By Purpose

It’s the first Bro Homo episode of 2026, and Jonathan and Tom are back in the saddle. They unpack their holiday escapades, relive New Year’s Eves that went very right and very wrong, and tee up a new shared TV watch for the cold winter.

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[00:00:00] Bro, homo.

What's up? What's up? What's up? We did it. We did it. This is Bro Hoa with Jonathan and Tom. I'm Jonathan. I'm Tom. Hey, this is episode number 28, the first episode of 2026. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, man. Thanks. Uh, this, we're recording this on Monday, January 5th, but I haven't seen you since last year.

It's, I know, I know. It's been a, it's, it's been too long. Anyway. Yeah, we have a bit of a break. Um, and we did a few New Years together and then we didn't do one this year, so it feels even longer. Um, but how was, well, let's, let's do some other stuff first. I, um, 'cause I wanna jump right and ask how your new year was.

'cause I haven't heard yet. 'cause we haven't talked at all, but we gotta stick to the outline. [00:01:00] Um, I, I wanna respect the outline. Um. But yeah, we finished out at 25. We're into 26. Yep. I, it's, it's, you know, and my brain knows it's 2026, but on all the dates I keep writing, uh, 1939, um, what, that's just a, just a little joke.

'cause things are so crazy right now. They're so crazy. But we're, we're not talking about public. We're not doing politics. That's all good vibes right now, so we don't need to worry about it. Oh, we can talk about it. No, it's okay. I'm trying to respect the outline. Not that there's anything to talk about.

I'm trying to respect the outline. I, but there's literally nothing going on in the world that's crazy and makes no sense. But I didn't put, don't talk about politics in I for Christmas. We said no good vibes. Only we can get back into talking about politics. No, that's right. Let's not. Yeah. Next week we'll go back to saving the World.

Great. And people are gonna be so excited. Higher this. Is that better? Yeah. Hire it. Yes. Higher. Raise it. Raise it. But higher. It's good. It should be higher. Yeah. Um. What is it? My [00:02:00] kids, oh, my kids always say by purpose. 'cause it's like by accident, you know? And I was like, you know, it makes sense. It's not right by purpose, but it makes sense.

If you do something by accident, then you should do it by purpose. Like, I like that. That's cute. So yeah, you can hire your mic by purpose. All right, real quick. Uh, it's been a minute anyway. Uh, the corrections corner, I. It's pretty clear as far as I know. Uh, just a little. We're clear. We're in the, we're in the green?

I think so. I think we're in the green. I think we, everything you said is truthful and honest. Yeah. Snopes came back a hundred percent or whatever. What's, is it even Snopes anymore? What's the most Yeah, I think so's Okay. Good, good. Phew. Um, but I did a couple of, little quick, I grabbed, um, some analytics just to say it out loud.

'cause I think it's pretty fun. At the end of, in all of 2025, we had 5,964 podcast downloads. Wow. We had, yeah, I know. That's pretty good, right? Yep. Um, we had 14,536 YouTube views, which I feel good about. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, man. Pretty cool, right? Wow. So anybody who's watching and listening, thanks for sticking around.

Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. Yeah. Um, we have some cool, um, like [00:03:00] countries. Obviously a lot of us, Canada, you're right up there at the top. So whoever's in Canada right now, I wanna say thank you, uh, for, for this episode. We're still saying good vibes only, no, uh, politics, but you. I hope that it's very clear the two of us have nothing to do with the bullshit going on between us and you right now.

We are against all of it. We, uh, think we need all Canadians back as allies. Um, yes. And we love that you listen, so thank you. We've also got like the Netherlands, South Africa, a bunch of cool spots. We have good listeners. Good. Like I love it. Like solid listens. Yeah. Um, good, good stack keeping. Yeah. Thanks.

Yeah. Yeah. It's fun to check in sometimes. Yeah. I like those. You know, I like watching the numbers. Um. Alright, now it's the part of the, uh, the outline where we can talk about New Year's. Oh, finally, God, we finally got through that part. All right. Tell me, you tell me yours 'cause, okay. Okay. Yeah. Um, well first let me, let's talk about Christmas.

'cause we haven't talked since Christmas. Right? Great. Yeah, that's true. Did we? Yeah, we did. No, we didn't. Um, the, the, it it's this weird time of year where everything, the time makes no sense. Mm-hmm. Um, I, uh, someone I follow on Instagram called [00:04:00] it, um, uh, uh, Coachella. Like Coachella, but on your couch. Um, which it very much is.

I like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so yeah, so Christmas was good. Went to my fam, my family's to my sisters. Um, my sister made the old Italian Christmas dinner. That my mom used to make. Wow. Yes. Wow. Yes. It was very exciting. It was delicious. Did you make that happen or was it just happenstance? Was it I don't think so.

'cause I don't, I don't think she's listening to this and she's, she's listening to the machine. Valid. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but, um, she, she made it. Wow. And it was like homemade lasagna. Yeah. With like meats, sausages and meatballs and an anti antipasto. I think my aunt made that, um, auntie Donna made that.

But it was really good. That's awesome. It was really, it was a delicious Christmas. That's great. Um. Yeah. And we had a great time. So that was really nice. And then Christmas day we were just here, we watched plowed through Stranger Things on Christmas Day. Yeah. Which was really fun. Yeah. Um, but, uh, we also watched for the fir I have so much culture [00:05:00] stuff to tell you that I've been watching.

You see the list? I do. I, yeah. But I do wanna throw out there that I watched, it's a Wonderful Life for the first time in my life. Have you ever seen it? Uh, no. Not, no. I've seen the USA version 25 years ago. Like, no, like, you know, like when it's on tv, when it's on cable, like when it's like. Kind of there.

They cut, they cut it down for time. It's commercials, it's like when it's on cable, you know, it's like, I've, I, when I was a kid, I saw it, but No, no. Yeah, I saw, I saw the real version. Um, it was so good. I cried my eyes out. Yeah, really. It's a classic, classic for a reason. Uh, very socialist film, though. Um, so I'm so surprised that it's, uh, the hit that it is in the United States, but, um, it's really good.

It's a beautiful film and All right. Worth, worth watching. Love that. Yeah, I love that. Um, but we went, as you know, we went to Chicago for New Year's. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. My, one of my best friends, Matt, who, uh, hell shout out Matt, who designed our Yeah. Um, graphics and did our music. Um. DJ'ed on New Year's Eve, uh, in Chicago and Quana and I have never been.

So, um, we spent like [00:06:00] almost a week there really, like five days. Oh wow. And uh, yeah, it was great. It was cold. Yeah. Um, kind of windy. It's cold there. Windy city. Yeah. Cold. It's, yeah, it's legit. It's cold. It snowed a bunch. Just like constant snow. Yeah. Really cold. Um. A couple of days where'd guys stay? We stayed at a Airbnb, um, with Matt and James, his partner, and then the two guys who run, uh, chunk the Party mm-hmm.

