Celebrating Season Four with Elizabeth Hopkins-Living Your Best Life through Faith, Family and Friends

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
and there's not even good evening.
It's welcome back to anotherepisode of the three guys
podcast, and I'm here withmyself and brian uh, my brother
unfortunately cannot make it tothis episode which is our usual
annual closing out the ourseason, uh, season four year and
, uh, I don't say it's year inreview, but this is like a fun

(00:23):
little episode.
We have a special guest and Ithink Brian should be the one
introducing this guest, becauseBrian's the one who did the
heavy lifting on this one.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, so we're finishing season four and I keep
telling people are weofficially over 12,000 yet,
Derek, Are we close?
We've been saying it for likesix months, but we were never.
No, we were close.
Hold, are we close?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
We were saying it for like six months, but we were
never.
No, we were close.
Hold on, I can tell you rightnow what exactly it is.
It's like 11,700.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
We're close, yeah so we're close, but that doesn't
include all our engagements onour socials and stuff.
So it's just been an awesomeyear.
So who's going to be joining usfor this episode is Lily
Hawkins, and Lily joined usseason one and really helped us
get started and we figuredcelebrating the finishing of

(01:14):
completion.
We're finishing the completionof season four, kind of gearing
up for season five.
I'm trying to get some reallyfun stuff on the agenda Music
and just some conspiracy stuff,some, some travel.
I'm hoping to travel as much asI can next year so I'm bring
kind of going back into thetravel space so we'll get out,
get into that later.
But, um, every year we kind ofdo a fun christmas episode or

(01:38):
season or holiday season episode, uh, and we're gonna, we're
gonna touch on some of thatstuff with with, uh, with lily
yeah, so she was season one andI'm just looking at this now and
it was episode 17.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Season one, episode 17, which is our first year, and
she has by far well, not by far, but she has the most downloads
we've had.
So yeah, we thank her, yeah, wethank her for coming on and
doing this and obviously, um,you know we appreciate that
we're coming at a different time.
We're actually doing thisduring the day, not at night,
like we normally do.

(02:12):
So we again appreciate hertaking the time to uh to do this
and when she comes on we'llthank her again yeah, yeah, um.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
So it's kind of I mentioned it in past episodes
recently and we talked about ourdownloads but we're freaking
global, like we're in 60 pluscountries now I think 61.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Top 50%.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I mean, we're doing really well.
For podcasts yeah, and we dothis for fun.
We do this because we like tohave a grief.
I mean we've had on you know, Idon't want to try to go through
a guest, I always forget one,but we've had on so many.
I mean every guest really hassuch an incredible story, I feel
like has just something toshare with us and our listeners,
and whether it's personalimprovement, their business,

(02:57):
something they're involved inthere, he does some really great
episodes, not just this year,but just oh, we've all done a
great amount of stuff byyourselves, whether it's
together or stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
We've also had a.
You know it's a great year andyou know our past guests.
You know I don't like to, Ihate to share sad news but, um,
when I passed against lanebritain his brother just passed
away, uh, last night, um, and heactually his brother taught me
play baseball.
He was one of my coaches whenthe first time I came over to
Haverhill.
Him and Lane were both coachesand his brother was roughly only

(03:29):
a year older than I.
Am so sad.
Life's short, don't take it forgranted.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm trying to hear that.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, it's tough during this time of year.
So you know what.
I want everyone to enjoy itbecause, like I said, life's
short.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You never know.
Yeah, yeah, life, life is short, which is why next year I'm
gonna travel as much as I can.
I don't want to jinx myself, Iprobably will, but I'm close to
being able to qualify for ourcompany's incentive trip, which
is in fiji.
Um, and then I learned thatsomeone got sick in fiji and a
whole cell drinking.
I'm like, oh no, I'm just, Idon't know about all that.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'll drink in the water.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
No, it's some some alcohol poisoning or something.
Um, so that's one of thereasons we got because, uh, with
lily, for those of us whofollow her on our socials, um,
and I try to focus on like solveall people that make me laugh
or smile or some something I cansend to you guys.
Uh, but she, she's definitelythere.
So, but I'm sorry.

(04:25):
But then, derek, there'sanother gentleman that passed
away that was on last year.
Do you want to share maybe thatgentleman that was on the
Salisbury?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh yeah, I think we discussed it in one of our past
episodes.
Bill Grealick passed away inJanuary of last year.
He was the Salisbury BeachBetterment Association's
president.
He'd been on for about threeyears at the time of his passing
.
He was one of the greatestpresidents we've had, but we've
all had great presidents in thepast, so I don't want to say

(04:56):
that in a negative way to anyoneelse prior to him.
Bill was very implemental intrying to get and Brian jokes
about this, I know this becausehe always hears this about the
sand for the beach or Salisburyand the dunes and stuff like
that.
No, I know you do.
I agree so for that and he wasinstrumental.
And actually this year, as wespeak right now, they're putting

(05:19):
sand down.
But they went through a processto get it and Bill was very
instrumental in getting thatdone and he'll be missed because
he was an all-around great guyand just liked to be out and
talk to people.
I know you weren't on theepisode, brian, but he was very.
No, I was just doing this.
Oh my God, he was you could getalong with him very well.
People would have discussionswith him and he was very easy to

(05:39):
speak with.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, you know, personally, when I listen to our
episodes and you know, um theones that you you've done with
some of the people that areinvolved locally and I think you
know we've mentioned, we'vesaid it many times, I feel like
on on these, on these chats,that it's so important to act
locally, um, and it's not justnot just political, not just
politics.
Obviously it's important thereto get involved, but I think,
just to be active in your, inyour area um and I'm trying to

(06:09):
do it, I'm trying to find theright place to do it.
Um, I try helping out with likesome volunteer parent stuff for
like my son's course you know,just just stuff like that.
And you know, um, our company iscool, like they give us.
They give us, um, they give uscommunity hours to okay to do
and, um, I think a lot ofcompanies do that now um, where

(06:31):
they allow you, it's like it'son top of your traditional um
whatever pto or vacation yeah,everyone calls it different um,
anyway, they give you like xamount hours to do it.
So you just go and you, whetherit's serving like dinner or or
you know putting up a park, sothat's serving like dinner, or
or you know putting up a park.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
So that's why you know I need to reach out to you,
cause I may get like a schedulefrom you of what you guys do
and maybe I can include that inmy yeah, I mean, you know what,
like, I tell people like, andI'm on multiple boards, but
sometimes we only meet once amonth and it's people like that
and not everyone can make it.
We, you know, I was on thezoning board, the other.
You know, we had a meeting theother night and one of them my
members, said, hey, I couldn'tmake it because he had a work

(07:08):
commitment.
I said, well, your work comesfirst.
We're a volunteer.
Obviously, you have to do that,you have to take care of that,
but it's not something we haveto give.
You know, we spent every.
There's a lot of people haveother.
You know, we want things done,locally done.
You know, make sure you getinvolved in your own the
politics, because those are thepeople who are going to, you're
going to go to to get thingsdone, whether it's on your
street, your, you know, yourcity, town, whatever.

(07:31):
It's just things you need done.
And we did that with the beachbecause we had a lot of people
and and it comes from different,different political aisles we
had, you know, people on theright and the left and we worked
together to get something donewith the beach.
I sent it as a Republican.
This is more of a Democraticarea, but the guy's the best guy
I've ever worked and we'veworked with.
The guy gets things done.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I just had a thought.
We'll talk about Christmasmovies in a second.
At the end of the movie of theman who Invented Christmas, we
talked about that thing on myepisode.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's the story of I've got to watch that again.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I haven't seen that it's on my annual list, so the
movie is about Charles Dickenswriting Scrooge.
Yes, so it's a super.
I don't know how factuallyaccurate it is.
I never really dove into that.
But the one thing that and Ievery time I watch it is at the
very end.

(08:26):
They talk about how, um, when,the when the book came out.
Who said the way the movie cameout, anything?
when the book came when heactually wrote the book in 18
whatever I don't want to getthought of date and I'll get
that checked um, but when hewrote it, um, what's the word
I'm looking for?
Like fundraising and peoplegiving money like spiked off the

(08:48):
charts, you know.
So people were triggered toreally be thankful for what they
have or have.
Yeah, have, and it was.
It was interesting to see thatand I think about that a lot.
So he, so Charles Dickens, wrotethe carol in 1840 in the fall
of 1843 yes, yeah, yeah, and acouple of you know he's an

(09:11):
interesting character, um, whenyou watch the, when you watch
the movie about him, you know itseems like he was a great dad
and family man and all thatstuff, which is awesome.
Appreciate people like that, um, but you know these writers and
the way they, the way theyoperate, you know they, he would
, he would uh shakespeareshakespeare did this, I'm not
sure, um, but he would like, uh,people that he was around, like

(09:35):
he or he had met, he wouldinclude into his oh yeah, it
just.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's funny.
You say that because it justI'm coped it up with.
You know about charles dickens.
He wrote a christmas carol injust six weeks under financial
pressure yeah, yeah, it's ashort window.
Yeah, reportedly dickens wrotethe story while taking hours
long nighttime walks aroundlondon yes, yeah, yeah, it's,
it's.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
it's the movie, doesn't the movie?
The way you you take.
What I take away from it isthat he only had a short window
to write it and he wasstruggling with just family
stuff, like every human beingdoes, especially back in 1843.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
He was well ahead of his time with this movie, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
So if you watch that movie and what's interesting too
is you watch all thesevariations Like there's a
hundred variations of it I watch.
I watched the night.
I think I mentioned this.
I mean, you watched the muppetsone I.
I have not watched.
I was one of my favorites Iwatched.
I watched the 1971 versionthough.
Thank you very much one.
I love life and all those I.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I said it is quite a bit different ones but they were
all you know, then you get the,the real version.
I mean everyone disney did thechristmas carol with uh jim
carrey.
He played uh ebenezer scroogeand they actually went to the
full version, which was in 3d atthe time, which was big back
then because that was generationmovie theater, and I remember
they went to the full version ofwhat the you know.
You know they didn't, theydidn't like make it into, like
cut it down.

