Zones of Genius

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Hello and good evening, everyone. I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach. And I'm here with Michelle McCarthy, brand strategist, and Carrie Barrett, PR and publicity coach. Publicity.

The first module is all about how to say it. Great. You're in the right place.

And tonight we're going live, talking about zones of genius, which we obviously. Debate around how to spell genius anyway.

When you get to make up your own spelling.

I know, right?

I mean, just a little housekeeping.

We are going live to the Facebooks, LinkedIn, YouTube, multiple other LinkedIns and Instagram. So welcome wherever you're joining us from. If you have any questions or want to add into the conversation, please do pop things in the chat. We love this to be interactive. And I just wanted to point out, like, we have such a great example of zones of genius because we all have our own respective zone of genius that really doesn't quite overlap with the other two.

Yeah, we're adjacent.

We're adjacent. Complimentary.

We're genius neighbors.

Yes. To quote Carrie earlier on, if you put all our brains together, we may have one functioning.

Today. Mine is the weak link. And most days, mine is the weak link. You have a good.

So you're tired.

Oh, my gosh, I'm so tired. I did a keynote yesterday. I was up at 3:30 in the morning because I'm just. I never feel prepared, so I'm practicing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I didn't get home until really late last night, and I'm having a very difficult time stringing one word after the other after the other in order to make a sentence that is not even genius. That's just coherent. So get ready for an interesting live.

Well, so far you've done pretty well, so.

But I was concentrating. Really?

All those years of media training, you couldn't tell.

Kind of paying off. Oh, my God.

Find out later. She has captions that she's reading that she wrote in advance.

I'm reading a teleprompter. That's actually not a bad idea. We sound perfect. Next week you'll know why.

Well, no, if you just, like, go off on like a weird tangent that doesn't have anything with what we're talking about, we're like, okay, Carrie, Sure.

Yeah, exactly. Well done. You're a genius.

Thank you, Steve. Kidding. Over to you.

Yeah.

I was Just going there. Lauren, tell us about the traffic.

Oh, my God.

That would be a really fun skit for us to do. Actually.

Actually, I think it would totally. What? Who would you. Who would you be, Michelle? Would you be traffic weather anchor?

I'd be the weather I'm in.

Yeah, that's true. You're right. Okay. Duh.

Or maybe like, our wildlife coordinator.

Like a correspondent.

Yes. See, I didn't even know that word. So.

You could also coordinate the wildlife.

Yeah, no, no.

If we're talking about souls of genius, that is absolutely, definitely. That would be morally irresponsible. Especially.

Especially not the koalas, given what we now know about them from last week. Was that last week or was it the.

It was a couple weeks ago.

Okay. Yeah, I'm. I'm really back dating these episodes. You would have had to become very attached to this live stream to remember that conversation.

I love it.

We had a conversation about how mean koalas were. Sorry, go ahead, Michelle.

No, no, I was just gonna say we could be like Taylor Swift and leave, like, little. Little nuggets in each life.

Easter eggs. You straight up? Yes, I have all the words.

You have all the words.

You're really firing on all cylinders. I know you don't feel like it, but.

No, you know what? I actually. I created a post about this today. I was really feeling. As I was preparing for this keynote, which, by the way, was to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And so. Yeah, and I was not feeling it at all. And I think part of. Part of my problem has been this won't be a therapy session. I'll keep this short. Part of my problem has been stuck inside the walls of my home doing this business thing, whereas in the. In a newsroom. And I was describing this yesterday, it's such a flurry of activity. And you've got all these huge personalities, and they're all very witty, and because they have to be. And they. They think quickly on their feet and they have all these diverse perspectives. And it kept me on my toes and it kept me sharp, and I had. You know, each show was like its own improv class, and I haven't been around that. And so I was feeling very sort of like I had lost my creativity or lost my edge or lost my mojo. And I had. I hadn't done a keynote in a while, and I picked up the mic and suddenly it all sort of began to click. And I felt, you know, I was able to crack, like, impromptu jokes and I was able to ad lib, and people were Like, I think they were getting it. They were laughing. It sounded genuine. I've been told that that doesn't happen very often in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission bunch. You don't say. They were, you know, they were fantastic. Not at all what I was expecting. They're a great bunch. My, My point is, I have felt different ever since that. Like, I was on fire on my podcast today and not on my podcast, but I was guessing, like, I don't know, it's bringing. My step is back and I feel like I just needed that. Maybe that's my zone of genius or, you know, or one of my many where I felt like I was back in the. Back in the game. And I'm very modest. You're right. Yeah.

