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Good morning, everybody. Happy Friday. And more importantly, happy new year, 2026. That's kind of,

I can't really wrap my head around that, to be honest with you. Also, you clearly can't wrap

your head around the dress code, which was baseball hat today, Crystal. Man, I fucked up. I'm already just days into the new year, already screwing everything up. Your hair looks way too good for a baseball hat. So that's the bright side. You know, to be honest, to be I am a fan of a baseball hat. I'm also a fan, though. I'm a fan of visors, which I feel like are more of like maybe early 2000s coated. But my head is very small. And usually I have to wear

child-sized baseball hats. So the visor kind of solves that for me. I saw we were like planning a show

in the group a few weeks ago. And I saw you wearing a visor. And I was like, damn. Crystal's bringing

the visor back. Oh yeah. Big fan of the visor.

Amazing.

So lots of things going on. We're going to do a little bit. It's going to be not a full on show here. I don't think we're going to try to keep it a little bit brief. And I was telling me. Yeah, right. I feel, yeah, we're going to try. Yeah. I feel sort of like, I feel rusty, you know. Just taking this little bit of time off has been nice and I think good for me to mentally reset and hopefully for you guys and for the crew as well. But I'm also like, do I still know how to do this? You're doing great, Crystal. Never better. In the comments, you decide.

Is she still ready to do this?

That's right.

Should I just hang it up?

Give up.

That's it.

It's over.

Any big resolutions this year, y'all, before we begin?

I haven't, you know, I haven't really been a big resolution person.

Usually what I do is during this time period, I try to think about like what are going to be the big, not just stories, but consequential events of the year. And, you know, last year I really was thinking a lot about AI and I would say this year I'm still thinking a lot about AI. So I've kind of, I guess, recommitted myself to, I was also just talking

a Griffith about this to see if I can have less of just a domer view of it and more of an aspirational,

like, okay, if this is coming, because I think it's very difficult to halt completely,

what could we do that would make sure that the benefits are shared and that this isn't

the end of democracy, that this isn't, you know, the start of a truly authoritarian like power

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