Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to bet your Happy Hour. I'm
Speaker 1: Joe and I'm Serena, and.
Speaker 2: We are here today with a little New Year's Eve episode.
Speaker 1: Just Serena and I chatting it up, talking about this year,
Speaker 1: next year, and all the things in between.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get into twenty twenty five, a little bit
Speaker 4: about us and our year and the we're gonna do
Speaker 4: a little bit about the podcast in our twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five recap and review all.
Speaker 5: The things in between.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get uh.
Speaker 1: Let's get personal, twenty twenty five personal. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start. You want to go, h question for question here?
Speaker 3: No, you just do it?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's start with this year as a whole.
Speaker 1: When you think back on it, what word would you
Speaker 1: use to describe it?
Speaker 3: Oh, my god, probably transitional?
Speaker 5: Transitional? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: I got my Green card this year. I've done a
Speaker 4: lot of transitioning from Toronto to hear it feels like,
Speaker 4: despite the fact that I've lived in New York for
Speaker 4: four years, it's felt like a big transition year on
Speaker 4: a personal level for me. And professionally, I made some
Speaker 4: changes this year yeah that have also felt very transitional.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I feel like it's a good word. I turned.
Speaker 3: How old I turned this year twenty eight twenty eight.
Speaker 4: People say when you turn twenty seven, you develop like
Speaker 4: this sense of clarity of like what is serving you
Speaker 4: and what isn't serving you, And I definitely feel like
Speaker 4: I felt that when I turned twenty seven. I felt
Speaker 4: like I went into twenty twenty five because I've like
Speaker 4: a late October birthday being like, Okay, I kind of
Speaker 4: have a vision for this year, and actually I feel
Speaker 4: like I executed kind of like all the things that
Speaker 4: I went into this year wanting to do, and some things,
Speaker 4: you know, were surprises or something's got decided like later
Speaker 4: in the year. But I think overall everything worked out
Speaker 4: very well and will hopefully continue.
Speaker 3: To work out very well.
Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't love this year personally. I thought it
Speaker 1: was I actually found it to be.
Speaker 2: Quite stressful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually been more stressful as I would say, Like,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like the middle of the year was chill,
Speaker 1: like summer was chill, and it was more like since.
Speaker 2: Like fall. His hit which usually is like the opposite
Speaker 2: for us, but.
Speaker 1: I have I've been like very anxiety ridden and very
Speaker 1: stressed out. So I'm actually looking forward to midnight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't disagree.
Speaker 4: I think this has been a big year for both
Speaker 4: of us for a lot of different reasons. But transition
Speaker 4: comes with a lot of stress, and change comes with
Speaker 4: a lot of stress, and decision making comes with a
Speaker 4: lot of stress, and I think all good things. But
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to a less transitional twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: actually and kind of trying to sync into I don't know,
Speaker 4: just like sinking into a place where.
Speaker 3: We feel a little more.
Speaker 4: I actually just don't want to transition next year, I guess,
Speaker 4: is what I'm saying. You know, like we did a
Speaker 4: lot this year, it feels like and I am just
Speaker 4: hoping to reap the benefits of those decisions next year.
Speaker 2: Right, that's fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's one moment from this year that really stands
Speaker 1: out to you?
Speaker 4: M I would say, well, getting my green card was huge.
Speaker 4: I mean that was like a two and a half
Speaker 4: year journey and that was just like, yeah, a huge,
Speaker 4: huge moment in my year that I was working towards
Speaker 4: for so long. And our trip to Japan and South Korea,
Speaker 4: I mean really unforgettable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a big one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've been talking about doing that since we
Speaker 4: got together. It's been like a dream trip of mine
Speaker 4: and I'm just so glad we did it this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I agree with both of those, just like even like
Speaker 1: the montreal of it all of going to get your
Speaker 1: green car then having getting denied at first because it
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't have some of the right paperwork, having
Speaker 1: to go back. My brother got married this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was that, so probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your best man's speech, my.
Speaker 5: Best man speech.
Speaker 1: What surprised you most about this year? Either personally or professionally.
Speaker 3: Surprised me most.
Speaker 1: It really surprised me how painful it would be to
Speaker 1: lose a tone from the marathon two months later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Joe a few weeks ago had his big toe
Speaker 4: cut off my sorry, his big toe nail.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: They had to stick of needle in there numb at
Speaker 1: five times, slice it open. I watched the whole thing
Speaker 1: almost passed out.
