Weekly Friday Recap! Life Changes & Spotify Wrapped

The reveal of our taste in music for 2024 is finally here. Were you disappointed or surprised by your results? I'll also be sharing a little life update and what it’s like living in SLC. Hope you enjoy <3

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Chapters

• 4:00 Spotify Wrapped Deep Dive
• 32:50 Trends Going Into 2025
• 40:11 Life Update

Transcript

Hi, hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Unreliable podcast. My name is Hannah, and today is a bonus episode known as a weekly Friday recap. And in these episodes, I like to chat about the most recent news in pop culture, in your guys' lives, updates on my life, TV shows, just music, culture as well, a lot of random topics. It's kind of a free for all, and I love it.

I love doing weekly Friday recaps because they are really relaxing. They're really chill. And Wednesday or, I guess, sorry, Thursday episodes, I used to do them on Wednesdays, but I do them on Thursdays now. That is typically when I explore more about the the basis of what my podcast is about, which is the relatable and unrelatable experiences that we have in our lives that we often feel we don't relate with anybody else on. You know, there's lots of experiences that shape who we are that I feel at least sometimes can make you feel quite alone or quite like there isn't anybody else in your life that would understand.

And that's not to say, oh my gosh. I'm so unrelatable. I'm just so different from everybody. It's not that at all. It's kind of like a I don't know.

I don't know what the correct oxymoron. I don't think I don't think that's a word. But, basically, it's just talking about the ways that we may feel unrelatable in life because we actually realize that we may be more alike than we thought even if we're coming from different perspectives, different families, different religions, different cultures, everything. And so Thursday episodes are more when I talk about, you know, topics like mental health or pressures of social media, friend dynamics, and the small victories and losses along the way. So I know most of you listening probably already know that because those are the episodes that usually attract new listeners, whereas the weekly Friday recaps are just kind of fun and random.

Actually, that's not true. My episodes about the secret lives of Mormon wives are my most listened to, which is actually insane because I only put them out, I think, in August. Right? Was it August or September? And they are already my top episodes.

But don't worry. I won't be releasing I will actually be covering the 2nd season, but that won't be until the spring, I think. And it'll just be on our weekly Friday recap, so I will keep our Thursday episodes the same for anyone who doesn't really care about about that world. But yeah. So, anyways, today, what are we talking about today?

Well, I thought it would be fun to do a little life update and talk about Spotify Wraps, some pop culture moments happening out there. I mean, it's been several weeks since I've done a recap, and so there's a lot of things to chitchat about. And if you're interested in that today, well, then welcome back to, you know what it is, another episode of the Unrelatable podcast. I'm happy you're here. Spotify Wrapped.

Where do we start? Well, we can start with the fact that up until last year, I thought it was Spotify unwrapped. You know what I mean? Like, you're unwrapping your Spotify. You're unwrapping your most listened to artist, like, a little present because, you know, it always come out the 1st day of December or the 1st few days.

I don't know what possessed me. I don't even understand it. I did I literally didn't know until after I recorded last year's Spotify wrapped episode, and I had called it Spotify Unwrapped in the title. I yeah. You know, super wild.

I I cannot even believe it. But, anyways, I love Spotify Wrapped. It's a really good way to sift through the people that, you know, you can hang out with and those you can't. And I'm not talking about music taste. I don't discriminate.

I'm saying we all have our own artists that we listen to in the thick of it. What I'm talking about are the people that don't wanna see it, the people that don't want to see Spotify wrapped. In my mind, I'm like, okay. So you hate joy, and you hate learning new things about other people. Got it.

Got it. You don't actually wanna know anything about anybody else. Super cool. Anyways, the build up to Spotify wrapped was huge. I mean, they had all these artists with their own personalized brand of Spotify, posting about it.

I mean, the the expectations were very high, And then they put us on to only not release it for several more days, and we were all just I don't know. My sister and I were chomping at the bit just waiting because, listen, it's like a good little present. Right? It tells you you have the best music taste in the world. It gives you an applause for being the most unique music musical, I don't know.

