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I was going to say that I could if I had to, but obviously. Well, luckily, you're not a woodchuck, so you don't have to chuck any wood today. Today's. Yeah. Today's just a good day. It's a family day. Welcome back from the holidays, everybody. What a confusing week it's been for, like, across the. Are you confused this week? Very much. I'm having a little bit of a hard time adjusting to waking. having the blessing and privilege to wake up early. Nice catch. Yeah. I'm having a little bit of some difficulty connecting with that opportunity in a positive way. In a positive way. So. Well said. Yeah. This is kind of like the time of the year where I truly, truly, truly start to understand those people that are like, time is a concept that was created by man. Because when someone's like Sunday, I'm like, who the fuck cares? January is a Sunday. I fully. I like clicked on on Sunday where I was like, okay, time to catch up on stuff. And I'm sending email after email and people are like, hey, just a reminder, it's Sunday. And I was like, And I, yeah, this is it's just difficult and confusing. And I can't do anything or move from the end of November to the end of November. So I can't take that one from the top. I can't do anything or move in a good way from the end of November to the end of December, like taking a load off, like letting myself relax. Happy holidays. Good. And then it becomes I can't move in a bad way from the beginning of January to about mid-March. So I'm actually going to do the eggs Benedict, but no, no December, though, for those. I feel the same way. But also I get like such a fire in my belly for January because I felt like such a lard ass these past couple of weeks, just like at home. And I like was kind of like sick. It's the maniosis over there where I was like, no, I'm not opening my email. I'm not opening my email. And now you pay the fine for not opening your email for two and a half weeks. Yeah. I'm I'm struggling. Pretty sick. We were actually speaking of being given blessing after blessing in disguise. And sometimes they're so hideous. Yeah. We're actually blessed to be in like the only country in the world that like I have that thing where like people go on vacation everywhere else in the world for so long, like a month at a time. You know what I mean? Well, people don't even like again, this is me talking out of my ass. I have as I have not lived in another country and don't really know too much about the lifestyles of most others. But like in Europe, let's say Italy, for example, because that's a place I've been. I feel like they just like don't. They don't need these long vacations because they don't have the same sort of like work life imbalance that we do. So it's just like they don't live for vacation because not life is a vacation, but life is not like career work oriented the way it is here. So they don't have those high highs and low lows. I guess what I don't understand is like any time I've been on a trip out of the country and I meet people from other countries and they're like, where are you going next? I'm like, what do you mean? We've been here for eight days. We're going home. We have to go to work. And they're like, oh, wow, like we've been here. We weren't here. We we have two more weeks of travel and they've been gone for three weeks. Really? I'm like, I'm kind of confused. What countries are you talking about where they might be from? I met some Australians that said this. I met some Canadians that said this. Australia is like the exact reverse of us. So maybe it was their summer. Well, still, even in the summer, like we're not 14, like we don't get. Sorry, I was thinking about when I was a teacher. Yeah, like I'm just confused as someone that works that lives in Italy. Like an Italian person that works in marketing. How are you taking a month off? It's not the same. Italian people don't work in coffee shop. You know, like it's not just like pizza and coffee shop. It's like they still have an office there. No, but I think like. I'm having a hard time, like forming thoughts. Just you remember how earlier I was telling you that I'm having like I had the blessing and privilege of waking up early and I'm having trouble connecting with it. Correct. Affecting my brainpower to have more like critical. Conversations like this one. Does that make sense? I wouldn't. I wouldn't. What I'm trying to say is that like category. What'd you say? I wouldn't put this in the critical category. I said that's how I feel right now. Really? This feels critical. This is a life of thinking right now. Life or death thing. Yeah, that's just I'm trying to tell you that the severity of how of the difficulty I'm having with connecting with my early wake up is that this feels pretty, pretty highbrow. Intellectual. Like I'd be much more comfortable talking about like. I don't want to say like. You're going to say poop. No, don't put words in my mouth. I'll put poop in your mouth. Ew. Look at my cup. I can't see what it says. It was given to us during the art competition. Oh, it's you. You're on my cup. That's that's you. Oh, no, that is me. No, that's you. Hi. Hi, Queenette. Hi. Oh, double negative. What? Queenette. Queenette would be a double negative. What do you mean? Because a queen is queen, but Queenette. Oh, that should be like a miniature queen. Why would that be a double negative? Because Chud and Chudette. Chud is like man. Chudette is woman. Queen is woman. I don't think you mean double negative. Yeah, it cancels out. It might be a king. A Queenette might be a king. I'm having a really hard time following. See, this is highbrow. Really hard time following. This is why the princess and the pea was problematic. The princess was given the opportunity to have 10 mattresses and she's complaining about a pea. I've been thinking about this a lot recently. So me complaining about my opportunity. The princess was was resting atop a mountain of probably Casper's purple mattresses. There might have been a mattress firm in there even. And she says something's off. Something ain't quite right here. Pea. Pea. Pea. I think she's she was on to something. I could see you resonating with princess. I kind of do think I would be able to feel the pea. No, I understand feeling like I understand feeling the pea. That being said, I sat on an edamame pea for an entire dinner. I got up edamame there. Like that was my nest egg. And you didn't feel it just like direct contact. It was a part of my. My experience in the restaurant. I wouldn't change it for the world. Yeah. Love that shit. In fact, I wish I was sitting on an edamame now. We could make that happen if it's something you really need. My make a wish. Wait, was it? Was it shelled or de-shelled? It was de-shelled. It was one single pea. Yeah. Nice. It was one single edamame. Oh, a legume. Jen. That's Jen a legume. That's low. You're one with the legume. Low. Can you. And that's a. What did you