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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're walking

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Speaker 1: whole new level. It's Monday, January fifth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Slices twenty twenty six. Kind of sounds

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Speaker 1: like a made up year from a sci fi movie,

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Speaker 1: it kills us. A new year demands a look back

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Speaker 1: some friends to share a memory from twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: that's sure to stick and tell us their intentions, not resolutions,

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Speaker 1: intentions for twenty twenty six. And of course we'll circle

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Speaker 1: back on the biggest news over the holiday break, get

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Speaker 1: you ready for the start of Unrivaled and the rest

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Speaker 1: of this week in sports, and serve up a bit

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Speaker 1: of a Winter Olympic charcouterie board. It's all coming up

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Speaker 1: right after this welcome back. Say here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know today. Let's start with basketball and specifically Unrivaled,

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Speaker 1: season two of the three on three league tips off

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Speaker 1: today in Miami, Florida. Games get underway one pm Eastern

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Speaker 1: on True TV, with missed BC taken on the Hive,

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Speaker 1: which is one of two new expansion teams. All eight

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Speaker 1: Unrivaled news and it's a bommer. Ahead of the start

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Speaker 1: of the season, league co founder and Ifisa Collier announced

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Speaker 1: On December twenty third, the league announced it was introducing

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Speaker 1: Milan Courtina Games kickoff in just over a month. Producer

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Speaker 1: News American cross country skier Jesse Diggins, who qualified for

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Speaker 12: Last year the NCAA Women's hockey Rosen four from back

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Speaker 14: you know, who knows.

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Speaker 3: Who's going to show up.

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Speaker 14: So I start to like cold call everybody, and I

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Speaker 14: really like reached out to more people than the restaurant

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Speaker 14: could fit, because I figured like half the folks wouldn't

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Speaker 14: show up, and one by one, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Was just like, hell, yeah, I'm in.

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Speaker 14: And so a couple of days before the party, I

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Speaker 14: texted the owner and I was like, hey, Ben, you know,

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Speaker 14: I think this many people might show up, and he

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Speaker 14: was just like all at once, and I said, no, no,

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Speaker 14: I mean I think that they can get staggered in.

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Speaker 14: But yeah, it was really funny because we packed out

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Speaker 14: the place and it was really awesome and the best

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Speaker 14: part of it is I had to create like an

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Speaker 14: entirely elaborate lie that was like weeks in the making

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Speaker 14: to pull it all off, and she was very, very surprised,

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Speaker 14: and she actually loved it. So for all of you

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Speaker 14: guys out there who are thinking about doing things and

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Speaker 14: aren't sure, just go for it right like Yolo.

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Speaker 1: We heard from Renee Stubs, former number one doubles player

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Speaker 1: in the world, commentator and host of the Renee Stubs

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Speaker 1: Tennis podcast, on the impact of a major loss in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 15: Sadly, one of the things I will remember from twenty

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Speaker 15: twenty five that has shaped my life and something I'll

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Speaker 15: never forget for the rest of my life is the

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Speaker 15: loss of my mom. Twenty twenty five will be defined

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Speaker 15: unfortunately for that. And so I tell everybody that has

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Speaker 15: their parents, treasure them, Ask some a million questions, ask

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Speaker 15: some all the questions you want answered, because you just

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Speaker 15: never know when, sadly, they won't be here anymore. So

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Speaker 15: for me, twenty five was defined by a really tough loss.

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Speaker 15: But I guess in the end, the thing that I

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Speaker 15: can pass along to everybody is treasure your parents while

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Speaker 15: you have them, and awesome every question you want answered

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Speaker 15: because you never know when they won't be here.

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Speaker 3: I want to say thanks to Renee for sharing that.

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Speaker 1: I think it can be really hard to create those

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Speaker 1: feelings of urgency when it comes to connection, asking questions,

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Speaker 1: learning about loved ones' lives, and staying in touch without

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Speaker 1: knowing that time is running out. But as we all know,

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Speaker 1: we're not promised anything. And I read something over the

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Speaker 1: break that Renee's voicedout actually reminded me of and it's

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Speaker 1: said in part one day you'll do something for the

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Speaker 1: last time, The last time you hug your mom without

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Speaker 1: realizing it, the last late night drive with your best

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Speaker 1: friend before life pulls you in different directions, the last

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Speaker 1: meal at your favorite spot before it closes, the last

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Speaker 1: time you laugh until you cry with people you won't

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Speaker 1: see again.