It just give it just makes you feel like, yeah, you appreciate music. You have good taste. Congratulations. You're the top 1% in the world. You are special.

Right? Except for this year, it was a little bit of a disappointment. It was, might I say, a letdown. Last year, we had astrological readings. We had our top albums, our top genres, and all of the buildup this year only to get some weird techno looking graphics with our top artists' songs and a weird podcast.

Listen. I actually love notebook l m. That's what they use to do the podcast. I've used that this year. What I've done, actually, I've put in my journal entries because I've journaled a lot over the last few years, and I put in all my journal entries.

And you can put in even what else can you put in? You can basically put in a whole bunch of different documents, your journals. You can put in photos. I think you can even put in audio recordings, and you can ask it questions of, hey. Please give me a synopsis of my of my year this year.

Please summarize it. Or, hey. I would like some advice. I don't know. I mean, honestly, Chat GPT is like a therapist.

So if you if you can't do therapy right now, just get on to Chat GPT because you can ask it so many helpful things. Anyways, long story short, it's basically AI. And what it does, it'll is it'll go through all of your material, and it'll create a 15 to 20 minute, depending on how long and how much material you give it, podcast episode. And I felt I felt like they were extremely helpful. It gave me insight, and I know it sounds weird.

I guess I guess I would have to explain more. But it was extremely strange because I listened to my Spotify podcast, and they just sound so dumb. And, like, they don't know anything, and it's because of AI. It's because Spotify had it automatically take her information, which also weird. Okay?

You didn't even ask me my permission to make a podcast, but okay. Whatever. I guess I do share my beats of the week every every weekly Friday recap anyways. But you know what I mean? It was just a really weird podcast.

And this is not news to me, but I have the same taste in music as a male manipulator. And so each year, I think, okay. Do I post this on my personal account where I have friends, family, past people I went to seminary with, you know, childhood friends from 20 years ago? Or do I post it to my fitness account where there's definitely gonna be more people that can relate to my taste in music? Or am I gonna do it to my podcast page where you guys already know the music culture?

I did it to my personal one this time because I just thought, you know what? Let's sift through people that aren't going to like me anyways. And, hey, didn't lose a follower this year. Honestly, it's not that serious. But sometimes when I do post my opinions, you know, you lose a follower or 2, so it's kind of interesting when that happens.

But, yeah, woman in male fields is what you can describe my top artists as. I mean, let me brag for a minute. I'm top 2% of listeners worldwide. Okay. Let me know if you're in the 1% because I will bow down to you.

This one felt more realistic than past years because they don't count the minutes you listen to podcasts anymore. And anything over, like, 10 minutes, I think they consider a podcast. So sleeping sounds, brown noise, they no longer count, and that makes it a little bit more fair. I think it evens out the playing field a little bit. Also, if I lose my voice, it's because I still don't feel amazing.

I don't know if you know from last week's I think it was the last two episodes. My voice is just gone. I feel like in the wintertime, I get a cold that lasts, I don't know, 4 months long, and it's just like a sore throat, voice thing. So yeah. Anyways, sorry about that.

But long story short, yeah, my taste in music, I'm learning from Spotify Wrapped is a little bit I mean, it's actually not news to me. It's not news. And I will tell you can I tell you? Yeet, do you know who Yeet is? He essentially is, like I don't know how to even explain him.

Don't listen to his music. It's not great. I listened to it because I his songs were really motivating me earlier this year. I mean, there's a song okay. If you listen to any of them, Heavy Stunts with Don Toliver with the I like that one.

He just has really corny music. Like, never quit is another one. Tell me. Money's so big. Oh, one that's good is none I change.

Like, nothing I change, but just none I change. Yeah. Essentially, it is exactly what it sounds like, and it is purely for the gym. And, actually, before I give you a rundown on Spotify Wrapped and share your guys' Spotify Wraps, This year's top gym artist was E. Okay.

