Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Joe
Speaker 1: and I'm Serena and it's twenty twenty four, our first
Speaker 1: podcast of the year.
Speaker 2: It's a whole new year.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling.
Speaker 2: I feel good. I feel like I'm like easing into
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Yeah, like, I'm not a big like
Speaker 2: jan first, let's go like. I like a good slow
Speaker 2: ease in.
Speaker 1: I ran something miles this morning. You did feel good
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: I'll go to the gym too this week, which has
Speaker 2: been good because I was super lazy over the holidays,
Speaker 2: which is fine. I like to be lazy over the holidays.
Speaker 1: And later this week we're gonna get right back in
Speaker 1: the suite of things. We have Joey season coming up.
Speaker 1: We got cast bios. We're gonna break down as many
Speaker 1: of the women as possible because there's thirty two of them.
Speaker 2: It's huge. There's so many women. It's crazy, but it's exciting.
Speaker 1: I know I'm intimidating, but we're gonna break down a
Speaker 1: lot lot.
Speaker 2: Imagine how Joey fell. If you're intimidating just reading the bios.
Speaker 1: True, I do love that though. That's one of my favorite,
Speaker 1: my favorite part. I love the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: the first episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first episode is always just fun because it's
Speaker 2: just not that serious yet, you know, it's all just
Speaker 2: first impressions, first meetings. Yeah, it's just fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So what do you want to talk about on
Speaker 1: this episode? Would we do for the holidays?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're into a little holiday recap. Yeah, and some
Speaker 2: New Year's activities. Also, this episode is coming out after
Speaker 2: the Gary and Teresa wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we missed it. We missed it, which.
Speaker 2: We sadly were not able to attend. Joe had a
Speaker 2: work trip and I also had a trip booked that
Speaker 2: conflicted with the wedding. But it looked so beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we are actually going to be interviewing Gary and Teresa.
Speaker 2: We're going to have an exclusive sit down with them
Speaker 2: coming out for you guys to talk about all the
Speaker 2: behind the scenes of the wedding and all the excitement
Speaker 2: of that day. So be sure to stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Very happy for Gary and tru. So they wasted
Speaker 1: no time.
Speaker 2: Good for them, they wasted no time. They made it
Speaker 2: a wedding in a month. It took us a year
Speaker 2: to plan a wedding.
Speaker 1: They are married. So good for them. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to interview them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be good. I'm excited to hear
Speaker 2: all about it. I feel like, because we weren't there,
Speaker 2: our questions are going to be very similar to our
Speaker 2: listeners questions, so we'll be sure to get all of
Speaker 2: is answered for you guys and listeners.
Speaker 1: If you do have any questions for Gary and Teresa,
Speaker 1: send them our way because we have some time and
Speaker 1: we would love to use some of those questions to
Speaker 1: ask the newly wet copy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dm us at our Bachelor Happy Hour Instagram account
Speaker 2: and we'll be sure to ask those questions for you guys.
Speaker 1: So holiday season, what was your favorite Do you have
Speaker 1: a standout, stand out part of the holidays. Let's let's
Speaker 1: not include New Year's Okay even this, let's just is
Speaker 1: just strictly.
Speaker 2: Christmas my favorite part. Honestly, I just feel like the
Speaker 2: holidays always blur together for me, Like it's hard to
Speaker 2: pinpoint like specific days. But we did a lot of
Speaker 2: going out with friends of mine and family, and all
Speaker 2: those like dinners nextctivities were super enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you have you don't have? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: such a week answer.
Speaker 2: You know, I know, can we just go start to finish?
Speaker 1: No, we can't know. This year you have to deal
Speaker 1: with the fact that we may do things not in
Speaker 1: chronological order.
Speaker 2: It's so hard. Maybe I'll make that my my New
Speaker 2: Year's one of my New Year's intentions.
Speaker 1: And there you're jumping New Year's already. Well, do you
Speaker 1: have a step? What was if you look back at
Speaker 1: this holiday season, what is one moment that you're like
Speaker 1: that one's sticking with me?
Speaker 2: Hmmm, kind of list a few? Sure, sure, Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve, my mom made Prime Room sandwiches that
Speaker 2: were fire. They were so good.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that was one of the like.
