Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Two Hot Takes, joining you from cold, snowy

Minnesota with our lovely sidekick Luna here. Can you see her? She kind of blends in.

She's there, yeah. Can you give her a little Hakuna Matata hold up? Yeah, there you go. A little Lion King baby. Oh, she has a, oh,

it's okay. It's okay. She sometimes coughs, but she's going to be a very cute little mascot.

We just got done recording the episode. We have some very good, some intense stories, but I think it's shaped up to be

to be good. And this episode was never meant to come out. We were supposed to have a day off.

You know, I will be better about this in 2026 and taking some time off, but it didn't feel

right to have the first day of the new year be a Thursday and not give you a little something. True.

But it's been an amazing past year. It just feels like such a crazy shift to like finally be here in

26. And I'm so thankful for all of you for listening. I just, I can't believe what this show has,

has shaped up to be and

the supportive community we have and how much this show means to you. I was reading a lot of

the Christmas episode comments, the holiday episode comments, and just you guys sharing how this

show has impacted your life and how it's created such a positive outlet for you or brought

you comfort or felt like you have friends or even got you out of bad situations. I just came

across this post on the THT subreddit, Female 30, How THT changed my life. And it brought me to tears. I mean, I'm blown away

by you guys and your support. And I just can't thank you enough. So I couldn't leave you

hanging on the first of the year. But bear with me. My grandma, her birthday is today, January 1st, New Year's baby. And we celebrated last night. So I'm rubbing two brain cells together right now. And I'm losing my voice. I think it's the cold weather. Probably. But I think it's going to be a good episode for you. Can't wait to see your comments. Any thoughts? I mean, we kind of talk about the firehorse and how this year is going to bring about some big change. I know I want to put together a full episode more about New Year's resolutions, but obviously those stories have to roll in a bit. So this is just kind of an

odd assortment of good stories that I haven't really found a place for, but have wanted to read

and one amazing, amazing feel-good one at the end. Yeah, I think Happy New Year and let's kick it off.

Okay. Let's dive in. Okay, starting it. Okay, starting it off on a little bit lighter of a foot.

Okay.

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