Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's what you really missed. We are
Speaker 1: wishing everybody a very safe and happy and healthy new
Speaker 1: year heading into twenty twenty five. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for an amazing twenty twenty four. This has been an
Speaker 1: incredible year for us in the podcast and you guys
Speaker 1: are just the best, best ever and we're so.
Speaker 2: So grateful for you and a year that has been
Speaker 2: tough for so many reasons, Like doing this is such
Speaker 2: a bright spot, and like being in community lead community
Speaker 2: with all of you has like actually just been such
Speaker 2: a highlight. Yeah, earnestly, I'm getting a little too real here,
Speaker 2: but it is really nice and it's nice to get
Speaker 2: to do this with you.
Speaker 1: Jenna YouTube Kevin, I cannot believe we're almost in twenty five.
Speaker 1: It is very fast, Oh God, very very fast. What
Speaker 1: has been your favorite memory from this year, Kevin?
Speaker 2: I got to do theater for the first time, so
Speaker 2: doing spelling b like that whole experience was really great, right,
Speaker 2: meeting all those wonderful people who I did the show with. Also,
Speaker 2: I took a trip to Europe and saw one of
Speaker 2: my friend, our friend Andrea get married, and that was
Speaker 2: also really great and magical. So two highlights. What about you?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this year has been a whirlwinding a human. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that a big part of it
Speaker 1: was being pregnant. Throughout most of this year, I'm watching
Speaker 1: Emma grow into a two and a half year old.
Speaker 1: Has been just crazy. She's like a full blown kid
Speaker 1: at this point now, and it's just it's very wild.
Speaker 1: She started school, so I feel like we were just
Speaker 1: getting into the groove of like a new phase of
Speaker 1: her life and that was really really fun and work
Speaker 1: kind of like took aside from the podcast, It took
Speaker 1: a back seat. But I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take this year and I'll take
Speaker 1: it for what it is. So I think, yeah, the
Speaker 1: pregnancy and a lot of personal journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this year, important real life things you've been doing,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Yeah, trying to grow and teach tiny humans to
Speaker 1: be good in this.
Speaker 2: World, you know, I mean, no small feet, good God.
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to in twenty twenty five? Oh,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really weird year to start.
Speaker 1: Obviously for specific reasons. I hope for myself to find
Speaker 1: some peace.
Speaker 3: Are you okay, Jenna, No, I hope to find some
Speaker 3: peace in all of the hubbub and chaos that I
Speaker 3: think will might ensue that we might encounter in the
Speaker 3: first half.
Speaker 1: Of the year. Like there's a lot of stuff we
Speaker 1: know is coming and a lot of unknowns and a
Speaker 1: lot of scary things that could be happening. And I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to, like, for my personal self, find some
Speaker 1: peace in that smart and being able to like, we've
Speaker 1: been here before, We've done this before, and so how
Speaker 1: do I filter out what is needed and what's not
Speaker 1: and what's important and what to fight for and what
Speaker 1: to not and when to take a back seat and
Speaker 1: when to not, you know, just like finding that balance.
Speaker 1: I am excited for this the rest of this podcast,
Speaker 1: and I would love to see what people want to
Speaker 1: hear from us as well in terms of the podcast
Speaker 1: after season five and six, So please write in and
Speaker 1: tell us that because that will be really interesting and
Speaker 1: fun to kind of explore. Yeah. Yeah, I just is
Speaker 1: like a lot of unknowns in al ways, So just
Speaker 1: some peace.
Speaker 2: I would like to be able to find more ways
Speaker 2: for us to work together. Great.
Speaker 1: You know I love that you.
Speaker 2: Get Amber involved. I think love it. I think I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. We should figure that out.
Speaker 1: Great, let's do it. You've read so many books this year, Kevin,
Speaker 1: is yet not as many as I planned on. This
Speaker 1: was a slower year for me than last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: but like, what's slow? Because I think I read two
Speaker 1: books this year, So like what's slow?
Speaker 2: But as you said, Jenna, here raising a human and
Speaker 2: growing another human. Right, I have a dog and a cat.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 1: Still, people, it takes some effort to pick up a
Speaker 1: book sometimes. I think.
Speaker 2: I think by the end of this year, I will
Speaker 2: be at technically like maybe twenty one books.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a lot of books. No.
Speaker 2: Last year I was at thirty.
Speaker 1: Okay, but that's a lot of books.
Speaker 2: My goal was thirty six this year.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of books.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me get through one, literally, let me
Speaker 1: get through one.
Speaker 2: Fair And I've hit some slumps this year as well,
Speaker 2: like I've hit some reading slumps or like fair enough,
Speaker 2: I've It's probably the most did not finish year for me.
Speaker 2: So I need to go back and finish some books
Speaker 2: I've gotten better at, like I'm not feeling right now,
Speaker 2: I'm going to put it down.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's great.
