WEBVTT - Morgan & Mike D’s 2025 Top Lists & New Year Resolutions 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.920 The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part one. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.920 I hang a thing with a member of the show. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.840 What's Up Everybody? In Happy twenty twenty six? Mike, do 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:12.520 what's up? 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:13.520 New Year? 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.960 It feels crazy because we are currently recording this in 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:16.720 twenty twenty. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:17.640 Five feels like the old year. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.319 It is the old year for us, but in this 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.959 moment you're hearing this, it is a happy twenty twenty six. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.680 What did you do for New Year's What were your 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:24.799 plans that you would plan to do? 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:25.239 At least? 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.200 I love New Year's Day. Like New Year's Eve is 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.160 kind of like I don't really do anything. I don't drink, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.400 so it's not really a holiday to me anymore. Used 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:33.720 to be, I used to party all that was like 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.960 my favorite day of the year. Really yeah, But now 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.440 New Year's Day is my favorite because you can do 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.239 nothing and there's no expectations. I think it's the best holiday. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.839 It really is that in between right after Christmas and 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.479 those five days until New Year's in New Year's Day, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.840 there is nothing happening. Yeah, Like there's not a single 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.360 brain cell that's a movie in my head. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:53.400 During those five days. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.360 It's that time where you forget what day of the week. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.160 It is, you're like, what am I eating? Who cares? 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.960 And you're kind of like in that that blindness. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.520 Yep, I love in my sweat uniform. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.760 Yeah, you see me the same outfit probably about three 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.840 or four times during that whole thing. Yep, I totally 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.080 get that. But I feel like New Year's is an 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.039 overrated holiday. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.360 I mean, it's fun depending on what you do. Like, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.600 if you love to party, it's a great holiday. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.400 It's true. But like I used to love to party, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.319 and I still do. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.640 Like I love gatherings now versus the party per se. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.399 But I don't know something about the hype around New 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.000 Year's where you have to get all dressed up, it's 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.039 freezing cold outside, you pay an exorbitant amount of money 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.960 to go somewhere, and uber's cost a crap ton of money, 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.000 so if you are drinking, you better be prepared for that. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.880 It's like the only way that New Year's is good 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.520 to me is if you're going to a house party. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.120 Oh yeah, when I say party, I mean only house party. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.280 I didn't really do going out partying. I'm talking about 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.440 house party, Okay. I have the best memories. Is like 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.720 getting and drinking a lot in the cold, like something 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.560 about like having a cold drink in your hand and 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 it also being cold out. Oh you like it, so 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.160 you're committed to it. That's fun to me. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.160 Okay, But maybe it's because you don't have to wear 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:04.760 like a tiny sparkling dress and fuels. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.760 That's the difference. But that's fair. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.480 I will say we're doing a house where we did 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.000 a house party this year with a bunch of my 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.840 friends from back home, and I was really excited looking for, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.799 like coming to that day versus normally when New Year's 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.560 I'm like, oh, I don't want to do anything. Like 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.680 last year I was at my parents' house, I did nothing. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.600 I ate grapes under the table. Is that last year 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.240 of the year before it all blours together now? 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:27.679 But I don't. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.280 I've stopped doing stuff because it was so overrated for me. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.839 I'm also a sucker for live events, so I love 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.000 watching the New Year's Eve like countdown. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.079 Oh, you watched the ball drop? 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.560 I watched like all three hours leading up to that. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.840 Like for Thanksgiving, we watched the entire Thanksgiving baraid. I 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.280 don't know. There's something about those two holidays that just 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.040 tell me, like I need to watch the live TV 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.760 version of this, So you like. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.000 The live celebration, Yeah, will you watch the one from Nashville. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.520 I'll go back and forth because they'll go to commercial 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.720 at like different times, so I'll go back and forth 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.800 between the main one in the Nashville one. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.880 Well, and isn't there for New Year's? Isn't there four 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:01.880 or five different ones? 