Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson - Happy New Year: "I'm Excited for the Rest of my Life"

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

Happy New Year! On this episode, Kate and Oliver discuss their New Year's Eve plans, share their resolutions and what they're looking forward to this decade - personally and professionally, and they examine the history of celebrating the new year in January, which Kate believes has to do with crop growth...but Oliver's not sold.Executive Producers: Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Sim SarnaProduced by Allison BresnickEditor: Josh WindischMusic by Mark HudsonThis show is brought to you by Cloud10 and powered by Simplecast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Kate Hudson. And my name is Oliver Hudson. We wanted to do something that highlighted our relationship. And what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling rivalry. No, no. Sibling rivalry.

Don't do that with your mouth. Sibling, revelry. That's good. May old acquaintance be forgot. May you, I don't know the words. I knew the things I know, I don't, I don't. you know when you really sing that song it's kind of depressing do you know what reminds me of mom and everyone says i love you no overboard oh remember when she's looking up and she has a dream

sequence and she's like and spits out the thing oh why am i not remembering that scene what when she's having sort of the dream sequence and it's new year's eve and she's joan again she's just like looking up and the confetti's falling and it hits her in the mouth and the eyelashes that makes me think oh maybe not oh when harry met sally that's what it makes me think of oh the best great moving but when you really hear that song what the hell is that song anyway may all the acquaintance be forgot and then what i don't know Oh, it is, should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind, should old acquaintance be forgot, an old lang syne? Hold on, pause.

What's langzine? Spell it. We'll figure that on a second. For old langsine, my Joe, for old langsine, we'll take a cup of kindness yet for old langsine. It's a Scottish language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788. Oh, Robert Burns. He's a great guy. It's also sung at funerals.

Yes, I'm saying. It's sad. Graduations, yeah. Oh, it's the end, or farewell or ending to other occasions. So I'm going to read this at, I might sing this at your funeral if you die before me. It probably won't happen. You're probably going to die before me. This is dark.

Let's not talk about this. It's the new year. We're supposed to be talking about really happy things. Hold on, ready? Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mine? Should old acquaintance be forgot and old an old insane? Historians call it the song that nobody knows. and yet we all try to sing it

That's true That's funny It is true isn't it But there is a sort of It's nostalgic isn't it Yeah I know I guess there is a bit of that I mean

Although this year It's different for me Because I was in Nashville For my French wedding How was it? Great Was it great Oh it was amazing

Fun My main beautiful wedding Yeah All our friends were there So happy we did it so great did you party oh yeah everybody had a great time how was your room

it was awesome brand new hotel that's right mark rose brand new hotel really cool I didn't go no you didn't go I wasn't invited no you weren't invited we had Aaron and Sarah on and you know I think I got invited

afterwards you did she felt bad she did she did and that's okay though because we're We were in Colorado With the kids We had a quiet Or New Year So let's talk about

New Year's for a second We didn't really do This is a short Little episode But I will say something We always spend New Year's together And this is the first time That we didn't

No But we'll be spent New Year's Day together Here we are I know But I'm saying like the actual Eve Well we've spent some New Year's Not together In our lives

Yeah But for the most part we're usually together. Yeah. One of my favorite New Year's actually was like the quietest New Year. And nobody of the family was, I was in L.A. And I was just totally not wanting to do anything. And I just decided like, I'm not going to do anything.

I'm just going to stay home. And there was like six people that came over. And it was such a good night. Yeah. But we spent some New Year's apart. But not, I mean, this is the first time in a while. Yeah. And I know.

What are your resolutions? You know, my resolution. this year, I wouldn't say it's a resolution, but my focus, my intentions going into this year is creative. So I'm going to make an album, whether or not it ever sees the light of day. I have already made a point that I'm going to take a month and a half off of my schedule and I'm going to make a record. And I've got that time set up for me. And I'm just, I just got to make sure that vibes with my schedule because I'm going to be, I'm going to be on the record. I'm going to, I got to think something.

Oh, yeah. Well, you can come visit because we're going to get a, we're going to get a, we're going to need to do some podcast episodes anyway. I'm sure while I'm doing that. So you have to come for a week. That's great, but I do want a track. Oh, you want to track. Yeah. So that's one of my big focuses.

My other one is movies. So you and I have a movie we're producing that hopefully will be greenlit. soon and that will take us into hopefully this year and then also I have another movie that I'm going to be doing this year by the way if we do if this movie that we're producing and that you're starring in does actually happen we could do podcast overseas oh yeah we'll go to And hit up, you know, everyone. Over there. Over there.

Spain and France. Amsterdam. That would be great. You know, it's so funny. And I think people could probably relate to this. If I went back and read all of my resolutions from like 20 years ago, they'd all probably be the same. I know.

