January 8, 2026 • 24 mins
With the arrival of 2026, Anney and Samantha chat about how their holidays went, and the new year.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha Holcome stuff. I never
told you A production by Heart Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to the first Happy Hour of twenty twenty six.
Woo cheers everybody. We hope that all of you are well.
We're glad that you are joining us. As always with
these segments, if you choose to drink or whatever you're doing,
please do so responsibly.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Samantha, are you up to anything?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I am?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I have thrown I'm drinking a throwback essentially because I
don't know what's this big for you guys in.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like your teen years.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Again, I say this as a millennial forty something year old,
mountain dew was the rage. Like as a teenager, mountain
dew was in everybody was drinking that or sprite, but
mainly mountain dew, especially in our hick Pound. And for
some reason, because when I go and buy a soda
it has to be a deal because I refuse a
payable price.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Uh so U usually have to buy like two.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And get three free or two get two free, like
it's that kind of thing. And so I want variation
because I like my go tos. And then I was like,
you know, maybe I'll get this and maybe I'll get this. Well,
the Mountain does zero Baja blast called my name. Yeah,
that's what I'm drinking right now because I had little sleep,
(01:29):
a little tired, and our days. As little as we've
done today, it still feels like we're doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So that's where I think for yourself, I've done today.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You've done a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's fair as little as I've done, the small amount
of recording compared to the typical amount of recording with you, Yeah,
that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But what about you? What are you up to over
here under happy hour days?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
First of all, I just have to let you know
that A Saver has done an episode on Mountain two
and it's very interesting. Tell me, tell me, okay, Well
it was basically developed to go along moonshine.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Hello. But I was growing up during the time where
anything that was that color there was a rumor that
is false, but there was a rumor that it would
deplete your sperm.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh really, yeah, that was not a thing here.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's false. I just want to say it, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've never heard that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, so I didn't really get into It's not like
I have sperm. But I was just like, WHOA mean
while I drinking like Jolt and serge as if.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We had Mountain Dew loyalty here and there in l J, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We stuck to that pretty hard kind of like.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But which is odd because Mountain is a pepsi company
and he come to the South and you don't have
coke Coola as your preference, you might be in trouble. Yeah,
and you will be being judged. You will be judged.
So to have like Mountain Dew as like one of
the drinks of a small town LJ. But then again, Appalacho,
(03:12):
I'm not the mout like the foothills of Appleacho, So
it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There was a whole lore with it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
There is, there is, and go check out that episode
if you'd like to know more. None of what we're
talking about sponsors, we I promise you. I was thinking
about this other day. So we have and I are
very careful about that because we can be shuge. Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like TikTok and social media, would you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Get away with it? A lot?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
They act And we're going to talk about this because
I'm like, wait, you don't realize you're being fed and
ad because they have this whole scenario that goes viral
and then you turn it turns out this company took
other people's images and made this story anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, else's because I you know, we've said it before.
We don't listen to podcasts a lot, just because it's
our job. When we do listen to other podcasts, it's
because of our job. So I was listening. I have
a lot of my friends like podcasts, which I'm in.
I'm all in for it because I'm like, you're helping
me do. But I was listening to one of their
(04:12):
shows in the car and they were taught. The host
were talking and I was like, is.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This an ad and it was.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I was like, Oh, we could never get away with that.
We could never get away with that anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Just so you know, get it's like quorderly trainings about
watch yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And so I just had the holidays. My mom gave
me more new wine from where I'm from, Thalniga, and
this one is a very like.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I can't put down the taste. It tastes like acorns,
and I don't know if I should know.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What the acorns taste like, but it's got like an
autumnal something going on. Thank you, thank you so much us.
So yeah, so we are easing into twenty twenty six.
We do have a lot of big ideas. As always, we'd.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Love to hear from you what you would like to
hear more of, so just let us know. But for
this one, I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We would just check in because honestly, Samantha and I
haven't talked about we haven't had the chance to.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Talk about our holidays and how they went. So, Samantha,
how did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We made it? Yes, you know, that's kind of the whole.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Where I feel like as a victory that no one cried.
It was enjoyable. We had a good family time with
my partner's family, which was well deserved because it's been
a rough year for everybody, I think, and it was nice.
