Speaker 1: You know how the famous saying goes New Year, who diss?
Speaker 1: We promised to bring that same clueless attitude into our
Speaker 1: first What's on your Mind? Of twenty twenty four? We're
Speaker 1: gonna start things off with Brooke like we always do.
Speaker 1: Hey Brooks, what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: My god?
Speaker 3: Okay, First, it is so good to be back in
Speaker 3: our brand new studio. I just it is so beautiful.
Speaker 3: If you haven't seen it, go to our socials or come.
Speaker 1: Into the studio.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure. But over the break, we got a chance to
Speaker 3: travel to Portugal.
Speaker 2: You mean you and your family?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Got us? Yeah, And I gotta say the strangest
Speaker 3: experience of my life was seeing Portuguese Santa Claus. It
Speaker 3: was like being on an acid trip. Well and I've
Speaker 3: never been on an acid trip, but this is what
Speaker 3: I imagine it to be.
Speaker 1: How is Portuguese Santa different than San Over?
Speaker 3: First, we go wait in line and behind the door
Speaker 3: where Santa is we can't see, but we keep hearing
Speaker 3: all this applause pond like large groups of people are plotted.
Speaker 3: I guess. So we're like, you know, talking like what
Speaker 3: is this gonna be? So finally, a large Portuguese sparkly
Speaker 3: Elf opens the door right and lets twenty of us
Speaker 3: in to a pitch black room filled with black lights.
Speaker 3: Wait where, like there's like, oh my god, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's like spray painted knee on Santa on the wall.
Speaker 1: Does Santa have his shirt?
Speaker 3: And he's not even in there. All that's in there
Speaker 3: is the two elves. So we proceed for the next
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes to play some sort of Simon says
Speaker 3: where we're pointing to our hair and our bellies.
Speaker 4: We don't really know.
Speaker 3: We're just kind of trying to follow the same.
Speaker 4: Movements and then when you get it wrong, they sing
Speaker 4: a song and they clap it around in a circle
Speaker 4: and celebrate how stupid you are. After twenty five minutes
Speaker 4: of this, finally the door opens, so we go into
Speaker 4: the room and there is the skinniest Santa you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Well, I just think Europeans, so maybe a better Mediterranean,
Speaker 3: you know, And we just do a couple of thumbs
Speaker 3: up photos.
Speaker 4: It's like thumbs up and then.
Speaker 3: We're ushered out and both kids look at me and
Speaker 3: they're just like shock in their face. They're like, we
Speaker 3: didn't like that.
Speaker 2: It is not like the typical so.
Speaker 3: Just you know, different culture, different vibes. That's cool.
Speaker 1: J what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, you guys didn't know. I went to Disneyland overbreak
Speaker 2: and it was amazing. Everything was awesome except for one thing.
Speaker 2: I was in Tunetown. Oh amazing. So I'm buying Mickey
Speaker 2: ears at a shop. Done after my purchase, I'm fidgeting
Speaker 2: with them, trying to put them on, and I look
Speaker 2: and I see an exit sign. Well, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I look up and I'm in a long hallway. No no,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I'm not supposed to be here. And
Speaker 2: then I I turned back around just to open the
Speaker 2: door behind me that I just went in, and there's
Speaker 2: a sign that says check your costumes, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh no, I'm in an employee hallway. And then I
Speaker 2: realized that there's a code on the panel on the inside. Well,
Speaker 2: I can't just open the door again. So then I
Speaker 2: start wandering down his hallway and it is long, and
Speaker 2: their signs like remember the Magic, and I'm just freaking
Speaker 2: out because there's just door after door and it's like
Speaker 2: real life Alice in Wonderland.
Speaker 3: What color is it? A video?
Speaker 2: I didn't want to I'm scared. I gout of it,
Speaker 2: but I almost call the police because I was like,
Speaker 2: what do I do? Like, I'm trapped at Disneyland in
Speaker 2: a long, gray hallway. I can't even if I thought
Speaker 2: about testing doors, but even if one opens, I don't
Speaker 2: know what ride I'm behind. I'm not gonna walk in,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, I'm like a character on
Speaker 2: a ride. Like so I start to freak out. I'm like,
Speaker 2: when do I call the police? And then eventually this
Speaker 2: teenager walks in an employee yeahs there, and I'm like, home, Oh,
Speaker 2: I got help me. I'm lost and I'm scared and
Speaker 2: I'm trapped. I don't know where I am. You're a
Speaker 2: grown man. I really was scared.
