Brad and Mirre for the Culture.

Love you, a Pee.

All right, everybody.

Welcome back.

It is 2025, and this is the first episode of the year

of Brad and Mirra for the Culture.

I'm Brad Listy, and I'm here with Mira Gonzalez.

What up? Here we are and we are coming out of the holiday season, which, you know,

it's always a little bit loaded emotionally. It's always a little bit stressful for me. I don't like getting my rituals like disrupted my normal

schedule. I just like to do my normal shit. I don't want to have to like stop doing that stuff.

But I guess it's maybe good for me because it forces me to get out of my comfort zone.

I have to not hike one time in your fucking life. Oh no, I hiked. I always hike.

Like here's the thing. I always hike.

Like, here's the thing.

I do that so early in the morning that nobody messes with me. Nobody's even up. I'm out the door. That's so psychotic. That's so insane. Yeah. It's like, it's my mental health routine. But, uh, makes my mental health actively worse. Did you have good holidays? Well, these were pretty good. Yeah, they were exhausting. Very exhausting as holidays often are.

But, you know, it's nice to get together with all my siblings and family and hang out.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Between Thanksgiving, because we talked about Thanksgiving back when Thanksgiving happened,

and you were kind of describing the hell of it. I'm curious to know, like, between Thanksgiving

and Christmas slash Hanukkah, is there a holiday that you find more taxing than the others?

Like, is Thanksgiving worse than Thanksgiving? Yeah. Thanksgiving's worse thing. Yeah. Because like a Christmas

is like I'll go to my mom's house like in the morning and we'll like, you know, hang out for a bit and then like

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