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Celebrating Season Four with Elizabeth Hopkins-Living Your Best Life through Faith, Family and Friends
Join us for a heartwarming finale to our fourth season as we welcome back the delightful Elizabeth Hopkins, who helped launch our journey to over 60 countries back in season one. Lilly shares her take on the foundation of how to live your best life by being your best self through faith in God. Also, Lilly teaches The Three Guys a little about fashion and some travel hacks!
We explore the world of Christmas films, debating classics like "Home Alone" and "Elf" while reliving the timeless lessons of "A Christmas Carol." Get ready for laughter, nostalgia, and a sprinkle of holiday cheer as we uncover the secret ingredients that make these films a perennial favorite.
As we wrap up the year, gratitude fills the air. Our heartfelt thanks go out to our listeners across 61 countries and over 1,200 cities, whose support and kindness fuel our passion. With Lily's infectious joy and our collective reflections on the past year, we celebrate friendships, growth, and the moments that make life extraordinary. Whether you're a fan of heartwarming tales, travel escapades, or fashion flair, our season finale promises a cozy fireside chat full of warmth and inspiration.
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and there's not even good evening. It's welcome back to another episode of the three guys podcast, and I'm here with myself and brian uh, my brother unfortunately cannot make it to this episode which is our usual annual closing out the our season, uh, season four year and, uh, I don't say it's year in review, but this is like a fun little episode. We have a special guest and I think Brian should be the one introducing this guest, because Brian's the one who did the heavy lifting on this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're finishing season four and I keep telling people are we officially over 12,000 yet, Derek, Are we close? We've been saying it for like six months, but we were never. No, we were close. Hold, are we close?
Speaker 1:We were saying it for like six months, but we were never. No, we were close. Hold on, I can tell you right now what exactly it is. It's like 11,700.
Speaker 2:We're close, yeah so we're close, but that doesn't include all our engagements on our socials and stuff. So it's just been an awesome year. So who's going to be joining us for this episode is Lily Hawkins, and Lily joined us season one and really helped us get started and we figured celebrating the finishing of completion. We're finishing the completion of season four, kind of gearing up for season five. I'm trying to get some really fun stuff on the agenda Music and just some conspiracy stuff, some, some travel. I'm hoping to travel as much as I can next year so I'm bring kind of going back into the travel space so we'll get out, get into that later. But, um, every year we kind of do a fun christmas episode or season or holiday season episode, uh, and we're gonna, we're gonna touch on some of that stuff with with, uh, with lily yeah, so she was season one and I'm just looking at this now and it was episode 17.
Speaker 1: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, we thank 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 this during the day, not at night, like we normally do. So we again appreciate her taking the time to uh to do this and when she comes on we'll thank her again yeah, yeah, um.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of I mentioned it in past episodes recently and we talked about our downloads but we're freaking global, like we're in 60 plus countries now I think 61.
Speaker 1:Top 50%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, we're doing really well.
Speaker 2:For podcasts yeah, and we do this for fun. We do this because we like to have a grief. I mean we've had on you know, I don'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 has such an incredible story, I feel like has just something to share with us and our listeners, and whether it's personal improvement, their business, something they're involved in there, he does some really great episodes, not just this year, but just oh, we've all done a great amount of stuff by yourselves, whether it's together or stuff like that.
Speaker 1:We've also had a. You know it's a great year and you know our past guests. You know I don't like to, I hate to share sad news but, um, when I passed against lane britain his brother just passed away, uh, last night, um, and he actually his brother taught me play baseball. He was one of my coaches when the first time I came over to Haverhill. Him and Lane were both coaches and his brother was roughly only a year older than I. Am so sad. Life's short, don't take it for granted.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to hear that.
Speaker 1:No, it's tough during this time of year. So you know what. I want everyone to enjoy it because, like I said, life's short.
Speaker 2: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, I probably will, but I'm close to being able to qualify for our company's incentive trip, which is in fiji. Um, and then I learned that someone got sick in fiji and a whole cell drinking. I'm like, oh no, I'm just, I don't know about all that.
Speaker 1:I'll drink in the water.
Speaker 2:No, it's some some alcohol poisoning or something. Um, so that's one of the reasons we got because, uh, with lily, for those of us who follow her on our socials, um, and I try to focus on like solve all people that make me laugh or smile or some something I can send to you guys. Uh, but she, she's definitely there. So, but I'm sorry. But then, derek, there's another gentleman that passed away that was on last year. Do you want to share maybe that gentleman that was on the Salisbury?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I think we discussed it in one of our past episodes. Bill Grealick passed away in January of last year. He was the Salisbury Beach Betterment Association's president. He'd been on for about three years at the time of his passing. He was one of the greatest presidents we've had, but we've all had great presidents in the past, so I don't want to say that in a negative way to anyone else prior to him. Bill was very implemental in trying to get and Brian jokes about this, I know this because he always hears this about the sand for the beach or Salisbury and the dunes and stuff like that. No, I know you do. I agree so for that and he was instrumental. And actually this year, as we speak right now, they're putting sand down. But they went through a process to get it and Bill was very instrumental in getting that done and he'll be missed because he was an all-around great guy and just liked to be out and talk to people. I know you weren't on the episode, brian, but he was very. No, I was just doing this.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, he was you could get along with him very well. People would have discussions with him and he was very easy to speak with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, personally, when I listen to our episodes and you know, um the ones that you you've done with some of the people that are involved locally and I think you know we've mentioned, we've said 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 just not just political, not just politics. Obviously it's important there to get involved, but I think, just to be active in your, in your area um and I'm trying to do it, I'm trying to find the right place to do it.
Speaker 2:Um, I try helping out with like some volunteer parent stuff for like my son's course you know, just just stuff like that.
Speaker 2:And you know, um, our company is cool, like they give us. They give us, um, they give us community hours to okay to do and, um, I think a lot of companies do that now um, where they allow you, it's like it's on top of your traditional um whatever pto or vacation yeah, everyone calls it different um, anyway, they give you like x amount hours to do it. So you just go and you, whether it's serving like dinner or or you know putting up a park, so that's serving like dinner, or or you know putting up a park.
Speaker 1:So that's why you know I need to reach out to you, cause I may get like a schedule from you of what you guys do and maybe I can include that in my yeah, I mean, you know what, like, I tell people like, and I'm on multiple boards, but sometimes we only meet once a month and it's people like that and not everyone can make it. We, you know, I was on the zoning board, the other. You know, we had a meeting the other night and one of them my members, said, hey, I couldn't make it because he had a work commitment. I said, well, your work comes first. We're a volunteer. Obviously, you have to do that, you have to take care of that, but it's not something we have to give.
Speaker 1:You know, we spent every. There's a lot of people have other. You know, we want things done, locally done. You know, make sure you get involved in your own the politics, because those are the people who are going to, you're going to go to to get things done, whether it's on your street, your, you know, your city, town, whatever. It's just things you need done. And we did that with the beach because we had a lot of people and and it comes from different, different political aisles we had, you know, people on the right and the left and we worked together to get something done with the beach.
Speaker 1:I sent it as a Republican. This is more of a Democratic area, but the guy's the best guy I've ever worked and we've worked with. The guy gets things done.
Speaker 2:I just had a thought. We'll talk about Christmas movies in a second. At the end of the movie of the man who Invented Christmas, we talked about that thing on my episode.
Speaker 1:It's the story of I've got to watch that again.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that it's on my annual list, so the movie is about Charles Dickens writing Scrooge. Yes, so it's a super. I don't know how factually accurate it is. I never really dove into that. But the one thing that and I every time I watch it is at the very end. They talk about how, um, when, the when the book came out. Who said the way the movie came out, anything?
Speaker 2:when the book came when he actually wrote the book in 18 whatever I don't want to get thought of date and I'll get that checked um, but when he wrote it, um, what's the word I'm looking for? Like fundraising and people giving money like spiked off the charts, you know. So people were triggered to really be thankful for what they have or have. Yeah, have, and it was. It was interesting to see that and I think about that a lot.
Speaker 2:So he, so Charles Dickens, wrote the carol in 1840 in the fall of 1843 yes, yeah, yeah, and a couple of you know he's an interesting character, um, when you watch the, when you watch the movie about him, you know it seems like he was a great dad and family man and all that stuff, which is awesome. Appreciate people like that, um, but you know these writers and the way they, the way they operate, you know they, he would, he would uh shakespeare shakespeare did this, I'm not sure, um, but he would like, uh, people that he was around, like he or he had met, he would include into his oh yeah, it just.
Speaker 1:It's funny. You say that because it just I'm coped it up with. You know about charles dickens. He wrote a christmas carol in just six weeks under financial pressure yeah, yeah, it's a short window. Yeah, reportedly dickens wrote the story while taking hours long nighttime walks around london yes, yeah, yeah, it's, it's.
