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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season whatever, episode whatever

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Speaker 1: of Daily That guys, a production of iHeartRadio. It's the

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Speaker 1: podcast where we take a deep avenue America, Share Countiness.

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Speaker 1: And it's Friday, December twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. That's

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Speaker 1: why it's whatever, because these are like the Evergreen episodes,

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Speaker 1: but holiday EPs. My name is Jack O'Brien and I'm

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by some of the finest to

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Speaker 1: ever do it.

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Speaker 2: Superproducer on A Hoseba, superproducer Beca Rumollo, and superproducer Victor Ry.

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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 1: Wow, thanks, thanks for the energy everyone, No, I'm just joking. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you guys here. Twenty twenty three is

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Speaker 1: almost out the door. We thought we would do a

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Speaker 1: New Year's themed episode. Last year we looked into the

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Speaker 1: origins of some holiday Chrismass traditions, and this year we're

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Speaker 1: gonna look at some origins of some New Year's traditions,

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Speaker 1: some myths about New Year's and of course we're gonna

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Speaker 1: look for some traditions we should steal from other countries.

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Speaker 1: That's some fun, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're promoting appropriation, gone.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I am always that's kind of my thing America

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Speaker 1: is I don't know. I feel like our traditions are

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Speaker 1: we emerge from our apocalypse bunkers on New Year's Day,

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Speaker 1: watch football, you know, talk about our messianic leaders. Particular

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Speaker 1: excuse for this one again not being the year the

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Speaker 1: world ended, but in other countries, this is one I like.

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Speaker 1: So this is from a Reddit thread, whereas like New

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Speaker 1: Year's traditions from other countries, and I don't know what

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Speaker 1: country this is from, and maybe it's from the United States,

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Speaker 1: also just a specific region. But they say we clean

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Speaker 1: every inch of the house between Christmas and New Year's

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Speaker 1: start off with clean house, love it. And then they

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Speaker 1: also say to get a clean start out with the

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Speaker 1: old and with the new, you throw your Christmas tree

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Speaker 1: in a giant bombfire. Huh, I'm on board. What's everybody think?

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Speaker 5: I mean, clean house is always a nice, nice touch.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, bonfire as a pyro love that, but as like

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Speaker 6: an environmentalist might be dangerous.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, make sure your tree isn't covered in

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Speaker 4: like chemicals and stuff to keep me fresh. Maybe don't

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Speaker 4: like burn.

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Speaker 1: In the Christmas tree life.

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Speaker 4: It's beyond that because they spray chemicals onto trees to

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Speaker 4: like keep them fresh and stuff like, you gotta be

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Speaker 4: aware of Jack and that's why you're going to hell.

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Speaker 1: Specific Wor already this recording like forty five minutes said

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Speaker 1: to the conversation, that was the fifth time that I

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Speaker 1: come back to that, and I'm going to hell. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know Victor, all right, I guess we should just,

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Speaker 1: you know, talk about the elephant in the room. When

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Speaker 1: we first started talking about this episode. Uh, Victor made

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Speaker 1: up a lie. I don't know where. He said, Well,

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Speaker 1: and of course we do the tradition of the twelve grapes,

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Speaker 1: and we all pointed out that that there's no such

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Speaker 1: thing as that, and he had just made that up.

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Speaker 1: This motherfucking hacker went back and added references to the

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Speaker 1: twelve grapes to Reddit posts, so it seems like he

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Speaker 1: wasn't lying about that. No, I guess wait, I guess.

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Speaker 3: This is a I don't cute back. I'm not crazy.

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Speaker 5: I guess I missed that.

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Speaker 6: I hopped on after Victor had said it, and I

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Speaker 6: just said it because it's true.

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Speaker 5: It's a Latino tradition.

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Speaker 1: There we go.

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Speaker 3: To get spoiled by my whiteness because I said it.

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Speaker 3: I said it in the meeting, and everyone in that

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Speaker 3: meeting is like, I've never heard of this any Why

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Speaker 3: would you do that?