(11:01):
They did the full book andthat's what supposedly did that.
That was the interesting aboutthat.
It was a little dark, it wasanimated but it was a little
dark for a kid's movie.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, they say it's one of those things where you're
kind of paying attention to it.
It's not really.
I think it was dark.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
It is kind of the way about him and his saving his
soul, know like yeah, I meanthat's but even like it's true
though, a lot of ways, a lot ofpeople forget what being a human
is.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I know that's his, yeah, no, I mean even when he
talks about christmas present.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
he's talking to the, the guy dressed in the the
outfit, and he's like he'ssaying, well, he made a comment
and like, well, those aren't my,those people are using my, you
know, to go around and do stuff,and it was just like, it was
just way ahead of it.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's just, it's an interesting movie you know it is
, it is you know it's just it'snot as much as Christmas is
about.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's more of about it shouldn't honestly about people
, and it's right you're right,and it's I.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know, I try to enjoy as much as I can the
christmas season.
When I was a kid, you know you,and I think I joked about it.
Oh, you know, it would be likelike a forever from thanksgiving
to christmas.
Now it's like christmas nextweek and I'm in sales.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Thanksgiving was late this year.
That's the other problem,that's true too.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, but I'm in sales and different role in
sales this year where I'm not asstressing out.
But you mean, you're looking atthe clock, you make my gosh.
Nine days, eight days, seven,oh yeah not, even, not even just
um christmas, so um.
So, speaking of movies, I want,I do want to look at this.
Yeah, hopefully within the nextfew minutes.

(12:45):
So I watched Red, the one, therock movie yes, I did too.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was a good movie.
Did you like it?
I did.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
It's a light-hearted fun-en-movie, exactly yeah,
that's all you're asking for.
You're not asking me.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean, like I see these ratings on like Christmas
of, on like christmas, thecranks and other movies they
give on imdb, it's like lowrating.
I'm like what were youexpecting?
Like a drama series like thesopranos or, uh, you know, a big
movie or like the game ofthrones?
We're talking about somethingthat's just a light-hearted fun.
That's what it is, you know.
I mean it's yeah, it's corny,you know.
It's like jingle all the way.
Right, it brings you talkjingle all the way.
He talks about going to a store, you know, and trying to buy

(13:22):
one last gift that they remembergrowing up in the 80s and 90s
whether it was the Cabbage PatchKids or other things that was a
big thing back then and try togo to the store like you're
fighting with other people, Imean, you know, with the
reindeer in the guy's house.
Yeah, it's a little far-fetched, but it's fun.
It's supposed to be humor.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Take it as that let's not analyze it online has to
like tell everyone what theythink about something, and then
they oh, of course they do, andthen they have some kind of like
I'll call it like a blue checkmark next to them which kind of
makes them an official person tojudge a movie.
But yeah, I do I watched it andit was my god.
And then I'm like you know yeah, there's something.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
So yeah, I mean like, I mean I understand if you're
talking about something like youknow, like they make santa
claus into.
You know, like into the Krampus, violent ones.
Okay, I understand that.
That's a little different.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's funny is Krampus.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Krampus is in this one, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
You want to give the movie a wheel?
Yeah, Krampus.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
No, we can tell that.
I mean, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I feel like they did a really good job.
Sometimes the only issue withthose movies is you're trying to
follow the plot and they'retrying to lose it.
But they did a good job.
I feel like they built it up.
Of course they did.
They kind of built thecharacters up a little bit and
then his son.
Anyway, it was going to be deep.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Honestly, I like the older, I follow the old ones,
like Miracle on the 34th Street.
I actually watched the olderone.
I don't watch the new one.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I'm the old one, I don't watch the new one.
Yeah, I'm with that, so I'm thesame way I watched.
So our Christmas Eve movie thatwe watch is it's a Wonderful
Life.
So we'll save that to ChristmasEve and then, all right.
So here's what we're going todo.
All right, we're going to startoff with some Googling with
Brian.
This is such a popular segment.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
And so here's what this is.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's the top 10 favorite christmas movies, um,
in the us.
Okay, all right, and the wayit's the way it is, um built.
Just to give you an idea of howthey did it um, they built it
on monthly average, monthlysearches.
So, like, who was Googling?
I guess Maybe the movie, andthere I'm going to.
I mean, there is, there's 10.
And I'm going to give you achance.

(15:33):
I'm not going to ask you toname them in order.
Alright, no cheating.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, it's fine because I had a list up, but that's on
the IMDB.
I had taken that up earlier.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Alright, so you might know.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, but I mean the thing is it's tough because
certain movies, when they cameout, I mean, is this based on
overall people's opinion on itor is it something on it's, not
on figures, like what's AWonderful Life?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
which is another one.
You and I were sitting and justwanted to like Okay, because
it's A.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Wonderful Life did nothing for us until years later
.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Let me see if it says what it says.
I'm assuming when it saysaverage monthly searches.
Maybe it's assuming like if youwere searching on a movie,
what's the word I'm looking for,like Amazon or Netflix or
something like that, in themonth of December.
So maybe they're assuming okay,you're looking for a movie,
month of December and these arethe common ones.

(16:23):
All right, let's just pretendfor a second that's what they
did, but I'm not 100% sure.
All right, see if you can.
All right, just give.
How do you want to do it?
Do you want me to tell you whatthey are?
I can guess we can chat on it.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I can give you a few guesses and see if they're on
there.
Yeah, go ahead.
Obviously it's a wonderful life, it's not on there it's not on
there, okay.
What about home alone?
Home alone's number one, okay,um so?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
if it's wonderful life is not on there, then it's
got to be something.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Christmas vacation christmas vacation is not on
here, really, elf.
Yeah, it's interesting, elf isnumber two, okay, so, and so
we'll go.
We're doing that, I guess.
So let's see here um scrooged.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Scrooge is not on here um what christmas carol?
Carol's not on here.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Wow, so let me try to think what movies would have
been.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
The Santa Claus that's on here, yeah, by the way
, I don't know if I've seen thatfirst one in a while.
So I mean, is this based?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
on shorts, or like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
No, okay, so then that meansnothing else would be on there,
because that would be the mostpopular one I would imagine.
I don't think anything elseabout that.
I think jp's is on here loveactually.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, jp, shout out to you jp.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was on the other day.
I put on the middle of it.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I just I have to watch from the beginning,
because it's just yeah, yeah,that's what I have like 100
things going on.
Yeah, I just yeah I can't watchit with my kids because die
hard on there, die hard's onhere.
It's's number five.
So you've got Home Alone, Elf,Love Actually and Die Hard.
So you've got one, two, fourand five and eight.
You've got Santa Claus, WhiteChristmas.
No, I don't know if you'llguess the rest of these.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Probably not Four Christmases.
I don't know.
I wouldn't even know at thispoint.
If they're not on it, I'll justtell them you did a good job
though I wouldn't have gotten it.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
So Gremlins is number three.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh, that's right.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Why is Gremlins a Christmas movie?
Because he's wrapped up and hehas that bow on his head Because
it takes place during Christmas.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's all.
The whole thing takes placeduring Christmas.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I don't think I've seen that movie in 20 years.
Oh, it's always on during.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Christmas time.
It's like Nightmare BeforeChristmas.
It was two People love thesecond one.
They said the second one waslike the way they did it was
unbelievable.
I just couldn't get into it.
A lot of people rave about thesecond one, saying oh, the way
they did it.
I guess they have a certainfollowing for that one.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
But yeah, it takes place during Christmas.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
That's the only reason why.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, I, I'm looking at these and it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
What's the?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
other ones.
So you got Home Alone you got.
Elf, you got Gremlins.
We mentioned Gremlins.
Love Actually, which, by theway, if you've not seen it,
you've got to watch it.
It's still okay to watch.
I think it has some weird partsto it, but it's definitely.
I've watched it.
It's a good movie.
Die Hard you mentioned.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Die Hard.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, hard, edward Scissorhands.
Why is that a Christmas movie?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
I have no idea, no clue.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Is there any Christmas part to it?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Maybe I don't think I ever saw it.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Is there a tree part where he's cutting a tree?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's not something I would go for Christmas, though I
don't even know what site thisis that's posting it.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's a Google search.
It's on MarthaStewartcom.
This list is on Martha Stewartdot com.
I should go credit her.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I was going to say my God, I mean Edward
Scissorhands.
I don't even know if that's onthe list of other things.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I think there's a part where he's cutting a
Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
I can understand that , because the whole thing takes
place during Christmas and maybeit came out during Christmas, I
don't know.
But Edward Scissorhands, Idon't know, Maybe it did nothing
to do with Christmas, all right.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay, here we go.
The next one I thought youwould get, because you mentioned
it when we were talking aboutRed One.
I don't know, and I can'tKrumpus.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh yeah, see, I mean.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Do you watch Krumpus?

Speaker 1 (20:15):
No, have you seen Krumpus?
No, I haven't seen it.
It's just not something I wouldgo to.
I guess the whole thing is itshould be Christmas movies.
If people are Googling that,that's fine, but I don't know
people.
It's like one of those holidaysit-downs where everyone's
having a sit-down and say let'swatch Grampus tonight, followed
by Gremlins and then EdwardScissorhands, but I don't know.

(20:38):
It goes on everyone's house.
Nor do I want to know what'sgoing on anyone's house.
Hold on.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
BD Petrolo searched Edwin Cesar's hands, the most
Probably did.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh man.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
All right, so you got Krampus talked about the Santa
Claus, which the first one Ithink is the best yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
I don't need to know the other two.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
And then, you know, I haven't seen, I've seen it on,
I've seen this one as an optionas a movie option, and that's
the Holiday have you seen theHoliday?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
I've seen bits of it.
I've seen a lot of it.
Yeah, with.
What's his name, was it?
Oh, my God, what's her name?
Cameron Diaz.
And.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, Jack Black.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, but then what's her name too?
The one with the Titanic, oh,Kate.
Winslet.
Yeah, Kate Winslet.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
I usually never know these actors.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I know Kate Winslet.
I should know Kate Winslet.
I love Kate Winslet.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, so the last one that's on there is the
Nightmare Before Christmas.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
So I'm just Okay.
So the last one that's on thereis.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
The Nightmare Before Christmas, yeah so that was what
I told you.
I'm just going to read themreal quick.
So number one Home Alone, two,elf, three, gremlins, four, love
Actually.
Five, die Hard.
Six, edward Scissorhands, seven, krampus.
Eight, santa Claus.
Nine, the Holiday and ten, theNightmare Before Christmas.
So we're hoping to get thisepisode out.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
So that's like a collective group of movies we're
talking more from like romanticcomedies to violence to Do you?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
still watch Frosty and Rudolph Of course.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I do.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
I actually bought both of them.
I'm like we're always watchingthem.
My kids still like it.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I still watch it all the time.
I watch all the old.
I like the old stuff.
I watch the stuff like this.
You know what?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Derek, you and I have such the same sense of humor I
know you're going to laugh atthis, or when you think of it
you're going to laugh.
Was the part in Frosty becausethe rabbit couldn't talk, yeah,
but he could only give, likehand motions, oh, yeah.
And the part when he's tryingto tell Was he trying to?
No, he was trying to tell thegirl who could help.