Speaker 2:it's the movie, doesn't the movie? The way you you take. What I take away from it is that he only had a short window to write it and he was struggling with just family stuff, like every human being does, especially back in 1843.
Speaker 1:He was well ahead of his time with this movie, yeah.
Speaker 2:So if you watch that movie and what's interesting too is you watch all these variations Like there's a hundred variations of it I watch. I watched the night. I think I mentioned this. I mean, you watched the muppets one I. I have not watched. I was one of my favorites I watched. I watched the 1971 version though. Thank you very much one. I love life and all those I.
Speaker 1: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 the christmas carol with uh jim carrey. He played uh ebenezer scrooge and they actually went to the full version, which was in 3d at the time, which was big back then because that was generation movie theater, and I remember they went to the full version of what the you know. You know they didn't, they didn't like make it into, like cut it down. They did the full book and that's what supposedly did that. That was the interesting about that. It was a little dark, it was animated but it was a little dark for a kid's movie.
Speaker 2: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:It is kind of the way about him and his saving his soul, know like yeah, I mean that's but even like it's true though, a lot of ways, a lot of people forget what being a human is.
Speaker 2:I know that's his, yeah, no, I mean even when he talks about christmas present.
Speaker 1:he's talking to the, the guy dressed in the the outfit, and he's like he's saying, 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:It's just, it's an interesting movie you know it is, it is you know it's just it's not as much as Christmas is about.
Speaker 1:It's more of about it shouldn't honestly about people, and it's right you're right, and it's I.
Speaker 2: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 like like a forever from thanksgiving to christmas. Now it's like christmas next week and I'm in sales.
Speaker 1:Thanksgiving was late this year. That's the other problem, that's true too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm in sales and different role in sales this year where I'm not as stressing out. But you mean, you're looking at the 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 next few minutes. So I watched Red, the one, the rock movie yes, I did too.
Speaker 1:It was a good movie. Did you like it? I did.
Speaker 3:It's a light-hearted fun-en-movie, exactly yeah, that's all you're asking for. You're not asking me.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I see these ratings on like Christmas of, on like christmas, the cranks and other movies they give on imdb, it's like low rating. I'm like what were you expecting? Like a drama series like the sopranos or, uh, you know, a big movie or like the game of thrones? We're talking about something that'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 talk jingle all the way. He talks about going to a store, you know, and trying to buy one last gift that they remember growing up in the 80s and 90s whether it was the Cabbage Patch Kids or other things that was a big thing back then and try to go to the store like you're fighting with other people, I mean, 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:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Take it as that let's not analyze it online has to like tell everyone what they think about something, and then they oh, of course they do, and then they have some kind of like I'll call it like a blue check mark next to them which kind of makes them an official person to judge a movie. But yeah, I do I watched it and it was my god. And then I'm like you know yeah, there's something.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean like, I mean I understand if you're talking about something like you know, 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:What's funny is Krampus.
Speaker 1:Krampus is in this one, yeah.
Speaker 2:You want to give the movie a wheel? Yeah, Krampus.
Speaker 1:No, we can tell that. I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 2:I feel like they did a really good job. Sometimes the only issue with those movies is you're trying to follow the plot and they're trying to lose it. But they did a good job. I feel like they built it up. Of course they did. They kind of built the characters up a little bit and then his son. Anyway, it was going to be deep.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I like the older, I follow the old ones, like Miracle on the 34th Street. I actually watched the older one. I don't watch the new one.
Speaker 2:I'm the old one, I don't watch the new one. Yeah, I'm with that, so I'm the same way I watched. So our Christmas Eve movie that we watch is it's a Wonderful Life. So we'll save that to Christmas Eve and then, all right. So here's what we're going to do. All right, we're going to start off with some Googling with Brian. This is such a popular segment.
Speaker 1:And so here's what this is.
Speaker 2:It's the top 10 favorite christmas movies, um, in the us. Okay, all right, and the way it's the way it is, um built. Just to give you an idea of how they did it um, they built it on monthly average, monthly searches. So, like, who was Googling? I guess Maybe the movie, and there I'm going to. I mean, there is, there's 10. And I'm going to give you a chance. I'm not going to ask you to name them in order. Alright, no cheating.
Speaker 1:No, it's fine because I had a list up, but that's on the IMDB. I had taken that up earlier.
Speaker 2:Alright, so you might know.
Speaker 1:No, but I mean the thing is it's tough because certain movies, when they came out, I mean, is this based on overall people's opinion on it or is it something on it's, not on figures, like what's A Wonderful Life?
Speaker 2:which is another one. You and I were sitting and just wanted to like Okay, because it's A.
Speaker 1:Wonderful Life did nothing for us until years later.
Speaker 2:Let me see if it says what it says. I'm assuming when it says average monthly searches. Maybe it's assuming like if you were searching on a movie, what's the word I'm looking for, like Amazon or Netflix or something like that, in the month of December. So maybe they're assuming okay, you're looking for a movie, month of December and these are the common ones.
Speaker 2:All right, let's just pretend for 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 what they are? I can guess we can chat on it.
Speaker 1: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:if it's wonderful life is not on there, then it's got to be something.
Speaker 1:Christmas vacation christmas vacation is not on here, really, elf. Yeah, it's interesting, elf is number two, okay, so, and so we'll go. We're doing that, I guess. So let's see here um scrooged.
Speaker 2:Scrooge is not on here um what christmas carol? Carol's not on here.
Speaker 1:Wow, so let me try to think what movies would have been.
Speaker 2:The Santa Claus that's on here, yeah, by the way, I don't know if I've seen that first one in a while. So I mean, is this based?
Speaker 1:on shorts, or like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? No, okay, so then that means nothing else would be on there, because that would be the most popular one I would imagine. I don't think anything else about that. I think jp's is on here love actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jp, shout out to you jp.
Speaker 1:I was on the other day. I put on the middle of it.
Speaker 2: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 watch it with my kids because die hard on there, die hard's on here. It's's number five. So you've got Home Alone, Elf, Love Actually and Die Hard. So you've got one, two, four and five and eight. You've got Santa Claus, White Christmas. No, I don't know if you'll guess the rest of these.
Speaker 1:Probably not Four Christmases. I don't know. I wouldn't even know at this point. If they're not on it, I'll just tell them you did a good job though I wouldn't have gotten it.
Speaker 2:So Gremlins is number three.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:Why is Gremlins a Christmas movie? Because he's wrapped up and he has that bow on his head Because it takes place during Christmas.
Speaker 1:That's all. The whole thing takes place during Christmas.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've seen that movie in 20 years. Oh, it's always on during.
Speaker 1:Christmas time. It's like Nightmare Before Christmas. It was two People love the second one. They said the second one was like the way they did it was unbelievable. I just couldn't get into it. A lot of people rave about the second one, saying oh, the way they did it. I guess they have a certain following for that one.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it takes place during Christmas.
Speaker 1:That's the only reason why.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I'm looking at these and it's interesting.
Speaker 1:What's the?
Speaker 2:other ones. So you got Home Alone you got. Elf, you got Gremlins. We mentioned Gremlins. Love Actually, which, by the way, if you've not seen it, you've got to watch it. It's still okay to watch. I think it has some weird parts to it, but it's definitely. I've watched it. It's a good movie. Die Hard you mentioned.
Speaker 3:Die Hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hard, edward Scissorhands. Why is that a Christmas movie?
Speaker 1:I have no idea, no clue.
Speaker 2:Is there any Christmas part to it?
Speaker 1:Maybe I don't think I ever saw it.
Speaker 2:Is there a tree part where he's cutting a tree?
Speaker 1:It's not something I would go for Christmas, though I don't even know what site this is that's posting it.
Speaker 2:It's a Google search. It's on MarthaStewartcom. This list is on Martha Stewart dot com. I should go credit her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say my God, I mean Edward Scissorhands. I don't even know if that's on the list of other things.
Speaker 2:I think there's a part where he's cutting a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1:I can understand that, because the whole thing takes place during Christmas and maybe it came out during Christmas, I don't know. But Edward Scissorhands, I don't know, Maybe it did nothing to do with Christmas, all right.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go. The next one I thought you would get, because you mentioned it when we were talking about Red One. I don't know, and I can't Krumpus.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, see, I mean.
Speaker 2:Do you watch Krumpus?
Speaker 1:No, have you seen Krumpus? No, I haven't seen it. It's just not something I would go to. I guess the whole thing is it should be Christmas movies. If people are Googling that, that's fine, but I don't know people. It's like one of those holiday sit-downs where everyone's having a sit-down and say let's watch Grampus tonight, followed by Gremlins and then Edward Scissorhands, but I don't know. It goes on everyone's house. Nor do I want to know what's going on anyone's house. Hold on.