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Speaker 6: You guys don't have enough brown friends, and that is

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Speaker 6: showing your lack of diversity and inclusion.

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Speaker 1: So what I do is I don't have brown friends.

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Speaker 1: But then I go on Reddit and I read about

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Speaker 1: the traditions, and then I steal them. I believe that's

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Speaker 1: called I forget what the name for that is. No,

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Speaker 1: but this sounds this sounds like a nice, little, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, holistic, healthy tradition where instead of drinking the

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Speaker 1: wine or the champagne, you get the grapes before they

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Speaker 1: Am I getting that? Right?

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Speaker 3: For each each ding dong of the New year twelve,

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Speaker 3: you eat one grape. So that way I took you.

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Speaker 1: Each ding dong of the New year twelve you eat

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. So that way, by the time you gets

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Speaker 3: the last one, you're on your last grape and then

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Speaker 3: you have a full year of you know, health and

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Speaker 1: You've got a handful of grape stem z. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Got well, you're supposed to at least in the tradition.

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Speaker 6: I knew it as and I'm sorry as I keep

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Speaker 6: now and eat the leaves. You're supposed to eat them

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Speaker 6: all under the table before the stroke of midnight, at

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Speaker 6: least in my house. And if you eat them all

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Speaker 6: over under the table before the stroke of midnight, which

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Speaker 6: it's actually kind of hard to eat twelve grapes that fast,

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Speaker 6: you are supposed to get I think prosperity for the year,

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Speaker 6: or like I think good relationships and love like you're

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Speaker 6: like you're supposed to like wish upon like whatever relationship

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Speaker 6: goals you have, like you should win in prosperity if

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Speaker 3: There's also another aspect that I never heard about until

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Speaker 3: to also be wearing red underwear that was a gift

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Speaker 3: to you while eating the grapes. I don't know where

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Speaker 3: that came from, but it is. I found it in

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Speaker 3: multiple of the sources that I was researching.

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Speaker 1: Something borrowed, something new, something something something blue. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a wedding traditionally, I think.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's typically weddings.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so I saw as I was doing research, I

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Speaker 1: saw a lot of different countries with different colored underpants, yellow, pink, red,

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Speaker 1: So shout out to various colors of underpants. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I have any of those colors of underpants. Yellow.

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Speaker 3: I definitely have yellow. Actually, so, but did they start

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Speaker 1: They did.

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Speaker 6: I wasn't gonna make that joke, but but yeah, so cleaning.

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Speaker 1: The other one that I saw, there's diving into a

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Speaker 1: footing was a new one that I wasn't familiar with.

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Speaker 1: According to this Reddit post, it's an old fashioned way

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Speaker 1: of bringing good luck for the new year. The first

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Speaker 1: person to enter a house that year should be a tall,

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Speaker 5: Someone's like, what pad you know? And that's not like

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Speaker 1: Right yeah? All yeah, with like just like a rock

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Speaker 1: my husband. Yeah, I don't know, that's fun. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was kind of my favorite. Old old tradition is

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Speaker 5: Spacere who I was looking for.

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Speaker 1: You can come through the fucking window, pal, but you're

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Speaker 1: not neither tall enough nor dark haired enough. On any

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Speaker 1: traditions sounding good to you.

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Speaker 4: I like grapes. I'll eat a grape crap underwear. Sure,

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Speaker 4: I'm not very good at planning which underwear to wears.

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Speaker 4: That would be tough for me. Yeah, the whole. Like, honestly,

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Speaker 4: I'll do any tradition where.

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Speaker 1: You eat, yeah, but don't come to my house.

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Speaker 4: You come to my house, but I won't be there.

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Speaker 1: There are also some like that are basically trigger treating,

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Speaker 1: and that that is one with like scarling, yeah, kind

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Speaker 1: of caroling. But it just made me realize, like, first

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Speaker 1: as everyone's super lonely, and trigger treating's kind of wasted

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Speaker 1: got to got to know your neighbors. I feel like

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Speaker 1: the only only way they getting at my fucking house.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much.

