Oh my gosh, Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome to another year's episode of Just

Say With Justin Marndale New Year. Same podcast. I hope you guys had a wonderful, wonderful

holiday season. We're going to be bringing you all the best in pop culture and news in 2023. I

have to get used to saying that 2023. But yes, what a what a time to be back. It is our first day

back. I honestly was gone for two weeks and I feel it. I feel it in my bones in my body. Actually

walking into the comedy store today, I breathed in the delicious smell of last night's bleach

and urinal cakes. And it got me very nostalgic. And I was like, oh, we're back. We did it.

Yes, so yes, I just want to recap my holiday week for you. A lot of travel.

Not going to lie, I started things off taking a red eye to the beautiful city of Birmingham,

Alabama. And I walked in. And as a badass, I have not only TSA pre-checked, but clear. You know

know, John, happy New Year. I didn't even like introduce you. Good God monster.

Clear is where they like scan your retinas, you know, totally healthy and not for the government.

But like, yeah, you just you get to like skip the line for the travel laying line. You think Sam

Tripoli has that? No, definitely not. No, absolutely not. But walked into LAX and I was like,

there is no one here. Mind you, my flight was at like midnight. So I was like, wow, there's

no one here. This is going to be a piece of cake. Oh, no. Not at all. We get into Birmingham.

Realize that did not we did not check our bags for the connecting flight

from Atlanta to Birmingham. So our bags get off the plane. And I get a notification saying like,

hey, your bags are at the terminal or like baggage claimant. I was like, no, they should be on the

plane with us going to Birmingham from Atlanta. Oh no. So we had to get the bags. Get on a later

flight. We get to Birmingham. Had a wonderful day, a couple days on the farm. My sister-in-law

Francis, who's an amazing painter had us all out on her family farm. It's like 300,000 acres.

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