Show Notes
Happy New Year! In this episode of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice, Patricia and Nicole review their 2025 goals and set intentions for 2026. They reflect on successes while acknowledging they didn’t accomplish everything, and that’s okay! They also announce the 2026 goal check-in for Patreon subscribers.
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Transcript
Music: [Intro Music]
Patricia: Hey there, micro machines. Welcome to Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice, the podcast for folks who would rather curl into the fetal position than lean in. I’m your host, Patricia Elzie-Tuttle.
Nicole: And I can’t get you outta my head. I’m Nicole Elzie-Tuttle. We’re recording this show on January 10th, 2026.
Patricia: Happy New Year!
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Nicole: If you have a few bucks to donate. Our Patreon memberships start at $3 a month, and there are three tiers to choose from.
And this says it’s that time of year to remind you, you can give us as a gift subscription if you’re doing that now, uh, it’s a belated gift.
Patricia: I mean, in this house it’s always gift giving season.
Nicole: It is always gift giving season.
Patricia: Yeah. So, and we could be a birthday gift. We could be a January gift.
Nicole: A happy you made it to 2026 gift.
Patricia: Legit. Yeah.
But you can gift a subscription to this, our Patreon. You could also gift a subscription to the Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice newsletter. Also, any books we mention in the show are always in our bookshop affiliate site, which is linked to at eedapod.com and we have a merch shop. You could find a link to that also at eedapod.com.
Nicole: Oh wow! What a whirlwind of a December we had.
Patricia: We really did. We really did. And we had to push this show back a week because of some family stuff. But you know, we are here now and we had people over for Christmas.
Nicole: We did, we had like a potluck situation. I ovened a Costco ham.
Patricia: Yeah. And I hurt myself. You know, tennis elbow? I gave myself potato elbow, which it’s so, it’s so ridiculous. My arm hurts so much. I hopped outta bed Christmas morning and I peeled five pounds of potatoes without any kind of warmup, and I gave myself potato elbow and now I’m doing PT for my arm. It’s so ridiculous.
Nicole: Oh, the things we do to ourselves.
Patricia: Yeah.
It was not my best moment, but it was great to have friends over.
Nicole: You know, someone probably should have told us along the way at some point, that before you start cooking in the kitchen, you have to do warmup stretches
Patricia: yeah. I feel like…
Nicole: when you’re in your forties.
Patricia: Oh no.
Yeah.
We also had a couple friends over on New Year’s Day.
You know, new Year’s Eve, we’ve talked about this before. There are all kinds of traditions from both sides of my family that I do. So Nicole made the house sparkling and I cooked up a storm, black-eyed peas and cornbread. And then we did all the things, spread money on the floor, open the cabinets. I walk out of the side door before midnight and I come through the front door at midnight and I ring a bell and I jump, and we have a bowl of round fruits on the table and I wore green and just all the things.
Nicole: Yeah, I, you know, I don’t often know where your traditions come from. Don’t ask a lot of questions. Just hope they work. They seem to be doing okay most of the time.
Patricia: Seem to be doing okay most of the time. But then we had friends over on New Year’s Day for black-eyed peas.
Nicole: Yeah, it was really good.
Patricia: And they brought a beautiful cake.
Nicole: They did bring a beautiful cake. They managed to carry it all the way across the bay on BART, successfully.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: Um, and then. We did something we haven’t done before. We did a new thing.
Patricia: We did a new thing.
Nicole: We went to a sauna.
Patricia: Yeah. There’s a place out at the edge of the bay, like on the bay where you can rent little individual, either one to six people or one to eight people, saunas.
Nicole: It is on the beach.
Patricia: Mm-hmm.
Nicole: Facing the bay.
Patricia: Yep.
Nicole: It was pouring rain.
Patricia: Yep.
Nicole: We drove through some sort of Scooby-Doo neighborhood to get there and it was incredibly hot inside.
Patricia: Yeah. What did you say, 160 degrees?
Nicole: Something like that, yeah.
Patricia: And we, we rented it with a bunch of friends. There were six of us total, and it was great.
We’d sit in the sauna, I’d be in there for you know, seven or eight minutes and then we would go stand outside in the rain
Nicole: and watch the steam pour off ourselves.