just say? Low. Can you. And Lee. Low. Can you. And Lee. Yeah. Is that like genuinely? Well, I have my finger on the pulse of the youth and they're saying low can you and Lee. I've never heard that. Yeah. They've they've combined. They've married low key and genuinely. And it's low can you and Lee now. I love that shit. Yeah. I adore it too. I'm being serious. Like low can. Yeah. No, Jen. I'm low can you and Lee. Jen, I'm low can obsessed. Truly. Thank you for for teaching me that. For putting me on. It pisses me off when I don't know things like that, though. No, this this is this is sometimes. When I feel like. We're in like the teachers, the conference room, like we both have our mugs. I'm like, just so you know, like when the kids are saying low can you and Lee. Yeah. What they mean is low key genuinely. Yeah. This is how I feel. And when you keep saying Jen, I'm like, I caught on. I'm like. because i thought you meant that's jen and i'm thinking what jen do we have in common j-e-n-n yeah i don't know i don't know that many jennifers anymore i kind of feel like i kind of aged out of being friends with jenna might have aged out of jennifer i don't know do you know any kids being named jen i knew one jen well one of my best friends is jen but i'm just saying i don't think there are jens being born now unless it's g-e-n you know i don't but i bet we're about to start thinking about knowing them brooke and connor spikes birth rates and and what's using the name jen um g-e-n yeah no i i had several gens in high school and then all of a sudden they kind of like skipped a couple chapters compared to me and now they're mama bears well yeah and also like i'm just thinking like if i was a teacher and i got like the my class list and there was a gen i'd be like huh like you don't see that anymore oh what a tradition what a what a trad name yeah that's gonna be like like how like there's like grandma barbara but you don't see barbara's anymore grandma jen i can't picture grandma jen yeah wow it's interesting how these names cycle isn't it it really is um so i texted you early early in the evening you were awake and i asked if you wanted to do ins and outs like we did this morning and i was like i'm gonna do this morning and i'm gonna do this morning like we did last year do you want to do ins and outs i do i do i do a do a do a do a do a bid you um yeah i thought of here's i thought of ins i did not think of outs that's okay i have a handful and i think that if any of these call to us and we want to have a conversation about why we chose this how it affects us if we have an oppositional take we can feel free to do that in this space love that connor yes and if anyone has opposing dots we want to have a conversation about why we chose this how it affects us if we have an oppositional welcome them unless it's negative feedback concerning the two of us yeah this is a good warm-up for me and then we can always go back to the conversation about how careers look different in the u.s versus other countries yes we could revisit that we could revisit that it's something i wasn't ready for earlier love to warm up get back to it yeah and i think a lot of it comes down okay let's just do ins and outs and we'll come back because i just like that i just had like and i was just inundated with thoughts like about dentists and okay okay let's see like if they have dentists in italy or not yeah like they must have an italian dentist you know they totally italians they go imagine your dentist is italian and you have to use your hands all the time he's like put your hands down i have a knife you know like he's in there with his tools i think that like um an italian dentist would be able to control the impulse if if it rose i don't know i don't know it's part of the culture there they need to use their hands it's like it's like people from new jersey i don't think so i think they could control it let us know in the comments if you're italian if you're an italian dentist sound off okay and i would love if you're an italian dentist come on over check out my molar i need a crown and i'm not i'm not talking about the one i dropped okay i did drop it on a plate at a restaurant they cleared my plate oh i thought you were talking about like you dropped your crown king i was but i did also dropped my my crown of my root canal true i told you this story right oh god yeah okay well for those of you those of you don't know i'll run through really quick it fell out at a restaurant i put it on the plate i went pee they cleared my plate while i was in the restroom they dumped my whole tooth into the dishwasher they said it's been incinerated i said well that's too damn bad okay i moved forward though you have to move forward do i have a crown no every time i go to the dentist they gasp you don't have a crown no and look how far i got without all that dead weight anyways okay okay so these are our ins and outs of 2026 so why don't you start how about you start okay in oh my god okay i i can't explain how this is not this was not on purpose ends videos of people leaving the dentist with their mouth numb adore i love and have always loved videos of like wisdom teeth people waking up um like anesthesia post anesthesia videos like i genuinely think those are funny i like when my new thing is like when a parent comes home and their kids are like and they're like trying to kiss them they're like and the kids are like what is what's up with like mom's face yeah bring back like old style like youtube videos like that used to be the that was like on ellen you know and that used to be funny yeah i'm totally on board with that just good clean family numb mouth good good clean good clean mouth fun bring it back with your family good good clean mouth fun with your family okay why don't you hit me with an n um every movie book tv show and limited series being gay is my n oh okay yeah i think that heated rivalry kind of started something pretty pretty big and i think that the response to that should show the major networks that we need a little bit more than a shit ton more and then all of that doubled so i want to see as many gay things as possible in the year of 2026 there's a huge market show me what you got put your money where your mouth is put your money where your mouth is give it all to me right now push it out through as fast as you possibly can as quickly as you possibly can in as much quantity as you possibly can manage and move the needle across the spectrum to the other side for me really quick thank you that's my big one and obviously like i don't need to touch on heated rivalry too too much well we do you want to do it oh wait we can do it right now it doesn't matter it doesn't matter no let's okay let's finish ins and outs okay and then i'll talk about it a little later okay it's we're not going anywhere hey we've got all day we got all damn day sit down make yourself car free and make yourself car be embarked on it okay coca-cola for