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SWWP #49 - Charlamagne's $200m Netflix Deal, Chappelle's New Special, Marty Supreme
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Hey everybody. Welcome Back to episode 49 of Something Wrong with the Podcast. We're back after a week off, after my first time taking a week off. My apologies guys. I obviously was traveling for the holidays and scheduling wise it would have just been a. A bit of a pain to figure out time to record. And I'm also going through some things with work transitions. I may miss another episode because I have to like hand over this laptop and then get new tech and then I have to download more software and figure out how to do all that. I might just do the next one like Zoom or something, but that's for me to figure out. Point is, I'm here. I'm coming off a touch of sickness. I've been congested. No body aches or fevers, just a runny nose and stuff of that nature pretty much. I think I went through like three boxes of tissue while I was home with my parents. Very chill Christmas. Just me, my, my mom and dad. I love when it's just the three of us and our dog, of course, who's 15 and he still acts and acts and moves like a puppy. It's incredible how much life he's still got in him. What happens during Christmas? We. What do we do? We watched. I told my parents about the show Plurbus. You should check that out. Ate really well and I, you know, I just caught up on sleep. Home for me has just become this place where I can just rest and have no expect. And younger me was always itching to go out. Not that there's much to do in upstate New York, but like go out and try to find something to do or just like sit at home and painstakingly wait till I can go back to the city to then like, you know, go about my life. And I'm always excited to come back to the city, but I do believe that change in environment and that change in. I really value that time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Whereas before I feel like I was trying, I was in my mind so much trying to escape the relaxation of it that I was not enjoying what it should have been. Always enjoy the company of my parents, but my mind would always race elsewhere about, you know, the FOMO sort of things. But had a great time. Super chill, Very, very happy to be back. Of course I'm back with more treats. My mom won't stop baking, so I have a bunch of cookies and stuff that I need to give out to my neighbors and things of that nature. I've been on a show binge in a film binge. I do want to start with today's episode with Chappelle's new special, the Unstoppable, which came out immediately after the Jake Paul fight. Which we should actually. Let's do that first. Let's go in the order of sequence of events here. The Jake Paul Anthony Joshua fight. And that headline that came out today, that news story of Anthony Joshua getting in a terrible car crash with two of his friends. I know one of one sadly passed away. I think the other one is also in like serious critical condition if not passed as well. The photos look terrible. Anthony Joshua was in the back of the seat and pulled out of the vehicle and the videos are very disturbing and so are the photos of the car. Do not look at those if you, if you can't avoid them. Unfortunately, Twitter is just a cesspool of trauma dumping and just awful things time and time again. And I still can't find myself not looking at everything. But point is glad that, that he's okay. And I'm. I can't imagine what he's going through. Losing a friend in that, in that matter and then having to probably see this online and relive this that many times over is going to be terrible for him. But in regards to the fight itself, he shout out celebration all around. Anthony Joshua was incredible. He really stepped up the fight and didn't let Jake's like, you know, tactics of falling and doing those certain things kind of ruined the fight. He knocked him down four times, did what he did and knocked him out. Broke his jaw twice. That's how much he handled the business. But I do want to say to Jake that as much as he's positioned himself as a heel and as much as he's leaned into the moniker of like being a punk and an asshole, the man is, you can't deny his, his willingness to make, to stick to an entertaining like match. He was clearly outmanned, outnumbered, like all the stats and everything was Just not in his favor. But he got punched and knocked and came up and stood up and kept fighting time and time again. I mean, he could have gone down after any one of those knockdowns. The funniest one, that was the one that eventually took him out where he, Anthony Joshua, gets the clear shot that also broke his jaw. And you see Jake do like the whoo. Like, he makes the face like, oh, he got me. Like, that's the one. But kudos to Jake for taking a lick and keep on getting up and taking more pause. That was a hell of a fight and it was more, honestly, more entertaining than I had anticipated. And I, you know, rest up. You definitely need it. I hope he comes back with like a more comparable fight. And then, you know, Tanthony Joshua, rest and heal after this awesome, awful injury, this car incident. And not just physically rest. Give your mind and your mental time as well. Losing somebody in that fashion is awful. And to be in the car at the scene of the incident, I