Speaker 2:BD Petrolo searched Edwin Cesar's hands, the most Probably did.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 2:All right, so you got Krampus talked about the Santa Claus, which the first one I think is the best yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't need to know the other two.
Speaker 2:And then, you know, I haven't seen, I've seen it on, I've seen this one as an option as a movie option, and that's the Holiday have you seen the Holiday?
Speaker 1: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:Yeah, Jack Black.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then what's her name too? The one with the Titanic, oh, Kate. Winslet. Yeah, Kate Winslet.
Speaker 2:I usually never know these actors.
Speaker 1:I know Kate Winslet. I should know Kate Winslet. I love Kate Winslet.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the last one that's on there is the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Speaker 1:So I'm just Okay. So the last one that's on there is.
Speaker 2:The Nightmare Before Christmas, yeah so that was what I told you. I'm just going to read them real 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, the Nightmare Before Christmas. So we're hoping to get this episode out.
Speaker 1:So that's like a collective group of movies we're talking more from like romantic comedies to violence to Do you?
Speaker 2:still watch Frosty and Rudolph Of course.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I actually bought both of them. I'm like we're always watching them. My kids still like it.
Speaker 1: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:Derek, you and I have such the same sense of humor I know you're going to laugh at this, or when you think of it you're going to laugh. Was the part in Frosty because the rabbit couldn't talk, yeah, but he could only give, like hand motions, oh, yeah. And the part when he's trying to tell Was he trying to? No, he was trying to tell the girl who could help. No, he was trying to tell Frosty who could help the girl. Yeah, and he starts marching, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And he goes, not the army, yeah, yeah. And the other scene I was thinking about you was our humor was in Fred Claus when he kept playing the same music over and over again and he goes. But Fred, it's so catchy yeah.
Speaker 1:There's some classic scenes in these movies.
Speaker 3:That's why it's one of the best ones.
Speaker 1:So how can you go wrong? I mean, like growing up with Rudolph and I have no problem meeting. I watch Rudolph, I go on my way to find rudolph. Frosty, santa claus is coming to town, uh, the year without a sand, all that stuff, it's, it's fun, little stuff.
Speaker 2:Brings you back to my childhood yeah, and I never want to grow up so, and I'm obviously immature so I'm going to keep that yeah, it's like we said. It's like it's almost, um, you know, kind of remember when Christmas is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not rushing to grow up. No need to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So, all right, I'm going to give you, I'm going to do my one last. Actually, where is it here? There were some others that were different, I mean, but I did see Elf the Play. I think I told you that I went and saw that in New York and I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, you know what I?
Speaker 1:usually go see the Christmas Carol down in North Shore Music Theater. Usually every other year I take my mother and my cousins. And then I saw the Christmas Story one up in Portsmouth a couple years ago.
Speaker 2:It was good, it was a different change of pace, yeah. We're seeing Monday night. We're going to see the show the Grinch who Stole Christmas, the Wayne Theater. I don't think it's Wayne, but I saw a commercial for it the other day. There she is. Hi, lily, welcome back how are you? We are doing well. We are doing well, we are doing well. Brett is not with us yet. He had a commitment, but we're never going to get a time where all three of us and you, it's too much.
Speaker 4:Life is life, so it's the two guys, it's the two guys.
Speaker 2:It's technically two guys. We have a lot of guest hosts and they're always better than us. They're always a woman who's better than us, so we're having you. Is that what you're saying? 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 was just doing some fun, uh, here's that by the.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry I missed that.
Speaker 2:Oh, we, just, it was a 25-page intro. It was very, very long, but let me do this.
Speaker 1:And Brian admitted he had stalked you enough times to get you to come back on with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did come and go. It was just all kinds of messages.
Speaker 1:I just want to let you know that's him. That's not the other two guys that do that. If you ever take a police report charge on? It's not on us, it's on him, he's his own separate three guys.
Speaker 2:I'm guilty. So, derek, thank you for making me lose my train of thought. So, literally, we were just having some fun. We were just doing some fun Christmas movies, just kind of most popular movies, and then we're going to do Because we usually do like a year-end episode. We just kind of have some fun with Christmas and we do some fun end-of-year stuff. Last year we did the.
Speaker 4:Wine. Let me just make sure you guys, when you were talking movies, die hard Christmas movie, not Christmas movie, it's on here.
Speaker 1:It's on here.
Speaker 2:It's on a list, it's number five so the list we just the list that brian's going off is a little strange list it's got some of the newest on there.
Speaker 2:it's montastewartcom. It'sa legitimate site, I'm sure it's legit, so if you go with that. So it was home alone. Elf gremlins, which I didn't know was a christmas movie I'm learning that. And then Love Actually, which we talked about. Our friend, jennifer Sika, who's a good friend of our show, mentioned that's her movie, her favorite one. So now it's on my watch list. I watch this again. Die Hard Edward Scissorhands Didn't know that was.
Speaker 4:I don't know If that's a Christmas movie. That's not the spirit I'm looking to get into.
Speaker 2:I think he cuts up a tree or something. Krampus, santa Claus, the Holiday which I've not seen. It's on my list. Oh, that's a great one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's on my Amazon. That's a Christmas movie, I mean.
Speaker 2:I can understand that Edwin. Tisday has.
Speaker 1:no, I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 2:And the last one was the Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm going to hold off on these 10 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, despite our greatest efforts, we have not beat your episode. We've come close, but no matter who we bring in, they always finish behind the popularity of episode. The only one that comes close is one. Well, if you take away our first two intro episodes, I think people are always like who are these three idiots? And they listen to our first two episodes?
Speaker 1:So stay firm on the word idiots.
Speaker 2:Smart move, so anyway. So one of the most popular ones after yours is Derek's Cocktail Hour, and we can't get Derek to come back. Derek will not come back to his own podcast.
Speaker 1:I don't think that was the next highest one. I think there was other ones above that one, derek is top five. Well, it is, but it's not anyway. There's a few others.
Speaker 2:Derek's Cocktail Hour and, Derek, when we do that again, I'm not drinking water.
Speaker 4:I'm going to have myself, I'm back into Malbec, I'm going to bring my Malbec. Well, I have to say I am shocked and surprised. So you're saying it was the most popular one you've done?
Speaker 2:No, they absolutely crushed it. They absolutely crushed it.
Speaker 4:Let's get Deloitte and Touche on this. Let's count the numbers again. That can't possibly be right.
Speaker 1:No, it's 100% right. You are by far.
Speaker 2:That's fine. We continue to try. We bring on people that are like this you know what we posted on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1:We get the most interactions with people than any other episode. People just love you and they follow you and they rave, they give you good compliments, truth.
Speaker 4:I will say I don't think that that is um. I will say I have had the most wonderful interactions, um, with the people of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, really, everybody in new England I mean, I just um, 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 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 New Englander and people have been just so. They're so generous, they're so kind, they're so giving and it's absolutely been lovely to me. So that's really nice to hear. But I really think that that is a tribute to the people we're interacting with. It's just been people have been lovely. I mean just absolutely lovely and wonderful.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it is too. You have such a great sense of humor. You don't like take yourself so seriously. In my personal opinion, I just think 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're genuine and that's what people don't see a lot of, and it's tough.
Speaker 4:You know, it's an interesting thing that you say that, because I think that you know, especially in news God that used to come through the television People don't really they don't want to be told what to do by a holier than thou person. They want to say would I invite this person into my home, would I invite them over to dinner? And I think people are smarter than a lot of organizations give them credit for. You know, they see through nonsense and people are really hungry for genuineness and authenticity. And you know, to the extent that I do that I, you know, I'm glad that people are receiving it, but it's only because you know, people are hungry for something real and I'm hungry for that too.
Speaker 1:So yeah, no, you're right. People don't like to be told what they're doing. They get a lot enough of that and they just want to be told the information. Let them figure it out. Most of them are smart enough to figure it out and, if they can, you'd be surprised some of the directions some of these people go in right Not being told what to do, just being off of the information, that's absolutely right, yeah, I don't think anyone likes being lectured.
Speaker 2:I think everyone likes. I think that everyone appreciates sort of a genuine engagement on something that's relevant and timely at least, at least, at least I do. You know, I've kind of found I shut everything off for about two years and as I start to turn things back on, I realize I gravitate towards a source that I feel like isn't going to make me feel horrible with myself. You know, it's going to be somewhat motivating and it's going to. It's going to like Lily, like one 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 Like maybe nobody like, just like Derek and I, like we've 40 years, I don't even want to start aging myself with Derek, but like the key core foundation we were just talking about some of the movies that we like, some of the like it's just being funny and being like these Christmas movies.
