After spending the holidays relaxing and catching up on the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s edit of “Home Alone 2,” we’re back in the studio shutting it down on the very first day of the new decade. We begin with the hyper-local story of a Manhattan socialite who fell through the floor while shopping at Pottery Barn, requiring an emergency manicure at the scene of the accident. Also on the docket: a writer shares the harrowing story of her struggle to fend off her husbands’ sultry-voiced suitors in Gramercy Park; a Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby’s gift cards; a Utah man was found dead in a freezer with a notarized letter stating that his wife didn’t kill him; and a 45-year-old tortoise in Essex, England burned down his house on Christmas Day. Finally, we respond to a letter in our listener mailbag (aka a text message). 

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In this week’s episode: 

Check out this ungrateful tortoise, who set his home ablaze on Christmas Day. 

Read Nancy French’s story in the Washington Post about what happened after she ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry her husband, David. 

An Upper East Side socialite is suing Pottery Barn after she fell through a hole in the floor and injured her jewelry. 

Big #YUPs to…

Uncut Gems, the finest film of 2019, starring Adam Sandler, who shall win all of the awards. 

The Year of Lizzo 

Princess Anne, for being the most diligent, hardest-working royal.