can't even imagine what he's going through right now. So I hope he takes the time away between the 92 million that each him and Jake took home. Not to say that money fixes an incident like the. An incident like this, but you can disappear and be okay, take all the time you need to just be able to handle what you're currently going through. But immediately after the fight, Dave Chappelle's new special came out and it's called the Unstoppable. And I believe I mentioned this before on the show we're talking about, you know, early this year in January, Chappelle did last time, I believe the sixth time, I want to say, I think so, that he hosted Saturday Night Live. He actually did a one night only at Radio City. And I fortunately had a friend that scooped a few tickets and hit me up and said, hey, got one if you want to go like. So I went to that show where he was working on what most of which ended up being this new hour, as well as trying out some stuff from his SNL monologue, which was cool to see him work that stuff out. I also saw Donnell Rollins on the lineup. He made it a real show. Wasn't like him just kicking the bucket around trying shit. Like he had real material. A lot of it. Again, like I said seconds ago, is in this special and I wanted to go through that. And I think Chappelle, in short, I liked it. I think Chappelle has teetered on the line of preachy and like self grand deciding whatever that Term like where he would kept. He would get in this cycle of explaining how rich he is and making the. Making it less about the joke but more about the luxe, like the luxury raps, but the comedy equivalent where he was just saying things about how rich he was, but not even in like a comedic tone. It was more just like a hey, and then I also have this whatever. So he kind of like got a little lost in the sauce when it comes to that stuff. But I think in this special he did a better job of he front loads the jokes. I would say the first 20 or so minutes are like just the quick hitter jokes, the, the Diddy stuff and all the other things that he addresses. The Saudi Arabia thing, the, the transphobia comments again where he triples and quadruples down one more time. All of which like good jokes, whatever, great bits, all that stuff. But then I'm watching it again on my, on my television and he goes, all right, like he, he like announces, he's like, it's time for my, my closer. He pretty much announces it. And I paused the television because I was like, I've been watching this. I'm not even like, you know, I just started eating. Like I don't even finish my meal yet. I know this special, it says an hour, a little over an hour. Like, what do we mean? It's time for my closer. So I look at the television and it's, there's 40 minutes left, about 35, 40 minutes left in the special. And I was like, oh, well, this is story. So then I paused it and I tried to think back because I wanted to kind of get it, jot my mind about what did he close with when I saw him. Turns out it was exactly what he closed this special with, the Jack Johnson bit. So he did two, he said he had two closers. He did one that took occupied like 10 minutes or so of time. But then the remaining, the Lion's share, the 30 minutes left after that was, it was pretty interesting. It's heavy storytelling. And then he front loads the Diddy stuff. But the story of Jack Johnson, for those that haven't seen the special or just aren't familiar with Jack Johnson's story, was a famous boxer, a black, black American boxer that was basically beating up at the time, the early 1900s, beating up all these white men, American foreigners, whoever wanted these hands, could get these hands. Actually, most Americans wouldn't fight him because he was black. They didn't want to touch him. So he would go to Canada, beat the shit out of the best Canadian fighter go to Ireland, beat the fuck out of there. Like, best boxer and all these, you know, people. While he was doing this, he also had an affinity for white women. So he was having sex with a lot of white women, actually ended up marrying a few white women. And his. His sexual proclivities, like, led him, is ultimately what jammed him up. And he. Chappelle does a great job of creating these historical parallels between what's called the Mann act and. And the man act was basically like, moving women across state lines for the purpose of having sexual relations with them is exactly what Diddy got busted on. The first time it was used, I believe it was. The first time it was used was for Jack Johnson. And that's how they basically stopped him from. That's how they got him the fuck out of here. They hit him with the man act, got him out of here, and then, like. But at the time, obviously, he was making a lot of noise, knocking out a bunch of great white people, and he was a problem. Like, they had to take care of the problem. But this historical parallel of using that man axe to. To snipe Jack Johnson while also using the same act to take down Diddy, a monster, like a very. There's a. There's a commonality in terms of what was used to take both these guys down, but one was. Wasn't doing anything, you know, inherently wrong, while the other was a piece of shit, awful human being. But we're seeing basically the same the from 1910 to 2025. And Chappelle does this whole thing about weaving them together quite eloquently. And I.