You know what I mean? Like everyone sort of has the same resolutions. Or I, sorry, I can't speak for everyone. I have, you know, the same resolutions, which I guess, says that I don't accomplish any of them you know or I'm always striving to be... Well it's funny that you're saying that because

when you said that I was like yeah I know and then I was like no actually my resolutions change every year. Oh my god mine are always the same really? They're always the fucking same yeah what is it this year? Oh it's just and every year. Well you know it's I don't want to get into it

I feel like I'm always berating myself on this fucking podcast you know but it's just focus and follow through and you know just belief and all of those things they're they're they're the same themes you know what I mean but this year and I've thought about this actually um already I my resolution is to be more philanthropic not with my pocketbook necessarily but with my time nice that's a great one it is because it makes me happy and there was a time when i was going to the children's hospital all that every thursday and um i just loved it well a friend of ours sent me a video of you when you volunteered the other

day i just was yeah i was just there and i had this sense of joy for you and watching you because you could see how happy you were being there. Yes. And I really, I love that. I love it so much. And to get outside of yourself and to give your time back. It's, you know, it's easy to sort of write a check or to donate or to, you know, text the number to the Red Cross, which is all great. But for me, I need to sort of invest my time into something, you know, because we're so fucking lucky.

you know we're just so lucky i speak for myself i'm so lucky i'm lucky my children are healthy i'm lucky i have an amazing family and uh you know i think i just feel like i need to sort of pay it forward a little bit with my time i love that yeah that's so great and it probably will be at the children's hospital but i want to do other things i've got some ideas there's two things that i look at with philanthropy you know the pocketbook is very important because without funding these lot of these organizations just do not exist. So when you can donate your money, it does really go a long way. Then there's the volunteering is not only necessary for the community or for the organizations, but also an amazing way for anyone to stay in connection to the things that people

are doing to better their communities or to better medical science and all of those things. And then there's the sort of self-serving aspect of it, which is it does, and it's not necessarily negative thing, but it does make you feel good when you give back. New Year's is an interesting time, only because it's truly just an arbitrary day. You know what I mean? I mean, it really is. It's a fucking Wednesday. Or whatever day it is.

In Judaism, I mean, our New Year is not the first of January, right. Right. Well, it's not really an arbitrary day. It is a cycle. Well, but we have created time. We have created years. Right, but it is. It is an invention of man.

It is based on a more scientific cycle. So it is sort of the- We've attributed symbols, which are numbers, to that cycle. My point, though, is that we, it's a special day because we- Yeah, but is your point a valid point? It's a total valid point. It's a total valid point. it's an arbitrary day, yet we use it as a jump-off point to better ourselves.

And it's nice that we can actually have that sort of psychological platform anyway to sort of leap off of. But I actually think there is more to it than just it being an arbitrary launching pad for ourselves. I actually think it has to do with crops. It has to do with the cycle of the sun and the moon. Crops. Yeah. It has to do with crop growth. There's something about the calendar and New Year's.

I know you might want to cut that, but we're not. No, we're not going to cut it. I'm happy. It's true. Crops harvesting. It's about. The new year? Yes, it's about.

Alison, will you look up? There's the harvest. Google New Year's and crop growth. And there's something about the change of the calendar year. New Year's Day is a great time to grow corn. Marked the feast of the naming and circumcision of Jesus. Wait a minute.

Jesus was circumcised? Apparently on New Year's. Wow. Which is still observed as such in the Angelican Church and the Lutheran Church. With a lambhorn, right? I don't know. Well, I mean, isn't that what, you know, I, the like traditional circumcision.

Right. Yeah, the traditional circumcision was, you know. I don't know. In present day, with most countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their de facto count New Year's Day is among the most celebrated public holidays in the world often observe of fireworks. Got it. So really, it's the feast.

New Year's is called the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus. So we're celebrating Jesus' circumcision. I mean, basically. Definitely not crops. But the original New Year's was in March at the beginning of the cycle. of the moon. Okay. And March and spring, I believe, is when you plant your seeds.

I'm serious. People can comment, and maybe there's some historians who are listening to this. I could be totally wrong, but that's what I think it is. Okay. Let's talk about what your hopes and dreams are for sibling revelry 2020. That's a good question. They've changed. you know they've changed we've talked about this before a little bit another podcast but when we

started this i had a certain idea of what i thought this would be and it's reached all of those expectations but then it's even transcended those expectations because i feel like and i don't want to sound you know like we're bigger than we are but i feel like we are relating to siblings and touching siblings in a way that I didn't think that we would just through some of the comments and some of the reviews and things that I've read we're really sort of having an impact on certain people and we've read about other siblings sort of getting together and calling each other and connecting again after sort of listening to what we're doing yeah it's just perspective gaining I think so I want to

to continue, I want to continue to do that. I want to continue to, in the back of our minds, the undercurrent of every episode we do is thinking about the people who might listen to this and not only laugh, but also might be sort of affected by it in a way that might sort of lead them to call a sibling or to sort of reconnect with someone who they haven't. And to be reunited And it feels so good Yeah We're united We should do a whole episode where we just sing

So my hope is for us and this is that we continue to have fun and a good time That we find a particular kind of groove in it So that we can be groovy and that we start kind of expanding and doing a little travel with it and maybe you know doing some fun things i think that we're you're fun to go remote take the show on the road yeah yeah and sibling tattoos dr woo definitely have to do oh you want dr woo dr woo are you out there to hear us sibling revelry tattoos or just no no no no like we need to sibling tattoos, you know what I mean, like something that we can get together.

