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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia and Amanda.

Happy New Year's Eve. Happy New Year's Eve. Girl, what are you doing? Hopefully nothing. We're recording this obviously ahead of time. I'm hoping I'm doing nothing on New Year's Eve this year. Yeah, I'm hanging out with a BFF friend of the show, Leslie and her husband Chuck. And I was like, hey, can I come over on New Year's Eve? And she's like, uh, and I was like, I want to watch Jeopardy and go to bed by like 10 o'clock. And she goes, yes. Yes, you can. I hope that everyone listening to this has a relaxing New Year's Eve, that's what you want and a absolutely buck wild one if that's what you want as well. But hey, 2025, certainly a hell

of a year, huh? Julia, I want to lamb the door, bolt it shut, put a salt circle or a salt

line over the threshold and maybe sprinkle some rue in there, the herb, just to just to make sure

nothing could come back in. That's fair. That's fair. And as we wrap up on this year, Amanda, I've been thinking a lot about how we tend to celebrate the beginning and ends of years.

Like in general, like we were just talking about, we tend to throw parties, we'll get a little bit drunk, we'll reflect on how the year went and on how the year ahead of us is going to take shape.

We think about the things that we want to bring forward with us, the things that we want to

leave behind, the things we want to change, right?

And in thinking about that, I wanted to highlight a New Year's tradition that maybe people

have heard about in passing before, but might not be familiar with the specifics.

So Amanda, I have to ask you, as I always do at the beginning of every episode, have you heard of

The Feast of Fools? Sure haven't, but I'm excited to learn. I think you'll be very excited to learn.

My argument in general for this episode is going to be,

wait, to bring it back. Okay. And I will say, Julia, you have really helped me get into

taro over the last year. And The Fool is a card that I feel really strongly about. So I'm excited

to see if there are any parallels between The Fool and the Feast of Fools. Exactly. The Fool,

as a tarot card, is all about like new beginnings and stepping forward without

being burdened by like the knowledge of your past. It's why it's like the zero card in a tarot deck.

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