Last year, it was snot. I know. Not great. The year before, this was, what, 2022 with Suicide Boys. They showed up on my top five for a few years in a row, and I don't really remember what 20 twenties and 2021 was.

Oh, wait. Yes. I do. This one's really bad. 2021 was Ashnikko.

If you don't know, then amazing. I actually probably crossed her out when I posted my rap that year because it's the most trashiest music. Like, it's worse than what you think your worst music is. I I promise you. It's really bad.

Okay. I might I might not even be able to continue this episode. I feel like I'm literally about to lose my voice, but we're gonna keep we're gonna keep trucking on. Okay. So, essentially, the podcast, I played it yesterday.

I waited and because I was, you know, pretty disappointed, and, yesterday. I waited and because I was, you know, pretty disappointed and Spotify wrapped, I I was disappointed in it. And so I waited a few days, listened to the podcast yesterday, and it said March. It started off with March going into my genre, and it said that my March genre was defined as boujee football rap, whatever that means. Essentially, future Kanye West, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, and Gunna.

Yeah. Like I said, I have the same taste in music as a male as a male manipulator. I know it's it's not great. Maybe next year, we'll step into our feminine a little bit more. I don't know.

Basically, what they said, it was so funny. They said, future is is is really interesting. And she was like, yeah. Future's really interesting. And the man said, future's kinda known for his mumbling style.

His mumbling style, it's different. That's what my podcast hosts had to say about future. I wonder what future thinks about this. His mumbling style, I've never thought of that before, but I don't know. Maybe.

I mean, I I cannot deny it. I started listening to Future in 2017. I think it was the 1st summer of summer sales. Yeah. That had to have been 20 wait.

Yeah. Because I got married in 2016. So 2017 is when I very first started listening to him, and I was a little bit late to the game, but that album of his was called Future and Mask Off. That was that was the song that got me into it. And then I jumped into his album Evolve, and that's where we got lowlife with The Weeknd.

Actually, that's probably the first time I ever heard him was with The Weeknd's collab, lowlife, in 2016, but it wasn't till 2017 where I really started listening to him. And I took a break for a little bit for a little bit. And then when he dropped his album this year with Metro, I really like Metro Boomin. And the fact that they collabed, and, obviously, that album is what kick started the entire Kendrick and Drake feud. I don't know if you knew that, but, yeah, basically, Future and Metro had on Kendrick Lamar.

That song like that, right, is where Kendrick disses Drake, essentially calls him out, starts this month long rap battle, which is over now, I would say. I mean, we'll get to that later, actually. But, yeah, I just thought it was funny how they said that he's known for his mumbling style. I don't know. Okay.

I'm rambling now. Let's continue. Then they kicked off to my April my, April genres. And let's actually start off with your guys' because I asked you on my Instagram which one you got, and the first submission was pumpkin spice roller skating pop. The pumpkin spice is what's really getting me.

Pumpkin spice in April, of all things. I just wanna know. Give me your top three songs because I wanna listen to some pumpkin spice roller skating pop. It sounds wholesome. It sounds good.

It sounds healthy. I want it in my brain. The next one was pumpkin spice synthesizer new wave. Spotify is seriously out here creating their own genres. The pumpkin spice, though, was pretty consistent, I found.

And so, yeah, let's continue to April, and I'll keep sharing your guys' as they come in. But I told you, right when I checked in and I I said I couldn't tell you in good faith in April what I was listening to. I was going through this phase where I had no idea what the heck I wanted to listen to in the gym. I was a little burnt out from music. I was feeling burnt out in the gym, and so I turned I turned to EDM.

Yes. I did. We already talked about this. I couldn't give you any beats of the week during that time because I I don't have first of all, I don't have the credentials to have necessarily good taste in EDM, but it did call April my academic beats EDM phase. They said, yeah, Hannah.

This is the type of music you listen to while you're studying or while you're at the gym. Sorry. Which one is it? Because those definitely are not on the same plane. What do you mean academic beats, EDM phase, whatever?

