okay? i think i got this time. it's your birthday. you came to spend it with us. i've been falling. thank you for being here. thank you. i need y'all to help me say it's an honor to meet you. this is happy. that's right. take a picture of him. he's like my elf on the shelf. okay? he loves you, i love you. doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo yeah. >> hello. and welcome to like it or not, i'm dave clark. this is a show where we talk about things, about what you're talking about, the latest hot topics. what's trending now, this particular episode is all about ringing in a new year. and i've got some of the best people in the bay area here. i'm just saying are the cooks are pam

cook. >> happy new year. >> that's right. allie rasmus and greg lee. hey, dave, now all of you know more about things than i do. so i'm coming to you. we're talking about new year's resolutions and things like that. let's start with the idea new year's resolutions. do you care? do you make them? >> i like at least to call it a new year's goals. like i do set up goals for myself. maybe personal goals, professional goals i do like i don't. i don't think it needs to be like a resolution. i need it, but i do like the idea of just kind of setting the tone for the year with some new goals. >> do you write them down or do you just say it? do you internalize it? >> i don't write them down. i you know, i have i don't have that many. >> okay. >> i try not to have to. yeah. but i yeah, i have them i repeat them i think about it. yeah. all right i like it. >> well greg, i'll jump to you. what do you think i like it i like kind of resetting for the new year and saying, here's some

things i'd like to do or some ideas that i have. >> kind of like pam, where you sort of set some long term goals, some short term goals, and you sort of map out your year, if possible. and i often do write them down, like i'll put them like on a big poster board, just or like above my bathroom mirror is like a little reminder. now, if i actually do them. >> okay, ali, i'm going to be the outlier between these two planners here. i've had a long policy. i've thought about this over the years. you know, instead of tying a new year's resolution to a certain time of year, i've always said, if you want to do something, just do i. don't wait till the start of the year to do it, because in my mind, then once it's no longer the new year anymore, i feel a little less committed to it. if it's tied to a time of year. sure. so that's just my thing. >> me yes. going to ask? i don't make resolutions, okay? >> i don't do it. i don't know if i'll ever change that. i just don't do it. >> you get a lot done though anyway, so i try to, i try to, but i'm going to try to do better. >> well, here's something else

to new year's. does it mean you clean out the house? i mean, just physically you're home, clean out the house, make some change. it, greg. >> you don't i did. you already know. you already do. you're perfect. that's great. dave. yeah, i'm a no. >> i'm a no on that. >> i mean, he's been our house. i sort of feel this way. >> like the way ali does about resolutions is that, like, if you have stuff you need to clean out or clutter. yeah, get rid of it now. do it now. i support that, but i don't i don't like i don't like starting my new year being like a big spring cleaning. i don't like doing that. now. >> see, i'm totally guilty. i have a lot to do and i haven't done it. but see, i'm inspired by greg. >> so no, pam, i mean, i will say i'm really trying to clean out clutter in general. kind of started in the pandemic. i was like, okay, let's clean out this. and i also have the kids at the age where it's like, okay, time to get rid of that. so i will say the new year,

though it does, it is kind of sparked something because when you go to put like the christmas decorations away or something, i'm kind of forced with like, okay, whatever, didn't come out for the holidays and oh gee, this whole bin hasn't been out for a couple of years. let's give that a new home. so i do use it as inspiration of like start the year a little fresh. >> yeah, i agree. >> yeah. well now i feel like i'm being inconsistent with myself because i'm the same way, you know, new year, putting away the holiday decorations and all the kids christmas toys. i start to get overwhelmed by the clutter and stuff. yeah, new year, i do like to just, you know, get rid of stuff i do too. and i'm not alone. because if you go to, you know, goodwill and stuff, they get tons of donations right around that time of year because everyone's clearing out there. >> you've had a lot of stuff come in probably, and especially when your kids are little and it's like, okay, what's going out? since we have all this stuff coming in because there's no more room here or there in the playroom, in the closet, just a deviation. >> holiday eating. do you eat

special for new year's or anything like that, or something you have to have for new year's? there are people who say you have to eat certain things for good luck, right? >> right. >> ali? >> well, okay, so we have a tradition in my family, and we're not the only ones. i think this is a common tradition in latin america where you have 12 grapes, right? at the stroke of new year's at midnight, and you make kind of a wish for the coming year with each one. oh, nice. >> i like that, i like that. >> so every year doesn't matter. 12 wishes. yeah. love it. so maybe i don't have resolutions. >> i just have my wishes. >> great. yeah, yeah. >> your wish. grapes. okay. i might adopt that. yeah. >> what do you think, greg? >> so this is nostalgia for me. but when i was a kid and my parents would do east coast new year's when we were in new mexico. so we'd go to bed sooner. they always had, like, you know, the summer sausage in the cheese kit that you would get during the holidays. >> yeah, yeah. and i don't know why, but for whatever reason, we