So we did a lot of games. We played so
many games. We played a Lord of the Ring games
and it was fun. I call it was.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It a no so it was a card game.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
But you have like goals, and it's almost like they
because I've never played I think I played spade once
and never played bridge. But it's kind of like that
what everybody has their individual goals but those individual goals
is you are not going to win unless everybody meets
us goals. But you can't tell each other like all
of you know, like it's an interesting like team play,
(06:14):
but if you don't get all of your goals done,
then you're defeated and you have to try to round again.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So it was one of those games and it was
really really fun.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Nice, Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
What'd you do? How'd it go? Well? Oh face, big face,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No, it's not that I don't want to make it
into something more than it was, but I, as we've.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Discussed before, and I often feel guilty about talking about
this because I I speaking for myself.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I love this job and we're very lucky. But we
have talked.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
About how when the end of the year comes, or
any holiday comes, it is it's a crunch. It is
a real crunch to get stuff done. And I was
working up until the Tuesday before Christmas, and like late
on Tuesday and I had friends come over that I
(07:23):
hadn't seen for a while the day before, and it
just became very apparent to me that I was like
wound up tight, like I was stressed. They brought it
up later to me and they're like, you were given
off like vibes, oh, because I was just so I
had all this to do and I had to find
(07:44):
the way get back home, and they're being so nice.
They were helping me wrap my presence because they knew
terrible at wrapping presents.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So my mom noticed it, by the way, you best
believe She's like, nope, and not something like doing me
a favor. And I feel bad that I was giving
off so much of that energy, but I was. And
then it was just like it continued when I went
(08:15):
home for Christmas and I was there for two days
and it was good, but it just has a lot
of like you know when you go visit and it
feels so out of place, like it just it felt strange.
I don't know, something just felt strange about it. I
had a great time with my mom, but it's like
when things are so the same but so different, like
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a lot of people. I haven't seen my brother in
like a year, and he was different, and so it
was kind of jarring in that way. And I was
just exhausted because it's a lot to do and I'm
giving off the vibe. Again, It's a lot to do
and people do want to catch up, which is great,
that's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But I was just like, I need to finish this
meal right now. We have to talk right now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But anyway, and also I never get that much sleep
anywhere in that house. But anyway, my friend drove me
there and she drove me back, so I didn't even
have to drive.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That's nice. I car got some drive in.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She didn't drive my car, but it did get some
driving in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, okay, okay, I I yeah, this is something else
I'm trying to learn. And I know we've talked about
this before. I'm trying to learn how to just accept
people's help without it examining it too much. She also
helped me avoid my landlord.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It was great. Yeah, it was very fantastic. This is
a good friend right here.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Is a good friend.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But then I guess what really is.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It was fine. All of it was good, and I'm
happy I saw everyone. But as you know, Samantha, that
like last week of the year is my like treasured week.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, or I just do whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That was one of our big goals to make sure
we had that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, and I uh, I had the biggest crash out
I've had a long time, and.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It wasn't like was it therapeutic? Did you enjoy it
afterwards or at least a call?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I think it was therapeutic.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Okay, but it like last I guess what I'm mad
at is I wanted to read a lot of fan fiction, right,
I wanted to do all of these things, and instead,
I guess my body was like, no, you have not
been dealing with stuff, so you're just gonna cry randomly
for days and just lay down.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And I'm so mad about it, but I think I
needed it.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I oh no, Yeah, your body was like when you
finally had a moment that you thought you could relax,
your body was like, okay, the only way that you
can get to that point is if you go through this.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, big marker, and it's going to make.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You do it, especially when you think you can just
buy Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So it's like all my fault. I know it, But
I needed it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm sure I needed it, but man, I had so
many things. I was like, I'm going to do this, this, this,
and this, and it was it was interesting, like I
had a lot of introspection that came out of nowhere
that made me think like, oh, I must have in
my subconscious been thinking about this lingering.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, I like, like you said, nobody, I don't think
anybody listening has probably had a great year, and I
just like world we live in. I started thinking about
a lot of stuff, and like I definitely started be
examining just some thoughts I have about being queer, which
I'm going to come back to in a future episode.
I don't want to talk about it right now. I'm
still like, WHOA dealing with this? And it wasn't bad.