Patricia: Yeah, that was great. There was also a cold outdoor shower where you could just like drench yourself. I definitely did that.
Nicole: I did not.
Patricia: You did not.
On, you know, days where it’s not pouring rain, they say you can go dip in the bay. And that is not appealing to me. But I did do the little outdoor shower and that was fine.
Nicole: I just enjoyed getting rained on and not feeling how cold it was. But then we both drove home and were like, wow, I feel amazing. My skin feels so good. I can’t believe how good I feel.
Patricia: Yeah, my mood was better. My body felt better.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: Like what?
Nicole: I was so relaxed.
Patricia: I was so relaxed.
Nicole: And then I drove home in traffic, which did not help with that, but,
Patricia: but we are already working on scheduling the next time.
Nicole: Yeah, I was…
Patricia: new winter activity.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: Unlocked.
Nicole: Yes. Surprisingly good.
Patricia: And also, I just wanna share a little podcast news. We have over 5,200 downloads the last time I checked.
Nicole: That’s pretty good. That’s putting us almost at a hundred downloads a show.
Patricia: Almost a hundred downloads of show. Yeah.
Nicole: Well done.
Patricia: Yeah, I think there were a couple of shows that were repeats. So it’s, you know, encores, so it makes sense that people didn’t download those shows. And I think the first, the Welcome to the EEDAPOD is just like a little,
Nicole: oh yeah
Patricia: a little snippet. But that counts as a, as a episode.
Nicole: Oh okay!
Patricia: So you know. Yeah.
Nicole: Good job us.
Patricia: Good job us. And thank you everyone.
Nicole: Thank you to our listeners for getting us over this little milestone.
Patricia: Yeah. We should do something to celebrate. I don’t know what that is because I’m no good at celebrating our wins, but, uh, we should, we should do something to celebrate.
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Patricia: It’s the first episode of the year, and if you’ve been here with us, then you know the drill. We’re going to take a look at how we did on our 2025 goals and intentions and resolutions, and then talk about our focuses for 2026. For most everyone, 2025 went sideways real fast.
Nicole: Yeah. Although it kind of feels like every year the last couple has been going sideways real fast, and I’m concerned we’re in some sort of like cheetah/crab hybrid timeline situation.
Patricia: Oh, no. I don’t like going sideways real fast.
Nicole: Yeah, it kind of makes you dizzy.
Patricia: Last year when it comes to, you know, goals and intentions. As with most years, I was super ambitious and honestly, I may have learned my lesson going into this year, finally.
Nicole: I was also really ambitious last year, not just with my goals, but also with tracking them. Which by the looks of things, didn’t really make it out of January.
Have I learned my lesson? Stay tuned to find out, I guess.
Patricia: Remember, January 1st is one of many times you can start something new. You can start on the first of any month, on a Sunday, on a Monday, on your birthday, on an Equinox or Solstice. Many cultures have their own New Year’s, like Lunar New Year. Time is arbitrary.
You can start at any time.
Nicole: Yeah, you can start something new on any day or time that feels good to you. Which probably means that won’t be a Tuesday, because that just doesn’t feel like a day for starting things.
Patricia: You know what? One of these days I’m gonna start something on a Tuesday, just to spite you.
Nicole: It won’t feel good.
Patricia: I don’t care.
You can also focus on different things each quarter, or each month, like, you know, February is for administrative tasks and March is for, I don’t know, marching.
Nicole: I don’t wanna march.
Patricia: You know what? Fair.
You can also, I saw something online where someone was like, oh, each quarter I focus on building a different habit. So you’re not trying to build all these habits all the time. Not everything has to be a 365 days of the year thing.
As always, it’s up to you whether or not you want to set goals or intentions at all. And it’s absolutely fine if you don’t do what works for you. And if you do make some resolutions we always encourage you to think about your why.
Nicole: Yeah.
Is it something you’re doing for yourself because it’s something you think you should be doing? Oh, are you shoulding yourself? Ew, gross. Don’t do that.
Patricia: Yeah. Hopefully these are things you want to do. And personally I am a goal setter, always have been. It helps give me some sense of control and direction, even when things go to heck.
Nicole: I am less of like a historical goal setter and more just like, this is where I’m going. I am less like goals, at least in the capital G sense and more like what do I think will improve my life in some ways that I want.