had it one year. >> and every year since then when we were kids, we had it. so now that i'm gone, i don't see my parents as much. i still get one and i call them and say, hey, look at that little thing that i got. >> do you guys eat? i'll facetime them and be like, yeah, because they go to bed at nine on new year's eve. >> so. >> so you're still together? yeah. still together i like that. >> what do you think we. it started way back even before i was born. my parents kind of put out. i think it was stuff left over from whatever. so it was like crackers, cheese, whatever. and they called it the layout dinner. so now that we do the same, now we have a layout dinner. so basically new year's eve and new year's day. it's a lot of snacking. you know, it's just you know, it's a charcuterie is the fancy term for it. but we call it the layout dinne yeah. okay. yeah. what about you? >> i eat everything, yeah. nothing special about it. all right. what about a dry january? you came up with that? >> it's very popular. a lot of people do dry january because

they've done a lot of holiday partaking and festivities, and drinking and partying and whatever. so i mean, i don't necessarily then go, okay, dry january, but i'm not like a huge drinker. >> yeah. >> but i, you know, i do my little wine tasting and i don't drink during the week because we have to get up in the middle of the night pretty much. so yeah, i don't i don't feel the need. i definitely like that for people, you know, just to kind of reset and maybe especially if you've done a lot of indulging, i will say it's like, okay, maybe i'm not going to have any cookies for january because i've had a bazillion, you know, because we bake a lot of cookies for our family. so yeah, i would say a little bit of both. yeah. >> i'm not a big drinker either. so it's not a big departure for me to do a dry january if i'm not socializing or going out. if we don't get a date night, i don't get a drink in january anyway. >> yeah, yeah, greg, i have done dry january a couple of times and it's actually it's refreshing, right, to see what your body does. >> yeah. physically alcohol and

i drink less and less the older i get because it hurts more now. but yeah, i support it. if people want to do it okay. >> yeah i don't drink. >> he doesn't drink. >> so it's a, it's a dry 360 days a year. >> what about like a no caffeine january for you? >> no, i can't do that. >> not with your shift. >> i'm going in. no. i'm going. >> don't like it. >> no. well, look, we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back with more of our thoughts and your thoughts here on like it or not

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yeah. welcome back to like it or not, i'm dave clark, surrounded by some of the best in the business. greg lee, allie rasmus, pam cook. okay, let's get back to like it or not on this new year's, your christmas tree. do you take it down at the beginning of the new year or do you wait? do you have a plan now? you guys are planners. so, ali, what do you do? >> well, we like to have the tree up through new year's. like new year's day. yeah, but then when we take it down, is usually dictated by two things. when the tree starts getting dry. yeah. because we usually get it, like right after thanksgiving, we get a tree and, you know, january 1st, it's like the tree is on its last legs. but then the other thing that dictates when we take it down and put it out is when the garbage service takes the tree away.

>> right? >> we don't want to have to get rid of it ourselves. so we will meet that deadline so we don't have to deal with it. >> so do you rush to take the tree down feeling like, okay, everybody's going to be watching? do i feel pressure to take it down or do you have your own set? >> i had to take it down so that i don't have to, like, take it to the dump or the compost myself. i just want the garbage. our wonderful garbage collectors, to take it when they do. so that's my deadline. all right. >> i'm definitely a you know, right after thanksgiving to new year's day and my mom and i always had a tradition. we kind of watched the rose parade and take down the decorations. and once you start, then it's kind of like, oh, then it feels like clutter all of a sudden. >> yeah. >> you know, to me, i feel like, oh, the magic of christmas now. it looks like a bunch of stuff, but i do. it was funny. my, my, we have a lot of december birthdays in my family, and my sister in law always made sure she took down the tree the day after christmas because she wanted my nephew the day after christmas. after christmas, she

takes down the tree and all the decorations because she wanted it to feel birthday for my nephew. okay, so it was definitely more about his birthday instead of christmas, but that was too fast for me. but yeah, okay, great new year's day. >> i have a fake tree, so yeah, i don't i don't have to worry about it getting all the way. but usually new year's day is like, all right, we have the holiday, we've done the thing. let's move on to the next thing and move towards the future. >> you don't turn it into a valentine tree. >> i don't, i don't, i don't because we have decorations for valor. right, right. >> though along these lines, i do appreciate it when our neighbors and we do this ourselves, keep the lights up on the house. so that's after new year's day. okay. partially because, you know, i'm walking out to work at three four. >> oh, you appreciate having some light. i do like the lights. >> last year, embarrassingly, we kept our lights on until like february. >> so valentine's day lights. >> you were that house. okay? >> that house. but, you know, it was. it was nice. they weren't like green and red lights. they