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.280 I know there's the two main that I flip back 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.160 and forth, and I don't know if they're doing that 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.959 third one still. I remember like Miley Cyrus and Pete 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.799 Davidson hosted it one year and it went very good. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.280 Yeah, it was like it was all the major I 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.839 guess networks trying to compete with each other. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.079 Everybody kind of had their own. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.040 Yeah, So I don't know if they're all still doing it, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.679 but yeah, Nashville's now want into the mix. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.280 They've been doing that one for quite a while though. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.119 Yeah, that's pretty good. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:24.519 Yeah. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.840 I like the performances. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.440 Yeah, that they record like months ahead. That's the thing 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.560 I always like pick out. I'm like, here's the live ones. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.200 Here's one where it's clearly July. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.800 I know, and I get it because people have plans 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.560 on New Year's. It's not how you get the big names. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.560 But it's funny to me because like the people that go, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.680 I feel like they get jipped a little bit because 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.080 you think everybody's going to be there, they're not. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.600 You get like three or four of them. Maybe. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.720 Okay, so New Year's parties, but this year you were 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:49.400 low key. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.280 Low key watching the ball drop. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.680 That's what I like to do. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:53.920 Do you drink on New Year's Now? 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.760 No, I am questioning whether or not I'm going to 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.400 drink on this break, okay, because I probably have had 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.080 a drink since like the first vacation this summer. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.920 Oh okay, so significant break and usually I like plan 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.520 it out like I this year, I did retire the 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.400 day where I would eat everything my purge day. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.680 For the last two years, I haven't done it, one 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.640 because I don't feel like I need it anymore, and 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.400 two because now that I'm married and we go back 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.560 and forth between families, it's hard to plan a day 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.839 for it. It was kind of more of a single 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.240 thing where I was like, I know I'm going to 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.640 be with my family on this day. I can go 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.680 buy all the food and have it for that one day. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.920 But now it's like, we don't always know where we're 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.560 going to go and where we're going to be, and 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.960 I have to be like in the right state of 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.080 mind and have everything perfect in order to make that 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.359 day work. So it's harder to do now in this 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.800 phase of life. And also I just feel like I'm 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.560 kind of past it. It was kind of a thing 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.920 I put on myself early on, but I don't think 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:49.719 I need it anymore. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.960 Well, and I feel like couraged me if I'm wrong. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.320 But now if you wanted to have something, you just 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.920 may have it, yeah, versus it was like you were 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.120 really strict on yourself up until that moment. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.120 Yeah, my wife is been able to convince me that 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.240 I'm not going to revert back just because I have 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.520 a couple of things here and there. But the thing 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.600 I would kind of like place an assign to that 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.000 was like, that's also going to be the day where 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.080 I drink a lot. And now I'm like, I don't 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.440 really factor that in anymore. I'm like, if I want to, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.040 I will, but it's usually only on vacation or Christmas, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.080 and I'm debating on whether or not I even want you. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.039 Okay, Well, then here's this question. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.679 When you have those things, when you've had the food 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.520 and you've had alcohol. Are you like, oh my gosh, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.320 give me more anymore immediately, or are you okay? 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.080 That tasted good and I'm good going back. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.680 I feel like it's not worth it anymore where I 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.920 have it, and I'm like, this isn't as fun as 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.600 I remember. Yeah, even the last time, Like my whole 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.760 favorite thing is to go to baseball games and have 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.960 beers at a baseball game just because that's like that's 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.039 comfort to me. Even the last time I did that, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.440 I was like, this isn't as fun as I remember 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.160 to be, Like I can still have the same enjoyment 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.200 enjoyment from this not drinking. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.560 Yeah, And I feel that same way too, Like the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.359 hangovers just aren't worth it to me anymore. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.800 I think it's just more the idea of drinking that 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.359 I enjoy. Yeah, social accents, Yeah, even just having something 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.560 in your hands sometimes, like the bottle in your hand, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.880 Like I like that feeling and like sipping on something. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.200 But I don't think I necessarily need it to be alcohol, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:14.800 Like I could just have a topo Cheico and have 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.000 the same effect I've learned. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.440 I was gonna say, there's so many cool drinks now 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.080 that are non alcoholic. I feel like you can find 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.239 something to sip on, to hold it in your hand 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.799 and have that same feeling without the repercussions of drinking. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.960 That's also why I think more sports like venues need 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.080 to have coffee. Yeah, like I would just drink a 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.040 bunch of coffee. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.080 Okay, Mike, let me tell you what happened. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.200 So I went to a Papa bar with my boyfriend 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.279 and he was He got an espresso martini. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:41.920 He loves those. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.080 That's the very people love him. I've never had one. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.480 I feel like you need to try on since you 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:47.160 love coffee. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.080 Is there is there darien or is it just expresso 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:50.599 in alcohol? 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:51.960 It depends where you go. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.200 Some it's just act. They look kind of sweet. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.159 Well, so they have foam, but that's from shaking the espresso. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.640 Ah, I got it. So it real. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.080 Some of them could have dairy and like a creamer 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.760 in them potentially, but I've known plenty that don't and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.560 they don't have a significant foam on them. So they're 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.479 all different and you can make them at home and 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.600 it be the same thing. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:09.520 You just have to shake it. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.520 I've learned as kind of the key ingredient to make 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.000 it look like an espresso martini. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.720 Yeah, but he got that and I got a. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.400 Hot apple cider because I wanted to participate, but I 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.560 wasn't really wanting to drink. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:20.760 I still haven't been. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.120 And I got a message and was like, you're having 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.400 coffee at a bar, grow up? And I was like, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.520 excuse me, First of all, this apple cider. I can 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:30.640 have that at a bar, And sid of. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.760 All, who cares? Like, what are we really shaming drinks? 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:34.960 Now? 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.200 I don't think that's a grow up type of thing. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.280 I think that's just your preference. Yeah, I know more 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.120 places should serve coffee for or even just have more 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.160 options that don't feel like you're just ordering like a 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.520 virgin drink, like non alcoholic options. There's a way to go, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.600 and why not branch out half coffee? 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.760 I see, I don't see a problem with it. I 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.960 was so like offended by that. I was like, grow up, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:57.520 where am I supposed to grow up to? 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.920 Not like you're having like an apple juice or like 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.120 like a kool Aid pack. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.120 And let me tell you the appleside vinegar or not 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.640 vinegar applesider, just appleside hot apple size. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.080 Vinegar that'd be an hardcore drink. That'd be horrible. I can't. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.280 I can really take a sip of apple sider vinegar 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:13.960 and I want to vomit. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.440 You should, just, inspite of that person, have a Caprisa 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:17.840 now next time they. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.120 Do make alcoholic precise. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.680 It sounds delicious. The only thing I've had like that 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.760 that I worried about my health was vodka Red Bulls 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.760 the first time I went to Vegas. That was like 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.000 the end of the night thing. But it tasted amazing, 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.920 but I was not able to fall asleep that night. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.360 Oh yeah, those are those I when I used to 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.320 drink a lot in college. When I wanted to stay 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.319 awake through the night, I was drinking a Red Bull 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:38.439 vodka about midnight. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.960 I think, out of every flavor in the world, the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.960 flavor of Red Bull is my favorite flavor. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:43.880 Yeah. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.160 There's something about all the chemicals or whatever it is 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.440 they get to make a taste like that that is amazing. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.920 Well, and they have a new one. It's an apple 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:58.840 apple vinegar type thing. Apple and huh cider. I can't 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.440 remember ginger ginger. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:01.840 That sounds like a drink. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.760 It was apple and ginger and it was amazing. It 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.040 tastes a very fall cold weather type. So if you 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.000 like the taste, I don't know if you'd like the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.720 taste of a flavored one, but it was bomb. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.760 I think out of everything now, I've just convinced myself 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.800 to go get a red Bull. You can leave here, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.240 no beer, nolco. I just want a red Bull. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.680 So no drinking this holiday. Just some a pack of 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.640 Red Bull. You can be wired on everything for every night. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.319 And your wife is like, what is happening? 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.559 Which does your wife drink a lot? How is that 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.839 like situation for you too? 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.520 She likes wine? Okay, so she'll she's like, I wish 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.000 you drink wine so I could enjoy this with somebody. Yeah, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.520 but she loves wine. And then if we go out, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.960 she'll she likes a spicy margarita. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.480 You know what's funny about that is I have realized 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.680 my boyfriend doesn't like to drink alone and I don't 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.439 like to eat sweets alone. So like, yeah, I could 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.800 see that there's a social aspect of both of those things. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.200 So your wife's saying that complete makes so much sense 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.040 in my head because like if I go, say we 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.200 go get a sweet treets, especially right now, if I 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.320 find a vegan, gluten free sweet treet, I'm all about 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.000 it because I want to try it and I want 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.439 to curb my sweet tooth. And we'll walk into those 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.160 places and he'll look at me and say, I don't know, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:11.640 I'm not feeling it, and he gets like a death 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.600 stare for me. I'm like, you're really not gonna We 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.240 went all this way and you're not gonna get one. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.880 And he's like, I just want a few bites of 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.960 yours and I was like, no, I don't share, but 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.000 I want you to participate. And we laugh about it 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.199 because he does the same thing with drinking, like sometimes 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.120 he won't drink because I'm not, and I'm like. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.040 You're fine, please have as much as you want. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.200 I'll drive. That's the best part of this. And he's like, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.559 but it's not as fun. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.760 To drink by myself. So we've realized our comparisons are that. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.760 I think she has drone to like it, because, like 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.160 you said, I always just drive so she can have 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.920 a drink, and I'm the one who's always going to 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.920 be sobering. I can drive exactly. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.040 But I do see the aspect where we're like, I 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.480 really wish I could cheer someone or like, you know, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:50.240 we're in it together. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.360 We have the little buzz. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.000 It's a partnership thing because I'm the same thing with sweets. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.520 I want to be like, okay, well how was it? 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.120 And more than anything, I really just want to try 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.439 two different things. But I only have to buy one thing. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.080 That's really what I'm working the system. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.600 Yeah, like you get something different, we get to share. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.559 I digress. That's that's hard to bay. That's been happening lately. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.760 New Year's resolutions is what we're gonna get into next. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.679 We're gonna take a quick break and we're gonna see 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.600 how last years went. Ones that we have coming up, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.480 all the good stuff. All right, So first of all, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.040 how did your New year resolution for twenty twenty five go? 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.800 It went okay. But I think that's the thing leading 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.679 me to my new resolution because last year was for 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.040 me to invest more in myself. Yeah, which I thought 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.240 I did an okay job at but I don't think 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.719 I put enough time into it. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.199 Okay, and invest more into yourself, meaning. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.960 Meaning doing things that I normally wouldn't do because I 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.000 think I don't have time to do them. Whether it's 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.280 like okay, here's an opportunity where I can maybe host something, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.400 but I have to like take time out of doing 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.840 something else and just find time for it, because that's 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.520 really hard for me to do. Like even planning a 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.880 month ahead, I'm like, what is we're going to look 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.520 like in that timeframe? Can I commit to this? So 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.400 it's doing things like that of like, okay, I want 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.400 to invest in myself and knowing that that could lead 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.679 me to something else I want to do in my future. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.840 I got to make time for that and invest in myself. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.959 It was also this past year with my teeth getting 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.400 those fixed and going through that entire process figuring out 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.200 what road I wanted to go down, how painful or 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:24.839 not painful I wanted it to be. That was all 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.800 investing in myself to just feel more confident. I think 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.000 that was probably the biggest thing that paid off last 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.000 year of I just felt better overall, and that allowed 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.880 me to just feel like, Okay, like I can do 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.040 these other things and invest in myself because now I 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.680 kind of in a weird way, felt worthy of things now, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.360 just because that's a big part of I think even 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.720 the way I carry myself now is like having no 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:48.640 braces anymore. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.280 It was a confidence factor for sure. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.680 And I didn't realize it, like I thought the entire 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.400 time I had them, that I got used to them, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.920 that I liked them, But it was so weird. Like 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.960 a month or maybe two more after going back and 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.600 seeing pictures of me, and I'm like, oh wow, I 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.440 looked a lot, damn it. And I just feel so 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.280 much better and more free. Yeah. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.320 Well, and I'm sure being an adult and doing that 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.920 as an adult also comes with its own challenges. So 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.600 you weren't just like yourself trying to work through your 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.000 confidence of what was happening. But also you're doing something 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.839 later on in life, and that always comes with its 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.439 own judgment and things, even though there shouldn't be. Somebody's 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.400 just trying to do something cool for themselves, you know 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:25.840 what I mean. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.680 Yeah, I think it's hard to invest in yourself because 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.080 you feel selfish. M hmm. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:32.320 Yeah. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.679 It's like if you get braces as a kid, it's 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.880 almost like your parents are making you. Yeah, but as 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.400 an adult, you're like, oh, I'm doing this for me. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.280 Nobody else is making me. I don't have to. I'm 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.520 spending money on myself. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.480 But like that's where it matters. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.679 I feel like that's where the confidence comes from, is 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.520 when you start to really invest in yourself. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.840 And I feel like there's this weird line that I 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.079 walk of, like wanting to invest in myself but also 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:01.000 not feeling like I don't like your kind of like 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.400 a little bit like conceited or something, or just like 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.360 I care about myself a little bit too much. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.400 Okay, everybody feels this way about like think Okay, here's 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.880 another reference on social media. Okay, I have posted like 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.360 a carousel and it was like my boyfriend takes pictures 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.239 of me, and somebody wrote. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.320 Isn't that conceited to have pictures of you? 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.160 And I'm like, I'm sorry, Since when is like wanting 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.200 memories of myself locked into a photo a bad thing? 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.520 We look back on him, You're eighty years old, I'm 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.240 gonna look back on photos and me actually be in 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.000 the photos. Yeah, you know, I don't want to be 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.680 the one taking all of the photos. It's cool to 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.920 do that, but it's also cool to be a participant 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.360 in that. Like we love to self assign this association 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.040 of somebody being selfish by doing anything that's for themselves, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.840 and that's just not the case, like somebody being selfish 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.160 is like, oh, I purposely shut the door on your 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:50.960 face because I don't want to. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.480 Hold it open for you. That's selfish. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.400 Or I'm selfishly gonna take every last I don't know 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.840 freaking Christmas tree that exists so nobody else can have them. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:00.640 You know what I mean? 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:01.960 Those things are selfish. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.560 Now that you point out other examples, I can see why, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.560 Like what I'm doing doesn't feel as selfish. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.280 No, and it's not you taking care of yourself, And 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.280 anybody wanting to do something that makes them happy isn't selfish. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.680 And I do not know where this whole trend came of, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.720 like making fun of people to be selfish for doing 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:19.720 things that make them happy. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.120 The picture thing is interesting because I feel like as 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.920 a society, we start saying we've been saying for a 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.960 while now, like don't have your phone out, you're just 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.400 live in the moment. And I feel like I started 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.600 to do that for a little bit, like Okay, I 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.560 just need to experience this. I need to enjoy that 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.920 and have my mind record it. Something that changed my 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.760 mind was the New Bad Bundy album that came out 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.080 earlier this year, and that translated The title of it 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.320