the big for the small the short and the tall peacemakers risk takers for the optimist pessimists for long distance love for introverts and extroverts the thinkers and the doers for old friends and new coca-cola for everyone pick up some coca-cola at a store near you i hate mondays king's hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite taylor hansen sure i'll try one hey let's get back to work please but taylor hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly king's hawaiian cinnamon bites taylor hansen nice try one king's hawaiian cinnamon bites there's nothing like it ends letters with no return addresses what's the reasoning behind it i didn't say we had to do did we have to do reasons no not at all i'm just wondering if you had one i um would love i just think it might be fun to start sending letters with no return addresses like with do you will you put your name there or no uh no so it'll be kind of like a prank call but a letter yeah i like yeah it's kind of like forensic-y i don't know i think it could be fun i agree we're not really doing that also me and my friends have a secret snow person that we do every year and the return address has been a really difficult part of that well why do you need to do a return address on like a secret santa i guess when you take it to the post office to send it out sorry yes no person thank you not you don't have to have a return address at the post office you have to no because people from like depop don't put a return address on it people get killed okay well i thought they were they told me i had to you went to you went to you went to the woke post office okay well that's just i'm just telling you my experience it was a while ago because i stopped going in the post office i'm starting a new post office that doesn't require return well actually like i think i might have just opened up a bucket of worms that might be like hang on i'm taking i'm taking letters with no return addresses out of my ends actually i don't i see this going down wrong i think just like if it gets lost in the mail they have to know where to send it back to no i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna head down to the woke post office actually i'm on your side again no i'm not saying that i'm saying i don't think there should have to be a return address because it kind of ruins secret santa so sorry snowman person perfect perfect snow person okay well that was kind of a wash on my end go ahead no it wasn't at all i'm in it in like a light-hearted like murder mystery party type thing but i guess when you start involving like the united states postal service and like a no return address situation like it does start getting i mean if everyone was able to carry themselves with a little bit of fun and whimsy like this wouldn't be an issue but unfortunately like not everybody has that in their heart and the post office doesn't really have it or the u.s postal system doesn't really have it in their heart they don't um if we could trust them with delivering our letters and packages to the right venue right this could work unfortunately i don't want to shit hey listen i didn't come here to shit on the u.s postal service nobody did that wasn't nobody did but sometimes things get lost and translation sure okay go ahead um stickers oh yeah i love stickers is he i think i used probably 90 of the stickers from the sticker book you got me that thing is the best thing in the entire world it's massive there's the most gorgeous stickers i have been putting them um this will come uh in another one of my ends later but i have an entire journal ecosystem that i'll i'll tell you guys about but i have been putting stickers on all of my journals um i've been having so much fun with it it's so fun and i want to bring that really back into the zeitgeist of just putting stickers on everything you know what i was i was talking to somebody about this recently it was such a huge deal in college to put stickers on your laptop um and it would it would almost be like your interests like i had like connor a hundred percent and i want to talk about something different right now you are yeah like i know i totally know what you're saying and my laptop is kind of like that now you would put like a college sticker on it or like stickers that you like came across naturally in life so that someone at a someone at a coffee shop for instance if they catch an eye they go i know what this person's about yes i'm talking about like sticker books like you're a kid again like check out my hope putting the stickers are you just talk look at my hobonichi right now i'm talking about this type of shit like i'm not talking about like boston university oh you're almost talking i'm talking about like sticker books i'm i'm a kid with my sticker book decorating you know what decorative stickers you know what this feels like and you're on the precipice of something i feel like this is almost like a uh renaissance i think it takes the energy that we when we all wanted patchwork tattoos and it makes it um a less permanent and more manageable way yeah of putting them on objects instead of your body you know it kind of satiates that impulse without permanently inking your your frame bridge aligned yeah via ray so i've um stickers yeah i'm gonna put them on everything i'm gonna put them on my water bottle when i get home i wish i owned a home so i could do like a sticker door again what home did you own before that you did a sticker door yeah i guess just like my college house that i was in for three years and then like my parents house that i was in the rest because right now i can't really put stickers on much right you can put tape down and then put stickers on and then take the tape off you know what i'm not gonna do that yeah i didn't you know but i was just trying to be helpful i was just trying to be a good person i guess i could put them well no i don't know anyways wow i really don't like mine actually now that yours are so like close to home well these it's also a fine line between things that are in and things i just like like mine so far has just been gay and stickers which like is that something that's in or are those my interests i think gay is in um i think maybe you started i'm sure there's a community of sticker heads that like love that idea there are um yeah my next one steam and fog so steam and a little bit more about that i just feel like steam really hasn't had the moment that i think it deserves that everything else has kind of gotten and across the board i'm talking not even in the wellness space i think like are you talking about the wellness related steam or i'm talking about everything i'm not seeing right now i'm i'm i'm not really seeing as much as i used to i don't know i i used to see like a lot of fog i feel like day to day i feel like i'm lacking fog in my life personally i feel like we could all benefit from a little bit of fog steam i see steam coming out of my dishwasher every