were just, you know, nice yellow, whitish lights. >> okay, we're still seasonal lights. >> yeah. >> okay. well, let's talk about holiday cards and family holiday cards. like them or not, i do like them. >> yeah, because i think it's nice for me, especially for family, that i haven't maybe talked to for much of the year or friends that i haven't connected with. sort of nice to get an update with, with what everyone's doing. or sometimes i get a card, i'm like, oh my god, they had another kid. yeah, yeah, they're like a family of six now. but it's fun to get those. i think it's a nice tradition. i was actually just talking to someone in the newsroom, because i never know what to do with all the cards, and they just end up in a box, and i'm like, that feels bad. they went through all this effort, right? and they actually sell like stands that you can put all of your cards in. so they're on display. so maybe i'll do that this year somewhere. >> that's true. just put them like around a doorway or something. >> yeah i like so you're like it i'm on board i like them. >> yeah. same reason i like to

see, you know, all our friends like that we haven't seen in a while, you know, have moved to other states just to get a visual update on, you know, their family and, you know, it's like, wow, i can't believe there's so much older now or yeah, this person's like in high school now, and their kid is in high school. and i like to display them. i put them all up and you know, it's just nice to walk. and then you see all your friendly faces there. so it's nice to know that people think about you. >> i'm a like it too. >> what do you i like them, i mean, i stopped sending out christmas cards a while ago because you i did. yeah, i mean, i always did as the kids grew up and then, i don't know, they both were out of high school and then into college and i just it's just it's a lot. it's expensive to send cards and the stamps and the cards and honestly. but i like it. and i've kept in touch with friends from college and but i'm okay with a, you know, an e greeting as well. yeah, an e photo. i'm

okay with that. >> all right. this is a little different for me. we get up at nothing o'clock in the morning. right? do you stay up until the new year is arrived, or do you go to bed early? >> depends on if i have to work on new year's. yeah. >> that's true. >> right? i do love that we're on the west coast. so you can ring in the new year, east coast time and call it like, hey, it's the new year or even australia like you, you know, you can call new year's whatever, right? i like it if you can, if you can make it, if you can do the toast and watch the fireworks. okay. yeah, i like it. >> you can make it. >> i have to be up at midnight so i can have my 12 grapes. oh, that's true, that's right, that's right. >> or you don't get the wishes. >> yeah, well, that's i mean, maybe that's not. i mean, it's just my superstition. i like it, i do, so you have to do it. >> i don't work the shift that you all do mercifully. and. but i always stay up till midnight. it's a it's a tradition for me.

always. yeah. now, how far i make it past midnight is another question. >> right? >> okay. i'm gearing up to do it more and more and more. >> you don't usually make it up to midnight. >> usually. i don't, but but they come and wake me up and say, you have to get up. >> you happy new year okay. >> all right. happy new year. >> all right. >> let me just ask you something real quick before we take another break. for some people, new year's isn't a happy time. yeah, it can be sad for some people. some families. do you like the idea of. well, or does it occur to you or happen to you that some sadness and it's not always a happy thing. looking forward to a new year. >> i think i think holidays are interesting, right? i think it's always a nice, especially in the field that we work in. but just being a human being, i think it's important to realize that holidays can be tough for a lot of people, in that they're not always a joyful experience, or that they remind them of certain

things that they don't want to remember. so i think it's always good to be sensitive around this time of year and understand that holidays aren't always joyful for a lot of people. >> yeah, yeah, i think that's an important thing to remember. >> just. and people know their friends and know what circumstances they may have gone through recently or, you know, traumatic experiences near the holidays. so, i mean, it's important not to jump into it with too much toxic positivity, for lack of a better term. yeah. >> i will tell you something that i like to do. we've all lost people we care about, and the holidays bring up a lot of memories. you know, sad and good. i really like starting a new tradition with people and for people in particular who have lost, like if especially if it's someone very near and dear, start something new to start off instead of you know, maybe this is all going to make you really sad. so maybe go to a new spot or go, you know, i do like that.

it has helped me. it has helped people close to me where it's like, you know what, maybe we're not going to be home for christmas. we're going to go on a little trip or something and go somewhere else just to not dwell on the, you know, to make some new a new association with a new place. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> well, hold that thought. we're going to take another quick break. we'll be right back and so will you right here on like it or not. yeah. yeah