Speaker 2:At the end of the day, they're meant to be funny and make you laugh and make you feel good about yourself and that's kind of the I want to be able to. That's the wrong way to put it. If you want to, if you're going to put yourself in an area where you're being educated or you're being brought to speed on stuff, you want to feel like you're connected to that person and they are genuine and they are, you know. So when you lose that, it's like click, you know, like I'm not gonna, you know I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be a part of that.
Speaker 4:So you have to. Wherever you are, you have to enjoy what you're doing every day, and I think that when you do, it just lends itself to, you know, the best product.
Speaker 2:So Agreed, agreed, agreed. And you know in my, in my little, in my little world that I that I that I live in because people have to like me when I do or I'm not going to be successful. So you want I'm not saying you got to like go out of your way to like kiss people's toes and stuff, but I think you want to be, you want people want to be around you and talk to you and listen to you. You know.
Speaker 2:So there's something to be said for that and the key thing, I think I don't know. I think you said it is being genuine and being like that is it's and it's, it's. It's just so much out there now where you just know it's. You know people aren't being themselves, they're playing a role, and when you and when you have that, it comes out now I feel like so it's, it's anyway. So so, lily, we're celebrating the end of season four, so this is sort of what we're doing. We're celebrating our, our. This is sort of what we're doing. We're celebrating our unfortunately, we don't have the wine and stuff but we're celebrating season four, celebrating and getting ready for what's going to be an awesome 2025 for, hopefully, everybody.
Speaker 2:And something, derek, just to piggyback on what Derek said we actually are in 61 countries, over 1,200 cities, and that doesn't include all our engagements and all our socials and stuff and we continue to do this for fun. You know that's our goal here. You know, just have fun, almost what we just talked about. And if people want to listen to all episodes, it's really, at the end of the day, trying to have people that and, within their profession, their goal is to help people. You know we bring them here and give them a platform to do that. And we're in 1200. Derrick, our second most popular country. You know what it is. Our second or third? Have you looked lately? Germany, I think, isn't it?
Speaker 2:it's uh, south africa oh, south africa wow, so it's right, and we did do what we did do an episode on uh uh uh what do you call it? South african travel. I'm trying to think the word that, the word that, when you, when you go, what you do, my my brain's going blank. Anyway, that could be it. People who are traveling there, I have no idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and to Brian's point, we do appreciate you taking the time. I know you're very busy and other things to do and you know you wouldn't have to come on if you didn't want to, but we do appreciate you doing that because it means a lot to us. So thank you again. It it means a lot to us, so thank you again.
Speaker 4:It means a lot to me. I just really appreciate you guys wanting to have me on and I had such a great time last time and I'm really let me just pause here and commend you because, from what you've just described a four-year-old toddler who is running amok globally and I think that's exactly it. Well, congratulations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's exactly it Des congratulations. Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 1:This guy Brett has a toddler.
Speaker 2:I wish he was with us. Yeah, so people who listen to us, one of two things they're like who are these guys? What the hell are they talking about? Or they're going to call the police on us because they think we're crazy. Yeah, it's probably a little. They're giving a on us because they think we're crazy? Yeah, probably a little it's probably a little.
Speaker 1:They're giving a mic to someone who's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um, all right, his. So here's what we're going to do for this episode and, lily, this, this when I was sort of I follow with the diet we just went through, but people can make me laugh or be like, wow, where is she? Or where is that Bringing you to like, not, this is what I'm looking for, almost like, hey, this person's enjoying themselves, they are living their best life, as I think we all should. It's like Where's Waldo? Right, minus the cartoon part of it. So next year I'm doing some major travel. I'm celebrating 50 years in April being on this beautiful earth of ours.
Speaker 2:So in conjunction with that, I'm going to be doing a lot of travel, so we're going to talk a little bit about travel, Talk a little bit about something he and 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 sort of way that we have together.
Speaker 1:It's always good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let's just get rolling and we'll have some fun here. Alright, so let's just get into fashion. I'm going to throw some. Brett did ask. I asked Brett. I said Brett man, we're not fashionistas, we have no idea. Look at me. Everything I have, derek, is Old Navy. My wife must be pushing Old Navy 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 their stock send it in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you, brian, appreciate it.
Speaker 2:All right, so I'm just going to. I'm going to read this. It's always clunky when I read it, but I'm going to read it. We can always kind of clean it up after if we want. So this is from Brett. If you could choose of're fashion weeks so specifically the fashion weeks to attend, which one would you go to, and why?
Speaker 4:I mean. So, first of all, I mean Paris is the obvious choice. I absolutely love gay Paris and you 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 culture and 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 my favorite places in the world to travel, my, I guess, in my heart, my, I identify as a Londoner, but I have traveled more time to Paris because I have found one of my tricks is I actually use the Hopper app.
Speaker 4:I don't know if you guys use the Hopper app, but I absolutely love it because it gives you the great times of when you should travel. So if you're, if your times are flexible, you know you can actually see when the prices are going to go down, when they're going to go up. And I've found consistently that it is less expensive to fly to Paris, france, than it is to fly to, like, kansas City, than it is to fly to. I mean, you know, if you're going to be on a plane for about, you know, roughly five hours, you might as well go that way, because it's less expensive in a lot of cases to travel to Paris. So I will never. There will never be a time there's a meme on social media that says Paris is always a good idea. I wave the flag of that, my friend. So that would be my pick, although any of them would be amazing.
Speaker 2:So the Hopper app, just to make sure, so the Hopper app pushes you out alerts, so you plug in where you want to go and then you get said, hey, this is, these prices are going up or down.
Speaker 4:So not only do you get to see like, when you open the Hopper app, you get to see different tiles and they're green, I think, you know, orange and red, or green, yellow and red, just like a stoplight. You know orange and red, or green, yellow and red, just like a stoplight, and so it shows you throughout the year. Hey, if you go from, like, a Tuesday to Monday of the following week, you're going to save money. If you go during, you know, november instead of May, you're going to save money. And then when you, when you've done your search, even if you haven't committed to it, it remembers that for you, and then, when the prices drop, you get an alert on your phone, and so you know.
Speaker 4:To me, that is one of the best ways to shop for airfare. Another great way to shop for airfare, though, is to make sure that you're. If you're looking on your, you know your desktop or your laptop to make sure you're shopping through a VPN, and the reason shopping through a VPN is good is because they don't know where you are and they can't see the history of you know how many times you've been searching this flight. I can't be sure, but I have to believe if you know, if the algorithm shows that you're really interested in going to Dubuque, for whatever reason, little by little you know those prices are going to crop up. So I always recommend whether this is just my own idea or whether there is some validity to it, I don't know but yeah, I recommend, you know, clearing your cash, shopping through a VPN, but for me, the best and easiest way is the Hopper app. I just absolutely love it. I've gotten amazing deals.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've heard of that app. I actually was told by that app by someone I knew.
Speaker 3: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:Derek, I just want to pitch out one more of Brett's questions. So you've had a choice to wear any fashion designer of your choosing, no cost to you. Which designer clothes are you wearing? Well, I'm sorry, I'm going to start over again. So his question is if you could pick any fashion designer and you could wear their clothes to that event, so you were going to Paris who would you wear to Paris for that event?
Speaker 4:I'm genuinely curious to know how you guys would answer this question.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll tell you the first thing we wouldn't be invited, so let's just get that off the table.
Speaker 4:Would it be a Bruins jersey to a Bruins game guys? Would it be?
Speaker 1:Hold on. His name is Ralph.
Speaker 2:His name is Ralph. His last name is Loren.
Speaker 4:I mean, you know you got to go, I think you have to go. The house that Coco Chanel built, you know it's just, it's so ingrained in that, in that culture. But but the truth of the matter is, you know, many of us will never, will never touch that kind of. Many of us won't have that money to spend. But you can really appreciate, you can always walk on the sidewalk past any of these beautiful fashion houses in any city that you're in close proximity to and admire them from the street, and that, my friends, is free.
Speaker 2:I gotta say, derek, one thing about chanel. This is going back probably 30 years now. The one few times I went to newport, uh over the summer is I saw chanel's um mansion in newport oh really and this was that and oh my gosh dude, it was. It was obviously it was a castle like this, this, this company knows, this person knows what they're doing.
Speaker 4:So let me tell you something I you know Newport, rhode Island. One of my favorite places to go in Newport, rhode Island, is the cliff walk and you know, you see these houses that these captains of industry built and they're right on the water. And you know, thankfully the city planners had the wherewithal to say you know, we don't want just wealthy people to have this kind of view, and so they made this public access route called the Cliff Walk, and it is one of the most beautiful, breathtaking vistas that you'll ever see. On the right hand side, as you're walking Cliff Walk, you're looking at the elms. You're looking at Rose Cliff. You're looking at what the in the. You know, in the Gilded Age they called the cottages. You're looking at what in the. You know, in the Gilded Age they called the cottages. And then, when you look to the left, you see these, you know sheer rock cliffs and the water crashing onto the shoreline. By the way, rhode Island 3% bigger at low tide. My friends.