They gave me my top two artists, which was, don't judge me, it was Fred again, and the song was stay in it with Lil Yachty and then Luminee. And Luminee's song was if there's one thing. And those two songs, I guess, got me through the entire month of April, so that was interesting. That was a nice little flash flashback. But heading on, we have an August submission, and your August submission was sweater weather throwback pop Canadian rock.

Again, I need some example because that is insane. That is absolutely insane. It's like they it's like they saw you listen to the song Sweater Weather by the neighborhood 50 times, but then you had I can't even drop. Like okay. Metallica?

Is that rock? And then they and then you listen to Metallica, like, a 100 times. So they just had to wait. But they're not Canadian? What is Canadian rock?

I don't even know what that is. Okay. So then it continued onto October. And in October, they said that my vibe was rainy day, softcore, dream pop, which is accurate. And my top artists were yellow house, beach house, red house, blue house.

No. Just kidding. No. I'm serious, though. It was yellow house, beach house, and then cigarettes after sex, of course.

And yellow house, this is where my top song comes in. This song, mind you, wasn't even released until June of this year, and I didn't hear it until July. My sister, Sofia, showed it to me, which it's her birthday today. Happy birthday, Sofia. The older and older my siblings get, the more strange I feel like life is because I cannot believe that they are getting so old.

It's weird. Anyways, happy birthday, Sofia. She showed me the song, trouble always finds me. I already recommended the song for you guys. I put it as my beats of the week, I think, at the end of July or the end of August or something like that.

And, apparently, Trouble Always Finds Me by Yellow House was my number one most listened to song of the entire year. I think I listened to it for, like, 5 weeks straight, and then I haven't listened to it. I mean, I guess I have on and off. So I guess it's accurate, but I played it a 100 times, it said, which I don't know in regards to your guys' top song, what that lines up on how many times you listen to it. Not totally sure.

But Cigarettes After Sex, my top songs from this year were Tejano Blue and Cry. Love Cigarettes After Sex. I had in my top songs, I also had Chihiro. That was number 2 by Billie Eilish. Bittersweet by Billie Eilish.

Number 4, Thought I Was Playin' by Gunna. I love that song. He just his his aura, I just I envelope that when I go into the gym. I just I love it. Love me some Gunna.

Even if he's blacklisted from the other rappers because he's a snitch, it's okay. You can hang with me. And then my 5th top song was Blue. So 3 of those on my top five were all Billie. Of course, we already knew this.

It's no surprise. Okay. Another one of your submissions for October, since I just told you mine, was hot chocolate slow dance indie music. Hot chocolate slow dancing, that just kind of sounds magical. It sounds like that's what I want my December to be is hot chocolate slow dance indie music.

Just nice and relaxing, nice and wholesome. I want that. Okay. November was really it didn't even include this in my video Spotify Wrapped, but the podcast did. So this was what I learned, and that's why you should listen to your podcast because it might give you an extra month.

For me, it did. And it was November. And they said, Hannah, your top artists for November were Billie Eilish, Evanescence, and Linkin Park. They said, maybe you're just getting into the holidays. The holiday mood.

That's what they said. I wrote it down word for word. Maybe you're getting into the holidays. The holiday mood. Okay.

Is everyone listening to Evanescence in Lincoln Park for the holidays? I was I laughed so hard. I laughed so hard. So, yeah, it it is worth it to listen to the podcast because it might make you laugh how ridiculous it is. A few other notable mentions that I had that I received for genres, pink Pilates princess strut pop.

We already know that's probably Chapel Rone. It's probably Sabrina Carpenter. Love it. The next one, vlog escape room future base. My guess is that is that that is, like, some funk EDM.

I don't know. How how do you guys rate my guess as 1 to 10? I'm not I'm not I'm not too sure. Actually, yeah, let's rate these 1 to 10. I'm gonna say pink Pilates Princess Strut Pop is hilarious, and I'm gonna rate it 8 out of 10.