>> yeah. >> welcome back to like it or not, i'm dave clark with pam cook. ali rasmus, greg lee, and we're talking about things all new years and about tradition and things like that. i know you're a big sports fan. yeah, nobody's bigger than steph curry. but do you watch new year's football? >> yeah, i always make time. i always make time for steph. >> i know you know that. yeah. >> love football. love football game. you know bowl games. i went to ucla. >> i was about to say ucla. >> i've been to a rose bowl. you know we were amazing when i was there. been to the rose parade, rose bowl game. it's super fun love. yeah i love all the bowl games. it's very fun. i think there's too many now. it almost seems like, wasn't it always like new year's day and maybe another day now it's all into february. >> there's still a bowl game sponsoring something. yeah, yeah. >> so, ali, i mean, of all the

sports to watch, football, especially college football, i think is the best sport to watch. and so but i've always just i never actually seek it out like, oh, this time i have to go watch this. but it's always because of the people in my life. it's always on the tv, right? >> yeah. >> i'll watch it. yeah. it's like on by default. >> i love bowl game season. yeah. i also like that they've now done the college football playoff because now there's something on the line. right. those final bowl games really the college football championship. so i like the idea that you know, this means something. not to say that, you know, the john deere jimmy kimmel, tostitos, tostitos, you can't keep up with them. does it mean something. but yeah, it's fun. i like that too because it used to be kind of then this debate over who is the number one team. >> right. was it the cotton bowl or the orange bowl or the. >> yeah. >> and do you go to any of those games? >> i've not been in a very long time. okay. i have not been in a very long time. maybe if they had one up in northern california, oracle hosted the emerald nuts bowl one year. oh

well there you go. >> and ucla was in it. so i did go to that. yeah okay. >> what about christmas gifts and presents. taking them back after new years. do you rush to do that? do you care to do that? do you keep some things and don't take them back? >> you know, the adults in my family, we don't give each other gifts anymore. we have like what we call the adult gift truce. so we just give gifts to the kids, to our kids. >> that's true. so that's good. yeah. >> and they always i mean, brothers and sisters in law, they're always good about including a gift receipt. but usually they've asked me what the kids want anyway, so we don't really need to return a lot of stuff, actually. >> same i would say same. i don't like to return. i do like to shop. >> you know, i do, i do like to shop. >> i get to help stimulate the economy and see what's out there. trends, you know, and everything. yeah, i would say like we like to give a lot of

experience gifts, you know, tickets warriors. yeah. like to. so i wouldn't say we have a lot i mean that's a mess to try to return stuff. i don't like it. yeah, i'll say that. i don't like to have to return stuff. so i might hold it back and regift it. yeah, that's that happens. >> greg, the people in my life when we do gift for the holidays are very deliberate and upfront about like, if you don't like this, just take it back, take it back. and there's a receipt and it's easy. and so yeah, if i do it in a timely manner is another case. there's a part of my closet. >> no that's filled. >> that's just like, yeah, stuff that i haven't returned that exists because some of it you feel bad about because some of them are like thoughtful, sentimental gifts that i just haven't had a reason to use. >> hey, quick question for the holidays. do you ever binge watch certain things for the holidays? not just it's a wonderful life, but other things. it's just a holiday tradition. >> no, there's one movie in the last couple of years that's always playing. and my daughter

will play it like sometimes for hours. it's the animated grinch. >> oh. oh that's good. >> a few years ago, the newer one. yeah, the newer one. the newer one. we tried to watch the jim carrey one where it's like he's dressed up as the grinch. you thought that was creepy. so we went back to the animated one. >> okay, well, look, you guys have tau t me many things. i e

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yeah. welcome back. i'm dave clark. as we wind down, i just had a quick question about new year's new year's parties and things like that. do you feel if you go to a new year's party, you have to bring a gift and or you have to make a toast? >> oh, i don't think you have to. i like bringing cookies that i want out of the house. yeah, yeah. >> or those little chocolate, right? yeah. right. yeah. right. >> like, ooh, i got a five boxes of truffles. look, i like bringing maybe a sparkling bottle or something. that okay. or something? i might enjoy. i don't think you have to quickly, ali. >> no, i mean, i don't i don't like to go to a party empty handed. >> no. >> ever. so, i mean, you know, a bottle of wine or something, or like, maybe if there's kids there, a bottle of martinelli's, they can enjoy it too, right? >> yeah. this doesn't help anyone's dry january, but i always bring a bottle of booze to a party. that's sort of my deal. is a bottle of wine.