Speaker 2: The best thing I ate the whole holiday season. It
Speaker 2: was just fun. We were all just chilling at home.
Speaker 2: It was Christmas Eve, so like the most Christmasy day
Speaker 2: of the year other than Christmas. That was That was
Speaker 2: a good one. And then okay, Joe, yes, let's chat
Speaker 2: about our holiday season.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I think I think we would be
Speaker 1: doing the listeners a disgust, not disservice, dis service. I
Speaker 1: always say disjustice.
Speaker 2: Is not a word.
Speaker 1: It's a word that I've made up that I must
Speaker 1: never use again in twenty twenty four, we're starting off.
Speaker 2: Bed No more Disjustice.
Speaker 1: No More Disjustice. So my present from my wife, which
Speaker 1: is you yep, was the the Kevin McAllister Home Alone
Speaker 1: two experience at the Plaza in New York. If you
Speaker 1: haven't seen Home Alone Too, I suggest you watch it.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best Christmas movies there is. And
Speaker 1: Serena got us a room at the Plaza and a
Speaker 1: stretch limo, which that's when I was like really shocked
Speaker 1: by the entire experience because I like I remember just
Speaker 1: being like, you really got a little and a large pizza,
Speaker 1: which got some slack because it was a Pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 2: Now, people, it's supposed to be cheese. That's the whole
Speaker 2: point of the movie. I know it's supposed to be cheese.
Speaker 2: But Joe the night before we did this, we were
Speaker 2: watching Home Alone one and he was like, I would
Speaker 2: get Pepperoni. I was just like, Pepperoni so much better.
Speaker 2: So I was like, Okay, that's I'm going to get
Speaker 2: him Pepperoni.
Speaker 1: You know it was it was Joe's pizza. We took
Speaker 1: the limo, we went, we went, We had the pizza,
Speaker 1: but we barely ate it, and then.
Speaker 2: We well, I had to schedule the delivery, so it
Speaker 2: had been sitting for a little while down in the lobby.
Speaker 2: And I also was just like, I know, we're not
Speaker 2: going to want to eat this pizza and alemo as
Speaker 2: our dinner. We went for a nice dinner. I actually
Speaker 2: also really tried hard to get a white stretch Lemo.
Speaker 2: I checked like four or five different places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they're in existence.
Speaker 2: And I actually called the places justice what a dis justice.
Speaker 2: I called the place that I booked the stretch, was like,
Speaker 2: do you guys have white limbos? She was like, we might.
Speaker 2: I was like, can I put in like a request
Speaker 2: if one's available? She was like surelat stretch limo showed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's unfortunate, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was so oh buddy if it was a white one.
Speaker 2: And I really wanted to get the pizza in the
Speaker 2: limo before you got down there, but there was just
Speaker 2: no way for me to do that in a sneaky
Speaker 2: way without being like meet me downstairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was a great It was a
Speaker 1: great experience. Like it was so it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I prefer that for a gift over just
Speaker 1: like a physical object.
Speaker 2: Really do you. I feel like, yeah, you first got together,
Speaker 2: you were like a physical gift over experience.
Speaker 1: Person I give physical gifts over experience, but I I
Speaker 1: did enjoy the experience more because it's just something that'll
Speaker 1: always I'll always remember it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was very specific to you, like you
Speaker 2: love home alone till You've always said like this would
Speaker 2: be so awesome, Yeah.
Speaker 1: To do this, And when I think back, you know,
Speaker 1: when I think back on Christmas of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna that's what I'm gonna think of.
Speaker 2: Oh. I love that. I'm so glad. Honestly, I was
Speaker 2: really nervous to give it to Joe, just because I
Speaker 2: was like, I've kind of gone off the rails here
Speaker 2: with like our standard like here's a pair of shoes,
Speaker 2: here's a sweater, here's you know, a new scarf. So
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna like it, but it's still
Speaker 2: nerve wracking. And I put so much thought work into it,
Speaker 2: like I'd been like putting it all together for like
Speaker 2: over a month. So I was like, man, if this
Speaker 2: doesn't land, it's gonna really suck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, next, next, next year, I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: get you an experience of some sort.