Speaker 2: It was horrible. Really has has made me really consider
Speaker 2: running marathons in the future, like it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is so hard on your body, not
Speaker 4: just your body, like anyone that runs a marathon. Yeah,
Speaker 4: impact on your body is intense, I make no doubt
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to deal with, like you know, being
Speaker 1: sore and everything for like a week after and all that,
Speaker 1: Like that's but like then when we linger on for
Speaker 1: like a couple of months, where like now that I
Speaker 1: have like a toenail that's half off, I gotta go
Speaker 1: get it removed. And then like the pain of them
Speaker 1: like all right, like I love it, like pay no
Speaker 1: game whatever.
Speaker 2: But like no, no, I'm not I'm.
Speaker 5: Not a professional athlete. I don't need to do it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so stay tuned for him running the marathon
Speaker 4: twenty twenty six because I just feel like I feel
Speaker 4: like it's one of those things like you know how
Speaker 4: they say pregnant women give birth and it's like incredibly painful,
Speaker 4: but you get this rush of endorphins after you give
Speaker 4: birth that kind of makes you forget how painful it was,
Speaker 4: and because of that, women can do it again and
Speaker 4: again and again.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like that happens with the marathon too, Like
Speaker 4: I feel like, for three months after, you're like that
Speaker 4: was so hard. My body took such a beating, and
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, August rolls around and you're like,
Speaker 4: why wouldn't I do it again?
Speaker 1: I sometimes thinking to think about the act of having
Speaker 1: a baby of like the like delivering a child just
Speaker 1: like Carrie and not even just delivering it, carrying it
Speaker 1: for nine months has to a be so uncomfortable. Yes,
Speaker 1: it just has to be like I would be. That
Speaker 1: would be like driving me insane. How uncomfortable that has
Speaker 1: to be. And then pushing it out of such a small.
Speaker 3: Pushing it out of your body.
Speaker 2: Pushing it out of you.
Speaker 1: It is so like just that, Like if you actually
Speaker 1: sit back and just think about what's happening.
Speaker 5: It is so insane. It's like so wild, is it's.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, women are just out here making.
Speaker 2: People, making people. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: We are really all just you know, animals.
Speaker 1: Okay, last question that will jump to twenty twenty five podcasts. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's something you're more intentional about in your relationships now
Speaker 1: than you were a year ago?
Speaker 4: Choose wisely something that you're more intentional about in your relationship? Yes,
Speaker 4: I think for us, I was actually just thinking about
Speaker 4: this today. Is having a balance between work time together and.
Speaker 3: Personal time together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we struggle with that, which is fine because we
Speaker 4: both love working. We love working together, but we both
Speaker 4: work from home together in our apartment that we live in,
Speaker 4: so there's like no boundaries, which most of the time
Speaker 4: is fine. But I think that's something that we are
Speaker 4: starting to become more intentional about and can get even
Speaker 4: better at next year.
Speaker 2: Which is Serena's way of telling me to chill out.
Speaker 5: Fair, Which is.
Speaker 4: Fair because that doesn't have an off switch. He really doesn't, and.
Speaker 5: No, I don't, and it keeps me up at night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not good for you either. I'll wake
Speaker 4: up in the middle of the night and he'll be
Speaker 4: like on his email at two in the morning. Okay,
Speaker 4: but wait, there's another question on here. I'm gonna ask,
Speaker 4: and you have to answer too. What are you becoming
Speaker 4: more intentional about with your relationships?
Speaker 2: With my relationships?
Speaker 3: It doesn't even have to be with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think it's more about.
Speaker 2: I feel like I do a good job of this.
Speaker 1: But I think it's just just spending you know, quality
Speaker 1: time with uh, you know, friends, family, and just like
Speaker 1: enjoying you know, relationships in person in person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think it's just like I know.
Speaker 2: I think I want to try to be able to.
Speaker 1: Like something that I enjoyed this year that I didn't
Speaker 1: get to do too much of, but I do enjoy
Speaker 1: like Next year, I'm going to prioritize like being able
Speaker 1: to go off a little more with my friends.
Speaker 3: I can't even believe you just said that.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 2: I feel like that is something that's quite important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you know you feel that way, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think that's a good good Okay, wait
Speaker 4: one more before no, and I reject everything you just said,
Speaker 4: but let one more question that we'll go into podcasts.