Is the name of the party. Mm-hmm. And, uh, so there were six of us. Um, and that was cute. It was like an old house. Nice. And um, and then we moved to a hotel for the last two nights. Um, so it was, it was super fun. We had a really great time. We basically just hit a bunch of the gay bars and gay parties. Yeah.

And, um, nice. Uh, I got my hair cut at a very gay establishment by a very hot guy named John Snow. Yeah, right. He was so hot. And his name was John Snow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and he set me up. Good. 'cause, 'cause the, the, the guys in Chicago loved me, bro. Yeah, dude. I say more, say more. I might need, I just, I don't know what it is.

Like Chicago might be my town. Okay. Yeah. You said that same thing about [00:07:00] Atlanta and Dallas. Listen, I will, I think Chicago's an awesome town and I think you could run any of those towns, but I'm just reminding you, you have said that about more than one. I know. Metropolitan American City. I don't dunno. I was on fire in Chicago, uh, but I did on the last look.

Does it help you though? Did like, it's like. You also do very well in New York, by the way. Like that's, let's not kid anyone here. You do very well in New York, but I, look, I'm not even the most proud New Yorker around, but it's a little bit true that like wherever you lay in New York, when you get out of New York, your 10 material, like, it's like, like like most markets, if you're like a, if you're, if you're established in the New York market, you go to a smaller, more regional market.

Outta the water because, because you're from New York. I don't know. I feel like it, I, I think just like the, the, the competition here is so high that like anywhere, it's just not as high anywhere. It's, the scene isn't as big. It's not, it's just not the same scene. It's not the same. The drive isn't there.

There's like, it doesn't surprise me at all that you, I remember you came back from Atlanta and you were like, this might be my city. This is I, [00:08:00] that's, which is like valid. And then you go to Chicago, you're like, this might be my city Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. I had deep dish pizza for the first time. Oh yeah. For the first time.

Yeah. Delicious. It was very good. Do you It's not pizza. Yeah. Good, good, good. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it's very special for what it is. And as a casserole, it's delicious. Yeah. And sh yeah. Should be a part of everyone's life. But, um, I, I like that. So it was good. And then the last, uh, night we were there, uh, I got, um.

I think I got Norovirus, like the stomach flu. Yeah, it was gross. Oh man. So, um, I did go out the last night. Uh, the three of them went out and I've been just starting to get over it today. So the last couple days I've been, um, wait, when did you get back? Saturday night. Oh, okay. Late Saturday night. All right.

So Friday night I was, uh, in the hotel room feeling like, feeling out. And you had to fly. You had to fly with a bug or something. And I was sitting between two old ladies. I wore a mask. Yeah. But, um, that's not even how I, we don't need to get in this specific, that's not now how it spreads. [00:09:00] Um, I wore a mask and I, um, kept my jacket on 'cause I was freezing.

I hit shows the whole time. I was shaking. Oh. I was like, um, yeah. Oh man. Oh, that's rough. Uh, what's that called? Not shaking. Um, yeah. Convulsing? No. Seizing. No. I mean, like it's, it is both of those things, but, uh, chills. I don't know. I was like shaking from chills and it was terrible and, uh, barely got home.

Nick Tremors, tremors. Nick W's been amazing. He's been taking care of me and starting to feel a little better, so that's good. Good. I'm glad he trying to feel. Well. How was your new year? Uh, well how is this? Is, this is wonderful. This is wonderfully juxtaposed. Um, because, um, I didn't do. Shit. I did less than shit.

I did, I did so little and it was, it worked out. I loved it. I, I love New Year's Eve. We've done a, a few together. They've been really fun. I, I've gone out big for New Year's Eve before and I love that. And I love, it can be a real amateur night, but if you find the right spot, the right venue, the right people, like I can, I really love New Year's Eve.

Um, but this year the, my, the problem always with New Year's Eve [00:10:00] is that it's at the end of whatever gauntlet. I've had to go through for the holidays. And so it's like, it can be a real struggle, you know? Yeah. And like often I just like sack up to do one more, one more ride, you know? And now that there's two kids and there's more travel, it's like it gets harder and harder.

And, um, so this year for Christmas, we had a great Christmas, um. It was great at my in-laws. It, we flew south to my family. Had a great time there. Um, and because it's like everyone comes for like as many days as possible, but it's like we're all there for like three days at the same time. Um, this is why I wanted to say this, like this is why there's not a set like Christmas meal because we just like get there when we get there and then we just like do it for three days.

So it's like all the food's delicious, but it's like whatever, whatever. There's like always food available and it's like whatever it is you're just eating. It's almost like every moment. Is kind of like the home alone house before they leave. Then the first night like turned down a little bit. Not everyone's an asshole and it's not quite that frenetic, but it's like just moving and eating and moving and eating, talking.

Is your mom cooking the whole time? Yeah, she does ba [00:11:00] basically all the cooking, I mean, everyone jumps in, especially now with kids. Like she does a great job. She's a real like pied piper with the kids as far as like, she plans games and they like, we did an elf night where they watched Elf and she, she did fucking let my kids eat spaghetti with maple syrup.

My son. Chugged a little. I'm a little shooter of maple syrup. I'm what? It's, do you know Elf the movie? No. Oh, it's, I mean, it should be, but it's in Elf. Okay. Yeah. So he, you know, he is learning about food and culture that's not the North Pole and just like, it's just junk all over his spaghetti. And so she did that kind of like, we had regular spaghetti but then had these other things available and my kids just like took little bottles of maple syrup to the head.

Um, so, you know, but it was fun. It was like a fun, yeah. That was like. That's how it goes. It's a real, like, it's a, it's a kid bender. They, they go, they fucking get after it. And, and it's a really fun, you know, like there is usually like a hangover period when we get home where we have to be like, no, we can't have candy for every meal and no, we're not gonna have the TV on all the time.

That's just not how real life works. That was vacation. Mm-hmm. [00:12:00] Um, but this year in a, because of, so. A, a similar bug, but like a 24 hour bug came through my parents' house and just like ripped all through us one at a time. It was like a horror film, you know, like one by one we're just like dropping. Um, but it was just like 24 hours at a time.

My family got hit the very last day. So we, uh, my son, my six and a half year old son, Caleb was like such a champ. 'cause he threw up overnight before we left the next day. And he like. I just kept a bag with him the whole time. He was like, he was not feeling well. He was sleeping a lot, but like kept a bag right with him the whole time just in case.

Never threw up again, but was like not doing great. Well, 24 hours later, by the time we got home, he was good to go, but because everyone had a little bugginess, their friends we were supposed to go see for, for New Year's Eve, um, didn't feel comfortable about that. They've got a bunch of kids, uh, and they have like, they had, uh, in-laws in town.

There were older people in the house and they just were like, we, we don't wanna risk it, you know? And so understood. Um. But because of that, then we had a freed up, uh, new Year's whole, the whole week freed up and Jen wanted [00:13:00] to take the kids and do something. And so she, uh, she took the kids to Albany, um, to see her friend up there and hang out.