time i open and i go why don't we harness the power of this yeah you love that dishwasher steam i do i love to put my face right in it when i open that thing so i do actually use i utilize every ounce of steam that comes out of my house um i don't know i would like to see more steam in in day to day i don't know steam and fog i can get on board with steam however i can't imagine like walking outside on a foggy day and being like yay well you need to see the fog as an opportunity to change to the neighborhood or whoever but you can't even see the neighborhood oh you mean like kind of uh when one sense is dulled the other opens so you use your listening ears instead of your looking eyes because you can't see i love where your head went i was talking about like a playlist that's kind of like foggy like foster the people or something okay i'll move on from that because i don't think it really landed too much no worries i i'm on board with you with steam steam so fog is where i lost you okay i get it so maybe we focus on steam in 2026 and less on fog i'm okay with that okay meet me in the fog is i think fog is no fog is not steam steam can be fog though i mean i guess fog is the steam of the weather fog is the steam of nature but but fog can be a form of steam steam fog is uh when cold air passes over warm water causing the water's vapor i like when i like steam fog that can be nice yeah steam fog can be nice steam fog can be nice okay maybe maybe more steam fog and is steam fog yes fog can be a steam too yeah okay i we are all seeing eye to eye here on the internet which is crazy and seven years ago someone on reddit was wondering if there's a major difference between steam and fog hi where were you seven years ago all right hit me with one um journaling okay so yeah you're loving journaling yeah i have four journals right now i have four active journals right now it's called the journal ecosystem yeah and i think that this could really help a lot of people not only be organized but also just kind of process thoughts in a healthy way and just shit like that um and it's also just a fun hobby and it connects back to the stickers of everything you can put stickers on your journals too and it's a great outlet um i've got my hobonichi planner right here which i use for my daily tasks and i can't believe you even lost that what have you lost it yet my hobo yeah not at all i'm not gonna lose this look at all the stickers i have inside as well and you i told you this but i have all my bnc's and i have all my c notes in my hobonichi as well next to my to-do list that's nice so i'll get there uh i'll get there later i have manifestations i want to run by you okay as well just i just noticed that in my hobonichi so i have this hobonichi for my daily tasks i have a dear diary type of diary which my nearest resolution is to fill one up cool i have my work notebook like writing and stuff nice yeah and then i have my five-year journal which is really interesting which is there you what you hate that i hate that yeah i figured you would for me i hate that yeah but it's like i it's for uh 2026 through 2030 and so like june uh what's today january 7th has one page with five different slots and each year you fill out a different slot so you can kind of see like what you're doing on each day as five years pass or whatever that's kind of nice it is cool like right now there's nothing in it but at the end of five years it will be so full and my mind would have vomit on every page because i'd be like vomit another day another day pass yeah it would throw up on every page yeah especially after i got like six months in and i'm like you know you're i don't know but it's also cool because i have such a think about like i could have been like if i started this in 2024 right i could have been like i started writing a book today like i wonder if that will go anywhere and then like two years later the entry on that day will be like my book is being published today or something like that's really cool to see that the next best time to start is now yeah and shit like that so that's my next in okay well my next in is toilet paper pulling out from the bottom instead of over the top see i'm not someone who ever notices that type of stuff i'm the least observant person in the world i think as someone with ocd you not noticing the toilet paper over the top under the bottom thing is very i don't have that kind of ocd at all well mine is like if i if it's not normal which is over the top to me then like my whole day is out of whack like i'm gonna think about it for like the next if something bad happens i'm like it's because the toilet paper oh my ocd is like i um had a thought about like my parents dying and they'll be dead by the end of the hour i don't like that i like my toilet paper thing better yeah like my i would prefer that too um but i I also just, oh my gosh, I have the funniest thing to tell you, I also just saw something that said, a lot of like the passage of time scary tiktoks reels recently on my on my fy have you been getting that sound that's like do you know i'm talking about is he you know i'm talking about what is it it's like like scary death is it the i'm here or like no mother i'm home no it's like robot it's like worse is he what is it i can like do it in my head yeah it's in my head it's not translating out my vocal cords oh if it comes across your desk which it probably will after this let's send it over my way really spooky um but i i've been getting i mean mine's mine aren't scary it's just like here's how to someone said like if you change it's life like passes by really fast because we're so used to like routine and if you switch up little things well your brain like when you do the same thing every day doesn't need to think anything so it doesn't need to store new memories so like your days are passing faster but when you change your route to work or this is like when i said i put my toilet paper under so it took me a little bit longer to use it and then because it took me a little bit longer i missed a phone call from someone and because i missed that phone call i had to call them back on my walk and because i was on the phone on my walk i didn't stop and talk to like one of my friends because i didn't talk to that stop and talk to that person they didn't tell me not to go that way because the sidewalks closed because i missed the sidewalk closed i went to the next thing and i found a hundred dollar bill on the ground and then i used that hundred dollar bill to um i gave it to a homeless person that homeless person your cancer bill gates talking about the butterfly effect huh there wouldn't have been yeah and and it's but because you change small things your brain is storing new memories and stuff and so your your time pass is slower i don't know if there's now i said it out loud i think that's pretty dumb but i think that there might be it might hold some water i don't know it might hold some water i