Extremely modest.

Actually. That's one of the things I'm not so good at.

I mean, I think is that not like a what's. Again? I lost it.

Like a prerequisite if you're going to.

Work in the media. Like, like, you can't be humble, like.

Yeah, well, I. That's a good question. Well, you can have really shitty self esteem, though. You just can't be humble about it.

But usually people who are the, like, the most confident usually do have, you.

Know, shitty self esteem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Right here. So confident.

I'm like, I don't think so.

Yeah, yeah. It's true. It's an odd. It's an odd. It's an odd business. Nevertheless, I've got my mojo back, at least for this, and all my words are coming.

But that whole point that you made about how, like, being in the newsroom and having that. That improv and that energy and like, dancing with each other, I think that's one of the most beautiful things about a partnership, is that you get to do that. You get to have that, you know, with the people that you're partnering with. And I think it. It goes well when you have, like, Michelle. It's mirrored. For me, it's not mirrored, Michelle. Like covering the brand stuff, me doing, like the business strategy of, like, here's the steps we need to do. You doing all of our PR stuff because we're not stepping each other's toes. We can kind of respect each other's turf.

Yeah.

And come together when we need things from each other without, like, feeling like we have to guard our territory or like someone's not doing enough or, or whatever.

Yeah. And we all, we all have our own separate areas of. I mean, it's interesting. That was a very nice segue, by the way. Thank You. You did that as if you were a professional news anchor.

I actually was in high school.

I was.

I was an anchor in Harvard High School's News, sports, weather and more.

Really?

You didn't know that? I feel like now that you're saying it, I may have heard that before.

Yeah.

So were you doing the morning, like, updates and news. News updates and one show a week.

It was on Friday and we pre recorded except for once, and that was a disaster. And it was honestly just my friend Madison me giggling and trying to, like, say stuff. But, like, we didn't have a teleprompter. We were just like, coming up with stuff like on ad Living. And you know, we do, like, really technically advanced things. Like at Halloween we'd, like, get the green screen out and then we'd wrap, like, green cloth around our body.

Yeah, yeah.

Floating head.

I'm so jealous. That is actually one of the coolest TV tricks.

Wow.

Video of that.

I. I could probably go to the community center, my hometown, and ask them. Yeah, I should.

You should find it. Yeah.

We didn't have anything like that. The closest I got was being at my neighbor's house and she got. We got like a blank tape and a radio and we pressed record. Oh, yeah, look, this is showing my age, the fact that I did this.

Because, you know, you have to hit play.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Yeah, and then we, like, we made a fake, like, news report.

Yeah.

But the funniest part was that I brought it home and played it, like, in my room as I was going to bed, thinking that I could be. I'd be able to trick my mother into thinking that it was like a real radio station. As if my mother, who gave birth to me and raised me and knew me every day of my life, did not know my own fucking voice. And she was like. She was like, oh, oh, did you. Did you guys, you know, record a radio? And I'm like, no, mom, it's like. It's the real radio. I think we even broke for ads.

Oh, my God, that's amazing. Do you have that tape?

No, I. No, no, I wish I did. I wish I did. Even if I did, I don't. I wouldn't even know how to. How do you play it? Tape.

Now, did your. Did your tape recorder have the little handle thing on the end where you could pick it up and the one side was the speaker and the other side was the tape thing? Is that what.

You know, it was all in the middle? It was all in the middle.

Mine is like, I. I think I Still have one in my basement from, like, a long time ago. So if you can find that little. And do you remember rewinding it with the pencil?

Pencil.

Katie's all like, I don't know what a tape recorder is. I feel like I'm just like, about orthotics earlier on.

Yeah.

Well, I feel like. So that the time that I was a kid, you know, at the same time you guys are talking about, I went to, like, a private school where they didn't want us watching tv. And also my. My parents, like, didn't invest in cable, so we had, like, three channels.

Yeah, I grew up with the poverty channels as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, like, we had cool things, but, like, I don't know, I just didn't have those things. Like, I remember them being around and going to friends houses and, like, you.

Know, playing with any tape recorder.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, I don't think we were.

