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Stranger Things On NYE Is Delicious | The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois · The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois

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  Happy 2026, delishies! This... is the delicious
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  culture. Grab a plate, feast on it. I'm your
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  host, John François. Oh, our meal. Let's talk
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  about what you did last night. Did you have an
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  eventful New Year's Eve? Maybe you had a boring
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  one. Well, if it was the latter, you may not
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  be alone. All right. I was looking at this poll
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  from Gosunny .org. The top thing that we wanted
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  to do on New Year's Eve this year, watch Netflix
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  or some other streaming platform. You know what
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  I mean? So what were you watching? Were you watching,
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  uh, I believe the rest of Stranger Things season
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  five, didn't the rest of that final season come
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  out on Christmas day or am I mistaken? I may,
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  I may have to look that up. Speaking of which,
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  is anybody like losing attention on Stranger
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  Things? Like I am like, I remember I was watching
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  like the first half of season five and all this
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  science fiction stuff is happening and all I
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  can think of is, Oh my God. I cannot get on the
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  Lyft driving platform to go to work so I can
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  pay my bills. I don't give a fuck about this
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  Stranger Things bullshit. So I may have to like
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  rewatch the episodes again to like really, really,
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  really get into the story. You know, speaking
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  of Netflix on New Year's Eve, this actually brings
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  me back to Maybe three, three years ago? Yeah,
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  I'm going to say three years ago, New Year's
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  Eve, 2022. My wife and I decided to stay in and
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  play a drinking game with this Christmas movie.
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  Yes, you can watch Christmas movies on New Year's
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  Eve. It was called A Very Country Christmas.
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  And what amused us was it seemed like every two
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  seconds, every other character except Zane Gunther.
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  was saying the name Zane Gunther. Zane Gunther
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  is the country superstar in this film. So my
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  wife and I just played a drinking game, like,
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  oh, hey, like, let's drink every time someone
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  says Zane fucking Gunther. And it was fun. But
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  you know what? Maybe you don't want to stay in
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  and do that. Maybe you want to do the second
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  place thing on this GoSunny .org poll. Go to
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  a New Year's Eve party. Of course, why not? Maybe
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  you are like my wife and I and have the parties
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  at home. I remember when I first met her and
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  she was sharing a house with her friend. They
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  would have other friends over, myself would come
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  over and we would get drunk, play games, all
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  that stuff. There's nothing wrong with that.
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  Maybe you are of the religious kind. And I was
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  like that when I was a kid growing up with my
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  religious family in Connecticut. I would go to
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  the New Year's Eve service at church. Uh, maybe
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  you want to just stay home and watch the ball
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  drop on TV. So forget about that party. Or if
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  you really want to go within the party of it
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  all and make money. Maybe work as a banquet server
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  like I did like 12 years ago at this place called
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  Farmington Gardens in Connecticut and just watch
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  other people have fun while you just make money
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  and wear a bow tie. See a burlesque show. Oh
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  my god. I remember my wife and I saw a burlesque
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  show last year. That could be its own New Year's
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  Eve party. Watch people strip down, but not quite.
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  So there's so many ways that you could go to
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  a New Year's Eve party and if you did that last
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  night, I hope you had a great, great time. Last
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  place in this poll by goesunny .org. People would
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  love to get some sleep. Why not? We've all had,
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  I'm sure, a very tough 2025 for various reasons.
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  So to be able to just say, fuck it, I'm going
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  to just sleep in in my nice, quiet, peaceful
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  home while everybody else gets all noisy and
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  drunk. There's nothing wrong with that. And last
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  place in this goesunny .org poll, scroll through
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  social media on your phone. Yep, 10 % in this
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  survey would rather... Uh, scroll through social
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  media and you know what? Look at doom scrolling
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  is a popular phrase. We all love to see the news
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  of the day and just be like, wow, my life is
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  over. I want to slam my head into a notebook
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  right now. but there could be a such thing as
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  happy scrolling. Maybe there's that YouTube video
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  that you love so much of Mr. Beast dancing on
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  a pole for $25 ,000. No, wait a minute, he makes
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  people do that. What am I saying? Maybe it is
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  that Netflix show that you've been wanting to
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  watch that you are content with in the minutia
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  of your phone screen. Either way, yes, there
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  could be a positive thing through scrolling through
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  social media. I know, is Netflix and YouTube
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  considered Social media, technically so, technically
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  so, technically so. You know, I think YouTube,
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  we can socialize through the comments. So that's
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  social media and Netflix. I wouldn't be surprised
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  if they have comment sections under their shows
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  and movies someday. So technically, yes, I would
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  argue that Netflix and YouTube can fall under
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  social media. So lots of things that can be done
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  on New Year's Eve. There's no right or wrong
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  way to do it. However, you did it last night
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  was exactly the way it should be done. I hope
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  you're going to be ringing in 2026. with the
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  best positivity, optimism you can, I know. Certain
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  events going on in the world may make you think
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  that this could be a dreadful year, but it doesn't
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  have to be in your own personal life. So I hope
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  you make that choice to have the best year that
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  you can for yourself. Hey, just reminder going
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  into this year, we, I'm hoping to have some fantastic
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  guests lineup, some fantastic lifestyle and pop
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  am looking forward to a full, fruitful 2026 of
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  entertaining shows for you. Thanks so much. your
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  dedication to this podcast as we're clearly going
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  through a big change going into the new year.
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  Let deliciousness ring.