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[0:00] Steven Ferezy: Take one.

[0:01] Dana Craig: Knuck knock.

[0:04] Steven Ferezy: We're Steven and Dana. We can't believe you thought we were looking on the case. We're so bad you're listening to it. We would never listen to. But I don't even want to listen to it to edit it. I don't even want to wake up in the morning.

[0:18] Steven Ferezy: Stephen and Dana. In the room.

[0:33] Dana Craig: Hello.

[0:34] Steven Ferezy: Hello.

[0:36] Dana Craig: Welcome to In the Room.

[0:39] Steven Ferezy: Welcome.

[0:40] Dana Craig: Ah, chez moi.

[0:41] Steven Ferezy: Diana, get my bag. We're in the room with our bodies ourselves and Barbara Hershey. Dana, it's the last of the season.

[0:51] Dana Craig: We love our year-in review episode.

[0:54] Steven Ferezy: We do. We usually have like a fierce guest, and we want to like we get cozy and you know, we play our New Year's games.

[1:03] Dana Craig: We do, but now we don't have any guests, and it's just us in our respective rooms.

[1:08] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[1:09] Dana Craig: Mm-hmm. We really had to pivot and be flexible this year because, as our name suggests, we like to be in the room with our subjects.

[1:22] Steven Ferezy: And we weren't able to do that. So we thought, ugh, we're gonna have to be remote.

[1:27] Dana Craig: But I think we pulled it.

[1:30] Steven Ferezy: Remote. We pulled it off. You know what? This pat on your back, Annie.

[1:38] Dana Craig: We did it, and hopefully we'll be in some people's rooms at some point next year. Who knows when? Or at least an outside veranda.

[1:46] Steven Ferezy: I can't wait.

[1:48] Dana Craig: Yeah, I can't wait to be in um a room that isn't this one. Happy birds.

[1:55] Steven Ferezy: Ur McGert, it's nerd. We got a big old dump in New York City.

[2:01] Dana Craig: No.

[2:04] Steven Ferezy: Did you go sledding in it? Did you make snow angels?

[2:08] Dana Craig: No. I've never been sledding. I think you'd really, really love.

[2:15] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I think it would be a gay old. You don't have to move. You just sit on something and then go. You know what I mean?

[2:23] Dana Craig: Yeah. Yeah, I would love to go ice skating too. Uh John and I, maybe a couple weeks ago, before the official lighting ceremonies, went to look at the tree because we just had to see it for ourselves.

[2:37] Steven Ferezy: And we saw people ice skating at Rockefeller Center, and it occurred to me, you know, what a great year to go ice skating, if not at Rockefeller Center at all, because tourists aren't here, and that's such a or seemingly such a touristy thing to do when in New York in the winter.

[2:56] Dana Craig: Yeah. Uh go ice skating.

[2:58] Steven Ferezy: Yeah. And I feel like that would be really easily accessible this year. And outdoors, and I will certainly be socially distanced from anyone that isn't a wall because I can't ice skate very well.

[3:13] Dana Craig: But it's so fun.

[3:15] Steven Ferezy: I have a hard time believing that because weren't you a dancer?

[3:19] Dana Craig: Yeah, but ice is different.

[3:21] Steven Ferezy: Ice is so.

[3:22] Dana Craig: So once you get in the rhythm of it, you're like, oh, this is what it feels like. Okay, there's a warming up period when you're on the ice. You're like, oh my god, my knees are rusty. I'm gonna fall, and then you just kind of like get into it.

[3:36] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I can certainly get into it, but like I can't turn around. I can't, you know, reverse the order of the ring.

[3:44] Dana Craig: Right, right, right. I can't. I'm not Michelle Trachtenberg in Ice Princess.

[3:49] Steven Ferezy: Nor are you Michelle Kwan.

[3:51] Dana Craig: Pianetare in Ice Princess. Tanya Harding has my career.

[3:57] Steven Ferezy: Now you're by yourself. Like through the end of the year, your roommate is through the middle of next month through the middle of Jan.

[4:05] Dana Craig: My roommate um is not here, and it's been lovely. Like I love having another person around, obviously. But you know, at the end of quarantine, I think it's welcomed. You know, it's like we both get our own spaces.

[4:23] Steven Ferezy: How are you gonna celebrate um whatever you're choosing to celebrate uh in a year where you are not with family and not with friends, and literally in your apartment by yourself, you can do whatever you want. What's Christmas morning look like for you?