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Speaker 3: If everyone's going to each other's houses, who is going

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Speaker 5: Good question, that's just.

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Speaker 3: A bunch of empty houses.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, question the question on every Halloween, you know,

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Speaker 1: switch at some point. By the way, it's the Netherlands

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Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and

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Speaker 1: then we're going to come back and look at some

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back and parties, New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve parties. Have you guys heard about these? Have

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Speaker 1: you seen these things? New Year's Eve parties. So people

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Speaker 1: been partying on New Year's since around two thousand BC,

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Speaker 1: not not always on December thirty first. Caesar made that

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Speaker 1: It was an eleven day festival that included rituals celebrating

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Speaker 1: goddess Tiamat, and the crowning of the next king. Is

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Speaker 1: there a world where this sort of like roving multi

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Speaker 5: For New Year specifically, or like any why not.

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Speaker 1: Go with New Year's?

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Speaker 6: I will say in Puerto Rico, Christmas is like a

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Speaker 6: Christmas is from I think the week before Christmas to

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Speaker 6: like January eighth or thirteen. It's whenever three Kings Day

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Speaker 6: is sorry bad Catholic over here. I don't remember when

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Speaker 6: three Dings days, but that is how long Christmas is

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Speaker 6: celebrated in Puerto Rico, and it's usually a three week party.

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Speaker 1: Amaze, go go go, like yes this shit. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever talked to a European person about vacations and they're like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: you don't take like four weeks holiday? What is wrong

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Speaker 1: with you? Yeah, it's I feel like That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: learning about our New Year celebration.

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Speaker 5: Is like, actually, can we just take more vacations?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we just like have fucking four week parties. Like,

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Speaker 1: what what are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: I feel like if we tried introducing a four week

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Speaker 3: party to America specifically turned into like the Fire Festival

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Speaker 3: or something.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: So nine month cruise but.

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Speaker 6: They talked about is alcoholism and gambling addict and someone's

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Speaker 1: bring back. Champagne was only invented due to a colossal

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Speaker 3: And so they immediately marketed it to rich people like

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Speaker 1: This is a fuck up drink. You know who'd love this?

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Speaker 4: A society became more like sort of alcoholics.

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Speaker 4: With the realization that sorry, my voice is going away. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: We all it was like a downhill from there, Isn't

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Speaker 1: It was like so new, Oh my god, this is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that fun?

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Speaker 4: Happy holidays?

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Speaker 1: Are you guys? Champagne fans?

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Speaker 4: You mean champagne freaks champagne.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say freaks, but I didn't want to

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Speaker 4: I could be like, if I'm on a private plane, Wow,

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Speaker 1: You changed special.

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Speaker 4: It's a special occasion sort of drink. I think I

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Speaker 1: I think I've made it clear, like it's not a

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Speaker 1: surprised to me that it's accidental as your body like

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Speaker 6: I really will only drink champagne and I'm Mimosa vibe,

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Speaker 6: My friend bought me this really nice, expensive bottle of

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Speaker 5: Why why would you do this?

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with this.

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Speaker 5: I saw, haven't opened it.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, I don't drink enough alcohol and or

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Speaker 1: like gunpowder and just the most fun. Highly recommend that

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Speaker 6: If you live in the Ramos household, you'll hear a

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Speaker 1: Wow in our house. Yeah, like city wide bell ringing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just not possible because nobody wants to hang

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Speaker 3: People got down by ringing bells in churches, a quasi

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Speaker 5: Like, already down you, we cannot bring them down further.

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Speaker 1: They thought it would invoke homesickness in their troops. They're like, look, guys,

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Speaker 3: But let's stick with it as our New Year's Eve theme.

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Speaker 3: Why why did they have to ban it? Was everyone

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Speaker 5: I want to know what a band like that looks like.

