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Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry", an episode of Lovett or Leave It published January 13, 2026 (30 min, about 6,040 words). It mentions 6 people, works and ideas, including Bombas, Jamila Jamil, Stephen Merchant, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Trad Wives.

What this episode is about

The discussion explores the intersection of colonialism and environmental issues, particularly related to the coffee industry, through the lens of personal experiences and societal narratives. Jamila Jamil shares her perspective on authenticity in storytelling, highlighting her podcast "Wrong Turns," which focuses on sharing unfiltered, messy experiences without the pressure of finding silver linings.

Key takeaways

  • Nespresso: where colonialism brews and microplastics steep, fueling your caffeine fix with a side of guilt.
  • Jamila Jamil’s podcast, 'Wrong Turns,' champions life’s messiness—no lemonade allowed, just the sweet taste of humiliation.
  • Inspiration is overrated; let’s embrace the chaos of our lives and celebrate epic fails, one story at a time.
  • Public personas are just branded versions of our messes; every artist is essentially marketing their own surrender.
  • Comedy emerges from trauma; every laugh is a triumph over humiliation, so let’s cherish our awkward moments!

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jamila Jamil, Stephen Merchant
  2. – 15:00: Fuji's, Trad Wives
  3. – 25:00: Bombas

Notable quotes from "Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry"

  • Please welcome to the stage. It's Jamila Jamil.
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  • Well, I don't like curb your enthusiasm, so Oh my god, Andy. Come on.
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  • Okay, here we go. first up, Jamila, you wanted to talk about Trad Wives.
    about Trad Wives · at
  • All right, next up, George, you were going to tell us about Fuji's.
    about Fuji's · at
  • That kind of thing. But this year, there's one at the top of my list to be comfortable. That's where Bombas comes in. They're bringing serious comfort to all of your everyday…
    about Bombas · at

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Full transcript with timestamps

How do they make Nespresso? Can you explain to me what the It's not Well, it starts with slavery uh and then it works its way up to a plastic pod microplastics in your system.

It's sort of like it's the intersection of it starts with the It starts with the reason Jamila has that accent which is a group of people draw lines in random parts of the world to divide them into different sections and then have those different sections make different kinds of food including the coffee beans.

Yeah. It's the intersection of colonialism and microplastics and that's kind of where I live. In addition to being an actress, a writer, and a model, my next guest is also a podcaster, meaning we have a full-time lineup of podcasters tonight. Or as it's known in the scientific community, a murder of podcasters. Please welcome to the stage. It's Jamila Jamil.

Yay. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Now, in addition Oh, this is In addition, I lost the intro card for you. That's why.

Nice to meet you. How do you do? You both have big followings online. I was very excited about this. You too could be one of Andy's first podcast listeners.

Oh my god, what a we just It's a race after to get in there and you get a little prize if you're first and it's so exciting. It must be weird to record it knowing other people might hear it.

Well, we still call them test shows. This is absolutely true. We've been around since 2000 and they're all test shows. But when we go live, when we go I'm taking my career public next year. Now, Jamil, your podcast, Wrong Turns, is all about sharing humiliating stories with no silver linings.

Yes. Uh, no silver linings. None. No. I'm I'm I'm done with inspiration, right? Do you know what I mean? I think we just need to leave it in 2025. I I'm I'm anti- inspiration. I'm pro commiseration. I think that I'm not someone who can make lemonade out of lemons. I can't make anything. I just make a bigger mess. And I I've decided to start a community uh called Wrong Turns for other people who also um [ __ ] suck at life. Uh and and so we tell our most embarrassing stories. And um the public get to feel very smug after listening to it because they are not as stupid as us.

I like that. I also I do think sometimes in our culture, you're not you're not supposed to tell a story about yourself until you've successfully gotten to the correct psychological space about it. Like you're not allowed to talk about some aspect of your personality if you're still in the middle of what a therapist would tell you you need to work on.