We were innovative enough to think, oh, we can record something on this.

Yeah.

Like, oh, cool, let's listen to this Reading Rainbow book on tape. I don't know, but.

And that's why you're a genius. Sure. Discovered the cause.

Yeah. And I remember recording, like, the. The songs off the radio and then, like, you know, stopping it before the ads start. But for some reason, there was one time, and if I. If I thought hard enough about it, I'd actually even be able to tell you what song it was. Was. My sister came down to my room. As I was, like, you know, waiting for the song to end. She's like, michelle, dinner's ready. Every time I listened to the song, it was interrupted by my sister telling me dinner was ready.

Oh, my God.

Oh, that's priceless. That's good stuff.

Good times.

Good times.

Yeah, I do the same thing. And then we'd all, like, record songs for our friends. Even though it was highly illegal and against all sorts of copyright laws.

I mean, we'd limewire as well, which I'm pretty sure I gave. I gave our family computer all the. All the diseases.

Yeah, yeah.

I remember when I was 22, driving cross country with my friend Jordan, and she had, like, one. One mixed CD that a friend made for me, and we were playing it and, like, we got to Mississippi, and she's like, I cannot listen to this one more time. So I took out my laptop and some blank CDs that I brought with me, and I just started burning music onto CDs so that we could play car.

Do you remember the thing you have in your car?

Oh, yeah. The CD holder. And then. And then if you were really. If you had a really good collection, you'd put one on the. On the visor.

Right.

Where you could pull it down and then.

Love it, Love it. What? I got that in Walmart. I think I went to New York for a wedding and I think it was Walmart. And I was almost. When I was a couple of months away from getting my license and I got like all this really cool stuff and one of them was that visor. I got like neon lights. I got this like cool radio that like flipped down. I was, I was, I was the.

Oh, I had the flip down. The flip down CD player where you push the button and then it would pop out and then you could put. Yo. Yes, so fancy. The. The friggin stereo is more expensive than my car.

I just.

I hated when you hit a bump while you're playing your favorite CD and it scratched.

Yes.

And then it was forever up and you're like, damn it. Like, can they just pave the roads properly?

Come on.

Yeah, I do remember that. And I was constantly listening to Cranberries and. And you remember. Not Cranberries, Cranberry. You remember Cranberry?

No, I remember the Cranberries.

They're a great Irish brand.

Yeah, yeah, the Cranberries. The Cranberries, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, I was obsessed with them.

Do you want to hear a really, really embarrassing story? You know the song Zombie? One of like their most famous. Yeah, I was definitely an adult. I thought.

This is gonna be a good one.

I thought. I thought the lyrics were on me.

Wait, wait, on we.

On me.

On me. Me. I thought you said on we. I'm like, that's.

No, I was like on me.

That was like a whole host of different meanings.

I was like. I was like, really? Like I had finished college. Oh, you.

You were. Yeah, you were adulting at that. Oh, good times. You need to. Katie, you need to listen to that. That group and that song.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I've never had cool music tastes like my. My rotation like through high school was like Practical Magic soundtrack.

Okay.

Yeah. Which is also Stevie Nicks. So.

Yeah, but. But those two, that was it.

Wait, Practical Magic. What was the other one?

The Shrek soundtrack?

Oh, my God. When you were in high school. Oh my God. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, we have, we have. Our zone of genius is comedy.

Yeah.

You guys obviously have better music taste than I do, so at least you know you have that covered.

I don't. I think I Have really bad music taste. I. Yeah. Spotify is out today. What's that?

Spotify wrapped is out today. Oh, yeah, look, I had a quick look. Yeah, yeah. Not. It's not. It's not anything cool or exciting.

Okay.

Well, I mean, it's funny because last year I had one. Like my most played song was. I can't remember what it was, but I found it on a tick tock and apparently it helps babies sleep. So it was really like. It had just shown me how my previous year had went because that was like by far and away the most played song. And I'm like, okay, yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, that makes sense. It's all tracking. Yeah.

Oh, my God. I. I remember the, like the last few years I've. I've checked it out and it's like all show tunes.

See, that does make you cool.

Disney music, movie soundtracks. That's it.

Yeah.

You may have not changed, but I love that, you know, you're like movie soundtracks.

What was your first cd, do you remember?