guess we'll never know okay hit me with one air drying your hair i do that every day well i'm i guess i'm talking more about those of us with like long hair i think that we i think most people like blow dry it i think most people look i'm trying to think if this is true or not i think most people look better with air dried hair i keep seeing these girls on tiktok that are like i'm trying to air dry my hair it looks so fucking bad and i'm like that looks awesome like if you didn't say anything i have no idea that you air dried that i think we're just so used to like doing our hair that we don't like we think our natural hair looks bad but it to fall so i air dried last night and that's just what looks great what it looks great you must be using the ogx argan oil i must be um but yeah i think air drying and uh embracing the beauty of our natural hair and just putting less heat on it in general could be really pretty for 2026 and that way when you do do a blowout it's like an event not just and it becomes special again okay so that leads me to my next and i did blow out my bangs i want to be honest about that if i didn't that would be a problem that's nice of you to be not talking about people with bangs right now yeah nice of you to be honest about that uh that leads me to my next in using you really let yourself go in a positive connotation you really let yourself go like loosen up yeah you let your hair down you air dry that shit let's did you air dry it baby yeah i like that well you really let yourself go last weekend i like that isn't that fun yeah let yourself go like that yeah so that's my that's one you got one i have my last one it's just board games okay i like board games that's a good one except categories my thing with board games is like i know it's just a game but the thing is with me there's not really anything that i'm going to that's just a game um i want to win you know so that's why i had to stop playing pup but because it stopped being fun for me and it started to be an issue uh about friendships and my family just like the way i would act out i get it i broke a club on my knee i get it i do a really good way to engage with people and not be on your phone sure um i agree have more game nights yeah we just had some game nights last week it was really fun what did you play um the airbnb we were saying it had this game called labopoly labopoly it was lab themed monopoly like the dog like labopoly labopoly yeah that's right oh sorry i thought you said lab no lab oh labopoly yeah nice yeah it was the exact same thing it was just kind of dog thing you know i don't know how to play monopoly it's very straightforward it's anytime it's been presented to me i'm just like nah it's not even something that can necessarily be presented to you you just kind of play it and it's now you do need to be kind of strategic sure you need to be strategic with your places and your people but you don't need to really think too hard about it it's a game of strategy and patience did you ever play life on the computer on the computer i'm asking oh yeah i played it on the computer sure i also played family feud on the computer pretty religiously i paid for it oh i pay for life and snood i didn't i've never heard of snood oh your ass would have loved snood my ass could still love snood i have time i'm young and i'm turnt yeah you are very young um coca-cola for the big for the small the short and the tall peacemakers risk takers for the optimist pessimists for long distance love introverts and extroverts the thinkers and the doers for old friends and new coca-cola for everyone pick up some coca-cola at a store near you i hate mondays king's hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite taylor hansen sure i'll try one hey let's get back to work please but taylor hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly king's hawaiian cinnamon bites taylor hansen's making my day way better nice try one king's hawaiian cinnamon bites there's nothing like it okay good move i have my last in and then i can move to my out okay i'm done okay i also used to play aqua energizer on mini clips i don't know how to energize the best game ever mini clips man on a wire yep okay sleeping in a in a robe it has been such a life changer for me i get i shower i'm clean i put my robe on it's a big thick warm robe i have my windows open right now because it's freezing out and i sleep in this big thick warm robe and then i just put one layer of blanket over me and anytime i have to pee in the night i'm not putting on i'm not freezing shivering i wrap my robe up don't you get a draft coming up into my under yeah carriage no it's long it's like past my knees but still like there's an open bottom you know you're not cinched at the bottom no it's not cinched it's a little bit of ebenezer yeah i'm not wearing pants it's essentially a nightgown yeah yeah i get tangled up in my robe when i nap in it but it's it's it's eliminated the morning part where i'm like oh i don't want to it's eliminated the morning part where i don't want to get out of bed because i'm cold because i'm already warm and snug i can be up and mobile and vertical but as well snug as well okay i love that um yeah so that's my last in love i have my outs as well tell me your outs there's a lot more outs than there were if you wanted to kind of more rapid fire them yeah i can rapid fire them if you have something to say hit me okay uh number one my out is losing my keys inside my apartment i would like to eliminate that it would be so easy to just like have a spot for keys both for you and i but it's like too hard really easy if everybody just put everything onto my phone my phone is always in my hand put my id on my phone put my key on my phone it is kind of shocking we don't have like key cards like hotels for our homes i think some people do when they live in like nice buildings i've known some people that like could tap their phone but i live in this place with a lot of character and crown molding yeah and normal mold i like crown molding um okay next one taking headphones on a walk i think i'm gonna start retiring this because i don't even have anything playing i just don't want anyone to chat with me and i want to like you don't have anything playing on sorry i've got a shiver you don't have anything playing on a walk almost never whoa because i want to hear other people talking i don't want to hear this um this is a lie what i was just about to say so i'm gonna restart i've been wanting to go on a walk with no headphones to to think of ideas for for writing i haven't yet but that would be a reason that i go on a headphone-less walk and the only reason. Well, a good way to start is to put something in, your headphones in, but don't listen to anything. Yeah, that's like, yeah, that's nice. Headphones on a walk with nothing playing is like bringing your dead laptop to a coffee shop just to make people think that you're working on something even though you