Speaker 2: You don't have to. You always give me a great gift.
Speaker 2: Joe got me a pair of black loafers that I
Speaker 2: really wanted. Yeah, they were gorgeous and great. It's honest,
Speaker 2: exactly what I wanted him to get me. So I
Speaker 2: was very happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that also that kind of that like there's
Speaker 1: no surprise to that, you know, like I feel like
Speaker 1: you knew I was going to get you those.
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't know for sure, Yeah, but it's
Speaker 2: like it was a really nice gift and it's something
Speaker 2: that I probably wouldn't have gotten for myself. Sure, So
Speaker 2: that's that's what. And I've worn them a bunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So then we went Toronto because it was your
Speaker 1: turn this year. We went by your family in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The way Joe and I split up Christmases because
Speaker 2: obviously we live in New York, but he's from Chicago.
Speaker 2: My faim is in Toronto. Is we alternate. So the
Speaker 2: first year together, we did my family, last year we
Speaker 2: did his family, and then we get it. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: never mind, I'll just shut up.
Speaker 1: In you love talking about the alternating.
Speaker 2: I'm just explaining it to people. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a very common thing of like how people in relationships
Speaker 2: divide up Christmases, like people that live in the same place.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, who's like we go to Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: for my dad and then we go to you know,
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving for his mom and the whole thing.
Speaker 1: First thing we did, but we got to Toronto, we
Speaker 1: went to eat.
Speaker 2: All Joe's done talking about that.
Speaker 1: First thing we did was we went to Italy and
Speaker 1: it's very Italy's very Christmasy.
Speaker 2: It actually, yeah, it was really it was more Christmasy
Speaker 2: than I expected.
Speaker 1: And I got a Tara massou lat you did.
Speaker 2: We went to lunch with my friends, my best friends
Speaker 2: and her boyfriend and my sister was there and it
Speaker 2: was actually, yeah, it was. We drove right downtown and
Speaker 2: it was super Christmas dy. We're in Yorkville for whoever, And.
Speaker 1: I would say, are the standout of Toronto was probably
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve night and your mom's prime rib.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't really have any Christmas Eve traditions because
Speaker 2: we used to go to my grandparents and now we're
Speaker 2: doing Christmas Eve brunch slash lunch in my grandparents. So
Speaker 2: my mom was like, what do you want for dinner?
Speaker 2: And Joe and I were both like, oh, like prime
Speaker 2: rib dips would be great if you want to know.
Speaker 1: She offered between two things that we chose the prime. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we weren't just like make sandwich.
Speaker 2: No, no, that wasn't an idea of our own. She
Speaker 2: was like, I could I want to just do something
Speaker 2: in the crockpot so I can let it sit all day.
Speaker 2: Do you want like prime rib sandwiches? Or do you
Speaker 2: want this chicken stew that she makes us really delicious?
Speaker 2: And weally got prime sandwich is sound great? But it
Speaker 2: was so good, truly, it was delicious. I ate like
Speaker 2: three of them.
Speaker 1: They were really really good.
Speaker 2: We went to so many restaurants. We went to really
Speaker 2: good restaurants when we were in Toronto, and honestly, it
Speaker 2: was my favorite thing that I ate was my mom's
Speaker 2: crackpot primer sandwich.
Speaker 1: And we can't take the recipe because now that is
Speaker 1: a tradition.
Speaker 2: Well, she we've made them before. Do you know that
Speaker 2: we've made that recipe?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we made it with beef chap. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: didn't use the same.
Speaker 2: And honestly, it just wasn't as good as how my
Speaker 2: mom made I think we like rushed it. She let
Speaker 2: her sit for like eight hours, I feel like.
Speaker 1: And then another standout was what we got your dad
Speaker 1: the dry sauna for two days. Yeah. So there's a
Speaker 1: company in Toronto that delivers dry saunas to a big
Speaker 1: dry sauna to your home and you could rent it
Speaker 1: for two days. So that's what we did. We rented
Speaker 1: it for two days. It was in the dry for a.
Speaker 2: Bunch of days. It's just like a per day, per day.
Speaker 1: Rate and it's wood fire sauna. It was.
