The Bobby Bones Show - FEELING THINGS: What Items in Your House Do You Need to Fire? A Performance Review for Your Stuff

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

Amy and Kat are feeling motivated and introduce a simple but powerful way to declutter: give your stuff a performance review. Inspired by a tip from a Harvard professor, they talk about how we “hire” items to do a job and how freeing it can be to fire the things that no longer serve you. They also break down the red flags that your house might have too much stuff, from constantly organizing without results to feeling anxious in your own space. Plus, a listener's voicemail proves that if we don’t clean out our homes as we age, we can end up with so much stuff that we won’t even recognize when our own things are being wrapped up and gifted back to us. Lol.  P.S. Listen to Beth’s Dead if you haven’t already done so! Get some Feeling Things merch by clicking HERE! (FeelingThingsPodcast.com) Sign up for the Feeling Things newsletter HERE! Watch us on Youtube HERE! Call and leave a voicemail: 877-207-2077 Email: [e-mail] HOSTS: Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy Kat Van Buren // threecordstherapy.com // @KatVanburenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ladies and fuck. Where it tells us to the chill stuff and the in between. Sometimes the best thing you can do is just out and feel things. This is feeling. Things with Amy and Kat. Happy Tuesday. Welcome to Feeling Things. This is our final episode of the year.

I'm Amy. I'm Kat. Isn't that crazy? That just made me a little like sentimental. It's our final one. I mean. Goodbye 2025. It's not like we're not going anywhere.

No breaks here. And it's not like it's been a full year of us doing the podcast. But I don't know. When you said that, I was like, huh. Last one of 2025. And how are we here? Well, the calendar. time time it just is crazy i know it is do you have a particular feeling of the day like what if we had to

pick a feeling of the year oh grateful it's over wait is that really how you feel i mean i feel like 25 2025 was just okay it's not my worst year no it's not i've had worse yeah but i know for a lot of people it's been difficult so it just felt weird i feel like 2025 was just weird i was going to say blah Like, me. But there's been, it's hard to say that because there's been so many good things. Exactly. There's been good. There's been bad.

It's definitely. Mid. Not my word. Yeah. Like the kids say, this year's been mid. Mid. But I have gratitude for so much. Don't get me wrong.

Look, we, we, we, we were born this year. Feeling things. Yes. I was trying to figure out how to say that, but like that's a good thing for us that came from 2025. This is the best decision we ever made. And our whole lives. Ever. Ever. When it comes to this podcast. I would do this year again. I just wouldn't, if I had a choice of like five different years, I probably wouldn't choose it. Yeah. Like I wouldn't mind living it again, but I wouldn't be like, yes, I get to do 2025 again. Yeah. Like 2025. Okay. Yeah. Maybe. I'm not doing 2021 or 222 again.

Ever, ever. Ever. Never, ever. Never. Undo them. Yeah. Undo. Undue, undo. Well, no, really. We'll just do feeling of the day because feeling of the year was just a quick thing that we randomly did. Maybe reflect on your year and see what you're feeling for the year is. And then think about your feeling of the day. Are you asking me that? I'm telling our listeners. I'm saying like that's something to reflect on. It just came out of my mouth when we started recording. But I didn't plan on us talking about a feeling of the year. But if you had to put a feeling attached to your year, what would it be? I have an idea. What? I'm going to attempt to do this, but don't hold me to it because I can't promise anything. I think it'd be really cool to have a chart. Follow me. Have a chart of feelings. And I keep track of both of our feelings of every week. And at the end of the year next year, I can like say like, we felt annoyed 17 times. We felt excited 40 times. We felt. Okay. So you can be like, according to my data. this is what our year was. I love it.

Okay. I think that'd be cool. I'll hold you to it. Okay. Maybe we keep the chart in the room. That's a great. And put like a tally mark under, you know. Let's do it.

Okay. Okay. So what's your feeling of the day? I'm trying not to take your feeling because I feel like I wouldn't have chosen that one, but I saw it. So now it feels like it's my feeling. So if I was going to be honest, I feel, please be honest. I'm a big liar. I feel, I want to say fine, but that's not a feeling.

I'm trying to think I had an interesting therapy session yesterday where I was like not really allowing myself to feel what I really was feeling. So I'm trying to think what that is. I feel unfeelingable. What? What would the feeling be, you be the therapist now. What would the feeling be that where I like, I'm feeling muted. No. You did.