They've got kids, whatever, and have a party. And I just like. W did not wanna do that. I was like, I had enough, I had, I had enough energy to get through, like a night in Long Island on Long Island. And then we were, I was coming home and I, another like four day trip to upstate. I, I couldn't do, yeah. So I stayed and I had some like stuff around the house that I could do, you know, some manly chores and stuff.

Whoa. But really I did, I mean, talk about Coachella. I was by myself and did. Nothing. So it was like, do you spend, I'm not even alone. Well, I went out for a little bit 'cause I was alone. I was alone. And I went to, um, a cute little bar Mosaic, shout out Mosaic in Astoria, Queens. Um, and kind of in a area where I used to live in, it's a, it's a cute little cocktail bar.

Um, and so I went by myself and I, like, I put on some decent clothes and went out. They had, they were having like, uh, like a New Year's Eve party kind of thing. Started with tickets or reservations later. And I didn't, you know. Didn't want that, but I went for a couple hours before that and I sat [00:14:00] around, made some friends, uh, you know, just talked to strangers and like, met people and was by myself and had a really good time.

I, wow. Um, it was really fun. You could have came to chunk. I could have, I could have came to chunk. That would be kind of the exact opposite of the chill few days I was looking for. But you're right, I could have, um, I had some really, I love those kind of like one-off like really random conversations on a night like that.

Everyone's out having a good time and it, it can, it can be like, the city can get sloppy. There's, you know, it obviously can get. Really amateur hour-ish. But this was like, it's a cocktail bar. You kind of gotta work to get to it. So like, the people who wanted to be there wanted to be there and it was like a nice vibe.

And they were all like middle aged, uh, maybe a little younger, but, um, I, like, I, so this matters zero amount, but someone kept, kept talking abouthe and wanted to play his song. Uh, what's Left Of Me? I dunno if you remember that song. Because why would you? But we got into talking about it, and this is like the trivia that I took away from New Year's Eve.

Cliche has a song called What's Left of Me, which is basically about like his jump off after he leaves his wife or after they, I don't even know what happened [00:15:00] with him, but whatever. When they broke up, it's about like, you're the next one and I'm a broken man, but I want you here to try to fix me. The actress in that was Vanessa Manila.

Who becomes Vanessa Leche, his wife is the actress in the video about being his jump off after his wife and e break up. Oh, I never knew that. So, yeah, me either. So I learned something of this New Year's Eve. It was like an educational New Year's Eve for me. And then, uh, I didn't stay out long, I a couple hours and I, um, I did walk past a couple making out hot and heavy in their car.

Um, so that was cool. I felt good for them. Um, like just on the street in Astoria, it's good. So, uh. You know, basically the same as yours. The, yeah. Yeah. We really just had like, very similar, very similar sounds, sounds very similar. Uh, yeah, man, I'm sorry that I couldn't spend New Year's Eve with you, although, I don't know.

It's okay if you would've been on board with everything we did. Yeah. I, I feel like, um, the times that we've done it together, like you, we find, uh, you are always gracious enough to find a. [00:16:00] Sh uh, a at least like a straight welcoming party. Like at least like a mixed, a mixed crowd party. Um, uh, yeah, I don't know.

That chunk is like, I mean, shout out chunk great. I mean, have a party hard. I'm not sure that it's where I need to be, but party hard. Amazing. And I get to live vicariously through you and I, I slept so much. I like, I'm jealous. That sounds nice. Got my house stuff done. But yeah, it was, and I mean, I. I would wake up.

When I woke up, I was like, wow. Had, there was like some work I had to get done on Friday that I kind of forgot about, and like midday Friday, I was like, all right, I'm supposed to be work. I am, I am in fact working today. Let Oh, wow. But you didn't have off, uh, I mean, I didn't also didn't like have to sit down and do stuff, you know?

Yeah. Like, it's kind of like I just had to get some stuff done. Yeah. Um, our Friday was, 'cause New Year's Day was Thursday, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I technically had to do some stuff on Friday, but it was, it was like, oh, right, I have to. Open the computer for a minute. Let me not forget to do that. Yeah, yeah, totally.

It was, it was a black hole of time. Um, crazy. Which was [00:17:00] wonderful, to be honest. Nice. Um, yeah, I'm gonna tell you about all the culture that I Please do. I'm, I'm, it's, it's staring me down. It's a long list, a long list. I'm intimidated by it. I'm gonna try to not take too long, but I need to talk about all these things.

Okay. I'm sorry. Uh, we finished the Taylor Swift documentary. Have you not watched it yet? I have not watched it yet. Ah, okay. She's amazing. It's so good. The documentary memory itself is so good. She's amazing. All right. Um, she, she, something she does that's so cool in it is she spotlights different people that were involved with the tour for entire episodes.

Um, and so it's not just about her, it's about cool. Many of the dancers, the singers, the choreographer, um, it's, it's pretty incredible. It's a pretty, um. It makes you, um, look at the tour in a whole new way about just how amazing it is, what they did with that. Nice. Oh yeah. Um, so I love it, man. People, people really want to try to put her in the cross hair and they really wanna try to find something and like, it's just fucking not there.

Like, she's a good person. Like she, yeah, it's just people. [00:18:00] I just, I I never understand you. I, something equality I hate in people, like really despise in people, uh, is when someone. Hate something or poo-poos something because a lot of people like it. Mm-hmm. Just out of hand and won't even. Mm-hmm. Um, you know, I, I have tons of friends that rag on me about listening to Taylor Swift, but, and if any of you are listening to this, if you are a friend that rags on me about listening to Taylor Swift and you've never listened to Taylor Swift, I am judging you so hard every time you do.

Yeah. You're a basic bitch. If you, if you just do it because Yeah. It's so, it's so pathetic and embarrassing to be, to be a human like that. Um, like by all means, have. Opinions about music, but like, yeah, listen to this stuff first and then make your opinion. Yeah. And come to me with something substantial to say.

Um, so, so that's my feeling about the Taylor Swift documentary. Yeah. She's an amazing human being. Um, Rachel Maddow has a new podcast out the Burn Order podcast. Okay. Um. And it's, uh, the story of when we listened to it going up and coming back from Christmas. So it was basically took us one [00:19:00] trip to Connecticut and back.

Okay. Um, and it's the story of when the United States put, uh, Japanese citizens in camps. Okay. Um, Japanese actual citizens Yeah. In the United States. People that had been born here. Yeah. Uh, rounded them up and put them in camps and how it got to that point and why we did it and who was in charge and what were the decisions that made and why did people let it happen.

And I always knew it was a part of our history and a shameful part of our history, but I never knew the details. Uh, it's fucking eye-opening. Highly recommended. 'cause we're going down a lot of those paths right now, so. Okay. Um, she's an amazing, uh, American as well, Mary. And, um, I, I, um. Just like, we're just so lucky to be living at the same time as some of these women, to be honest.