Patricia: Yeah.
So last year. I wanted to learn how to crochet and I did take two in-person crochet classes and I started on a project, which I planned to pick back up. More on that soon.
Nicole: We were really intentional with this last year. We wanted to be more social. Coming out of the lockdown COVID era we got, we got real hermit crabby just being stay at home kids. And while we were still really doing everything we can to stay safe in terms of COVID, we definitely were intentional about being more social and I think we were pretty successful with that.
Patricia: I think so. You know, we have, we have a group of friends who, if we’re all gonna be indoors together, everyone is willing to COVID test. Everyone’s willing to stay home if they’re feeling sniffly. We have a lot of filters here in the house. We also have all kinds of friends who are down to eat outdoors at restaurants. And so we’ve found what works for us.
A lot of our administrative things that we had on last year’s goals we did not get to, and those are getting put on the calendar this year. Some of the issue is that they take money to do, and I think those may happen after March. Maybe these are second quarter things.
Nicole: Ooh.
Another one of our goals was to read one of the Octavia E Butler trilogies. We were, we were one third successful.
Patricia: Yeah, we got through the first book in the, what was it? The Xenogens trilogy?
Nicole: Yes.
Patricia: Yeah. I think we’re gonna move that one to this year more, more on reading soon.
The big one that I’m super proud of is that we got through my mother’s boxes that were here in the house and the back room is close to functional.
We still have her storage to go through. We still have a lot of her paperwork to go through, but that was a heavy lift and I’m really proud of us.
Nicole: Yeah. I’m gonna second that. I’m really proud of us too. It was a little scary at first, but we did it.
Patricia: Mm-hmm.
Nicole: And we figured it out.
Patricia: Yeah. We figured out a process that worked for both of us.
I did get the Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice merch store open, and we did open up a top tier on the Patreon, which no one has been brave enough to take us up on yet, but I’m optimistic.
Nicole: We had a goal to increase our movement, just move our bodies more. Took a little while, but we figured out Pilates seems to work for us and we’ve been doing that once a week for quite a while now.
Patricia: Few months now.
Nicole: Few months at least. Yeah. So we’re counting that as a win.
Patricia: Yeah. This is the first regular movement together that we’ve really been successful with. When we were living in Pasadena, we were part of a boxing gym. We didn’t go that much and we ended that. You know, I did do some archery, and that was on my own though.
But this is the first one together where it’s like, no, we’re pretty consistent, weekly.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: I definitely did not get a piano teacher. I think I just overestimate the amount of time that I have.
Nicole: That’s not surprising.
If you’ve been here with us since the beginning, you know that I consistently have ambitions of doing what I call fancy mail.
I think this year I actually got out one letter that was approaching my vision for this. I was pretty consistent with birthday cards, but not as good as I wanted to be with other snails.
Patricia: Yes, we call snail mail just snails. By the way.
I fell off the snails wagon, but I did read 15 physical books and I did a huge book weeding project. And I got rid of hundreds of books, and there are no longer like 200 books stacked on the floor.
Nicole: I am really enjoying that.
Speaking of books, I did a pretty good job with book tracking. I, I, I feel like I may have missed one or two here or there. And I definitely had to play catch up a couple times in StoryGraph, but StoryGraph says I did hit a hundred books again. Which makes it the second year in a row that I’ve done that.
Patricia: Yeah, good job. We should also link our story graphs in the show notes again in case people are starting to use it more this year.
Nicole: Oh yeah, sure.
Patricia: Be our friends.
Nicole: Follow me on story graph and see what I read very recently.
Patricia: For 2026, like I said, there are a lot of administrative tasks and one-offs to do. Like we still need to take a first aid course and maybe we should just calendar it for February.
We do a lot better when things are on the calendar.
Nicole: Yeah. This year, our big goal, at least for the first quarter?
Patricia: Sure.
Nicole: Is to clean the office. This will get more things out of the back room. This will actually make room that I could move into the office
Patricia: yup
Nicole: and get a desk, which I’m very excited about.
Our goal for this is March 19th.
Patricia: The end of winter.
Nicole: It says the end of winter, but I have a hard time believing that March is a month that happens in winter.