Speaker 4: Is there a habit or mindset you're leaving behind in
Speaker 4: this past year?
Speaker 3: Okay, So.
Speaker 4: I in the end of this year have been really
Speaker 4: working on my relationship with my phone. I got a
Speaker 4: hatch alarm clock so that I don't sleep with my
Speaker 4: phone beside my bed, and Joe and I have been
Speaker 4: puzzling at nighttime so that we have something to do
Speaker 4: when we watch TV that's.
Speaker 3: Not scroll on Instagram. But I want to continue.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'll be able to leave that
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, because I just don't think that's realistic.
Speaker 4: But I want to continue working on my relationship with
Speaker 4: phone and social media. I actually don't feel like I
Speaker 4: have an unhealthy relationship with social media in terms of.
Speaker 3: Like a comparison mindset.
Speaker 4: I just feel like I genuinely reach for it, like
Speaker 4: as a like a thoughtless habit that I don't need to.
Speaker 4: Like I'll get in an elevator and I'll try to
Speaker 4: open Instagram.
Speaker 3: What are you doing? You're going down seven floors? Like
Speaker 3: that's insane. Yeah, so I want to work on that,
Speaker 3: and I want to my other habits.
Speaker 2: This is like this is also like hybrid of a
Speaker 2: New Year's resolution type thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the hybrid of a Newyear's resolution, and
Speaker 4: my other one I think would be.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I want to work on, like keeping
Speaker 3: a less cluttered environment.
Speaker 4: I do think we're actually pretty tidy, but I just
Speaker 4: think I could I let things pile up and then
Speaker 4: I do like a big tidy just trying to be
Speaker 4: more discipline of being on top of it is a
Speaker 4: habit I want to leave in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I love that for you, what about you?
Speaker 5: I think that would be great for me as well.
Speaker 2: I will say that I need to.
Speaker 1: Like the truth is I am very much a.
Speaker 2: Free spirit more of.
Speaker 1: I'm more of, you know, just like hippiesque like I'm
Speaker 1: very chill person. You are in you aret like no
Speaker 1: I am, And sometimes I lose that side of me
Speaker 1: because I have I.
Speaker 2: Have serious psychological issues.
Speaker 1: With constantly worrying about things going wrong anxiety. I just
Speaker 1: can't like I am instantly like I go through pockets
Speaker 1: of every year.
Speaker 5: When I say pockets.
Speaker 1: Months just internally and outwardly panicking about things that just
Speaker 1: are a out of my control and be like I
Speaker 1: do this every year and every year it's fine, and
Speaker 1: I keep doing it. So I need to work on
Speaker 1: going back to who I truly am, which you know
Speaker 1: is definitely more on the hippie chill.
Speaker 4: I don't even know where you are not chill or
Speaker 4: free spirited, and I can be, but I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: you are at your core?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to. I need to spend a
Speaker 1: little more. I need to prioritize like.
Speaker 5: More nature.
Speaker 3: I love that. I would love to spend more time
Speaker 3: in nature.
Speaker 5: I need.
Speaker 1: I need more time in nature to get back to
Speaker 1: my core of who who?
Speaker 3: Who you want to be?
Speaker 1: I not who I want to be? Who I really am.
Speaker 3: I just don't know why you think you're a chill.
Speaker 2: Free spirited person like I am so chill.
Speaker 3: I would say you're chill with me, and I like.
Speaker 5: Relationship in general.
Speaker 4: But as a person, you're pretty You got some big
Speaker 4: feelings and that's okay.
Speaker 3: I love that about you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's it's it's about how I express
Speaker 1: those feelings.
Speaker 3: Yes, everyone has processed those feelings.
Speaker 5: Everyone has big feelings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have a lot of big feelings in
Speaker 4: one day that are very different from one another.
Speaker 5: They fight with feature.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk a little bit about twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: podcasts and okay, so now let's we're gonna review Happy
Speaker 1: Hour twenty twenty five. All right, So when you look
Speaker 1: back on this year, what's a conversation or guest that
Speaker 1: really stood out to you?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, are we doing our twenty twenty five Batchel?
Speaker 3: Happy Hour wrapped?
Speaker 2: I love a wrap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, let's give me one.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, can I tell you something.
