive in
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: giving gifts like I love to do it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Part of that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Thriving is the anxiety of hoping I get the perfect
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: gift for this person because I am sentimental in that
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: way and I want to prove that I know you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: And also I don't want to give you.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Trash.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: I want to give you thoughtful gifts. Yeah, which I'm
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: gonna have repeated something on you, and I'm so sorry
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: if I did. However, Like so we didn't do that
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: this year, but I came down with, like, we'll do experiences,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: so like we would bring little gifts to cook with
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: or whatever, not gifts, but like things to cook with,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: candies and all these things. My partners sister she brought games,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: which is like one of the things that we do
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: and we love. So like that was kind of nice,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: but it was interesting because there was nothing to.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Do Christmas morning. We just got to all set there like, hey,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: merry Christmas.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah this is I hope this didn't come off passive aggressive,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: but it could have, because on Christmas morning in my house,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: it's like you wake up at eight, you do the presence,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and then my mom and I cook, right, But this
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: time they all wanted to talk and I kept thinking
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: about all that stuff I had to do, and at
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: a certain point, I was like, Christmas is so strange
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: to me because it's like you wake up and you
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: do all the stuff in the morning and then you
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: guys got to put which is true they do, but
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I kept thinking, like, my day, I still have a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff to do, like.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: To help you, to feed you, good bye for you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Even without that, though, it is strange to be like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: because you wake up so early.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: And then it's like, oh, okay, we did not wake
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: up early, but well his family wakes up early. We
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: we sleep in late as I think, and that's like nine.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was interesting because I have never since
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: my time in the US say this.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Got up with no gift giving, giving, no exchanging of
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: it was just interesting. We just there mm hmmm. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: kind of almost forgot it was Christmas.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It was hot on Christmas in Georgia too. Yeah, yeah,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you were in.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Florida, which was just hot.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: But like, but at the same time, again, it wasn't bad.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: It was nice and little stress free. Still kind of
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: like missed the giving. So I went overboard with like
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: my partner and other people m hm, because I had
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: to even it out.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Of course. Well, it's also interesting for me because I
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: used to give my siblings gifts and they never gave
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: me anything, so I stopped, and now they give me stuff.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Oh but I don't give many things.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: My only sibling that I exchange gifts with is my sister,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: and interestingly, I think she gives it to me because
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I give to the nieces and nephew. The nieces and nephew,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: even though they're getting into their twenties, mid twenties, late twenties,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: they get gifts from me because I don't do birthdays.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I'm so bad with days that I don't know their birthday.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I'm a bad aunt. Let's just be real, honest. But
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I give them Christmas presents money because I remember being
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: that young and not having you know, and also being
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: that age in between like I'm an adult, yes, but
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: I'm also not a mother, you know, Like I'm not marry,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not any of these things. I'm still kind of
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: a child. I don't I want I'm a present. But
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: they also just get cash from me because I also
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: remember that because I would use cash gifts to gift
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: gifts for people.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's what it.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: But like I remember hoping I would get cash so
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I can get things for other people.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: So I do that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: But my sister and I, she gives me presents, but
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: also she gives my dog.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: A present, I think because of that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: But her birthday is the day after Christmas, which we
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: talked about previously, so I give her our birthday gift
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: rather than Christmas.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: She kind of seems rude now that think about it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it works. I I don't know. Maybe
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I'll start getting the gifts again, but maybe I won't.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Hey, you know what I did.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I asked to move my seat for my Good Year,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Like this is the first year I you. I said,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: can I please sit here? I can't hear her this
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: year very well? And they were like, okay, easys that nice.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Nice probably in only the thirties.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I honestly am not entirely sure how old I am
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: right now. I'll have to do the math. Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, that's that's my been, my New Year's New Years.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: It's a good balance of things.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: The com I think, oh no, oh no, I needed it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: But yes, that's why that's why I'm waking up early
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to read fan fiction because because.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Of work, I don't have time.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So when I missed it, I have so much to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: catch on it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It's overwhelming, to be honest, but I'll do it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I have faith in you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can. I do too. I got this. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: got this well.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Listeners, please let us know how the new year is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: treating you. If you did anything cool, if you have
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: any goals, anything you want to see us do in
• 23:45
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• 23:47
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• 23:50
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• 23:55
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• 23:59
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• 24:01
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• 24:03
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• 24:15
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• 24:18
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• 24:20
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