People of Northwest Arkansas
The People of Northwest Arkansas is a podcast celebrating the power of storytelling by providing a platform for individuals living in Northwest Arkansas to share their unique and inspiring life experiences. We believe that every person has a story worth telling, and through our podcast, we aim to amplify these voices through thoughtful interviews and engaging storytelling.
People of Northwest Arkansas
Reflections and Anticipations: Nostalgia, Milestones, and Our Love for Northwest Arkansas
Reflecting on the year behind and the one ahead often brings a mix of nostalgia and anticipation, doesn't it? We've ridden that exact emotional rollercoaster, and now we're inviting you along as we recount the birth of our podcast, the evolution of our connection to Northwest Arkansas, and the little quirks that have become staples of our show—yes, including my undeniable love for the word "absolutely." We explore the landscape of Northwest Arkansas, from the tales that could make it on the silver screen to the construction reshaping our neighborhoods. Tossed in the mix are our candid thoughts on New Year's resolutions and the personal milestones we're eyeing for 2024, so come for the reflection and stay for the dreams.
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Hey Danielle how's it going today? It's good. I'm just like thinking about the year in review.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've had a pretty great year and we're going to talk about that today, as well as what to expect for this next year, 2024, with people of Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in the crazy year we started the podcast in September and we've got a lot planned for the next year. It's some really fun guests. We do and it's all been kind of a whirlwind, but it's been super fun.
Speaker 1:It has been a lot of fun. I think you know when you think about 2023 and even though we didn't start launching episodes until September, we've been planning this for a long time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know we probably started meeting sometime in February or March to start talking about it. Talking about, you know, this desire to do a podcast, jump into it what you know what kind of a topic we would like to have and focus, and I was really excited that we decided to pick people of Northwest Arkansas. You know, really looking at people's stories, what makes people who they are and why that's a big part of our community here in this area.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know, and as if it wasn't a small town enough, now I feel like when my husband's always like, when we go out, you always see someone, yes, and I think that's the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, Well, and my favorite, that has happened like twice to us now, maybe even on the same day or within the same timeframe. We've been together and people are like oh, it's the Daniels, that's so funny. And that is really funny and I think you know, when we start bringing more Daniels onto the podcast, it'll just grow and grow. The best name ever I know.
Speaker 2:There's so many Daniels coming to mind, we got to.
Speaker 1:Maybe we need to do that for an episode the Daniels we really do and if you have a recommendation of a Danielle that we should bring on or a Danielle or you know of a Danielle email us, Email us Definitely. Absolutely, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's talk about that, your comfort word.
Speaker 1:Absolutely my comfort word. I know I don't know why it's my comfort word, I think it's.
Speaker 2:I think it's just my way of like agreeing with people you know, and just be like maybe that should be your resolution. Yeah, Disagree with people.
Speaker 1:Disagree with people, don't worry, disagree with people. I think that I need to work on not saying absolutely every other word and I need to work on being on time to things more. Is that your resolution officially? I think so. I don't. I have not ever really done a lot of resolutions because I feel like that they are hard to commit to. You know, like you set this really high standard of I'm going to do this, I'm going to change, when really I am a believer that change happens over time and that usually happens through experience and just the different things that we go through. We learn and we grow and we change, and it sometimes just happens in a natural way, whereas I think you have to be super intentional when you set a goal or set a new year's resolution, you know you're committing to something and trying to do your best, and I think, for me, I think I need to get to the root of the problem of why am I always late?
Speaker 1:I'm just perpetually late and I feel bad because I know that some people believe that that is really disrespectful and rude to be late and that you're disrespecting somebody's time, and I honestly I think that there's something more to it, that as I get older and more forgetful, I kind of wonder if maybe I have like ADHD or something and need to look into a scatter.
Speaker 2:I've wondered if I have that as well. Then I think just tick talk, you know like make you think that you have.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, social media makes you think you have all sorts of things. Yeah, like problems.
Speaker 2:Maybe everyone's self-diagnosing.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:Maybe we're just moms. Maybe we're just moms.