Yeah. Rachel Maddow. Taylor Swift. Yeah. Um, Marty Supreme. Yeah. Tell me, uh, I want it to be so good. I need it to be good at heaven. It's so fucking good. The new Okay. Yes. Um, it's the same energy as uncut gems. It's the same Real? Yes. Um. But it's got an [00:20:00] emotional payoff, I think at the end of it that uncut gems did not.

Um, okay. Like I, in the last 10 seconds of the movie, bawled my eyes out. Really? I'm out of nowhere. Wow. Wow. I didn't, I didn't know it was going to do that to me, and I knew we were getting to the end. Um, he's incredible in it. He's incredible in anything. But this is, he should win the Oscar for this. Um, yeah.

I, I, I don't, I don't. Spoil too much. Gwynneth Paltrow is incredible. Um, the other supporting actress, I think her name is Odessa something. Um, I don't know her last name, but she's in this new TV show I love la uh, which is also on the list of things I'm about to talk about. Um, uh, created by actress and writer Rachel Senate, I think is how you say her last name.

Okay. Um, it's on HBO max. Um, and it is the funniest. New show I've seen in years. Really? Okay. Um, fuck the studio. Fuck, um, fuck. What's the one in the college that I told you guys to watch? Yeah, yeah. Overcompensating. Oh, yeah, yeah. Fuck English teacher. I don't really, didn't really like any of [00:21:00] those and I appreciated them, but I didn't really love them.

This show had me gawing every episode. Wow. I actually cannot wait to go back and watch it. Okay. Um, so I, I, I, I love that show. Okay. Um, we finished Stranger Things yesterday. Yeah, final episode. We, we plowed through, um. They released the last season basically on Christmas day, except for the finale, the last part of the last season on Christmas Day.

And then the finale episode was released in theaters on New Year's Day and then shortly after on Netflix. So we were all caught up except for the last episode and it was, uh, I would say they landed the plane. Yeah. They didn't, they didn't fuck it up. Um, there's a lot of weird unanswered questions that fans are going crazy with online.

Yeah. Um, lots of, lots of weird stuff. Um, there's a shot of the gradu of a graduation at the end, and everybody in the audience is sitting with their hands in their, crossed in their lap, which is the way the bad guy in the show always stands. Mm. And so people are going nuts. There's someone at the graduation holding up a poster board, a huge yellow poster board with no words [00:22:00] on it.

Um, there's, there's. There's weird, just, I, I don't want to go into, I don't wanna spoil too much, but there's like a lot of weird things. So there's this whole conspiracy that maybe there's another final episode that's gonna be dropped at the end of this week. Ooh. Or, I don't know, but. It's still a satisfying finale.

Loved it. Uh, kind of glad that one's over though, 'cause those kids are growing so old and yeah. Uh, it, it's time for that one to be over. Um, and then, uh, heated rivalry we finished. Yeah. Uh, which I think I've already talked about on here. Yeah. You have talked about it. Six part gay series. Mm-hmm. Um, Canadian produced, produced in Canada.

Um, hockey players that, um, start fucking secretly and, um, it. The, this show, I didn't really like the first episode, to be honest. I thought it was kind of like trashy nonsense, but fun to watch 'cause there was a lot of fucking and hawkey. Uh, it gets better and better. And the last episode is Chef's Kiss. Um, it, it, it like, sort of has no right to be as well written and as well acted as it is.

Okay. Uh, the last episode is [00:23:00] essentially a four hander and, um, it's. Uh, uh, a, a stunning piece of television. Wow. Like really, really good. So, uh, that is a, that's a real tune change from where you start. I mean, you liked it from Joe, but you liked it 'cause it was gay sex. You were like, this is a little trashy.

Like as Boots, remember Boots. I loved the first episode and then I went way downhill on that one. Yeah, that one's a little tricky. Like, like Netflix didn't renew it for a second season. Everyone's like, they're, they're bowing to the, and like, I mean, I don't want to like. As an ally. All for it. All for it.

Make the content. But yeah, no boots. I just think it wasn't that good. Listen, heated rivalry, um. People have reached out to me saying that for the sake of the podcast, I should watch it. And so, uh, it impacts some Canadians. Canadian and Canadian women have reached out and been like, we love it. We think you should watch it.

Alright. Alright. I think we should. So I'll do a rewatch. You'll do a watch. Okay. One, one episode a week. One episode, if that works. Yeah. It's six weeks out. That works. We can break that out. Alright, cool. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie, I was a little bit like, uh, [00:24:00] anxious because I just like, I don't need to watch soft core gay porn just to watch soft core gay porn.

Like, you know, but I think you do actually. It's exactly what. All right. Fair. But I had, you know, like I got some outside, uh, perspective also on feedback that said I, that I need to watch it. So, you know, between, I love it. Let's do it. Doing it, Tom, and now, now the, the zeitgeist even telling me directly I should watch it, so let's do it.

He, there's, there's tons of, there's like a trend online right now of like. Girls or gays videotaping their straight buddies watching, uh, key moments. Oh, really? Okay. I almost feel like we should watch it together so I can videotape you Okay. Watching, okay. Watching the key moments. We should, yeah, we should just, yeah, we should figure that out.

Let's try to figure that out. I like that. Amazing. I that a lot. Alright, so if you haven't watched Heated Rivalry and you'd like to join us in this rewatch Yeah, next week will be the first episode and we'll be discussing. I am so glad. This is one of the things I thought at the end of 25 and like kicking off culture like this is making me even more so feel this [00:25:00] way.

I feel glad about it. Like I'm so glad that you're so tapped in because I am like not. Getting any, any, like, I'm still watching pluribus and I like it, but I'm also slow on that, so like I know. Is it getting, getting better? You're in the minority on that one. I know people love it, so like I know. Um, but I, I get it.

You don't have to like it. You came in strong with a couple of women up top. Like there's no room for problems with women here. I know it's not that at all. I know you just don't like Plur bus. I'm not gonna give you any shade for it. Strong with ta, strong with Rachel. I You just don't like it. That's okay.

No, I, I. I, the thing is like, I don't love the character, but I'm okay with that. Like she, she is a blow hard, kinda like, she kind of like is a curmudgeon in a way that tries hard and, um, but I like, I think that the actress is doing a good job, whatever her name is, which so bad this way. What are the feelings the show gives you that make, that make you want more of it?

Um, intrigue. I like, I, I like, I really like what's going on. That's part of it. Part of it is the world is, is trying to figure out, like, not even trying to figure out, just waiting to see the puzzle. You what's puzzle. Yeah. I like the puzzle. Um, and, and she, the, the [00:26:00] character gets on my nerves a little bit sometimes, but, um.

She gets a lot of alone time and sometimes they're, they've set some real moments where she, like, she's done some really good work and she's done some really cool stuff, and I know that I like masturbated on here for minutes one time about a drug scene, but that was a really good scene. They, uh, they did, they did, this was like a, I thought it was a beautiful moment for like the, the nowness of tv, like full physical comedy bits with drones, like it was, they've done some very funny and like they're using drones in a lot of different ways for the stake of the story, and they're like.