I have feelings. Like, I can feel excited and have, but my true feeling is, I think, sad and angry and scared. Melancholy? Melancholy? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Melancholy fits like meh. What's up with that?

More to be determined during. It's like been Christmas and New Year's and you have an upcoming trip to New York. It's both. I do have all that excitement and happiness and joy. But I also have. all this other stuff that I, because I live in the happiness and excitement and joy. Like that I will choose that. So I'm trying to access the darker side of me that isn't just the annoyed because I think I'm really easy to go to being.

Anoyed. You're easy to get to. You express your annoyance easily. But that's not usually my feeling. You can identify. Oh, I can be so annoyed and irritated by people. But that's not my real root feeling. So I'm trying to like access. that but it's hard right now so i was trying to think of what that would be i'm feeling blocked but that's not a feeling so i'm feeling excited and challenged well it's interesting that this is where your feelings really are ish and i put down because you said you saw mine and the dog because we have our google dog and i was a good feeling i'll choose that i put motivated maybe you're motivated to figure out your darker feelings okay so i'm not going to lie

I put that in the dock yesterday. Oh, have things changed? I don't know. I don't know what was I feeling motivated about. Does it have to do with the content of the episode? I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, maybe because I was building the episode and I am feeling motivated to get my house together

because I've been home. Yeah, like I've been, what's the word I'm looking for? deliberately chose to stay home for myself for lots of reasons, but one of them was to kind of, with that time, have things a little bit more organized in my home. Do you feel like you're still putting your house together a year and a half after moving into it? Yes.

Specifically, we need a work day in our podcast room because this room, I know that it's on me. Yeah. But I would really like a body double partner for it. So I am enlisting you because we share this space. Like I will tackle this room, but I need a body double. Wait, I can come do that. I know.

We just need to schedule it. Okay. I know I just haven't asked you. And I know, but with our ADHD, it would just be really good for us to each other to like if we're both doing it together at the same time. That's called body doubling, right? Yeah. There's no video for this right now, but people probably see this, the videos that we post.

And they're like, oh, it looks so nice in there. But if we could only flip the camera. Yeah. Okay. Just to like paint a picture. I have my mom's, oh, should I move that? No, I can't move that into my dining room. I have my mom's dining hutch, just chilling. My dad's bucks. Two. Well, one is, yeah, one my grandpa, like, actually shot in like 1930 something. Some screen cat brought over a long time ago when we were going to do like outfit pictures. Kat and I had a plan. When we first started the podcast, we're like, yeah. And then we'll take a picture of the outfits we're wearing every episode and be like, this is what we're wearing.

And then I was like, wait, I just wear sweatpants at most of the time. Right. And then that quickly died. So that can go with like the sheet. It's like a backdrop. That's what it is. I have like plastic bins of storage full of like pictures and photo frames that I need to take up to my attic.

We've got extra seating and stools and blankets and framed work memorabilia for me. Like, do you see me and Thomas Red over there? Yes. I see it every week. And then extra panels. Yeah, sound panels. Yeah, we have some work to do. But this is good. This is good. This leads right into what items in your house do you need to fire. Because we tease that that's what we were going to talk about this episode. And I think as people go into the new year and they want to declutter and hold themselves accountable. to like a stress-free home. Yeah. I mean, could you imagine what if this clutter is hindering our performance?

Can I ask you a question? Yeah. What are you going to do with those animals? My bucks? Yeah. I can't put them in my attic, I guess. I'm not getting rid of them. Okay.

That's why I was my question was like, we all have those items that they mean something, but you also... They were my dads. And what if one day I have a cabin? I'd hang in. I was thinking like, what if Stevenson wants to hang in his room one day? Oh, sure.

But like, you're not hanging those anywhere in your house. No, I used to have them hung in my house. And I had a spot for them and they looked legit. Okay. Like when this, when I had my other house, I had the K-Bueno room and it looked legit in there. It fit the vibe. Where'd you put that K-Bueyno sign? It's in my dining room.

But it doesn't really match in there. I don't know what I'm going to do. Okay. I just had it wondered of like, what do you do with that kind of stuff when like you can't, maybe that's part of what we're going to talk about. Well, yeah, we're doing a performance review of your house. Okay. So if you've had a hard time getting rid of things, well, what items in your house do you need

to fire? Because when we buy things like stuff for our house or maybe even clothes, makeups, things for your car, et cetera, we are hiring that item or product to do a job. Right? Yeah. We're like, hey, I'm buying you. You have a job to do. Get to work.

every once in a while it's smart to do a performance review of all of our things. An example of that might be is this item doing what I hired it to do? If not, you fire it,

AKA, get rid of it. But what if it's not doing what I hired it to do because I'm not enlisting it? Okay, well then you don't need it. Like, do you need it? You've had it all year. Do you need it?

