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Howdy folks? It says I'm now live, and so let me just make a few checks here, and we'll get started. First thing I want to check is my sound settings. Also, can y'all hear me? If you can, let me know. And it looks like I've got my input on.

I may be able to get some more input volume. There we go. That should be a little bit better.

Okay, awesome. So, first of all, Merry Christmas, everybody. Hope you all have been having a good day. And welcome to Christmas alone together for Christmas, 2024.

This is for people who may not be aware, a custom that I started a few years ago when I was living in California.

And I was distant from my family at the time.

So, you know, I would get invitations for people to come over to their houses for Christmas,

but didn't always. And it's not the same as being with family. So I decided that I would

turn a negative into a positive. And so I would do something to reach out to other folks who didn't have someone

to be with for Christmas and give them someone to hang out with online. So I started doing

alone together for Christmas. It's for everybody. So everybody is welcome, whether you have other

people to be with or not. But it's specifically meant to give those who don't have someone to be

with, someone to hang out with. So for the last

few years, I've been spending typically about four hours online on Christmas Day live. And that's

what I plan to do today. During these sessions, people will put questions in the chat, and I'll

do my best to answer the chat.

And I ask you so that I can identify the questions, please put a cue and a colon in front of your question.

So I can just scroll down the chat and see what are the questions.

That will help me out a lot.

I also want to say a big special thank you

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