I do. It was. My aunt bought it for me. She had come home from New York for a holiday and she bought me. It was. It wasn't now that now what I call music, but it was something similar. And I bought it because I. Just. Because of the volume that I would get, like two CDs and like 20 different artists or whatever. And I played it to death. And it used to have the lyrics and the little.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Apparently. Apparently Zombie obviously wasn't on there because I would have figured. Exactly.

Do you remember?

I think it was Roxette. Do you guys remember Roxette?

No.

No.

I probably know this. We probably know the song. Come on, sing it.

Oh, my God. Sing it. Did you just say sing it? Yeah, yeah, I. I will. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I can't sing it.

Yes, I know, I know.

She's got the look. That was one of them. And then there was. God, I loved that whole album. I would listen to it on repeat. Yeah, that was my very first cd. I remember listening to it in the car, going to sports in high school. The first. The first CD I bought when I had a car was, I think was the Cranberries. When I had my first car was the Cranberries. And then Pink. Pink was.

Yeah, Pink was up there for my.

For me as well. Yep, yep. Yeah. So cool.

What was your. Katie, what was yours?

Do you remember? Yeah.

Pocahontas.

Another movie soundtrack. You're nothing if not consistent. And I'll have to give you that.

Have you watched Moana too?

I haven't, no. Not yet.

Oh, amazing.

It's supposed to be amazing.

It's good. I. I like. I like Moana's soundtrack. Do you have Moana soundtrack? Like, I don't.

I actually haven't seen one yet.

Oh, no, no. I have a great soundtrack. Yeah.

I. You know, I. Here's the problem is that, like, I get, like, super into the music.

Yeah.

Like encanto. I just. I know how to sing every song.

Yeah.

It's embarrassing. I'm. I'm 36. I can't live like this anymore, and I can't have more songs that I'm like. You can.

Yes, you can.

You sing.

No, it's terrible.

At least we all have that. Okay, so at least we can all establish that our Zona genius is definitely not.

Which is why I'm actually starting a non profit that is all about singing. Yeah. The Gay Birthday Club.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

You're calling people on their birthdays. Anyone who's in the LGBTQ+ community who doesn't get a call from loved ones on their birthday anymore, we're calling them with their permission. Like, they sign up for it. Happy Birthday. And, like, I have moments where I'm like, they really don't want this for me.

No, but that's what makes. I mean, listen. How much fun is it to listen to people sing Happy Birthday out of tune? That's part of the charm. So it's part of. It's part of what? It's your authentic self, Katie.

And people's voicemails. Oh, goodness.

It lives on in perpetuity. I love it. So. Sorry, now, I was just gonna say I do again, well done with the segue. Talking about zone of genius. I do like the way that we work together, how we all sort of have our own. You were talking about this at the beginning of the call, how we all have these sort of adjacent.

Yeah.

I see them as having not. I think overlap isn't quite the right word, but we all serve similar people, and we all serve them in.

In.

In ways that allow them to grow their business, but we all have a slightly different way of going about it. And bringing the three elements together is like the full. Right.

Like sort of the full.

What's the word I'm looking for? See, it's not my zone of genius. Damn it. It's a full package. I was gonna say package, and then I didn't. Yes. Yeah.

You had the word. It was fine.

I was blanking as well. I was. I. I was like, experience. Yeah, you got it. You got us. Katie's here to, like, to insert all the words for us.

I'll stare. Our IQs sell the show tunes.

Oh, my God. Well, and I think that's, like, why I'm so excited for our project, for the thing that we're doing, because it's like, I know that what I offer my clients is incredible, and it helps them do amazing things in their businesses. And also, like, I don't do the brand thing.

Yeah.

You know, there are elements of it where we're figuring out their ideal client and that kind of stuff. But, like, the most guidance I give on your, like, their brand colors is like, go and get your personal colors done.

Yeah.

Now, make it easy. Don't make it too complicated. But, like, if you want to have a recognizable brand, you do need to have a solid, recognizable brand, and that takes originality. And then, of course, pr. I. I'm working on with Carrie right now to. To get featured in some news stuff for different things. But, like, I've never done that. I've never guided people through that.

Yeah.

Yeah. But, like, those three things together, you know, figuring out what your scalable offer is going to be, like, creating that. That recognizable brand and then getting that ability. Yeah. I mean, that's just such an incredible combination.

Yeah.

I'm. I'm excited for the way that we're all bringing it together.