(11:44):
It was I'm making it sound horrible, but it was
just like, oh, I must have been thinking about this
and didn't really realize it, and so it was just
like not it And we were we were joking about
this off mic, it's like not a good omen for
twenty twenty six, but we all came in.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
With like, yes, it can't be that bad, and then
you kind of quiped in with it it could be.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It could be.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Actually, I must stop. I must stop saying that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It wasn't a good start.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
There's been some bad things.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There has been some bad things.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Uh yeah, I mean I think as I've gotten older,
you and I have talked about this too. I don't
put as much pressure on the new year. No, I
don't feel like I do have goals. As I've mentioned recently,
I want to organize my apartment, trying to learn asl
but I don't put a lot of like by this
day you haven't done it, then you've failed already.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, That's not how I go about it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But I was excited about the like couple of days
where I was just gonna like read.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Where you could just let it all go for a minute.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, and I'm still behind. I'm writing it too.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Oh my gosh, people are gonna be ups.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've already gotten some messages.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I've already gone so messages SMITHA and I'm like, I'm listen,
I'm dealing with something.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Let me be I'm crashing out.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It was pretty it was pretty wild. I was like,
what's happening here?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
But you know the fact that you haven't had as
many crash outs. Instead your body has just been like, hey,
you're going to go to the hospital, you know, stuff
like that. Sure, sure, sure, it's really surprising.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, I love you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, well I know, and I think everybody's stressed. I
don't want to make it sound like this.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Was an your ability to cry it out through Last
of Us helped you maintaining the crash out till the
end because you haven't had that outlet in a few
several months.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I know, Well, maybe that's what it was. That's as
we've discussed.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I do love that, and I know that's not for everybody,
but I do love that. But I also think, like
a lot of the holidays for me at least, is.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
The like everything's great, I'm so happy to see you
and there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And I think at this point my body was like, no,
you're gonna lay down.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yep, uh, You're just gonna go on the floor here
and yeah, Anna, Oh okay, your neighbors may be worried.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
They probably are. Well, landlord here, he's here all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh so you made it. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Thank you. I did.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I did have my mac and cheese, and I had
my suit, Yes, my champagne.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How about you? Did you do any Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So you know, sometimes we will try to go to
our local barbecue place because they have like a whole thing.
We went to a different one that we like, the
new one that we really like. Try not any name
names because I'm not trying to do sponsorships here unless
they wanted to call us all that to say, but
they did not have peas. So we came home and
my partner had like pork that we had made he
(15:05):
had made previously that we frozen, added that to the
instabat and did a great job.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And I don't like peas.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I like, I don't like beans that are too hard crunchy.
It bothers me. It feels like grainy and not cooked.
And I know people have different I would like mine
cooked the hell to the point that it's mush almost
and I'm okay with that. It tastes like meat like
that's me and being so, he did a good job.
(15:32):
We insuppoted. So we came home, brought the leftovers, had
the collars. I made corn bread and I make from
a TikTok recipe that I love with some changes that
I have discovered work as well. And then yeah, we
had a good meal and it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Was just two of us. The night before I stayed up,
we drank our little champagne. I drank a little bit
of champagne and.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Then I drank a lot of water because I was like,
I'm not about to have a headache on new Year's
Day and yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And then we just stayed at home. Nice happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, listen to all the gunshots around us. Oh, so
many gunshots, so many. Yeah, but it only lasted an hour,
so you know.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, for listeners who don't remember Samantha telling that story,
that's kind of a thing that happens. Happens to a
lot of places, but definitely around.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
You, like war like we were in the war zone.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Like why do people have that many automatic semi automatic weapons.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Agreed, it doesn't make sense. Okay, our degree.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One of my highlights, but also sadness of this year,
I will say. So, we went down to Jacksonville when
my partner's family, who owns a pool, loves the pool
and my dog Pecha's loves to swim. But she's getting older,
she's getting more tired, and poor baby would sink. So
I had to buy her life jacket so she didn't
sink as much. But she had the time of her lives.
(17:08):
But she was limping because she was so sore because
I haven't exercised her like that for a long time.
She wanted to swim every day. So even though it
was still like seventy. They were kind enough to like
put the pool temperature up so she and my partner
was in the water with her could swim in some
of the cutest peictors. And then we took her to
the beach and she had the best time running after
and chasing the waves.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It was lowly. It makes me wish I could.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Live closer to the water so she can do stuff
like that, because the water here in Georgia, the streams
have killed dogs, so I'm very.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Scared of those areas. But yeah, it was nice. It
was nice.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, that is nice.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Good memories. Her life jacket is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm sure it is. I am miss Peaches. I haven't
seen Peaches in a while.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You need to come over. Actually, we need to do
our Christmas exchange, by.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The way, Yeah we do, Yeah, we do. This is
the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is what I feel about this new year this
time is it feels so like delayed, like I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Just kind of everything was like And one of the
things that my partner's family did this year was not
do Christmas gifts, which was odd to me.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I didn't know what to do about that, because.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
As stressful as gift giving is, I also thrive in
giving gifts like I love to do it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Part of that.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Thriving is the anxiety of hoping I get the perfect
gift for this person because I am sentimental in that
way and I want to prove that I know you.