(22:49):
No, he was trying to tellFrosty who could help the girl.
Yeah, and he starts marching,yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
And he goes, not the army, yeah, yeah.
And the other scene I wasthinking about you was our humor
was in Fred Claus when he keptplaying the same music over and
over again and he goes.
But Fred, it's so catchy yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
There's some classic scenes in these movies.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's why it's one of the best ones.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
So how can you go wrong?
I mean, like growing up withRudolph and I have no problem
meeting.
I watch Rudolph, I go on my wayto find rudolph.
Frosty, santa claus is comingto town, uh, the year without a
sand, all that stuff, it's, it'sfun, little stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Brings you back to my childhood yeah, and I never
want to grow up so, and I'mobviously immature so I'm going
to keep that yeah, it's like wesaid.
It's like it's almost, um, youknow, kind of remember when
Christmas is.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, I'm not rushing to grow up.
No need to do that.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah.
So, all right, I'm going togive you, I'm going to do my one
last.
Actually, where is it here?
There were some others thatwere different, I mean, but I
did see Elf the Play.
I think I told you that I wentand saw that in New York and I
thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, you know what I?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
usually go see the Christmas Carol down in North
Shore Music Theater.
Usually every other year I takemy mother and my cousins.
And then I saw the ChristmasStory one up in Portsmouth a
couple years ago.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
It was good, it was a different change of pace, yeah.
We're seeing Monday night.
We're going to see the show theGrinch who Stole Christmas, the
Wayne Theater.
I don't think it's Wayne, but Isaw a commercial for it the
other day.
There she is.
Hi, lily, welcome back how areyou?
We are doing well.

(24:44):
We are doing well, we are doingwell.
Brett is not with us yet.
He had a commitment, but we'renever going to get a time where
all three of us and you, it'stoo much.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Life is life, so it's the two guys, it's the two guys
.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's technically two guys.
We have a lot of guest hostsand they're always better than
us.
They're always a woman who'sbetter than us, so we're having
you.
Is that what you're saying?

(25:17):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, uh, welcome back to to lily.
We kind of did an intro for you, um, early on.
We just doing derek and I wasjust doing some fun, uh, here's
that by the.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
I'm sorry I missed that.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh, we, just, it was a 25-page intro.
It was very, very long, but letme do this.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
And Brian admitted he had stalked you enough times to
get you to come back on with us.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, I did come and go.
It was just all kinds ofmessages.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I just want to let you know that's him.
That's not the other two guysthat do that.
If you ever take a policereport charge on?
It's not on us, it's on him,he's his own separate three guys
.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
I'm guilty.
So, derek, thank you for makingme lose my train of thought.
So, literally, we were justhaving some fun.
We were just doing some funChristmas movies, just kind of
most popular movies, and thenwe're going to do Because we
usually do like a year-endepisode.
We just kind of have some funwith Christmas and we do some
fun end-of-year stuff.

(26:13):
Last year we did the.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Wine.
Let me just make sure you guys,when you were talking movies,
die hard Christmas movie, notChristmas movie, it's on here.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
It's on here.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
It's on a list, it's number five so the list we just
the list that brian's going offis a little strange list it's
got some of the newest on there.
it's montastewartcom.
It'sa legitimate site, I'm sureit's legit, so if you go with
that.
So it was home alone.
Elf gremlins, which I didn'tknow was a christmas movie I'm
learning that.
And then Love Actually, whichwe talked about.
Our friend, jennifer Sika,who's a good friend of our show,

(26:48):
mentioned that's her movie, herfavorite one.
So now it's on my watch list.
I watch this again.
Die Hard Edward ScissorhandsDidn't know that was.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't know If that's a Christmas movie.
That's not the spirit I'mlooking to get into.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
I think he cuts up a tree or something.
Krampus, santa Claus, theHoliday which I've not seen.
It's on my list.
Oh, that's a great one.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, it's on my Amazon.
That's a Christmas movie, Imean.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I can understand that Edwin.
Tisday has.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
no, I don't know where that came from.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
And the last one was the Nightmare Before Christmas.
I'm going to hold off on these10 most popular words.
We'll finish with that.
So, Lily, welcome back.
We are so psyched you are back.
So I got to tell you, despiteour greatest efforts, we have
not beat your episode.
We've come close, but no matterwho we bring in, they always
finish behind the popularity ofepisode.

(27:45):
The only one that comes closeis one.
Well, if you take away ourfirst two intro episodes, I
think people are always like whoare these three idiots?
And they listen to our firsttwo episodes?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
So stay firm on the word idiots.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Smart move, so anyway .
So one of the most popular onesafter yours is Derek's Cocktail
Hour, and we can't get Derek tocome back.
Derek will not come back to hisown podcast.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I don't think that was the next highest one.
I think there was other onesabove that one, derek is top
five.
Well, it is, but it's notanyway.
There's a few others.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Derek's Cocktail Hour and, Derek, when we do that
again, I'm not drinking water.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
I'm going to have myself, I'm back into Malbec,
I'm going to bring my Malbec.
Well, I have to say I amshocked and surprised.
So you're saying it was themost popular one you've done?

Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, they absolutely crushed it.
They absolutely crushed it.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Let's get Deloitte and Touche on this.
Let's count the numbers again.
That can't possibly be right.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
No, it's 100% right.
You are by far.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's fine.
We continue to try.
We bring on people that arelike this you know what we
posted on our Facebook page.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
We get the most interactions with people than
any other episode.
People just love you and theyfollow you and they rave, they
give you good compliments, truth.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
I will say I don't think that that is um.
I will say I have had the mostwonderful interactions, um, with
the people of Massachusetts andRhode Island, really, everybody
in new England I mean, I justum, it's so funny, the the
everybody thinks like, oh,you're in new England, they're,
they're, uh, I don't know,they're, you know, tough because

(29:27):
of the winters and gruff,because of what they've been
through with the Sox.
And I just find, like you know,there's a warm, gooey center at
the center of every NewEnglander and people have been
just so.
They're so generous, they're sokind, they're so giving and
it's absolutely been lovely tome.
So that's really nice to hear.

(29:54):
But I really think that that isa tribute to the people we're
interacting with.
It's just been people have beenlovely.
I mean just absolutely lovelyand wonderful.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Well, I think it is too.
You have such a great sense ofhumor.
You don't like take yourself soseriously.
In my personal opinion, I justthink the way you know you, just
you just go out there and you,you let it all out and I think
that's what people you'regenuine and that's what people
don't see a lot of, and it'stough.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
You know, it's an interesting thing that you say
that, because I think that youknow, especially in news God
that used to come through thetelevision People don't really
they don't want to be told whatto do by a holier than thou
person.
They want to say would I invitethis person into my home, would

(30:33):
I invite them over to dinner?
And I think people are smarterthan a lot of organizations give
them credit for.
You know, they see throughnonsense and people are really
hungry for genuineness andauthenticity.
And you know, to the extentthat I do that I, you know, I'm

(30:56):
glad that people are receivingit, but it's only because you
know, people are hungry forsomething real and I'm hungry
for that too.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
So yeah, no, you're right.
People don't like to be toldwhat they're doing.
They get a lot enough of thatand they just want to be told
the information.
Let them figure it out.
Most of them are smart enoughto figure it out and, if they
can, you'd be surprised some ofthe directions some of these
people go in right Not beingtold what to do, just being off
of the information, that'sabsolutely right, yeah, I don't
think anyone likes beinglectured.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
I think everyone likes.
I think that everyoneappreciates sort of a genuine
engagement on something that'srelevant and timely at least, at
least, at least I do.
You know, I've kind of found Ishut everything off for about
two years and as I start to turnthings back on, I realize I
gravitate towards a source thatI feel like isn't going to make

(31:43):
me feel horrible with myself.
You know, it's going to besomewhat motivating and it's
going to.
It's going to like Lily, likeone of the things like I always
I always feel like I could laugh, like if I was going to turn to
Lily, I'm going to laugh.
She'll say something funny Likemaybe nobody like, just like
Derek and I, like we've 40 years, I don't even want to start
aging myself with Derek, butlike the key core foundation we

(32:04):
were just talking about some ofthe movies that we like, some of
the like it's just being funnyand being like these Christmas
movies.
At the end of the day, they'remeant to be funny and make you
laugh and make you feel goodabout yourself and that's kind
of the I want to be able to.

(32:26):
That's the wrong way to put it.
If you want to, if you're goingto put yourself in an area
where you're being educated oryou're being brought to speed on
stuff, you want to feel likeyou're connected to that person
and they are genuine and theyare, you know.
So when you lose that, it'slike click, you know, like I'm
not gonna, you know I'm not, I'mnot, I'm not going to be, I'm
not going to be a part of that.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
So you have to.
Wherever you are, you have toenjoy what you're doing every
day, and I think that when youdo, it just lends itself to, you
know, the best product.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
So Agreed, agreed, agreed.
And you know in my, in mylittle, in my little world that
I that I that I live in becausepeople have to like me when I do
or I'm not going to besuccessful.
So you want I'm not saying yougot to like go out of your way
to like kiss people's toes andstuff, but I think you want to
be, you want people want to bearound you and talk to you and
listen to you.
You know.