bottle of whiskey. usually i'm gonna drink it, but, yeah, it starts january second. january 2nd after the holiday. right. >> okay. now i know things about you guys. you, me, i always bring something i know i can imagine that something. well, look, i'm glad that you joined us. we love it with being here with you on, like it or not, i hope you'll always join us. we'll see you next time on like it or not. yeah yeah. >> all right. welcome in here to. like it or not, i'm alex savage here. a special new year's edition of the show. we're happy you could join us here. we put together a fantastic panel here. ktvu zone tom vacar. not you yet. okay. you save your jazz hands. no. happy new year. we're going. we're going this way. happy new year, tom tom vacar. you're all psyched about new year's. tom vacar. give us your best. your

best jazz hands to celebrate the new year. rosemary oroczo is here as well. thank you for being here. and of course, last but certainly not least, the incomparable the talented, the skilled. no, keep going. handsome, keep going. no! it's great. no. got his name by buying time. great prompter. what does it say in the prompter? well, happy new year to everybody. good to have you all here. all right, let's start with the first topic here. you know, this is this is a time to celebrate. do you like going to actual new year's eve parties, or are you more of a stay at home kind of a person? tom, what about you? going to the new year's eve party, like it or not? >> well, i used to. when i was younger. i go to any party i would go to and would have a trouble remembering it. but in recent years, let's say i've slowed down or the best new year's eve party i was ever at was myself and my wife, and we had dinner at the victoria falls hotel in africa. oh, wow. that

was special. >> wow. >> new year's eve in africa. that's. that's fantastic. that's an unforgettable memory for sure. what about you, rosemary? do you like going out or going to friends houses for new year's eve celebrations. >> i do, i do, yeah. and some days, some years we're working new year's day. so if i have the opportunity to have it off, i'm out. i'm out somewhere enjoying the moment. >> yeah, absolutely. greg, what about you? do you like new year's eve parties or. i think i know you're you're you're the extrovert party. >> no, no. i'm kidding. i do, i do love new year's eve party. >> there was a time many years ago, when i was younger, that we would go to, like, you know, the big hotel things or like, the all you can drink. >> the balloon drop. >> balloon drop, the whole thing. we started veered away from that. now. now we go hang out with friends or family. it's just easier. and you can be in one place and you're safe, and you actually know the people that you're with. and it's less of a to do. yeah. >> the drinks are free. the

drinks are free. you know, you don't have to wear a tux, but there is something fun about getting all dressed up and going out and celebrating. yeah, but you like a more mellow scene nowadays. nowadays? okay, so, i mean, with that being said, what about this whole notion you're not going to answer? oh, you want me to? yeah. you want me to go? i yes, i do. i do enjoy new year's eve parties. yes, absolutely. but i'm with you. i like i like a more mellow scene. nothing too over the top. yes. if it's at a friend's house or a family member's house and it's just a small. yeah, a smaller celebration. i'm here for it. nothing too over the top. not anymore, at least. but. but so, with that being said, you know, a lot of folks, i mean, they do like to go go big, right? they're going to go into san francisco and watch the whole fireworks show. if they're you know, they're on the east coast, they're probably going to go to, you know, go to manhattan, go to times square, do the ball drop. what about the large, over-the-top new year's eve celebrations? hordes of people crammed together in the streets? tommy, are you there for that? i know no place to use the restroom for hours on end. you like it or not?

>> there were many years that. that's all i wanted to do. i mean, really, it was just fun because it was, you know, the celebration of that. i think, you know, society has changed a little bit that we're not so much into that. i know we still see the thing in new york, but when you notice that they're just not the big affairs, that they are elsewhere. but i always liked something like that because it's such an event and you're with all these folks and all that stuff. but i think, i think covid took a little edge off of that. >> yeah, yeah. you're right. took took a little something away. rosemary, what about you? have you liked those events at all in the past? i mean, maybe it's not your scene nowadays, but do you, like still my scene? >> still my scene? >> still your scene. you want to go big? big? >> i do. i love to be out, and i don't like to be out in the cold. i don't know if i would ever do the ball drop in new york, but put me inside a place and yeah, music going and friends and festivities and yeah, i'm in. >> that's the trouble with new

year's eve celebrations, though, is that it's that time of year when it's just going to be cold outside, no matter where you are. it's going to be freezing cold, and sometimes it's too expensive and you're trying to gauge whether or not it's worth going in. >> sometimes i feel like there's too much pressure on those, like planned events. sometimes i think it's the sort of natural events that make them more fun. like for the blue angels, when they were here, we went out to the city and we're just around people in north beach. we saw you. >> yeah. >> bumping into during the italian parade, festival or italian parade. and it was amazing. like it was a big crowd of people all there for the same reason. so i like those things that that people come together around a common thing. but it's when it gets expensive, right? >> yeah. >> when you start tacking on the cost and there's all sorts of there's all sorts of hoops to jump through and barriers like you talk about, like you got to, you know, we always hear about the, the times square, you know, the ball drop. you got to get there apparently. right. you got to get there hours ahead of time. they put you in the pen nowhere to go, no restrooms. i