I feel like you're mad at me. No, sorry. Okay, so this is a tip from a Harvard professor and I'll read exactly what was A Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, suggested we hire products for jobs. Things to fire are items that aren't working, like clothes that don't fit or clothes that don't make you feel good, old gadgets or anything causing clutter or stress instead of solving a problem.

Think clothes you never wear, unused gym equipment, duplicate kitchen tools, or decor that doesn't inspire. Essentially, any item failing at its job of adding value to your life. freeing up space, money, and mental energy according to decluttering principles. So that is what you need to do. You need to go around, have a conversation with each product. I had to do this with some makeup the other day. I already knew that we were going to talk about this.

So I had it in my mind. And I opened up a cabinet and there's this Charlotte Tilbury, something or another that I bought four years ago. Okay? I've worn it like once in four years. And so I was like, are you doing like, No, and yes, that's on me. I'm not using it. But I just don't think I want to use this particular foundation or whatever it was. I don't really wear foundation. So I chunked it. Plus it's four years old.

So you what it? I chunked it. Okay. Interesting that you said, fired. I would have said chucked. Chucked it. I chucked it. Oh, I chunked it. But I have a friend that said she's from Alabama. I wonder if it's like a southern thing. Chunk it. Throw it out. Interesting. See, I have a hard time with that because I would have been like, I spent a lot of money on this foundation and what if I need it one day. So I'm probably going to be bad at this. But I like it. Like I have a Garmin watch from like 10 years ago that no longer the GPS doesn't work, but I still have it in a bag. Because why?

Because what if I take it to a shop and get it fixed one day? You're not. You could donate it. It doesn't work. Okay. Okay. Donate it for. Okay.

It doesn't work. You just need to chunk it. I need to chunk it. That Garman watch from 10 years ago is fired. I need to fire it because it's not working. Yeah. It's literally not working. It's literally not doing what you hired it to do.

Okay. Like when you hired that watch, it had a purpose. And now it is dead. Like how did I move it to my new house? Why did I do that? See, and that's the thing. We end up doing that. And then it just ends up accumulating over time.

And then that's when we have too much stuff, which leads me to the red flags. Okay. that your house has too much stuff. Okay. These flags, I'm going to read through them. Basically, they're just going to highlight if you have too many things, okay? Like in this room.

Like, I'm storing some stuff in those plastic bins so that it's all organized and I can find it easily. But I guarantee you there's things in those bins that just need to be fired. You're storing them so you can get to them easily, but will you ever need to get to them? Correct. Red flags. Here we go. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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My kitchen counters are always, they always have stuff piling on them. Like I'll move, I'll clean it and then again, I'll clean it before I came here. When I get home, I bet there's stuff on the kitchen counter. Like envelopes. So many envelopes. So maybe you need like a little basket. It's clutter still. But the basket you can put in the cabinet.

Or do you have a drawer? Do you have a junk drawer? Yeah, and it's so crammed full of stuff. Even though you just moved it. You just moved in. I had a junk drawer in my old house and I put everything in that junk drawer in a bag and I transfer it to a new jump drawer. And then dumped it in there. Okay.

You feel anxious at home. I don't really have that. Although back to this room, we are just spending a lot of time in here and we're working. Like, what if we get this room all spruced up and we get it cleared out and then suddenly we're magically better? Which would be crazy because I was about to say I don't feel anxious in here, but I bet if it was. Probably because it's my house. Okay. I was going to say, I bet that I would feel better if it was really clear.

So it'd be a fun experiment. We should do it and not tell listeners and see if they can tell which episode we've cleaned the room. I think my real feelings came out because it sort of contradicts myself because I don't feel anxious in my home at all. But this is like its own room. I feel like this is our podcast room. Like, it's not a part of my home I hang out in unless we're working. That's true. You know, other parts of my house, I'm in all the time.

