WEBVTT - What are next year's highlights?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to spend a few minutes daydreaming about

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<v Speaker 1>what might be on next year's highlights list. No need

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<v Speaker 1>to set exacting goals if you don't want to. This

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<v Speaker 1>is just about pondering possibilities. If you take the right approach,

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<v Speaker 1>it can be exciting rather than about any sort of pressure.

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<v Speaker 1>Towards the end of the year, everyone puts out their

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<v Speaker 1>best of lists, the best movies of the year, the

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<v Speaker 1>best books, the best albums. There are articles and shows

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<v Speaker 1>about the year, and review people talk about the highlights

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<v Speaker 1>what happened. All of this serves a purpose. It is

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<v Speaker 1>good to reflect on what we have done. We often

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<v Speaker 1>don't give ourselves enough credit for what has been accomplished.

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<v Speaker 1>It's also fun to think about cool movies and shows

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<v Speaker 1>and to debate what was better. That is plenty of

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<v Speaker 1>dinner table conversation fodder. But as we do all this,

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's fun to look forward to what will

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<v Speaker 1>be on next year's highlight lists, what will make next

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<v Speaker 1>year's best of lists, and what will we be reminiscing

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<v Speaker 1>about as we review our own years now. This serves

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<v Speaker 1>a practical purpose for pop culture purposes. Yes, we don't

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<v Speaker 1>know all the movies that will be released in the

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<v Speaker 1>coming year, but if you spend a little time researching it,

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<v Speaker 1>you get a pretty good idea of the big ones.

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<v Speaker 1>You could look at upcoming releases and think about what

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<v Speaker 1>you would look forward to seeing Which movies do you

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<v Speaker 1>think you would enjoy most, What would make your top

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<v Speaker 1>ten list for the year, or maybe more reasonably, you're

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<v Speaker 1>top five list. This will give you a nudge to

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<v Speaker 1>make plans to see those films. Same with any upcoming series,

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<v Speaker 1>or upcoming albums or upcoming books. When you spend some

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<v Speaker 1>time thinking about what is coming up, you can get excited.

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<v Speaker 1>Anticipation is truly a wonderful emotion. You know good things

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<v Speaker 1>are happening. You see that a handful of your favorite

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<v Speaker 1>authors have new releases coming out at various points. You

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<v Speaker 1>might even start planning to read that blockbuster summer novel

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<v Speaker 1>while you are sitting on the beach. Talk about a

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<v Speaker 1>fun thing to look forward to during a dreary winter commute.

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<v Speaker 1>It's also fun to think about what might land in

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<v Speaker 1>our own personal highlights lists. What are going to be

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<v Speaker 1>some of your best memories from the upcoming year. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I know life is unknowable. I thought in early that

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<v Speaker 1>I was going to have some amazing memories from international

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<v Speaker 1>trips that I could reflect back on come late December.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks to the pandemic, those trips did not happen. But

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<v Speaker 1>much does happen, And when we identify potentially cool memories

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<v Speaker 1>ahead of time, we can savor them more as we

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<v Speaker 1>are making them. You see that your favorite band is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be touring and has a concert not far

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<v Speaker 1>from you, you decide to buy tickets, and you go

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<v Speaker 1>all in on that experience, planning a whole weekend around it.

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<v Speaker 1>Since you anticipated landing on the highlight list for the year,

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<v Speaker 1>it truly does wind up landing on the highlight list.

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<v Speaker 1>So spend a little time this week thinking about this question.

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<v Speaker 1>Come the end of the coming year, what are you

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<v Speaker 1>going to be reminiscing about? What memories will you be

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<v Speaker 1>toasting as you greet the next new year? And not

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<v Speaker 1>all of them will happen, but some might. And while

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<v Speaker 1>there will be hopefully highlights that you can't even see yet,

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<v Speaker 1>a little foresight can stretch out the fun. So why

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<v Speaker 1>not give it a shot. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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