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There are rumors that he may be doing another SNL hosting, which I. Which I hope he does. I was reading some forums and saying that he may be coming back to. To host, but Chappelle, for me, has, like, stepped in. I see him so much more. Not even, like, what I'm about to say can be misconstrued as if I'm putting him on a pedestal. Like, he's greater than the art form. Which is not true at all. But I think he, like, wants to be looked at as more than just a comedian. I think he really is positioning himself as, like this, this figure that extends beyond the art form itself, beyond the medium. And for that, I think this was one of his better of his most recent specials, to be honest. And I'm wondering how much of my bias plays into that from having seen a lot of this stuff live. And it hit really hard in a room full of people that are laughing. There's. Honestly, it's that shared experience of being in a room during a. A comedian doing their thing is just so much. It's just. You can't compare it to watching it at home on Netflix at one in the morning. But I, I liked it. I haven't revisited it. I feel like I should watch it again. But for first watch, I guess. First watch in person, second watch on the television version, he did cut back a lot of the Diddy stuff. I will say he, in the Radio City show had some great bits about Diddy's home exploding from baby oil. He had a lot of great bits that I think he cut short to save time to flesh out this closer, which obviously was the lion's share of this special. If you did watch it, I am very curious to know what people that follow the show thought of the special. I'd love to read some comments and engage with those and just see how people were feeling it. Because admittedly, I haven't looked up reviews or what other people, critics or punnets thought about it. When it comes to comedy, I pretty much stick to what, you know, my own guns because I'm quite a junkie for the. For the art form. So, yeah, it's pretty cool, though. I would recommend it if you haven't seen it. And if you have seen it, please let me know what you think about the special below. Yeah, I do want to go into other film. Not, yeah, comedy, but film. I saw Marty Supreme. Holy. I saw it yesterday or two days ago now, whatever it is, I mean. Okay, well, let's pause here. Uncut gems. It's this. So it's one of the Safdie brothers. It's Josh Safdie, I believe. Yeah. Because Ben did the Smashing Machine, which I hadn't seen, which did not do great. It's always interesting. You can see, like when the Coen brothers split and when other, like all these great directors split up, you can see it's always funny to see out loud. It happens quickly. You can see which one really housed the talent and which one is really the one that made the magic of those films? And this isn't like I'm not shitting on the, the other Safdie. I mean, I guess I am, but Josh really took the, the baton and ran with it with this one. The marketing, it goes without saying, some of the best out of home marketing in campaigns digitally, the Las Vegas sphere stunt with Timmy standing on top of that, all the press run that they've been on as a group and even individually, the character that, the attitude and excitement that Timmy has about this character. And just as in, as like as if he was barking outside of a comedy club being like, come see this movie, go see this movie. Like, please see this movie. Like, he's pleading for people to go see this movie and just like hammering the message of dream big, go see this movie. Dream big. Like he is. All of his late night seats were very passionate, which was great. And I, and I think that a lot of that stems from the character itself, Marty. So I go, I see it and it is. What a ride out the gate. It's, it's, it's loud. It's. It's very uncut gems coated. It's high octane. It's, it's loud. It's like a fever dream. It. From the very second the film starts, it's just, it goes. And Marty is easily one of the worst characters of all time in a recent, recent movie. He's a terrible person. He's the most selfish, one of the most selfish people I've seen in a film. He's. But he's so determined and he's so passionate and so sure of himself that he's willing to do anything to, you know, in his case in the film, get to Tokyo to play in these championships, like raise enough money to go do this. So he continue his career. Like, he is relentless in a way that will hurt everyone else around him. But when he needs those people in his life, like Tyler, the creator, who plays his best friend in the film, and Odessa, who plays his, his girl in the film, like, when he needs them, he'll go to them, but it's purely because he needs them and nothing else more. It's, it is the, the. What a selfish asshole. But what a, What a heart. Like, the guy is the most determined and focused. One of the most determined and focused people in, in, in a recent film. So he, There is a scene though. So Marty is very harsh and direct and offensive and he's making a lot of like Holocaust jokes. And again, this takes place in the 50s, like not even 10 years after the Holocaust had ended. He's making jokes about Hiroshima and the atom bomb. And there's a scene though where he beats this one guy in the match and they go out to eat afterwards. And Mr. Wonderful, the guy from Shark Tank's character comes over to the table and the guy that Marty beat has Auschwitz. His like, you know, just got a.