And also I don't want to give you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Trash.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I want to give you thoughtful gifts. Yeah, which I'm
gonna have repeated something on you, and I'm so sorry
if I did. However, Like so we didn't do that
this year, but I came down with, like, we'll do experiences,
so like we would bring little gifts to cook with
or whatever, not gifts, but like things to cook with,
candies and all these things. My partners sister she brought games,
(19:02):
which is like one of the things that we do
and we love. So like that was kind of nice,
but it was interesting because there was nothing to.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Do Christmas morning. We just got to all set there like, hey,
merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah this is I hope this didn't come off passive aggressive,
but it could have, because on Christmas morning in my house,
it's like you wake up at eight, you do the presence,
and then my mom and I cook, right, But this
time they all wanted to talk and I kept thinking
(19:35):
about all that stuff I had to do, and at
a certain point, I was like, Christmas is so strange
to me because it's like you wake up and you
do all the stuff in the morning and then you
guys got to put which is true they do, but
I kept thinking, like, my day, I still have a
lot of stuff to do, like.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
To help you, to feed you, good bye for you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Even without that, though, it is strange to be like
because you wake up so early.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And then it's like, oh, okay, we did not wake
up early, but well his family wakes up early. We
we sleep in late as I think, and that's like nine.
But yeah, it was interesting because I have never since
my time in the US say this.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Got up with no gift giving, giving, no exchanging of
it was just interesting. We just there mm hmmm. I
kind of almost forgot it was Christmas.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
It was hot on Christmas in Georgia too. Yeah, yeah,
you were in.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Florida, which was just hot.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But like, but at the same time, again, it wasn't bad.
It was nice and little stress free. Still kind of
like missed the giving. So I went overboard with like
my partner and other people m hm, because I had
to even it out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Of course. Well, it's also interesting for me because I
used to give my siblings gifts and they never gave
me anything, so I stopped, and now they give me stuff.
Oh but I don't give many things.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
My only sibling that I exchange gifts with is my sister,
and interestingly, I think she gives it to me because
I give to the nieces and nephew. The nieces and nephew,
even though they're getting into their twenties, mid twenties, late twenties,
they get gifts from me because I don't do birthdays.
I'm so bad with days that I don't know their birthday.
I'm a bad aunt. Let's just be real, honest. But
(21:25):
I give them Christmas presents money because I remember being
that young and not having you know, and also being
that age in between like I'm an adult, yes, but
I'm also not a mother, you know, Like I'm not marry,
I'm not any of these things. I'm still kind of
a child. I don't I want I'm a present. But
they also just get cash from me because I also
remember that because I would use cash gifts to gift
gifts for people.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't know if that's what it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
But like I remember hoping I would get cash so
I can get things for other people.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
So I do that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But my sister and I, she gives me presents, but
also she gives my dog.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
A present, I think because of that.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
But her birthday is the day after Christmas, which we
talked about previously, so I give her our birthday gift
rather than Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
She kind of seems rude now that think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, you know, it works. I I don't know. Maybe
I'll start getting the gifts again, but maybe I won't.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We'll see. Hey, you know what I did.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I asked to move my seat for my Good Year,
Like this is the first year I you. I said,
can I please sit here? I can't hear her this
year very well? And they were like, okay, easys that nice.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Nice probably in only the thirties.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I honestly am not entirely sure how old I am
right now. I'll have to do the math. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, anyway, that's that's my been, my New Year's New Years.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's a good balance of things.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
The com I think, oh no, oh no, I needed it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But yes, that's why that's why I'm waking up early
to read fan fiction because because.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Of work, I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So when I missed it, I have so much to
catch on it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's overwhelming, to be honest, but I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I have faith in you.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, I can. I do too. I got this. I
got this well.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Listeners, please let us know how the new year is
treating you. If you did anything cool, if you have
any goals, anything you want to see us do in
the new year. We always always love hearing from you.