And I don't feel anxious in them. But right now, especially because we're focused on it, I am feeling a little. I feel like the walls are caving in on us now. You're always thinking about more storage. Yeah. And then you keep items for a, quote, someday that never comes. 100%. there's nothing worse

and I already want to redact that because there are things worse but it is an annoying feeling to get rid of something because you're like, I don't need it and then you have to rebuy it you know?

Yeah, but like how often does that happen? Every now and then. I'm trying to think of like what though. Like what? Like well, this one time. You're trying to think of it? Yes.

Stalling. If you speak really slow, you'll think of it. So one time. So one time, I do have to admit. So a couple years ago, no, that was an reinstalling. You really have a story. I do have something I need to get off my chest. Okay.

So then I do something about this. A couple years ago, we went to a couple's, I don't remember if the theme was, but you had to have like a couple's costume. It wasn't Halloween. Oh, Cinco de Mayo. Or it was Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. You could have a costume in either. So I dressed up as a pinata.

And then Patrick dressed up as a kid, he had like a blindfold and a bat. Cute. It was really cute. That's a really cute. I homemade my costume out. It was so cute. So I have two examples of things here. So the costume, I glued tissue paper to make it look like a pinata on a shirt.

And I threw it away after because like you can't wash the shirt. But then a couple weeks later, a friend asked to borrow the costume. and I had thrown it away. And that was upsetting. That's one thing I wish I kept it so somebody else could have used it. Okay? So there's that. Patrick wore a sombrero or I think a sombrero as part of his costume.

And he wanted to throw the hat away after we went to the party because he was like, what am I ever going to need a sombrero again? And I wouldn't let him because I was like, well, I don't want to have to buy another sombrero. I don't want to spend any more money on sombreros than I've already spent. so I've been hiding it in my laundry hamper for I think two years so that he doesn't get rid of it yeah I don't know like why did I put it's been in the bottom of my like you're hiding it or that's just where you stored it and that's just been in the bottom of my laundry hamper my towel I didn't know if you stored it and so it's out of sight so he doesn't he isn't like donating it or and he's not

like let's get rid of this but now it's smushed at the bottom of my towel laundry hamper it probably doesn't even smell. I got to. So like while you were telling that story, I thought of an example of something that I got rid of where I had that thought of like, if I ever need something, I'll just go buy this again. Because for a costume one year,

I had bought this like black top hat. And I found it recently in my guest room closet. And I'm thinking, why do I have this black top hat? And then I'm like, well, what if I need it? And I'm like,

but I haven't needed it in years. And then I made the decision to put it in the donate pile because if I need another black top hat, I'll just address that issue then. Like, I didn't need to keep the black. It was like, it was like, no, what if we need this umbrella? I know, but I fired it. You need to fire it. No, when I get home, I'm firing the sombrero.

Look at you. Because now I don't even want to wear that sombrero if I do need to use it. But also, like, I'm never needing that. I'm never going to need it. Growth. I feel like we just witnessed growth. Yeah. Yeah.

It's time. Go in there. Get that hat up. of the hamperer and you fire. I'm going to throw it right in the trash. There you go. It's where you belong. So on a recent episode you told us about or we were talking about gifting things, walking around your parents' house and or anybody's house in your family and grabbing actual items from the house and wrapping it up and gifting that to people. So do you want to explain that? Because we have a voicemail from one of our listeners, Linda, explaining that her family did this and it was so much fun.

So this is something people could keep in mind for a family gathering or start planning your Christmas next year or something. Or if like there's a birthday gathering or get together this year, it could be like a funny thing to do. So we've got Linda's voicemail, but I wanted you to set it up in case listeners didn't hear that episode. They know what Linda's talking about. So I saw this on social media last year, I think. But basically imagine your whole family goes to celebrate Christmas at your grandma's house. And everybody in the family picks. an item unbeknownst to your grandma from your grandma's house and wraps it and gives it to somebody

as a gift. So everybody like everybody picks one thing. They wrap it and they give it to a random person. So then when you're opening gifts as a family, I have to find the original video of this because the grandma was so sweet the whole time. And you start to open gifts. She's like, oh, that's pretty. She's like, I have one just like that. That looks familiar. Yeah. Or like you'll wrap like a little clock and she'll be like, oh my. gosh, I used to have one that looks just like that. Or it starts to, you can wrap a sweater of hers or like something random for the kitchen from the kitchen. And then eventually you would hope that the grandma, whoever you do this do, catches on and is like, wait, these are my things. But it's just like a cute prank. And it's just so sweet to watch. Well, in Linda's voicemail, you'll hear that it took her a minute for her parents to catch on, especially. especially her mom. And I was like, oh, maybe that's a red flag. They have too much stuff.