I don't really do that. I I I like to raw dog. Just get it get it out right in the middle. Wait, so what's a what's a recent example of a of a of a a wrong turn with no positive part to it? Um, not super recent, but during sex, he put it in the wrong hole and I I immediately said unexpected item in bagging area and then that ruined the sex and then the sex stopped happening.

Wow. This is a good joke though. I think it I think it I think it would have turned you on from the sound of

Is there really a wrong Is there really a wrong hole? I'm sorry. You you think you ruined the sex by making an iconic joke? I think the person that put it in the wrong hole not not to be not to you know

ruin the sex. Um but yeah no there are many things uh thank you Andy. Thank you.

Generally I mean generally I find my life is quite embarrassing. What about yours? Oh yeah, I just sort of power through this that that being in in any kind of public facing anything where your job is making something for others to consume, there's no dignity left in the art. You have to just power through. We're all marketing executives for our own uh surrender. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. Yeah. Also where that came from. That's was very deep. I find many comedians are sort of like almost mining for humiliation and trauma uh so that they have something that they can talk about on stage. So it's very it's a very handy format for that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's really just an extreme version of a humiliation fetish. One could say

100%. Yeah. But not Andy goes the other way with it. I go the other way that I am humiliating and I don't deserve anything because I'm less than.

Are you British? I No, I'm No, I'm not playing. I'm not. But is that the British? That is the vibe. Yeah.

Explain Ricky Jervves to me. Thank you. I can't I can't unfortunately. Goes over my head.

Ah, The Office is so good though. Yes. Well, he's so cerebral. The Office was good. The Office,

but it's also because Steven Merchant is a genius. Stephen Merchant a genius. Yeah. National treasure.

Sort of like how Larry David was the genius and not Jerry Seinfeld. Okay, stop it. Get out of here with that.

I mean, that is wrong. I mean, am I right? 100% right. Absolutely. I don't agree with that.

Well, I don't like curb your enthusiasm, so Oh my god, Andy. Come on. How can you enthusiasm?

Seinfeld was the best. It's been a little close to home. No, it's just No, everybody ends up It's al always goes crazy on his shows. I like it. Does it always have to be that there's a twist and a thing goes around? I like the initial yelling like with Richard Lewis, that kind of thing.

Sure. Sure. Sure. Hey. Okay. He also brought us Cheryl Hines. Uh Larry. Wow. Way to bring it back.

He introduced Cheryl Hines and made her more famous in that sense. If it wasn't for Curb, Donald Trump would not be president.

That's what I'm trying. I guess I never thought about it that way. I almost got killed because of Donald Trump. Not long enough.

What do you mean? Well, I uh I was speaking at the UN. Wow. Me, too. I'm doing the late show.

They're still there. They still have that. Yeah, but now it's just a speaker series. Yeah. At Dynasty podcast.

Was it UN or UNX? Okay, I got it. I got it. All right. So, I was uh I was speaking at the UN and I was late and I was writing my my speech on my phone while walking and I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and then I hear this likez and I have this kind of long final destination issue with bees where they're just out to get me and they're trying to kill me. These ones weren't but I'm an egoomaniac who thinks that they were. So they the the bees were using the zebra crossing which I find insane that they would wait until we all walked and then they came along across the road with us. I'm terrified of bees because of [ __ ] my girl uh and um not [ __ ] my girl uh from the film My Girl

went over my head. So the kids watch that right? Yeah, for sure. The the kids who are now 43. I so I freak out and I start screaming and flailing my arms and running towards the UN um where Donald Trump is speaking in the UN which I don't know. So all the machine guns go up because there's a big Pakistani dressed in black running at the UN where the president of the United States is and I almost got gunned down. My friend clocked it before I did and tackled me to the ground and was like she's safe. She's just crazy. And um I survived narrowly.

And well that's good. [ __ ] bees. You were chased by the bees. I wasn't really chased. I I felt chased. I was just accompanied.

This is just a story of you running at the UN. Running towards the UN. Yeah. Cuz I thought I was being chased by bees that really had no interest in me

because earlier with a te at the end, right? Am am I crazy? Correct me if I'm wrong. And I might be completely off base. Did you once write something about a bee related accident?