Speaker 3:Oh, really Shout out to Rhode.
Speaker 4:Island. No, that's not true.
Speaker 4:I was going to say but it's so small, you would think so. You would think so, you would think so. But yeah, it's really cool in Newport to see all these houses and to wander through them, and whether you get a ticket to go through them. I always say you know, solvay Regina University is in Newport and a lot of Solvay Regina is. Their campus is made up of these, these quote unquote cottages. You know these mansions, and I always say, if I had been told as like a nine or 10 year old girl, 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, much better.
Speaker 1:Very true. Well, I guess the question is have you been to a fashion week? Because Brian made it sound like I mean like you've been to a fashion week before in the past.
Speaker 4:I you know I have been invited to a fashion week in in New York City once. But you know, one of my favorite events, actually right in our own backyard, is Style Week. Style Week was started by my friend, rosanna Ortiz, and it brings together these burgeoning designers who have a lot of creativity and she puts together these fashion shows that are, you know, in the backyard of risdy, which is you know dale chihuly went to to. I mean, risdy is like one of the, you know, foremost colleges for the creative types in the world.
Speaker 4:So she's bringing together, really, um, designers from all over the country who otherwise might not break through that, you know, that level of recognition and showcasing them in a way that is just so beautiful, and so that actually is one of my favorite events every year is when Style Week Northeast puts on its fashion show, and it's really cool to like follow these designers and like see what their story is and then see where they go from there.
Speaker 1:So follow them on Instagram. Yeah, so do they have it at the same time of year every year? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know it has. It depends on you know the challenges of what's going on in the city, what the administration 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 we have, obviously, is you know we can be creative because we're. We live in relative peace in this country and so what happens is you know all of this creative. These creative juices are percolating but, depending on whatever administration is kind of in, is kind of you know where you get the support. You have to really rally people to say this is important. This is an important part of American life is stewarding these creative people and valuing. You know what they produce, and so there have been challenges here and there with you know trying to get fundraising, trying to get the space, trying to get you know backers for it. But it has been fairly consistent and if you follow them on Instagram, they always advertise when their style week is going to be.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. You know a little fun fact I didn't know anything about RISD until I watched Wedding Crashers.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 2:Here we go. This is is where we the one line. So, uh, we had a friend that's kind of went to high school. This guy actually grew up with um. He ended up becoming a shoe designer and he actually came on the podcast in season one to keep going out, to keep self-promoting us. Uh, mario sagasumi. He ended up working for, like tommy hilfiger. He ended up working for some prettyfiger. He ended up working for some pretty big designers. And, what's interesting, derek I don't know if you remember this, but he kind of talked about these ideas that these young designers had and they would be like you're crazy, no one's going to want that stuff. And they kept their designs and 10, 15 years later, those designs were like what was in. So it's very interesting how things that someone will come back ah, that's not something anyone want to wear, that's not. And then next thing, you know that's super cool and one of them one of them was looked like derek was the um michael j fox shoe that he wore in back to the future oh yeah, remember that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was kind of hot but it was like a wrap or something, I forget. It was like it was kind of weird wrap, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, oh yeah, I know what you're talking about when he jumps on the hoverboard.
Speaker 2: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 the ones.
Speaker 1:You need people to think outside the box. These are the. From doing that, then you'll never have these great gifts that they give to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I would agree. So I want to go back to sort of the living your best life, lily, this is crazy for everyone and we sort of watch. We kind of watch you doing your thing and I want to go into sort of your travel. You kind of talked about some secrets on to get to these places, because airfare is crazy, especially when you're a family of four, like like I do. You know it's never easy one anyway. Um, is there certain areas of? Is there certain areas of the of the world? There's certain destinations that are sort of on your, on your list of places that you want to go, whether it's because of the food or the fashion, or just just the, the beauty, the beauty of where it is. Is there anything in particular that's on your checklist?
Speaker 4:Or going back again, you know there's always a perpetual list, but I will tell you that, in terms of like airfare and not airfare, I think one of the things that the pandemic really taught us is that there are so many beautiful and amazing places right here in our own backyard, you know that we fail to explore year after year. You know I would love to see various national parks, I would love to go out to Utah, I would love to go to Alaska. You know, going to Newport, like you were saying, it's always refreshing to me to be by the water and to be inspired by these beautiful buildings, and of a different era and time, and so I think that you know, whether it's flying somewhere or whether it's hopping in the car, really the beautiful thing about travel is when you can gather your loved ones and you can explore a place that you either is dear to your heart or you've never been to before, and you can build memories. I mean that that really is the most important thing about travel.
Speaker 4:Um, and I will say that, um, you know, in terms of the, I'm actually coming to you right now from the moxie hotel in saint petersburg, florida. Yeah, gonna celebrate christmas here in saint petersburg and then I'm gonna take um. My god sons are gonna be coming in. I'm gonna take them. They are lego crazy, so we're going to lego land um and you know, to be able to give them that experience.
Speaker 4:I'm just as excited about that as some of my other trips, because I know that their heads are going to explode when I tell them we're going to lego land and um, so I just really, I'm really excited about that. This is a great. You know, I have never really been to this area of Florida before and I just love I'm kind of bopping around a little bit and I just love this whole like St Pete, tampa area.
Speaker 2:Clearwater? Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4:Yeah, clearwater I had never. I went there the other day. Expansive beaches, the hotels are amazing. I mean that's a place where you know it's a just add water kind of vacation, where you know you can bring your kids down there. You don't have to plan anything, you don't have. You know the craziness of when I think about Florida. You know everybody thinks about Disney and Disney to me actually was much more fun going as a grown up, when you're not being yet you know down to every to go on every ride and the thing about Disney which is wonderful and amazing, but like it has changed. You really have to. You need a vacation after your vacation.
Speaker 4:If you're going to the planet and it's so expensive that you want to maximize your dollar and there's a lot of stress in and you have an app and you've got to be a certain place at a certain time and and to me my favorite kinds of vacations are the opposite of that it's you know every other day planning something and then every other day letting something percolate and in terms of like where I want to go, I am really scrappy, like my friends kind of tease me because I'm high, low, low, high and low. Okay, I am like family dollar and Bergdorf Goodman, and it is, you know, my. I want to be really strategic about, you know, my time, my money, you know my energy, my energy level, and so what I like to do is my brother and his girlfriend. They actually moved to Spain and so the next couple of years, you know, I want to spend time with them and they are gracious enough to let us, you know, crash on their couch or in a spare room, and so I want to visit them. So I think, you know, if you have a friend or a family member who is going somewhere, you know buddy up with them and, and you know, you'll pay for your airfare, but then you can split the cost of going out. You can split the cost of, you know, maybe, an Airbnb, the best trick that I have ever learned. I actually have learned just in, like the last week being here.
Speaker 4:You know, whenever you go on vacation and you're like sitting around a pool, people start talking where are you from? Where are you from? This hack that this guy told me blew my mind. I have not verified this yet, but except that I you know, I don't know the ins and outs of it, but wait until you hear this.
Speaker 4:There is a website it's called trustedhousecitterscom, and Trusted House Sitters is looking for people who will watch a house or watch a cat or a dog while the owner of that home is on vacation. And these homes with these pets or who need these homes that need watching, are all around the globe. They've got them anywhere you can imagine. And what you do is you, you know, I think it's either solo travelers or, if you're married, you maybe you can, you can bring your husband or wife, but basically what you do is you go on this website, you say where you want to go and you volunteer yourself as a, as a trusted house sitter for a couple of days, for a week. What have you? And now you get to stay in their home in that locale for free.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, I didn't know about that.
Speaker 4:Neither did I. This needs further investigation, because to me that is like one of the most amazing hacks that you could do. I mean, can you imagine it's like having a friend Numerous background checks.
Speaker 2:What's interesting is, when you were first talking about it, I was thinking that it was different, because one of the things I do really is I volunteer Derek to do things on episodes.
Speaker 1:You can volunteer me for that. I'd be happy to do that Tag sharks.
Speaker 2:I mean all kinds of fun stuff. So when you were first talking about the idea, I'm like you would watch that person's house while they Will they travel. So my thought was, when I travel, Derek, out of the goodness of his heart, will watch my house. Yeah, yeah, and I'll just send you my Instagram.
Speaker 1:I'm not really traveling far, but that's fine.
Speaker 2:So we flip it Derek watches our house for us, yeah, and then we leave and just go wherever we know Derek's a trusted house person, but I like it. So, derek, when we go to beautiful Salisbury this summer, I will get your house.
Speaker 1:So I leave my house to go to your house. Yes, I leave my house in Salisbury 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:You're talking about. You've never seen the holiday. You are living out the the holiday right there in Salt Creek.
