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I'm Lauren DeYoung Schulman. I'm Aaron Simpson. And I'm Rod at Iingar Plum. And we are back

after a brief winter's nap at the end of 2025, as we all found ourselves full of wine, cheese,

Christmas cheer, eggnog in your coffee, eggnog and Bailey is in your coffee, whatever it was,

that was your jam. So as it is a transition slowly into the 2026 times, I wanted to ask if you guys have any New Year's Eve or Day traditions that are sort of out, either outside the norm or that are worth mentioning here.

Not especially.

I did have friends who have since left Washington, but used to throw this awesome New Year's Eve dinner party.

And it was like the first like grown up New Year's Eve that I ever really like went to.

And so it was kind of immaculate food, but also like high class cocktails.

And there was usually like a trivia game of the year.

And it was, you know, not completely out of the norm, but definitely a tradition that I very much miss. So we have a slightly extended approach or

compressed approach depending on the particular year to New Year's Eve in which we pick

countries across the world that have different time zones in which New Year's Eve in which we pick countries across the world that have different

time zones in which New Year's happens and then watch the fireworks in those countries.

This started when my children were little and I was highly sleep deprived and would like,

be like, let's do New Year's Eve at like 6 p.m. and then I'll go to bed. Like, what countries is it New

Year's Eve at 6 p.m.? And then I'll go to bed. Like what countries is it New Year's Eve at 6 p.m.

And we were in California time. Anyway, so we, but we try to pick different countries even like

so, you know, the European time zone, lots of countries you can pick from. This year, we picked

France for the for for the sort of Europe time zone and I highly recommend the

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