Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gimalski look back and reflect on the past year.

Okay. reflect on the past year. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of

J-CK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from L.A., still here, still in L.A., and I'm with?

Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-C-K Online, still in New York, still here.

We're all good.

Yeah, I must say I'm momentarily still in L.A., but this is the week after Thanksgiving, and I am heading off to Mexico good. Yeah. I must say I'm momentarily still in LA, but this is the week after Thanksgiving and I am heading

off to Mexico tomorrow.

Nice.

Nice.

Very nice.

Taking a little vacation.

I love escaping after Thanksgiving because people are still kind of slowly getting back into

their routines.

You know, it's not such a full-on week this week.

So I head off tomorrow Tuesday morning, come back on Saturday, back in action for almost all of December. So it feels like a great little respite before the holiday. Yeah, that sounds cool. And I got my, you said you got your booster, you were telling me. I did. I got it the day before Thanksgiving. What about, did you get your booster

too? You know, it was weird. So we were trying to make appointments and we couldn't get any place, right? And then my niece said there was this food town near her where you could just go in and get it. So I went in and I got it. It was very weird. But, uh, okay. Do you feel after, did you have any side effects?

Yeah, I was a little tired.

I kind of fell asleep.

But no. It was very weird, but, uh, okay. How did you feel after, did you have any side effects?

Uh, yeah, I was a little tired. I kind of fell asleep, but that was it. Of the three I've had, that was probably the least side effects of that. So, um, I'm boosted. I'm boosted. Yeah, me too. I'm stoked. I actually, I had it the day before Thanksgiving and felt fine that day and then felt super rundown on Thanksgiving, but luckily I didn't have to do a thing. I just sat there on my

parents' couch kind of looking a little forlorn. So yeah, I am boosted and ready. And just about everybody in my family's boosted. I think it just reminds us that this is really the pain of the butt that won't go away and much more. I mean, we joke about it because it's easier

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