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Hey girl, hey. Welcome back to my weekly podcast,

Aestop Taylor. I'm your host Taylor Shrecker and happy fricking new year.

2022 baby, I'm so excited. I really am. I know it's cheesy to be excited about

New Year's resolutions, but listen, last year was fair fucking bad, but also great for many

reasons. Like, yeah, a lot of bad shit went down, but I got married last year. I lost like 20 pounds

last year, but then I gained a back. And I was like 2021 was a banner year for Aestop Taylor.

I'm not going to lie. You guys are that reason. Thank you so much for being here listening,

supporting the podcast. I appreciated so much. I did a lot of reflecting over the break. My

wife and I didn't do it, diddly shit. And it was exactly what the socks so ordered. And we slept.

We drank in eight, but like not as crazy as I thought we would get. We barely went outside,

which is my favorite thing to do is to hibernate my therapist recently said the hibernating is okay.

So I'm going to take her word for it that I'm allowed to be only as you sack a shit and never

get off the couch. Great stuff happened in 2021. Other friends got married, but it was like we

were just going, going, going, going. And we just needed a friggin break. And we absolutely took

that. I completely detached from my phone, which you guys know is my most favorite thing.

People absolutely thought I was dead because I didn't post anything on Instagram. But people

also know a second Instagram. So maybe they had something to do with it, but no, we just really

chilled. And it was so awesome and so necessary. But I did a lot of stuff reflecting. And like,

I realized that the reason why I get like so depressed, so and so anxious and all these things

is because my brain sucks. And I literally might never matter. It sounds so cliche, but it's so

simple and it's so accurate. Just like if I just try to set myself up to have good thoughts,

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