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Weekend Update: Tamara on Her New Year's Resolution About Buttons
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The setup
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The premise
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Michael Che welcomes Tamara, who went viral for resolving to collect 365 buttons, one per day. His polite questions about what she will do with them meet increasingly defensive replies: the plan only needs to make sense to her, and the buttons need no destination. Her other resolutions and an offered solution to a world crisis are just as evasive, and Che is left more confused as Colin Jost signs off.
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Say it with us
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It's actually pronounced Tamra.
It actually only has to make sense to me for me to do it.
I eat the buttons, okay?
Script
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- 00:00
Michael Che
A woman went viral on TikTok recently for her confusing New Year's resolution involving buttons. Here to comment is that woman, Tamara. How you doing, Tamara?
- 00:13
Tamara
Hi. It's actually pronounced Tamra.
- 00:16
Michael Che
That's exactly how I pronounced it. All right, well, anyway, tell us about this New Year's resolution.
- 00:22
Tamara
Yes, so this year, I'm getting 365 buttons. One for each day. Because I want to do more fun stuff, and I'm getting scared of time passing, and so I want to be more conscious of it.
- 00:33
Michael Che
Oh, that's a nice idea. So what's your plan for the buttons?
- 00:38
Tamara
My plan is one button each day.
- 00:41
Michael Che
Right, I get that, but what do you plan to do with them?
- 00:48
Tamara
I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.
- 00:51
Michael Che
Like, are you planning to wear the buttons?
- 00:53
Tamara
It's just one button every day. It's just 365 buttons.
- 00:59
Michael Che
Right. I guess I was just confused about if you're going to put them in a jar or...
- 01:05
Tamara
Hey, so it actually only has to make sense to me for me to do it.
- 01:11
Tamara
And I don't feel like explaining it to anyone else.
- 01:15
Michael Che
Okay, that is why you're here, but...
- 01:18
Tamara
I don't have to tell you what I'm gonna do with the buttons or where I'm going to put them. All I know is I want to have one button every day so I can think about time more.
- 01:28
Michael Che
I think people are just sort of curious because you brought this idea up.
- 01:32
Tamara
Well, all the people can just leave me alone and let me do this.
- 01:37
Michael Che
I'm sorry, Tamara.
- 01:38
Tamara
It's actually pronounced Tamara, as in, I'll tell you about the buttons tomorrow.
- 01:43
Michael Che
You know what? It doesn't matter. Do you have any other resolutions?
- 01:46
Tamara
Yes, I want to write a book about a man who has a secret.
- 01:51
Michael Che
That sounds interesting. What's the secret?
- 01:53
Tamara
I don't know. The man has a secret, not me.
- 01:58
Michael Che
Is the secret that he has buttons?
- 02:02
Tamara
Don't be playful. I don't have to know about the answers to secrets. I was just saying I had an idea. You don't know anything about me. You don't have to know where I'm gonna put the buttons. It's just one button, 365 every day. One button each, every day.
- 02:20
Michael Che
Are you running out of batteries?
- 02:24
Tamara
That's very funny. I can see why they made you the anchor.
- 02:31
Tamara
Before I go, I do have a solution to the crisis in Venezuela.
- 02:36
Michael Che
All right, fine, what is it?
- 02:38
Tamara
I don't know. I just have to go there and understand how to want to know.
- 02:44
Michael Che
Tamara, everybody.
- 02:45
Tamara
I eat the buttons, okay?
- 02:47
Michael Che
For Weekend Update, I'm Michael Che. I'm still confused.
- 02:49
Colin Jost
I'm Colin Jost. Good night.
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