They've made them its own, its own character, which has been really fun. Um, I just think Vince Gilligan does some really cool stuff. I think he finds cool ways to tell stories. Um, I, I understand like, not being into it, like part of it, Jen and I have a, we have a, we have an argument about the root of the series.

Like what is the, what is the thesis of this, of what's happening? We disagree. Um, because I, it you watch the first one, right? Like just mm-hmm. Like, I don't necessarily think that it's a bad thing that's happening. I like, I, [00:27:00] I don't. Jen is straight up like where this woman is, which is like, what's happened is bad.

It's, it's bad. Everyone has lost agency. No one is themselves. And I'm, I'm kind of more of the opinion of like, sure, but also it, there's, it's the possibility of like a stage of evolution that if you were to get to be like, we don't have to fight. We don't have to, we don't have to, you know, like see things this way.

Like, I don't know. So there's some, there's some, I think there's room for, for either way there and, you know, we'll finish it and we'll find out if it, I don't know how many answers we get or not. So it's not that I. I, we've talked about it. I have PTSD from Lost. I don't go into anything expecting to get answers by the end, but if it's a cool puzzle and it's a cool, you know, then I, I like it for that.

But that's also like the only thing that part of it is because that's all that I'm watching because I haven't. Anything else? So now I have some soft core gay porn. It is soft core, right? It's like it's on tv. Yeah, yeah, sure. Okay. Right. Um, the only other culture thing that I have is now we have a new mayor and he is like, if his, if you liked, [00:28:00] if you did not like his social media before you were in trouble.

If you liked his social media before, it's only getting better now. I love it. His is like the. Bus bench where he just, he is like talking about all new bus benches that are going out with Kendricks sit out and just shots of Eric Adams sitting on bus benches. It's like, he's just like still clowning on Adams, which I love.

I just think he's doing a great job. Um, and I, you know, I don't, I don't know, people have their things, but we're not doing politics episode. It's, it's, we're not good vibes only. And I'm, I'm very excited about him though. Glad he's there. Yeah, he is. Always got a big smile. He's working hard. He's out there doing stuff.

He's not fucking Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo. So yeah. Win, win, win. Yep. Agreed. Agreed. All right. We're gonna have a new little New Year's, new Year's Eve. Yeah. Discussion today and honors of all New Year's Eve's pasts. Um, we have some questions that we've prepared. Um, first of all, do you like New Year's Eve?

I do. As a holiday. Do you look forward to it? What are thoughts on it? Well, again, like, I, I have, it's, it's one of the, it's one of the good holiday, one of the good party holidays for me. Am I, like, I feel [00:29:00] like. If you find the right thing, you can really get after it and like, it can be a really fun, a really fun night.

And there's like a, I'm a night owl. There's a reason to stay up late, you know, for Halloween, I mean for Halloween, for New Year's. Like it's, it can be a really fun party. I've also had some where like you end up too much in public and it's too like too amateur and it's too gross. And like, you know, I've worked a few which sucks.

Like bartending on New Year's Eve was like one of the worst experiences I've ever had. 'cause and bartending like at a sports bar in Queen. So it's not like. Cool joint, it's like, yeah, kind of garbage. Um, so there can be that, but I, you know, Jen and I, and sometimes with you, but we have often been really intentional about our New Year's Eve plans.

My family, you know, my parents were tied to the Gulf. Um, uh, and so there a short drive to New Orleans. So we did a bunch of New Year's Eve in New Orleans. We went to Orlando for one. From there, you know, a few, you had New Year's with James and Matt. Without me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, I ran into 'em and new, I mean, we knew they were there, but like, yeah, we just found 'em at a party in New Orleans.

It was so much fun. That was a really fun, a really fun, uh, new [00:30:00] Year's. Um, I, and New Orleans is one of those cities, like I love the city so much and I, it's not, it's hopping on New Year's, but it's not like, it's like Mardi Gras or a time when you think about going there. Yeah. So it's not crazy. It's vibing, it's busy, but it's not.

Fucking path. Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah. And, and I don't like bourbon. I go to Frenchman or like somewhere else, like off the beaten path, you know, and Frenchman's not off the beaten path, but it's cooler and you have to like, they have to like music more than drinking, you know? It's not this, it's not Bourbon Street.

Um, so I've, I've definitely had some fun New Year's in, uh, new Orleans. Couple fun ones in the city, a couple phone ones in Atlanta. Um. When I have the chance to be intentional about it and plan and find a good party or find a good situation, like I really enjoy it. But yeah, like sometimes it, if you don't, I, I found that if I don't do that work, that pre-work, it can suck.

It can, it can end up being kind of shitty. I don't know. What about you if. I hate it. Really? Yeah. I hate it.

Boo. Two thumbs down. [00:31:00] Yeah. Yeah. I don't like it. It's right up there with Valentine's. In terms of like pressure, you feel like you should be doing something? Um. Never lives up to the hype, expensive. The things that are available to do are like extra costly. Um, and I feel like I've had more shitty New Year's than I've had good ones, really just way more overall in the course of my life.

So, yeah, I, uh, I just don't, I don't love it. Um, I've had some good ones. I've had some good ones with you. This one, this year was pretty good actually. It's pretty great. Um, except for getting sick a couple days later. Yeah. But the, the whole, the whole trip to Chicago was so fun and fun to be with Matt and James.

And, uh, what's like, what's like one of your, what's one of your best? My like, let's go the best, not the worst. What's the best My, my best ever was, um, 2020 into 2021. We were in the middle of the pandemic, so hadn't been to parties. There was no social functioning happen happening. And Matt and James, who I was, this was before I was with Quan.

Well, we were. Mm-hmm. With each other. Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But, um, he wasn't [00:32:00] trying to do all that, so we weren't, we weren't social yet. Um, but we were, we were seeing each other. Um, so he, he wasn't invited, but, um, Matt and James and I made a plan to meet up in Fort Hollywood, Florida, which is just. North, I think of Fort Lauderdale.

Yeah. And uh, we got an Airbnb and this big high rise on the beach. Um, and Matt and James' friends from Atlanta, Matt and Drew planned to meet us, so I was gonna meet them for the first time they were gonna meet me. So it was just the five of us. Um, we got a cute little Airbnb. The flights were super cheap 'cause no one was flying.

The Airbnb was super cheap. Um, and we figured, like COVID wise, we, we all. Tested before we came and, um, no one was going out or doing anything, so, so we all tested before we got on the plane and then we just like had a bubble at our little Airbnb. Nice and partied our faces off, uh, like for the whole weekend.

And it was so fun. I remember like New Year's Eve itself, uh, Matt and James were not getting in until 1230, which is a terrible time to land on New Year's Eve. [00:33:00] So I was landing at the airport at the same time as Matt and Drew, and I hadn't met them before, but we met at the airport and then we ended up.