Vlog escape room future base is a 2 out of 10 in my in my world. I not super impressed by that genre name. I'm sure the music that you're listening to is actually good, and they just made it whoops. Sorry if you heard that. I just dropped my my AirPods.

Yeah. Anyways, sorry if I don't I just don't know why they generalize it so much. I mean, don't feel weird about it. Mine was literally boujee football rap. You can't get dumber than that.

Okay. The next one was alien old school soul funk fun phase. Oh, wait. Sorry. I read that wrong.

Alien old school soul hunk fun phase. That's just I need to know what that is. What are the aliens listening to? I feel that you might have insight on what we need to know to survive the next 5 years. Give it to me, please.

That one I'm gonna rate 7 out of 10. Next oh, this one's 10 out of 10 for sure, and it's cinnamon softcoreartdeco baby. I already know that Lana Del Rey was your number one most listened to. I we already know it. Lana Del Rey, who else is up there?

I mean, we got her. We've got why can't I why can't I think of anybody? If I'm being honest, a lot of my newer artists, maybe not Ethel Cain. Ethel Cain was one of my newer artists for this year, but she's more, like, I don't even know what her genre would be. I don't know.

I'm just gonna say Lana Del Rey is cinnamon softcore art deco, baby. Spotify is really out here creating new genres. Okay. Next one, mcbling. Mcbling strut pop face.

Who do you listen to to get mcbling? Is it is it, what's his name? He's bought is it Pitbull? Is it Pitbull? Are you listening to Pitbull?

Is Pitbull your number 1? Pitbull, Kesha, Beyonce, maybe. Would she be pop? Yeah. Probably.

Next is serotonin skateboarding indie phase. And this comment, she said, there was no serotonin involved in the making of my playlist. Yeah. Putting serotonin with skateboarding with indie, I don't know. They're just not sure all of those words belong in one sentence, but okay.

I saved my favorite for last, and that's coastal grandmother ukulele oldies. I that is what I aspire to be maybe next year. And now, honestly, they can't get rid of these stupid genres. They can't. We're all gonna be wondering what our own unique AI genre is next year now.

At least I am. I'm gonna try to make it a little bit more interesting than the ones that I got, which were which ones did I get? Oh, rainy day softcore dream pop, academic beats, EDM phase. I hate that. Literally.

Okay. And then boujee football rap. So stupid. Honestly, don't tell me don't tell me that. And then my top five songs of the year, I already told you that Billie took them over.

It might not seem like I have an exquisite palette due to this year's Spotify Robbed. That's how it's making me feel, but I promise I do. I do. Those were just a little part of it. Okay?

I was in my really just puff up my chest, get ish done in the gym mode. Okay? Everyone who had their Drake in their top five can can sit down. You don't get to have an opinion. I wouldn't post it either if Drake was in my top 5.

No. I'm just kidding. I purposely went to his profile in the beginning of the year because I was listening to a lot of old Drake. And then all that stuff happened, and I was like, you will not be catching me having a pedophile on my top five. So I put on Spotify, don't play this artist.

Yeah. If you're really committed to the bit, you will do that. No. I I don't think I told you what my top 5 artists of the year were, but it was, number 1 was Cigarettes After Sex, number 2, Billie Eilish, number 3, Travis Scott. Gotta have that problematic rapper in my top listen to every year.

I freaking swear. Number 4 was Future, and number 5 was Eat. Again, rip to my rip to my top 5 most listened to artists because of the gym. Whatever. I was actually surprised.

I expected, some Kendrick up there or The Weeknd or Frank Ocean. So, again, even maybe even doggycore. If you don't listen to doggycore, look him up. Look up his song, Booms, and then Sunny Doggy. They're pretty sick.

If you know, you know. Anyways, I do feel like I have a wide variety in music, and Spotify just didn't really validate that this year. But whatever. It's okay that I have to excuse myself for 1 of 1 or 2 of my top artists in my top 5. It's whatever.

It's not like everyone else is not doing it right. Right? Okay. Next up, since we're in the music world, I might as well mention, we already know this. I'm a bit late to the game, but Kendrick dropped.