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Oh, tattoo from the Holocaust on his arm. And he has this story about how. And this is again, this whole scene is kind of sandwiched in between up to this point, what has been a predominantly comedy driven film. This scene is, it's so absurd, but also very real in the sense that stories like this probably did happen. But the guy was, the guy, the ping pong guy was, was so good with his handset that the Nazis would send him off into the woods to disarm bombs and they would send him way off by himself. So obviously if he didn't disarm them, they would blow up and only he would be dead because to them it's like whatever, like just another one, you know, another prisoner dead. So anyway, he's doing this and then while he's doing this, these tinkering with a bomb, he hears bees and he follows them to a tree. And in this is like, we're seeing this as like a flashback, but it's, you know, the, the high color saturation and everything is all these extreme close ups and these, he walks to this tree and this is beautiful bee honeycomb with dripping with honey. And he snaps the, he smokes a cigarette, blows the smoke of the bees. They disperse from the comb itself. So then he breaks the comb in half and licks the honey and then he just covers his whole body and honey and then puts back on his prison garb and then goes into the prison cell, takes his, reveals himself to the other, the other Jewish prisoners and they, they lick him. And it's just extreme. Close ups of just tongue on hairy chest. And there's licking, lapping up the honey off this like a kitten, like, you know, scraping the bottom of their bowl. And it's. It's. It's visually shocking. And then you put it in the context of what he's actually doing, providing nourishment and nutrients to people that are, you know, obviously being starved to death and left for dead. But it's sandwiched in, like this, to this point, what has been a really funny film. And it was. I think. I think it was just after he was a genius for putting it at this. At the point of this. At this part of the film. Because at the time, Kevin o' Leary's character, who's a Rockwell, he's like a wealthy pen maker, and Timothee Chalamet is basically trying to seduce and fuck his wife. And while that. While he. While Timmy's doing that, like, not even listening to this tragic story, while Timmy's focusing on Gwyneth Paltrow, Mr. Rockwell's wife across the restaurant, just staring at her, wanting. Just wanting to have sex with her. You're seeing, like, you're hearing the story and then seeing these visuals, and it was like, do we laugh? Like, this is tragic, but we laugh. And obviously there was a lot of laughter in that scene and throughout the film itself. But I just wanted to draw attention that. Because it was such an odd, like, scene. And I just. It's. I just think that the genius of it was to make something that was so dark and so tragic, just slap it right in the middle of, like, this scene of Marty trying to fuck this guy's wife and like, blowing off this story, which is just like one of the most harrowing tales ever told. But anyway, I would. I would highly recommend the film. I'm not gonna spoil it. There are no. There will be no spoilers. Go see it. It is. I do want to see it again, but it is stressful. It's. It's the same level of stress and heightened intensity that Uncut Gems had. And they did a really good. The casting was incredible. George Gervin Iceman is in it. He works at, like, the local ping pong parlor, which was freaking awesome. A lot of the unknown guys in that. That, you know, one, the. The very fat gentleman that plays Marty's friend is a guy that Safdie found in a. Pardon me, Safdie found in a Sidetalk NYC video, which is like, it's so New York at core. They also shot it not too far from here, which is pretty awesome. They actually set up one of the sets directly outside one of my close friends apartments and shot quite a few scenes of the film there. So it was just really cool to see the time capsule of 1950s New York and then also recognizing restaurants and bars and businesses that he's running in and out of and engaging with throughout the city. It was a very, very New York heavy project. And it was really cool to see New York at that time. And also just like a cool, unique story. A story that's often probably would not have been told otherwise. And then Safdie, I was watching some interviews with him and he was talking about how much he studied the Harlem Globetrotters because at some point, Timmy's character goes on the road with them. And the history of the Globetrotters, it was just very. It was cool. Like, it was informative when it needed to be, sad and dark when it needed to be. But. But there was always a. I laughed a lot. There was a lot of either like script written comedy or cutaway comedy. They did like a trope that I love that south park does where there's one character in a sea of people, like in a crowd, and they focus on that one character kind of becomes the voice for the. For the group, and they're like, you know, call out the. Whatever they want to happen, and then that rallies the rest of the people. It's very like, it's very. If you know south park, you know the reference like, I broke the dam. No, I broke the dam. It's like that episode of south park where Stan tries to take a bullet and then everybody chimes in and tries to do the same thing, thus undercutting the thing that he was trying to do. It's just brilliant. Go see it. I highly recommend.
