New Year, Slightly Improved Me

Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness

Kim Holderness

Holderness Podcast, Self-improvement, Parenting, 40s, Laugh Line, Gen X, Penn Holderness, Laugh Lines, The Laugh Line, 50s, Kim Holderness, Aging, Getting Older, Humor, The Holderness Family, Marriage, Education

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Happy 2026, we're back! It’s a new year, but instead of "new year, new me" I am going with "new year, slightly improved me." Mostly because I stopped caring... well, that's not true (but more on that in the podcast.) In this episode of Laugh Lines, we’re easing back into the groove of things with medium energy, big feelings, and some good laughs. We talk about the emotional whiplash of having a college kid home and then watching them leave again, the surprisingly effective wake-up call of a dog throwing up before sunrise, and the bravery of brown-bagging a Diet Coke. (Still not sponsored... yet.)

Clearly, we haven't done this in a while because we jumped all around. From Penn complimenting your husbands to talking about starting a space podcast to discussing how you want us to show up when we feel like the world isn't normal... this show has it all. (Really hoping for your feedback on that last one.) Shout out to Gerald for his amazing spreadsheet, and YOU for sticking with us all these years. We started this podcast in 2018... how crazy is that? (Prepare for a music treat in the show.) Welcome to 2026. We’re not reinventing ourselves, we’re just trying to be a little better and a lot more honest.

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Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness is an evolution of The Holderness Family Podcast, which began in 2018. Kim and Penn Holderness are award-winning online content creators known for their original music, song parodies, comedy sketches, and weekly podcasts. Their videos have resulted in over three billion views and over nine million followers since 2013. Penn and Kim are also authors of the New York Times Bestselling Books, ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD and All You Can Be With ADHD. They were also winners on The Amazing Race (Season 33) on CBS.

Laugh Lines is hosted and executive produced by Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness, with original music by Penn Holderness. Laugh Lines is also written and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, and edited and produced by Sam Allen. It is hosted by Acast. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	So instead of like new year, new me, is it like new year slightly improved me?
0:05.9	Like there's so much I don't care about.
0:08.8	And true or false, barfs are harder to clean up than dumps.
0:12.9	Dogs, this is dog stuff, not human stuff.
0:15.5	Is it productive?
0:16.7	No.
0:17.1	Does it help anybody?
0:18.1	Probably not.
0:18.8	But it was just like such an amazing use of free will.
0:22.5	Yeah, we get older every day. Got more wrinkles. That's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age.
0:29.1	Life is like a comedy stage. And that's what we got laugh lines.
0:39.1	Hey everybody, I'm Kim Holderness.
0:40.6	And I'm Ben Holderness.
0:41.3	Happy New Year.
0:42.3	And thank you for once again joining us on Laugh Liflines.
0:45.5	If you are old enough to remember when Coke tried to change their recipe and it became
0:51.5	new Coke and they faced major bash.
0:54.0	Bash. It kind of was bash lash. They were bashing Coke and they faced major bash lash lash.
0:54.8	It kind of was bash lash. They were bashing it and they were lashing it.
0:58.5	If you're old enough to remember that, then you're our people. You are home.
1:03.0	Vividly remember it. It was a massive conversation piece in our community and schools and teachers. Do you remember when life was so simple?
1:14.9	Yeah. That when a soda changed its recipe, that was the big news. How would you, do you remember
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