Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to you, and that's why you really missed New
Speaker 3: Year's edition.
Speaker 2: Happy New Years.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And if you're in Brazil or speak Portuguese, re Liz.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Am Brazilian?
Speaker 1: Now wow, Happy New Year, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Jenna.
Speaker 1: We are almost there.
Speaker 3: We are almost out of twenty twenty three, and we
Speaker 3: were in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I okay, Well, first of all, happy here everyone.
Speaker 3: We're excited that you're here with us if you're listening
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, or happy New Year to you
Speaker 3: if you're listening to this in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: You guys are the best, and we are so grateful for.
Speaker 3: You every week, every week, joining us, tuning in, writing in.
Speaker 1: We're just very grateful.
Speaker 2: This will technically be our third calendar year that we have.
Speaker 2: We've been doing the show. We started in late twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, we did all of twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 2: now twenty twenty four. We're continuing this train. Thanks to
Speaker 2: all of you who listen every single week, multiple times
Speaker 2: a week. Tell your friends, tell your fan you know,
Speaker 2: let us know.
Speaker 3: What you want to hear from us next year? Who
Speaker 3: anybody else you want to hear on the podcast? Anybody
Speaker 3: from guests really fans music guests.
Speaker 2: In addition to you wanting Diana, we.
Speaker 3: Know, we know, we've heard you, Kevin. Yes, are you
Speaker 3: excited for twenty twenty four? How do you feel about
Speaker 3: leaving twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: I feel great about leaving. Twenty twenty three was not
Speaker 2: my favorite.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I was sick a lot. If you follow me on
Speaker 2: like Twitter or anything, you know, I'm always complaining about
Speaker 2: being sick. I think at twenty twenty four I will
Speaker 2: have to have a couple procedures to hopefully prevent me
Speaker 2: from getting so sick this much. It was just really
Speaker 2: like debilitating, and I felt defeated for a lot of
Speaker 2: the year because you're like, I can't function because either
Speaker 2: have a science infection or strip throat.
Speaker 1: Feel like guess who has strip? Are Youah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And when you have things with your sinuss, it
Speaker 2: messes with your concentration and with your head and everything
Speaker 2: is just you feel like your head's going to burst.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to be motivated and do a lot
Speaker 2: when you're that sick.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't even imagine. I deep empathy for you.
Speaker 2: I'm over it. Yeah, So here's twenty twenty four. Are
Speaker 2: you excited for twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3: I can't wait to get the hell out of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three. It was a really hard year. It was
Speaker 3: a really hardier like the universe was testing me this
Speaker 3: year testing. We had really great times obviously, Like Emma's here,
Speaker 3: so everything is.
Speaker 1: She's happy, she's healthy. We're happy, we're healthy. But David
Speaker 1: and knee surgery at the.
Speaker 3: Beginning of twenty twenty three, like January fourth, his knee
Speaker 3: went down and we were out for he was out
Speaker 3: of commission for months. And then my family had some
Speaker 3: health issues and things like that that are hopefully clear
Speaker 3: up in twenty twenty four, and then we lost.
Speaker 1: Bear this year. It's just been a really weird year
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 3: So I'm just hoping that twenty twenty four is a
Speaker 3: little bit better.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't have high expectations. I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 2: enough of that. Let's just I don't know, get through it,
Speaker 2: don't I don't want to be disappointed or I think
Speaker 2: maybe I'm just expecting it to be a little rougher.
Speaker 2: So maybe my expectations, you know will not be I
Speaker 2: will be let down this time. Yeah, no, because I
Speaker 2: was very excited for twenty twenty three. I felt the
Speaker 2: same way exactly.
Speaker 1: I feel the same I.
Speaker 2: Felt naive, bamboozled.
Speaker 1: Did you have any well, I know you read a
Speaker 1: lot of books. How many books did you read in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: Thirty? Kevin? Yeah, what, well, I don't have a child,
Speaker 2: book I have? You know, I was sick a lot
Speaker 2: and what else?
Speaker 1: Even if I didn't have a kid, I wouldn't read
Speaker 1: thirty books. So it was an accomplishment.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of great like book influencers. I followed
Speaker 2: that read over a hundred.
Speaker 1: I will say I got back into reading in the
Speaker 1: second half of the year. I still didn't read.
Speaker 3: I think maybe I read three books, but.
Speaker 4: I really like I really like why a thrillers or thrillers,
Speaker 4: and like I found a couple of really read books
Speaker 4: and I'm still and now I feel like I'm finding
Speaker 4: a lot and like Reese's Book Club.