Patricia: Spring Equinox is like the 20th this year.
Nicole: I know, but just March feels like it’s a spring month.
Patricia: I mean, part of it is,
Nicole: oh, let’s talking about goals, not vibe based seasons.
Patricia: You and your vibe based seasons. Some sometime I feel like I need you to write down your vibe based seasons.
We also look forward to continuing to embrace opportunities to be social and see people. And this means, yeah, well actually, we’ll talk about that in a minute, but yeah, just trying to do that more.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: Just trying to do that more.
Nicole: This is an interesting one. I want to try to reduce the amount of candy and junk food I eat. I want to be clear, this has nothing to do with weight or anything my doctor has talked to me about. It is,
Patricia: I mean, maybe the dentist has talked to you about
Nicole: the dentist, maybe I am a tummy hurt girl, I have been a tummy hurt girl for quite a while. I know this about myself.
Patricia: Ever since like we’ve been together.
Nicole: Yeah, longer.
Patricia: Like you’ve been a tummy…. Yeah.
Nicole: Longer than that.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: For sure.
I’m at a point where I’m wondering like if I improve my eating habits, which means unfortunately less candy and less junk food, and maybe try to be a little more healthy with my snacks because I am a voracious snacker.
Patricia: Mm-hmm.
Nicole: Will my tummy hurt less? Will I maybe just in general feel a little better? Maybe. I don’t know.
Patricia: Breaking news, tummy hurt foods hurt tummy. Film at 11.
Nicole: Oh no, I don’t want a whole movie.
Patricia: No, just a news segment.
Nicole: Okay.
Patricia: I need additional regular movement. You know, I walk on some Fridays with a friend, but it’s not necessarily regular, ’cause we also have like meetings sometimes or appointments and things like that. And while we have Pilates once a week, I need other regular movement in my week. So again, that is also something like, because of what I wanna do. It’s something that costs money. So TBD.
Nicole: I also need to move my body more. I want to tie this to getting out in nature more.
We live super close to some really great and relatively easy hiking. So it’s not like I would have to go far away to achieve this. It’s literally like 15 minutes up the road. I want to try to do this more. I feel like I need to touch trees more.
Patricia: Yeah, that’s fair.
This year I am trying an official no buy list.
Sometimes I’m just like, Ugh, I need to stop buying, you know, X, Y, Z. But this year I actually made a phone wallpaper and I put it on my phone so that I always know what it is. And my no by list includes candles. Have a lot of candles. Need to use what we have. Mugs, perfume, stickers, stationary and stationary accoutrements, nail polish, pens, notebooks, oracle and tarot decks, and shoes.
Nicole: Do shoes include the ones we were looking at this morning?
Patricia: Mm. TBD. There are some exceptions, such as if we’re at a small business, like we go to independent bookstores a lot, and obviously books are not on this list ’cause I’m not even gonna pretend. But sometimes bookstores have a sticker I want or something like that. I could buy a sticker at an independent bookstore. I’m not going to order stickers en mass from the internet.
Also, replacements of things. There’s some nail polish that we use regularly. Uh, we just replaced our slippers.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: And I’m gonna need new walking shoes, ’cause my walking shoes are almost a year old. They’re getting kind of ratty. So like I could replace those.
Also sometimes special circumstances like travel or like if we’re going to a place and I could get a thing there, or say even perfume is a not buying perfume online. Like I need to actually buy it from a shop. And a shop needs to not be Ulta. It can’t be a department store. It needs to be like a perfume shop or something like that.
Nicole: Okay.
Patricia: So
Nicole: we’ll see how it goes.
Patricia: We’ll see how it goes. I mean, I already forgot and I bought myself some scissors, so…
Nicole: Guess you’ll have to do some scissoring.
Patricia: Yep. You’re terrible. Awful.
Oh, you know what? Okay. My friend who comes over and we have planner time. She showed me these cool little scissors that fold up and they’re called slip and snips.
I don’t know. They’re real cool.
Nicole: I’m just, I’m not gonna go there.
Patricia: Nope, you are not.
Nicole: One thing we want to try to do more is have like, some sort of Sunday dinner situation with friends.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: Frequency, TBD?