(33:15):
So there's something to be saidfor that and the key thing, I
think I don't know.
I think you said it is beinggenuine and being like that is
it's and it's, it's.
It's just so much out there nowwhere you just know it's.
You know people aren't beingthemselves, they're playing a
role, and when you and when youhave that, it comes out now I
feel like so it's, it's anyway.
So so, lily, we're celebratingthe end of season four, so this

(33:40):
is sort of what we're doing.
We're celebrating our, our.
This is sort of what we'redoing.
We're celebrating ourunfortunately, we don't have the
wine and stuff but we'recelebrating season four,
celebrating and getting readyfor what's going to be an
awesome 2025 for, hopefully,everybody.
And something, derek, just topiggyback on what Derek said we

(34:00):
actually are in 61 countries,over 1,200 cities, and that
doesn't include all ourengagements and all our socials
and stuff and we continue to dothis for fun.
You know that's our goal here.
You know, just have fun, almostwhat we just talked about.
And if people want to listen toall episodes, it's really, at
the end of the day, trying tohave people that and, within
their profession, their goal isto help people.
You know we bring them here andgive them a platform to do that

(34:21):
.
And we're in 1200.
Derrick, our second mostpopular country.
You know what it is.
Our second or third?
Have you looked lately?
Germany, I think, isn't it?
it's uh, south africa oh, southafrica wow, so it's right, and
we did do what we did do anepisode on uh uh uh what do you
call it?
South african travel.
I'm trying to think the wordthat, the word that, when you,

(34:42):
when you go, what you do, my mybrain's going blank.
Anyway, that could be it.
People who are traveling there,I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, and to Brian's point, we do appreciate you
taking the time.
I know you're very busy andother things to do and you know
you wouldn't have to come on ifyou didn't want to, but we do
appreciate you doing thatbecause it means a lot to us.
So thank you again.
It it means a lot to us, sothank you again.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
It means a lot to me.
I just really appreciate youguys wanting to have me on and I
had such a great time last timeand I'm really let me just
pause here and commend youbecause, from what you've just
described a four-year-oldtoddler who is running amok
globally and I think that'sexactly it.
Well, congratulations.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, that's exactly it Des congratulations.
Yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
This guy Brett has a toddler.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
I wish he was with us .
Yeah, so people who listen tous, one of two things they're
like who are these guys?
What the hell are they talkingabout?
Or they're going to call thepolice on us because they think
we're crazy.
Yeah, it's probably a little.
They're giving a on us becausethey think we're crazy?
Yeah, probably a little it'sprobably a little.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
They're giving a mic to someone who's crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, um, all right, his.
So here's what we're going todo for this episode and, lily,
this, this when I was sort of Ifollow with the diet we just
went through, but people canmake me laugh or be like, wow,

(36:08):
where is she?
Or where is that Bringing youto like, not, this is what I'm
looking for, almost like, hey,this person's enjoying
themselves, they are livingtheir best life, as I think we
all should.
It's like Where's Waldo?
Right, minus the cartoon partof it.
So next year I'm doing somemajor travel.
I'm celebrating 50 years inApril being on this beautiful
earth of ours.

(36:29):
So in conjunction with that, I'mgoing to be doing a lot of
travel, so we're going to talk alittle bit about travel, Talk a
little bit about something heand I know zero about, which is
fashion.
Brett did send some questions,so we're going to try to pitch
those at you and do some fun,pick ones and then pick on Derek
as much as we can in the sortof way that we have together.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's always good.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, so let's just get rolling and we'll have some
fun here.
Alright, so let's just get intofashion.
I'm going to throw some.
Brett did ask.
I asked Brett.
I said Brett man, we're notfashionistas, we have no idea.
Look at me.
Everything I have, derek, isOld Navy.

(37:12):
My wife must be pushing OldNavy stock off the charts.
If you want to invest in anyone, go Amazon and Old Navy.
Those two I think this.
Thank you, melanie.
If anyone wants to thank theirstock send it in.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, thank you, brian, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
All right, so I'm just going to.
I'm going to read this.
It's always clunky when I readit, but I'm going to read it.
We can always kind of clean itup after if we want.
So this is from Brett.
If you could choose of'refashion weeks so specifically
the fashion weeks to attend,which one would you go to, and
why?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
I mean.
So, first of all, I mean Parisis the obvious choice.
I absolutely love gay Paris andyou know there's so much art
and culture and you know to me,you know you go, you, this is
there.
There's so much art and cultureand you know to me, you know
you go to to see and to be seen,and then you just enjoy the
whole city.
And I will tell you one of myfavorite places in the world to

(38:16):
travel, my, I guess, in my heart, my, I identify as a Londoner,
but I have traveled more time toParis because I have found one
of my tricks is I actually usethe Hopper app.
I don't know if you guys use theHopper app, but I absolutely
love it because it gives you thegreat times of when you should
travel.
So if you're, if your times areflexible, you know you can

(38:40):
actually see when the prices aregoing to go down, when they're
going to go up.
And I've found consistentlythat it is less expensive to fly
to Paris, france, than it is tofly to, like, kansas City, than
it is to fly to.
I mean, you know, if you'regoing to be on a plane for about
, you know, roughly five hours,you might as well go that way,

(39:01):
because it's less expensive in alot of cases to travel to Paris
.
So I will never.
There will never be a timethere's a meme on social media
that says Paris is always a goodidea.
I wave the flag of that, myfriend.
So that would be my pick,although any of them would be
amazing.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
So the Hopper app, just to make sure, so the Hopper
app pushes you out alerts, soyou plug in where you want to go
and then you get said, hey,this is, these prices are going
up or down.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
So not only do you get to see like, when you open
the Hopper app, you get to seedifferent tiles and they're
green, I think, you know, orangeand red, or green, yellow and
red, just like a stoplight.
You know orange and red, orgreen, yellow and red, just like
a stoplight, and so it showsyou throughout the year.
Hey, if you go from, like, aTuesday to Monday of the
following week, you're going tosave money.

(39:51):
If you go during, you know,november instead of May, you're
going to save money.
And then when you, when you'vedone your search, even if you
haven't committed to it, itremembers that for you, and then
, when the prices drop, you getan alert on your phone, and so
you know.
To me, that is one of the bestways to shop for airfare.
Another great way to shop forairfare, though, is to make sure

(40:14):
that you're.
If you're looking on your, youknow your desktop or your laptop
to make sure you're shoppingthrough a VPN, and the reason
shopping through a VPN is goodis because they don't know where
you are and they can't see thehistory of you know how many
times you've been searching thisflight.
I can't be sure, but I have tobelieve if you know, if the

(40:36):
algorithm shows that you'rereally interested in going to
Dubuque, for whatever reason,little by little you know those
prices are going to crop up.
So I always recommend whetherthis is just my own idea or
whether there is some validityto it, I don't know but yeah, I
recommend, you know, clearingyour cash, shopping through a

(40:56):
VPN, but for me, the best andeasiest way is the Hopper app.
I just absolutely love it.
I've gotten amazing deals.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, I've heard of that app.
I actually was told by that appby someone I knew.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I had it pop up every once in a while.
Yeah, it is.
It's something interesting.
You get a lot of updates for it.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Derek, I just want to pitch out one more of Brett's
questions.
So you've had a choice to wearany fashion designer of your
choosing, no cost to you.
Which designer clothes are youwearing?
Well, I'm sorry, I'm going tostart over again.
So his question is if you couldpick any fashion designer and
you could wear their clothes tothat event, so you were going to

(41:33):
Paris who would you wear toParis for that event?

Speaker 4 (41:39):
I'm genuinely curious to know how you guys would
answer this question.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well, I'll tell you the first thing we wouldn't be
invited, so let's just get thatoff the table.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Would it be a Bruins jersey to a Bruins game guys?
Would it be?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Hold on.
His name is Ralph.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
His name is Ralph.
His last name is Loren.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
I mean, you know you got to go, I think you have to
go.
The house that Coco Chanelbuilt, you know it's just, it's
so ingrained in that, in thatculture.
But but the truth of the matteris, you know, many of us will
never, will never touch thatkind of.
Many of us won't have thatmoney to spend.

(42:25):
But you can really appreciate,you can always walk on the
sidewalk past any of thesebeautiful fashion houses in any
city that you're in closeproximity to and admire them
from the street, and that, myfriends, is free.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I gotta say, derek, one thing about chanel.
This is going back probably 30years now.
The one few times I went tonewport, uh over the summer is I
saw chanel's um mansion innewport oh really and this was
that and oh my gosh dude, it was.
It was obviously it was acastle like this, this, this
company knows, this person knowswhat they're doing.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
So let me tell you something I you know Newport,
rhode Island.
One of my favorite places to goin Newport, rhode Island, is
the cliff walk and you know, yousee these houses that these
captains of industry built andthey're right on the water.
And you know, thankfully thecity planners had the
wherewithal to say you know, wedon't want just wealthy people
to have this kind of view, andso they made this public access
route called the Cliff Walk, andit is one of the most beautiful

(43:30):
, breathtaking vistas thatyou'll ever see.
On the right hand side, asyou're walking Cliff Walk,
you're looking at the elms.
You're looking at Rose Cliff.
You're looking at what the inthe.
You know, in the Gilded Agethey called the cottages.
You're looking at what in the.
You know, in the Gilded Agethey called the cottages.
And then, when you look to theleft, you see these, you know
sheer rock cliffs and the watercrashing onto the shoreline.