Speaker 3: Also, it is really great about categorizing different books, and
Speaker 3: so I have this little list in my Amazon car
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get back to reading as well,
Speaker 1: but that's amazing.
Speaker 2: You need to read tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. That
Speaker 2: sounds great. It's you got it, I have it. I
Speaker 2: still got to give it back to you.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Well you did give it back to me and then
Speaker 3: I forgot it, and so you got to give it
Speaker 3: back to me again.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm excited for it though.
Speaker 2: Demon Copperhead was a great book. Crying in h Mart
Speaker 2: was incredible. Oh yeah, have you read it.
Speaker 1: Jenna, No, not yet.
Speaker 2: It's just going to make you want to eat and cry.
Speaker 1: My two favorite things.
Speaker 2: Oh the way she talks about food. Yes, I know. Oh.
Speaker 2: So I started listening to audiobooks this year for the
Speaker 2: first time, and so a handful of these are audiobooks,
Speaker 2: and I realized the thing that makes me most motivated
Speaker 2: to go to the gym is an audiobook. I'm sure
Speaker 2: some people are listening to all this music that gets
Speaker 2: them like super hyped up, but an audiobook gets me going.
Speaker 2: And so there I was so interesting, not crying in
Speaker 2: h Smart, crying in the gym, listening to Crying and Hmart.
Speaker 1: I did the same thing with Following Our Stars back
Speaker 1: in the day. I read on and finished the book
Speaker 1: on No had to stop.
Speaker 2: No, Jenna had to stop.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: Though. I'm a podcast listener. I'm a big podcast listener.
Speaker 3: Anywhere I go in the car, I'm not listening to music, I'm.
Speaker 1: Listening to podcasts.
Speaker 2: So fair, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: If you need book wrecks, I'm always here. I can
Speaker 2: I read them, so you don't have to. Because there
Speaker 2: was a couple that I read was like nope, will
Speaker 2: you stop?
Speaker 1: Will you finish it? Or will you stop?
Speaker 2: Oh? I used to finish it?
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Like for example, there was one I read this year
Speaker 2: that won the Pulitzer a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: so I was like, okay, and I it was not good.
Speaker 2: I'm very confused, but I also do I tried to
Speaker 2: read some classics this year because I'm really.
Speaker 1: Bad at it and I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: And like things that won like awards, I try to
Speaker 2: read as well to see if you know, trust was
Speaker 2: very good. That one this year in Memoriam was very good.
Speaker 1: Well, this turned into the New Year's Book podcast.
Speaker 2: That's all I want. I can talk about books for hours. Literally,
Speaker 2: I've gotten so many trips and made friends talking about books.
Speaker 2: So ah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I hate this question. Do you have resolutions?
Speaker 2: I don't ever, but you know what I might this year?
Speaker 2: What in terms of necessarily a resolution? But maybe my
Speaker 2: resolution is to set goals for myself. Oh that's good
Speaker 2: or like timeliness. I don't really do that and like
Speaker 2: I'm just we're creative and we just let things flow.
Speaker 2: I think I need a little structure.
Speaker 1: So a lot of artists do, I get it.
Speaker 2: And so I think maybe for me, I will try
Speaker 2: to set some goals this year.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: I don't know for resolution is the right word, but.
Speaker 3: I know I don't like that it's a goal, right,
Speaker 3: we're setting goals for our year or a vision board.
Speaker 1: Do you have like a theme for your year?
Speaker 2: Give me an example?
Speaker 3: Okay, so like like last year it was like for
Speaker 3: me it was a consistency.
Speaker 2: M I think my theme for.
Speaker 1: This year it could be structure, right.
Speaker 2: I think it is structure. I think the other thing
Speaker 2: is that I've learned this year. Maybe we can talk
Speaker 2: about lessons we've learned this year. This past year, I
Speaker 2: traveled a lot, and I think because there was a strike,
Speaker 2: so I was, you know, taking it as a reason
Speaker 2: to travel a bunch. But whenever I do that. So
Speaker 2: there's this famous DJ who lives on my street, and
Speaker 2: we ran it to each other on the street and
Speaker 2: had this whole conversation randomly about when you want to
Speaker 2: especially I think if you're a creative person and like
Speaker 2: buckle down and like get whatever's in your head out
Speaker 2: and make it happen, you sometimes you got to commit
Speaker 2: to like staying home and just doing it for some type.