Going to dinner together and ringing in the new year together. And so I was like getting to know these two strangers and by the end of the weekend had gotten invited to their wedding, which was happening later that year. So it just sticks in my heart as a great, uh. New Year's because I made two really great new friends that wasn't Yeah, it's so funny.

Like I would've, if you had asked, I would've said you knew them years before 2021. I did not realize that. I would've forgotten. I absolutely forgot. That's when you met. It doesn't seem like it's that long. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it was just, and we had so much fun, so many good memories from that. Um, from that New Year's, we, um, there, there was like a, there was a, a.

Uh, stadium Uhhuh. We, we were like on the 20th something floor and there was a stadium in Fort Lauderdale, maybe Uhhuh, and there was some sort of game happening one of the nights. Okay. And like fireworks going off and we were on the roof and it looked like a birthday cake. This story is like one of those stories [00:34:00] that it only works if you were there, there probably was a, there would've been a College Bowl game probably.

There's probably, I think there's a, I mean, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what's in Fort Lauderdale, but like that, I'm sure there's something there. Yeah, there's just, there's, I'm sure there was a football game that, uh, yeah, so, so that was a funny memory. And then we took like a 2:00 AM walk on the beach and it was totally deserted.

It felt like we were on Mars. So, yeah. What about you? What was your best years you've ever? Um, one of the best is, uh, I'll say, I'll say Atlanta, Atlanta 2016. Um, and kind of for a lot of the reasons we were just talking about, like, it, it can be expensive and, um, it can be like hard to find the right thing and it like is hard to really like, nail all of it.

And so we, um. Jan and I had done a couple, a couple years in Atlanta. We had, uh, family there. I think both of my sisters were living there at the time. Um, and we'd gone partied. I I like Atlanta. I think Atlanta's a really fun city. And this, I, we found this party. It was, um, uh, yacht rock is, uh, like a band. I mean, it's a style of music, but like, also like the yacht rock Review, whatever [00:35:00] they're called.

The band themselves were playing this show, um, at. Piedmont Park, uh, I don't know, like there, there's a, the ballroom, the Piedmont be ballroom or whatever. And tickets were like hella cheap. I don't remember what they were, but they were cheap. And it was like open bar, nine to three or something. And, uh, food will be served and whatever.

Like the, the, it seemed like. I mean, basically we were like, there's no way this is as good as it sounds, but we're gonna do it 'cause it's cheap and we're gonna, we can be there. That's easy. Yeah. If we, if it sucks, we'll balance. Like, well let's just go and see what this is. And it was everything that it said, it was, it was like, there was a big, the first floor is like a big ballroom and it had just like food, just like food everywhere.

And um, a couple of bars, they're kind of like hard to get to. Uh, so we're like, uh, we're not hungry. Let's go downstairs, walk downstairs. Multiple bars, giant stage with the bands playing. Um, and, you know, you know how we like to get to things early. Like I I, I'm trying to get that early bird ticket anytime.

So it's like, and once we found downstairs, the bars were all available. It was not crowded. Um, and it [00:36:00] was legit open bar. And we, like, it's an open bar, but I have a really bad habit of, at any open bar. I like to tip big upfront 'cause I, I, after being in service for years, um. I wanna tip on open bars. 'cause people for people like think you don't have to do that and they, you know, whatever.

But, so I'll tip big right away. Also, little tip. It's a good, it's a good way to get a bartender to like, remember you from the, for the rest of the night, you know? Yeah. But then what'll happen is I'll do that and then after a few drinks, I'll feel bad. Like I was just using it as the way to get them to notice me.

And so then I'll start tipping again and I'll end up doing like multiple big tips throughout the night so that I spend just as much as I would've spent, which is like whatever. It happens sometimes. Um, but this is one of those nights where like, oh. And I got kind of had that perfect spot. And it's a little bit like, not the same thing, but it's a little bit like having a New York mentality in Atlanta.

There were some ways that I like really got, like I was in a good spot, not in like. It wasn't like the chunk dudes were like knocking down my door or anything, but I like, I got the bartender, you know, I was, I made friends with the bartender early [00:37:00] enough on so that when it got close to midnight, um, I literally was like way back in line and kinda went to the side and kind of waved and she just handed me two bottles of champagne, like over the side of the bar to take back to our group and like, wow.

It was, it was amazing. Drunk, very drunk, but like, in a very fun way. And then, um, like literally we're like, oh, it's, I'm kind of hungry. Like, let's go see if there's still any that food upstairs. Walk back upstairs just in time for like Krispy Kreme donuts, hot, fresh now. Krispy Kreme donuts. We just delivered and like, fucking droves.

And we're like, well, we're just gonna take these and like it. Yeah, it was, it worked out really well. It was really, really fun. And it was like. All those things. The, the music was great, the drinks were great. It stayed cheap except for all the tipping that I did. But it stayed cheap and the, you know, it got, got to eat.

It was never so crowded that it was a problem. Um, it was, it, it was ideal. And it was like that kind of situation where there was just like. Going into it, we were like, there's no way this is gonna be as good as it seems, but we're gonna give it a shot. And then it was as good as it seemed. I was, I loved that night.

Um, love it. The only problem with that, to jump to the next [00:38:00] part is one of the worst, 'cause there have been a few bad ones. One of the worst was the next year we thought, let's do it again. And like the truth is, there's no way that. They can do it or we can do it two years in a row, right? Like, we're not gonna, we're not gonna nail that.

So we go back to next year, it is all still the same things, but it's much more crowded. People kind of got there, you know, got onto it. They, they, they were hip to it. So what that ended up meaning is all of us, but really me got way, drunker way sooner. Um, and uh, it was like a kind of just a blackout night for me.

I, you know, I've lived a lot of life and I've been, I've done some asshole moves, but like, this was what, like, I just was blackout drunk. And, um, I, I, I walked out. When it was time for us to go, I stole a bottle of champagne and my, my jacket, and then we got to the car. And I, like, I, if you had asked me today, I would've said my sister did that.

And she was like, I, I started, I was like, Hannah, why did you steal that? She was like, I did not steal it. You stole it. Wow. And we got back to my cousin's house and like. My, my, my brain just broke. I think I had been like, so intent on repeating, having a [00:39:00] great, great night that like, I drank too much. I partied too hard.

I like, I, it was one of those nights where I, I say that like, it's happened. This is the only time it's ever happened to me, but it, it happened in such a real way that i's like. Made me a little bit uncomfortable ever since then. Like we had just recently before that watched Mr. Robot, the TV show, and I was so like drunk and in such a weird blackout state for a little bit.

I was in like a blackout state that when I came back to, I was like, something has gone very wrong. I did something like, I think Jen was just annoyed with me that I was like that drunk and all I knew was that like she was mad at me. And I could not remember why. Yeah. And I convinced myself that I was in a made up reality that when I woke up I was gonna wake up in prison and I, you know, like, you know, I was like, I, dude, I just had this, I just woke up like a week ago before we got to Chicago.