(43:51):
By the way, rhode Island 3%bigger at low tide.
My friends.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Oh, really Shout out to Rhode.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Island.
No, that's not true.
I was going to say but it's sosmall, you would think so.
You would think so, you wouldthink so.
But yeah, it's really cool inNewport to see all these houses
and to wander through them, andwhether you get a ticket to go
through them.
I always say you know, solvayRegina University is in Newport
and a lot of Solvay Regina is.
Their campus is made up ofthese, these quote unquote

(44:16):
cottages.
You know these mansions, and Ialways say, if I had been told
as like a nine or 10 year oldgirl, there is a place where you
can go to college in a mansion,I would have been much better
at school.
I would have been much, muchbetter.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Very true.
Well, I guess the question ishave you been to a fashion week?
Because Brian made it soundlike I mean like you've been to
a fashion week before in thepast.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
I you know I have been invited to a fashion week
in in New York City once.
But you know, one of myfavorite events, actually right
in our own backyard, is StyleWeek.
Style Week was started by myfriend, rosanna Ortiz, and it
brings together these burgeoningdesigners who have a lot of

(45:01):
creativity and she puts togetherthese fashion shows that are,
you know, in the backyard ofrisdy, which is you know dale
chihuly went to to.
I mean, risdy is like one ofthe, you know, foremost colleges
for the creative types in theworld.
So she's bringing together,really, um, designers from all

(45:21):
over the country who otherwisemight not break through that,
you know, that level ofrecognition and showcasing them
in a way that is just sobeautiful, and so that actually
is one of my favorite eventsevery year is when Style Week
Northeast puts on its fashionshow, and it's really cool to

(45:43):
like follow these designers andlike see what their story is and
then see where they go fromthere.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
So follow them on Instagram.
Yeah, so do they have it at thesame time of year every year?
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
Yeah, you know it has .
It depends on you know thechallenges of what's going on in
the city, what theadministration is, you know who
is in that year.
You know who is in that year.
You know a lot of times.
One of the privileges that wehave, obviously, is you know we
can be creative because we're.
We live in relative peace inthis country and so what happens

(46:16):
is you know all of thiscreative.
These creative juices arepercolating but, depending on
whatever administration is kindof in, is kind of you know where
you get the support.
You have to really rally peopleto say this is important.
This is an important part ofAmerican life is stewarding

(46:41):
these creative people andvaluing.
You know what they produce, andso there have been challenges
here and there with you knowtrying to get fundraising,
trying to get the space, tryingto get you know backers for it.
But it has been fairlyconsistent and if you follow
them on Instagram, they alwaysadvertise when their style week
is going to be.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
That's awesome.
You know a little fun fact Ididn't know anything about RISD
until I watched Wedding Crashers.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's right.
Here we go.
This is is where we the oneline.
So, uh, we had a friend that'skind of went to high school.
This guy actually grew up withum.
He ended up becoming a shoedesigner and he actually came on
the podcast in season one tokeep going out, to keep
self-promoting us.
Uh, mario sagasumi.
He ended up working for, liketommy hilfiger.

(47:21):
He ended up working for someprettyfiger.
He ended up working for somepretty big designers.
And, what's interesting, derekI don't know if you remember
this, but he kind of talkedabout these ideas that these
young designers had and theywould be like you're crazy, no
one's going to want that stuff.
And they kept their designs and10, 15 years later, those
designs were like what was in.
So it's very interesting howthings that someone will come

(47:46):
back ah, that's not somethinganyone want to wear, that's not.
And then next thing, you knowthat's super cool and one of
them one of them was looked likederek was the um michael j fox
shoe that he wore in back to thefuture oh yeah, remember that.
Yeah, it was kind of hot but itwas like a wrap or something, I
forget.
It was like it was kind ofweird wrap, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Anyway, oh yeah, I know what you're talking about
when he jumps on the hoverboard.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, but that shoe was one of the ones that they
were trying to design.
How could that work?
How would that look and feel?
And I think that was one of theones.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
You need people to think outside the box.
These are the.
From doing that, then you'llnever have these great gifts
that they give to you.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
So I want to go back to sort ofthe living your best life, lily
, this is crazy for everyone andwe sort of watch.
We kind of watch you doing yourthing and I want to go into
sort of your travel.
You kind of talked about somesecrets on to get to these
places, because airfare is crazy, especially when you're a

(48:44):
family of four, like like I do.
You know it's never easy oneanyway.
Um, is there certain areas of?
Is there certain areas of theof the world?
There's certain destinationsthat are sort of on your, on
your list of places that youwant to go, whether it's because
of the food or the fashion, orjust just the, the beauty, the
beauty of where it is.
Is there anything in particularthat's on your checklist?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Or going back again, you know there's always a
perpetual list, but I will tellyou that, in terms of like
airfare and not airfare, I thinkone of the things that the
pandemic really taught us isthat there are so many beautiful
and amazing places right herein our own backyard, you know
that we fail to explore yearafter year.

(49:26):
You know I would love to seevarious national parks, I would
love to go out to Utah, I wouldlove to go to Alaska.
You know, going to Newport,like you were saying, it's
always refreshing to me to be bythe water and to be inspired by
these beautiful buildings, andof a different era and time, and
so I think that you know,whether it's flying somewhere or

(49:50):
whether it's hopping in the car, really the beautiful thing
about travel is when you cangather your loved ones and you
can explore a place that youeither is dear to your heart or
you've never been to before, andyou can build memories.
I mean that that really is themost important thing about
travel.
Um, and I will say that, um, youknow, in terms of the, I'm

(50:14):
actually coming to you right nowfrom the moxie hotel in saint
petersburg, florida.
Yeah, gonna celebrate christmashere in saint petersburg and
then I'm gonna take um.
My god sons are gonna be comingin.
I'm gonna take them.
They are lego crazy, so we'regoing to lego land um and you
know, to be able to give themthat experience.
I'm just as excited about thatas some of my other trips,

(50:35):
because I know that their headsare going to explode when I tell
them we're going to lego landand um, so I just really, I'm
really excited about that.
This is a great.
You know, I have never reallybeen to this area of Florida
before and I just love I'm kindof bopping around a little bit
and I just love this whole likeSt Pete, tampa area.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Clearwater?
Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Yeah, clearwater I had never.
I went there the other day.
Expansive beaches, the hotelsare amazing.
I mean that's a place where youknow it's a just add water kind
of vacation, where you know youcan bring your kids down there.
You don't have to plan anything, you don't have.
You know the craziness of whenI think about Florida.
You know everybody thinks aboutDisney and Disney to me

(51:21):
actually was much more fun goingas a grown up, when you're not
being yet you know down to everyto go on every ride and the
thing about Disney which iswonderful and amazing, but like
it has changed.
You really have to.
You need a vacation after yourvacation.
If you're going to the planetand it's so expensive that you
want to maximize your dollar andthere's a lot of stress in and

(51:44):
you have an app and you've gotto be a certain place at a
certain time and and to me myfavorite kinds of vacations are
the opposite of that it's youknow every other day planning
something and then every otherday letting something percolate
and in terms of like where Iwant to go, I am really scrappy,

(52:04):
like my friends kind of teaseme because I'm high, low, low,
high and low.
Okay, I am like family dollarand Bergdorf Goodman, and it is,
you know, my.
I want to be really strategicabout, you know, my time, my
money, you know my energy, myenergy level, and so what I like

(52:24):
to do is my brother and hisgirlfriend.
They actually moved to Spainand so the next couple of years,
you know, I want to spend timewith them and they are gracious
enough to let us, you know,crash on their couch or in a
spare room, and so I want tovisit them.
So I think, you know, if youhave a friend or a family member
who is going somewhere, youknow buddy up with them and, and

(52:48):
you know, you'll pay for yourairfare, but then you can split
the cost of going out.
You can split the cost of, youknow, maybe, an Airbnb, the best
trick that I have ever learned.
I actually have learned just in, like the last week being here.
You know, whenever you go onvacation and you're like sitting
around a pool, people starttalking where are you from?
Where are you from?
This hack that this guy told meblew my mind.

(53:11):
I have not verified this yet,but except that I you know, I
don't know the ins and outs ofit, but wait until you hear this
.
There is a website it's calledtrustedhousecitterscom, and
Trusted House Sitters is lookingfor people who will watch a
house or watch a cat or a dogwhile the owner of that home is

(53:32):
on vacation.
And these homes with these petsor who need these homes that
need watching, are all aroundthe globe.
They've got them anywhere youcan imagine.
And what you do is you, youknow, I think it's either solo
travelers or, if you're married,you maybe you can, you can
bring your husband or wife, butbasically what you do is you go
on this website, you say whereyou want to go and you volunteer

(53:56):
yourself as a, as a trustedhouse sitter for a couple of
days, for a week.
What have you?
And now you get to stay intheir home in that locale for
free.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Oh, wow, I didn't know about that.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Neither did I.
This needs furtherinvestigation, because to me
that is like one of the mostamazing hacks that you could do.
I mean, can you imagine it'slike having a friend Numerous
background checks.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
What's interesting is , when you were first talking
about it, I was thinking that itwas different, because one of
the things I do really is Ivolunteer Derek to do things on
episodes.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
You can volunteer me for that.
I'd be happy to do that Tagsharks.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
I mean all kinds of fun stuff.
So when you were first talkingabout the idea, I'm like you
would watch that person's housewhile they Will they travel.
So my thought was, when Itravel, Derek, out of the
goodness of his heart, willwatch my house.
Yeah, yeah, and I'll just sendyou my Instagram.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
I'm not really traveling far, but that's fine.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
So we flip it Derek watches our house for us, yeah,
and then we leave and just gowherever we know Derek's a
trusted house person, but I likeit.
So, derek, when we go tobeautiful Salisbury this summer,
I will get your house.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
So I leave my house to go to your house.
Yes, I leave my house inSalisbury to go to your house
and go the other direction.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, just the roof.
All I want is the roof.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
You're talking about.
You've never seen the holiday.
You are living out the theholiday right there in Salt
Creek.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yes, no, I've seen most of it.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Right off his roof you can see he has the beautiful
firework.
You know, something you said,billy, that caught my ear and I
agree with you, is we areblessed to live in an area I
think area of the world reallyin New England to see so much.
You know, whether it's Maine,whether it's Rhode Island this
year I have a family that liveson the line of Canada and Maine.

(55:46):
It's Lubeck.
Anyway, it's quite, it's not atouristy thing, it's like just
off the road now, point isthere's a, there is a state park
there, just beautiful.
You know, it's just.
I mean, it's a three hour drive, so it's not a short drive,
it'll probably be more than that, probably hours.
But um, anyway, you get to there.
You get there and you're likeyou're in a different place.
You know you're just, you'renot.

(56:06):
You know you're disconnected,you're, you're separated.
My kids are going crazy becausethey can't get online, or my
daughter is in particular, butsome of some of these places are
just, are just amazing.
You, last, last week, I went tostirbridge and did the
christmas stirbridge christmasthing and I can't tell you how
much fun that's.
A Christmas routine that we didpre-pandemic and we brought it

(56:27):
back and it was just you're justkind of like your time worked
into this place with some adultbeverages, but anyway, I mean
there's so much around, youdon't necessarily have to jump
in a plane, on a plane to go tosome of these, some of these

(56:47):
awesome places.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Yeah, you know, a lot of times, like you're saying,
the journey a lot of times isthe is the destination.
You know, I know that, like myfamily, we're from New York and
every year we went up to CapeCod and you know it would.
It was was one of some of mybest memories were in the car.
You know, my dad is a big guyand he would blast the AC and so

(57:10):
we'd be in the middle of Julybundled up as though we were on
a ski vacation and we'd stop atlike a McDonald's for lunch and
people would would wonder wheredid you come from?
You're bundled up, like youknow, 30 degrees, and there were
times where, you know, wedidn't even have.