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Speaker 3: You won't know it's the last.

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Speaker 1: It won't feel special in the moment, It'll feel like

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Speaker 1: any other day until it isn't. So be where your

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Speaker 1: feet are. The ordinary moments are only ordinary until they're gone.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure the source of that. It was going

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Speaker 1: around on socials, but it really stuck with me. So

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Speaker 1: we're sending you lots of love Renee, and thanks again

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Speaker 1: for sharing that with us. After asking Renee and everyone

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Speaker 1: else for those moments of reflection, we also ask people

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Speaker 1: if they wanted to look ahead to the new year

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Speaker 1: and share some intentions they had for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Here's their label.

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Speaker 8: My intentions for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 7: Laugh more, play more, learn more.

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Speaker 3: Kat Osterman has a pretty relatable goal.

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Speaker 4: To develop a little bit more of a routine to

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Speaker 4: where I feel like I am not a crazy chicken

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Speaker 4: with my head cut off.

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Speaker 6: I do a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Different things as well as being a stay at home

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Speaker 4: mom three days a week. So just trying to develop

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Speaker 4: a routine to where I stay centered and I don't

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Speaker 4: always feel overwhelmed.

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Speaker 3: Even though I get everything done.

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Speaker 4: Just trying to be a little more organized and calming

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Speaker 4: with how.

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Speaker 6: I approach things.

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Speaker 4: So trying to figure out a routine that allows me

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Speaker 4: to just feel a little bit less overwhelmed with everything.

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Speaker 3: That I do, but excited for what to head. Aaron

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Speaker 3: Foley has some fun intentions.

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Speaker 5: Well, twenty twenty five was a buttload of crap or

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Speaker 5: is it boatload? I'm going to go with both, and

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Speaker 5: so I decided my intention is to have the most

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Speaker 5: fun I can possibly have, and for me that means dancing.

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Speaker 5: Could I have been a professional dancer, Probably not, But

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Speaker 5: after a couple of gen and Tonics, I feel like one.

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Speaker 6: So it's more dancing, more joy, more fun.

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Speaker 3: Shimmy Miller is channeling Elsa from Frozen.

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Speaker 9: It's very simple. It's to let go, let go of

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Speaker 9: things that no longer serve me. At the end of

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Speaker 9: each night, just let it go so that I don't

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Speaker 9: drag it into the next day.

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Speaker 3: Teresa Rash has a very wise intention.

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Speaker 11: My intention for twenty twenty six to be present. Things

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Speaker 11: move so fast. I want to make sure that I'm

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Speaker 11: living in the moment, taking in everything that's happening, especially

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Speaker 11: with the people around me and the incredible things we're

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Speaker 11: going to accomplish together.

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Speaker 1: Jenny Wynn want to find reasons for gratitude.

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Speaker 14: Twenty twenty five felt like a lot of a struggle,

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Speaker 14: So my intention for twenty twenty six is to move

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Speaker 14: forward and move through with as much care, kindness, but

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Speaker 14: particularly joy and celebration and gratitude. I think with gratitude

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Speaker 14: there's a way to recognize how the world is and

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Speaker 14: see it for what it is, but continue to push forward.

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Speaker 1: Nicole Hasey is always putting in the work and she

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Speaker 1: wants to do more.

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Speaker 2: My intention for twenty twenty six is to continue to

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Speaker 2: go grow the Victory Press and write more and keep

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Speaker 2: covering women's college hockey and women's pro hockey and telling

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Speaker 2: the stories that aren't getting enough attention. You've had people

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Speaker 2: on as guests who've talked about how difficult it is

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Speaker 2: to be a freelancer, and it's no different for me,

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Speaker 2: And particularly when the world is not great, it can

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Speaker 2: be really hard to find that balance and mentally keep

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Speaker 2: doing what I'm doing and find the time and the

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Speaker 2: motivation to work on long pieces and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: So I think my goal is to just really keep

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Speaker 2: working on that balance and putting out more content and

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Speaker 2: just keep raising their profile and making sure that the

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Speaker 2: girls and women that I cover, you know, before college

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Speaker 2: and at college, continue to exist in a world where

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Speaker 2: they're getting the attention that they deserve and that we

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Speaker 2: didn't get, you know, when we were younger.