Speaker 1:Yes, no, I've seen most of it.
Speaker 2: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 are blessed to live in an area I think area of the world really in New England to see so much. You know, whether it's Maine, whether it's Rhode Island this year I have a family that lives on the line of Canada and Maine. It's Lubeck. Anyway, it's quite, it's not a touristy thing, it's like just off the road now, point is there'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.
Speaker 2:But um, anyway, you get to there. You get there and you're like you're in a different place. You know you're just, you're not. You know you're disconnected, you're, you're separated. My kids are going crazy because they can't get online, or my daughter is in particular, but some of some of these places are just, are just amazing. You, last, last week, I went to stirbridge and did the christmas stirbridge christmas thing and I can't tell you how much fun that's. A Christmas routine that we did pre-pandemic and we brought it back and it was just you're just kind of like your time worked into this place with some adult beverages, but anyway, I mean there's so much around, you don't necessarily have to jump in a plane, on a plane to go to some of these, some of these awesome places.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know, a lot of times, like you're saying, the journey a lot of times is the is the destination. You know, I know that, like my family, we're from New York and every year we went up to Cape Cod and you know it would. It was was one of some of my best memories were in the car. You know, my dad is a big guy and he would blast the AC and so we'd be in the middle of July bundled up as though we were on a ski vacation and we'd stop at like a McDonald's for lunch and people would would wonder where did you come from? You're bundled up, like you know, 30 degrees, and there were times where, you know, we didn't even have. You know, my parents used to count out the change and decide can we get coffee and pay for tolls or will we only be able to pay for tolls? So there were times where they would make, like you know, little sandwiches and pack them in the car and we'd pull up to the, the aquarium in Connecticut, in Mystic, connecticut, and at that time they had, like one of their aquariums had, a public view tank. I don't think you can see anything from the outside anymore. You have to buy a ticket, but we would like drive right up to the public viewing point and we'd sit there and we'd eat our homemade sandwiches. And you know those are some of the best memories. I love a road trip and actually I would even say you know, the next time you go, maybe you can go even further.
Speaker 4:One of my favorite places in the world to go is Quebec City, and you can drive there. And it's bizarre because you know you drive, you're in your own car, but everybody around is speaking French. You're like how did this happen? Even the stop signs, instead of saying stop, they say and you know it's the only I think it's the only remaining walled city in North America, if I'm not mistaken, and it is. You know it's a great place to go, even in, even in the wintertime.
Speaker 4:People think, oh my gosh, canada in the wintertime, that's probably a nightmare. Well, they say, you know there's no such thing as bad weather, there's only bad clothes. And so you go there and you bundle up and especially around you know, this time of year, the Christmas season, there are people caroling in the streets and the little shop owners are making maple syrup candy in the snow that they're selling. And you know, there's there's, there's trash can fires, that people are huddled around and it's just the most amazing thing.
Speaker 4:And that's another one where you know 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 becomes the destination on that kind of trip. So I love that you guys were up in Maine and you know the journey then becomes the destination on that kind of trip. So I love that you guys were up in maine and, uh, you know there's another area that the coast of maine is just, uh, absolutely stunning, one of the one of the most gorgeous places in the world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah you know, uh, you know, speaking of that, you mentioned about local and I I follow recently actually brian, I think, got me into it was was elena pinto. She does a lot of stuff around the area. It's unbelievable Stuff that I didn't even know existed. I said to my mother I'm like I didn't even know this place was here. I didn't know this was there. It's unbelievable stuff she finds.
Speaker 4:It's amazing and, as a matter of fact, I have seen her bopping around on TikTok. She has got tens of thousands of dollars. She may have that too. We've got tens of thousands of viewers on TikTok. And again, you should follow her on TikTok because she does and that's what she specializes in. 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 wonderful, because there are so many places that you know maybe we went to as a kid with our family or on a school trip. You know, I'm thinking of, as you guys were talking about, a Sturbridge village, I was thinking of Plymouth plantation, that we did that for Thanksgiving one year. That was a fantastic time. But yeah, there are all these places that you sort of you know, you sort of forget about or you didn't realize that we're there, but people come to new England, especially in the summertime, from all over the world. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, so it's great. Yeah, I love Elena's content.
Speaker 2:I was thinking when you were mentioning about the drive. I was thinking about the Cangamangus Highway, like just how incredible that is, and then people do come from all over the place. So, derek, I will pay for lunch tomorrow. I may have to edit this out, but because I'll probably for lunch tomorrow. I may have to edit this out but because I'll probably be for work reasons. But, derek, if you can guess what brand of hotel, what company, the brand of hotel that she's in, if you can guess the company that owns it, I will pay for lunch tomorrow. Who's?
Speaker 1:in. I'm at the.
Speaker 4:Moxie Hotel in St Petersburg and there is a parent company.
Speaker 2: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:The Marriott? I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, You're going to pay for lunch. Was it the Marriott? Actually, I was going to pay for lunch anyway, I was going to pay for lunch. Just so you know, just for our listeners, if I do keep this in, I was going to pay for lunch tomorrow, but I will. You're a good dude, so that's a good guess.
Speaker 1:no, so it was clearly a guess too.
Speaker 2:I want. So just a couple couple last couple last things on on on travel, uh, lily, because we do uh one thing that we we we touched on this this year, uh, I think a couple times is we've gone to, like the health space and fitness space and specifically travel when. What's your secret when you travel, um, whether it's exercise, whether it's just kind of finding quiet space, or do you do that when you're on the road and you're going about?
Speaker 4:You know, I do try to exercise when I'm on vacation. One of the things that I, you know, one of the things that I try to remember is, like a lot of times people will say, you know, you have to work out while you're on vacation. And in my mind, I get to work out while I'm on vacation. You know, you're in some of the most beautiful vistas and it's great to go for a walk, it's great to go for a little run, but, honestly, the most important thing that I do whenever I travel anywhere is to do my Bible study. So I do daily devotions and every day just read a little bit of scripture to start off your day. And I find that like where your mind is meditating.
Speaker 4:You know, if you start out your day meditating on the things above, meditating on, you know God's love for you and how privileged we are to be in a country like this where we have so many options. You know that kind of sets the tone for the rest of the day. And it's funny because you were talking to you were saying like in 2025, living your best life, and it's fun to talk about travel and it's fun to talk about fashion. I think it's appropriate, you know, because when we're talking about travel, we're talking about taking time for rest, and when we're talking about fashion, we're talking about creativity, and these are important elements of our society. But there's ancient wisdom that says that you know, if you're constantly just seeking pleasure, you're actually torturing yourself. And I just saw you know, I'll call it an article. It was a TikTok. It was a TikTok. I saw a TikTok, that's the new media.
Speaker 4:That's the new media that you know. When you do something that you don't want to do, but you do it anyway, you actually grow a part of your brain that fuels your will to live, and if you are constantly just seeking pleasure, seeking an escape, that that part of your brain actually shrinks, that part of your brain actually shrinks, that part of your brain that is, that will to live, actually shrinks. And so you know, what I know is that, as much as I've been blessed to travel and to do a lot of fun things, the biggest blessing in my life is to have a personal relationship with God, and I think it's. You know we're in the Advent season, and so it's appropriate to talk about the fact that you know Christmas isn't about travel. Christmas isn't about things. Christmas is really about a loving God who sent his son to earth to be born at Christmastime, to grow up and to die on a cross for everything bad that I've ever done, everything bad that I will ever done, everything bad that I will ever done, to be my savior, to die and to rise again so that I have eternal life. And that really is the message of Christmas and that really is the difference between having a life 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.
Speaker 4:The difference in my life that has been really an anchor in my life is my faith, is my trust in God, Because, you know, a lot of times when we're chasing these different things, we're looking for happiness and I love being happy. That's, you know. I love that, but I have a joy that supersedes even happiness. It's just a consistent knowing that I can laugh at all future days because I know the one who holds them and I've had a great year in 2024. But I just look forward to just deepening that relationship and I would just encourage anyone who's hearing the sound of my voice. You know, if you don't have an assurance of your future days or what happens when all your days have ended, you can have that today and that comes through a personal relationship with Jesus. That's the most important part of my life and that's the most important pursuit that I have ever and will ever pursue.
Speaker 1:You're 100% right. I think it becomes too materialized. Everyone starts going for that and they just try to go. You know, the funny thing is when people are mentioned like I'm watching someone else's Instagram, well, they're giving you everything that they've done. It's their best. They're not showing you their worst. They're only showing you the good things they're doing, whether it's traveling and stuff like that. They're never showing you the worst thing of it. And if you're trying to live that life, you don't know what life they're living. They may be having their own issues that we don't know about struggling or something they say well, this person's doing better. Look what they're doing, Look at where they're going but some people you know it's wrong.