(57:31):
You know, my parents used tocount out the change and decide
can we get coffee and pay fortolls or will we only be able to
pay for tolls?
So there were times where theywould make, like you know,
little sandwiches and pack themin the car and we'd pull up to
the, the aquarium in Connecticut, in Mystic, connecticut, and at
that time they had, like one oftheir aquariums had, a public
view tank.
I don't think you can seeanything from the outside

(57:52):
anymore.
You have to buy a ticket, butwe would like drive right up to
the public viewing point andwe'd sit there and we'd eat our
homemade sandwiches.
And you know those are some ofthe best memories.
I love a road trip and actuallyI would even say you know, the
next time you go, maybe you cango even further.
One of my favorite places in theworld to go is Quebec City, and

(58:15):
you can drive there.
And it's bizarre because youknow you drive, you're in your
own car, but everybody around isspeaking French.
You're like how did this happen?
Even the stop signs, instead ofsaying stop, they say and you
know it's the only I think it'sthe only remaining walled city
in North America, if I'm notmistaken, and it is.

(58:36):
You know it's a great place togo, even in, even in the
wintertime.
People think, oh my gosh, canadain the wintertime, that's
probably a nightmare.
Well, they say, you knowthere's no such thing as bad
weather, there's only badclothes.
And so you go there and youbundle up and especially around
you know, this time of year, theChristmas season, there are

(58:57):
people caroling in the streetsand the little shop owners are
making maple syrup candy in thesnow that they're selling.
And you know, there's there's,there's trash can fires, that
people are huddled around andit's just the most amazing thing
.
And that's another one where youknow it's it doesn't include
the cost of a plane ticket,includes the you know gas, which
is, by the way, still expensive, but you know the journey then

(59:19):
becomes the destination on thatkind of trip.
So I love that you guys were upin Maine and you know the
journey then becomes thedestination on that kind of trip
.
So I love that you guys were upin maine and, uh, you know
there's another area that thecoast of maine is just, uh,
absolutely stunning, one of theone of the most gorgeous places
in the world.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Yeah, yeah you know, uh, you know, speaking of that,
you mentioned about local and II follow recently actually brian
, I think, got me into it waswas elena pinto.
She does a lot of stuff aroundthe area.
It's unbelievable Stuff that Ididn't even know existed.
I said to my mother I'm like Ididn't even know this place was
here.
I didn't know this was there.
It's unbelievable stuff shefinds.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
It's amazing and, as a matter of fact, I have seen
her bopping around on TikTok.
She has got tens of thousandsof dollars.
She may have that too.
We've got tens of thousands ofviewers on TikTok.
And again, you should followher on TikTok because she does
and that's what she specializesin.
That's her niche, you know,going to these different areas,
showing you where you can go,and I think that's just that's

(01:00:14):
wonderful, because there are somany places that you know maybe
we went to as a kid with ourfamily or on a school trip.
You know, I'm thinking of, asyou guys were talking about, a
Sturbridge village, I wasthinking of Plymouth plantation,
that we did that forThanksgiving one year.
That was a fantastic time.
But yeah, there are all theseplaces that you sort of you know
, you sort of forget about oryou didn't realize that we're

(01:00:34):
there, but people come to newEngland, especially in the
summertime, from all over theworld.
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Yeah, so it's great.
Yeah, I love Elena's content.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I was thinking when you were mentioning about the
drive.
I was thinking about theCangamangus Highway, like just
how incredible that is, and thenpeople do come from all over
the place.
So, derek, I will pay for lunchtomorrow.
I may have to edit this out,but because I'll probably for
lunch tomorrow.
I may have to edit this out butbecause I'll probably be for
work reasons.
But, derek, if you can guesswhat brand of hotel, what
company, the brand of hotel thatshe's in, if you can guess the

(01:01:09):
company that owns it, I will payfor lunch tomorrow.
Who's?

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
in.
I'm at the.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Moxie Hotel in St Petersburg and there is a parent
company.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
So who do you think owns?
I will pay for lunch tomorrow.
Come on, just throw in a guess,throw out anything.
Just throw something out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
The Marriott?
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Oh, my God, You're going to pay for lunch.
Was it the Marriott?
Actually, I was going to payfor lunch anyway, I was going to
pay for lunch.
Just so you know, just for ourlisteners, if I do keep this in,
I was going to pay for lunchtomorrow, but I will.
You're a good dude, so that's agood guess.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
no, so it was clearly a guess too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
I want.
So just a couple couple lastcouple last things on on on
travel, uh, lily, because we douh one thing that we we we
touched on this this year, uh, Ithink a couple times is we've
gone to, like the health spaceand fitness space and
specifically travel when.
What's your secret when youtravel, um, whether it's
exercise, whether it's just kindof finding quiet space, or do

(01:02:06):
you do that when you're on theroad and you're going about?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
You know, I do try to exercise when I'm on vacation.
One of the things that I, youknow, one of the things that I
try to remember is, like a lotof times people will say, you
know, you have to work out whileyou're on vacation.
And in my mind, I get to workout while I'm on vacation.
You know, you're in some of themost beautiful vistas and it's

(01:02:34):
great to go for a walk, it'sgreat to go for a little run,
but, honestly, the mostimportant thing that I do
whenever I travel anywhere is todo my Bible study.
So I do daily devotions andevery day just read a little bit
of scripture to start off yourday.
And I find that like where yourmind is meditating.

(01:02:56):
You know, if you start out yourday meditating on the things
above, meditating on, you knowGod's love for you and how
privileged we are to be in acountry like this where we have
so many options.
You know that kind of sets thetone for the rest of the day.
And it's funny because you weretalking to you were saying like

(01:03:19):
in 2025, living your best life,and it's fun to talk about
travel and it's fun to talkabout fashion.
I think it's appropriate, youknow, because when we're talking
about travel, we're talkingabout taking time for rest, and
when we're talking about fashion, we're talking about creativity
, and these are importantelements of our society.
But there's ancient wisdom thatsays that you know, if you're

(01:03:43):
constantly just seeking pleasure, you're actually torturing
yourself.
And I just saw you know, I'llcall it an article.
It was a TikTok.
It was a TikTok.
I saw a TikTok, that's the newmedia.
That's the new media that youknow.
When you do something that youdon't want to do, but you do it

(01:04:04):
anyway, you actually grow a partof your brain that fuels your
will to live, and if you areconstantly just seeking pleasure
, seeking an escape, that thatpart of your brain actually
shrinks, that part of your brainactually shrinks, that part of
your brain that is, that will tolive, actually shrinks.
And so you know, what I know isthat, as much as I've been

(01:04:30):
blessed to travel and to do alot of fun things, the biggest
blessing in my life is to have apersonal relationship with God,
and I think it's.
You know we're in the Adventseason, and so it's appropriate
to talk about the fact that youknow Christmas isn't about
travel.
Christmas isn't about things.
Christmas is really about aloving God who sent his son to

(01:04:53):
earth to be born atChristmastime, to grow up and to
die on a cross for everythingbad that I've ever done,
everything bad that I will everdone, everything bad that I will
ever done, to be my savior, todie and to rise again so that I
have eternal life.
And that really is the messageof Christmas and that really is

(01:05:13):
the difference between having alife well lived and just sort of
chasing after the next trip,chasing after the next thing,
chasing after the next fashion,chasing after the next
experience or whatever.
The difference in my life thathas been really an anchor in my

(01:05:34):
life is my faith, is my trust inGod, Because, you know, a lot
of times when we're chasingthese different things, we're
looking for happiness and I lovebeing happy.
That's, you know.
I love that, but I have a joythat supersedes even happiness.
It's just a consistent knowingthat I can laugh at all future

(01:05:54):
days because I know the one whoholds them and I've had a great
year in 2024.
But I just look forward to justdeepening that relationship and
I would just encourage anyonewho's hearing the sound of my
voice.
You know, if you don't have anassurance of your future days or

(01:06:16):
what happens when all your dayshave ended, you can have that
today and that comes through apersonal relationship with Jesus
.
That's the most important partof my life and that's the most
important pursuit that I haveever and will ever pursue.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
You're 100% right.
I think it becomes toomaterialized.
Everyone starts going for thatand they just try to go.
You know, the funny thing iswhen people are mentioned like
I'm watching someone else'sInstagram, well, they're giving
you everything that they've done.
It's their best.
They're not showing you theirworst.
They're only showing you thegood things they're doing,
whether it's traveling and stufflike that.
They're never showing you theworst thing of it.
And if you're trying to livethat life, you don't know what

(01:06:51):
life they're living.
They may be having their ownissues that we don't know about
struggling or something they saywell, this person's doing
better.
Look what they're doing, Lookat where they're going but some
people you know it's wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Are you telling me I've got to stop following all
those cool barbecue pages?
Derek, that's a different story.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
I'm talking about someone specific, not a page
that pages certain things.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
So what's interesting , though, is that we've had a
lot.
We've talked about prayer,we've talked about prayer, we've
talked about meditation, a loton on this um, this this past,
this past season, and I I agreewith you.
I was baptized, uh, my son wasthis this year too, um, as well.
So I do, we do, I do agree.
Having faith is is so importantto have you.
I feel like you and I havechatted about that.

(01:07:36):
You got to have some kind of umfoundation yeah, whatever it is
you know, listen, I think I dothink god created everything so
that we could go and experienceit.
I'm a big believer in that,especially what's outside your
house.
We talked about just local.
My biggest thing and I don'tknow how this will tie into this
, but Derek and Derek you got meinto doing this is just taking
a walk every day, you know whatthe one thing I?