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Speaker 1: Elena Nichols has got an attention we can all get behind.

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Speaker 13: This isn't just because I am sending this in to

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Speaker 13: Sarah Spain. I am vowing to go to more women's

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Speaker 13: sporting events. Honestly, it's not been something I've prioritized in

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Speaker 13: the past, so I'm making it happen more consistently this year.

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Speaker 1: And Kathy Delaney Smith is given major FOMO with this one.

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Speaker 1: She said, quote, enjoy retirement, stay healthy, and say yes

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Speaker 1: to everything. Yes, ma'am, You've earned it. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who shared with us. It was so meaningful to hear

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Speaker 1: how others thrived or just survived during what was at

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Speaker 1: times a very tough twenty twenty five, and also the

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Speaker 1: hope that we all have as we embark on twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 3: We got to take a break.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Alex and I are going to

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Speaker 1: share our twenty twenty five memories and twenty twenty six intentions,

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Speaker 1: plus advice worth sharing.

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Speaker 3: And what to do when the universe is horny. For Lemons, it's.

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Speaker 1: Next Welcome back slices, Alex, Are you there?

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Speaker 16: No, I have emerged into twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 3: Did you miss me?

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Speaker 1: Did you miss talking to me every single day?

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Speaker 16: I have to say it was a little weird not

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Speaker 16: getting the Sara stream of conscious in my daily diet.

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Speaker 3: Ah, lucky you. I'm back. We're back.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I've been watching you make furniture and reveal all

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Speaker 1: your amazing art stuff on the internet, so that was

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Speaker 1: fun for me.

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Speaker 3: I'm always inspired to do more crafty.

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Speaker 1: Stuff when I see your work, and then I don't,

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Speaker 1: So maybe that should be one of my intentions for

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve.

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Speaker 3: I'm adding it. I'm adding it.

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Speaker 11: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 16: I love it, and you should be prepared for another

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Speaker 16: craft that originated in twenty twenty five but carried over

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Speaker 16: into twenty twenty six, which is my holiday cards.

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Speaker 3: Oh, because when people.

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Speaker 16: Get them, they will see it starts off with like

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Speaker 16: a Christmas tree, and then the inside is a New

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Speaker 16: Year's greeting, and then on the outside it is a

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Speaker 16: reminder to celebrate National Bagel Day, which is in mid January,

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Speaker 16: because that is how long it took me to get

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Speaker 16: the cards out.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 16: I'm excited for people to get them and then they

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Speaker 16: can immediately put it in the trash where they have

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Speaker 16: put all of their other holiday cards at that point.

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Speaker 1: I actually keep my cards from the year before, and

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Speaker 1: then I filter out some of my faves, especially with

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Speaker 1: people's kids getting older and stuff. I'll keep those and

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Speaker 1: throw them in the big batch, so yours will be

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Speaker 1: around for at least a year. I also there are

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Speaker 1: certain years where I know I'm going to be late,

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Speaker 1: and I make it a Happy New Year's card instead

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Speaker 1: of Christmas because I'm like, I'm not going to make it.

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Speaker 1: So I respect that you embraced National Bagel in order

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Speaker 1: to make your timeline work.

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Speaker 6: It might become an annual tradition.

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Speaker 1: There you go, you should, but yeah, like next time

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Speaker 1: it's Arbor Day, just keep backing it up and send

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Speaker 1: some cards in March.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about memories and intentions. This was hard,

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Speaker 1: but I also did request from the folks that we

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Speaker 1: asked to give us one.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to do that with.