Oh, I can't stop talking about Okay. Okay. Okay. I Okay. I'm I'm glad it wasn't someone else.

All I do is talk about different times. That's one of your main persecut identity.

There's nothing else to me than my relationship with these. It's going to be how I die. It's going to be how I die.

And they'll make a a movie about it. Oh my god. That's why you hate Jerry Seinfeld cuz he made Be Movie.

What a [ __ ] She means that in a British way, right? So, you also recently had sort of a Can we just roll the clip? I just want to understand what happened in this incident.

Oh, Christ. So, I'm getting ready for bed and in the morning I'm going to be interviewed by Martha Stewart on stage in New York in front of so many people. And I forgot that tonight I let my friend write bulls deep across my neck.

Bulls deep and I'm wearing a dress for Martha Stewart that is definitely not going to cover that.

So, basically my my skin is drier than Gandhi's anus. And well, that's uh the tattoo took far too well to my throat and no amount of wipes or alcohol. I was at one point pouring straight mini bar alcohol like onto my neck. Um and and nothing would come off. And so eventually I had to claw

claw it off. So I lost several layers of skin. Um and then it just looked like I'd been choked. uh in front of Martha Stewart on stage.

So, okay. But so why if you hadn't had Martha Stewart? Yes. So I I let it happen. I was lost in the moment on my friend's podcast. I was like

it was on a podcast. On a podcast. He was like, "Can I write balls deep across your throat?" And I was like, "Sure, that would be fantastic." Um and then got home and just as I was brushing my teeth realized, "Oh, holy [ __ ] Stewart, I have to see Martha Stewart in that. Yeah, it's a nightmare. And she instead just thought I'd done a lot of choke [ __ ] the night before or asphixxy wank, you know. Um, and uh I I think I think she wasn't a fan, you know.

If anyone would love the idea of an asphixy wank, it would be Martha Stewart. Don't you think she's kind of freaky?

I should have left balls deep on. I feel as though you mean like basketballs on the floor. What does it mean balls deep? Like a lot of basketball.

Balls deep. No, I think you No, I really want you to do it. Really want me. I think it would be so much more powerful coming from you.

I think it's I could be wrong actually cuz I'm quite innocent. Um I imagine it's when you're so when when your penis is so deep inside of a woman or a man that your um your b your balls are almost shoved in there with it. You know, nothing else that could get in. Of course I am an ally.

I know. I could tell. My nickname was Balls Shallow in high school. Yeah. Just the tip.

Just the tip. Just the tip. Andy, they called him. Balls Shallow. Terrible nickname. So embarrassing. Wait, you have a new Netflix movie?

I have a new Netflix movie. It's called People We Meet on Vacation. I mean, I'm really very blink and you miss it, but I am in it technically. Um, and I have a podcast called Wrong Turns.

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Okay, here we go. Uh, first up, Jamila, you wanted to talk about Trad Wives. [ __ ] Trad Wives. Have you heard about Trad Wives?

I am all over it. Yeah. I have no idea what it is. Okay, fine. So, a trad wife is um in this day and age is a woman who's got a social media following who tells other women not to work and to stay at home and just do housework while she herself makes money and gets brand deals and secures her own financial independence. So, uh women kind of perpetuating the propaganda, the kind of like post-war propaganda of like having their hair style in a 50s style and and cooking everything from scratch. Um,

what's wrong with that, right guys? 100%. But these women are making money. They have camera teams. They have hair. They have makeup. So, they're making bank securing their independence while telling other women not to work. And they can go [ __ ] themselves.

I think. Thank you. Thank you. But also, wouldn't it be fun if you pivoted to doing that?

I want to sell weight loss stuffing just to trigger the internet. Yeah. just to really just never just keep everyone on their toes.

Weight loss wife. Yeah, weight loss. Oh my god, I want to be a weight loss tradife so bad.

All right, next up, uh George, you were going to tell us about Fuji's. Do you know about this?