Yeah. I feel like. I feel like it is. It is possible to do any one of these by itself, but it's that combination that is just kind of, you know, like lighter fluid. Like, it just. It just amplifies everything. So sometimes I feel like I'm like, the bridge between what Katie does and what Carrie does.

Yeah.

Because, you know, creating that brand that's going to be recognizable, that stands for something that's going to be unique and memorable.

Right.

You know, getting PR is great, but if you can get pr, that's also memorable.

Yeah.

Like, that's, you know, worth its weight in gold. But then also, if you're getting PR and you don't have anything that's worth selling or that anybody's going to be interested in, you know, it's just going to be a flash in the pan. And so it's kind of like you're saying it's like, it's. This combination together is really like, amplifying each other. So while we're not. We're not strictly crossing over, there are elements that kind of interlink.

I guess I sort of feel like when I envision the way that we work together, it's like three. And I, I. The word I want to use is cog, but it's way more than that. But there's like three pieces, and as each one turns, the others turn in, you know, in. In sync with it and make the larger wheel move. Yeah, that's how I sort of envision us.

Or like the inside of a pocket watch is what I'm hearing you say.

Yeah, like, but with Swiss precision, if you can't tell, great.

18 karat gold. So it's really sparkly.

Everyone is watching this live and be like, yeah, that's Swiss precision.

That is exactly what I. Only the best. This, this Swiss watch is right twice a day. Okay.

Well, we're not factoring in, you know, we're east coast.

Yeah. That's true.

Australia.

So, I mean, we're right four times a day.

Yeah. We have time travel in here too. Come on.

We do. We do. I've come from the future and the future is bright. I think we need to work on our messaging also.

I'm gonna stop coming up with topics that we're gonna talk about because we never fucking stick to it.

No, we never. We never do. It's. We're always all over the place.

I kind of wish we could just name it afterwards because it would just be. Make more sense.

Yeah, but.

But they forced you to come up with a name in order to put it up, I think.

I know. We should just have like a, A standard. Like, we don't know what we're talking about. Come and join. Chaotic and fun. We hope.

Dream of consciousness.

And I like, I like to play on with stream.

Yeah. Oh, well, I hadn't even thought of that. I did that on purpose. Don't you know?

You so did. You so did.

But.

IQB. IQing. Well done. I lost my train of thought. Yeah. Does anyone watching have any questions over to the audience? We're really, like, working on that, that trust funnel.

But I mean.

Okay, well, I mean, to bring it back to the, like, the topic.

Honestly, this.

But this is what's possible when you don't have that territory that you're stepping on.

Yeah.

And when you're not, like, resentful of, like, someone's not doing the job that no one really wants to do.

Yeah.

You know, and that's honestly where a lot of partnerships go wrong is you have people who are like, yeah, we're both so excited about, like, coming up with ideas.

Yeah.

And then they come up with a bunch of ideas and then they don't do anything with it or they. They launch. They don't do the sales or whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

And that's one of the most important things. Well, trust. But, like, you know, one of the most important things when you're starting a partnership is making sure that everyone has a zone of genius that, you know, kind of covers all the bases.

Yeah.

Because otherwise you're kind of screwed. Like, someone's going to be unhappy.

Yeah.

And I can see how it would be very easy to get into a partnership with. With someone who's very similar skills. Because, like, you know, we'll just say, like, you meet. You meet for coffee, and you're like, boom, boom, boom. Ideas, ideas, ideas. And because you're speaking the same language, it'd be like, oh, no, we should. We should totally do that. And then it sounds great in theory. And then, like, you say, then you get down the road and you're like, well, I don't want to do this. Or you're both bringing the same thing right to the table.

And.

And then there's just conflict, which is not.

Yeah.

Rather than. Rather than being complimentary and lifting each other up there, you end up butting heads. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've heard of business partners who have come together with a really great idea and. And end up in business partner therapy because they haven't delineated, you know, tasks correctly or there's resentment that is building or growing or because they are both speaking the exact same language. There's all those other things that are. Are not getting done because they're bringing the exact same thing to the table.

Right.