That is another thing on my to do list is
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(23:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to the first Happy Hour of twenty twenty six.
Woo cheers everybody. We hope that all of you are well.
We're glad that you are joining us. As always with
these segments, if you choose to drink or whatever you're doing,
please do so responsibly.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Samantha, are you up to anything?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I am?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I have thrown I'm drinking a throwback essentially because I
don't know what's this big for you guys in.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like your teen years.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Again, I say this as a millennial forty something year old,
mountain dew was the rage. Like as a teenager, mountain
dew was in everybody was drinking that or sprite, but
mainly mountain dew, especially in our hick Pound. And for
some reason, because when I go and buy a soda
it has to be a deal because I refuse a
payable price.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Uh so U usually have to buy like two.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And get three free or two get two free, like
it's that kind of thing. And so I want variation
because I like my go tos. And then I was like,
you know, maybe I'll get this and maybe I'll get this. Well,
the Mountain does zero Baja blast called my name. Yeah,
that's what I'm drinking right now because I had little sleep,
(01:29):
a little tired, and our days. As little as we've
done today, it still feels like we're doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So that's where I think for yourself, I've done today.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You've done a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's fair as little as I've done, the small amount
of recording compared to the typical amount of recording with you, Yeah,
that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But what about you? What are you up to over
here under happy hour days?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
First of all, I just have to let you know
that A Saver has done an episode on Mountain two
and it's very interesting. Tell me, tell me, okay, Well
it was basically developed to go along moonshine.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Hello. But I was growing up during the time where
anything that was that color there was a rumor that
is false, but there was a rumor that it would
deplete your sperm.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh really, yeah, that was not a thing here.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It's false. I just want to say it, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've never heard that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, so I didn't really get into It's not like
I have sperm. But I was just like, WHOA mean
while I drinking like Jolt and serge as if.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We had Mountain Dew loyalty here and there in l J, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We stuck to that pretty hard kind of like.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But which is odd because Mountain is a pepsi company
and he come to the South and you don't have
coke Coola as your preference, you might be in trouble. Yeah,
and you will be being judged. You will be judged.
So to have like Mountain Dew as like one of
the drinks of a small town LJ. But then again, Appalacho,
(03:12):
I'm not the mout like the foothills of Appleacho, So
it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
There was a whole lore with it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
There is, there is, and go check out that episode
if you'd like to know more. None of what we're
talking about sponsors, we I promise you. I was thinking
about this other day. So we have and I are
very careful about that because we can be shuge. Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like TikTok and social media, would you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Get away with it? A lot?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
They act And we're going to talk about this because
I'm like, wait, you don't realize you're being fed and
ad because they have this whole scenario that goes viral
and then you turn it turns out this company took
other people's images and made this story anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes, else's because I you know, we've said it before.
We don't listen to podcasts a lot, just because it's
our job. When we do listen to other podcasts, it's
because of our job. So I was listening. I have
a lot of my friends like podcasts, which I'm in.
I'm all in for it because I'm like, you're helping
me do. But I was listening to one of their
(04:12):
shows in the car and they were taught. The host
were talking and I was like, is.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This an ad and it was.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I was like, Oh, we could never get away with that.
We could never get away with that anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Just so you know, get it's like quorderly trainings about
watch yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, we do, we do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And so I just had the holidays. My mom gave
me more new wine from where I'm from, Thalniga, and
this one is a very like.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I can't put down the taste. It tastes like acorns,
and I don't know if I should know.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What the acorns taste like, but it's got like an
autumnal something going on. Thank you, thank you so much us.
So yeah, so we are easing into twenty twenty six.
We do have a lot of big ideas. As always, we'd.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Love to hear from you what you would like to
hear more of, so just let us know. But for
this one, I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We would just check in because honestly, Samantha and I
haven't talked about we haven't had the chance to.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Talk about our holidays and how they went. So, Samantha,
how did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We made it? Yes, you know, that's kind of the whole.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Where I feel like as a victory that no one cried.
It was enjoyable. We had a good family time with
my partner's family, which was well deserved because it's been
a rough year for everybody, I think, and it was nice.