You know, like that could be an indicator. Like, if you have so many things in your house. Because I think Linda said, like, 20 different people participated. They had 20 gifts wrapped. 20. That means it's time to, yes, to give. Maybe. But I feel like older people, like when I think of my grandma's house, like she had so much stuff. And she had a basement. And it was just full of stuff. Like, there was just so much. It's cool stuff too. I think. Well, when she passed away, way we didn't nobody really wanted any of it because my grandma smoked and everything had a deep or a thick layer of smoke smell on it okay that's fair i just my grandma's house we took so much stuff from it and it was like some of it's some of it's like in boxes because like what are you going to do with it

but it's a memory i know i think some of the sentimental like family stuff like you just find storage for it hopefully if you have it but then you know like remember my mom's rocker her little swing rocker thing, her glider. I really held on to that for a while and then finally just decided to list it on Facebook Marketplace and call it a day. And I feel good about that. But I had to wait for the right time. What's the difference between your mom's glider and those bucks?

I don't know. Yeah. It's not the right time, I guess. Time. Well, the glider, like the paint was starting to chip and peel. And I was going to either have to get it repainted, find a space for it. It was huge. I couldn't haul that up to the attic.

The bucks I can throw in the attic, no problem. Or if I find a space for them that works, I can hang them up, no problem. They're not chipping. True. They're good to go. Okay, let's play Linda's voicemail. Here you go. Hey, Amy and Kat.

Love the show. Just listening to yesterday's podcast about when Kat is talking about re-gifting things from your parent or grandparents' home and then opening at Christmas, I've got a bigger family. There was four siblings. and on Thanksgiving, that was when we did last year, Thanksgiving, we did the shopping, I guess you'd say, at my parents' house. So all of us were taking turns, stealing different things like utensil little knickknacks and pictures off the wall or different things. Somebody even got a fan, like it was a big fan that was in the dining room.

And so that was our idea. We were going to steal and stuff, regifted. We ended up having 20-some different items, and it was enough for all of us to have at least one, including the kids. So I don't even know how many presents were opened at this point. And my dad caught on before my mom did, and it was just so funny because he was looking like, that looks very familiar. And then my mom, she was just like, oh, that's awesome, ha-ha, whatever. And then there was like a sign or something that really gave it away. So then everybody started laughing, and then we went through.

and like open the rest of them. It was just so funny. And I recommend anybody do that because it just makes for a really good time. All right. Love the show. So see, isn't that funny? Like she, I want to do it. She said her mom was like, wait a second.

And then her parents didn't even notice that the fan from the dining room was missing. So that would be, yeah, red flag. Time to maybe maybe her parents need to do the, what items in my house do I need to fire? Maybe all those items that people wrapped up, everybody gets to leave with them. Yeah, depends. Yeah, it depends. If that's how the game works, then I would have picked some specific things in my parents' house.

I'm going to get this diamond ring. This necklace, this jewelry, your mom's like, wait a second. Put that back. Okay, along with decluttering our houses or coming up with plans to declutter and whatnot, something Kat and I have been obsessed with is best. Beth's dead. It's a podcast. In fact, if you are walking around your house and you are cleaning in the new year and you need something to listen to and you're done listening to every feeling things episode ever. Yeah, you can only start this after you've caught up on all of our episodes.

Then you are in luck because you get to binge Beth's dead and you get to binge it all in one sitting. Like you don't have to wait. Like Kat and I started listening when they were just releasing week to week. Unless you subscribe to their Patreon, you could get it all right away or you paid, but we weren't paying. So since we were, we were waiting for the free version. We were having to wait week to week, but now everything's out. And so this is Kat and I's warning that it's all out. It's our announcement that it's all out.