Speaker 2: Some people don't need that. And every time I go
Speaker 2: travel somewhere and then come back, it's like I have
Speaker 2: to take another couple of days to reset and then
Speaker 2: get in that and then you're home for three days
Speaker 2: and then leave again. So you're never going to travel them.
Speaker 2: So I think I'm going to try to stay put
Speaker 2: a lot more this year and like focus on the
Speaker 2: things I want to make happen as opposed to the
Speaker 2: experiences that I wanted to make happen.
Speaker 1: It's good you did it in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I've traveled a lot, so it's okay.
Speaker 3: Last year was like a lot of no, like saying
Speaker 3: no more. I'm being really mindful of like saying yes
Speaker 3: to events and things to go to, and because I
Speaker 3: think in twenty twenty two It's like I wanted to
Speaker 3: do a lot before the baby came, and then like
Speaker 3: I said yes to a lot, and like we were
Speaker 3: renovating the house, and like things just got to be
Speaker 3: too much, and then last year was like saying no
Speaker 3: more and I said allah no, and then like I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to now find a balance.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's balance.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That doesn't quite feel right either, but I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: It's all right. It doesn't have to be tonight, you know,
Speaker 2: you can or it can start at any point during
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get it. Are you ever home
Speaker 1: for New Years?
Speaker 2: I try not to be. I think America has. I
Speaker 2: think we go really gung ho for Christmas, and then
Speaker 2: I don't think we really have a New Year's tradition,
Speaker 2: Like New York has a New Year's tradition, right, but
Speaker 2: I don't think the rest of the US does. Where
Speaker 2: and I've talked about this before, where like the one
Speaker 2: holiday tradition I've formed as an adult was going to
Speaker 2: Brazil every year and it hasn't happened in a while,
Speaker 2: and this year it's happening. Yeah, And so I like
Speaker 2: that they have their traditions and I get to participate
Speaker 2: someone who's not from there, but in somebody else's tradition.
Speaker 2: And I've met the nicest people ever in Brazil and
Speaker 2: they're so welcoming and it feels nice to see how
Speaker 2: another country does that. And they do Christmas differently than
Speaker 2: we do too, where I think it's a much bigger,
Speaker 2: more commercial thing here. But I also know a lot
Speaker 2: of friends who go to other places in the world
Speaker 2: and they also have really specific and interesting traditions for
Speaker 2: New Year's. So I think it's just a thing that
Speaker 2: the US doesn't really do, and it seems like a
Speaker 2: good opportunity to go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I'm all about. Okay, I've never been about traditions. It's
Speaker 1: never been very traditional.
Speaker 3: But this year, obviously, with like Christmas and Hanakah and
Speaker 3: all of these things for them, I've started to create
Speaker 3: new traditions. Right, So, the one US tradition that I
Speaker 3: find interesting because the rest are just crap to me.
Speaker 3: We're more important in your twenties. You're getting your kiss,
Speaker 3: you're doing a champagne toast, you're you know.
Speaker 1: Watching the ball drop. The twelve Grapes is a tradition
Speaker 1: that I found that actually like transcends multiple cultures, right,
Speaker 1: And in the US you do twelve grapes for.
Speaker 3: Signifying one grape for each month of the year, as
Speaker 3: like a cocktail or New Year's Eve, like garnish or something.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know actually where that came from,
Speaker 3: but I like, just like the idea of doing something fun.
Speaker 3: So I think I'll do the grape tradition this year
Speaker 3: and neat twelve grapes.
Speaker 2: Yeah you should. I think like in Brazil, we jump
Speaker 2: over every year seven waves and like shout out like
Speaker 2: a word that you want to like health, wealth, happiness, love,
Speaker 2: whatever you want it to be, or like an attention
Speaker 2: or something. As you like jump over each wave as
Speaker 2: you're all in like white clothing, we all hold each
Speaker 2: other's hands and do it.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I looked it up. It's to ensure good luck.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's more to it than that,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 2: Also think that's what it's. Whatever you put behind it,
Speaker 2: isn't it like it's I.
Speaker 3: Did a really fun tradition on Thanksgiving. It's like flying
Speaker 3: wish paper. So it's an ancient Chinese tradition and basically
Speaker 3: it's these wish papers.
Speaker 1: They're really thin.
Speaker 3: It's like a really thin piece of paper and you
Speaker 3: write three things you wish for on them, and then
Speaker 3: you roll it up into like a little like well
Speaker 3: like kind of tube and you set it down and
Speaker 3: then you light it on fire and then at like
Speaker 3: halfway down at burns.