No. What is that? Okay, so fuosi is something that has been trending because of the show Heated Rivalry. So, basically, it's this Japanese term for women that like watching media where men have sex.

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? So, it's like women who are either entertained or even more so turned on by two men uh in romantic and sexual situations. And so, the show Heated Rivalry, which is about two gay hockey players written by a woman, Andy Cohen

Andy Well, and he's a friend of course. The only the only gay information that And that that Andy Kler has is from Andy from Andy Cohen.

Well, you should have him on your podcast. Then you'll get some listeners. Um it's so there heated ravi there was another show called red white and royal blue which is about it's a fantasy about like if the prince were gay and [ __ ] an American politician's son and that was also written by a woman. So there's this epidemic the real epidemic actually which is women writing gay male stories

horniness epidemic. Yes. Exactly. And so that's what that is. What do you think?

I'm so confused. I'm all over it. I say yes. Give me four of them. I think that you should turn your podcast into a heated re heated rivalry we watch show.

I think people would honestly genuinely enjoy you watching that show and describing your experience of it.

I I think that would not be good, John. And you hadn't heard about that? You don't know about Fuji?

No, I No, I did not. and uh and and I don't know if I need to have heard about it, but I know I'm glad that I did and that you had that picture of me with my somebody else's arms around my head.

Where does the word fashi come from? It's Japanese. Oo, it reminds me. It reminds me It reminds me a little bit of a of of one of my favorite words, which is I think kushiabishi. Have you word? It's when you eat not because you're hungry, but because your mouth is lonely.

Wow. That's why I take banjaro. That stops that. I like to be hangry. I'm, you know, hangry.

Yes. I punch myself in the mouth with a sandwich. Oh, wow. That's from my act, John. Right from my act to this show.

This could be huge for your weight loss era is if you like take that term and you're like, I can cure it.

Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Jamila, you had you wanted to talk about skinny talk. Yeah. So, Tik Tok has this side of it called skinny talk. And there's a slogan that's gone viral that is stay skinny, stay safe. And I object to this, not only because it's [ __ ] stupid, but also because it's illogical given that I was almost kidnapped when I was 19. Someone put date rape drug in my drink while another guy came around on the other side and was distracting me. And a few minutes later, I must have passed out. But because I'm sober, everyone knew immediately there was something really wrong. So I was taken to the hospital by my friends. Um, and then later the police come to the hospital and they take me back to the bar to watch the CCTV and I have to stand there with the police and watch two men try everything they could to lift me and they couldn't. like they were putting their knees into it. IT WAS LIKE

and because I was 19, I felt embarrassed about this, which is objectively insane because thank Christ they couldn't lift me. I was like, what did I want to be like? I just want to be dainty enough to be trafficked. But I um I survived and was fine because stay sturdy, stay safe. All right. I was living in a bigger body and I'm alive to tell that tale. So that's just [ __ ] [ __ ] and it annoys me. There's nothing safe about being skinny. You can be lifted into a van at any point.

That's such an important point. Thank you. What is their argument? Dark, but I think in the end we all agree.

What is their argument for for Skinny being safe? I don't know. I think like her brain might be dying cuz she's so hungry.

Well, maybe she has a skinny brain. Yeah, that's it. The Good Place was so good.

Oh, thank you. That's such a Good place. Thank you. What was that show you were on?

Yes. How come I Who was in that show? You'll tell me. Ted Dansen. Oh, yes. I liked it. He's at the place where he's working

uh on the pl he's in the thing where he went to work or something, right? Like that.

Most of his shows. Do you not have a problem with Ted Dansen? I think you should.

No. Isn't Ted Dansen he goes and works or make mixing him up with somebody else? He

He goes and works. He goes and works as an old man. Yes. Yes. That's man on the inside. The good place is not the show before that.

What's Tik Tok? My space with an attitude. Andy, you probably remember Cheers. Yes, I do. Because I was uh I didn't get the part. Would that be a bad joke?