So we did a lot of games. We played so
many games. We played a Lord of the Ring games
and it was fun. I call it was.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It a no so it was a card game.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
But you have like goals, and it's almost like they
because I've never played I think I played spade once
and never played bridge. But it's kind of like that
what everybody has their individual goals but those individual goals
is you are not going to win unless everybody meets
us goals. But you can't tell each other like all
of you know, like it's an interesting like team play,
(06:14):
but if you don't get all of your goals done,
then you're defeated and you have to try to round again.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So it was one of those games and it was
really really fun.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Nice, Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
What'd you do? How'd it go? Well? Oh face, big face,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No, it's not that I don't want to make it
into something more than it was, but I, as we've.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Discussed before, and I often feel guilty about talking about
this because I I speaking for myself.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I love this job and we're very lucky. But we
have talked.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
About how when the end of the year comes, or
any holiday comes, it is it's a crunch. It is
a real crunch to get stuff done. And I was
working up until the Tuesday before Christmas, and like late
on Tuesday and I had friends come over that I
(07:23):
hadn't seen for a while the day before, and it
just became very apparent to me that I was like
wound up tight, like I was stressed. They brought it
up later to me and they're like, you were given
off like vibes, oh, because I was just so I
had all this to do and I had to find
(07:44):
the way get back home, and they're being so nice.
They were helping me wrap my presence because they knew
terrible at wrapping presents.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So my mom noticed it, by the way, you best
believe She's like, nope, and not something like doing me
a favor. And I feel bad that I was giving
off so much of that energy, but I was. And
then it was just like it continued when I went
(08:15):
home for Christmas and I was there for two days
and it was good, but it just has a lot
of like you know when you go visit and it
feels so out of place, like it just it felt strange.
I don't know, something just felt strange about it. I
had a great time with my mom, but it's like
when things are so the same but so different, like
(08:37):
a lot of people. I haven't seen my brother in
like a year, and he was different, and so it
was kind of jarring in that way. And I was
just exhausted because it's a lot to do and I'm
giving off the vibe. Again, It's a lot to do
and people do want to catch up, which is great,
that's what it's about.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But I was just like, I need to finish this
meal right now. We have to talk right now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But anyway, and also I never get that much sleep
anywhere in that house. But anyway, my friend drove me
there and she drove me back, so I didn't even
have to drive.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That's nice. I car got some drive in.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She didn't drive my car, but it did get some
driving in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, okay, okay, I I yeah, this is something else
I'm trying to learn. And I know we've talked about
this before. I'm trying to learn how to just accept
people's help without it examining it too much. She also
helped me avoid my landlord.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It was great. Yeah, it was very fantastic. This is
a good friend right here.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Is a good friend.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But then I guess what really is.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It was fine. All of it was good, and I'm
happy I saw everyone. But as you know, Samantha, that
like last week of the year is my like treasured week.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, or I just do whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That was one of our big goals to make sure
we had that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, and I uh, I had the biggest crash out
I've had a long time, and.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It wasn't like was it therapeutic? Did you enjoy it
afterwards or at least a call?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I think it was therapeutic.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Okay, but it like last I guess what I'm mad
at is I wanted to read a lot of fan fiction, right,
I wanted to do all of these things, and instead,
I guess my body was like, no, you have not
been dealing with stuff, so you're just gonna cry randomly
for days and just lay down.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And I'm so mad about it, but I think I
needed it.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I oh no, Yeah, your body was like when you
finally had a moment that you thought you could relax,
your body was like, okay, the only way that you
can get to that point is if you go through this.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, big marker, and it's going to make.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You do it, especially when you think you can just
buy Oh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So it's like all my fault. I know it, But
I needed it.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I'm sure I needed it, but man, I had so
many things. I was like, I'm going to do this, this, this,
and this, and it was it was interesting, like I
had a lot of introspection that came out of nowhere
that made me think like, oh, I must have in
my subconscious been thinking about this lingering.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, I like, like you said, nobody, I don't think
anybody listening has probably had a great year, and I
just like world we live in. I started thinking about
a lot of stuff, and like I definitely started be
examining just some thoughts I have about being queer, which
I'm going to come back to in a future episode.
I don't want to talk about it right now. I'm
still like, WHOA dealing with this? And it wasn't bad.