Speaker 2:Are you telling me I've got to stop following all those cool barbecue pages? Derek, that's a different story.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about someone specific, not a page that pages certain things.
Speaker 2: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 lot on on this um, this this past, this past season, and I I agree with you. I was baptized, uh, my son was this this year too, um, as well. So I do, we do, I do agree. Having faith is is so important to have you. I feel like you and I have chatted about that.
Speaker 2:You got to have some kind of um foundation yeah, whatever it is you know, listen, I think I do think god created everything so that we could go and experience it. I'm a big believer in that, especially what's outside your house. We talked about just local. My biggest thing and I don't know how this will tie into this, but Derek and Derek you got me into doing this is just taking a walk every day, you know what the one thing I?
Speaker 2:do is I take the air pieces out and this is as deep as I'll ever get, literally like I'll listen to, listen to the, listen to the birds and like, just listen to what's going on, like you're more engaged sometimes, just being in the present and just and enjoying where you are. But I do take that walk every like, not every day, not right 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 being outside and being being with nature. Um plays a role.
Speaker 4:I think that um, I think what you're saying is not only is it so important, but it's a challenge to me, you know, because I know that I am constantly, you know, listening to something. Or you know, when I go to bed I'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 can drown out that still small voice of God and also they become like that. You know, a lot of anything that we do in that kind of repetitive way to sort of soothe us or whatever. It becomes its own kind of idol, and I think you're very wise to go outside and to listen to the sounds of nature and to take that breath.
Speaker 4:I think that's particularly important, you know, in the holiday season, because people are so busy and um, and busyness is actually a scarcity lens. You know, when, when people constantly have a full schedule and their kids are constantly doing things, what you're really saying, without realizing it, is I don't have enough, I don't have enough money, I don't have enough love, I don't have enough resources, I don't have enough stimulation, I don't have enough, enough, enough. It's a scarcity lens. And so I think you're very wise to to do that, and I appreciate you saying it because, like I say, it's a challenge to me to um have more quiet, you know yeah, just sometimes.
Speaker 2:And, uh, derek you, we, before you joined, we kind of got a chance on the Christmas movies and we were talking. We were talking about um, the actual uh, the movie, the main event of Christmas, and it's about when Charles Dickens wrote the Christmas Carol. So add that to your list or watch it on your flight. It's a really good movie. But just understanding the movie and kind of what the purpose was and why I watch it is it really teaches you many things.
Speaker 2:And him writing the story and him kind of being what sort of gave him the ideas. And at the very end of the movie it talks about how, when he wrote the movie oh sorry, I keep saying, wrote the movie, wrote the book, sorry, when he wrote the book, kind of what happened and people kind of created the Christmas spirit, if you will, within people. And then you know, being a Christian, you know people, you know what I personally meant people really understanding what the reason for christmas was and putting themselves second, um, and then we just talked on, you know, putting other people first, whether it's your friends and your family or people that really, um, people that really need help, um, and I also got to include the movie scrooged in that dark. Even though it's a, it's a goofy. It has a very similar message about playing things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right, Bill Murray great movie, so awesome.
Speaker 2: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:It's not easy reading from a script while doing a live show, is it?
Speaker 2:No, I know this is why I have editing power, lily. All right, a script while doing a live show, is it? No, I know. This is why I have editing power, lily. Alright, here we go. What remains unchanged about? I'm sorry, let me keep trying again what remains unchanged about you since childhood?
Speaker 4:Oh wow, what a beautiful question.
Speaker 2:It's a beautiful person Really.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is, what a beautiful mind.
Speaker 2: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, you get this question next, by the way I'm.
Speaker 4:I am curious to hear what you guys say. I would say, um, that I have a natural curiosity, a natural joy for life, but you know we're talking about. It's funny that you asked me this and not to bring it back to this again. But you know my personal relationship with God. I mean, I've been, I've been walking that out for 40 years and I haven't done it perfectly, but I have done it faithfully for 40 years and that has been the continual anchor to my soul and has seen me through high, highs, low lows, and will be with me. Forever is my walk with the Lord. But I love that question. I've never gotten that question before and I want to hear what you guys have to say about that. Yeah, derek, what's yours?
Speaker 1:I know mine. It's pretty simple. I haven't grown up, I never will.
Speaker 1:It's not being sarcastic, I'm being 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'll watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I have no qualms about it. I'll sit down and watch Frosty the Snowman. It brings me back to my childhood. I will never like my parents. All the people say you've never grown up. Because I don't want to grow up, I want to enjoy the times. I'll decorate my house for the holidays. 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:I absolutely love that. I love that there's a, there's a simple pleasure in that. And also, you know, sometimes you see people who in their later years, the weight of the world has kind of worn them down, ground them down. You know you see people who are bitter and angry and that sort of thing, and then if you see other people who must have, you know you don't just wake up like that. You make a choice at every turn to reject anger, to reject bitterness, to look for opportunities to engage with and spread joy. And so I absolutely love that about you, that you do that yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4:Keep it simple. I think it'll start to do well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Brian.
Speaker 2:I share a similar, I think mine is my passion for friends and family. Yeah, I'm a big believer in the importance of friends and family who, obviously, you know COVID and coming out of COVID it was even magnified, which is why, derrick and brett, you know we go back to gosh 70, you know 40 years gauge myself, but I 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, when they, when they fight with each other. But, yeah, put put it, making sure that you prioritize your family and friends. And I have a job, we all have crazy 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 we get older. But, yeah, if you can prioritize those that you love before, I think, like we just talked 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 looking for?
Speaker 1:Emotional high.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:But putting them first every day too, whether it's for me. Both my parents are getting older. My sister goes in Florida and they're where you are. So it's hard, it's hard to find that time and it's hard to prioritize it. But yeah, but you're like me, brian.
Speaker 1:We send text messages back myself, you and my brother, the stuff that we would only laugh at, that no one else would probably find funny at all. And it's just being the immature, it's just being, you know, growing up and thinking it's funny. And that's the way it should be, because that's the outlet. Otherwise you're going to turn into someone who's bitter and angry at the world yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: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 would want to watch again for the first time?
Speaker 4:oh, can I tell you honestly that it's. Can I make it a series? Yeah someone told me that they had never seen Downton Abbey and I I was like, oh, I would love to have never seen Downton Abbey and to be able to see it again. It was uh, I absolutely love that series.
Speaker 1:I thought it was fantastic really I've never seen it either, so I have to put that on the list it's really great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm starting because we get to the winter months. I got to start stacking my Amazon and Netflix stuff, especially if I got to take these 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 wind it down a little bit, so let me do this.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do one question because I only have one question for you, and I think it's pretty important because times everything like that what would your old self give advice to your young self?
Speaker 4:are you saying I'm old?
Speaker 1:all right, you're older self. What would you sell yourself? Not what you advice. Would you, now you're you now give to your younger self?
Speaker 4:I mean, you know, first of all, a ton of advice, a ton of advice. I am really grateful to have reached this old age and to look back and see, you know, where I've grown, where I still have to grow, but I guess the the biggest, um, the biggest piece of advice, um that I will say is that it's all going to work out, um, and you can laugh at the days 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 the evidence of it, when you're able to look back over the decades and just see, wow, this isn't just true because somebody said it was true, but this is actually true.
Speaker 4:For me it's so encouraging. And so if I could fast forward that process and have the kind, know, the kind of um, uh, strength and fortitude of faith, um, and and mine is still small now, but if I could, if I could impart that to my younger self, I would have, because I think that, um, a lot of times, we're, you know, you know fear is, fear is a liar, and um, and so I I think that that would be it, just that everything's going to be okay, everything's going to work out, that my latter days are greater than my former days, and and to trust in that. What about you guys?
Speaker 1:You know what I think that's I think it's a build on what you're saying is because you know a lot of people. We fear things that we put too much pressure into things. What am I going to do when I'm in high school? Where am I going to go? What's my profession? You know, like things that are other things like, oh, what happens if this goes wrong? What am I going to do? And things that will never usually go wrong, they never do, and you always, like you said, it's going to work itself out. Like if'm going to put more stress on myself.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're 100% right, and we put a lot of pressure on young people especially, and that's because you know we want the best for them, but also we need the best for them. You know, a lot of times the older generations need to validate themselves in the success of their children or their grandchildren. But I heard some statistic I'm going to get this wrong, but I'll share it just to get the, to give you the idea that something like 80% of the things that we're fearing never actually come to pass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 4: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 where you know we're being tortured by, by those fearful thoughts and they're, they're, they take a lot of energy and they're completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:I think. I think mine would be two things. First would be if it's too good to be true, it most likely is.
Speaker 1:That's the first one.
Speaker 2: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 up when derek you and I talk about that yeah, financial education would be great. Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh so I mean, you know, I would have read him back when I was in college, I'd be a multimillionaire, no doubt.
