Hey, Out and About listeners, you can find every episode on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Pride members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right, everyone, welcome back to Out and About. We took the last two weeks off and we really needed it, but we are back. It is a new year. It is 2026. It is me. It is Kelly Kiegs. And we're ready to rip it the fuck up.

Woo. Right now. Kelly, you're back from London. How you doing? Talk to me. I'm back from London. And again, by the skin of my teeth, I did not want to come back at all. I loved your energy in that intro. Thank you. We're bringing good energy to 2026. Lord knows we need it.

Lord knows we really do need it, by the way.

But no, I had a lovely time in London.

I had a lot of tea. in that intro. Thank you. We're bringing good energy to 2026. Yeah, Lord knows we need it. Lord knows we really do need it, by the way.

And, but no, I had a lovely time in London.

I had a lot of tea. I had a lot of booze. I had a lot of good food. Delicious Indian food in the world is what I hear. In the world. And I'll tell you what, I've been there now a few times. times every time I go I've Indian food because it's like it's the thing and I went

there this this is dot not feather

correct this is dot on feather yes and I went and I went to a place called empire empire which I'm

the girls in my DMs are telling me to gate keep it but I'm sorry I can't it was too fucking good

it's kind of a small spot but well worth well worth the trip and then of course a little cocktail

after perhaps down the street of

the pelagin and so yeah i uh i had a wonderful time i'm so happy to hear that i want to hear more

though about your time home because i believe that you let slip that you had a sober new year's so

kelly this is this is actually i just don't doesn't quite compute this is all. I had my first sober New Year's. I don't even want to say the number out loud in, because it's like making me reevalued my life. Yeah. First sober New Year's in 17 years. Well, Pat, I said, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised because I cannot remember a time.

No.

I didn't have at least a sip on a New Year's Eve, even at a young age, probably too young to be having it. And I'm sure that it's now more years that I've drank on New Year's Eve than not in my life. You know what I mean? That's exactly what it was. And I was all depressed on the couch and I was like, you got to go out, you got to go out.

And there were certain things going on.

I just didn't have it in me to go out.

Yeah. my life. You know what I mean? That's exactly what it was. And I was all depressed on the couch and I was like, you got to go out, you got to go out.

And there were certain things going on.

I just didn't have it in me to go out and drink. And hangovers are such a deterrent. And also once I saw that number 17, I was like, are you a fucking like alcoholic here? Like what is happening. Describe exactly what you mean. So you, did you like have a casual drink on the couch or did you like literally not a drop of booze, sober as fuck?

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