Speaker 2: It was awesome, It was hilarious. I don't know. My
Speaker 2: mom had mentioned like, I think that your dad might
Speaker 2: like this. He was kind of looking at one. My
Speaker 2: dad's a big, like experienced guy. He likes me busy,
Speaker 2: he likes activities. So we were like, I feel like
Speaker 2: this would be fun for the holidays. They literally drive
Speaker 2: it up, they park it. It's like the length of
Speaker 2: an suv, maybe like a foot taller than suv, so
Speaker 2: it's not that big. We got one that fits like
Speaker 2: sixty to eight people.
Speaker 1: Eight people would have been tight, but you could fit.
Speaker 1: You could fit eight people in there, for.
Speaker 2: Sure, you could. But I feel like you like six
Speaker 2: would have been yeah, yeah, yeah, And they parked it
Speaker 2: in our driveway and they give you a bunch of
Speaker 2: wood and you basically put wood in the back of
Speaker 2: it and make a fire and heats up. It got
Speaker 2: really hot. At one time I was really struggling in it.
Speaker 1: I got that thing up to two hundred degrees.
Speaker 2: That's wild. I feel like that's a little dangerous.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think next time though, we do that and
Speaker 1: a cold plunge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, joe the min I told him that's what we
Speaker 2: were getting. My dad was looking for renta both cold plunges.
Speaker 1: But that was great. That was a great gift. I
Speaker 1: love that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a gift for the whole to
Speaker 2: be honest, which I feel like my dad likes those things.
Speaker 1: If we move out, if we ever move out of
Speaker 1: a New York apartment, I definitely want to get a
Speaker 1: sauna in a house in our house.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, if we can ever make that happen.
Speaker 2: There's actually there's this influencer that I follow in Australia.
Speaker 2: She has a sauna in her backyard.
Speaker 1: My friend Joey is building one in his backyard. It's
Speaker 1: not that it's not is extravagant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've told me how much it was. And like
Speaker 2: in my mind, like an at home sauna is like
Speaker 2: the height of luxury. And I know this is actually
Speaker 2: kind of no do this.
Speaker 1: It's affordable and he's using a really reputable company company.
Speaker 2: So well, if we ever have a backyard big enough,
Speaker 2: you'll have your suna in your cult blood Do you
Speaker 2: ever have a backyard, If we ever have a backyard, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're really dedicated to apartment living.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually yeah, apartment living is actually great though.
Speaker 2: It is great if you guys follow us in his stream,
Speaker 2: we saw our like bedroom ceiling was looking real bad.
Speaker 2: That's the only downside. But then the upside is we
Speaker 2: fix they fix it because you're in an apartment.
Speaker 1: Because if I have to fix it, we have a
Speaker 1: big problem.
Speaker 2: You can't fix it. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and then oh we also so my aunt
Speaker 2: gets all my cousins like an activity every single year,
Speaker 2: and we all went paintballing and I literally got whacked
Speaker 2: in the thigh. I still I still am bruised, Like
Speaker 2: I still have a bruise from the paintball.
Speaker 1: You have a major well yeah, I think it.
Speaker 2: Chill it's huge.
Speaker 1: I think it shot once.
Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy it hit like three times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it shot once.
Speaker 2: No, that's so lucky. That was a stand up moment
Speaker 2: just from the anxiety and the pain, but it ended
Speaker 2: up being kind of fun. Once you like get comfortable,
Speaker 2: it's more fun.
Speaker 1: And then we got back to New York and day
Speaker 1: before New Year's Yeah, New Year's Eve, we pretty much chilled.
Speaker 1: We went by some friends out here in New York,
Speaker 1: went by their place. We left by like eleven, so
Speaker 1: we weren't stuck in crazy New York traffic.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we just watched the ball drop from
Speaker 2: our apartment.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy that like you can you can say, like, oh,
Speaker 2: we watched the ball drop and everyone knows what that is.
Speaker 2: Like it's such an iconic symbol, like the ball dropping
Speaker 2: in times for on New Year's Yeah, and when.
Speaker 1: We do that. Last year we were we were in
Speaker 1: Chicago for New Year's Yeah, because we stayed. We stayed
Speaker 1: for a few weeks.