I woke up very unsettled one morning, like, and racking my brain. 'cause I was feeling so guilty about some terrible, terrible thing I had done. And it, I, I had this feeling like I had been suppressing it for years and I had just dreamt [00:40:00] about it and I. Have you ever had a feeling like dreamt that you committed murder and woke up the next day and you were like, I committed murder, or no?

Yeah. I mean, I don't know about like, well, I, I mean certainly like, like there maybe not like specific murder, but sometimes like, I'm not fully convinced at any given point. If I wake up and I'm in, like right now, if this moment stops and I wake up and I'm in fourth grade and I just fell asleep in class, like I kind of expect it to happen.

All like. I live with that expectation a little bit. It's always there a little bit. So then another version of that is like, oh, I have done something so bad that I have created my own false reality right now to live in. And at some point I'm gonna blink or wake up and I'm gonna be in prison, or I'm gonna be in a psych ward, or I'm gonna be, you know, something.

Um, yeah, I, I have a strange murder thing. It's very unsettling. I don't really think I've committed murder, but I sometimes wonder, I mean, if it's in this world, maybe in a past life, and it's just psychically like on me, but, um, are you just goes, just want to No, no. I mean, I don't, [00:41:00] um, I, I, yeah. I, I don't wanna commit murder.

I hate killing things. I remember when I was a little kid, uh, like. Grade school, five, six sitting on front steps with my older cousin, and she showed me one of those bugs that when you touch it, it curl up in a ball. Mm-hmm. What do you call that? Uh uh I forget. Okay. I know there's, people call it different things.

Yeah. We call that roly-poly, but yeah. I forget what we call it. Okay. But I killed, I stepped, I like destroyed it. Mm-hmm. I killed it. Mm-hmm. And then she was like, you just killed it. Why'd you do that? And she, I think it was the first time I understood what death was. Mm-hmm. And so, uh, that, that stayed with me.

What am I talking about? How old were you? Um, little four or five. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, my worst New Year's Eve ever to get back on track? No, no. Let's talk about you killing things. No, no murder, secret. Murder. Um. Bro, last year was my worst. And you were Alright. Talk about it. I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna let you lead.

I, I wanna say with a caveat, it maybe wasn't the worst ever, but it's the one that comes to mind 'cause it's so fresh. Yeah. [00:42:00] Um, I think there was one a couple years ago, uh, that I spent alone and so that was probably the worst ever. And so maybe I just don't want to talk about that one, but that was like.

10, 12 years ago, and I don't wanna talk about that one, but I was just alone and sad. Great. Um, but last year we had a house party, so I was not allowed, not alone, a house full of people. Um, and I regretted it the second it started. It was the weirdest mismatch of people. Um, and, uh, we had made the mistake, I had made the mistake of telling people they could bring plus ones as people asked.

And I was like, the more the merrier. And so it ended up, there were some real, real wild cards, like with the capital W and a capital C. Yeah. And they made the party so fucking weird. And then I like have a host. I'm, I think I'm a good host. Yeah. I like hosting, but I went into host overdrive trying to make sure, yeah.

The weirdos were having a good time and like, uh, yeah, you are a very good host, but you get anxious about it [00:43:00] because you wanna be a good host and that Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was like, it had all the parts of a good party, but I, yeah. And we were like, we were a part of that. Like we kind of encouraged that 'cause we wanted to hang out with you guys.

Yeah. But we weren't sure what party we would agree on. Like going out, it was gonna be expensive. Like let's just fucking do it at the house. Like that's, it's a great apartment. You forgot it. You know, it's like in a good spot for this. And you guys are good hosts. It was like you had all the parts of a good party, but there were some like key things that you kind of realized like, oh, when you start like analyzing a party, like.

Uh, yeah, it was like a real hodgepodge, which is cool. You feel like bring everyone together. These people, these are all people that I've seen out at parties with you, you know, which is like, cool. But then when there's actually nowhere else to go and you end up being like, oh, like, yeah, it's gonna be the house pod.

The hodgepodge has to be vetted and we haven't vetted everybody. And so then it was just like, what, what is happening? Right. But it was, it was still a fun party, but I get that. I get that. It was like, and it, it, there were, it, um, it like. I think it like went, it was everyone wanted to go late. I was excited for it to go late, [00:44:00] but then like it kind of like.

Kept going and it was like, I was like, well, then it was like there were people that were designated sleeping over to begin with. Yeah. And the people who were not sleeping over, it was like way time for them to go. Yeah. And these were people that were going to another event. Yeah. And so it was just like, so it felt like go to the other event.

Yeah. It felt like we were safe. It felt like it was gonna be safe. Like because Sums up. Yeah. We're all, people have pillows and pajamas on Yeah. Pick up the fucking cues. Yeah. It really, I think that it would've, it was a, it was a weird hodgepodge. It had some weirdness, but I think it would've been. Fine. I it would've been.

Uh, but yeah, it, it, there, it was hard to, some people had a hard time picking up on the cues. I a to get that next party think it was a sign that people were having a fun time. Yeah. Ironically. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I just, uh, I'll never do that again.

I don't even know if we're gonna host a party again. We both need a break. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah. That's fair. What host a party again ever? You mean what A big one. Like that for a while. Yeah, that's fair. Um, but you guys [00:45:00] are good at it, so if you, if like there's a, I feel like if you find the right, the right thing, yeah, yeah.

Sure. You are, you're good at it. You're good. Host New Year's resolutions. Let's bang them out. Yeah. Did you make some for next year? A little bit, yeah. Although I will, and this is not a, this is, this is not a, a, um, a, a pass on it. Um, 'cause sometimes I definitely like. Lean into passing on it too often, and I pull some bullshit about like, you know what, I'm gonna love who I am this year and I'm gonna like, you know, like not, I'm gonna not, uh, push myself to be different than who I am or some bullshit about, like, you know, but really it's just like I'm not setting goals, but I do.

Um. You know, shout out to the Calm app and Tamara Levitt, um, uh, she makes a point to call out, like intentions and not resolutions. And so I'm thinking about it that way. 'cause if you don't make it to an intention, that's okay. You just, you're trying to do a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I'm thinking about it as intentions, but I have some intentions about, uh, pretty general, but like, uh, uh, spending more time with people in real life, in, in person.

Um, and I kind of want to. With that, like maybe even like create some [00:46:00] new groups, like try to find some, like intentional groups if it's like a monthly meeting or like a, I don't know exactly what it means, but like something where it's like, you know, uh, a I wanna see you more in person, uh, b like other people too.

Like I want to see more people in person. 26 is gonna be a year for, for people. And, um, I wanna do more parts of my life. Where with the kids, like I want to exercise more with the kids around. I want to be out in the world more with the kids around. 'cause like I wanna make sure that they see me as a whole person.

Um, and that they experience new, new things and, you know, other, even if, even the little parts of life, see that, see that happening. Love it. Um, so that's kind of my intention. So what about you? Love it. Love it. Uh, I wanna read more for fun. I spent an entire year last year. I barely read anything for fun.