Speaker 1:But at the same time, like I kind of think I need to work on work on that. And I want to work on that, because I want my friends and people that I'm working with to know that I do have respect for them and that that is an important thing is to actually be on time.
Speaker 1:I have a funny story though, about this, because my friends give me a lot of crap about being late. I mean maybe not a lot of crap, but it's kind of like a joke that, like they know, I'm going to be late to pretty much everything you know and I have one friend who she's like. Sometimes I tell you a different time.
Speaker 1:I've had friends like that too, just to get me there on time. And then, like a friend, the other day, she sent me this meme that said you know you will win like $10 million, for you know the person. You invite somebody to a thing and if they're late you win $10 million. Who are you inviting?
Speaker 3:Daniel, she's like inviting you, daniel.
Speaker 1:Do you have any like goals or New Year's resolutions? Have you thought about it? Still thinking about it?
Speaker 2:I only just recently thought about this meeting, like maybe within the hour. I don't usually make them because I just feel like I don't keep them. So maybe I mean I'm always trying to be better. So one thing I've been thinking about is my cursing. I tend to use profanity a lot, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's probably why you think I curse when I'm not cursing.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, and my husband doesn't curse like at all. Really no, he never curses like, not even when the kids aren't. He's just not like that. But me, I'm the sailor.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Like I feel like sometimes a good F-bomb really gives those sentence that punch it needs. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And so maybe I should use less profanity. That would be one I'm going to think.
Speaker 1:Or just use less profanity around Elliot. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, use less profanity and I'm going to say I'm going to try to like cut gluten out of my life only because my husband's gluten intolerant now and I feel like if I cut it out then maybe it will be more helpful for him Like less temptation yeah, plus I've heard it's just better for you not to eat it anyway.
Speaker 1:Well, hopefully you know one of our upcoming guests that we're going to have on the show in the new year. Meg Green. Maybe we could talk to her a little bit about eating plans and cutting things out of our diet and then also looking at balancing our hormones. I'm excited about that episode.
Speaker 2:I want to do that.
Speaker 1:I'll add that to the list.
Speaker 2:We definitely need to add that to the list. Okay, what's like in your new year's plans? Anything crazy.
Speaker 1:Nothing crazy. I'm going to be going to two different parties, though You're always going to all these parties.
Speaker 2:I swear.
Speaker 1:So downtown Bentonville Inc is having a new year's party.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so we're going to that and then we're going to a friend's party. So I'm not sure if we'll like kind of bounce back and forth like where exactly we will ring in the new year, but both those things are on the horizon.
Speaker 2:You know what I heard? I heard a really funny like alternative to kissing on New Year's. Someone said why doesn't just everyone just scream, oh my?
Speaker 1:goodness Instead of kissing. That would be so alarming. I think I would love that.
Speaker 2:Loud scream.
Speaker 1:Especially if you know you're a single person and you don't have anybody to kiss, I know let's include our single friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's make them feel apart On the kiss.
Speaker 1:You're like come in here, come on, we're all going to share some germs here. Yeah, nobody has COVID right? Nobody has anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, my word, I'm no longer in COVID. I'm so glad I'm so glad, so that's something that did happen to me this year I finally got COVID.
Speaker 1:That is wild stuff, isn't it?
Speaker 2:It was. It was a wild ride. Knocked you down, knocked me down, yeah. So let's talk about highlights from the podcast Anything, any guests or any moment that really surprised you or like you really took something away from that, something you didn't know before, never thought about, yeah, or didn't know what's happening here.
Speaker 1:Didn't know what's happening here. I man, when I think about our guests, there's a lot of things that were pretty fun Just learning about people and their stories and just their journey to whatever is a business or to music. I really enjoyed meeting Coco and hearing about her journey as an artist and as a musician and just being young and just figuring out like how that world works and that was a pretty fun story to hear her. I think one of the stories that stands out and wasn't necessarily something like that I learned or was this big like takeaway was the story about Bo's grandma oh my gosh, I know her solving the murder that was so wild.
Speaker 1:Yes that solving the murder, like as a as a filmmaker, as somebody who makes short films and documentaries, I want to. I want to be part of that. I want to turn that story into a film. How fun would that be to make.