mean, it's it sounds like sounds like a nightmare to me. so i have no desire to do anything like that on my bucket list. >> i still want to do. is it really just want to do it one time? >> put this one on your bucket list, okay. i once spent new year's eve in new orleans. >> wow, that sounds was crazy. that's a crazy, crazy fun, crazy crazy, crazy fun. >> but i mean, just out of control. >> yeah, yeah, for me, you know, i don't like. i don't want anything over the top like that anymore. but in years past, when i. when i worked in las vegas, las vegas, new years. oh, yeah, that is over the top. that is something special. i mean, just the strip. just, like, packed with people, fireworks off of the hotels. that is something special. like, i don't have a desire to do that anymore, but that's a that's a special memory. like you said, like new orleans not to drag this out, but right before covid took my teenage kids. >> yeah. and we did the new year's eve on the strip. oh, cool. and they had a blast. it was really cool because, you know, when you're teenagers, you're old enough to enjoy the festivities, but you're too young to get into a, you know, a bar or anything like that. so it

was actually a nice option. >> there's a certain energy about it. yeah. like just being around, there's some people that are all there for the same reasons. >> absolutely. all right. well we'll talk talk more about new year's eve, new year's traditions here. more like it or not. com inin

yeah. all right. welcome back in here. to like it or not, i'm alex savage, back here with our special new year's edition of

the show. we're here with greg lee. rosemary oroczo. tom vacar. great discussion so far about sort of what what type of new year's celebration we, we enjoy, whether it's kind of the over the top thing with huge crowds or just kind of a mellow scene at the house. the other option is you don't celebrate with anybody. you just you sounds great. and that's what i usually do. >> no, no, no, my nerves. i'm gonna go and celebrate. >> no, no. but sometimes. look, i mean, especially when you have kids, it's like, no, we're not going anywhere. we're not trying to drag these kids to anything. we're going to be at the house and we're just going to hang out and. and to that end, right. if you live here on the west coast, you can you can just watch the ball drop in new york at 9:00 at night. and you can you can call it good. and that's and that's new year's in a nutshell, especially for kids that, you know, they don't know the difference. yeah. you've done this before rosemary. all right. so what do you think about celebrating celebrating a few hours early here on the west coast and calling it good i like

it, you know, depending on your schedule, depending on your setup, whether you have children, young or not, it's just as long as you celebrate. >> yeah. as long as, you know whether it's 9:00 or midnight or, you know, if you get to bed early or for whatever reason, celebrate new year's day. i'm a dirty girl, so i'm good with day parties. dirty, dirty dances. >> i thought you said dirty. >> i thought i heard something different. >> dirty day party day. party. that's what the kids say. >> yes, i go to a party. >> yes. we just want to clarify. yes. okay, okay. a day party, a day party. >> as long as you celebrate. i'm learning new things. as you celebrate the end and the new beginning. i'm, i'm. >> it's the next day when you got. when you got a lot of energy and all that. staying up to midnight is it's hard. it's hard. tom. do you, do you. are you okay with celebrating early? >> i am, but i think the reason is that everything after 9:00 on the west coast is just not well

done. which was just to say that, you know, as it spreads across the rest of the world, why not do hawaii at midnight? it's midnight in hawaii, you know, you know, three hours later. so that would put us, you know, to their midnight. but i think the thing is that it's just not terribly interesting after the ball drops, because they don't think of it in terms of another kind of opportunity to show people the rest of the world. now, some of it happens way before, like in australia. sure, sure. but in terms of, you know, going across the ocean, there could be some really fun things to do there. yeah. and wouldn't take a lot of stuff because the satellites and all that stuff, it would actually be quite easy. it would be much more interesting. >> that is interesting. we don't really it is sort of true to a certain extent. i mean, the fireworks show in san francisco is nice. i'm not. but you're right. i mean, it doesn't feel like it's appointment viewing for people to. yeah, i got to see what this show looks like. i guess the vegas show can be one of those that you see on tv, but it's a really interesting point.

what you're the point you're making. it's sort of like the ball in new york and that's it. not much else. yeah, yeah, yeah. so what about you, greg? are you are you okay celebrating a few hours early here on the west coast? you got to stay up to midnight. >> growing up would always do east coast, new years, and then we'd be done. and that's for the longest time. what i thought it was. and i was like, oh, it's 10:00. we're done. because we were mountain time. but as an adult, i have to stay up till midnight, no matter. my schedule is the next day. yeah, i have to. i have to at least even if it's even if i'm going to bed at 1215, i have to stay up till midnight and see the day through. okay. see my watch change. see my clock change. >> yeah. make. make sure the new year actually arrives. that's right. >> something doesn't make sure it's not y2k on the other hand, you go back just a week earlier and you know when you think about people with santa claus coming, they'll stay up all night if they have to because they want that stuff. >> that's right. that's right. if we were getting some gifts on. yeah. that's right. exactly. you'd stay up for sure. all right. so obviously people, you know, you want a toast when the