And next week we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it because I have some serious thoughts and I'm trying not, I'm trying to save them for the podcast, but I really want to talk about it. Yeah, you're antsy. Yes. We like just so you all know, we're saving this for y'all, like even our conversation between us because I have thoughts. Cat has thoughts. And I'm so curious if our thoughts are the same. I feel like they might be, but maybe not. Maybe not. I feel strongly. I am, let's just say I am

feeling things. Oh, yeah. About Beth's dead. And if you need some end of year slash new year entertainment, you have our permission to cheat on feeling things. It's a wild ride. It's a wild. Not that I need to give you all permission. That was dumb. Why'd I say that? also like they're like okay okay all right I'm a lot to listen to it now and people like people don't listen to other things I mean I listen to lots of other things which my sister's friend I've known her my whole life too but she was my sister's best friend growing up and they are still friends to this day and our moms were friends like she sent a text recently she was laughing at something that we said and I replied back I said I'm this is making me smile so big right now because you listen And she was like, oh, yeah, you and Kat? And I'm like, you know Kat? Because she lives in Dallas and, you know, she's a physical therapist and a mom. Like, I just didn't know she listened.

Like, you know Kat too? I love Kat. Well, I mean, I know. But it's like, oh, she knows Kat. Yeah. She listens. And sweet. She was laughing at something we had said.

And it just made me smile. It makes me smile when our friends listen because I have zero expectations of our friends listening or like when my. boyfriend listens like he'll make joke sometimes and I'll be like wait cat and I were just talking about that he's like yeah duh because I just and he's that's why I said it and I was like you listened and he's like yeah this morning at the gym and I was like oh is it is it your boyfriend's go to podcast or he only I'll have to ask him but I don't know that he's a big podcaster okay because Patrick only listens when he's like run out of things or if he knows I talked about him so I need to talk about him

Oh, like if he knows that you shocked about him, we'll listen to this one, tell him. Yeah. Oh, you came up a couple times. Yeah. At the end. Let me call Alex and let me just ask him. Like if he has any, um, he might be at work. So I would never do this.

And I'm like, take a break. Oh, do, do do do do do do. Oh, yo, hey, before you start talking, oops, I just hung up on him. I meant to mute it. It also didn't sound like him. I think that's his daughter in the background. So he's not at work. Yay.

Hey, heads up. You're on the podcast. Okay. I'm recording. Okay. Oh, wait. Wait, Rex. Is that you?

Yeah. Oh, this son. Oh, okay. What do you have to do? Did you Alex? Yeah, I need your dad. Okay. Alex is right here.

Okay. Thank you, Rexy. Okay. So. do you listen to any other podcasts? I mean, I'm not a huge podcast guy, but yes, sometimes. Which is go-to. Okay, like, what's your go-to podcast?

I don't have one. Wait a second. But like what makes you, because I know you don't listen to all the episodes, like what makes you decide to listen? He's like, I have nothing else to do. He's like, oh, you know, when I'm getting on the stairmaster. What does he listen to usually? Like in the car, like music or books?

I'm not jazzercise class. What? Kat wants to know what you listen to, like, when you're in the car. The radio. No, the radio? Yeah. Not even, like, Spotify? He's old school.

She wants to know not even, like, Spotify. You just listen to the radio? Which I appreciate because that is how I make a living. Yeah, that's true. true. Yeah, just radio. But that has nothing to do with me. You've always been radio. Okay. So no audiobooks then. Yeah, do you listen to audiobooks? No. Crazy. Okay. All right. Well, you heard it here. All right. We just wanted to know what motivated you to listen. And clearly you don't have a podcast you listen to unless you're really needing support. Then you listen to feeling things. Got it. Got it.

Okay. Bye. Bye. Okay. So there you have it. So if you're ever on the stairmaster, we're the podcast for you. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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I'm just like picturing him at the gym on the Stairmaster. I need to ask Patrick, like, why do you listen? He'll probably say, like, because you talked about me. Right. I want to, Alex doesn't even know when I talk about him, though. So do you tell him? Hey, we talked about you today. Oh, he'll see like an Instagram real.

Oh. Or his friend, somebody will say something to him or something. That's true. I bet you Instagram sometimes spurs a stairmasterless, a stairmaster session. If he probably sees something on Instagram, he's like, I got to go on the stairmast. I got to go check that out. Time for a little star master. Okay.

I know you have a New Year's cocktail to share before we let everybody go in case people are looking for something to. make. Sip on. Yes. Tomorrow night. To ring in the new year. To kiss 2025 goodbye. Yes.

So have you ever heard of a Hugo Spritz? I've heard of it, but I have no idea what's in it. Okay. It's akin to a gimlet, which is my favorite cocktail. And because of you, I've adopted gimlets as my... A cucumber gifes is the best kind of gimbled. And they're so easy to make, just so you know, you could Google this. But it's just St. Germain, which is like elder flower liqueur.