He dropped his newest album. How do you guys like it? A lot of people I feel like it's back and forth. A lot of people have a lot of opinions. My favorite one, obviously, is TV off.

I also really like Squabble Up. I do. I do like that one. And then, of course, the heart part 6. We love we love the heart, and those are the ones that I that I would say are my top ones.

Oh, wait. I didn't even tell you my top one. My top one is not TV off. I do like that one. My top one is HeyNow, feet dotty 6, whoever the heck that is.

HeyNow gets me so hyped. I don't know why, but I just I really like that one. And then Tyler also dropped, Tyler creator. I don't know if I'm speaking to the right audience for this one, but, yeah, I I love me some Tyler. Really enjoyed this album.

I liked it, darling. Obviously, like him, feet, Lola Young. Lola Young is our girl who dropped the song Messy recently, which if she would have dropped it months ago, that probably would have been my most listened to song. So love, love, love those 2. They're also going on tour.

So if anyone wants to sponsor me, those 2 concerts are on my top five things to do in 2025. Listen. Tyler doesn't tour very often. If there's anything you should know about Tyler, the creator, he he's just been doing festivals. And then Kendrick, I missed Kendrick and baby Keem because I was out of the country last year.

I missed SZA because nobody wanted to go with me. I'm telling you, I'm not letting that stop me anymore, obviously. I went to Billie Eilish on my own, but I'm not missing Kendrick and SZA together. They're touring together, not missing it. If I have to fly to Minneapolis again, so be it.

I'll do it. I I will do it. Flights there are really inexpensive. Again, mine was under a $150, and my ticket to Billy was, like, $100. Not kidding you.

So worth it. So so so worth it. Okay. Anyways, next. Spotify wrapped was, yeah, a little bit of a letdown.

But instead of that, why don't we create an Instagram rep, a TikTok rep? I wanna see you you think you're brave for posting your your top five? I think I'm brave for possibly posting my top 5. I wanna see the top 5 accounts that you looked up in 2024. Wanna see the people you're stalking.

Okay? That would actually be brave. I wanna see the accounts you're watching content from. I'm so nosy. Anyways, so, yes, I wanna ask you, how was Black Friday?

The deals are just not the same deals anymore. It is really it is really insane because I I did buy a few things. I got a trench coat from Cotton On because it was 40% off. But remember back in the day when it was buy 5 items and get 10 for free, Buy these AirPods for 80% off, and people just line up out the doors. I mean, maybe it's a good thing, but I don't know if it is.

I feel like more money is actually still being sent even with not as good of deals. And now is when I tell you 2025, we're gonna get a whole new surge of new trends and everything, and you're gonna feel like everything you've bought this year is out of style, and that is the whole point of consumerism. Right? Because next up is skinny jeans. Yeah.

They're they're back in. You might see them popping off, but please know if there's anything we're going into with 2025. It's your own personal style. Okay. Maybe you've been wearing skinny jeans this whole time.

Amazing. Perfect. But we're not doing any more trendy shopping trips. We gotta just live and let live. We don't have to live and copy.

We don't have to live and be a consumer constantly. I mean, yeah, skinny jeans are coming back. I won't be buying them anytime soon. I actually think I kept my skinny jeans from years years ago because I thought these are for sure gonna come back in style. I mean, they look good.

They hug your body. They're like leggings, but a little bit nicer. Right? I mean, again, I won't be buying any. I'm really loving baggy jeans.

I am a low rise baggy jean girly to the day I die, and I know that that might be a wild take. But just remember going into this new year that trends are all about consumerism. Fashion is not trendy. Okay? And so okay.

That's a lie. I don't know why I said that. A lot of times, they like to paint out that trends are fashion. And if you're on trend, you're always fashionable, but fashion is a huge variety. You don't have to be buying the newest crap all the time to have good to have a good fashion sense, to have good taste in fashion.