clock strikes midnight on new year's eve. you a champagne person, tom? champagne? do you like it or not? >> i think the immortal words of w.c. fields, a man needs something to believe in. i believe i'll have another drink. >> whatever it is. >> champagne sparkling wine in this part of the this part of the world, oftentimes. rosemary, are you into champagne? >> yes, absolutely. love sparkling. doesn't have to be champagne, per se. it doesn't have to be sparkling. yeah. okay. >> how about. >> yeah, all about it. >> some sort of sparkling wine? yes. >> i love some bubbles, dude. yeah, i love some bubbles. >> you probably want. it has to be from the champagne region of france for you. i know, i know your type. it has to be. if it's not, i know your type. >> what is this? sparkling wine from the napa valley. this out of here. darn it! yeah, yeah. >> champagne. >> anything sparkling. you're all for it. all right. >> alex, are you a bubbly? >> yeah, no, i do, i do enjoy champagne. i enjoy champagne a sparkling rosé is really nice, too. so secco prosecco would be

good. yeah. i'm not a big wine drinker generally, but i do like sparkling wine, vodka tonics, sparkling. all right, we got more like it or not. coming up right after the break. yea

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year with our fantastic panel. tom vacar rosemary oroczo. greg lee is here talking about, you know, our preferences when it comes to new year's eve celebrations. you know, we like to toast with something bubbly here. and another tradition that a lot of people have is the song you will hear playing once the clock strikes midnight on new year's eve. is an old tune and it's called auld lang sign. we all know this song. yeah, yeah, take it away, tom. tom, why don't you sing us a few bars? actually, you know what? i have something to help you. we have. we have some of the lyrics. i think we can put some of the lyrics up on there. >> should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. should auld acquaintance be got. >> in the days of old lang zion. >> you guys sound good so well, well, well well you got, you got the rest of it. >> sign, baby. >> old lang sign. yeah, yeah. >> there you go. take it away, tom. you guys. >> so should i put you down for a, like on that, then? >> oh, yes. >> an old like an old lang. like

on that. you enjoy when that song comes on on new year's eve. >> you know what? i still enjoy every year is that after the ball drops, they play frank sinatra and louis armstrong and all that stuff. i think that's great. what's amazing to me is after all those years, modern writers haven't come up with something you could add to them. >> that's true. >> i don't know if it has. it has stood the test of time. i mean, this is an old, you know, hundreds of years old, an old scottish song. >> well, but, you know, i'm talking about the thing right after the show, right after the show, the first thing they play is guy lombardo song, right? oh, i think it's old lang syne. but the whole point is guy lombardo was a guy from the 20s and 30s. >> oh, right. sure, sure. >> and you know sinatra later than that, louis armstrong late, but nothing modern. >> yeah, yeah, that is interesting. we need some modern. we have. it's interesting when you when you talk about holiday songs because christmas has so more songs than we know what to do with thanksgiving. how many

thanksgiving songs are there out there? not a lot. turkey. new year's songs. like you said, we got the we got the one that we keep that we've been playing for hundreds of years anyway. >> yeah, michael buble will come out with something. >> oh, yeah. new year's song. do you, do you know this song, rosemary? you like this song? you like when it comes on? >> i love to hear it. i think i would miss it if i didn't hear it on new year's, but i don't know the words, i don't. i can't sing it. >> i don't know more than the first couple of yeah, it's a tough one. >> yeah. >> okay. we're gonna we're gonna learn it here before i carry it with me. >> when i go tell me that. >> all right? i'm. i'm told by my producers here we're not leaving until we all learn. oh, perfect. every verse too, by the way. we're going to go deep. all right. >> but let's learn it in the original gaelic. so it's really. >> absolutely. >> greg, what is this? does this song do anything for you? >> i like i think it's traditions, right? it's traditions. it's something that every year, you know, we would hear come over the tv when we

were celebrating. and it's one of those things that you just get used to. it's a tradition that you have with your families and something that we for sure have. so i didn't remember it until tom sang it, and i love it. >> i like tom vacar version. >> tom's rendition was very nice. >> well, well. >> yeah, it sounded good. i like it a lot too. it sort of, you know, as you said, it sort of evokes this sort of melancholy kind of feel, you know, something, something old is, you know, coming to an end, something new is beginning. and there's something nice about that. yeah, yeah. songs are all about evoking certain emotions. so does that for me. all right. we're going to practice our we're going to work on the lyrics here during the break. and we'll be back with our rendition of auld lang sim on