It's like floral. gin or vodka and lime juice. It's so easy to make and a cucumber, of course. So this is a more like, because those are strong, a gimlet's strong. This is a more like fun, just like sippy cocktail. Hugo Spritz. It's elder flower liqueur, white cranberry juice. Well, I'm giving you a holiday version. So white cranberry juice, orange juice, prosaq, soda water, mint. We'll put this in the show notes. But it's a really cute, fun cocktail. You mix it all together. You put it in a wine glass?

Have you ever had an apparel spritz? Yes. Okay. So it's that but like gimlet version. Okay. Because a lot of people don't like apparel. I don't even know how to say apparel. Well, you just learned.

Like if I, if I've ever ordered that at a restaurant, I'm like, aerosol. Aerosol spritz, please. Apparel. Apparel. Yeah. Oh, you learned something new every day. After all. So this is a more holiday.

wintery version of that because spritses are kind of like summery so this makes it a little bit more like you can have it in the winter so like if you've got the mint or maybe if you throw in cranberry or something it just gives you holiday vibes holiday vibes and here's a pro tip and I just started doing this if you get one of those I guess you could do this in any kind of ice cube tray but I got one of those silicone ice cube trays and I put a couple one because I don't think I think my ice cubes were small one or two cranberries in there and then a little like mint leaf or you can put like a rosemary sprig or something and then fill it with water then you have really pretty ice cubes to put in your drink it's cute and like I think that people will think your drink tastes good just because it looks really cute

even if you mess up on the recipe festive festive so new year's hugo spritz your new year's cocktail and you could make I mean you could also whip up something like a moktail I'm trying decide I'm probably going to do dry January again. Well, they have, I forgot what it's called, but they have elder flower liqueur that is non-alcoholic. And then it, and then you could make, just cranberry juice, that soda water, you can do a sparkling grape juice or something. I have no idea this actually works. So I'm not going to like report on the name yet. And it might even be called the patch. I don't know the company. I was sent them for, a package of them for free. But I told you that I had a gimlet the other night.

and I actually had two cocktails that night and I had work the next day and I knew I was gonna be drinking and so I put this patch on my body and it's supposed to like release vitamins or nutrients or something into that helps with alcohol? I don't know.

Did it work? They said put this patch on before you go out or you can put it on the next morning but I was like well I'm putting it on before I go out so I put the patch on and then my boyfriend and I were out

and we were at a Christmas party for like his friends like a little dinner and I pulled up my sleeve and I was like check out my patch. He was like, what is that? I said, I don't know. A company is in it to me and I'm testing it out. I mean, I felt okay. Okay.

I didn't feel. For somebody who's very concerned about the chemicals that their shirts have on them. This was all natural. You just said you didn't know what was in it. Well, I mean, when I say I don't know, like I don't know, but it was like vitamins. It wasn't like weird stuff. I don't think. It was sent to me by like a company that is, you know, reliable.

Okay. Okay. My body minded. Health conscious. I do have a gripe. I don't know if that's what you would call this, but I'm going to use that word. And this is a little bit, I'm bringing up old news. So I'm sorry.

I'm just going to do it. But a couple weeks ago when we had the talk about the chemicals, so a couple weeks ago, if you guys didn't hear that episode, Amy asked me if I washed my clothes before I wear them. Specifically underwear. And then it went to bed sheets and all that. And my answer was no, I do not. I just put things on.

I'm very trusting. Especially if something comes in a package, then like, whatever. If you look, I made a reel and I put it on Instagram. If you look on that reel, if you go there, you will see the majority of people are like, Team Amy, I wash everything. Or like, cat, I can't believe you do this. Okay. You're the one that captioned it, Team Amy or Team Cat.

You made it a competition. I did, but here's my gripe. I got so many DMs saying, don't worry, girl. I am the same. Because they don't publicly win a secret saying Team Cat and they won't post on the real. And I'm like, this is, oh, this makes even more upset because you're letting me be publicly ashamed. Like, there is. You need support.

I need support. Like, shame grows in silence. Stand up for yourself and me. Post-Team Cat. All right. Well, so I just am saying that to stick up for myself. I know it looks like I am in the minority. But if I could count up my DMs and add them as comments, I think we're pretty even.

I'm not even going to say I'm winning. You still might be winning a little bit more because I do think you have a point. Thank you. You definitely do have a point. I will start. I'm going to think about washing my underwear before I wear them. when I buy them. I'm really strongly

think about it. And bed sheets. That actually, I never even considered it. So thank you for that. How often do you wash your sheets? Look about that. That is private information. Okay.