Speaker 2: We watched the ball drop on the couch, finished an
Speaker 2: episode of ted Lasso, and then went to bed. You
Speaker 2: know what's funny is literally in our interview with Danny
Speaker 2: on this podcast. You talked so much shit about Ted Lasso,
Speaker 2: and then we got back into it and you loved it.
Speaker 2: We binged the last like five episodes of the third
Speaker 2: season in like two days.
Speaker 1: It was a great New Year show.
Speaker 2: It was because it's just like happy and feel good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, next year for New Year's Eve. I'm just
Speaker 1: putting it out there in the universe.
Speaker 2: Jos, putting this out there since we've met.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think you think I'm going to
Speaker 1: say something to Oh.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you think I think you're going to
Speaker 2: say Next year for New Year's Eve, I want to
Speaker 2: be in London.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I knew that's what you thought. No, Okay, next
Speaker 1: year for New Year's Eve, I want to be somewhere tropical.
Speaker 2: Oh what Yeah, Literally days ago you were saying I
Speaker 2: want to go to London.
Speaker 1: Next year, I will also go to London, like I.
Speaker 2: Would be talking to London for three years. We almost
Speaker 2: went this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would do that, But honestly, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I want to be on a beach. Yeah, I'm really really,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm really I was a big seasons guy.
Speaker 1: I love the holidays, but right after Christmas, I'm over it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm over it.
Speaker 2: You are, like the build up to Christmas. Once Christmas
Speaker 2: is done, it's like, it's nice to be somewhere warm.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a rough time after the twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: like even the twenty fifth, but that's fine because it
Speaker 1: is still like the Christmas you know, feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so festive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just gray and rainy every single day. Right,
Speaker 1: I need to see the sun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe looks at the sun every morning as part.
Speaker 1: Of his No, I don't really. I wish I could
Speaker 1: do that. I wish I could, but we don't really
Speaker 1: get the sun all the time out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm not against that at all,
Speaker 2: to be honest.
Speaker 1: And then the reason we missed Gary and Teresa's wedding.
Speaker 1: I was in Scottsdale, yeah, which got some sun.
Speaker 2: There you go. And I was in Miami slash on
Speaker 2: a cruise.
Speaker 1: And I also went to Vegas, but I was on
Speaker 1: the West coast, so Vegas for a few days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh the sun. The sun's coming in through a
Speaker 2: perman actually right now. Honestly, it's just like getting away
Speaker 2: for a few days to get a little sun and
Speaker 2: a little warmth just makes you realize how hard the
Speaker 2: winter's hit. When you're on the East Coast, You're just like, Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm a whole different person. I know a few degrees warmer,
Speaker 2: and it's it.
Speaker 1: What's so crazy is like I think I said this
Speaker 1: to you the other day. It's like we almost I
Speaker 1: forget what it feels like to walk out of the
Speaker 1: house with a T shirt in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because every time I step outside of our building,
Speaker 2: I'm like bracing myself to get whacked by the wind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that we have the where we live.
Speaker 2: The windows Palm Springs also would have been a nice
Speaker 2: warm getaway too. It's a good spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe maybe we got to try to to I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'll figure out in the winter to be
Speaker 1: somewhere warm for.
Speaker 2: You know, we say this every winter. I know we
Speaker 2: say this every year. Do you have any New Year's
Speaker 2: resolutions this year?
Speaker 1: Not really. I feel like I'm pretty regiment on my
Speaker 1: gym and exercising. Uh Less, paper towels.
Speaker 2: We use a lot of use a lot of paper towels. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the thing with paper towels is like it's
Speaker 2: so easy. You rub a paper towel, you wipe down
Speaker 2: the counter, you throw it away. If I use a towel,
Speaker 2: I have to immediately throw it in the wash, and
Speaker 2: I'm going through then like a bunch of towels because
Speaker 2: we wipe down our counters like every single time we
Speaker 2: eat or clean or cook. So it's like then I'm
Speaker 2: going through five paper towels a day or five like
Speaker 2: towels a day, and then I'm running the wash a bunch.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We got to find a better solution
Speaker 2: if anyone out there has a better solution for having
Speaker 2: an efficient cleaning system not using paper towels, because we
Speaker 2: are using so and it's not like it's like it
Speaker 2: is wasteful, like we're using them for a purpose, but
Speaker 2: it's like, well, I'm al trying so many rolls of
Speaker 2: paper towels.
