Season 8 (And Left No Crumbs): Monday, January 6th, 2025
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Good morning, millennials. Welcome back to The Toast. Happy 2025. Happy season eight. Welcome back. We are back after what felt like for me an extremely brief break, but for others apparently felt endless.
It did feel really long. It just feels so unfamiliar to be sitting here. Like I forgot my routine. I forgot the way that things go, but welcome back everyone. Welcome to the new year. Welcome to 2025. Welcome to season eight.
I locked myself out of the apartment. I locked myself out of the apartment. Like that's how disoriented I was. I was like making a TikTok. I forgot my jewelry. I'm not, me and Ben are not struggling yet. I just forgot my jewelry because I'm so disoriented. Like getting back into a routine workflow.
No, I'm also really nervous because this studio has seen a lot of people in the last three weeks, a lot of different setups. And so I'm hoping everything is parched. Just keep your eye on all your materials throughout the show. I'm keeping my eye on my materials for sure. And the last person in here was Ben.
You know what's so good though? Like while that's obviously horrible, nobody wants to ever be in a place that Ben has last been in, be it a studio, a bathroom, whatever. Just know like if things go wrong, which would be the worst thing ever, we have someone to blame. Scapegoat. But wait, you just reminded me of something. It's not a scapegoat if he did that shit, right? No. That's just like the offender. The offender. Wait, fuck. You know, I'm really, I'm having a lot of bad like memory stuff. What were you saying two seconds ago?
Welcome to 2025. Welcome to season eight. New year, new us. Same swirlies. Maybe we could hit that heart in the new year.
Probably not. Probably not. At the end of last year, I tried really, really hard to line up our summer, I mean, our winter break with like the new year and my new studio. Obviously, I'm still in the same old studio, but I signed a lease. So it'll be a couple of weeks.
I know everyone's signed.
been waiting with bated breath to see what will she do? And don't worry, Turdi found a studio on her block. Like I can't deal like in my current state with like walking multiple blocks.
Also, you can't deal with the current state and the congestion pricing. You know, I didn't know if I wanted to talk about the congestion tax today because it actually consumed- You don't want to start the new year off on a negative note, but the governor decided to.
Yeah, and it consumed my whole evening and Ben actually turned to me. He's like, you are really stressing out. I kept like finding out facts about this new congestion tax in New York. I just want to, this is how it starts, Turdy.
Local office, Mayor Turdy. I see it. You know what?
Like, I'm just now sort of waiting for, Take back our city. I'm waiting for like the documentary, whatever it is. Like I know that there's so much nefarious behavior going on at the MTA. The MTA is giving, and I was talking to Shannon about this this morning because she spends a lot of time in London where the congestion tax. You know what it's giving? It's giving Tammany Hall. What's that? I'm only familiar with Tamron Hall.
I'm only familiar with Tamron Judge. And I'm only familiar with Aaron. But Tammany Hall is actually like a big New York historical story of serious corruption in the New York government. Boss Tweed and Tammany, you never heard of them? No, but I'm telling you. You never heard of Boss Tweed?
Never in my life. I know Bo Dietl. Boss Tweed does not pass muster. That's what you need to know. So actually, I have to go to the doctor today, and I will be paying the congestion tax to go to the doctor.
Isn't that crazy? Wow. No, that's so crazy to go to the doctor. Yeah.
And like, I keep, I've sort of decided to take this on as my platform and I want to be clear because mostly everyone agrees with me and it's nice to like, you know, not have a controversial take for once. It's giving bipartisan. And I just want to say, like, I come from a place of privilege. Like when I take this like tax today, whether it's peak hours, off peak hours, like I will survive.
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