Chapter 1: What reflections do Kim and Grandma Gail have on five years of podcasting?
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host, Grandma Gail. Sometimes I forget, like, our intro, but it's so ingrained in my mind that I just spew it out. We've done it now for five years, so I better know it.
You better know it by heart at this point.
I wonder if I looked back at episode one, did we do the exact same intro?
I think we did. I think we did.
If not, then everybody says we look different.
I don't know how different we look. To me, we look exactly the same. But people say, oh, Kimmy has gotten so different looking.
What?
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
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Chapter 2: How do generational differences affect views on work and settling down?
I guess five years from 25 to 30 look different.
Well, and I think people see different hairstyles. With me, it's the same hairstyle. Maybe with you, it's a little different. I don't think I look the same. I think I got a few more wrinkles. But anyway, we're having fun doing this. And it is our fifth year.
Yeah.
So this is amazing.
So crazy. And I was thinking like, how do we freshen things up? And same thing with like the new year. I'm like, can we like change some things? And I was like, no, I'm set in my ways.
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Chapter 3: What are some new year resolutions and reflections shared in this episode?
But then at the same time. No, I feel like you can, at any age, you can change things up, try something new, try that old hobby that you've been wanting to try your whole life.
Read a book that you haven't read. There are lots of things that you can do for the new year. But if you have a good thing, don't change it too much. There's a saying, don't fix it if it's not broken. So you have to be a little careful. We have to go slowly in what we want to modify, I think.
Right. And even though sometimes there's pressure to be at a certain point at a certain time, like people are always evolving and can always pivot because you're always like learning new things. So I hope so. So we're going to
Talk a little bit more, I feel like, about that and like the new year and that like freedom that also comes from believing in that and that you can do anything at any time, I think. But before we get into that, wanted to do some comments. current life updates, which a lot of you who follow us already probably have seen some of this.
Chapter 4: How can one embrace change and pursue old passions at any age?
Also, if you don't follow us, we're excuse my grandma on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and YouTube. And my personal is Kim Merstein. So definitely make sure you're following on there. Grandma, you know, well, we've been in Florida for a while, by the way.
It was beautiful. We had a wonderful holiday time with family and the weather really was good, except for New Year's weekend, where it was really got to be in the low 40s. So that was cold for Florida standards, not for the Northeast, but for Florida, it was a little nippy. We were all wearing coats for New Year's.
Yeah. But those of you who are watching, we are in our New York City studio because we came back to New York to work on a really new, exciting project that everyone's going to know about very soon. So we thought we would be in the podcast studio in the meantime, but we're not allowed to tell anyone yet.
It's a secret. We'll tell you when it's the correct time.
Yeah. I will say we did our first shoot for this project yesterday and it was a long day.
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Chapter 5: What advice does Grandma Gail give about gift-giving for special occasions?
And grandma, you did great. I did all right.
I think I started fizzling after four. I did start fizzling, but it was great fun. I loved it. And I loved the people we were working with. Really terrific.
They all wanted to gossip with you.
I know they did. I have a new best friend over there.
Yeah, I heard.
I think I'm ditching you and I'm going to
Oh, no. Yeah. We had a really fun day and it was just like a great opportunity and to work with people who are really invested in us and really like smart and creative.
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Chapter 6: What insights are shared in the Grandma Report about adulthood and brain development?
No, we were 10 minutes late.
No, we weren't. I think we were exactly on time.
I think on time from now on for me, I think it should be early. Well, you came 10 blocks.
Right. And you know what? I didn't, being back in the city, I didn't know what to expect with the traffic. But actually, I have to say, I thought the traffic right now, maybe it's because everybody is stuck in some Caribbean island somewhere. Which we're also going to talk about. But I think basically the traffic was fine in New York. I got uptown, downtown twice yesterday.
In really record-breaking time, I was very excited. Sometimes you just sit in traffic. You, I don't know, you said you had more traffic.
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Chapter 7: How do Kim and Grandma Gail discuss the impact of new hobbies and activities?
I had none.
Well, I came uptown today before we came back downtown for a podcast recording. And I definitely had some traffic slash it took the same amount of time. I have been looking for an apartment in New York City. As you guys know, I'm moving in with my boyfriend. So we're doing the apartment search, which is just like not easy at all.
It's not easy. It's not easy finding places to live in New York within a budget that you want to spend. It's very difficult. Some places I'm like, the elevator is too slow. Right.
Some places I'm like, oh, it's good, but I don't like the location. But I think that's so fair to have what you're going to live there. Like, why would you settle?
You don't have to settle.
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Chapter 8: What are the highlights from the drama club segment about current pop culture?
But I think this is not your forever home. It is. You don't own it. So therefore, you're going to have to make some kind of accommodations. It's just part of what life is. There's no one place that could be perfect.
I mean, I'm looking I think that's a little bit of a generational difference because people now like they spend so much time in their apartment. That is a difference. We are like sometimes I mean, I'm always like working from home unless I'm going to meet you or or have a meeting or whatever. And then like people stay in during the week at night. If you go out for dinner almost every night.
People like to cook at home. I want to do more of that. You spend a lot of time in your apartment. And even if it's a year, two years, whatever. It should be nice.
It should be nice. But it can't be. This is the old thing even with relationships. Nothing is perfect. So, you know, sometimes if the bathrooms are important to have, you know, the right kind of bathrooms with the right kind of counter space, because that's the one thing in your apartment, which you're in now, which is a lovely apartment.
It's a newish building, uh, has terrible counter space near the sinks. So, and you have all the makeup.
My bar is very low though. Like I'm not saying I need the perfect counter space and I need to, like, I'm asking for like very normal things like, uh, A doorman and. Well, that's not normal. Like being above the second floor. Like literally, that's it.
All right. Well, so there'll be something. You just have to have patience.
Yeah, and it's a fun little project to have, but I don't feel like I'm making progress on it yet. So far, I've kind of been seeing... When Zach was in town, we walked around a few neighborhoods and would pop into a building to see if they had availability, but that honestly doesn't work. It just has to be what's online.
So I've kind of taken a lead on this, I feel like, of... Well, he's still out of town, so I think that's correct. Yeah, like visiting things when I can... And talking to the brokers, which I'm kind of fine with because then I can also control the situation a little bit.
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