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Speaker 1: A tiny caveat because there were so many memories. But

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Speaker 1: I just have to say my book. Like seeing a

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Speaker 1: book that I wrote be on bookshelves in a store,

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Speaker 1: it's like very surreal. And I have a tendency to

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate things. I do feel the weight of things.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes in this industry there's so much like self congratulations

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Speaker 1: and patting people on the back, and there's awards for everything,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like I try to stay really grounded

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Speaker 1: and not get caught up too much in the industry

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Speaker 1: that I work in. And so sometimes I think that

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Speaker 1: actually makes me downplay things that are a big deal,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I just am onto the next all

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Speaker 1: the time. And when I was looking back at my

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Speaker 1: ear and some of the stuff I did for my

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Speaker 1: book and just like the thrill of it being out

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Speaker 1: in the world and having done this thing that literally

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Speaker 1: for my entire life, I said, I want to write

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Speaker 1: a book and I can did it. I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I need to be more thoughtful about

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Speaker 1: that and not be so ready to like move past

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Speaker 1: what it meant to me and what an accomplishment it is.

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Speaker 1: So I would say my book was the big one.

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Speaker 1: But I also have to say that having David Letterman

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Speaker 1: and his team reach out to me to hop on

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Speaker 1: a zoom with him to talk about Caitlin Clark ahead

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Speaker 1: of their interview, like if you told me even a

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Speaker 1: be like, absolutely not. There's no chance at however in

659
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: my lifetime. But let's say you told me thirty years ago,

660
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: I'd be like what, I'm literally at the library and

661
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: like checking out a book about David Letterman and dreaming

662
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: of being a late night talk show host, Like it

663
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: was so surreal to spend like over an hour and

664
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: just like hanging out with him and how wonderfully was

665
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: And he sent me a you know, typewritten thank you

666
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: note on worldwide pants stationary with callbacks to our conversation

667
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: and jokes, and I'm like, oh my god, friends with

668
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: David Letterman. Now we have inside jokes, so that one too,

669
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: Like that's just going to stick for a long time.

670
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: How about you?

671
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 16: Oh, I love both of those. You have to celebrate

672
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 16: your book. I mean, I agree with you. Like the

673
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 16: amount of self promotion that is required in this world,

674
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 16: it makes me really mad, Like I think maybe more

675
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 16: than I'll just assign each other, like other people to promote,

676
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 16: because it's way easier to promote somebody else than yourself.

677
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: I do that a lot though.

678
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: That is like my number one thing is like trying

679
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: to hype other people so that we don't have to

680
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: only hype ourselves.

681
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 3: Yes, because it sucks.

682
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: How You're like, I'm putting out all this work, but

683
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: unless I tell everyone about it NonStop, they're not going

684
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: to see it. It's going to get lost, and then

685
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: it feels so masturbatory. So I try to do that

686
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: with everybody else's shit that I like so that they

687
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: don't have to do it quite as much.

688
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 16: Yeah, great points, Sarah. So let me talk about myself now.

689
00:33:59,360 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 13: In my.

690
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 16: And I'm I'm just not going to listen to your

691
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 16: rule for this about a moment in time because I

692
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 16: was looking through my camera role and what I kept

693
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 16: coming back to is actually just low key moments with

694
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 16: communities that I have built, and how nice it is

695
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 16: to have friends that I can just text and be like, Hey,

696
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 16: come on over for a bonfire, or Hey, let's watch

697
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,479
Speaker 16: a Netflix show together, and just I cannot overstate enough

698
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 16: how important it is that they are low key things.

699
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 16: They are not big events. It is just having a

700
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 16: low key community, and I really love and appreciate that.

701
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 16: So I just want to remember twenty twenty five as

702
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 16: a time when it didn't have to be big to

703
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 16: be a memory.

704
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 3: I love that. That's really good and actually ties a

705
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: little bit into some of my intentions for next year.

706
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 3: But let's start with your intentions.

707
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 16: So my intentions and I do struggle, Sarah a little

708
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 16: bit with the difference between an intention and a resolution.

709
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: I think one has a weight and an accountability to

710
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: it that will guilt you if you don't do it,

711
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: versus another that is, this is something I intend to

712
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: do and I hope I do, and if not, I

713
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: haven't resolved to do it.

714
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 3: I've intended to.

715
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 16: Okay, I love that great. I have a whole fricking

716
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 16: Bingo card of intentions.

717
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: I made a bango.