Speaker 4: My number one Uber eats order on my Uber wrapped
Speaker 4: this year was Chipotle, and I really would love for them.
Speaker 3: To send me a gold card.
Speaker 4: But I was only the top ten percent and I
Speaker 4: think if I get into the top like three percent,
Speaker 4: maybe they'll do it.
Speaker 3: Chipotle. If you're listening, how do you see?
Speaker 5: You're wrapped?
Speaker 3: You go to uber it was there and it's called
Speaker 3: your you Ber.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm on you.
Speaker 3: Do you see it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Oh, it might be gone. Now you might have missed it.
Speaker 5: I might have missed it.
Speaker 4: But this is the Bachelor Happy Hour twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: rapped kind of okay, which is so fun?
Speaker 1: All right, So is there when you look back on
Speaker 1: this year, is there a conversation or guests that really
Speaker 1: stood out? And now when we talk about this year,
Speaker 1: we have Grant season of The Bachelor and then No Bachelorette, Yes,
Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise and Golden Yes, and then obviously like
Speaker 1: the in Betweens people that we know that have come on,
Speaker 1: if any of those conversations stood out to you?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, what would it would? What would it be?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go with our interview with Jeremy.
Speaker 4: We got to do that in person at that I
Speaker 4: Hurt studio in New York, which was really nice for
Speaker 4: us because we don't get to do a lot of
Speaker 4: interviews in person, and.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hate to say it was fun for
Speaker 3: us because he.
Speaker 4: Was like really going through it and there was a
Speaker 4: lot of opinions about his time on the show and
Speaker 4: the way he was acting. But I do love it
Speaker 4: when we get the opportunity to give someone who's kind
Speaker 4: of in the heat of like who's going through it,
Speaker 4: going through it and like in the fire, to sit
Speaker 4: down with them and give them the space to share
Speaker 4: their story.
Speaker 5: And how they're handling it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how they're handling it, what they're going through. I
Speaker 3: think it.
Speaker 4: He was you know, he was open to being honest
Speaker 4: with us, and we were excited to give him that space,
Speaker 4: and we like Jeremy and Yeah, I just thought that
Speaker 4: that felt good, being like, oh, like, we're gonna use
Speaker 4: this podcast to give this guy his moment, and that
Speaker 4: opportunity doesn't always present itself.
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I agree, that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good call. And there is just something about interviewing people
Speaker 1: in person that it just makes it like we could
Speaker 1: have good conversations over Zoom.
Speaker 2: We do, but it just makes it a more I
Speaker 2: just feel like the guest.
Speaker 1: Is more comfortable totally, because sometimes you can't always pick
Speaker 1: up on our energy over you know, this little laptop
Speaker 1: screen and yeah, I think people could come on and
Speaker 1: be very like cautious of just us. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: just makes it harder for people to want to open up,
Speaker 1: which I totally understand. So there is that connection in person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and yeah, it looks like.
Speaker 1: Bailey and Jeremy are still really happy. So happy for them.
Speaker 1: What's something about hosting the podcast this year that people
Speaker 1: might not realize?
Speaker 4: I mean there's so much I feel like we don't
Speaker 4: real dive into the behind the scenes of this podcast
Speaker 4: or how it works. I guess something people might not
Speaker 4: realize maybe they do, is like we fully set up
Speaker 4: and take down a podcast studio in our living room
Speaker 4: every single time we record this. Like we have a
Speaker 4: light on us right now, we have like full blown
Speaker 4: mic stands, we have systems attached to a work laptop,
Speaker 4: like we're doing our audio on garage band like we do.
Speaker 4: There's like a whole set in here right now to
Speaker 4: record this podcast that we literally set up and take
Speaker 4: down every recording.
Speaker 1: It's also a very chaotic space right now too, with
Speaker 1: like the Christmas tree and the lights.
Speaker 2: And then dry and Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 3: Going on off camera in this space.
Speaker 4: But we do our best to make it look cute
Speaker 4: on zoom.
Speaker 1: And then you obviously always want to prep for anyone
Speaker 1: that you're interviewing, even though like we watch them on
Speaker 1: the show. You want to get a little you know,
Speaker 1: background into the But sometimes I like to do less
Speaker 1: because I like to learn as I go, like on
Speaker 1: the Spot, because I'm a very free spirited, curious, very
Speaker 1: curious person that when someone says something that I find intriguing,
Speaker 1: I want to know more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, curious George, curious, curious Joe over here, I'd.