(01:07:57):
do is I take the air pieces outand this is as deep as I'll ever
get, literally like I'll listento, listen to the, listen to
the birds and like, just listento what's going on, like you're
more engaged sometimes, justbeing in the present and just
and enjoying where you are.
But I do take that walk everylike, not every day, not right

(01:08:24):
now Cause it's so cold, but, um,unless santa brings me
something warm, uh, not old navy, but seriously, just just just
enjoy, just enjoying um beingoutside and being being with
nature.
Um plays a role.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
I think that um, I think what you're saying is not
only is it so important, butit's a challenge to me, you know
, because I know that I amconstantly, you know, listening
to something.
Or you know, when I go to bedI'm listening to something, or
I'm scrolling on social media,or I'm, and a lot of these
things.
If you're not careful, they candrown out that still small

(01:08:56):
voice of God and also theybecome like that.
You know, a lot of anythingthat we do in that kind of
repetitive way to sort of sootheus or whatever.
It becomes its own kind of idol, and I think you're very wise
to go outside and to listen tothe sounds of nature and to take
that breath.

(01:09:17):
I think that's particularlyimportant, you know, in the
holiday season, because peopleare so busy and um, and busyness
is actually a scarcity lens.
You know, when, when peopleconstantly have a full schedule
and their kids are constantlydoing things, what you're really
saying, without realizing it,is I don't have enough, I don't
have enough money, I don't haveenough love, I don't have enough
resources, I don't have enoughstimulation, I don't have enough

(01:09:39):
, enough, enough.
It's a scarcity lens.
And so I think you're very wiseto to do that, and I appreciate
you saying it because, like Isay, it's a challenge to me to
um have more quiet, you knowyeah, just sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
And, uh, derek you, we, before you joined, we kind
of got a chance on the Christmasmovies and we were talking.
We were talking about um, theactual uh, the movie, the main
event of Christmas, and it'sabout when Charles Dickens wrote
the Christmas Carol.
So add that to your list orwatch it on your flight.
It's a really good movie.
But just understanding themovie and kind of what the

(01:10:17):
purpose was and why I watch itis it really teaches you many
things.
And him writing the story andhim kind of being what sort of
gave him the ideas.
And at the very end of themovie it talks about how, when
he wrote the movie oh sorry, Ikeep saying, wrote the movie,
wrote the book, sorry, when hewrote the book, kind of what
happened and people kind ofcreated the Christmas spirit, if
you will, within people.

(01:10:38):
And then you know, being aChristian, you know people, you
know what I personally meantpeople really understanding what
the reason for christmas wasand putting themselves second,
um, and then we just talked on,you know, putting other people
first, whether it's your friendsand your family or people that
really, um, people that reallyneed help, um, and I also got to
include the movie scrooged inthat dark.
Even though it's a, it's agoofy.

(01:11:00):
It has a very similar messageabout playing things.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, you're right, Bill Murray great movie, so
awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
I'm going to throw another Brett question at you
Again.
I'm just going to be clunky.
I read them and it's super,super clunky.
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
It's not easy reading from a script while doing a
live show, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
No, I know this is why I have editing power, lily.
All right, a script while doinga live show, is it?
No, I know.
This is why I have editingpower, lily.
Alright, here we go.
What remains unchanged about?
I'm sorry, let me keep tryingagain what remains unchanged
about you since childhood?

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Oh wow, what a beautiful question.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
It's a beautiful person Really.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Yes, it is, what a beautiful mind.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
That question would come from from, he remains the
most popular person among us yes, he does he remains unchanged
about me, you know I there, youget this question next, by the
way I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
I am curious to hear what you guys say.
I would say, um, that I have anatural curiosity, a natural joy
for life, but you know we'retalking about.
It's funny that you asked methis and not to bring it back to
this again.
But you know my personalrelationship with God.

(01:12:18):
I mean, I've been, I've beenwalking that out for 40 years
and I haven't done it perfectly,but I have done it faithfully
for 40 years and that has beenthe continual anchor to my soul
and has seen me through high,highs, low lows, and will be

(01:12:39):
with me.
Forever is my walk with theLord.
But I love that question.
I've never gotten that questionbefore and I want to hear what
you guys have to say about that.
Yeah, derek, what's yours?

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
I know mine.
It's pretty simple.
I haven't grown up, I neverwill.
It's not being sarcastic, I'mbeing serious.
I go to the old stuff.
I mean like I would put on,like Brian was just talking
about.
Before you got on I said I'llwatch Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer.
I have no qualms about it.
I'll sit down and watch Frostythe Snowman.
It brings me back to mychildhood.
I will never like my parents.
All the people say you've nevergrown up.
Because I don't want to grow up, I want to enjoy the times.

(01:13:12):
I'll decorate my house for theholidays.
I do all this stuff and I'm old.
I can't turn around and watch,you know, frosty the Snowman.
I'm going to put it on.

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
I absolutely love that.
I love that there's a, there'sa simple pleasure in that.
And also, you know, sometimesyou see people who in their
later years, the weight of theworld has kind of worn them down
, ground them down.
You know you see people who arebitter and angry and that sort
of thing, and then if you seeother people who must have, you

(01:13:47):
know you don't just wake up likethat.
You make a choice at every turnto reject anger, to reject
bitterness, to look foropportunities to engage with and
spread joy.
And so I absolutely love thatabout you, that you do that yeah
.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Yeah that's good.

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Keep it simple.
I think it'll start to do well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
I share a similar, I think mine is my passion for
friends and family.
Yeah, I'm a big believer in theimportance of friends and
family who, obviously, you knowCOVID and coming out of COVID it
was even magnified, which iswhy, derrick and brett, you know
we go back to gosh 70, you know40 years gauge myself, but I

(01:14:31):
I'm a big believer in that.
I try to teach my kids that, um, you know you, you, especially
my daughter and my son, whenthey, when they fight with each
other.
But, yeah, put put it, makingsure that you prioritize your
family and friends.
And I have a job, we all havecrazy jobs or whatever we do
that I don't occupies your time,or if you're travel, whatever.
So it's harder and harder as weget older.
But, yeah, if you canprioritize those that you love

(01:14:54):
before, I think, like we justtalked about, like that other
stuff that you do that you know,um gives you a high and it's
gonna come out wrong.
Gives you that.
Um, what's the word I'm lookingfor?

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Emotional high.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
But putting them first every day too, whether
it's for me.
Both my parents are gettingolder.
My sister goes in Florida andthey're where you are.
So it's hard, it's hard to findthat time and it's hard to
prioritize it.
But yeah, but you're like me,brian.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
We send text messages back myself, you and my brother
, the stuff that we would onlylaugh at, that no one else would
probably find funny at all.
And it's just being theimmature, it's just being, you
know, growing up and thinkingit's funny.
And that's the way it should be, because that's the outlet.
Otherwise you're going to turninto someone who's bitter and
angry at the world yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
I want to give you my last question.
So good, so the good one, he's,he's really good at this.
Um, what's the?
What's the first, I'm sorry.
What's the?
What's a movie that you wouldwant to watch again for the
first time?

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
oh, can I tell you honestly that it's.
Can I make it a series?
Yeah someone told me that theyhad never seen Downton Abbey and
I I was like, oh, I would loveto have never seen Downton Abbey
and to be able to see it again.
It was uh, I absolutely lovethat series.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
I thought it was fantastic really I've never seen
it either, so I have to putthat on the list it's really
great.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
Yeah, I'm starting because we get to the winter
months.
I got to start stacking myAmazon and Netflix stuff,
especially if I got to takethese long road trips.
They'll be in the car.
I can just watch it in the car,well.
So we're going to sort of windit down a little bit, so let me

(01:16:44):
do this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I'm going to do one question because I only have one
question for you, and I thinkit's pretty important because
times everything like that whatwould your old self give advice
to your young self?

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
are you saying I'm old?

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
all right, you're older self.
What would you sell yourself?
Not what you advice.
Would you, now you're you nowgive to your younger self?

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
I mean, you know, first of all, a ton of advice, a
ton of advice.
I am really grateful to havereached this old age and to look

(01:17:30):
back and see, you know, whereI've grown, where I still have
to grow, but I guess the thebiggest, um, the biggest piece
of advice, um that I will say isthat it's all going to work out
, um, and you can laugh at thedays ahead.
You know, because of your,because your faith in the Lord.
And I think that, um, you know,faith is like a muscle.
You have to, like, you know,you have to build it year after
year, and when you see theevidence of it, when you're able
to look back over the decadesand just see, wow, this isn't

(01:17:54):
just true because somebody saidit was true, but this is
actually true.
For me it's so encouraging.
And so if I could fast forwardthat process and have the kind,
know, the kind of um, uh,strength and fortitude of faith,
um, and and mine is still smallnow, but if I could, if I could
impart that to my younger self,I would have, because I think

(01:18:16):
that, um, a lot of times, we're,you know, you know fear is,
fear is a liar, and um, and so II think that that would be it,
just that everything's going tobe okay, everything's going to
work out, that my latter daysare greater than my former days,
and and to trust in that.

(01:18:36):
What about you guys?

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
You know what I think that's I think it's a build on
what you're saying is becauseyou know a lot of people.
We fear things that we put toomuch pressure into things.
What am I going to do when I'min high school?
Where am I going to go?
What's my profession?
You know, like things that areother things like, oh, what
happens if this goes wrong?
What am I going to do?
And things that will neverusually go wrong, they never do,
and you always, like you said,it's going to work itself out.

(01:18:59):
Like if'm going to put morestress on myself.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
Yeah, you're 100% right, and we put a lot of
pressure on young peopleespecially, and that's because
you know we want the best forthem, but also we need the best
for them.
You know, a lot of times theolder generations need to
validate themselves in thesuccess of their children or
their grandchildren.
But I heard some statistic I'mgoing to get this wrong, but

(01:19:26):
I'll share it just to get the,to give you the idea that
something like 80% of the thingsthat we're fearing never
actually come to pass.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
You know, and, and that's a, that's a quantifiable
statistic.
Whatever that statistic is,people have looked at that, and
so there's a lot of times whereyou know we're being tortured by
, by those fearful thoughts andthey're, they're, they take a
lot of energy and they'recompletely unnecessary.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
Yeah, a hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
I think.
I think mine would be twothings.
First would be if it's too goodto be true, it most likely is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
That's the first one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
The second one would be that credit card.
When I, when I was probably 20,25, I'd just take the scissors,
yeah, and then cut it right upwhen derek you and I talk about
that yeah, financial educationwould be great.
Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh so Imean, you know, I would have
read him back when I was incollege, I'd be a
multimillionaire, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
You live and you learn, but you know there is a.
There is a scripture that saysthat the debtor is slave to the
lender.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
And that's what he says all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
Yeah, and so I think what a what a smart thing, and I
hope, and I hope that you'reimparting that wisdom to uh
young people in your life, tosay, yeah, 100, 100.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
In fact I'm working on our 20, like I just I'm a
micro, I'm an excel guy, I meanI'm an excel geek, I'll admit so
.
With that, like I'm alwaysdoing like the numbers.
And I have my son, who's moreof the math guy.
I'm like, okay, gav, here yougo.
So when you want to buy this orthat, it comes out out of this
and you know, yeah, because I'mbought into debt.