Speaker 1: And I'll this is gonna be twelve minutes of this
Speaker 1: podcast is going to be about paper towels. But I
Speaker 1: will clean with the paper towels and then I will
Speaker 1: wash my hands and then take more paper towels and
Speaker 1: dry my hands.
Speaker 2: Oh really, you dry your hands with paper towels, Joe,
Speaker 2: we have we don't like, Yes, we have towels sitting
Speaker 2: on the by the stove.
Speaker 1: I never use those.
Speaker 2: Why not? I don't know, Well that should be that's
Speaker 2: step one right there, and using less paper towels, using
Speaker 2: the hand towels to dry your hands.
Speaker 1: Do you have a some sort of a goal you
Speaker 1: would like to accomplish in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2: A goal? Yeah, that's so hard. I feel like I
Speaker 2: have like personal here's my thing. I'm not really a
Speaker 2: New Year's goal person. Like I feel like I don't
Speaker 2: wake up in twenty twenty four or whatever new year
Speaker 2: it is and say like, these are my big specific
Speaker 2: goals for the year. I find them like very intimidating.
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm a mid season honestly, Like.
Speaker 2: I'm making goals all year round, so it's like I'm
Speaker 2: not starting anything that's brand new of like this is
Speaker 2: what I want to accomplish this year. It's like I've
Speaker 2: already been thinking about this year halfway through last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, definitely. I'm a mid year type of like
Speaker 1: set goals mid year. I did. I did see an
Speaker 1: article though this is kind of it's kind of on
Speaker 1: top of kind of off, but an article that was
Speaker 1: like the depression after the holidays and coming back and
Speaker 1: being depressed over your finances and everything else. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is so real because for that little pocket, that
Speaker 1: the holiday pocket of like buying gifts for people and all,
Speaker 1: you you tend not to worry about.
Speaker 2: Like no, because it's like the season of giving and
Speaker 2: it's the holidays, and you kind of just like embrace
Speaker 2: you're going to be spending more money than usual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like we get and then you.
Speaker 2: Look back and you're like, oh damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we get drunk on like holiday spirit. That's what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It's like, yes, that is a great was that from
Speaker 2: the article? Do you just make that?
Speaker 1: I just made that up? Because that's I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what like kind of happens when people like if
Speaker 1: you if you go off for drinks because you're like
Speaker 1: stressed out or something, you know, it usually subsides the
Speaker 1: stress and then you get back into it and you're like ah,
Speaker 1: the next day you're like ah, that's I'm still upset
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I No, you do get you do get drunk
Speaker 2: on holiday spirit, and it's just like it's the holidays,
Speaker 2: Like calories don't count, glasses of wine don't count, credit
Speaker 2: card dollars don't count. Nothing counts it's just magic all
Speaker 2: around and then New Year's ends and you're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: back to reality.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the way we did it this year.
Speaker 1: We did the whole like holiday Christmas movie.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1: That was a little too long. I think we were sly.
Speaker 1: We were stuck in the we we were We got
Speaker 1: really drunk on the.
Speaker 2: Holiday spirit because we were watching a month full of
Speaker 2: our Christmas movie schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I liked that though, I think we could. I think
Speaker 2: it was just hard because in my mind I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we could throw a movie on like during the day.
Speaker 2: But we had a really really busy like September honestly,
Speaker 2: like it was a really busy year. But I feel
Speaker 2: like the second half of this year was just really
Speaker 2: busy with work and it ended up being like we're
Speaker 2: watching a movie every night. That was the only thing
Speaker 2: we're watching, Like we were watching any TV. We were
Speaker 2: We were like half watching most of these movies. It
Speaker 2: was just like overboard on Christmas content. It was all
Speaker 2: I was putting into my body and my mind was
Speaker 2: Christmas content.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this year, if we could go one place in
Speaker 1: the world for vacation, Yeah, where would you like that?