[4:39] Dana Craig: Oh no, I we have I have a quarantine pod where it's just our two households and we check in like we're roommates, like, hey, I'm gonna go into the city. Are you okay with that? Or like I'm gonna meet up with someone for outdoor drinks. Are you okay with that? So our two households, me and my besties in Astoria, um, we we hang out, and then Christmas Eve, we have our tradition of going to Tacuba, our local Mexican restaurant, and we get toasted, and I get my grasshopper tacos, and we have rounds and rounds of margs, and then we return to their place, watch Christmas movies, and like our you know, the our Christmas tree re cookies, and we just continue with the like the desserts, and then we pass out and I fall asleep on the couch and we wake up the next morning and then like I'll come home, I'll open my presents, I will FaceTime with my family, but it'll be cute. That's mine.

[5:43] Steven Ferezy: Nice.

[5:44] Dana Craig: That's mine.

[5:46] Steven Ferezy: Nice.

[5:47] Dana Craig: Yeah. I won't be totally alone. I'll have my my peeps.

[5:51] Steven Ferezy: No one is alone.

[5:53] Dana Craig: What are you what are you guys doing?

[5:56] Steven Ferezy: The Jew certainly not major.

[6:01] Dana Craig: Yeah, right.

[6:02] Steven Ferezy: Um, certainly nothing all that deep. I did pick up, I was out running some errands, and I stopped in William's Sonoma, because they had they have this delicious. I actually think I had it with you when we recorded this podcast at Penny Fuller's house.

[6:18] Dana Craig: She made us that like truffle cream sauce pasta.

[6:22] Steven Ferezy: Wait, and that's the dressing of the salad.

[6:26] Dana Craig: The dressing. There's a dressing of the salad she made that was William's Sonoma dressing.

[6:31] Steven Ferezy: Oh, separate.

[6:33] Dana Craig: Maybe. I think about it daily. The point is I wanted to um get that pasta sauce, and it's you know, a million dollars. It's fifteen dollars for a jar of it.

[6:45] Steven Ferezy: But we thought, oh, like transitioning out of Thanksgiving and into holiday, this would be an indulgent winter meal. Super into it.

[6:54] Dana Craig: But while I was there, they also had like pre-packaged cookie mix, which I would normally avoid. But this is the Dolly Parton recipe.

[7:05] Steven Ferezy: So it's for her sugar cookies, and I I did. I had to pick it up, so we it comes with two pouches. So one we made the night we watched Christmas on the Square.

[7:15] Dana Craig: And the other we'll make Christmas morning. I need to talk about Christmas on the Square, and I need to talk about it with the Lady Watch Boys, and I hope that we can at some point very soon.

[7:25] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I mean pin in it.

[7:27] Dana Craig: Pin in it. Pin in that, folks. It'll be worth it.

[7:32] Steven Ferezy: It'll be worth it. Um this is your call to action, though, if you haven't watched it yet.

[7:37] Dana Craig: You have until our next episode. Open up your hymnals to page 87.

[7:43] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, uh, I tell you what. I c I cannot stop singing it around the house.

[7:51] Dana Craig: None of it is it's beyond what you can even imagine.

[7:56] Steven Ferezy: Unimaginable.

[7:58] Dana Craig: I could watch it every single day until I die. Dolly Parton cured COVID and made Christmas on the Square in the same year.

[8:09] Steven Ferezy: Christine Baranski.

[8:11] Dana Craig: It I'm rendered speechless.

[8:14] Steven Ferezy: I'm rendered speechless.

[8:17] Dana Craig: Jennifer Lewis!

[8:19] Steven Ferezy: Jennifer Lewis!

[8:20] Dana Craig: Okay, we're gonna do a whole other episode about this, but this is just your little taste. Good God, y'all. Watch it before our next episode. Please.

[8:32] Dana Craig: Um. So yeah, Dolly Parton cookies. William Sonoma. I don't know, we're not like a big, you know, how Christmas household.

[8:43] Steven Ferezy: Especially this year. Like there will be no gifts.

[8:46] Dana Craig: Yeah, we took everything this year. We were like, birthday's anniversary, we're like, yeah, well, like, you know, say the thing and order in.

[8:54] Dana Craig: Um, but we'll celebrate everything twice as hard next year.

[8:58] Steven Ferezy: Can we still try to play our favorite calendar game?

[9:02] Dana Craig: Please.

[9:04] Steven Ferezy: Okay, great. I'm opening up. I think to preface this, I need to say we both plan very differently.