(11:44):
It was I'm making it sound horrible, but it was
just like, oh, I must have been thinking about this
and didn't really realize it, and so it was just
like not it And we were we were joking about
this off mic, it's like not a good omen for
twenty twenty six, but we all came in.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
With like, yes, it can't be that bad, and then
you kind of quiped in with it it could be.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It could be.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Actually, I must stop. I must stop saying that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It wasn't a good start.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
There's been some bad things.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There has been some bad things.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Uh yeah, I mean I think as I've gotten older,
you and I have talked about this too. I don't
put as much pressure on the new year. No, I
don't feel like I do have goals. As I've mentioned recently,
I want to organize my apartment, trying to learn asl
but I don't put a lot of like by this
day you haven't done it, then you've failed already.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, That's not how I go about it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But I was excited about the like couple of days
where I was just gonna like read.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Where you could just let it all go for a minute.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, and I'm still behind. I'm writing it too.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Oh my gosh, people are gonna be ups.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've already gotten some messages.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I've already gone so messages SMITHA and I'm like, I'm listen,
I'm dealing with something.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Let me be I'm crashing out.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It was pretty it was pretty wild. I was like,
what's happening here?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
But you know the fact that you haven't had as
many crash outs. Instead your body has just been like, hey,
you're going to go to the hospital, you know, stuff
like that. Sure, sure, sure, it's really surprising.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, I love you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, well I know, and I think everybody's stressed. I
don't want to make it sound like this.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Was an your ability to cry it out through Last
of Us helped you maintaining the crash out till the
end because you haven't had that outlet in a few
several months.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I know, Well, maybe that's what it was. That's as
we've discussed.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I do love that, and I know that's not for everybody,
but I do love that. But I also think, like
a lot of the holidays for me at least, is.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
The like everything's great, I'm so happy to see you
and there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And I think at this point my body was like, no,
you're gonna lay down.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yep, uh, You're just gonna go on the floor here
and yeah, Anna, Oh okay, your neighbors may be worried.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
They probably are. Well, landlord here, he's here all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh so you made it. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Thank you. I did.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I did have my mac and cheese, and I had
my suit, Yes, my champagne.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How about you? Did you do any Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So you know, sometimes we will try to go to
our local barbecue place because they have like a whole thing.
We went to a different one that we like, the
new one that we really like. Try not any name
names because I'm not trying to do sponsorships here unless
they wanted to call us all that to say, but
they did not have peas. So we came home and
my partner had like pork that we had made he
(15:05):
had made previously that we frozen, added that to the
instabat and did a great job.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And I don't like peas.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I like, I don't like beans that are too hard crunchy.
It bothers me. It feels like grainy and not cooked.
And I know people have different I would like mine
cooked the hell to the point that it's mush almost
and I'm okay with that. It tastes like meat like
that's me and being so, he did a good job.
(15:32):
We insuppoted. So we came home, brought the leftovers, had
the collars. I made corn bread and I make from
a TikTok recipe that I love with some changes that
I have discovered work as well. And then yeah, we
had a good meal and it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Was just two of us. The night before I stayed up,
we drank our little champagne. I drank a little bit
of champagne and.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Then I drank a lot of water because I was like,
I'm not about to have a headache on new Year's
Day and yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And then we just stayed at home. Nice happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, listen to all the gunshots around us. Oh, so
many gunshots, so many. Yeah, but it only lasted an hour,
so you know.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, for listeners who don't remember Samantha telling that story,
that's kind of a thing that happens. Happens to a
lot of places, but definitely around.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
You, like war like we were in the war zone.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Like why do people have that many automatic semi automatic weapons.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Agreed, it doesn't make sense. Okay, our degree.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
One of my highlights, but also sadness of this year,
I will say. So, we went down to Jacksonville when
my partner's family, who owns a pool, loves the pool
and my dog Pecha's loves to swim. But she's getting older,
she's getting more tired, and poor baby would sink. So
I had to buy her life jacket so she didn't
sink as much. But she had the time of her lives.
(17:08):
But she was limping because she was so sore because
I haven't exercised her like that for a long time.
She wanted to swim every day. So even though it
was still like seventy. They were kind enough to like
put the pool temperature up so she and my partner
was in the water with her could swim in some
of the cutest peictors. And then we took her to
the beach and she had the best time running after
and chasing the waves.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It was lowly. It makes me wish I could.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Live closer to the water so she can do stuff
like that, because the water here in Georgia, the streams
have killed dogs, so I'm very.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Scared of those areas. But yeah, it was nice. It
was nice.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, that is nice.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Good memories. Her life jacket is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm sure it is. I am miss Peaches. I haven't
seen Peaches in a while.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You need to come over. Actually, we need to do
our Christmas exchange, by.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The way, Yeah we do, Yeah, we do. This is
the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is what I feel about this new year this
time is it feels so like delayed, like I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Just kind of everything was like And one of the
things that my partner's family did this year was not
do Christmas gifts, which was odd to me.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I didn't know what to do about that, because.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
As stressful as gift giving is, I also thrive in
giving gifts like I love to do it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Part of that.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Thriving is the anxiety of hoping I get the perfect
gift for this person because I am sentimental in that
way and I want to prove that I know you.