Speaker 1: One place to be only one, because we've talked about multiple.
Speaker 2: I know that's so hard because yeah, for listeners, Joe
Speaker 2: and I the last two years their third like year
Speaker 2: full year together, we've gone on one big trip. So
Speaker 2: our first year together we went to Spain. We did
Speaker 2: three places in Spain. Last year we had our honeymoon,
Speaker 2: we went to Italy, three places in Italy. And this
Speaker 2: year we're kind of trying to decide what we want
Speaker 2: our trip to beau. As much as we travel a lot,
Speaker 2: A lot of the time we're traveling to like Toronto, Chicago,
Speaker 2: or traveling for work, so we usually do like one
Speaker 2: like vacation trip together a year. And I think, as
Speaker 2: much as I've been talking forever about wanting to go
Speaker 2: to Hawaii, and I'm still into that idea if it happens,
Speaker 2: I do think I want to do like Japan. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think I do. And honestly, after talking to some
Speaker 2: friends of mine who we went for dinner with who
Speaker 2: have like been there, I talked about how amazing it was,
Speaker 2: And you've been to Japan and I've never been. I
Speaker 2: don't think I've been anywhere.
Speaker 1: To me, it's to this day it's still my favorite
Speaker 1: place I've ever been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love sushi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the best sushi.
Speaker 2: You you really love Japanese culture. I think it would
Speaker 2: be really fun. The thing that intimidates me about it
Speaker 2: is the time change and the flight and the language barrier.
Speaker 1: Ye in Tokyo. In Tokyo, they were so helpful really
Speaker 1: when you didn't when you couldn't speak the language, they
Speaker 1: were so amazing. It was actually it was easy in
Speaker 1: the the subway system over there. You know, it's obviously
Speaker 1: all in a different language, but it's still it's still
Speaker 1: pretty easy to get around. Yeah, I I really I agree.
Speaker 2: Is that where you would want to go if you
Speaker 2: could do one place?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I say Asia. I would just maybe.
Speaker 2: Where were the other place for talking about soul?
Speaker 1: Soul? South Korea? I've never been to Thailand, so like
Speaker 1: that would also be cool. Yeah, I just And then
Speaker 1: then the debate, it's like how long do you want
Speaker 1: to be away for?
Speaker 2: Because it's just so hard to be away for more
Speaker 2: than ten days? Yeah, like ten days. We did our
Speaker 2: last two trips for ten days. We did Spain and
Speaker 2: Italy for ten days, and I just think that's.
Speaker 1: Well Asia, It is a longer flight and I think
Speaker 1: we would need to do it for at least thirteen
Speaker 1: thirteen days two weeks. I think two weeks is good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: Do you want to hear my news resolution intentions?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, okay, I thought you were in a New
Speaker 1: Year's resumece.
Speaker 2: I'm not, but I did. I did set some like
Speaker 2: intentions for the year, like small things that I want
Speaker 2: to try to work on, but not like specific where
Speaker 2: I'm like I'm going to work out six days a
Speaker 2: week for the rest of the year, Like I'm only
Speaker 2: going to use my phone for ten minutes a day,
Speaker 2: like I just have overall things. So one thing is
Speaker 2: I want to I think I totally said I want
Speaker 2: to work on not scrolling in bed before we go
Speaker 2: to sleep.
Speaker 1: Because look, and when you when you say these things,
Speaker 1: then are you are you inviting me to criticize?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not inviting you to do that. Well, like
Speaker 2: you could yeah, like if I'm like sitting in bed
Speaker 2: actually scrolling, you could be like are you going to read?
Speaker 2: Like the other night You're like, hey, are you going
Speaker 2: to read? Like why don't you read your book? And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, you're right, because sometimes I
Speaker 2: get like caught up and it's just habit, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Yeah, And I enjoy it when I'm
Speaker 2: like reading or if we just like watch a sitcom
Speaker 2: or something in bad because I feel like I do
Speaker 2: so much scrolling during the day and so much time
Speaker 2: on social media because of our jobs that at night
Speaker 2: time I don't need to be doing it. And then
Speaker 2: I had another one, but I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2: I'm being honest. I wrote it down somewhere. But oh,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I really worked on time management
Speaker 2: this year. When I'm at home in Toronto, I've gotten
Speaker 2: like much better with my time management, so I want
Speaker 2: to be better about time management here as well. I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm always kind of rushing out the door here, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I can be better about that. So those are
Speaker 2: my intentions for the air. Just general things to work on.