[9:12] Dana Craig: I use my iPhone and I use the calendar app and I put everything in it. Like, I put wake up in it. Do you know what I mean? I mean only because I've seen it and it actually says, you know, 6:30 in like a red box. Wake up. Oh, everything is like, yeah, to the minute. Take a shower.

[9:35] Steven Ferezy: Take a shower. These are my vitamins. This is my workout. This is don't forget to put this in the mail. Nails, work. Call this person. Like it's every day.

[9:49] Dana Craig: So it's your to-do list.

[9:50] Steven Ferezy: It's your everything. Yeah, while maybe nothing has happened this entire year. I'm interested to see what I actually wrote. I will be referencing from my camera roll because uh while I started the year off very strong with my planner.

[10:05] Dana Craig: I got a new planner. I was very into my I color-coded my planner. It was fierce.

[10:11] Steven Ferezy: Oh, that's so sad.

[10:14] Dana Craig: And then um I stopped using it in March.

[10:20] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[10:21] Dana Craig: Oh.

[10:22] Steven Ferezy: So um I didn't make little tear-off papers like you said, but I'm just gonna s like use my cursor on the computer to like Yeah, however we get it.

[10:33] Dana Craig: So I'm doing, I'm doing, and stop. May twenty-ninth.

[10:40] Steven Ferezy: May twenty-ninth, thank you, May twenty-ninth.

[10:43] Dana Craig: Where'd my phone go wait?

[10:44] Steven Ferezy: Wait, I just had it.

[10:45] Dana Craig: Uh oh.

[10:47] Steven Ferezy: Uh-oh.

[10:49] Dana Craig: Uh-oh. Oh, well, I guess I can do this on my computer too.

[10:52] Steven Ferezy: But where's my phone?

[10:53] Dana Craig: Oh, I'm talking to you on my phone.

[10:56] Steven Ferezy: Yep.

[10:58] Dana Craig: That's why I got my computer.

[11:00] Steven Ferezy: Okay. Um, let me see. Uh library. What did I say? May 29th.

[11:05] Dana Craig: Oh, my computer's gonna die soon. Great, we have plenty of footage.

[11:10] Steven Ferezy: May 29th, 2020. Yep, that's four photos.

[11:20] Dana Craig: Doesn't really trigger much.

[11:24] Steven Ferezy: It doesn't. See, uh-uh. Interesting. There's four photos taken on May 29th, 2020.

[11:34] Dana Craig: And they are all of my cat in his bed in a blanket.

[11:39] Steven Ferezy: Um.

[11:40] Dana Craig: But let me like you go, and I'm also gonna look at like what I did May 28th. Maybe that'll trigger Okay.

[11:48] Steven Ferezy: So while Steven does that, May 29th was a huge day for you guys. It was payday.

[11:55] Dana Craig: So woo-hoo. Um, I worked. I still have my 9 to 5. Um, God rest me, Married Gentleman. So blessed.

[12:04] Steven Ferezy: Um I had to remind my boss of something.

[12:08] Dana Craig: I took my vitamins. Um, I sent um I do some social media stuff for the jazz singer Spencer Day, so I had to send him some creative ideas.

[12:21] Steven Ferezy: And then I had to edit, and then I had to deliver an episode of Broadway Fanatic, which you can watch on Broadway on Demand.

[12:30] Dana Craig: So that was kind of a get shit done day.

[12:33] Steven Ferezy: Amaze. You've been the busiest since that actually covered all three jobs in that one day.

[12:43] Dana Craig: Um the only thing I still can't figure out what I was actually doing, but um May 28th, we recorded with Nadia Quinn.

[12:52] Steven Ferezy: Oh my gosh!

[12:54] Dana Craig: Okay, I like this.

[12:55] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[12:55] Dana Craig: So that's fine.

[12:56] Steven Ferezy: Yeah.

[12:57] Dana Craig: Okay, I'm gonna pick another one.

[13:00] Steven Ferezy: And we're spinning, we're spinning, we're spinning.

[13:05] Dana Craig: Where am I?

[13:07] Steven Ferezy: Well, I went off the screen, so here.

[13:09] Dana Craig: Um, August 25th.

[13:13] Steven Ferezy: Oh, okay.

[13:13] Dana Craig: August 25th, August 25th.

[13:16] Steven Ferezy: August 25th, 2020.

[13:19] Dana Craig: I hope I'm still recording.

[13:23] Steven Ferezy: Okay, well, I didn't take any pictures that day.