Did you go out? Did you go out for coach? I went out for coach and they were saying I was

See, that that was an that was an joke too old for them. Well, because you that was an insulting joke because coach was the old man on the show. So to say, did you go out for the old man on coach was an insult to you? And I took it as an insult, but let me tell you something.

We're all on mushrooms, by the way. Oh, once I was on That makes me feel much better.

Once I was doing a TV show, I'm not going to mention it. Everybody loves Raymond. And they said to me, uh, the the I was talking about very loudly by the buffet table. Nobody likes Wings, right? No one's ever seen Wings. It's one of those shows where, and the guy who was directing that week came up to me and said, I'm going to have to stop stop you. I created that show. And I said, "Let me finish."

Who doesn't love wings? They're at the airport. Remember the show Wings? I do not know.

And you? He should have apologized to me. I'm sorry I created that horrible show.

I um once uh met Katherine O'Hara and um I wanted to tell her how much I loved her and how much my boyfriend loved her. And I was like, "Oh, my boyfriend just is so in love with you. He hopes that I look like you when I get old.

No. Oh, great. I can't see how that would go wrong. Just the worst feeling on earth. And she was so nice about it. She was like,

"Oh." And I was like, "No, no, older. There's no way to make it better. You can't claw your way back from that. What a [ __ ] idiot I am."

Well, it's fundamentally a compliment because the age is not is objective. I agree, but I don't think anyone wants to hear it framed exactly like that.

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It created the illusion of excitement. Yeah, that's right. The illusion, which by the way, the illusion of excitement, that's called excitement. If you think about it, what is your new pet peeve of the year?

Well, my new pet peeve of the year is to get rid of the slang. I mean, for years and anybody who said my bad, I would have a stomach ache and leave the room. But now I think we have to put to bed these things where people have gone it's been a minute or it's a lot. You know it's like nobody who no Holocaust survivor if you ask them how what was it like? It was a lot.

When do when were you in the Holocaust? I it's been a minute. I don't remember.

I think I didn't prepare for the section but I saved it at the end. I enjoyed it and I f I feel you.

I do think the Holocaust was a lot. I just like I mean it's one of history's great a lots.

That's true. I think show a means. It's been a minute since it's been a minute. It's been a minute. There's not a lot of people left who can remember what it's like because it has been in fact a minute. All right, let's spin it again.

Can't come on me again. I'll be very upset. J, it's landed on you. What is your uh first pet peeve of 2026?

People. I'm done with them. Let's get rid of them. Agreed. Bring the big quake. bring the floods, the volcanoes. Every time I when I heard about that spaceship that was 12 miles wide and it was coming to Earth, I was like, "Yes, take us. Take us all. We suck." So, yeah, I'm in a good place.

Happy New Year, everyone. So, it's not just So interesting, cuz you could just move into the woods.

What do you mean? Well, if you're done with people, you don't need to kill us all. You could just leave. I wouldn't kill you all. I don't want to have to, you know, I'm tired. I'm I'm I don't want to have to do that. I uh

But I'm just saying if rather than the earthquake, if you're just to take the wheel and let's just reboot.

Well, it sounds like it sounds like you don't just want to not be around people. You don't want the people to continue being around when you're not there. So, it's both a hatred of the people, but then a FOMO that overpowers.

Existential. I'm just like, it's a wrap. You know what I mean? It's a wrap. I'm just I'm done with us and I think we need to go and I think we need to start again. Are you with me?

I'm with you. I think we can just tweak at the margins. All right, let's spit it again.

Okay, Klair's over here. Yeah. Uh-oh. Watch out. Okay, landed on George. Mine is a little less dramatic than Jamila's. Mine is that I don't like Nespresso.

Yes. Okay, here's my I I don't This is a fully formed argument, but I'm like coffee should either be amazing or it should be like shitty diner coffee. I don't I don't like things that are almost good. Nespresso, it's like the promise of Nespresso is that it's going to be like real espresso. And it's

it's going to feel like George Clooney. Yeah. And it's not it's it's really it's more like sort of a Glenn Powell situation. It's sort of like 80% of the way there. And I actually love Glambel, but it's it's like 80% of the way to real espresso. Just have shitty coffee. Just like get like pre ground beans from CVS and do that.