(01:21:10):
Debt is never good for anybody.
So, Lily, you have so many fans, people that love you and
follow you.
I want to give you a minute toshare a message to your
followers, people that you'reconnected with, people that you
maybe don't talk to now, thatyou talk to that you were
friends with before.
So if you want to take a minute, it's, it's, this is, this is

(01:21:31):
for you, whatever you wantwhatever you want to share.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Well, that's so.
You know, I just um, I that sounexpected and so wonderful that
you've that.
You allow me to do that, and II just want to express my, my
gratitude to viewers, tocoworkers, people who I'm not in
daily, don't have theopportunity to talk to daily,

(01:21:54):
and just express my gratitudefor letting me into their hearts
and their homes for so long.
That's a privilege that I takevery seriously and I'm really
honored that people areinterested in continuing to see
what's next for me, and I'm sureI will have an update for them

(01:22:17):
soon.
But in the meantime I justreally treasure the time that I
have spent, um, and we'llcontinue to spend time in new
England.
Um, it's such a special place tome, not just because of you
know the area that it is andwhat it's meant to my family.
You know Cape Cod feels like um, you know another sibling and

(01:22:38):
after, if I don't see Cape Codfor a little while, it feels
like, oh, I have to reconnectwith that.
You know that sibling, um,that's how important that
particular place is to my family.
But more than just the places,it's the people.
People have just been sowonderful, so kind, so generous,
so warm and so encouraging.
I mean, I'm just blown away at.
You know, I get literally inthe last I guess six months or

(01:23:02):
so, just thousands uponthousands um emails hits to my
website, uh, people reaching outon social media with just the
most wonderful, kind, lovelythings to say.
And it still astonishes me thatum, that that they not only are
are are so warm and kind andgenerous to reach out, but that
they're even thinking about me.

(01:23:22):
So so thank you for giving methe opportunity to uh to say
that that's very kind of you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Now, uh, maybe that was a good time for your website
and, um, how people can connectwith you.
Uh, what?
Maybe it's a social platform orhow best people can connect
with you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Sure, you know, if you go to my Instagram, which is
at news Hopkins, um news, andthen my last name, h O P K-i-n-s
, you can find all the links tomy.
I'm really, I'm really tryingto engage with TikTok.
Tiktok is a completelydifferent animal than anything
I've ever engaged with before.
So I'm mostly active on TikTok.

(01:23:59):
I'm active on Instagram.
On my Facebook page, I believe,is you know, facebookcom slash
news Hopkins, You'll find me.
You'll find me.
But if you go to my Instagrampage, you can find all my links,
you can find my website and,yeah, that's where you can
connect with me.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Awesome and we'll tag them.
We'll tag them all on here,because this episode is going to
double what the last one did.
Derek, do you have anythingelse before we jump into some
more with Brian?
Can we jump into something withBrian?
Nope, that's it.
You good, all right, so, lily,one thing we have.
We have many highlights of whenwe do our episodes.
One of them is Googling withBrian.
We're just Googling randomstuff, so we'll go through this

(01:24:38):
sort of quick, but what Iactually initially Googled was
the most annoying words of 2025.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Wait, this reminds me of do you know, was it Dumb and
Dumber where Jim Carrey goes.
Hey, you want to hear the mostannoying sound in the world?

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
Yes, that was Dumb and Dumber.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
We just talked about that yesterday Lily okay, I'm
going to ask Lily this question.
Are you ready, lily?
There was three.
There was two or three that Igave.
Did I give three parts of themovie?
For which movie?

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
Oh, yes, yes, when they come in the tuxedo.
Yeah, the tuxedo scene, thedum-a-dum-a, the IOU.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
The IOU and then the other one where he drinks the
beer.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
Of those three scenes ?
What of those three scenes madeyou laugh the hardest?
How about Swami Swanson?
Ah, Samsonite, I was way offthat could be on there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
That could be on there.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
By the way, the Farrelly brothers who are behind
that movie are from RhodeIsland, and that's what you see
in the big blue bug fromProvidence.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Yes, they are, yes, they are they're.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
Providence guys, these are great movies, all
right, so here we go.
These are the top most popularwords of 2025.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
All right Annoying Top annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
No, I Googled annoying, but I ended up finding
my way to the most popularwords.
I don't think.
I think Google must have gotrid of that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Here we go.
So the first one is Metaverse.
I know Metaverse is like that'sthe virtual stuff, that's like
Facebook.
Is that what that is?
Is that like a?
So the term, so it's I'm tryingto read it here it's a buzzword
Advancement in virtual reality,augmented reality and immersive
gaming.
So it's like Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
So I thought it was like what Marvel they said the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Metaverse.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
No, it doesn't refer to.
I thought that's what they weretalking about.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
The Metaverse is like that virtual.
You put those cool littlethings on and you're kind of in
a different world.
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
Yeah, it is annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Alright, yeah, okay, this one, I know Ecominimalism.
What is that Ecominimalism?

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Minimalism, eco-minimalism.

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
Okay, so probably you're having the least
footprint on the environment.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
yeah, yeah, sustainability, yes, yes, yes,
yes.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Next one's obvious Gen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
AI.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
I think we all know what Gen AI is now right.
Yeah, all right, okay, digitalnomad.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
I can only venture to guess on that one.

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
I'm laughing because my brother has obtained his
digital nomad visa, but I knowthat it really has taken off and
it really has had an impactglobally, so I can understand
why people are over that phrase.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
So you can work from anywhere you can just work from
anywhere.
So quiet luxury I kind of feelme talk.
So quiet luxury describesunderstated high quality
products and experiences AIfluency.
We know, okay, climbor, climbor, it's a noun.

Speaker 4 (01:27:50):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Building on the foodie trend, climbor refers to
a diet tailored to mitigateclimate impact that focuses on
seasonal, local andclimate-friendly foods, with an
emphasis on reducing reliance onresource-intensive ingredients.
Okay, all right on reducingreliance on resource intensive
ingredients.
Okay, all right.
Uh, this one, I understandneurodivergent pride.
That one.

(01:28:12):
I have two kids that are on thespectrum, so I get that.
So in order is, if you are onthe autism, having pride within
that space with if you, if youhave um that kind of diagnosis,
um biohacking it's liketinkering with all your hormones
or something should be closethis term, every practice aimed

(01:28:35):
at optimizing physical andmental performance.
Wearable tech like I'm gonnahave shortly, uh newt tropics to
personalize diets, and medic ummeditation apps which the halo
I heard is good.
I gotta get that one.
What is that?
It's called the halo app.
Have you heard of the halo app?
No, so that's like I thinkthat's a prayer app oh yeah,

(01:28:57):
that's the one.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
So um, have you seen the chosen?
It's on amazon I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
I saw one episode of it it was the christmas one and
I loved it it was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Add the chosen to your list.
Jonathan roomie um is the maincharacter in um in the chosen,
and I think that he's thespokesperson for the halo app,
if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Yes, yes, uh, all right, so the last one doom
scroll detox oh, that's soimportant.

Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
I mean I see why it's annoying, but that's really you
know, you don't?
I think a lot of people arelike what's the next worst thing
that's going to happen?
What's the next worst thing?

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
that's going to happen.
I just sent those to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Derek, yeah, it's brutal.
I don't understand how it'sbecome a big thing nowadays.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
These words surprise me.
I thought we were going to hearthe word riz, I thought skimity
toilet, and I thought cap andno cap were going to be on this
list.
So I am, um, I am shocked andsurprised to be a toilet skimity
toilet is yeah, it's, the kidsare into it, it's, it's a horror

(01:30:04):
show, that's all I need to say,that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
We'll leave it at that.
This has been fun.
Thank you for coming back.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Thank you very much, especially when you're on
vacation and you're away.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
I feel bad.
We're going to try to get thisout.
If you hold back just for asecond, we're going to try to
get this out.
The message to our listenersand hopefully hearing the
message here is that you know,obviously faith is important.
It sounds like put faith first,but enjoy what's around you,
enjoy your life.

(01:30:38):
Life is short, things change.
And then my personal messageput your family first.
Family first before anything.
We will probably put God firstand put your family first.
Family first before anything.
We will probably put God firstand then put family after that.
But it's been so much fun.
Derek and I are going to becelebrating our year-end lunch
tomorrow together.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
Which you're paying for.
You are paying for that.
I owe him a lunch anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
But I've gotten in the same thing since we were in
college.
So I got to.
I want you to know, derek, Igot at you again and then I got
you a mug, but I'm not tellingyou what's on the mug until you
see it tomorrow, but I'm sureyou can guess.
Yeah, so to our listeners inall 61 countries, in all 1,200

(01:31:24):
plus cities, wishing you all asuper Merry Christmas, happy
holidays, whatever it is you maystill be celebrating, and do be
your best self in in twentytwenty five.
And thank you, Lily.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
Yeah, we can't wait to see what happens for you in
2025.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate that and,guys, thank you so much for
having me on.
This has been so much fun and Iwas so excited to you know,
have this St Petersburg and theMoxie hotel as a backdrop and
I'm looking forward tocelebrating that global toddler
that you have.
That is the four yearanniversary of your podcast, so

(01:32:04):
congratulations.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Thank you for listening to another episode of
the three guys podcast featuringBrett, doug and Brian, and
please remember to like, followand share the film, which was
released in the same year as theoriginal is based on the novel

(01:32:44):
by the same author.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Thank you.
The film, which was released inthe same year as the original,

(01:34:24):
is set to be released in the?
U.
Thank you.

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