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And the other story that I wanted to talk about today is the really big deal that Charlemagne inked with Netflix. He signed a $200 million deal bringing the black effect and I heart his properties on iHeart2 Netflix, which is incredible for Charlemagne. So, like, shout out to him, like, get the bag. You know, insert every. Like, you know, this is inspirational for all creators. Like, everybody's just driving all that filler, all that bullshit. Cool. Great. Congrats. Fantastic. My thing is, what does this mean for the people that were affected by this deal? In effect, it makes it sound negative. It could be, but we'll see. Let me explain, because I did go on a Spaces that I wasn't planning on doing, but I was on a spaces and Joe was on and the topic came up and we ended up talking about it. He asked me what I thought about the deal. I quite frankly, at the time, wasn't very aware of it. So I did some reading in that moment and came to the conclusion that I still stand by because the shows that this deal includes are the Breakfast Club. I'm gonna read through this list here. My favorite Murder, Dear Chelsea, Joe and Jada. This is important. The psychology of your 20s. Behind the bastards, stuff they don't want you to know, stuff you missed in history class, stuff to blow your mind. Rory and Mall three and out Buried Bones. And there's significant more. There's many more. Right? So plenty of shows, because these are all shows that are owned by iHeart. Once you sign a deal, you're at mercy of what the owner of that deal wants to do with your content. So in doing so, all these shows are now ending their YouTube video content come top of New Year, I believe it's. I believe, in January of 26, and migrating their video content to Netflix. Right. So I saw that, I heard that, and I thought to myself, hmm, that's interesting. Obviously, I'm not in the boardroom at Netflix, nor am I in those discussions, but from a. If I'm a content creator and you're telling me we're taking your content off your biggest platform for most of these podcasts, YouTube. And we're migrating it to Netflix, which has a great audience, but it has a little, you know, harder barrier of an entry. YouTube's a free service. Like, you know, anybody can access, I guess you could access. Technically you could access anywhere Netflix from anywhere. But, like, it's no secret that users on YouTube is the most watched platform. Like, it's not even close, numbers wise. So in, in short, like, you're shrinking the reach of the show and you're stuffing that behind a paywall. And because of this deal, you're not going to be able to get AdSense on YouTube, which by the way, it's not life changing money, but it is good money on a month to month basis. If you are running an operation you rely on, you know, all these businesses rely on multiple streams of income. So you're drying up a well that was otherwise flowing pretty well for you and bringing in a lot of, you know, cash on a monthly basis. Again like not like this is the livelihood of the show, keep the, keep the lights on money but like, you know, cover rent with that money that's coming in. And again like as someone that had the access and back end data to roaring Malt show, like I knew how much, like I'm pretty aware of how much money was coming in monthly from the YouTube side. And that's a tough number to walk away from to kind of be not kind of to be forced to stop because the show is. The owner of the show is moving it to Netflix. You know what I'm saying? So I guess my question is what does Netflix and iheart plan on doing to get these shows by removing these shows from their YouTube audiences and getting those people to migrate onto Netflix? Like what is their plan? And I'm sure they have a plan. I'm sure this is like all something that they've been working on. There's like a phase of this as well, what that rollout will look like to the public. But that's my concern. So like a huge win for Charlemagne. $200 million. That's it, enough said. Mic drop, you walk away. Congrats, you're set forever and ever and ever. And your kids and your kids and your kids. Generational wealth for everybody. I'm my only concern stands with the creators that are involved with this deal. All the shows that I named and are they, they're obviously not getting $200 million. But like what, what is the upside for them to have this move done on their it Will this help their content or hurt their shows? It's nice to say, hey yeah, I'm producing a show or I'm a personality on the show that's on Netflix like as a social stat. That's cool. But I just, I don't see how pivoting to Netflix is going to help grow these shows. And I'm looking at like I saw somebody clipped my thoughts, which is what I'm saying again from that spaces and like I've seen people agree with me, I've seen other people kill me, say I'm a dick writer hater, all this shit, whatever. Feel how you Feel, But I'm just saying it's. It's so easy to. In, like, we could take this off of podcasting and off of this deal. In particular, if I'm an artist and I sign a record label and all of my music is on Apple Music and Spotify and SoundCloud and wherever, and I sign this record deal, well, I don't even sign it. Someone that manages me signs it because they're representing me and they say, all right, we signed this deal, but none. Your biggest music. 