And also I don't want to give you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Trash.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I want to give you thoughtful gifts. Yeah, which I'm
gonna have repeated something on you, and I'm so sorry
if I did. However, Like so we didn't do that
this year, but I came down with, like, we'll do experiences,
so like we would bring little gifts to cook with
or whatever, not gifts, but like things to cook with,
candies and all these things. My partners sister she brought games,
(19:02):
which is like one of the things that we do
and we love. So like that was kind of nice,
but it was interesting because there was nothing to.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Do Christmas morning. We just got to all set there like, hey,
merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah this is I hope this didn't come off passive aggressive,
but it could have, because on Christmas morning in my house,
it's like you wake up at eight, you do the presence,
and then my mom and I cook, right, But this
time they all wanted to talk and I kept thinking
(19:35):
about all that stuff I had to do, and at
a certain point, I was like, Christmas is so strange
to me because it's like you wake up and you
do all the stuff in the morning and then you
guys got to put which is true they do, but
I kept thinking, like, my day, I still have a
lot of stuff to do, like.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
To help you, to feed you, good bye for you.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Even without that, though, it is strange to be like
because you wake up so early.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And then it's like, oh, okay, we did not wake
up early, but well his family wakes up early. We
we sleep in late as I think, and that's like nine.
But yeah, it was interesting because I have never since
my time in the US say this.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Got up with no gift giving, giving, no exchanging of
it was just interesting. We just there mm hmmm. I
kind of almost forgot it was Christmas.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
It was hot on Christmas in Georgia too. Yeah, yeah,
you were in.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Florida, which was just hot.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But like, but at the same time, again, it wasn't bad.
It was nice and little stress free. Still kind of
like missed the giving. So I went overboard with like
my partner and other people m hm, because I had
to even it out.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Of course. Well, it's also interesting for me because I
used to give my siblings gifts and they never gave
me anything, so I stopped, and now they give me stuff.
Oh but I don't give many things.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
My only sibling that I exchange gifts with is my sister,
and interestingly, I think she gives it to me because
I give to the nieces and nephew. The nieces and nephew,
even though they're getting into their twenties, mid twenties, late twenties,
they get gifts from me because I don't do birthdays.
I'm so bad with days that I don't know their birthday.
I'm a bad aunt. Let's just be real, honest. But
(21:25):
I give them Christmas presents money because I remember being
that young and not having you know, and also being
that age in between like I'm an adult, yes, but
I'm also not a mother, you know, Like I'm not marry,
I'm not any of these things. I'm still kind of
a child. I don't I want I'm a present. But
they also just get cash from me because I also
remember that because I would use cash gifts to gift
gifts for people.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't know if that's what it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
But like I remember hoping I would get cash so
I can get things for other people.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
So I do that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
But my sister and I, she gives me presents, but
also she gives my dog.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
A present, I think because of that.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
But her birthday is the day after Christmas, which we
talked about previously, so I give her our birthday gift
rather than Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
She kind of seems rude now that think about it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, you know, it works. I I don't know. Maybe
I'll start getting the gifts again, but maybe I won't.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We'll see. Hey, you know what I did.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I asked to move my seat for my Good Year,
Like this is the first year I you. I said,
can I please sit here? I can't hear her this
year very well? And they were like, okay, easys that nice.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Nice probably in only the thirties.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I honestly am not entirely sure how old I am
right now. I'll have to do the math. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, anyway, that's that's my been, my New Year's New Years.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's a good balance of things.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
The com I think, oh no, oh no, I needed it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But yes, that's why that's why I'm waking up early
to read fan fiction because because.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Of work, I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So when I missed it, I have so much to
catch on it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's overwhelming, to be honest, but I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I have faith in you.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, I can. I do too. I got this. I
got this well.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Listeners, please let us know how the new year is
treating you. If you did anything cool, if you have
any goals, anything you want to see us do in
the new year. We always always love hearing from you.
That is another thing on my to do list is
finally answer all of the listeners. It will be done,
(23:55):
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