But then also, like, in terms of, like, zone of genius, there's things that don't fall within either of our three. Three wheelhouses. And then that's where outsourcing comes. Because we find someone else that can plug that gap. Because it's not going to be like, well, I don't want to do it. Carrie said she doesn't want to do. It's okay, guess, like, guess it's going to fall on you. You know, like, that's where. That's where goes wrong. Whereas we're like, okay, look, I'm not comfortable doing this. Okay, cool. How about we outsource it? And then, like. And that's what we're. We're doing as well, because we know. We know where our strengths are. We've all been in business long enough to understand what. Where our strengths are, what we enjoy doing, and what absolutely sucks our soul.

Right.

So, yeah, Absolutely.

And also, we just don't have, like, enough experience. I mean, we're gonna do ads for our event, you know, and I've never done ads on my own. You know, I just started doing them for my business through this incredible person in the uk and it's like, cool, we'll use her. That sounds great.

You know, I think there's also the. The ADHD trap of, like, I can figure it out. I can figure it out. It's like, no.

Oh, yeah.

Doing that enough times, particularly in your business, you just know that, like, that is not going to end well. And I think also that pressure, because it's not just for me, it's also like, I don't want to be the reason that our ads don't work, because I said I could figure it out, and I actually can.

Can't.

You know, you can kind of take that hit when it's just you, but when there are other people and other people's, you know, businesses and families and livelihoods relying on it, you don't want to be. You don't want to put yourself in that position.

You don't want to be the wink link. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, for sure.

I'm super excited we're going to be announcing this soon. So if you're watching, it's coming. We're not gonna, like, talk amorphously about this thing that we're up to forever. Forever. We have to dial in a few more things, and we're really, really excited to bring it to you. And it's.

It's.

Honestly, I think it's gonna completely change some lives next year. I'm not even being dramatic. I just. I know.

I think it'll completely change our lives. But. But more importantly, as well, you're right. I think the. Bringing these three elements together is the full package to sort of circle back to what we said. And I always felt like when I was first. So you pay with either time or money when you're a business player, a business owner, rather. It's one of those two things. And I remember when I was first starting, and in fact, not even all that long ago, feeling like there were pieces of the puzzle that were missing. And I didn't. I couldn't figure out how to make the. The. The missing pieces appear and then appear in the right spots and be able to put them together, which is why I would have loved to have had what we're talking about doing back when I was, you know, even a couple of years ago, when I was figuring out this out Right.

Seriously. Same. Yeah.

Awesome.

With that, shall we wrap up? And our evenings and our morning in the future. Happy Thursday.

Yes.

I was like, I know, Carrie, it's Wednesday, but.

Yeah, yeah. I wasn't talking.

I know. I know you're talking. You really are tired.

It's Wednesday. Why is the carpet wet, Todd? I don't know, Margot.

I don't even know what that's from.

That's way over my head. I thought that was an American thing.

I was like, christmas vacation. And I. I was. When I was like. I wasn't talking to you, Katie. There's this scene, okay? And then we'll wrap it up. There's this scene where Clark Griswold brings home this giant tree and he's getting ready to, like, trim the bottom of it. And his neighbors, Todd and Marco got out of their car. Whatever. And I'm not telling this story very well.

Okay. You should all go watch it.

Go watch it. Go watch it. Go watch it. Anybody who has seen the movie knows this. Knows this particular scene, and they ask a question and go watch it. Have you ever seen it?

Like, a long time ago.

Oh, God, it's hysterical.

Does it have. Does it have a music soundtrack? Because if it doesn't, then you probably wouldn't.

I don't think so.

Christmas vacation, Christmas. That's about the extent of the soundtrack.

Sounds like a really bad soundtrack.

It's.

It's not the greatest, but that's not why we're watching it.

Isn't that why people watch things? I don't understand, Saint.

This is fully off the rails.

This. This has been our most unhinged live yet.

Yeah.

Our most unhinged stream of consciousness.

There we go. I like to stay trademark that fast. Christmas vacation. Everybody watch it. If you haven't, it's a classic, okay? And then you'll know the line. You'll absolutely 100% know the line. Okay? I won't ruin it.

All right, on that note, thank you for joining us.

We derailed our goodbye. I'm sorry. I can feel the genius seeping out of my ears. Gone. Time to go to bed.

All right, thank you, Citadeno and Claire for being here and everyone else who has joined in. I hope you. You enjoyed this as much as we did. I'm Katie McManus.

I'm Michelle.

And I'm Carrie Barrett.

Have a good night, everyone. Bye.

Good night.

See you later.