You probably do it every week. Yes, once a week. I think I try to do it once a month. I know. What? We have to talk about this. This is too late in the episode to drop this bomb. It depends.

It depends. It depends. It depends. I actually, I can't say this. Let's, oh, like, yeah, I get it. You're married. Is that you're talking about? Yeah, they'll be washed more than that.

But if. Y'all are doing it once in a month. Patrick's listening now. Katz's like, I don't know why I can't have a baby. Wait a second. You're supposed to do that? Just kidding. Okay.

All right. Okay. So I guess it is more than once a month. But if that, I get it. If I lived alone, singly. What about pillowcase? Would you just maybe swap pillows or swap the pillowcase out?

My pillowcases are swapped. I feel like more than my sheets. Okay. I can get on board with that. Because I don't have to have it as a match because I feel like the pillowcase gets more dirty than the sheets. Okay. Well, this is a whole other, whole other episode. Happy New Year.

No, seriously, I love doing this with you. I love laughing with you. Like us laughing, like I'm making think of like how much we've laughed recording this year. And it is one of the best decisions that we made. So it was a pro for 2025, like us going for it because we made the decision to do it in 24. And it took us until April of 2025 to finally get all of our ducks in a row and make it happen. And so I'm proud of us for taking that leap because it was a risk. It was for me. It was a it for you? When you say it was a risk, what do you mean? Oh, because what if I didn't work? Yeah. Like, then it's awkward. It's like, well, you know, we want to just go back to being just friends. Yeah. And then how do you? I mean, we already had fifth thing together. We already knew what it was like to

work together. But still, like, we've had some hiccups too of, you know, divvying up responsibilities or and then if it is one person's responsibility and then I'll chime in. You're like, well, I didn't ask your opinion. And I'm like, oh, shoot, you're right. You didn't. I'm sorry. You asked me about something else because it's like, you know, stay in your lane. Like, you do what you do and I'll do what I do. And then if I ask your opinion. Yeah, I've been getting a little bit sensitive around your opinion. No, but it was fine. But I mean, you know, things like that. But then later I was like your opinion was right. Yeah, sometimes it just takes a little time. But I, I, I am very, very, very grateful. We made this happen. Yeah. And I'm grateful for our listeners. And well, Kat and I do need to sit down and have a

little planning session for 2026 of like, I think you and I both have talked about like we, I know I've been saying it for a couple years now. Like I want to get something face to face. Like I miss our lives. You were a part of my live in Kansas. You flew out. You did both the shows in Nashville. And I think Nashville is a good central location. There was a while I was trying to plan different tour stops before we merged into feeling things. And I was looking at like Tampa and Boston. And while I do think we could do a tour, I think we could also like just start. Like we do need to have a meeting, but I'm just going to throw this out there.

I think we could also plan something for Nashville and our Nashville people come, but also people would come. Like a they would come. Like it's a sort of central location. And it's a fun place to visit. it and we could make it worth their time to come. And then we could pick other spots to go to. But I miss the interaction with our listeners. I'm craving that.

So I hope that that's on our, what do the kids say? Or millennial people say? I hope that's on our bingo card for 236. I don't know that's still cool to say. I think the actual saying is, well, that wasn't on my bingo card for this year. But I hope I'm going to do the saying this way and say, I hope that's on our 2026 bingo card. We should make bingo cards instead of vision boards. Huh?

Oh, I get what you're saying. Like instead of doing a bit, like we make a being, oh, and then when it happens, we get to cross it out. You need to put it like a sticker on it. Sick. Do people do that? We will. We will. Somebody had to have done that.

Okay. Well, maybe if we make up our own little format, we could throw it in our newsletter. And our listeners could fill it out them how they want. That'd be sick. Okay. Sick. Okay. See?

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It's also in the show notes, our Instagram bio. But it's also in the show notes. You can just click on the show notes wherever you're listening to this. Type your email, your name. And if you want to email us, especially for a couch talks episode for 202026, hit us up with your problems. We got you. Hala. Hey there at feeling thingspodcast.com.

You can also call and leave us a voicemail. 877-207-207-2077. And those are in the show notes as well in case you didn't have time to jot that down. We hope you have the end of the year you need to have. Bye. Bye. Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist

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