just want to go to a coffee shop by yourself. I went to four coffee shops on Monday and every single one had their outlets blocked off and I had a dead laptop and I needed to use it. They need turnover for their restaurant. What the hell is the point of a coffee shop if I can't use it to work on my laptop that needs to be plugged in at all times or it will die? Everyone in West Hollywood is a writer so they're taking up so much real estate in all these coffee shops, no one's able to sit down and buy coffee. Oh, I mean, I am beyond pissed. You need to open up a cyber cafe then. I finally found one after research, spending some of my good hard-earned time researching cafes with outlets. Finally found one. It took a lot of researching. Good for you for figuring it out. And guess who I saw there yesterday when I went to my outlet cafe? Who? Kurt from Glee. Congrats. Thank you. Congrats, grads. No, it all worked out. Good, I'm happy to hear. Yeah, in the end. Stripes on your pants, plug in the outlet. Okay, next, out every action having an equal and opposite reaction. Sure. Next, out, stairs. Yeah, I've always agreed with that. A big one for me, out, 2026, tied to go pins. They stink and they don't even work. They don't work, but I would like one that works. Yeah, I would like one that works too. And they don't stink. Brooke, give it a sniff the next time. Like I can smell it the whole rest of the day when I put it on my clothes. They don't stink. Are you being serious? Like bad? They smell like something that I don't love. Yeah, they smell like Tide. Pie? Tide. No, they don't smell like Tide. They smell like flesh and chlorine. They don't smell like flesh. I want you to give it a good hard sniff next time you put it on your jeans. What does flesh smell like? Like rotting flesh? I don't know. I didn't, give it a sniff. I don't have a type of duck pen. Give it a little scratch and sniff. I bet you do in your car. Next one. Public loitering. I'd like to see more of that. More? Next one. What? You want to see more public loitering? Yeah, I love it. I think we're always on the go too much. Slow down, stop, and stand somewhere. Chat. Okay. Next one. Salt and straw, specifically their flavors. Yeah, you've been saying this for a bit now. Yeah, go to hell. Yeah. The reason it came back up is because there was a line. Wrapping around the block for salt and straw the other day. I was like, what are you guys getting? What are you guys getting? Their table light bulb flavor? They do have a great classic vanilla and they have great rainbow sprinkles. Unlike any rainbow sprinkles you've ever had before. Just like the only thing that's, the only people that are doing it right are like the OGs, like the Culvers and the Baskin Robbins and the Cold Stones. Like they have all of those like cookies and cream. Done. Cookie dough. Done. Birthday cake. Done. Vanilla. Done. Ice cream. Uh, ice cream. Chocolate. Done. Instead of like honey, honey crisp apple summer vibes playlist 2020-12. I hear you. It's like, shut the heck up. Yeah. Okay. Next one. And this is my last one. Fly swatters. Out? Out. Yeah. Yeah. They look too much like. What are they doing besides existing? They look too much like spatulas to me. And they're always hanging somewhere very, in someone's kitchen. And it's like, that shouldn't be here. That's I think that ever. I don't know. I know there's no answer to that. And I'm not, I'm not acting like I have an answer. I just think they're gross. And they give me bad vibes. Oh, I was thinking you didn't want like to kill the flies. Are you fine with another device to kill the flies? Yeah. A gun. Um, okay. So I have to tell you this thing. Cause this has been the funniest thing. That's like, did you see that girl that was like worried about the passage of time? So she was going to collect a button for every day of the, of the new year is you did. No, I mean, I've seen a lot of people who have buttons for every day of the year in a jar, but I didn't know it was one specific girl. So this girl basically she posted on some, some thread that I'm like, or this, this video that I'm like on or that I'm like, that's coming across my desk about like the passage of time, how scary it is. And she goes, I'm getting her name's Tamara. I'm getting 365, five buttons, one for each day because I want to do more stuff and I'm scared of time. So I want to, I want to be more conscious of it. And like, it got a lot of likes. And then the next person said, what is 365 buttons? And she said one for every day. And someone said, yes, queen, but what do you mean buttons like to wear? And she said, just to have, to see how quick days pass and remind myself that time passes and just to have fun and do a lot of stuff. And someone said, what are you doing with the buttons? Every day is what they're asking. Are you putting them in a jar? Are you wearing them? And she said, she said, Hey, so it actually only has to make sense for me to do it. And I don't feel like explaining it to anyone else. Hang on. It keeps, it's just like a long thread. So then she goes, LMAO, people are just asking you what you plan on doing, like literally and physically with the buttons and prob just trying to get ideas to help themselves. And she said, I don't know. And I don't have to know. Okay. I just want to carry on a button every day. And then someone said, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen. And then she said, someone said, she basically said, girl, IDK, don't ask me. And Tamra responds, yup. And then someone said, so you just have a button in your pocket and you walk around every day with it. And she said, no more contacting, please. Thanks. Appreciate. Appreciate. And then she said, babe, you literally commented the idea. You can explain it. And she said, no heart, hang on. We're going to keep going. And then she said, okay. And also I barely even know what the plan is. I went to Michael's just now and I didn't have enough money to buy the buttons and I'll find another place to get buttons. Also, I'm sorry if my tone was rude. I know it's hard to have a tone over text. I tried to keep it nice and respectful, try to keep it nice and respectful. Nope. Do not contact me. Okay. Someone said, please just explain. She goes, they remind me how quick time passes and to have fun and do more. And she said, girl, I'm sorry, but this whole comment section keep us out. Updated on the buttons. And she goes, okay, LOL. That's kind of it. I just think that I hope she does. Do you have her? No, it kept going. Holy shit. Do you mean just having a jar so you can see the time in the form of button? Can you, can you tell how much time you have this year? And she said, yes, I think, I think that's all we needed. Yeah. No. Someone said, wait, how can I do this if I don't like buttons? That's good. All right. That's it. People not a bad idea. It didn't need. To go on the go to that, but it's not a bad idea. Hey, not to bring it back to my hope and Nietzsche, but