Patricia: Well, we were thinking monthly, but like already all of January’s planned and like we’re traveling a little bit in March, so TBD. But we do want to have Sunday dinners.
You know, I often make a ton of beans on Sunday or something big, or often when I make pasta, there’s more than the two of us can eat.
Nicole: Yeah.
Patricia: And I do want to get back to, once I take care of this potato elbow, I do wanna get back to making more pasta by hand and yeah, just having people over for dinner and it not being a whole thing, like just two people at a time or something like that.
Nicole: Speaking of something, not being a whole time. We also want to have more people over for more casual hangouts.
Patricia: Yeah. This could be hanging out and reading. Like quiet reading time.
Nicole: Just come hang out at the Elzie-Tuttle Library.
Patricia: Everyone brings some snacks. We have plenty of tea and coffee and we can put on some music and we could all read.
And you know, I do have, like I said, I have a friend who’s been coming over early mornings once a week and we have like planner time. I, I make us coffee and we sit and work in our planners and it’s been great.
So about snail mail this year, because I have an obscene amount of stationary, everyone gets a birthday card, everyone gets a birth-, everyone whose birthday I have and address I have and if I like them, is getting a birthday card. It might be a postcard, it might be just a note card, and it might have a sticker in it or a bookmark. It might be who, who knows. But I really need to start getting through this stationary because I have acquired it faster than I’ve used it.
Honestly, it may be a postcard that I picked up in a club in 1999 when they used to have that postcard rack in the back, because I have some of those too. Just, like, I need to start sending more mail. So, hey, if you want birthday mail and wanna send us like the month, day of your birthday and a and address.
You can email us at eedapod at gmail dot com and sure, I’ll send, I’ll send a birthday postcard or something.
Nicole: Kind of in line with that. I definitely want to send more snail mail or other things like that and use some of that time in the evenings and in support of this, I want to try to spend less time on social media. To be clear, this is not like me checking in to see all the little things you hunted and gathered for me throughout the day, or whatever cute little video you made and posted.
This is specifically. Trying to not spend a couple hours late in an evening when I’m exhausted, just scrolling my life away.
Patricia: Scrolling my life away.
Sorry. Wow, that was a luck you gave me. Okay. Um, anyway. Tough crowd..
Same. Same. And I think, you know, I have so many hobbies and creative things that I want to do that I’m sometimes overwhelmed by choice and I sit and scroll my phone. And so I typically, or rather, Wednesday nights is always my writing night. It’s always newsletter night or other writing, and I was like, hey, why don’t I start making a hobby night?
Just a regular hobby night. So I’m trying Thursdays. We had our first one this week. And that during that time, I will sit at the piano. I will play ukulele, I will crochet, I will write snail mail. I will color, I will, you know, do whatever. I will make zines. I already have this writing time, and that has worked.
I’ve had this writing time for about six years now. So like, hey, why don’t I schedule hobby time? And you know what, when we did it, it was actually great ’cause I didn’t feel like I should be doing something else. It was like, no, this evening was set aside for this.
Nicole: This has already also led to me joining in, which definitely helps with me spending less time on social media and that goal. This Thursday night, you were like, no, it’s hobby night. And I was like, great. Where’s my typewriter?
Patricia: Yeah. So this way, this year, back to books, my regular reading goal that I set is 120 books, and usually that includes 20 picture books. I read maybe 123 books this year. That number is not actually based on anything.
I was just like, I don’t know, 120 seems like a general amount of books that I read. This is also going to include 15 physical books. I have a bunch of books on my TBR and actually on my physical TBR shelf that I need to read the books and then I could release them into the wild. If you listen to my other show, All The Books, the format has changed a bit and this has lessened my reading restrictions for that show. So I’m a lot more flexible on what I’m able to read. And already I’m feeling a bit of a weight lifted.
Nicole: Something else I wanna kind of work on, and this is just a little thing, I wanna take more pictures while I’m out. And I think this will also help with my like less social media. Like if we’re out and about or something, it’ll help me like pay attention to the world around me more.
Patricia: Mm-hmm.
Nicole: But more specifically, I also want more pictures of us together.
Patricia: Yeah. I could help with that.
Nicole: Yeah. ’cause you’re better at taking pictures of us.
Patricia: It’s in my blood.