Yeah. Um, as you know, I lost my job in March and so I was spending a lot of time reading, um, books about. Job hunting and, um, getting my resume better and all that kind of stuff. And I just kind of like prioritized that [00:47:00] for so long. And, uh, I just completely got out of, I, I got behind on magazines, so I'm just, I just wanna commit more to reading and less looking at my phone.

So along with that, yeah. Um, I don't know who I'm stealing this from. It's somewhere I saw on Instagram, but there is, I want to, um, on Mondays I'm going to, um, I have, 'cause it's Monday. Turn the color off on my phone. So my phone is black and white. Okay. Until Friday. And Friday. I'll put it back in color for the weekend.

And there's all these studies that you look at your phone less when it's black and white. 'cause it, there's, you take less joy out of it. Scrolling through Instagram is like literally not as fun. Okay. So I'm gonna try that. It's an intention. We'll see how it goes. Yeah, you can, you can hold my feet to the fire.

Uh, less sugar. Sugar is terrible. So Sure. Less sugar. Um. And in ter there's always like a health one, an exercise one. But I heard someone say this too, I wish I remembered so I could credit properly, but I want to make the intention that I wanna move more this year than I did last year. Yeah. Yeah. So [00:48:00] it's not even being crazy over the top of like some crazy workout schedule.

I just wanna move more than I did in 2025. Yeah. So I love that I, and part of that, like I've been doing. And not regularly, but like a lot of the, like the fascia warmup that you had. I've been watching that guy a lot more. Yes. He loved that one. Yeah. Um, yeah, that guy, um, he's got a bunch of good stuff. It's wacky stuff sometimes, but like, it's, it's, yeah.

It's just moving your body more like, dude, that I've been so bad since like Thanksgiving with working out, so it's been like almost eight weeks. Yeah. And that 18 minute warmup, 15 minute warmup that I do every morning that fascia warmup. Mm-hmm. Um, like I still feel confident. I still felt confident in Chicago taking my shirt off.

Nice. Um, I still had. People in Chicago calling me Muscle Daddy, which like, I'm not a muscle daddy bro, but I love that. People think that and I'm like, I'm doing this 15 minute, throwing my arms around thing every morning. That's all I'm doing. But it, it's nice man. It's maintaining at least. Yeah. Nice.

Alright. You know what it's time for. I do. Who would you fight? Who would you fight? Pow. Pow. Nice. Got got some [00:49:00] snaps in there. Yeah. Uh, you wanna go first? Sure. I'll go first. All right. I wanna fight Dana White, uh, the head of the UFC. Who, it's not all his fault, but it's enough His fault. I wanna fight him. I wanna fight him at the fucking White House on July 4th or whatever it is.

They just, they just like scheduled UFC fights on the fucking lawn of disgusting of the White House. Disgusting. It's so gross. So gross. It's so fucking gross. It's the, it's like it so predictably American in the most insulting way. Yeah. I hate it so much. It's so fucking gross. Yeah. It's just ominous. Yeah.

Um. I am gonna be so angry about that when that happens. It's the 250th anniversary of our country. Yeah. And it's gonna be really hard to celebrate with any sort of pride. Oh, it's so gross. So embarrassing. Yeah. I wanna, I don't know why this like got in my CR recently. Yeah. Uh, I wanna fight. Grown, specifically grown adult men who get butt hurt about Greta Thunberg.

Fuck. Yeah. Um, I feel like, especially if you're a grown adult man who is raising daughters. Yeah. And Greta Thunberg makes you angry. You have a [00:50:00] serious problem and you probably should not be allowed to raise your daughters. Yeah. They should be taken from you. I don't even think that it's that active. I mean, yes, yes, all of that is true, but I think very few of those of men like that are having active thoughts.

They're just followers of fucking Andrew Tate or whatever toxic bullshit they've gotten stuck in. Like they're not even, they're not even, they don't even have their own agency to make such shitty decisions. They're just. Following some nonsense that some Yeah. She's a, she's a miracle of a human being.

Yeah. She has so much courage. Uh, she is, she uses her voice in a way that the rest of us only wish we could once in our lives. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, she's just, she's, she's gonna be someone that they talk about a hundred years from now, and none of you men who get but hurt about her are gonna be on that list of people that get talked about a hundred years.

Speaking of. So one of my favorite things ever was Andrew Tate. You know, you know, he's one of the, he's just a toxic bull. He's like a, like a mildly successful kickboxer and apparently a wildly successful human trafficker. Um, but he is like one of these alpha dudes [00:51:00] who's made a lot of money with his cars and his cigars and his bullshit and his, like, his like pro rape culture or whatever.

Um, but he's the one who like tweeted at her some bullshit about the car and like he went off the handle. So he lost his mind with her retweet that he ended up in a fucking Romanian jail. Right? Yeah. Um, well he just got his. Ass kicked. You saw that, right? Yeah. Like we're, we're very late to the take here.

Yeah. But this feels perfect right now 'cause he got his ass kicked. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Which was really fun. Yeah. Wait, Andrew, Andrew Tate, he got his ass kicked by who? Uh, well, some guy who was apparently like the boxing world was like, I don't know his name. I didn't know him, but they're like, this guy's a garbage boxer.

He's actually a very bad boxer, but he just beat the shit outta Andrew Tate. So we love it. We're happy for this. Like Andrew Tate and Jake Paul both just got their asses kicked. Jake Paul. Okay. I was confusing him with Jake Paul. Uh, okay. Yeah. They both, they both, you know, to some degree they're both shitty toxic dudes.

Andrew Tate is a deeply bad person. Yeah. Jake Paul, I think is more of like a, to me, he's like, kind of like UFC on the White House lawn. Like it's, he's pretty like an American, like he is of a brand. He is [00:52:00] the, yeah. Prototype of a brand of American. Yeah. And he got his jaw broken. Um, because it was like the first time a burning man.

We were at the same party. Oh yeah? Yeah. Nice. How a little dance floor, the size of my bedroom. Yeah. How was that? It was, um, like, what are you doing here? Um, but yeah, I agree with you there. They're, yeah. Yeah. Ter. Men. Men, men suck. It was Men are rats. Men are fleas on rats. Men are amebas. On fleas. On rats. Do you know what that is?

No. What is that? Well, it's grease. Oh, Frenchy. Frenchy says to Sandy, that's not the men are rats. That's not the play. That's not the play. That's the movie. I don't know if it's in the play, but it's in movie. I don't think it's in the play because. You know, you know it was Danny Zuko in the play, right? Oh yeah.

Sorry. Excuse, excuse me. Uh, alright. Alright. Time, time to go, uh, on that note. I'll read this out. Go for it. All right. Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to like and subscribe to Bro homo with Jonathan and Tom on all podcast platforms and YouTube [00:53:00] graphics and music by Matt Ladner and a resolute.

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