Hey, so it actually only has to make sense for me to do it. Yeah. I don't feel like explaining it to anyone else. It's like my day tracker in the back of my hope and Nietzsche. Yeah, it totally is. Except it's a jar of buttons, sharp buttons, buttons. Sorry. You know that sometimes I know it's actually totally good. Um, so we haven't talked to each other. That was, those are ins and outs. You had manifestations. You need to do manifestations. Oh yeah. Do you have predictions? I want to put them in our, I don't have any bad at that. Then let's do it in. Let's do it in the bonus so that we can, we have time. Well, can I just manifest them out loud in the main and then I can put them in the 100%. Okay. I only have two. I only have two. My first manifestation is that I want Allie Hazelwood, who is my favorite romance author to do. An MLM romance. So gay. What's that? Oh, so I'm wanting that from her. And I think that was multi-level marketing at the time type situation. I was like, you wanted to start an MLM man. Love is it man? Love loves man or man loving man. I think it's man loving man. Yeah. Men loving men, loving men. Yeah. So I'm manifesting an alley. Hazelwood MLM. No, I bet that's in the works. Based on how the fingers crossed based on how the noodles crumbling. That would, that would be everything to a girl. Like that would be seriously that would eat. And then my second manifestation is just Joe Curie. Okay. And that's it. That's those are great. Thank you. I just, every time I see him, I'm like, that is someone who I just feel like we could be friends with. He just seems so normal. Let's have him on. He, I don't think he would want to do that right now, but manifesting a friendship. I also have a project that I have him in mind for, and just looking to connect with Joe Curie on a personal professional level. And that's my, those are my two manifestations, Ali Hazelwood, MLM romance novel, and Joe Curie. I don't ask for much. I'm a simple girl. That's it for 2026. You're not simple. You have layers like an onion. I just meant my wishes for 2026 are simple. That's everything a girl like me could want. Come on, girl. Shake it for a real one. Anything that you're thinking? Yeah. I went to the movies the other day. Yeah. Me too. It had been on my list because I went to Michigan and Idaho. There's not a ton of screenings of really anything in those places. But I went to see Marty Supreme and it was a special screening. It wasn't like an influencer thing. I just heard about it through the grapevine. It was 70 millimeter films. It was shown in that format and it was very cool. It was like a time piece. I couldn't tell it kind of towards the end. I was like, this is hurting my eyes, but it was very cool to see it in that way. I hadn't seen yet the way that I could have taken his annex before that flick. Have you seen it? No, I don't even know what it's about. Is he? Okay. And guess what? Ping pong, right? There's no way. I'm not telling anyone anything about this movie. There's just no. I want it. I want to talk to you about it at some point because I think that you'll really, really, really like it. Really? Yeah. For me, instant classic. Okay. I'm looking forward to seeing it. And I'm not being hype beast, Marty Supreme guy. I'm just like, I was, I didn't know what to expect. Went. I bit off every piece of my finger, cuticle and nail. Izzy, did you see it? Yeah, I saw it. Did you like? What'd you think? I liked it a lot. Those type of movies without saying anything. Like, what could, what are you, what could you guys be speaking? No, Brooke, there's the way that there's no way that you could expect, not even, not even like what happens, but like any in, it did not let up for, there was no time to pee. So I want to say, I have no idea what to expect. I want to say Gwyneth Paltrow is like, she is exactly who she thinks she is. So excited to see it. Truly. Now it's exactly who she thinks she is. I love. Guess what? So is Timothee Chalamet. Yeah. Like, wow. I love things. And, and guess what? I really didn't. I did not want to say this about Kevin. O'Leary never did. I think this was going to leave my mouth. Good guy. I didn't say that. Nope. Let me know what you're thinking. Definitely did not say Mr. Wonderful, but I, I was, I actually, I was nicely surprised. Is he, were you? Yeah, I was. Who is he? I didn't realize it was him for a second. He's on Shark Tank. Oh, I know who he is. Yeah. I kind of like it when you call me wonderful. He is in Marty Supreme. Yeah. And he has a big role. Oh, wow. I mean, I was wowed. My hat came off. Is he an actor? No. Okay. I'm, I have no idea what this, what direction this movie could go in. And I like shit like that. So yeah, I would encourage everyone to go see it if you're able to, when you're able to. I was shocked at like, I didn't see as much as I'm on my phone, especially during like Christmas and New Year's and everything. Like I didn't see any spoilers at all. I didn't see any spoilers at all, but I was like, oh, I didn't see any spoilers at all. I didn't see any spoilers at all. There's one part that really, really bugs me. And I want to talk to you about it when you get there and see if you have the same thought. Maybe I'll go this weekend. Can you close your ears for a second? Sure. Just close, like, put like physically. The dog, you guys, what the hell? It's still bugging me. Like, I need more answers about the dog. I wish it was okay. Okay. You're good. Good. Yeah. Okay. I saw a few movies. Unless you have anything else. No, I have one more thing, but it's not about that. I'll go after you. We'll go. We'll go tit for tat. Okay. I saw The Housemaid. Yeah. Which I genuinely thought was so good. Wow. It was good for what it was. It was exactly what it was supposed to be. Well, it's a rendition of a book, right? Yeah. It was a great, very faithful adaptation. Very entertaining. That's awesome. That's great to hear from you. I mean, you can't possibly not be entertained, which is why you see movies like that. Yeah. I'm not going for like an Oscar winning performance or film. I'm going to be entertained. And hell, I was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So I saw that. I would see that. I would recommend it. Honestly. I saw People We Meet on Vacation last night. Yeah. I want to hear about this because you saying rom-coms. Rom-coms are so back. I'll be the judge of that. I don't. You and me have to have to have to coincide together on this rom-coms are so back thing. I do think this is more of a female gaze rom-com. Who's in it? Tom Blythe and Emily Bader. The way those are made up names. You know Tom Blythe. So Emily Henry is like probably the most. Did you say Remy Bader's in it? Like what? Remy Bader's in it? No. Emily Bader. She's not like she. I don't know. I don't think she's been in much. She was in like, is it My Lady Jane? Is what she's known for. But I haven't seen her in anything else. I don't know who Tom Blythe is. What is