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A (0:00)
I had a whole thing I wanted to do, and now I can't remember what it is.
B (0:03)
Well, welcome to 2026, I guess.
A (0:06)
And it's. This is a good topic for sort of New Year. I want to talk about New Year, actually, because I always feel like, should.
B (0:13)
We introduce ourselves first? Just, like, really early, get it out of the way.
A (0:16)
We'll throw Eric off and everyone else, but sure. Welcome, everyone, to Fated maze. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write them.
B (0:24)
And I'm Jennifer Prokop, a romance reader and editor.
A (0:27)
And it's January, and I think here's questions, and I know what your answer is going to be because you're still a teacher. But New Year's always feels sort of like a fraud to me because it's really not. Like, I appreciate that we all do New Year's resolutions. Although I read this, like, really interesting thing that was, like, biologically, like, the winter is actually a terrible time to do resolutions because, like, your body, like, we're animals, right. So it's. We're designed to just, like, shut down, to, like, fatten up and, like, go under the covers.
B (1:00)
Great job, everyone.
A (1:01)
I mean, I'm good at that in July, too. Everyone but the. And so, like, really, we should be making resolutions in, like, you know, late spring.
B (1:09)
Interesting.
A (1:10)
So. Which isn't, you know, whatever you do. You, everyone. But truly, like, it's that whole new and crisp in the fall thing. Yeah.
B (1:21)
I mean, I listen my entire life as a school teacher, I just feel like, what's. This is not anything. This is just the middle of school.
A (1:28)
It's like a northern hemisphere thing, I think, because although I'm sort of curious, like, I don't. I don't really know how school works anywhere else in the world, so.
B (1:35)
Well, well, my friend Brittany, I don't know, you guys. You know this. The one who did all your tiktoks moved to Botswana with her family. And I literally, like, the other day, she talked about her daughter, Botswana.