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Wicked Radio 12-31: Staying In For New Year's Eve and Resolutions Yes Or No?! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: And there it goes out the window. Can you see it?
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Speaker 1: There goes twenty twenty four bringing in and here comes
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Well in a couple of hours. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the last day of twenty four. You know, I kept
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Speaker 1: thinking about this over the past week. We had to
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Speaker 1: go through twenty twenty four to get to twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: And I think that goes to optimism. I think I
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Speaker 1: think it does. But you have to look at it optimistically,
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Speaker 1: don't you. And I thought today for Wicked Radio, thanks
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Speaker 1: for being here as always, I appreciate you, and thanks
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Speaker 1: for the past couple of months for helping this thing
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Speaker 1: grow and just talking about it every day because it's
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Speaker 1: just been fun. Let's just get out of the news
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Speaker 1: for a quick second mostly today, just talk about this
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Speaker 1: whole thing tonight tomorrow, twenty twenty five, because really, honestly,
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Speaker 1: this is just such an impactful time in history. It
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Speaker 1: is your personal history, what's going on in the country,
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Speaker 1: what's going on in world politics, but not about that
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Speaker 1: is mostly just about looking forward to what it is.
0:53
Speaker 1: And it always comes down to that debate, doesn't it.
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Speaker 1: We talked about resolutions a little bit yesterday, but it's
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Speaker 1: true it's the endless debate about New Year's resolutions. What
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Speaker 1: do you do? Do you look for, do you make
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Speaker 1: a big change, do you make an announcement to your
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Speaker 1: proclaim it to the world. I don't know. There's always
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Speaker 1: that debate about it, whether or not to. We'll get
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Speaker 1: into that in a second. The audio podcast, by the way,
1:14
Speaker 1: is usually up and running unless something's late with the algorithm,
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Speaker 1: usually about nine am Eastern time, and this always lives
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Speaker 1: as a replay. But enough about that. This is fascinating.
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Speaker 1: I started to hear chatter about this, especially among get
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Speaker 1: this the young people. You know. I got two college
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Speaker 1: age kids, and I heard their friends and them talking
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Speaker 1: about this for New Year's Eve, and I looked it
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Speaker 1: up and sure enough, there were a lot of articles
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Speaker 1: and they did a lot of interviews with just street people,
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Speaker 1: maybe bartenders, talking about what they expect for tonight for
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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Apparently, staying in is the new cool,
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Speaker 1: is the new going out, except for you know the exceptions,
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Speaker 1: a big fireworks display or you know, the ball drop
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Speaker 1: and times Square. You discount that stuff for a second.
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Speaker 1: I'm just talking to a normal everyday people in your life.
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Speaker 1: You me, everybody when you'd normally go out to a bar,
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Speaker 1: a restaurant or something. Boy, is that down this year?
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Speaker 1: You know, it kind of stinks for the bar in
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Speaker 1: the restaurant industry, although they'll still do fine. But this
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Speaker 1: was amazing what searching. And again, I know, I get it.
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Speaker 1: Take this with a grain of salt. This is one
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Speaker 1: of those surveys. It's from the AP. I know they're
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Speaker 1: a hack organization too, I get it, but just for fodder,
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Speaker 1: just play along with me for this, because they did
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Speaker 1: a big survey on this. It's a Associated Press NARC
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Speaker 1: Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Boy, all right, forget
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Speaker 1: that for a second and just go to what they're
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Speaker 1: talking about. They found a huge increase and people who
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Speaker 1: are actually staying in at least people who are willing
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Speaker 1: to talk to them this year. And the reasons are
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Speaker 1: all over the place. You know, I think there's still
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Speaker 1: a lot of people, believe it or not, who are
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Speaker 1: still shell shocked out of COVID. Not if you run
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Speaker 1: in like a free state where you were open the
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Speaker 1: whole time, but like you know, if you were locked
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Speaker 1: down or a if you were like in a big
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Speaker 1: city where you couldn't go out and you were forced
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Speaker 1: to stay in for a long period of time or
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Speaker 1: forced to work from home. That really greatly affected a
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Speaker 1: lot of people, and that actually pops up in resolutions.
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Speaker 1: Will get to here in a second, but that that's
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Speaker 1: greatly affected a lot of people who number one either said,
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Speaker 1: oh I got to get out of here and I
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Speaker 1: got to do more outside, or a lot of people
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Speaker 1: like in this survey who said, you know what, I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of a homebody. And think of it either yourself
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Speaker 1: or people you know, your friend's family or people you
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Speaker 1: work with who say the same thing. You know, I
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Speaker 1: just don't go out as much as I used to.
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Speaker 1: And it's not an age thing. It's just some people
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Speaker 1: just realize they don't want to go out as much.