You can simply go thrifting. You can I don't know? My favorite thing to do to do is to go on Pinterest and get motivation or inspiration not motivation, but inspiration from photos on there and then to use what I have to build more outfits. I in addition to the trench coat, I did buy a few other things, but two things I got are some really cute low rise baggy jeans from Urban Outfitters. They were also 40% off.

So I spent less than a $100 for 2 pairs of jeans. I don't know. It felt like the right thing to do. I I know literally a few episodes ago, I was talking about the fact that we need to stop, like, buying so many things and that we don't need it. But here I am, story of my life.

I I go through phases where I don't shop and then I do shop. And Black Friday always tends to get, you know, a pair of jeans out of me. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Last but not least, life update.

Yay. We made it to the life update. You already know if you've been listening, but I moved to Salt Lake City. City living is cool. I like it a lot.

I enjoy where I live. I live by a lot of restaurants, which means for the first two weeks that we were here, I ate out so much. It was insane. I was even eating I even caught myself ordering a sandwich. I don't like sandwiches.

The sandwich was so freaking good. It was I don't know if you've ever been to the restaurant Caputo's in Salt Lake. They have the most organic and whatever else ingredients, and I got their meatball sub, shared it with my sister. It was amazing. It just warmed my belly on a cool fall day.

Then I walked over and grabbed a coffee. It's just so nice, but what's not nice is the air quality. The air quality this week is really bad. I'm not in the mountains anymore, and I knew this about Salt Lake. I mean, the mountains are all over the place.

And I already knew this about Salt Lake that the air quality is bad, but I also kind of forgot. So we're currently staying hunkered down, which is hard because I feel a little bit restless. I took crew out yesterday, and we were going on a w a l k. He's in the same room as me right now, so I can't say the word out loud. But we are going on a w a l k.

We're about to leave my apartment complex, and this lady was like, oh my gosh. Can I pet him? He's so sweet. And I said, yes. He's a little bit shy, but then he warmed up to her really quickly.

And she said, my dogs wanna get out so bad, but the air quality is so bad. I just feel like I can't take them running at the park. And I was like, oh my goodness. I didn't even think about that. And today, it's obviously worse, but yesterday, I literally took him on 2 walks.

Am I gonna die? Are crew and I gonna die? If you don't hear from us in the next week, just assume we died from apparently really poor air quality because I just didn't even think about that. So, yeah, we're staying hunkered down here. Next on the list, spent Thanksgiving in Arizona.

I don't know if I told you that in my last episode, but I rode with my grandparents because we figured if we could all save money driving and save driving an extra car all the way to Arizona, I also never doing that again. I am done with road trips. Driving across the country, moving across the country 8 times, which is 16 times driving across the country, tell me, have you driven from Utah to the East Coast 16 and then back and forth 16 times? Yeah. I didn't think so.

Sorry. My sass is coming out because I am done doing that. I'm gonna fly everywhere I go. I'm so sorry. I will wait, and I'll buy a cheap ticket because last year, that's what we did.

We flew to Arizona, and it was only I don't know. I think it was less than a $150, and I saved myself 2 days of driving. Time is money. Come on now. Anyways, my grandparents still use road maps.

Actual physical maps. It is I was entirely shocked when we're getting on the road and they pull out their map. They don't pull out a phone. They don't trust their phones, first of all, and they just start pulling out their map. It was so funny.

I was like, what is actually happening right now? I didn't think that anybody used road maps these days, but, apparently, they do, and it's actually really smart. I need to get one for my car. My dad told me, he said, that everybody should have road maps of the entire USA in their car for when the world ends. So take that as you will, but I don't know.

It kinda seems like a smart idea even if you do or do not believe that the world is ending currently in this moment. So I'm saving this update for last because I don't wanna get all depressing on you. Lots of things in my life are happening right now, and all I'll say about it is that I feel really hopeful for 2025. These last several years of my life have been extremely hard, the hardest ones, in fact. I'm actually shocked Spotify didn't mention my new top artist of the year, Ethel Cain.

