Happy New Year.

Hi, friends.

It's 2026.

When we're recording this, it's not.

But when this drops, we're speaking to you from the past.

Did we have naps on New Year's Eve?

What did we do?

I can guarantee you. Did you make out with your

crush? Do you have any desire to do the ball drop in New York City ever? Like have you?

Absolutely not. I feel like that. I feel like everyone that lives in around New York City is like,

that is a nightmare. But also everyone I've ever known who has ever done it

is like yeah it was like a huge amount of buildup and then we stood outside in the freezing

cold for five hours because you have to get there so early. Well that's the thing. And like there's no

bathroom. No. And you're like just in this huge horde of people and then it's a literal 10 second event and if you're

watching it on TV and you're getting all like the musical performances and the hosts totally fine

but if you actually go to times where you're quite literally just like standing out if I was in my young

20s and just had that perseverance and like just didn't care about that stuff.

But, you know, at my age, it's like, it sounds like no worst nightmare.

Unless you're in one of the hotels that's just on Times Square in a very high, you know, room where you can look at your window and it's right there in front of you.

And you can just be in a bathrobe.

That is how I would do it. And you're also watching it on TV. That is how I would do it. I would be like just peeking out. There's in sync. Yeah. Or you're there's in sync. You know eventually they're going to come do like rocking New Year's Eve or whatever. And then there's also, I feel like it's either

that or you're like 24 just getting progressively drunker. And then from there you like go out to

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