[13:26] Dana Craig: I have no record of what I was doing that day.

[13:30] Steven Ferezy: How about the days on either side?

[13:33] Dana Craig: No record. Must have been dull. August, I remember being rough because it was hot, and we had been like really stuck indoors by then.

[13:43] Steven Ferezy: So I feel like I was just inside air conditioning grumpy.

[13:49] Dana Craig: Well, the day after that, August 26th, I had a dentist appointment.

[13:55] Steven Ferezy: So it was the first time I had gone into the city in a long time.

[14:00] Dana Craig: And was like around other people, in a place, a dentist in my mouth, you know, like other people first.

[14:09] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, but like very close to my body, and that was very weird.

[14:13] Dana Craig: And they um it's called the Smile Cafe.

[14:16] Steven Ferezy: And it's kind of by Grand Central Station.

[14:20] Dana Craig: It was so cute. And when I walked in, they like sprayed me with like a I don't know, disinfectant bottle.

[14:29] Steven Ferezy: Like my whole body.

[14:30] Dana Craig: I had to stand there like I was getting padded down.

[14:34] Steven Ferezy: Like, wow.

[14:35] Dana Craig: Alright, spray bottle. Let's do one more.

[14:39] Steven Ferezy: My battery's at 13%. Great.

[14:41] Dana Craig: Uh boom.

[14:46] Steven Ferezy: Oh, this is good because it's pre-quarantine.

[14:50] Dana Craig: Okay, February.

[14:53] Steven Ferezy: February 19th.

[14:57] Dana Craig: I know what February 19th was.

[15:00] Steven Ferezy: Don't wait, wait, wait.

[15:03] Dana Craig: How do I go back? February 19th.

[15:07] Steven Ferezy: Oh, I know what I know why you're gasping.

[15:10] Dana Craig: That was the day, that was my last day of work.

[15:15] Steven Ferezy: I had just quit my jobs before quarantine, and um Oh, I love it.

[15:22] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[15:22] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, I said that my last day was the 19th, but the way the calendar worked out, my last day was really the 18th.

[15:29] Dana Craig: So on the 19th, I got on um a plane to Los Angeles.

[15:33] Steven Ferezy: We took a vacation.

[15:35] Dana Craig: Yes, you did. See, I put that in my schedule too.

[15:39] Steven Ferezy: I put Steven in LA through 26th.

[15:43] Dana Craig: I need to know where my people are at.

[15:46] Steven Ferezy: What else were you up to besides worrying about me?

[15:49] Dana Craig: Oh, you know what? What else is on my schedule for that day?

[15:53] Steven Ferezy: Is I wanted to make a Spotify playlist for my nephew for his first birthday party.

[15:59] Dana Craig: Uh-huh.

[16:00] Steven Ferezy: Because we were going up there on March 3rd, and so I was like preparing a little like party for him, like a rave.

[16:09] Dana Craig: One-year-old rave.

[16:11] Steven Ferezy: Fears.

[16:12] Dana Craig: Dana, I want to wish you the happiest of holidays and the best new year.

[16:18] Steven Ferezy: My bad my phone. My computer's gonna die.

[16:21] Dana Craig: It was completely charged when we started.

[16:24] Steven Ferezy: Saved by the bell, listeners. Thank you so much for sticking with us through 2020.

[16:30] Dana Craig: We had so much fun really pivoting the fuck out of this.

[16:34] Steven Ferezy: Yeah, see you all on the other side.

[16:38] Dana Craig: Bye.

[16:39] Steven Ferezy: Bye.

[16:41] Dana Craig: Yeah.

[16:45] Steven Ferezy: In the Room with Steven and Dana is produced by Steven Ferezy and Dana Craig.

[16:51] Dana Craig: Special thanks to Joel Wagoner for tinkling the ivories on our theme song.

[16:56] Steven Ferezy: Hit him up at JoelWagoner.com.

[16:58] Dana Craig: We apologize, and you're welcome.

[17:00] Steven Ferezy: We'd also like to thank Jesse Wiener, W I E N E R, for our jazzy original music sprinkled throughout each episode.

[17:08] Dana Craig: You can find him at jessewiener.com.

[17:11] Steven Ferezy: Last but certainly not least, we'd like to thank Kevin Thomas Garcia for taking all of our ridiculous photos.

[17:18] Dana Craig: You can find him online at KTGNYC.com.

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[17:36] Dana Craig: We everywhere so subscribe.

[17:38] Steven Ferezy: And thank you so much for listening.