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Speaker 1: They can't someone singing it out behind the outhouse and

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Speaker 5: Being hung because we cannot sing that.

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Speaker 1: I got It became inextricably linked to New Year's Eve

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Speaker 1: who can forget Guy Lombardo, who played it every year

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Speaker 3: Anyways, I like how you could also, I feel like

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Speaker 3: be a disaster. But this one, I think everyone can

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Speaker 3: sing it in a group, which I appreciate quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: Let's all try right now. I just I don't know

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Speaker 1: the words, like that's the thing. But I always my

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Speaker 1: brain always wants to turn it into keep your eye

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Speaker 1: on the Grand old Flag, like it has a son,

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Speaker 1: you know that song and keep your eye on the

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Speaker 1: Grand all Flag. Let's take a quick break, we'll come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the ball drop we'll talk about New

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Speaker 1: Year's myths, all of it more, and we're back in

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Speaker 1: the ball drop. We love it, don't we, folks. It

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Speaker 1: is not intended as a visual metaphor for puberty. It

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Speaker 1: was actually invented because fireworks were abanned nineteen oh seven

452
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Speaker 1: after the previous year's fireworks just rained hot ash onto

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Speaker 1: New York City streets and everyone was freaked out, and in.

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Speaker 6: This research wasn't Is that a common notion that people

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Speaker 6: think the ball drop is supposed to be in relation

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Speaker 6: to male puberty.

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Speaker 1: I think that was just a little I think that

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Speaker 1: was our writer j McNabb a little bit fine, But

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's a joke. Everybody has made it

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Speaker 1: at some point.

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Speaker 6: Oh I must be in the wrong sort the passage

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Speaker 6: of time, you know, with only women.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very abstract, like it is a weird thing

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Speaker 1: that like we we all just kind of accept because

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Speaker 1: it's been the thing since we were kids. But to

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Speaker 1: have a ball drop it feels like something out of

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Speaker 1: a modern art exhibit. But yeah, it was just because

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Speaker 1: fireworks burned to people.

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Speaker 3: That is the worst compromise ever, Like you can't shoot

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Speaker 3: off the cool fireworks, but you could just drop this

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Speaker 3: ball on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 1: And when I heard about it, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: going to be like really kinetic, like the ball was

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Speaker 1: going to like fall really fast and fall a great distance.

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Speaker 1: And then when I saw it, it's just like kind

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Speaker 1: of like goes down slowly and then nothing happens. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like we could feel like we

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Speaker 1: could beat it.

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Speaker 3: Folks in the research, was there a reason why the

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Speaker 3: ball specifically, you say that it was like the that's

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Speaker 3: the only thing that they could think of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but nineteen oh seven, man people were dropping balls

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Speaker 1: all over the place. I mean they were about to

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Speaker 1: drop the ultimate ball. By having World War One, that's

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Speaker 1: major fuck up. So I don't know, it just unsuccessful,

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Speaker 1: I would say. But it's stuck around because there's nothing else.

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Speaker 1: There are other things though, right, Like what don't other

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Speaker 1: cities have other things. I feel like I'm always just

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Speaker 1: like a little underwhelmed by what happens at various New

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Speaker 1: Year's celebrations. They are like the ball rise this one

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Speaker 1: the ball goes upwards, which makes about the same amount

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Speaker 1: of sense, and then New Year's resolutions can mainly be

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Speaker 1: traced back to early Christians who saw New Year's Days,

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Speaker 1: the traditional time for thinking about one's past mistakes and

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Speaker 1: resolving to do and be better in the future. Fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and also I guess ancient Babylonians were in there, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: now it's just a way for corporations to try and

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Speaker 1: associate themselves with like aspirational shit like Coke Producings. Coke

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Speaker 1: produced resolution themed cans in twenty twenty one that look

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Speaker 1: like shit and say I promised too blank just for you.

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Speaker 5: Hmmm.