Speaker 3: Safe place brings out the child and all of us.
Speaker 2: So she does what she should do, and like I'm
Speaker 2: a child. She's like, okay, let's calm down, take a breath.
Speaker 2: Where were now?
Speaker 1: Where's your mommy?
Speaker 2: And dash? She literally said, She goes where's your family?
Speaker 2: And I'm like I'm all alone. She's like, it's okay,
Speaker 2: where were you? And I was like, I was buying
Speaker 2: the years and two down and I just wanted to
Speaker 2: go back to she's like okay, and then she grabs
Speaker 2: my hand and she's like, let's get you to Tune Town.
Speaker 2: She held, she puts in the code, gets me back in,
Speaker 2: and everything was fine.
Speaker 1: Budge made it out. Okay, yeah, alexis what's been on
Speaker 1: your mind?
Speaker 5: I'm going to add onto the vacation stories. And I
Speaker 5: went to Italy, but it wasn't exactly what I expected. Okay,
Speaker 5: what do you expect? Well, I knew their coffee was good,
Speaker 5: I heard, but like the issue is they just have
Speaker 5: like one shot of espresso, you know, at the counter,
Speaker 5: and like that's not going to do it for me.
Speaker 5: I want to ice and I need four shots and
Speaker 5: they don't do that. So I ended up going to
Speaker 5: Starbucks a lot.
Speaker 3: They don't even have ice.
Speaker 1: Go to Starbucks in Italy exactly.
Speaker 5: Then I had to hide my cup walking around because
Speaker 5: it was like pretty embarrassing nobody had it. And then
Speaker 5: I love the croissants, but I got tired of them,
Speaker 5: so I did find myself really craving a sausage biscuit
Speaker 5: and I had to find a McDonald's, which I did
Speaker 5: eat in Italy.
Speaker 3: You just went to Italy to experience the United States.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a you know, and then it's like
Speaker 5: people talk up the big like things there, like the Colisseum.
Speaker 4: I went to Okay, yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 5: I took photos, but not of the broken rocks in
Speaker 5: front of me. I took them. There was a cat
Speaker 5: loose in the coliseum area, and yeah, it was way
Speaker 5: more exciting than all the history around me. I just
Speaker 5: followed this cat around the Colisseum and like with that,
Speaker 5: that is it great? Not really, I mean, but that
Speaker 5: made it worth it. I just want to give some
Speaker 5: honesty to people before they go to Italy, so you
Speaker 5: know what to expect.
Speaker 3: Jeffrey, what's on your mind.
Speaker 1: I went to the nether Leans for our holiday break.
Speaker 1: It's a little intimidating being around the people of the
Speaker 1: Netherlands because they're all very tall, very fit, very naturally
Speaker 1: good looking. Yeah, the whole city bikes.
Speaker 3: Everywhere, so like five languages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, educated. But the most intimidating part of it
Speaker 1: was when I went to a bathroom at one of
Speaker 1: the local pubs. No one was in the stalls there.
Speaker 1: That's not where I'm going with it. I'm not intimidated
Speaker 1: by that. The the journals in the Netherlands are like
Speaker 1: a foot taller than they are than in America.
Speaker 3: Oh is it like can you reach?
Speaker 1: You see? In order in order to get my business done,
Speaker 1: I had to take a step back and coast guarden that.
Speaker 1: But you know, the coast guard has those like boats
Speaker 1: the spray water up onto. They're not like flat across.
Speaker 1: It's like an upwards arc, like a Steph Curry three
Speaker 1: pointer from Downtown.
Speaker 2: Splash Brothers.
Speaker 1: So it was a challenge. Got the job done, and
Speaker 1: I am a better person for having visited the nether world.
Speaker 2: This is like a postical.
Speaker 3: Course something like I feel for whoever had to clean
Speaker 3: that bathroom message, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Playing seven eight, five nine two, tell us what's been
Speaker 1: on your mind? It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 3: Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.