Ever heard of her? Yeah. I was actually going to take an unannounced break from my podcast, but then I realized that I don't want to, and I cannot stop living my life right now and doing my best despite the hard things that are happening right now because I owe that to my not only my future self, but to past Hannah, to Hannah in 2023 who started the podcast off with healing from, I don't know, healing through Ketamine and going through what I went through last year. And I don't know. I just feel like I owe it to myself to not go ghost, which is always that that's typically my plan of action for when for when I am feeling the way that I feel right now is to stop posting, is to wipe myself from the whole planet, even though it doesn't seem that way because I have, you know, like, 15 freaking Instagram accounts.

I know. I get it. I I'm the least mysterious person. If I'm suffering, I'm suffering in surround sound. We already know this.

No. But not all the time. And, anyways, I just realized that I'm glad to have this year behind me. I'm glad to have a lot of years behind me because there's a lot of exciting things that I'm looking forward to next year. I feel very grateful, very fortunate to be in Utah and to be surrounded by people who have really been there for me over the past year, especially when I moved far away to North Carolina.

It has been so so I don't know. It's just it's just been so evident. The people that are just I don't know. I just appreciate a lot of I just appreciate everyone right now. I appreciate you guys.

I appreciate, yeah, I just appreciate you guys, and I just am grateful to be here. I'm grateful to not be in North Carolina. And updates on Asheville, they're doing okay. The temperatures, like in Utah, have gotten really, really cold despite their elevation not being as high as ours is in Utah. Their elevation is still relatively high for that area.

I mean, you have to remember, a lot of them are at sea level in North Carolina, and then you get all the way up into, like I don't know what it is. I think it's is it 2,000? Let me look it up real quick. Asheville's elevation. Maybe it's only, like, 700 or something.

Elevation. I'm typing with one finger. Yeah. 2,100. And I think here in Salt Lake, we're, I don't know, 43100.

So, anyways, they still get really cold, though, because the mountains get really windy and foggy. And that that organization that we raised over $5,000 altogether, all of us, you guys helped The organization we raised $5 for back when the hurricane happened is called Beloved Asheville, and they're still doing extremely hard work. They're delivering 100 actually, I think, thousands of heaters to people because people are cold. And they finally got water after 58 days of no water, and you had to shower in gyms because they would bring potable water, I think, is what it's called. They'd bring them in big trucks.

Walmart. I remember going shopping at Walmart right before we moved, and there were campers all parked outside of Walmart, and you were able to take showers there. I just didn't take a shower. I didn't take a shower until we packed up and got back on the road, and I don't know. Caden tried to.

He went to the gym. I already told you guys this, but he went to a gym and he put his name on the list, and he had waited for an hour and a half. And he was finally just like, screw this. I'm not waiting. And I think he took a shower.

Anyways but I'm scared. I was scared of that water, so I didn't. But one of the worst parts is just that it looks just like it did the day after the hurricane hit a lot of areas, not downtown, of course, because that's the way that Asheville makes its money is by tourism, especially in Christmastime with the Biltmore Estate. And so the areas that are not as touristy, the poor areas have so much work to be done, which is really heartbreaking. And I feel really guilty not being there and not being able to help.

It's hard. And I just I feel like I haven't even processed that part of my life yet, but we have time. We have all the time in the world to process these internal and external hurricanes that we have been experiencing. But, yeah, anyways, I just wanna say thank you. Thank you for being so supportive, and thank you for listening to my podcast.

It's it's obviously just a fun hobby. And while I was thinking about quitting it and just not doing it for the next little while, I realized that I really do enjoy it. And I enjoy it because of you guys, and I enjoy it because of when you give submissions and when you submit your stories. And along those lines, I do have some new story submissions that are open. I would love to get your feedback.

It literally takes, like, 1 minute. Okay? And they're all anonymous. So if you're interested, it's in the link in my bio at unrelatablepodcast on Instagram. And with that, that's going to conclude today's episode.

Again, thank you so much for being here. You are wonderful. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Unrelatable podcast, and I will talk to you soon. Bye.