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Speaker 1: But sure enough, in this survey, it reflects everything you're
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Speaker 1: probably hearing where less and less people are going out
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Speaker 1: outside of a big event to go celebrate New Year's Eve,
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Speaker 1: and it kind of makes sense, doesn't surprise me at all.
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Speaker 1: Then it gets to and this was actually in the
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Speaker 1: same article too, this endless debate about resolutions right, one
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Speaker 1: of the top resolutions this year endless. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: the same consistent thing every single year, and when you've
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Speaker 1: looked at these things like I have for decades, this
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Speaker 1: list this time of the year, you know, for doing
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Speaker 1: either the radio show or this or whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: It's always the same thing, always the top few resolutions
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Speaker 1: every single year are always lose weight, make more money,
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Speaker 1: get healthier. But here's the thing that popped up this
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Speaker 1: year that's a little bit different. And this goes back
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Speaker 1: to what we were talking about about socializing popping up
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Speaker 1: into the top five this year. In all these surveys,
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Speaker 1: you know, you look at that's a new one. More
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Speaker 1: people saying they want to socialize this year, which kind
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Speaker 1: of contradicts what we just said about going out. But
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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve is a little bit different because it's
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Speaker 1: like amateur hour, more people making a concerted effort to
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Speaker 1: go out and like meet new people. That's a good thing,
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Speaker 1: I think, and I'm convinced that that goes back to
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Speaker 1: the COVID crap again. If you pretty much live your
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Speaker 1: life normally the whole time, this wouldn't affect you. But
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Speaker 1: keep in mind that not everybody was the same. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people had to go through that as well
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Speaker 1: and to try to figure out what their social life
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Speaker 1: is really like. Again, a lot of people lost a
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Speaker 1: lot of friends. You may have lost a lot of
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Speaker 1: friends over stupid political crap over the past few years,
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Speaker 1: or maybe maybe you're not as involved on like social
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Speaker 1: media sites as used to be, but more people. The
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Speaker 1: only surprise of resolutions this year, list after list and
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Speaker 1: looking at all of them, was that one. That's the
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Speaker 1: only one. New thing is more people want to socialize,
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Speaker 1: which is good, it's healthier, it's a natural human behavior
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Speaker 1: to get there or and meet more people, hopefully quality people.
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Speaker 1: You never know, what's the debate. I told you today
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Speaker 1: was gonna be a little bit different. No news stories,
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Speaker 1: just talking about this stuff. I do you make a resolution?
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Speaker 1: Do you not? I mean, personally, I stopped making them
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Speaker 1: this time of the year for one specific reason. Now
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Speaker 1: take my example for whether you want to or not
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Speaker 1: or throw it away. I don't care. Just what works
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Speaker 1: for me is I stopped making resolutions this time of
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Speaker 1: the year when I realized, and they always come up
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Speaker 1: with these stats too, how many people fail at their resolutions,
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Speaker 1: usually by mid February. It's pretty sad. Actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever whatever it is, I don't know. You want to
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Speaker 1: stop drinking, you want to lose weight you do and
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Speaker 1: make more money. A lot of people bail in about
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Speaker 1: a month. Here's what used to get to me why
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Speaker 1: I stopped making them. This time of the year, I
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Speaker 1: was always surrounded by people who also failed. And it's
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Speaker 1: just human nature. Not throwing stones at anybody. It just
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Speaker 1: is when people fail at their resolutions, they don't want
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Speaker 1: to be alone. They want you to fail too. It's
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Speaker 1: just it's true. I mean, people on the outside will
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Speaker 1: tell you that they want you, they want to support
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Speaker 1: you the whole way. And you know, I didn't meet
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Speaker 1: my goals of losing weight in February, but I want
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Speaker 1: you to still go. They're probably not going to do that.
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Speaker 1: They'll be much happier if they can grab you back
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Speaker 1: into their circle. So this is a tough time of
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Speaker 1: the year, believe it or not to make a resolution.
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Speaker 1: But the opposite side of that coin is it's always
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Speaker 1: great to try to improve your life, right, It's always
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Speaker 1: great to do it. So for me, just to try
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Speaker 1: to improve a little bit each day, each week, each month,
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Speaker 1: instead of putting all the pressure on this time of
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Speaker 1: the year, that works for me. For you, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: maybe you're inspired by other people, not too sure, but
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Speaker 1: just keep that in mind. When people fail, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be surrounded by a lot of people that fail at
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Speaker 1: the same time. Just keep it in mind. Which gets
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Speaker 1: to this, do you announce your resolutions publicly or do
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Speaker 1: you keep it quiet? A couple of different theories on this.
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Speaker 1: The people who say you should make a loud resolution
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Speaker 1: and tell everybody you know about your resolution, they say
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Speaker 1: because they will hold you accountable for it, which I
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Speaker 1: totally get. I understand that. I totally get that. Right.