Speaker 2:I know right, and something that is coming out of Fayetteville. Yeah, how about just something about the ghost and pinpoint the ghost at pinpoint.
Speaker 1:The ghost at pinpoint, yeah, what was his name. Again, I can't think of it. I can't either. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:But I know he was turning on, not Stanley. He turned on digital underground, though.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, for Bo yeah.
Speaker 2:I know, oh my gosh. So how do you feel about what's going on in downtown? It's so crazy right now.
Speaker 1:It is so crazy there's so much going on downtown, do you?
Speaker 2:mean all the construction.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, there's so much construction downtown Bentonville. There's so much construction on J Street surrounding areas. There's even a lot going on in Rogers. There's like over by the amp. There's so much, I think you know. It's just a testimony of how much this area is growing. And, yeah, it's inconvenient and frustrating and sometimes I forget the detour is going to take me in the direction I do not want to go, I know. However, however, it is going to be great once these things are all done. You know Walmart's home office is getting closer to being done. I don't know how I avoid J Street like the plague, and recently I had to drive down J Street because I was headed toward a business that was on J Street and so I had to go on J Street and they've done a lot of work, like you can see them already starting to work on landscaping, and it's just going to be a really neat area, like all the things that are happening.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I've heard people are really jaded with Austin and so my concern is they're all going to start coming here now, and I've even heard of it.
Speaker 1:I've met so many people that have come here just because they visited and they're like wait, I didn't know Arkansas was like this, right, and they're coming here they really are and so I think there are some really great realtors in the area who are showcasing Northwest Arkansas in a way that is appealing to people who are living in big cities that are struggling to afford to live there. So they're going to come here and make it a struggle for us to afford to live here.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I know.
Speaker 1:Hopefully that won't be the case. I think you know things are thriving and growing and I think it's a great place to live. I love Northwest Arkansas. I never thought that those words would come out of my mouth as someone from. California Like I love Northwest Arkansas and I don't see myself moving back to California anytime soon.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you know how. There's this SNL skit that the Californians what do you think the Northwest Arkansans would be like? Like what's their personality?
Speaker 1:I feel like that if SNL tried to do something, they would get it wrong, because there's a stereotype of Arkansas. I mean it's very different if you come to Northwest Arkansas. It's very different from the rest of the state.
Speaker 2:I was just thinking it's the mountain bikers, the mountain bikers. That would definitely be good, you know okay, the Arkansas hipster, the Fayetteville hipster, it's like a thing, and actually I read something that maybe the hipster actually came from Fayetteville with the beard and the mustache and the, or they just all migrated here the hippie hipster? I don't know.
Speaker 1:They'll migrated here. It's like a mix of like Colorado and I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know either.
Speaker 1:That's what you get here Northwest Arkansas, I know, and not everyone's like that. You, you know, you come to Bentonville and you're you're going to see and meet a lot of young business people. You know people who are working their way of their corporate ladder, whether they're working directly for Walmart or working for a vendor or or someone else you know a supplier, and so it's kind of an interesting mix of people. And then you meet people who are like that mix of I'm kind of a hippie but I also work in the corporate world.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I love those people. Oh, I just thought of something maybe I'm going to do for 2024. Okay, get my first tattoo. Yes, what's it going to be? It'll be something to do with like planet stars, something.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Astronomy, not astrology. Astronomy I don't get down with the astrology. Sorry guys but, as far as like astronomy is.
Speaker 1:Wait, I heard that you're like soaking your.
Speaker 2:You know, like I do not wash crystals or bathe them or whatever In the moonlight. No, I do not do that. Okay, that's okay. You know, I don't charge my crystals in the moonlight.
Speaker 1:There are plenty to do, so you're going to do something with astronomy, not astronomy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think I'm going to do something. I haven't drawn it out yet.
Speaker 1:So you're going to create something unique rather than maybe like a constellation? Right, I'm going to draw something out. Okay, yeah, yeah. That's pretty exciting. Yeah, we'll see, I should get my first tattoo this year too. You'll have one, I don't have one. What if we went and got tattoos together?
Speaker 2:Yes, oh my goodness, do you want a tattoo?
