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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the very first episode of 2003 of Light the Fight.

And I cannot believe I'm saying 2023.

If you're like me, you can remember back to when Y2K, we were all scared that the world was going to shut down in regards to, like, technology, electronics, the internet was not going to work anymore.

And then we got past that.

But I remember looking back at 2020, at 2000, the first year of the new millennium

and thinking, wow, man, like, I wonder what 2010 is going to be like.

I don't think I could have imagined 2023.

That seemed to me like some sort of sci-fi movie or something like that.

Yet here we are, 2003.

Many of us in 2020 or 2000,

the new millennium,

like myself,

weren't even parents.

I wasn't a parent back then.

I can tell you,

thinking about having kids was not on my mind back then,

thinking about what I was going to do that day, what I was

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