Speaker 2: I love I never I've resisted that feeling for a
Speaker 2: really long time, so I did that. But I have
Speaker 2: read some great books this year. Great great or anybody
Speaker 2: listening who cares about book recommendations, I'll give you a
Speaker 2: little highlight, wouldn't say I'm like the biggest fantasy reader. However,
Speaker 2: probably my current favorite writer R F. Kuang. She's stupidly brilliant.
Speaker 2: She is so smart. She wrote the Poppy Word Trilogy,
Speaker 2: which I just started, so I read the first book
Speaker 2: of that this year. I also read Bibble, which is
Speaker 2: so good, which is being adapted. She's coming up with
Speaker 2: another book she wrote, yellow Face. She's unbelievable, so I'm
Speaker 2: trying to get through all of her things. Also at
Speaker 2: the start of the year I read Henry Henry by
Speaker 2: Alan Bratton and so good, like a modern retelling of
Speaker 2: Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth, I think, And it's a queer
Speaker 2: and just it's very good. And also I mean the
Speaker 2: book of the Year Barnes and Noble Agrees James by
Speaker 2: Percival Everett. It like is a retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Speaker 2: m that's fun from the perspective of Jim the Slave,
Speaker 2: and it's just it's great, it's so so good. So
Speaker 2: those are some of my highlights of the year. Great,
Speaker 2: did you watch a lot of TV this year like
Speaker 2: we did?
Speaker 1: We watched a lot of TV this year, So do
Speaker 1: you have recommendations like highlights from this past year?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: We love The Diplomat and we just started season two.
Speaker 2: Diplomat is like my favorite show. And The Diplomat came
Speaker 2: back this year and I watched the entire second season
Speaker 2: in one day. Let me know everything you think about it.
Speaker 1: The Perfect Couple we watched obviously nobody wants this. We
Speaker 1: watched Presumed Innocent Love that one. That one is a
Speaker 1: really great one and the ending was not what we
Speaker 1: expected it all. So we were very happy with that.
Speaker 2: Is that the Jake Jonhall show to watch that?
Speaker 1: We just watched Bad Monkey?
Speaker 2: What is Bad Monkey?
Speaker 1: It's Fawn on Apple TV. We just watched Disclaimer. We
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that one, did you. Yeah? Yeah with Caplen Chad, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because that show, right, and it's gotten, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's gotten. No, I mean, it's a totally it's not
Speaker 1: an easy watch. I wouldn't say it's easy. It's quite dark,
Speaker 1: but we we it never really lost me at any point. Again,
Speaker 1: like a fun little twist. We watched The Brother's Son
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, we've been really good at watching new
Speaker 1: things this year because usually we're rewatch your family because
Speaker 1: when you have small children at the end of the night,
Speaker 1: it's very easy to like want to just turn your
Speaker 1: brain off, so you watch something that you know very
Speaker 1: very well. But we have watched a lot this year
Speaker 1: of new content that we've tried to be more mindful of,
Speaker 1: like doing things that are not just like sitting there
Speaker 1: and like stewing.
Speaker 2: I feel like this has been a really slow TV
Speaker 2: year for me. Oh interesting, which is weird. Normally I
Speaker 2: watch a lot, but I think what also happens is
Speaker 2: because I'll watch something really quickly, I'll binge it. Then
Speaker 2: I forgot that I watched it, Like I forgot, Like
Speaker 2: I watched Three Body Problem on Netflix and I forgot
Speaker 2: that I did and it was this huge show Like
Speaker 2: that was really fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing for New Year's this year?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: Normally, like last year, I went to Brazil. I normally
Speaker 2: go on a trip. This year, I'm completely winging it.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I didn't really feel like going anywhere. I was gone
Speaker 2: a lot this year. I'm gonna be gone a bit
Speaker 2: next year, and so I'm just trying to like sit
Speaker 2: my ass at home for a little bit. So maybe
Speaker 2: I'll do nothing and that'll be nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Last year, Meghan Doyle and her husband Thomas came
Speaker 1: over and they left it like eleven forty five and
Speaker 1: we went to bed. We all went to bed. And
Speaker 1: this year, obviously we have a baby, so there's nothing happening.
Speaker 2: I'll come leave you things on your doorstep.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, I appreciate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll leave you like treats.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so sweet. But I'm okay with that. You
Speaker 1: know what, New Year's is like one of those holidays
Speaker 1: that like some years you just you blow it out
Speaker 1: and some years you just you're just cozy at home.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm one year on, one year off now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I respect that. I respect that a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: we hope you all out there listening, Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to our years episode, and I hope you have a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful New Years, and we can't wait to see you
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Five and we'll be back with an excellent episode. We're
Speaker 2: kicking off twenty twenty five with season five, Episode nine,
Speaker 2: Renemies just like us.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year everybody.
Speaker 2: It is such a good episode and joy have a
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