Speaker 1:That would be awesome. We should totally do that.
Speaker 2:We're going to go together, we record it. I got a guy.
Speaker 1:I got a guy.
Speaker 2:No, my husband goes to the studio on A Street which is actually really hard to get to right now because of the detours.
Speaker 1:Okay, we should do that.
Speaker 2:I don't feel like that's a resolution, though, because usually resolution.
Speaker 1:It's not a resolution, it's a. I'm going to do this.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get a tattoo. I want to do this Because you know what Midlife crisis? Oh, also, I'm thinking that I'm a planner, that I might plan my midlife crisis next year too.
Speaker 1:You're going to plan your midlife crisis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:I feel like All right, what, what? What are the components and the ingredients involved? I think I'm going to change my hair.
Speaker 2:Do something crazy get a tattoo and maybe get a new car my husband's going to hear this and be like hey, watch it. Lady Brienne is still going strong.
Speaker 1:Lady Brienne yeah, that's right. I mean you did get her brakes fixed and her shocks fixed. She's still longer bouncing as much as she was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, I know my God, she's all good now, okay.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about your hair, though. What are you going to do, what? What are some ideas? Are you going to dye it a color? Maybe you know what you should do is you should do one of those videos where you have, like, like your hairdresser has the two different options, oh, and then you like it's like what is it called? Hair style roulette?
Speaker 2:or hair, oh God Hair style roulette, I mean you pick the two options as long as actually to nightmare the other. No, just last night that they tried to give me like a care in haircut and I will not do that.
Speaker 1:So no, a short pixie.
Speaker 2:And no, no, no, no. I don't think I could do that. I was thinking just like a short length to the short length to the shoulders, and I want to go totally opposite. Maybe I'll be like black hair, black hair.
Speaker 1:She's giving me the look. I don't know about the black hair for you. I don't know that it would go on your with your skin tone in your eyes.
Speaker 2:That's my thought. Okay, so maybe just the style, yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe the style, maybe a color, maybe you could go like bleach a blonde.
Speaker 2:I've done that in my party days with the bullfitt in the front.
Speaker 1:Have you ever thought about doing a bump in in the front? I've been a bleach blonde before. It's been a long time, though it's a lot to keep up.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about planning my crisis, but planning your crisis, yeah, why not plan it out so it doesn't go off?
Speaker 1:the rails. What's funny is that most people would not consider that a midlife crisis?
Speaker 2:No, what do you do? What did? Did you have one?
Speaker 1:No, so have I had one. No, I mean I don't know, you're there. I mean, you're there, you're in your midlife, daniel, what's happening, I feel like for me, instead of a midlife crisis, it's more of a I've kind of come to own and just be who I am.
Speaker 3:So mature, you know. So mature and learn.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I think for me just kind of like my I don't give up, kind of stage of life. You know, like I've kind of hit that rather than a midlife crisis, but it's more just like you know what, like some people aren't going to like me, and that's fine. You know, like I used to it's more of a state of mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is more of a state of mind and just realizing like I'm going to learn, I'm going to grow and I'm going to have these different experiences in life. But, like I don't know, I think a lot has changed for me and in my perspective on life and what I'm doing with my life and how I'm living it and trying to live it to the fullest. And I think a lot of that is because of my experiences with walking through seeing my parents die, watching people die, through my work with my documentary and through the work that I do with menocytic breast cancer patients I mean, there aren't my friends, like you know. Watching people go through these things and learn to live life a little bit more fully has really changed my perspective.
Speaker 1:And so I mean maybe every day is a gift, every day really is a gift, you know, but like tattoos, I'm going to get tattoos and a lot of these things are more acceptable, I think, if you were going to go through a midlife crisis, like let's kind of plan this out for Danielle If she's really going to have a crisis she needs to do like bright pink hair yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll be 39 next year. Tattoo.
Speaker 1:You need to do a sleeve.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing a sleeve, no no, no.
Speaker 1:What would Danielle's crisis? We might need to ask our listeners to give us some ideas for you. We still have time.