Speaker 1: Lose it by mid Is there something you've learned as
Speaker 1: a host about listening, asking questions or just showing up
Speaker 1: for our conversations? I could go first on that. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say from doing this podcast and interviewing people,
Speaker 1: definitely I've learned. Just I don't think I was a
Speaker 1: really judging person ever going into this, but like you know,
Speaker 1: always always sitting here being aware that there are two
Speaker 1: sides to every story and even if the person is wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, people make mistakes, and like I think it's
Speaker 1: just going into every conversation not being judgmental because it's
Speaker 1: easy to do and you watch something like what Reality
Speaker 1: TV is great at is making you feel a certain
Speaker 1: way about a certain person, and it's like these are
Speaker 1: people and they're going through it, and even if they're
Speaker 1: not aware of the mistake they made, like you know,
Speaker 1: let's take it easy. So I think it's just like
Speaker 1: giving people as much grace as possible because none of
Speaker 1: us are perfect. And like, sure, it's easy for us
Speaker 1: now because we were a successful story on the show
Speaker 1: and everything went really well for us, and we are
Speaker 1: in control of this podcast, so we could kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a little more control. But like
Speaker 1: it's you know, being able to just like understand, like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's just not as easy for some people, and some
Speaker 1: people don't get as lucky as we did, and that's just.
Speaker 5: To just be like mindful of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like anyone that comes on this podcast, we
Speaker 4: never have any preconceived plan to paint them in a
Speaker 4: certain life or light or make them come off a
Speaker 4: certain way. Like we really want to be a blank
Speaker 4: canvas for them to come on and tell their story
Speaker 4: their way so that people can see their point of view.
Speaker 4: I think that my thing from a more like logistical
Speaker 4: perspective is being prepared with questions and like the main
Speaker 4: things that we want to get to the bottom of
Speaker 4: and ask these people. Obviously we want to be prepared
Speaker 4: and like know what the big topics are that we
Speaker 4: need to cover. But when they're answering a question, like
Speaker 4: not being like, Okay, we need to talk about this next,
Speaker 4: so like we're gonna ask this next, like really listening
Speaker 4: to what they're saying and letting their answer guide us
Speaker 4: into what our next question is. Yeah, So it doesn't
Speaker 4: just feel like question answer, question answer. Try to make
Speaker 4: it feel fluid and like a conversation. And you know,
Speaker 4: if they say something interesting in their answer, like pulling
Speaker 4: that thread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that that is one of the
Speaker 1: more challenging that's very.
Speaker 3: I still struggle with that sometimes.
Speaker 1: And that's also the challenging part of Zoom and Over
Speaker 1: and not in person.
Speaker 3: Interviews because it doesn't feel as intimate or personally.
Speaker 1: It just makes it harder to get like, it makes
Speaker 1: it harder for the conversation to flow more organically and
Speaker 1: be able to pull things when Zoom is involved. Cool,
Speaker 1: let's go one more and then we will wrap this thing.
Speaker 1: Has doing this podcast changed how you think about Bachelor
Speaker 1: Nation or the people who come out of it. I've
Speaker 1: kind of always had, for the most part, the same
Speaker 1: thoughts as far as like everyone's like, like I've I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever had a bad interaction with
Speaker 1: anybody off the show that I've that that's been on
Speaker 1: the show. Like even if you watch somebody, you're like,
Speaker 1: that person's a dick, Like, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: had a bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say I'm pretty much always pleasantly surprised
Speaker 4: by our guests. Yeah, And like I think that's a
Speaker 4: good thing for people watching to keep in mind, is
Speaker 4: like even if you think you can't stand this person,
Speaker 4: you'll probably meet them in person and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: never mind, Like they're great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, definitely great. Well that wraps it.
Speaker 1: That is a twenty twenty five Make sure you download
Speaker 1: has described to batter a happy hour and everyone have
Speaker 1: a happy New Year's Eve and good luck for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six.
Speaker 3: We hope you.
Speaker 4: Stay safe and you ring in the new year however
Speaker 4: you wish to in the best way possible. Thanks for
Speaker 4: listening for the last year with us, Happy twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: and here's to an amazing twenty twenty six. We'll have
Speaker 4: Newance This have interviews for you guys every single week.
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: Fie