So also something that has changed is the Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice newsletter has kind of changed format and frequency.
If you already subscribed to that, then you’ll, you already know that. We are coming, we’re starting year seven basically of this newsletter. I’ve been doing it for six years. Every Friday. I think the only time I may have missed a Friday is because of technical difficulties. So now it’s every other Friday, and each issue is going to have free resources upfront and then a paywall and paid content.
Now that I’m doing that every other week, it opens up that Wednesday night writing night for other writing, including Optimistic Hoarder, my other newsletter, which I’ve already posted to, and other writing projects, and I’m really excited about that.
Nicole: I’m excited to see what comes out of it too. The last kind of thing I wanted to talk about was I wanted to be better or I want to, not wanted, want to, be better with my organization around home stuff.
Patricia: Like your task organization, right.
Nicole: Task organization. Things that need to get done, like we do list them in the planner that we share and that’s helpful. Sometimes there’s things I think of and they don’t make it there and things like that.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: And sometimes I’m like, asking you to try to help me remember something. All this to say, I am incredibly organized at work.
At my day job, I am super on top of things. I, you know, have my way of organizing my tasks and following up on things and knowing when to follow up. I’m gonna try to apply some of that to home tasks.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: To help me be better about not relying on you as much.
Patricia: Yeah. Like I even noticed you did. Well, first of all, thank you.
My brain, especially because of perimenopause, is uh, not great. It is not as great as it once was. Uh, and you know, I even noticed it because like a couple times I was like, hey, you need to call Amtrak so they could fix this rewards thing. And then finally you put it on your list. And I heard you making the phone call from the other room and I didn’t have to ask you to do it.
And that was such a relief for me.
Nicole: Yeah, and this is not like I wasn’t relying on you for
Patricia: no
Nicole: like everything, but there would be certain tasks that would show up and I would just forget about that.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: Until you’d say something again, and that just doesn’t feel good. So trying this out, we’ll see how it goes.
Hopefully things get better.
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Nicole: Well, I think that’s everything we wanted to talk about in terms of reviewing how 2025 went, what we’re looking at for 2026 goals. Patricia, what do you want our listeners to take away from this episode?
Patricia: As always, reminder goals serve you. You don’t serve your goals. If you, you know, we review them and also remember, uh, we’re going to again, have a check-in, quarterly, for paid subscribers on Patreon for like, hey, here’s how I’m doing on this one thing. Like, just pick out one thing. And remembering like if it no longer serves you, dump it.
Nicole, what do you want people to take away?
Nicole: There are a lot of different ways to do goals. Don’t be afraid to experiment and change them up. You don’t have to set your goals up how we do. You don’t have to set them up how whatever that influencer is doing. Do whatever you want with them.
Patricia: Yeah.
Nicole: Well, we are solidly in the second week of the year. What has been filling your cup lately?
Patricia: Hands down sauna.
Nicole: Yeah. I’m gonna actually agree with you on this one. Sauna. I miss it. I want it. The experience with our friends really filled my cup in a way I wasn’t expecting.
Patricia: Yeah, I think, I think it was unexpected at how good I felt afterward.
Nicole: All around physically, mentally.
Patricia: Spiritually.
Nicole: Sure. Why not?
Patricia: I don’t know. Yeah, I don’t know, but like, yeah, I think it was sauna, friends, also on the bay, like nature. Yeah. That one’s keeping me going and I’m already looking forward to the next time.
Well, that’s our show for today. We’d like to thank our awesome audio editor, Jen Zink. You can find her at loopdilou.com, and we’ll leave a link to that in our show notes.
Nicole: You can find the full show notes and transcript at eedapod.com. That’s E-E-D-A-P-O-D dot com. There you can also find a link to our Patreon, our Bookshop link and a link to the ongoing Enthusiastic Encouragement and Dubious Advice newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram and BlueSky at EEDAPod and email us at eedapod at gmail dot com.
Patricia: We’re nothing if not consistent.
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Nicole: So in taking notes for that last edit we need made.
Patricia: Yep.
Nicole: I wrote down P flub, so I may have accidentally discovered your eighties dJ name?
Patricia: DJ P-Flub.
Nicole: DJ P-Flub.
Patricia: Oh, I don’t like that.
Nicole: Sorry.