Speaker 2:We still have time, Because some people really don't care about age as a number. 39 is kind of the thought of it. I'm not going to be. I mean, I'm going to be honest here. It's kind of bothering me. Yeah, yeah 39 is is. Why is it bothering?
Speaker 1:you?
Speaker 2:I don't know, because I guess I feel a certain age and I cannot believe I will be close to 40.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Also actually I need help, people you know, to give me ideas for my 40th birthday.
Speaker 1:I was thinking Vegas. I have some good ideas for this. Ooh, that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Maybe we need to get our guests Ross to hook us up with a magic mic VIP experience.
Speaker 1:I mean there's a lot of. There's a lot of great things happening in Vegas. That would be a fun 40th birthday. Yeah, I will say to the point of being nervous to turn 40. I remember going through that, but I will tell you that my 40s have been the best that I've been so far.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:Sweet, absolutely, oh my God. No, but they really have, and I think a lot of that has to do with this. Just like coming into my own and really realizing who I am as a person and owning that living life and having fun and not caring what other people think about me yeah, and just enjoying life. How are your knees, though? My knees suck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 1:But not like too much. They don't keep me from certain activities that I still.
Speaker 2:Do you have any recommendations for osteobye? Flex? Do you take that? No, we'll ask Meg about that. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you something about just this year and thinking about this podcast that we've been doing and did you think that you would love this as much as you do? I don't know she does. I don't know what to.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what to really expect. To be honest, that's good, that's a great answer. I would say way more than I had expected. It's really fun when you wake up each day and get to be a part of your community, so I like that. I've always been in the people business. Before this, I was in events and then sales To me. I can't just sit behind a desk and communicate with people like that.
Speaker 1:So I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2:And I know that that's a big part of work now and something we'll probably touch on the podcast is the future of work and what that looks like, because it's changing. There's still a lot of experimenting going on, but I think, at the end of the day, you need people with people.
Speaker 1:You do need people.
Speaker 2:So you know, it's even evident itself checkout Okay, you can't just let people go on their own, Doesn't work oh my goodness. You need human to human contact for things to work out well.
Speaker 1:I really agree with that.
Speaker 2:You know, like have you seen the trend, the TikTok of the self-employed or the work from home office party.
Speaker 1:They're just by themselves eating.
Speaker 2:queso Like yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, but more queso for you. You can double dip, you can double dip.
Speaker 2:Oh, so what are you excited about for next year?
Speaker 1:I would say I'm really excited to see how this podcast grows and bringing more guests on. I think it's been really awesome. There's been a great response. We've had a lot of people interested in coming on the show. We've had incredible guests. There are more incredible guests coming on for the new year. Just a few people to think about there's a guy who was on the Magic Mike show on HBO Max.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bang, Bang yeah.
Speaker 1:He's an incredible rapper, incredible rapper, who lives here in Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 3:Of course.
Speaker 1:Meg Green, who is gonna come talk about hormones and talk about what's going on with just the world of health and getting tested for things that you don't really think about.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I think, as a woman, I loved that episode and I think that you know we have a little, you know, I guess, surprise, we're gonna be working with her a little bit too on our own. Like hormones and health and, getting you know, having better habits. Well, so we have on JD Anderson, jd Iceman, iceman, oh my gosh, breaking World Records.
Speaker 2:America's Got Talent.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Running Through Fire and Ice, like his interview is gonna be really fun. People are gonna enjoy that. They're gonna enjoy that podcast.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this is not Arkansas related, but what was your favorite movie this year 2023.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh favorite movie of the year, I feel like I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 2:Barbie I knew you were gonna say it. I knew it. Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 1:I loved it. It was a great movie and I definitely put some Barbie things on my Christmas list.
Speaker 3:Did you?
Speaker 1:I did. I mean nothing like crazy. I'm not asking for actual Barbie dolls, but I asked for, like, a Barbie sweatshirt and I don't know. All the things that are pink are just, it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Did you meet any celebrities. This year Did.
Speaker 1:I meet any celebrities? I don't think I did.
Speaker 2:Because I did, you did, who did you?