I think Dunkin Donuts of the greatest coffee in the world. There you go. It's sort of the scary movie too of coffee

and that it's amazing but also bad. How do they make Nespresso? Can you explain to me what the It's not

Well, it starts with slavery. Uh, and then it works its way up to a plastic pod microplastics in your system.

It's sort of like it's the intersection of it starts with the It starts with the reason Jamila has that accent, which is a group of people draw lines in random parts of the world to divide them into different sections and then have those different sections make different kinds of food, including the coffee beans.

Yeah, it's the intersection of colonialism and microplastics. And that's kind of where I live.

Let's spin it again. We're almost done. Oh, it's landed on me. Oh, wow. Uh, I'll tell you something that bothers me.

So, I booked a last minute trip over the break to go to Mexico for three days because it was paid for two nights, get a third night for I love a deal and I love you using points. And it was I I it was a one of you know there's there are resorts that this is one of those resorts where something happens or something where some resorts have a culture of we fight for chairs and some of them have a culture of we respect the chairs. This was a fight for chairs resort and I like a fight for chairs resort. I don't mind it

but where you have to like get up at 4:00 in the morning and they reserve them and there's always arguments about the chairs and rules about the chairs and I just love watching that unfold. I like getting there, get a spot and just let it all play out. There was just so many rude and angry people. It was literal Christmas. And people are yelling at people that are just working on Christmas about where their chair went and where their bag went. I love it. I'm in fully fantastic. I am never more like horrified by what we've done to ourselves than when I see people at a resort on a beach chair on their phones. I find it to me to be like the greatest defeat like of a pe like you flew here from far away.

I feel exactly the same way. You're on the beach or at a beautiful place. You're on your phone, the same phone. The phone never changes. The phone is identical everywhere you are. What is on there right now? And how is it that like how is it that you have

Yes. And but how is it that you have not figured out to leave this in your room for this one precious moment? just leave this thing in your room for this one precious moment.

You can't leave it in your room because how are you going to take those terrible photos that you'll never look at again of the

of your feet and the sea and the sun of a shell? You know what I mean? Like you like it's very important to be able to document those things. But I agree when I see people looking at their phones in front of the ocean, I'm like, "Come on, tsunami.

Come on, tsunami. Let's [ __ ] go." Love it. You know how to do this. You know, this is what you trained for. Tsunami.

Yeah. But it makes me crazy. It's like I It's not just that obvious I'm more mentally ill than you thought I was, aren't I? Yeah.

I'm I'm You're meeting expectations for me. Oh, great. Thank you. But the it it's the It's not just that obviously it's bad to be on the phone. It's that as part of this trip that required so much planning, there was no part of you that thought about the part where it would be nice to not be on the phone. Are there a lot of people out there who are not only addicted to their phones but seemingly unbothered by it? That's what makes me nervous.

Yeah. I mean, I am quite addicted to my phone, but never in front of the sea. I'm very sacred about nature.

All right, that's where we're going to leave it. Oh, I didn't get to do my sea material.

Anything about George Sus? George Sonis? I' I'd like to hear less of his songuses.

And that's our show. Woo! It It's love it or leave it.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry"?

Jon Lovett (Guest), Jamila Jamil (Guest), Andy Kindler (Guest), George (Guest).

What is "Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry" about?

The discussion explores the intersection of colonialism and environmental issues, particularly related to the coffee industry, through the lens of personal experiences and societal narratives. Jamila Jamil shares her perspective on authenticity in storytelling, highlighting her podcast "Wrong Turns," which focuses on sharing unfiltered, messy experiences without the pressure of finding silver…

What is mentioned in this Lovett or Leave It episode?

6 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Bombas, Jamila Jamil, Stephen Merchant, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Trad Wives, Fuji's. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Why Women LOVE Watching Heated Rivalry"?

The episode runs 30 min; the transcript is about 6,040 words in 138 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated January 24, 2026.