What This Year Taught Us (Whether We Wanted It To or Not) (The Edge)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
December always brings that strange mix of exhaustion and clarity, so Kelly and Chip sat down to take an honest look at the year—what worked, what didn’t, what surprised them, and what stretched them in ways they didn’t expect.
They reflect on the wins, the messier moments, the relationships that shaped them, and the habits and patterns they’re ready to leave behind. It’s a grounded, end-of-year check-in that’s equal parts real talk, humor, and the kind of perspective that only comes from living through a long, complicated year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.2 | Well, obviously we have to address the elephant in the room, and that's that you're back |
| 0:19.8 | in your normal surroundings. |
| 0:21.5 | Oh my God. It has been a journey. And even Zoom could help me figure it out. |
| 0:26.9 | First of all, tell any listeners, this is like not a real issue, but Chip has made it into a thing |
| 0:33.6 | last like three months. I feel like you've been stuck in some. I mean, it feels like it's been that long. Yeah. I had a virtual background that was stuck on my |
| 0:42.8 | my Zoom and I figured out a workaround, but it was still weird. Like, you know, I was playing |
| 0:49.7 | around with it one day and I was going through all the virtual backgrounds and there was one |
| 0:53.5 | that kind of looked like I worked in the building that Severance has shot in and I thought that |
| 0:56.6 | was funny and also my coworker it kind of looks almost exactly like the room from the view from |
| 1:02.4 | his office in our Los Angeles building and so I just thought it was funny and then it wouldn't |
| 1:07.2 | go away and I literally followed every instruction I could find I I chatted with Zoom. I deleted it. I deleted my account. I started a new account. I deleted it from my computer. I restarted my computer. Nothing worked. So finally I just said, fuck it. And I took a picture of my house. So it looked like my real thing. But it was weird, I'd lift a cup to drink some water and my hand would disappear. |
| 1:29.8 | Oh, I never even saw that version. |
| 1:31.4 | It was like weird virtual shit going on. |
| 1:34.5 | Well, I asked Chad GPT today. |
| 1:37.2 | Finally, I went to chat. |
| 1:38.8 | I know. |
| 1:39.5 | And chat gave me some ideas. |
| 1:41.4 | They didn't work. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.9 | And my buddy John, who is crashing here at the moment, he uses. The chat gave me some ideas. They didn't work. Mm-mm. Yeah. |
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