Speaker 1: Nice I think I would like for me, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: less paper towel use and probably more time for just
Speaker 1: like breathing exercises a little more like at it meditation
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah, just like even earlier today, I was
Speaker 1: really stressed out and did some breathing techniques and that
Speaker 1: I feel like that that helps.
Speaker 2: You know, what something else I think we could work
Speaker 2: on this year. What it's hard because we live in
Speaker 2: like a city, we live in a freaking concrete jungle.
Speaker 2: But creating time to like be in nature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's the thing, I know.
Speaker 2: But like even just like going to Central Park and
Speaker 2: like chilling there for like an hour in the summer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, it's like still in the city or like
Speaker 2: it's just yeah, it's so hard when we're here. But
Speaker 2: I do feel better when I spend more time in nature,
Speaker 2: in nature, like not just outdoors, like nature. Like I
Speaker 2: took a deep breath in the other day walking outside
Speaker 2: in New York and like choked on smoke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's.
Speaker 2: Not giving like fresh air.
Speaker 1: It's truly honestly in the thing. It's it's like I'm
Speaker 1: from Chicago, you're from Toronto, and it's the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no nature when we go home either, But I.
Speaker 1: Guess we've never really had it our entire life.
Speaker 2: That would be the cool thing if we did a
Speaker 2: Hawaii trip, because I feel like you can go hiking
Speaker 2: and you can be by the water. I'm so much
Speaker 2: happier by the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well we can make him hopefully, maybe we
Speaker 1: were lucky enough we could do both.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see, we'll see what twenty twenty four has
Speaker 2: in store for us. Twenty twenty three was a crazier
Speaker 2: because we got married. It was our wedding, and it
Speaker 2: was just like an exceptionally busy er. It felt like,
Speaker 2: I guess, just like bridal shower, bachelor party, bachelor party.
Speaker 1: If I were to read twenty twenty three, if I
Speaker 1: were to rate twenty twenty three on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to ten, ten being good, ten being the best, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: one being the absolute worst. I've been pretty lucky in
Speaker 1: my life. I would never say I had a year
Speaker 1: that was a one. Like there's always been some some
Speaker 1: highlights within my year, but let's just say, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a really rough year, like a twenty twenty Yeah
Speaker 1: is let's call it, you know whatever, A four or five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would rate. I would rate twenty twenty three being
Speaker 1: one of my better years I've lived.
Speaker 2: I agree. I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's a high great year. It's in the
Speaker 1: it's in the upper eight slow nines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. We had a really exciting positive
Speaker 2: year career wise. I mean, we got to the Mabeling commercial,
Speaker 2: which was amazing. We got to work on this podcast,
Speaker 2: we worked with some great brands, and then also personally,
Speaker 2: we got married, We traveled a little bit. I feel like,
Speaker 2: I will say, by the end of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: the last few months I was struggling with some burnout
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, so that was a little bit difficult.
Speaker 2: But I feel really good after the holiday break, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to not burn out in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. But it was a lot of positive things. No,
Speaker 2: it's hard to feel like it was a great year.
Speaker 2: I want to do anything differently.
Speaker 1: The only thing that makes me worried is that it
Speaker 1: was such a great year. I hope that twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four is just as good.
Speaker 2: It will be. It'll just be different, you know. Like
Speaker 2: we're not planning a wedding this year, so that's we
Speaker 2: can take that off the plate.
Speaker 1: And we won't be in Lake Homo this Year's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: No, it could be. If you want to skip out
Speaker 2: on Japan, we just go to Lake Homo instead. We
Speaker 2: just really have a reoccurring trip to Lake Como.
Speaker 1: I would be honestly, I would be down for that, Okay.
Speaker 1: I think I think that kind of wraps up this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of our holiday highlights, New Year recap,
Speaker 2: and we're excited to be heading into twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: with Bachelor Happy Hour and all of our.
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