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Speaker 1: You tell your family that you're going to you're got
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Speaker 1: to run a mile a day, right, and they'll stay
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Speaker 1: on your ass to make sure that you run a
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Speaker 1: mile a day. It's okay, I understand that, right. But
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Speaker 1: here's the other theory. If you're ever considered this one,
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Speaker 1: to keep it absolutely completely quiet, to not tell anybody
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Speaker 1: you're making a change, Then all of a sudden, like
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Speaker 1: let's say it's losing weight, Then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months, see somebody you haven't seen
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Speaker 1: for a long time and you're down twenty pounds. How
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Speaker 1: about that? How about that? Then you get to shock them, right.
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Speaker 1: Two schools of thought, keep it absolutely quiet to yourself
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Speaker 1: so you don't let people down too, there's not that pressure,
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Speaker 1: or make it a loud public announcement. Just two options.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, all kinds of things you can do.
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Speaker 1: Who knows me, I don't know. I Uh, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I tend to be on the quiet side about changes
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Speaker 1: I want to make and different things. I mean we
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Speaker 1: talk here every day about different things you can do,
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Speaker 1: and talking through the news and whatever, and dealing with
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Speaker 1: people and communication stuff. That's what I do. I just
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Speaker 1: find it more effective if you keep it to yourself
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Speaker 1: that way, if you're having a bad day and trying
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Speaker 1: to make a change in your life, nobody has to
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Speaker 1: look down on you, and you can just you know,
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Speaker 1: talk yourself out of it. But I understand the benefits
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Speaker 1: too of having other people around you put the pressure
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Speaker 1: on you to hold true to your to hold true
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Speaker 1: to your resolutions. Either way, all kinds of ways to
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Speaker 1: go making a change always good. Just be aware, That's
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Speaker 1: all I'm saying. All right, looking forward to twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five too, this is uh, this is one of those
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Speaker 1: things where I think you gotta look at twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four as a year. I mean, you talk about a
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Speaker 1: crazy year, just think back to all this stuff. Think
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Speaker 1: back a year ago when you were looking forward to
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, when you're predicted all the things that
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Speaker 1: had happened, and a lot of us were saying at
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Speaker 1: the time, oh boy, this is this is gonna be.
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be one tumultuous year. First of all,
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Speaker 1: it's an election year. That's one thing. Also, a lot
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Speaker 1: of things going on in the tech industry, the economy,
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? And it was it was just
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Speaker 1: as rocky as a lot of people predicted. But another thing,
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Speaker 1: not that many surveys to point to this, and I'll live
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Speaker 1: anything like that, but there seems to seems to be,
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Speaker 1: just as I put my spidy senses up, more optimism
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five than I've felt in a long
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Speaker 1: long time, because there is a lot of change happening.
9:52
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about politics. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: things that are going on that are changing. It feels
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Speaker 1: like we're getting out of something, doesn't it You feel
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Speaker 1: that it feels like we're g getting out of something.
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Speaker 1: Call it the COVID years, call it the Biden years,
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Speaker 1: call it, call it the past four year funk. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to call it. It feels like we're getting
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Speaker 1: out of something and getting into something exciting for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five and beyond that could be even worse. It
10:16
Speaker 1: could be way, way better, which is what I think
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Speaker 1: it's going to be. Who knows, But that's scary because
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Speaker 1: it's the unknown. You don't know what it's going to be.
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Speaker 1: But as far as right now goes, this kind of
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Speaker 1: goes to resolution, this kind of goes with socializing more.
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Speaker 1: You gotta run into people who already already are doom
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Speaker 1: and gloom about the future in twenty twenty five already.
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Speaker 1: And the only thing I can tell you is, and
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Speaker 1: we all know people like that, they're already predetermined to
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Speaker 1: make going forward crappy. Just that's the opposite of socializing.
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Speaker 1: Stay away from those people as much as you possibly can.
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Speaker 1: They're just gonna bring you down. That there's no reason
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Speaker 1: really to be gloom and doom about twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: going forward, when there's so many great things that actually
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Speaker 1: could happen. So I would say that optimism is the key.
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Speaker 1: Optimism looking forward and understanding if you did have a
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Speaker 1: tough time in twenty twenty four, everything that actually could happen.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be great, right, absolutely, all right? I told
11:17
Speaker 1: you today was gonna be different. Here's another thing I've
11:21
Speaker 1: always wondered, and I can't believe I kind of had
11:23
Speaker 1: a general sense about what this song meant. Because you're
11:26
Speaker 1: gonna hear it a lot today, you're gonna hear it
11:29
Speaker 1: a lot tonight, you're gonna hear it a lot tomorrow.