he in? He was in The Hunger Games. The new one? Sunrise on the Reaping. Nope. That's the new one. Songbirds and Snakes. He was President Snow. I didn't see either. You didn't see? Well, he was President Snow. Before he was President. I've never seen any of them. I've never seen any of his situation right here. I'm going to be honest. Like the guy, a pretty severe amount. That's shocking. Yeah. You might not have expected it. Pretty intense feelings. I do think Emily Henry is like one of the most famous romance writers of this generation. She is a fan favorite. And this was her first book to movie adaptation. So people are really, really excited about it. Oh, great. It was great. I do think it's more for the girls who love the rom-com novels. It's not like a 50 First Dates type of rom-com. Thank you for clearing that up. I don't know how you will feel about it. I really loved it. I thought it maintained the essence of the book while also being very different. Because I just finished the book the other day. So I was very much like comparing and contrasting the two nonstop. It was pretty damn different. While being very different. You went to Juilliard. Wow. He's awesome. Good for him. So was she. Oh, exciting. Great. And Lucas Gage is in it. Oh, cool. And a lot of people you will recognize. Molly Shannon is in it. I love Molly Shannon. I loved that shit. Jameela Jamil? Yep. Oh, Sarah Catherine Hook, our girl. Sarah Catherine is in it. Wait, did you see the real thing? There's a rumor that she and Milo maybe got cast as entangled. I did see that. Do you feel comfortable checking in with Milo about that to confirm? You know that I can't do that. Why? He probably signed an NDA. Oh. So I saw, is this thing on? And then, which, did I talk about that? Hi, Will Arnett, best friend. What? We didn't speak of that. Yeah, I got to sit down with Will Arnett. I know the entire. The entire family lineage now. That's crazy, Connor. It was pretty cool. It happened very quickly, but it was fun. The movie, I really need you to see. Like in a good way? Yeah, it's a think piece to me. The way, you know how we like, we really like This Is 40? Yeah. And it's light and it's airy and it's funny. This is kind of like, this is also funny, but it's more of like a realistic. Yeah. Like realism piece of This Is 40. Like there's a lot of like, it's a coming of age. Movie for people that are like middle age. Like, you know what I mean? You know, that's how I've been describing Phoebe. Yes. Coming of age for people who are supposed to already be of age. Love. That's my favorite genre. Yeah. So you have me. It's sold. It's kind of like that. And then he basically has fallen into he being Will Arnett. He's getting divorced from Laura Dern in the movie. Love her. Great cast. And he basically falls into standup comedy. And it's like a shameful day. It's like a funny thing. How it like comes out as like, wait, you've been doing standup. Like some people are like Bradley Cooper directed it. He's in it. He's funny in it. And his dad's like, oh my God, I had no idea. Like you're, he knew he was getting divorced. He knew that like the kids were living with like the Laura, but then his dad finds out he's doing standup and he like goes white in the face. He's like, I didn't know your life had come to like this. Like it's worse than the door. Stand up. Like how, what is going on? What is going on in your life that you've actually fallen into standup? Yeah. So we talked about that. I would love if everyone went and saw it. I think it's out in theaters. Um, it's a thinker. People have a lot of movies to see. It's great. It's great. And it's good movies too. Now, one that can probably go to hell is, uh, Chris Pratt's new movie. That's all AI. That's in theaters. I won't even name it. Um, it's fully, I think it's going to theaters. Very bizarre. Good luck to you. I'm sure that'll be easily digested by most of. the people that watch that stuff um good luck speaking of media to consume here's the thing about heated rivalry yeah i'm not even gonna talk about it because i'm gonna talk about it somewhere else wink wink um just what is just what does that mean just wink wink you're talking about it somewhere else wink wink no there's nothing behind you what it's just so don't even worry about it like you will hear what i have to say about it um oh my god are you i'm just wink wink connor leave it at that and i just i just want to let everyone know that i am in collective psychosis with you there's been a lot of language i've been seeing about um being in a sleeper cell um um that like the one direction girls have been in a sleeper cell for years and we finally were we just woke up and i feel that so intensely and i just want everyone to know i'm so here with you and i will be speaking about it in greater detail later thank you wow fabulous fabulosity that's so exciting yeah it's in a it it's changed my life it's changed the world as we know it i'm not being dramatic it's in my dna my dna has been shifted and altered to a commonplace to accommodate um ilia and shane and pretty severe hold the hold space yeah wow that's awesome i'm so so happy for you girls thank you i love being obsessed with something and and this is like pretty pretty severe awesome thank you seeing all the all of the items you were able to collect in such a short amount of time thank you and i'm also upset obsessed with um aha who gives a fuck you know what i mean yeah um so i gotta go piss girl i have to go piss you girl well ladies don't piss brooke what do we do tinkle no i don't know what do ladies do i guess yeah you tinkle yeah men piss yeah i have to go twinkle and i'll talk to you in the bonus i want to add my manifestations in the box and and we need to get rid of the old ones start now well i need to see if any of mine came true maybe i need to i mean we need to get rid of the old ones start now we look we look at them all the time they all came true i don't think mine did okay we'll go look at it we'll do look at those in the bonus all right um i am gonna go see about a guy and you are gonna go see about a twinkle okay see ya thank you guys for listening happy new year new year and we'll see you in the bonus if you've ever been thinking about it 2026 is a great time to join the bonus tmgstudios.tv forward slash brooke and connor bnc something like that you'll find it thanks coca-cola for the big for the small the short and the tall peacemakers risk takers for the optimists pessimists for long distance love for introverts and extroverts the thinkers and the doers for old friends and new coca-cola for everyone pick up some coca-cola at a store near you i hate mondays king's hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite taylor hansen sure i'll try one hey let's get back to work please but taylor hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly king's hawaiian cinnamon bites taylor hansen nice try one king's hawaiian cinnamon bites there's nothing like it