How to Spend Time Alone + Christmas Crimes!

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Bethany and Kathleen reveal their last show of 2022 will cover how to spend time alone and a rundown of bizarre Christmas crimes.

Bethany Watson and Kathleen Heaney host the final episode of 2022 for An Acquired Taste Podcast. They open by noting this is their last show before a holiday break, with Kathleen discussing how to spend time alone and Bethany presenting 'Christmas Crimes.' Kathleen lists activities like organizing, washing sheets, and solo karaoke, emphasizing finding joy in solitary moments. Bethany shares bizarre crime stories, including two University of Massachusetts students stealing a Christmas tree from Home Depot, a South Carolina woman stabbing her husband with a ceramic squirrel over beer, and a nude man stuck in a chimney. The hosts intersperse personal reflections, such as Kathleen's dream to start a podcasting school for children and Bethany's acting frustrations. They discuss burnout and Dennis's question about what brings joy, leading to a conversation on motivation. Later, Bethany recounts a real estate dinner where a man joked about his insider trading conviction, highlighting privilege. The hosts also reveal they rejected an ad from a mined diamond lobbyist group, advocating for lab-grown diamonds instead. The episode includes ads for OnDeck, MasterClass, and 4imprint, along with listener voicemails about coffee sweeteners and sibling marriage. They end with random facts, like crocodiles galloping and tulips once being more valuable than gold, before closing out the year.

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A warm, loose chat about solitude, MasterClass, and the anticlimax of surviving questionable food.

Bethany Watson and Kathleen Heaney make solitude feel less like a theme than a lived-in comic condition, moving from morning voice notes with a friend to Kathleen's habit of putting on MasterClass when nothing else quite fits.

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Press play when alone time, questionable canned leftovers, and MasterClass sound like a perfectly reasonable afternoon.

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