Speaker 1: It flies into.
Speaker 3: The air, shoots into the air, and then it floats
Speaker 3: down and burns. And we did it this year, and
Speaker 3: we did Emmon did one, and we each did one,
Speaker 3: and we wrent around the table and wrote down our
Speaker 3: little wishes. And I thought that was really fun. So
Speaker 3: if you guys are looking for some new traditions for
Speaker 3: New Year's or for whenever, you can do this around
Speaker 3: a great dinner table.
Speaker 2: It's really fun to do and be safe with fire.
Speaker 3: But Emma kept seeing it, and she doesn't have a
Speaker 3: lot of words yet, but she would say, wow, every
Speaker 3: time I went up in the air, it was just
Speaker 3: so great.
Speaker 1: It was really really great.
Speaker 2: That's so yeah. My contribution, like yours is that's my
Speaker 2: contribution to I don't know why I still get invited
Speaker 2: back to this house for New Years. It was after midnight.
Speaker 2: We were on like the beach looking at the fireworks
Speaker 2: go off. We when people have had a little bit
Speaker 2: to drink. This was like years ago, a decade ago,
Speaker 2: where I used to then round the younger people, like
Speaker 2: let's go skinny dipping in the ocean, and so that's
Speaker 2: now part of the tradition. We're like every year. At
Speaker 2: some point later on in the midnight, people like you're
Speaker 2: not going deep, you're going very shallow in the water,
Speaker 2: and you're with a bunch of people and it's very dark,
Speaker 2: and like parents started joining, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, it was great. But obviously that's my contribution
Speaker 2: to the well. I guess the US does fireworks everywhere
Speaker 2: it is fireworks.
Speaker 1: And there's like a countdown or it's like we did.
Speaker 1: We were in Portugal.
Speaker 3: We were in Porto for New Year's a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago for a pre pandemic, and there's like a
Speaker 3: square in Porto and like hundreds of people come and
Speaker 3: gather kind of like a timesquere.
Speaker 1: Vibe.
Speaker 3: But it was really cool to see like a wholy
Speaker 3: totally different culture and country to be doing like doing
Speaker 3: something similar that felt like communal and we like because
Speaker 3: we really didn't have a lot of New Year's plans.
Speaker 3: We knew that they celebrate that, you know, everybody celebrates it, but.
Speaker 1: Like, you know.
Speaker 3: What, we were going to do so much, a really
Speaker 3: nice dinner, and then we're like, we could just walk
Speaker 3: around and find a bar or something.
Speaker 1: And no, it was crazy that.
Speaker 3: The hotel was like, you want to book something because
Speaker 3: it's really wild. It's like going to New York City
Speaker 3: being like, I don't know, we'll find something, you know,
Speaker 3: But it was really really cool to see and to witness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really special to be able to
Speaker 2: participate in the other people's yeah, celebrations like that. Why
Speaker 2: don't I keep calling you Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: I really have no brain left, you know, the holidays
Speaker 1: really to get out of this year. I did everything.
Speaker 1: I did it all. You really did We did it all.
Speaker 2: I also think there's some sort of similarity between like
Speaker 2: when you're going into I think it's what the whole
Speaker 2: resolution thing, like when you reflect on the year, you're
Speaker 2: thankful for, you know, the things that have X, Y
Speaker 2: and Z for your year and looking forward to what's coming.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like while you're making resolutions is
Speaker 2: also a good time of thanks, which I think is
Speaker 2: similar to thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Part of I think, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for you, Jenna.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm thankful for you, Kevin. We're thankful for all
Speaker 3: of you guys. Thank you for joining us, and happy
Speaker 3: happy New Year. Have a safe and healthy new Year,
Speaker 3: and we will see you in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it, Jenna? Before do you remember I
Speaker 2: used to sneak off to Brazil for New Year's and
Speaker 2: then I would land it in La night or morning of,
Speaker 2: right the morning of, and go straight to the set
Speaker 2: to be there by like saving in time, and I'd
Speaker 2: be like peeling and sunburn and have a beard, and
Speaker 2: it would sit down there and makeup trailer and they
Speaker 2: would have to just like car of a new person out.
Speaker 1: That's usually what happens.
Speaker 2: Well, now we're doing a podcast and we don't have
Speaker 2: to do worry about that schedule.
Speaker 3: Oh well, enjoy the rest of your Brazil.
Speaker 1: Trip, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Enjoy your New Year's everyone making new traditions,
Speaker 2: eat your.
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