Speaker 4:You live and you learn, but you know there is a. There is a scripture that says that the debtor is slave to the lender.
Speaker 2:And that's what he says all the time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and so I think what a what a smart thing, and I hope, and I hope that you're imparting that wisdom to uh young people in your life, to say, yeah, 100, 100.
Speaker 2:In fact I'm working on our 20, like I just I'm a micro, I'm an excel guy, I mean I'm an excel geek, I'll admit so. With that, like I'm always doing like the numbers. And I have my son, who's more of the math guy. I'm like, okay, gav, here you go. So when you want to buy this or that, it comes out out of this and you know, yeah, because I'm bought into debt.
Speaker 2: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 to share a message to your followers, people that you're connected with, people that you maybe don't talk to now, that you talk to that you were friends with before. So if you want to take a minute, it's, it's, this is, this is for you, whatever you want whatever you want to share.
Speaker 4:Well, that's so. You know, I just um, I that so unexpected and so wonderful that you've that. You allow me to do that, and I I just want to express my, my gratitude to viewers, to coworkers, people who I'm not in daily, don't have the opportunity to talk to daily, and just express my gratitude for letting me into their hearts and their homes for so long. That's a privilege that I take very seriously and I'm really honored that people are interested in continuing to see what's next for me, and I'm sure I will have an update for them soon. But in the meantime I just really treasure the time that I have spent, um, and we'll continue to spend time in new England.
Speaker 4:Um, it's such a special place to me, not just because of you know the area that it is and what it's meant to my family. You know Cape Cod feels like um, you know another sibling and after, if I don't see Cape Cod for a little while, it feels like, oh, I have to reconnect with 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 so wonderful, so kind, so generous, so warm and so encouraging. I mean, I'm just blown away at. You know, I get literally in the last I guess six months or so, just thousands upon thousands um emails hits to my website, uh, people reaching out on social media with just the most wonderful, kind, lovely things to say. And it still astonishes me that um, that that they not only are are are so warm and kind and generous to reach out, but that they're even thinking about me. So so thank you for giving me the opportunity to uh to say that that's very kind of you.
Speaker 2:Now, uh, maybe that was a good time for your website and, um, how people can connect with you. Uh, what? Maybe it's a social platform or how best people can connect with you.
Speaker 4:Sure, you know, if you go to my Instagram, which is at news Hopkins, um news, and then my last name, h O P K-i-n-s, you can find all the links to my. I'm really, I'm really trying to engage with TikTok. Tiktok is a completely different animal than anything I've ever engaged with before. So I'm mostly active on TikTok. 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 Instagram page, you can find all my links, you can find my website and, yeah, that's where you can connect with me.
Speaker 2: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 anything else before we jump into some more with Brian? Can we jump into something with Brian? Nope, that's it. You good, all right, so, lily, one thing we have. We have many highlights of when we do our episodes. One of them is Googling with Brian. We're just Googling random stuff, so we'll go through this sort of quick, but what I actually initially Googled was the most annoying words of 2025.
Speaker 4:Wait, this reminds me of do you know, was it Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey goes. Hey, you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?
Speaker 1:Yes, that was Dumb and Dumber.
Speaker 2: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 I gave. Did I give three parts of the movie? For which movie?
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes, when they come in the tuxedo. Yeah, the tuxedo scene, the dum-a-dum-a, the IOU.
Speaker 2:The IOU and then the other one where he drinks the beer.
Speaker 4:Of those three scenes? What of those three scenes made you laugh the hardest? How about Swami Swanson? Ah, Samsonite, I was way off that could be on there.
Speaker 2:That could be on there.
Speaker 4:By the way, the Farrelly brothers who are behind that movie are from Rhode Island, and that's what you see in the big blue bug from Providence.
Speaker 1:Yes, they are, yes, they are they're.
Speaker 2:Providence guys, these are great movies, all right, so here we go. These are the top most popular words of 2025.
Speaker 1:All right Annoying Top annoying.
Speaker 2:No, I Googled annoying, but I ended up finding my way to the most popular words. I don't think. I think Google must have got rid of that.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Here we go. So the first one is Metaverse. I know Metaverse is like that's the virtual stuff, that's like Facebook. Is that what that is? Is that like a? So the term, so it's I'm trying to read it here it's a buzzword Advancement in virtual reality, augmented reality and immersive gaming. So it's like Okay.
Speaker 3:So I thought it was like what Marvel they said the.
Speaker 2:Metaverse.
Speaker 1:No, it doesn't refer to. I thought that's what they were talking about.
Speaker 2:The Metaverse is like that virtual. You put those cool little things on and you're kind of in a different world. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is annoying.
Speaker 2:Alright, yeah, okay, this one, I know Ecominimalism. What is that Ecominimalism?
Speaker 4:What is that?
Speaker 2:Minimalism, eco-minimalism.
Speaker 4:Okay, so probably you're having the least footprint on the environment.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, sustainability, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:Next one's obvious Gen.
Speaker 3:AI.
Speaker 2:I think we all know what Gen AI is now right. Yeah, all right, okay, digital nomad.
Speaker 1:I can only venture to guess on that one.
Speaker 4:I'm laughing because my brother has obtained his digital nomad visa, but I know that it really has taken off and it really has had an impact globally, so I can understand why people are over that phrase.
Speaker 2:So you can work from anywhere you can just work from anywhere. So quiet luxury I kind of feel me talk. So quiet luxury describes understated high quality products and experiences AI fluency. We know, okay, climbor, climbor, it's a noun.
Speaker 4:What is that?
Speaker 2:Building on the foodie trend, climbor refers to a diet tailored to mitigate climate impact that focuses on seasonal, local and climate-friendly foods, with an emphasis on reducing reliance on resource-intensive ingredients.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right on reducing reliance on resource intensive ingredients. Okay, all right. Uh, this one, I understand neurodivergent pride. That one. I have two kids that are on the spectrum, so I get that. So in order is, if you are on the autism, having pride within that space with if you, if you have um that kind of diagnosis, um biohacking it's like tinkering with all your hormones or something should be close this term, every practice aimed at optimizing physical and mental performance.
Speaker 2:Wearable tech like I'm gonna have shortly, uh newt tropics to personalize diets, and medic um meditation 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 think that's a prayer app oh yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4:So um, have you seen the chosen? It's on amazon I saw.
Speaker 2:I saw one episode of it it was the christmas one and I loved it it was fantastic.
Speaker 4:Add the chosen to your list. Jonathan roomie um is the main character in um in the chosen, and I think that he's the spokesperson for the halo app, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, uh, all right, so the last one doom scroll detox oh, that's so important.
Speaker 4:I mean I see why it's annoying, but that's really you know, you don't? I think a lot of people are like what's the next worst thing that's going to happen? What's the next worst thing?
Speaker 3:that's going to happen. I just sent those to.
Speaker 1:Derek, yeah, it's brutal. I don't understand how it's become a big thing nowadays.
Speaker 4:These words surprise me. I thought we were going to hear the word riz, I thought skimity toilet, and I thought cap and no cap were going to be on this list. So I am, um, I am shocked and surprised to be a toilet skimity toilet is yeah, it's, the kids are into it, it's, it's a horror show, that's all I need to say, that's it.
Speaker 2:We'll leave it at that. This has been fun. Thank you for coming back.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, especially when you're on vacation and you're away.
Speaker 2:I feel bad. We're going to try to get this out. If you hold back just for a second, we're going to try to get this out. The message to our listeners and 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. Life is short, things change. And then my personal message put your family first. Family first before anything. We will probably put God first and put your family first. Family first before anything. We will probably put God first and then put family after that. But it's been so much fun. Derek and I are going to be celebrating our year-end lunch tomorrow together.
Speaker 3:Which you're paying for. You are paying for that. I owe him a lunch anyway.
Speaker 2:But I've gotten in the same thing since we were in college. So I got to. I want you to know, derek, I got at you again and then I got you a mug, but I'm not telling you what's on the mug until you see it tomorrow, but I'm sure you can guess. Yeah, so to our listeners in all 61 countries, in all 1,200 plus cities, wishing you all a super Merry Christmas, happy holidays, whatever it is you may still be celebrating, and do be your best self in in twenty twenty five. And thank you, Lily.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can't wait to see what happens for you in 2025.
Speaker 4: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 I was so excited to you know, have this St Petersburg and the Moxie hotel as a backdrop and I'm looking forward to celebrating that global toddler that you have. That is the four year anniversary of your podcast, so congratulations.
Speaker 2:Thank you for listening to another episode of the three guys podcast featuring Brett, doug and Brian, and please remember to like, follow and share the film, which was released in the same year as the original is based on the novel by the same author.
Speaker 3:Thank you. The film, which was released in the same year as the original, is set to be released in the? U. Thank you.