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>> yeah. >> okay. we are back. more like it or not. i'm alex savage, back with the panel. greg lee is here. rosemary oroczo tom vacar as we wrap up the show here, obviously, you know, we talk about new year's traditions. there are some people who are very superstitious, to quote the great stevie wonder, very superstitious about, you know, things that you can and cannot do on when it comes to new year's. i was looking up some of these. some are somewhat obscure, but i've read that some people say you really should avoid breaking anything dishes, anything else, avoid breaking anything on new year's day. some people say you shouldn't do laundry or wash dishes on new

year's day. that's a tradition that some people have. and they also say you shouldn't pay back any loans or lend money to anybody on on on new year's day, i there's and there's those are just a few. rosemary what about you. are you are you into new year's superstitions? do you have any superstitions about things you do for the new year? no, nothing along those lines. >> i'm surprised at even the ones that you were just mentioning. i haven't. but one thing for sure, i'm staying out of the kitchen this year. i'm not going to cook or clean or break a dish or. yeah, yeah. with that. >> yeah, yeah. i mean, there is something about. right. you want to start. i mean, the whole idea is you want to start off the new year on, on the right note, if you're if you're superstitious and you know, breaking breaking something is not the way to go. tom. what about you? are you are you a superstitious guy when it comes to new year's? >> one time i did try to avoid kicking over a milk bottle and i fell under a ladder. but no, not at all.

>> so. sorry. >> all right. so not so. yeah, yeah. not so superstitious. >> greg, what do you think about this? yeah, i don't i don't have any, but i like that idea of not having to clean on new year's day. >> also, maybe i don't have to pay rent on new year's day then too. yeah, i'm not supposed to pay bills on that day. >> yeah, i don't yeah. i'm not sure how you're. yeah. how your creditors would feel about that. >> but my landlord will love it. >> your landlord. yeah i don't know. no, i'm not i'm not incredibly superstitious around new year's i you know, i might sort of, you know, sort of say a few kind of wishful thoughts to myself about hoping for, for a good new year, something like that. but i don't think i'm not incredibly superstitious, like with, you know, not wanting to break anything or anything like that. but yeah, that's, you know, a lot of folks have. yeah. have those superstitions. all right. well you, you tradition is you wake up on new year's day after a couple of glasses of

champagne or whatever your drink of choice was the night before. and a lot of people wake up and they want to watch the rose parade in pasadena. beautiful. beautiful scene, beautiful setting. you into this. greg, are you a rose parade? >> man? >> i love i love a parade that's like the best of the best. >> i love watching all the bands come through. i'm like, oh, look, that band is from the bay area, or that band is from new mexico and it's nice to see all of that joy on new year's day. right. like that's a it's a tradition. >> yeah. and those floats are are insane. yeah. just like completely put together carefully with, you know, flower petals and just i mean, the amount of work that goes into those is remarkable. rosemary, are you into the rose parade? >> no i'm not. >> rosemary is not into the rose parade. >> it might be on the tv kind of like background noise. yeah, yeah, but i can't sit and watch the whole. how long is it? it's. >> it's pretty long. it's like 3 or 4 hours. i don't watch the whole thing. i just like the

idea of seeing it. yeah. >> you know, i'll turn to it, watch it, walk away, come back, watch it. but yeah, maybe if you're there, maybe, maybe in person. >> it's more, it's harder to. yeah. i mean parades are certainly. yeah. there certainly are meant for you to watch them in person. i would agree with that much. yeah. i mean the whole idea is that you're sitting right there and taking it all in. so yeah, maybe maybe it doesn't play as well on tv. >> tom doesn't play as well. you get you get a better view. it's like watching football. it's really much easier to watch on tv. but i actually went to the rose parade one time some years ago, and it was spectacular. because you see these things and you realize how really sophisticated they are, way more than you would expect, much more detail than you would expect. real works of art. and it's pretty amazing thing. and then, of course, the community is so much together, so i like it. but i think something like that you should do once in your life, going to see it here on the west coast. that's an easy proposition. that is easy. >> you know, you just convinced me. i want to see rose parade. i want to go to times square ball

drop. no, no, we're making the list. let's not let's not get crazy. no, no rose parade, though, like tom said, i mean, it's doable. you go to southern california, you make the make the plan to be there and be on hand. i think experiencing that in person would be would be pretty pretty incredible. yeah. yeah. i mean those floats are are something else. they put them on display right after the fact. and then and then folks can come down and go check them out as long as they want. yeah. a great tradition. maybe we'll have to check it out. this is fun, you guys. yeah, it's a good time. absolutely. what about. what about football on new year's day? you guys? absolutely. i mean, without a doubt. have to. rosemary, what about you? >> like it or not, i like it, i like it. >> college football, new year's day. are you just saying that? >> oh, the show will wrap up. >> tommy, what about you? football on new year's day. >> sad. sad to say that almost every new year's i work because i want others to be able to take the day off and i. so i'm working. all right. >> well, we appreciate it. >> we appreciate you, tom. >> yeah, i doubt it. >> happy new years you guys. happy new year. happy new year

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