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Speaker 3: This one's do better in the picture, which just is

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Speaker 3: so vague and confusing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like a bad boyfriend being like, I'm sorry, bib,

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Speaker 1: I promise to like do better for you.

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Speaker 3: I learned resolutions were bullshit when I was a freshman

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Speaker 3: in college and my friend tried quitting cigarettes for his

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Speaker 3: New Year's resolution, and then two weeks later I saw

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Speaker 3: him like double fisting not three cigarettes, yeah, and then

510
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Speaker 3: just throwing up in the bushes afterwards, because like his

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Speaker 3: tolerance went down and then he just needed it very

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Speaker 3: quickly after. So that's when I learned that resolutions became

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Speaker 3: kind of bullshit. You know, got to do it.

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Speaker 6: I like the idea, like I love the the aspiration

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Speaker 6: of a resolution. I every year do write down a

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Speaker 6: bunch of resolutions, but and I like to look back

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Speaker 6: on them, like in December, Like I wrote them in January,

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Speaker 6: and I would look back at them on this month

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Speaker 6: and be like, oh, what did I actually accomplish? What

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Speaker 6: did not actually accomplish? But I don't try to like

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Speaker 6: hold myself and ran I'm so sorry for my audio

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Speaker 6: right now.

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Speaker 1: I don't try to hold.

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Speaker 6: Myself to them so deeply, like I'm not gonna make

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Speaker 6: myself feel bad if I didn't read the amount of

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Speaker 6: books I said I was going to read, or like

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Speaker 6: do whatever. It's more of a chance to recognize maybe

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Speaker 6: how I've changed as a person, or like, you know, oh,

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Speaker 6: these goals were my goals at the beginning of the year,

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Speaker 6: but what about me has changed at the end of

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Speaker 6: the year that like, maybe those aren't my goals anymore.

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Speaker 5: And it's kind of cool to see if things did

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Speaker 5: go the way I thought they would or or not.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I like a good time of reflection.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I admire people who are able to make

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Speaker 1: near's resolutions and stick to like So there's the statistic

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Speaker 1: that eighty percent of people give up on their resolutions

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Speaker 1: by mid February. That's like so much longer than I

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Speaker 1: would have expected, and that I would be making it,

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Speaker 1: like for something that I just like made up as

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Speaker 1: a goal for myself because everyone else is making up

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Speaker 1: goals of that time of year. It's my hat's off,

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Speaker 1: my little New Year's hat off to you for making

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Speaker 1: it a month and a half with a New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 1: That's that's so much further than I would have expected.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to hear my resolution?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's to say less, say less.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm done talking to you fools my job.

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Speaker 3: What I know.

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Speaker 4: My resolution is to say less on podcasts.

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Speaker 5: I wish that was Cheecha's resolution right now.

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Speaker 1: I think she's making great points. So yeah, some experts

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Speaker 1: think resolutions are bad for people because they aren't sustainable

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Speaker 1: or realistic, creating a cycle where you become more critical

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Speaker 1: of yourself. But I don't know, don't make me, don't

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Speaker 1: yuck my yum on New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that's because people the resolutions themselves don't

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Speaker 3: make like are impossible. Like instead of oh, I want

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Speaker 3: to read twenty minutes a day, people will go like,

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Speaker 3: I want to read fifty books this year or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, so instead of like doing oh I need

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Speaker 3: here's the end result, just do like a little bit

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Speaker 3: every day and then that will be easier to resolve.

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Speaker 5: You know, you got to make smart goals, you know, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, so why you should download my app Smart Goals.

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Speaker 1: So here are a couple myths. First of all, not

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Speaker 1: true that nears is the most dangerous day to drive.

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Speaker 1: Probably not the safest either, but despite all the drunkenness,

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day is actually worse for car accidents, followed by

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Speaker 1: Labor Day, Independence Day, Columbus Day, Father's Day, and singaday

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Speaker 1: mayo Jesus, that's dark, Come on, dad, Jesus Christ. But

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Speaker 1: so the reason for this, they think, is because public

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Speaker 1: transit is often made free on New Year's Eve, and

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Speaker 1: so it reduces the number of cars on the road.

