696: Predictions for 2026, ADHD Updates, and Holiday Catchup

Happy New Year. Shop Maniacs here. Listen to another episode of Shop Talk Show, brand new year, 2026 edition. Time to date with me is Chris Coyer. Chris Or even recording it in 2026. This isn't one of those fake ones where we record ahead of time now, so we can do hot news. Yeah. We can do hot news like, breaking sad stuff. No. Just Oh. No. Just good. No. It's Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. How was your break? Everything good? I I know you had to travel back home and stuff. And so Yeah. You know, I would I, you know, tried to tried to see as many family members as we could. We'd I I you know, I'm from Wisconsin, so, we're back in Wisconsin trying to make the rounds a little bit. There's been a little, like, health stuff in my family, so it was kind of it was all a little shaded by that and made a little bit more difficult, you know, with, you know, Ruby being like, why are we in this hotel or in this hospital? I wanna go. You know, like, she's Yeah. Yeah. Eight and and and sympathetic and understanding, but not really. You know? Right. Right. She was eight. She's eight. That is not Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's like, you know, we went to, like, a church service, and it's like my daughter's, like, laying on me to leave. That's the cue. It's like you're, like, hey, dude. Like, it's there's still, like, a lot left. You know? I get it, Brad, but we got Totally. And even if they do power through, there's, like, a mental cost for them, you know, that you'll pay at some point or another. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you're just There's just a lot of, like, you know, wake up, pack the bags, go to a new place to sleep tonight because we're, you know, going from this family to that family to this hospital to this. Anyway, I don't wanna get all into it, but it was a it had its it's had its its lovelinesses and its stresses. You know? There's Yeah. There's moments where you it's snowing in the Midwest, and you wake up to these big beautiful snowflakes coming down, and you're like, god dang. That's Christmassy. Yeah. Yeah. Shipping. Yeah. There's it I I was getting bitter at emperor Constantine for establishing Christmas on the same week as New Year's. Like, you know, back in March whenever he did that or whatever. Yeah. Why are we putting two together, bud? Like, this is a lot of work. Two holidays, a lot of work. I gotta, like, hang out with my family and, like, you know, eat until I, like, vomit every day. And then we got, like, out Would you go, like, would you go, like, March or something? Would you, you know, like, in one of the, holiday droughts, would you I think we gotta …