I definitely would get a tattoo. Yeah, what are some, how about, how about, how about, how about, how about, how about some of the guests that you are hoping to get in the new year? In the new year? Well, I think the Manning brothers, I'll be so excited if we do that, because I've, you know me, I've always been a Peyton fan. And that dynamic between Eli and Peyton and even Venus. and Serena. Amazing. Really would love to talk with them. The ultimate, ultimate, ultimate get, which will never, ever happen.

Why don't see that? Well, it's the princes. They're not talking right now. But like Prince William and Prince Harry. I mean, imagine... How do you know they're not talking? That's all just... Because everything you read in the tabloids is real.

But that would be the ultimate. Imagine having those boys on. I think that would be cool I'd be so nervous You would I don't know I wouldn't I'd want to be myself

But I'm a little brash You know I don't know I'd be scared I know but they're not like that They're cool I mean I say that like I know them But I but I But I know

It would be one of those great Conversations that I think would Be insightful for people And we would never push them I think that's one of the things that is so nice about what we're doing and that people know we want to protect our family

we want to protect the people that we talk with. There's a lot of things that sometimes we'll share with people, people will come on and we'll have moments that I know I'm going to cut out because I want to protect that. You know, it's nice that we still say it. You know what I mean? We still talk

and talk as if we're just talking in a room, just you and I, knowing full well that this conversation will be cut but it's still nice to have that energy to carry you into whatever it is that you're hearing i think that protecting people's privacy is super important but that doesn't mean that you can't be open and share huge parts of your life that could be impactful for other people so sometimes when you get in a room and we're all loosey-goosey and you know we're going to share things that we wouldn't necessarily want out there but that the essence of what we're trying to

put out, we will never compromise. That will always be put forward. And I think that's why when I sit and I edit, we edit through these, the episodes, because I love the idea of live. Oh, that's the other thing. One of my hopes would be to go on the road. Oh, yeah. So I'd love for you and I to do like a month and do a couple cities. That would be so fun. And do like theaters and meet people and be in person and and how about even just create some sort of a stage show so it's us it's oh jesus oh we got to do something now you the stage show well it's small but i'm saying it's semi variety oh semi to sing maybe okay but i'm saying it's just you and i doing this but you need some out you need some other something going on well i would think that we would take local people so let's say we go to austin or

something pull them from the audience too siblings who come to see us oh great i love that That's a good idea, yeah. Do you think Harry or... We'll go do Royal Albert Hall. We have a very special pair of siblings tonight. Do you think there's any chance either one of them have listened to our podcast? No, absolutely not. Not yet, no.

But they list, I mean, they might just listen to podcasts. Maybe. And if they have Apple, it's like, oh, they're scrolling and they're like, oh, look, sibling revelry. We stayed in their house once. I didn't. No, they stayed in our house. Oh, yeah, no, they stayed in our house. Yeah.

In Colorado. Yeah. So maybe, maybe, but I doubt it. I know. I get, I think, I'm starting to get this feeling that 2020 now, your real, your real serious intention is to get Harry and William. Oh, yeah. It would just be, it would be amazing. Well, here's a thing.

I feel like there's an amazing let me say this again Because I say here's the thing all the time So that's another one of my New Year's resolution I always say here's the thing So I don't want to do that anymore But this is staying in because Okay Here's the thing

2020 is going to be a year Of travel Fun New experiences New adventures tons of creativity and financial stability yes if that's your goal absolutely it is for me and i think that we have entered a new decade where we can really make intentions that can you know we can give ourselves at least 10 years to achieve them so this is good you've got time time's on your hands

This is good. It's the beginning of a decade. It's fucking 2020. That's true. I never thought about that. It's the beginning of a decade. Wow. No, this is going to be good.

I'm super excited. I'm excited for the rest of my life. On that note, we hope you all had an amazing New Year's that you're not nursing too bad of a hangover. Yes. Or I hope you are. means you had a really good time. And that you stay healthy and happy and that you live your dream. We hope all your dreams come true.

Oh, my God. I do. And that you'll living on the edge. Let it on the edge. All right. Peace out. Have a good 2020. 20-2020.

Sibling Revelry is executive produced by Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Sim Sarna. Supervising producer is Alison Bresnick. Editor is Josh Windish. Music by Mark Hudson, aka Uncle Mark. I'm Jorge Ramos. I'm Jorge Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast. us about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one.

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