718
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 16: Card on New Year's Eve, and I want to fully

719
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 16: lean into the idea that your intentions they can be fun.

720
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 16: I saw somebody did like a pasta recap of twenty

721
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 16: twenty five, documenting all of the different types of pasta

722
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 16: that they ate, and I was like, that is something

723
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 16: I can get behind. And so my intentions include baking

724
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 16: a loaf of bread, trying a new restaurant, playing golf

725
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 16: on a course. Last year, one of my intentions was

726
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 16: to play golf, and I went to a driving range

727
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 16: for the first time ever. And now I want to,

728
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 16: you know, step my way up to a course again.

729
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 16: Low key things.

730
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 3: Yes, these are really good.

731
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: I want to say that I posted something that you

732
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: just made me think of with the pasta thing, and

733
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: it's it was like the vibe that I was taking

734
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: into my intentions as well. It was from at Song

735
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: of Sarah Neth said, every time I ask people if

736
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: they do any New Year's resolutions, it's all, ooh, I

737
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: don't like making them because I fail, or oh no,

738
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't keep up with that. And then when they

739
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: asked me and I tell them about pasta quest I'm

740
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: eating as many different.

741
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 3: Pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year.

742
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: Or when I did Fruit Adventures, every time I saw

743
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: a fruit I had never eaten before, I'd get one

744
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: and eat it and read the Wikipedia article about it.

745
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: They're like, hang on, I forgot you can make fun ones.

746
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: I want a fun one. So I love that, and

747
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: that leads me to often when it comes to New

748
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: Year's I get a little bit too like furrowed brow

749
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: introspective about it, and I put a lot of pressure

750
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: on myself to decide how I'm going to change my

751
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: entire self and the world in the next year. And

752
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: this year, I was like, I just want to see

753
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: what happens if I don't ruminate on it, and I

754
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: see what comes to me just in my every day

755
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: as I'm moving around. But I'm being exposed to people

756
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: talking about the new year or making a plan for

757
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: next year or whatever what comes to me. And one

758
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: of them is very similar to what you're talking about,

759
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: which is like simple joys that I happen to know

760
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: myself well enough to know I sort of have to

761
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: schedule or be intentional about otherwise I don't do them

762
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: as much because I am more of like a big

763
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: kind of big parties, big.

764
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: Events, or just work.

765
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: I just fill my time with work, and if I

766
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: don't like create time to hang out without it being

767
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: like plans, then I won't do it. So among those

768
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: bread is actually one I filmed my mom taking me

769
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: through the entire process of making her amazing homemade bread

770
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: so that I can't mess it up in theory, and

771
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: then I asked for all the different things I need

772
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: to make it for Christmas to like force me to

773
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: actually start doing it. So baking, bread, crafting, in arts

774
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: like my girl Alex, I want to do that more.

775
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: I want to be in my on my.

776
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: Rooftop and in my backyard more like I have a

777
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: house and I have this space that I like, and

778
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: I leave it, and I'm like, why do I keep leaving?

779
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: It's so nice. I would just like to read a

780
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: book there, or like hang out with dogs being in

781
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: a swimsuit. More often this has nothing to do with

782
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 1: the swimsuit. It has to do with like what's happening

783
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: if I'm in a swimsuit, which is I'm at a pool,

784
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm at a beach, I'm in the sun, right, Okay,

785
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: I want to do that more. Because I did a

786
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: full like closet purge over the break and I was

787
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: like reorganizing and giving away some swimsuits and keeping someone.

788
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: I was like, I did not wear enough of these,

789
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: which means I was not in the sun enough and

790
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: I did not go to a beach enough.

791
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 3: So I want to do that.

792
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: And then Aaron Foley's note about dancing, I was like,

793
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm so happy when I'm with my friends dancing, so

794
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: I need to be more intentional about like going to

795
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: a club to dance or taking a dance class or

796
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: doing like a silly dance party in our living room,

797
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: like whatever it is I want to dance for. And

798
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: then I did have a couple more serious ones that

799
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: came to me during the dead time of eating cheese

800
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: and being on the couch, which is, I do want

801
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: to continue to try to change up my routine to

802
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: wake up a little earlier.

