The hosts trade personal goals for 2014. Ben's top goal is to hand-sew his own t-shirt from store-bought fabric - one shirt, done right, then never sew again - after digressing through rejected ideas (becoming a cobbler, buying a piano-tuning kit, and his old habit of running brand-new tools over with his truck so nobody mocks new gear). Boova (addressed as 'Buvo' and 'Troy') wants to finish his weight loss and reach maintenance after quitting smoking two years prior, riffing on big-and-tall clothing prices. Dan (Dan Hudson) discusses past gumball-selling and RAGBRAI cycling and floats building a small guest house or caboose on his property for traveling missionaries or wayward family. Ben adds writing a novella and landing a top-tier show guest, and jokes about taking a broadcast class ruining the formula.
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