Speaker 1:meet Paris Hilton.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I totally can't believe I forgot that, yeah, I was in Walmart and I thought there was like a robbery or something going down at Walmart because there's all these cops in the front and I thought, well, they're probably good, they have it under control. So I just walked up and I saw this woman like posing, all dolled up because, like you know, she's Paris Hilton, and I was like, okay, so I just keep walking. I'm like you know, I'm not going to try to get in the mix. Then she gets on that right on luggage and zooms right up next to me.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness Into the store and I'm like well, I have to get this on video. Yeah, you do, which, by the way, my video made like five news. Yeah, I did so. Then she's like buzzing around, laughing or whatever, and like this is unreal, like is this happening right now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, good morning. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you don't expect that when you're running to Walmart after drop off. But anyway, I got a picture with her, so that was cool. We get a lot of celebrities in Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 1:Thanks to Walmart.
Speaker 2:Yes, so that was kind of cool. Yeah, yeah, and she's all about pink. I think my favorite movie would have been Barbie too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a really great movie. Yeah, favorite song of the year.
Speaker 2:Okay Well, spotify told me oh yeah, you're Spotify Raps. Yeah, my Spotify Raps told me that my favorite song this year was group love. All you know that song, nope. Well, look it up.
Speaker 1:You'd be surprised at what mine is, I'm sure. What Taylor Swift? Oh, my God, you're like my daughter's Yep, because I have an eight year old daughter that shares my Spotify, but we just changed that recently. So next year, what would it have been? I have no idea. Probably something nineties music of some sort.
Speaker 3:Yeah, very nice, that's great.
Speaker 1:I'm really looking forward to this next year and the challenges that we have ahead, the exciting opportunities that we have, not just personally but with the podcast, and it's been a great year.
Speaker 2:See our kids grow. Mine will be in double digits next year, oh my goodness, 10.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Wow, I know it's exciting. She'll be a whole decade. Oh, I know she told me she's like an adult.
Speaker 2:So do you real quick before we end. Do you have any traditions that you do at New Years? Because I eat grapes? My friend started this a long time ago. You're supposed to go under the table and eat 12 grapes, why? And then New Years Day, you eat black eyed peas.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:For good fortune, and I do not, even if it's just one. You eat that black eyed pea.
Speaker 1:I would eat one, but I do not like black eyed peas.
Speaker 2:It's never done me wrong. Knock on wood. I'm very superstitious, you are superstitious.
Speaker 1:So what are the grapes do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, every, like when the 12 strikes everything Every thing, Uh-huh, it's supposed to bring a year of good fortune, and then you eat the black eyed peas, or more good fortune, financial.
Speaker 1:So that's good, all right. So when you eat this, these 12 grapes at each ding of the New Year, when do you kiss Elliot? Before you eat the grapes or after before? Oh, so kiss, and then you're like go under the table and eat your grapes. You go under the table. Yeah, that's interesting tradition. I'm going to have to try that this year.
Speaker 2:So each of your 12 grapes, each of your black eyed peas, even if it's one, and then it's all on your head, I guess, I don't know, or maybe the universe changes when you eat those grapes.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, make resolutions. If that's your thing. Word of the year, if that's your thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, word of the year, I'm going to go with present, present, I'm going to be present you should be present, and you're present.
Speaker 3:Oh your gift.
Speaker 1:Thank you, you really are a gift. I've really enjoyed getting to know you even more through this process through hosting a podcast, and we've met a lot of people, we've had a lot of fun, we're going to get tattoos together.
Speaker 2:We've laughed with.
Speaker 1:Brock off air and on air.
Speaker 2:Maybe we can get Brock to get his first tattoo with us.
Speaker 1:No, that's probably not going to happen.
Speaker 3:But we could try. All right, we could try, but yeah, it's been a great year.
Speaker 1:I think we could sign off. Let's do one more cheers for 2023. Cheers All right Cheers.
Speaker 2:Hey, thanks so much for listening today. If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing to the podcast so you never miss an episode. You can also follow us on Instagram at peopleofnwa. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3:People of Northwest Arkansas with the two Danielle's produced by me. Brock Short of Civil Republic Productions. Please rate, review and like us on any podcast platform where you listen. For more information about today's guests and the show, please check the show notes. Thanks for listening.