803
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 3: I was doing it.

804
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: For a while and then it kind of got out

805
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: of it with work stuff. So I want to adjust

806
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: my wake up time, and I need to build in

807
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: some reading time for things like the New Yorker and

808
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: newspapers and other things.

809
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 6: So I'm laughing at the New Yorker, but it's so

810
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 6: funny to me.

811
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 16: I love the New Yorker. I pay for the New Yorker,

812
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 16: but the idea of reading the New Yorker feels so

813
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 16: out of reach.

814
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 3: Really.

815
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: Oh see, That's the thing is I have like stacks

816
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: of them, and then I'll go through a time when

817
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: I'll be like, awesome, and I'll read a bunch at once,

818
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: and then they'll stack up again, and I'm like, I

819
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: need to like because I find that what happens with

820
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: this kind of job is I get really one note

821
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: because I have to spend so much time on my work,

822
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: and then I don't read about things unless I'm seeking

823
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: it out. And so I like reading something like The

824
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: New Yorker or The Atlantic that I subscribe to, so

825
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: that I'm given information I didn't look for and I

826
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: learned about it, so I would like to create that.

827
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: And then the last one, this is the most important.

828
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: This is very serious, guys. This is the very first

829
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: intention I wrote down in my memos about twenty twenty six,

830
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: and it is that when I leave the house, unless

831
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: it is for a workout, I have to put eyebrows on. Now,

832
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: this is an intention I've had in the past, and

833
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: I have no kept up. I will leave the house

834
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: looking absolutely horrific. I don't have a lot of vanity

835
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. I am reminded of it

836
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: occasionally if someone recognizes me and asks for a photo

837
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: and I'm like, damn it, I look like I haven't

838
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: showered in two weeks. That is never the case. That's

839
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: just how I can look if I don't try. And

840
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: a major part of that is if I do not

841
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 1: draw and fill in my eyebrow holes, I look significantly

842
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: more trashed.

843
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 3: So I will take.

844
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: Ten seconds to put my eyebrows on, even if I

845
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: don't do any other makeup when I am leaving the

846
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: house unless I'm going to work out, because then I'm

847
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: just going to sweat it off. But that is a

848
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: very tiny little step I could take to stop being

849
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: the laziest human alife.

850
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 16: You are definitely not the laziest human alife, is my

851
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 16: own reaction to that.

852
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: Okay, fair, the laziest, I don't know the leastin Now

853
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: that's not right.

854
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 3: What's the phrase for it.

855
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, lazy when it comes to personal.

856
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 16: The least brown person on the streets.

857
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. Okay.

858
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: Well, as you guys can tell, those run the gamut,

859
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: so your intentions can be as well as drawing your

860
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: eyebrows on and some of you probably should. Oh and

861
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: one last intention, Alex, I was filling out this thing

862
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: like thinking about the year, and one of my biggest

863
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: ones is that I want to meet more listeners of

864
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: our shop. I want to figure out to create the

865
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: community connection that we want. And it's just, honestly, y'all,

866
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: it's been really hard with Meish leaving and trying to

867
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: find a third producer again, and all the travel and

868
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: all the work. Like having that extra step of like

869
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: let's plan an event and where will it be and

870
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: how will it look is just was not something we

871
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: had the bandwidth for. But it's been in the back

872
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: of my mind for the whole fricking year, and so

873
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: as we're continuing to settle in as a show like

874
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: That's a big priority for me this year is to

875
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: find some opportunities to bring slices together so we can

876
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: hang out with you and meet you and also connect

877
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: you to each other.

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Speaker 3: So we are working on it, and that is a

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Speaker 3: big one for this year.

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Speaker 6: The Orange together there.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all the slices will come together like Voltron. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't get that reference, congrats on your unwrinkled skin.

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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening always and we want you

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Speaker 1: to get in the game every day too.

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Speaker 3: So here's our good gameplay of the day.

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Speaker 1: If you have read a story or listened to a

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Speaker 1: podcast that you think Little Citrus and your fellow slices

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Speaker 1: could benefit from. As we're all embarking on this new

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Speaker 1: year together, please send it our way. Or maybe if

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Speaker 1: you just receive some really great advice about keeping resolutions

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Speaker 1: or setting powerful intentions or habit change things like that,

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Speaker 1: we want to hear it, so email us, or better yet,

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Speaker 1: call us and leave us a voicemail.