80% of your listeners are on Apple Music. But we can't post there anymore. It's over. We gotta go over here. Well, it's like, damn. Well, like, you kind of feel like you're gonna. You're starting from square one. Like, damn, I gotta. I gotta create. I gotta create new audience again. I gotta do the things that got me to where I was over here, but now recreate those and do them again over here. So how do you capture new audience? And I would like to ask I heart and Netflix, is that up to the creators that you signed or is that up to the creatives and marketing teams at these companies to figure out ways to capture new audience? Because if I was a producer on one of these shows, I would low key be stressing going in the new year, like, damn, like, we're not gonna be on YouTube. Like, YouTube is like our fucking. That was our thing. Like, that's what we did. Like, that's how we got to where we are. All these shows are. Got to where they are because of YouTube. So to remove that from the, to strip that medium from their audiences, I think it's going to be an interesting move. And again, like, Netflix, I'm sure has something that they're. They're planning on doing to make this make sense. But if I was working on one of these shows, my mind would be racing with, well, what do we do? Like, what more can we do once this show isn't where our audience is? But again, amazing deal for Charlemagne. But does this deal help the creators? That it affects is really the question I was trying to bring up. Not no Shade, no Shot. I'm not targeting this at anyone or only talking about the old show that I'm on. I'm just saying this as a whole. If you are on the list of I believe there were like 30 shows that are moving over there, is this something that really helps out your. Your show and your audiences? Truly. But time will tell. We'll see. I think it's. It's interesting. I'M curious to see how podcast content does on Netflix. I do think from a deal standpoint for iHeart, the. The name of radio is just expanding your radio like physically the antenna that create radio transmission transmitters. The, the way these like monopolies and conglomerates win. Like in iHeart, they just buy antennas, physically buying radio space, buying properties across the country. That's how they became so big. So in this economy and Netflix, the TV itself is the new antenna. So it's smart for them to partner with these, you know, video leaning video forward streaming services to, you know, get more antennas under their umbrella. So I think it's a really smart idea for iHeart, but outside of that, will it be fruitful for the creators? I guess we'll have to see. Okay, that is it for today. Yeah, guys, I'm going through a lot right now with work, good things and obviously New Year's is around the corner. New Year's is if you're listening to this in a couple days. So I guess I won't. I guess I'll see you in the new year. Wow. I just, just realized this is my last episode of 2025. Wow. I didn't even put that into perspective until right now. And I could easily get emotional because this show, I survived the year with this show. I mean, this show started obviously in, in a fit of turmoil and panic enrage and just depression and all of those things. And as I sit in the very seat that I started this show and to see where I've gone within the context of this show, but also my career, it has been a journey, but a fruitful and a positive one. And it's not always this. It's Jesus Christ. I just fucking Roman salute. Jesus fucking. I just hit the. If you're watching on, if you're listening to this, I just eland it hasn't always been an upward trajectory. I'll just do one of these. It's been one of these. So I'm just so thankful. Yeah, I really, I really am. And it's, it's not lost on me that how much people still care to listen and support and welcome me into their home and into their ear canals on a weekly basis. It's a really a beautiful thing and I will. We'll see what happens with, with me in the show in the coming year. My life has changed significantly in terms of like workload and what I'll be doing and it's all things exciting and things that I'm so ready to get started on, but depending on how my schedule looks we'll see. But as of now I'm here and I'm so happy to be here and I've been really lucky. This is knock on wood. Jesus Christ. I have not said those words in so long. I just weird to say that stuff is good so I yeah and I and I wish the same for all of you as well things can Things will turn the the there's always a swing in the opposite direction. And as bad as it can go in one way, it will always come back even stronger in the other way. Yeah. So happy 2025. Prayers and blessings heading into New Year in 2026 and entering my my dry January, which I'm super stoked for and you guys will hear from me soon. I love you all and Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Goodbye.
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