11:43
Speaker 1: What the heck does all lang zine mean anyway? Really?
11:48
Speaker 1: What does it mean? And how does it apply today?
11:50
Speaker 1: And why do you still hear it so much? By
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Speaker 1: the way, it's ald lang zin al ud lang syne
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Speaker 1: all lang zine, the official definition. And I thought this
12:00
Speaker 1: was so funny because when you look things up for
12:02
Speaker 1: a quick reference point these days, you know they'll be
12:05
Speaker 1: there'll just be an AI quick answer for you. Right,
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Speaker 1: So let's go to artificial intelligence to find out something
12:11
Speaker 1: about reflecting on the past. WHOA didn't see that coming? Well?
12:15
Speaker 1: The phrase aldlangzine is a Scottish phrase, oh the Scots
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Speaker 1: that translates to old, long since interpreted to mean for
12:26
Speaker 1: old time sake. We hear it all the time this
12:29
Speaker 1: time of the year, right to look past, right, But
12:31
Speaker 1: it's all about looking to the future. Lyrics based on
12:33
Speaker 1: an eighteenth century Scottish poem written by Robert Burns. He
12:38
Speaker 1: wrote it to preserve Scottish culture. Huh, Well, how did
12:42
Speaker 1: it become to be such an American thing? Well, I
12:45
Speaker 1: don't know. It's associated with New Year's even English speaking world.
12:48
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. This this I didn't know.
12:51
Speaker 1: It had been a thing in the eighteen hundreds and
12:54
Speaker 1: then kind of died out because, let's face it, it's
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Speaker 1: not a very exciting song. Popularized again in nineteen twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: The version you hear most is Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo.
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Speaker 1: He played it on New Year's Eve nineteen twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: reflecting on the past, making it appropriate for other events.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Guy Lombardo version, this one, that one. Oh,
13:19
Speaker 1: it's a barn burner. Wow. I can't exactly dance to it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you can a slow dance with Champagne at the end
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Speaker 1: of the night, right is you bring in twenty twenty five?
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Speaker 1: That's where that silly song comes from. But it's one
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Speaker 1: of those traditions and I hope it stays with us
13:41
Speaker 1: for a long time. I don't know, but we're looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it. Twenty twenty five, it is here. What
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Speaker 1: a year it's gonna be. And really, if I can
13:50
Speaker 1: give you some closing thoughts on the last day of
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Speaker 1: twenty four I would say that too. But the resolutions,
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Speaker 1: make it your own choice, but just be careful of
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Speaker 1: people who are failing on theirs. But if you are
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Speaker 1: going to make a resolution, if you are going to
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Speaker 1: do it, can I add this? Can I add one
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Speaker 1: little suggestion on one of the most impactful things, one
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Speaker 1: of the most important things that you can do going
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Speaker 1: forward to twenty twenty five, it's communication. Learning how to
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Speaker 1: talk to three different areas. Talk yourself, talk to yourself
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Speaker 1: constantly all the time, well I talk to myself every
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Speaker 1: day and basically doing it now, but also communicating with
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Speaker 1: other people. And then how you communicate with the rest
14:26
Speaker 1: of the world in and out, how you perceive information.
14:29
Speaker 1: Communication is everything. If there's one important thing everybody, all
14:32
Speaker 1: of us need to work on for twenty five, I
14:35
Speaker 1: think that would be it. But what that said, if
14:38
Speaker 1: you're going out tonight, if you're bucking the trend, the
14:41
Speaker 1: recent social trend of staying in, if you are going out,
14:44
Speaker 1: just be careful it is amateur night. Careful out there driving,
14:47
Speaker 1: and no reason now with Uber and Lyft, even taxis
14:51
Speaker 1: if you're in a city to drink and drive, never
14:54
Speaker 1: a reason for that. Just be careful out there and
14:57
Speaker 1: look forward to it. We survive twenty twenty four or personally, nationally,
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Speaker 1: all of it. We had to go through that to
15:05
Speaker 1: bring in the greatness that twenty twenty five is gonna be. Remember,
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Speaker 1: be optimistic about it. The people that are gloom and
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Speaker 1: doom already before we even got there, put them a
15:14
Speaker 1: little side, put them aside. You don't really need them,
15:16
Speaker 1: all right. I don't know what. I don't know about tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring for
15:19
Speaker 1: New Year's Day. I think we're doing a live show.
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Speaker 1: I think I don't know. We'll find out, but if
15:24
Speaker 1: it is, it's eight am Eastern time tomorrow, the live
15:26
Speaker 1: stream as always, and as always the audio podcast too,
15:29
Speaker 1: wherever you get those, whatever platform, have a safe, awesome,
15:33
Speaker 1: happy New Year's Eve, really looking forward to twenty five.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to them