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Speaker 3: We do not get enough voicemails. And you heard my intention.

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Speaker 1: I really want to get to know you all better,

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Speaker 1: so until we can meet in person, we can at

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Speaker 1: least hear your voices, so the email is good game

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Speaker 1: At Wondermedia network dot com, the voicemail line is eight

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Speaker 1: seven two two oh four fifty seventy. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: thanks to all of y'all that used the email and

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Speaker 1: the Google link for the Slicy Awards, we did not

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Speaker 1: forget about them. We are going to reveal the winners

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow's show. Thanks to all of you who did

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Speaker 1: your homework and your good gameplay the day on that one.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget to subscribe, rate.

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Speaker 1: And review Slices. Why not start your year off with

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Speaker 1: a review?

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Speaker 13: Huh?

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Speaker 1: That should be an intention. You just scroll down, click

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Speaker 1: the five stars and tell us that you love us.

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Speaker 1: It really helps the show, I promise, and it's super easy.

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Speaker 1: Watch a poem that kicks off the new year right,

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Speaker 1: rating ten out of ten positive vibes review. As I

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Speaker 1: kind of alluded to earlier, a new year sort of

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Speaker 1: makes me a little introspective and thoughtful, So I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll allow me a little bit of this earnest moment

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Speaker 1: here because I wanted to share a poem with you,

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Speaker 1: and it's from one of my favorite follows, Lindsey Rush.

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Speaker 1: Who goes by Mary Oliver's drunk cousin on Instagram. And

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Speaker 1: I just think the message of the poem hits the

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Speaker 1: spot right now, in this particular moment in time. By

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Speaker 1: the way, there's a pun on wine with an h

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Speaker 1: and wine the drink early on that you wouldn't catch

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Speaker 1: without seeing the words. Okay, it's called what pray tell

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Speaker 1: is the alternative. I suppose we could mope, We could fret.

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Speaker 1: We could whine about it, or whine about it, or

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Speaker 1: panic at the local disco, or go right off the

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Speaker 1: deep end. We could throw in the towel or fall

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Speaker 1: to pieces, or sing only the blues.

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Speaker 3: But where's the fun in that?

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Speaker 1: We know all too well that life is short yet long,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes good and sometimes bad, and nearly.

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Speaker 3: Always very very weird.

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Speaker 1: So if the universe continues to be horny for lemons,

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Speaker 1: we may as well squeeze some juice out of it

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Speaker 1: while we can. We may as well wake up and

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Speaker 1: choose vibrance, and believe the hype and give into the

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Speaker 1: female urge to romanticize reality. We may as well surrender

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Speaker 1: to the part of us that holds onto hope like

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Speaker 1: a hammer. At least that's my plan, even though it

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Speaker 1: might make a fool of me one day, even though

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Speaker 1: it's treacherous and tenuous and really the coolest choice, even

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Speaker 1: though every time I almost don't, I always do.

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Speaker 3: And if you find yourself thinking how does she do it?

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Speaker 1: Just know that living for the hope of it all

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Speaker 1: isn't always effortless or easy or euphoric. But a few

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Speaker 1: decades in, please to report, so far, so good. So

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Speaker 1: here's to livin for the hope of it all this

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Speaker 1: year slices. Now it's your turn to rate and review.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, See you tomorrow. Be sure to check

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Speaker 1: back in for those winners of the slices. Good game,

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Speaker 1: Friends of the show, Good game, slices, you made it

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Speaker 1: another year you waking up to news of another unprecedented

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Speaker 1: act or statement. Can we get some fucking precedented times

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Speaker 1: over here?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 1: Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports

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Speaker 3: Wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Production by Wonder Media Network, our producers are alex Azzie,

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Speaker 1: Grace Lynch, Taylor Williamson, and Lucy Jones. Our executive producers

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Speaker 1: are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder.

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Speaker 1: Our editors are Emily Rudder, Britney Martinez and Gianna Palmer.

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