Well, my friends, welcome back to Spot On with Link.

Lauren, it's our last episode of the year.

Okay, I don't know about you.

2025 has felt a thousand years long, but it's also gone by in an instant.

I feel like I'm crawling on broken glass to get to the end of this year.

Okay, we have a few days left.

Okay, 2025 has felt like a mix of that show, Survivor, naked and afraid, fear factor, wipe out. Like, we're all just trying to get to the end of this year. I read your comments. You guys know I read all of your comments. I read on Instagram, on X, on TikTok everywhere. People have had a hard time this year, right? People have experienced loss. They've had high highs and low lows.

I think we're all just ready for a fresh start. I hope that all of our problems from 2025 don't follow us into the new year.

I'm always delusional on New Year's Eve, I think. When the clock strikes 12, okay, all my problems are going to wash away.

Blank slate, tabula rosa, clean, but no, I think we will have to

still contend with some of these issues, but people need this break. They need a little bit of

downtime. I hope you had an amazing, amazing, amazing Christmas or Hanukkah to all of our Jewish

viewers, you know, Shabbat Shalom. Christmas morning for me was very chill. We got up, we slept in a little bit,

we opened up some gifts. Now, you guys know I always say the best gifts come in really small

packages, right? Like diamonds and watches and things like that. I opened a small package and I thought,

oh my God, it's a ring, it's a watch, it's something fancy, it's kind of heavy, it's wrapped in nice paper. Turns out it was a candle. Turns out it was a candle. I'm holding this box that's wrapped in paper with a bow. I'm like, oh, it's a ring. It is a ring. Turns out it's a candle. I will tell you guys, though, at least the candle came with a wick,

unlike Megan Markle's candle. So that was the inside joke. I got other incredible Christmas gifts. I got a keyboard, so I'll maybe be doing some parody songs. You might be doing some singing on the show. I was actually thinking of doing a parody now that I have the keyboard of a hard knock life from Annie, but it's going to be about being Megan Markle's publicist or assistant.

You know, it's a hard-knock life from Annie, but it's going to be about being Megan Markle's publicist or assistant. You know, it's a hard-knock life when she's walking around the house screaming at us and wanting us to help her make her jams, jellies, and dog biscuits. So we might be doing that. I got some clothes for Christmas. I got this shirt. Other than that, you guys, I don't really care about material things, but it is nice to get some clothes on Christmas because I don't have that gay gene where I love to go shopping. In fact, I hate shopping. If I'm in a store,

okay, if I'm in a store, I'm there to get in and get out. There's a reason I order clothes online.

I'll get t-shirts on Amazon. I'll wear the same thing over and over and over to the point where my friends and family are calling and saying,

you've worn that shirt a hundred times in a hundred videos in so many episodes. So I hate shopping. So it was nice to get some shirts and some sweaters for Christmas and I will probably be wearing them for decades and decades to come. Now, I heard from many of you guys. A lot of you said that you were with family on Christmas, that you were stressed. Some women were writing me saying they were hiding out in a back room from their in-laws. They're like, I'm hiding from my kids. They need to go back to school. Christmas break will not end. And then some folks were alone on Christmas. And I always say there is no shame in being alone on Christmas. New Year's coming up. There's absolutely no shame in that. There are folks who are single, they're widowed, their kids have moved on. And so there's absolutely no shame in being alone. And I mean, some women were writing me saying they woke up on Christmas and their husbands woke up wanting them to put out. Okay, men, let me, let me just tell you,

okay, your girlfriend or your wife, she's been up all night doing the tree, wrapping gifts,

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