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Speaker 1: And also it's just like more transparently time for people

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Speaker 1: to go out and drink. And so you're not like

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Speaker 1: with Memorial Day or Labor Day. I can see like

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Speaker 1: there's some like, oh, we were going to a picnic

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Speaker 1: or something with the whole family, but then people are

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Speaker 1: still drinking. Where it's like New Year's It's like no

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Speaker 1: you're planning the whole day A lot of the times

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Speaker 1: around the idea that you're not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to drive home sober, or like me, you'll be home

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Speaker 1: the whole time playing with your confetti cannons, the joys

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Speaker 1: of sobriety.

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Speaker 4: I really hope you're picking up all that confetti after

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Speaker 4: you shoot it.

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Speaker 1: Nah, it's still there from last year. Well, it's just

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Speaker 1: on the ground, it is. So New Year's is the

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Speaker 1: worst day for car thefts, huh, or the best day

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Speaker 1: for car thieves, because I don't know, I'm assuming so

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Speaker 1: like a lot of the articles assume that it's because

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Speaker 1: car thieves are drunk and like making bad decisions. But

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Speaker 1: I would assume it's because the people who are getting

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Speaker 1: their cars stolen are drunk and making bad decisions, right,

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Speaker 1: like and just like leaving.

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Speaker 3: Their car on just leaving their keys or like that, yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, or like you went away for the holiday, so

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Speaker 6: you've left your car, yeah, and it's you know, people

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Speaker 6: kind of know you're not around. And so because I'm

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Speaker 6: sure that happens a lot in Brooklyn, Like I live

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Speaker 6: on a street that has like alternate side of parking

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Speaker 6: or whatever, so people obviously leave their cars for like

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Speaker 6: multiple days, and I'm sure if they're like out of town,

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Speaker 6: they're leaving their cars. So yeah, Like if you just

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Speaker 6: kind of are watching and you know what cars are

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Speaker 6: around and how many days they've been, you could.

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Speaker 1: Be like, yeah, oop, the sound of a car being

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Speaker 1: sound of theft, sound of theft real quick.

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Speaker 3: I am looking at the Snopes article and it is

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Speaker 3: confirming what we just talked about. Of there was no

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Speaker 3: specific reason they gave as to why there are, but

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Speaker 3: an ICP's Frank Scaffiti.

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Speaker 1: It's stating, you, mother fucker people.

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Speaker 3: Get drunk on New Year's and that makes many otherwise

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Speaker 3: ordinary responsible adults act like mindless morons and do things

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Speaker 3: they might not do when they're sober.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, that so me to like rob a car

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Speaker 4: when I'm drunk, me hyperb the car.

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Speaker 3: I'm such a leo.

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Speaker 1: Or it could be because weirdly Christmas is like the

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Speaker 1: lowest time for car theft, like a week before. It

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Speaker 1: could be that people like resolved to not steal a

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Speaker 1: car on Christmas. It's like your friend with the cigarettes.

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Speaker 1: They're like, ah, yeah, now I'm just gonna steal all

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Speaker 1: the fucking cars. Been without car theft for too long,

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Speaker 1: double fisting cigarettes, double fisting car theft. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, watch out for car thieves or keep your

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Speaker 1: eye out for good cars to steal this New Year's

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Speaker 1: would be my advice for everyone. Thank you guys so

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Speaker 1: much for joining for this special year end episode. This

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Speaker 1: is not the last Evergreen Holiday episode that you're listening to,

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Speaker 1: it is the last one we're recording. So it's been

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Speaker 1: a pleasure recording with you guys. And yeah, we are

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Speaker 1: back in the new year, back with more holiday episodes

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Speaker 1: in the coming days. Hope everyone's having a great holiday

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Speaker 1: and we will talk to y'all soon.

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Speaker 3: Bye bye, bye bye