Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Group Chat, we got a hot, hot episode to start off your week.

We got a lot to talk about. We got some business stuff. We have some job loss stuff,

some different people that are losing their jobs, some very large portion of one company's workforce

is most likely about to be fired. 75% of them, so there's not no small

job cut, but we're going to talk about it. There's a new monster at the box office,

and we have a certain group of people with a very certain job that we would like to ban

from being able to work. We'd like to ban them. We'd like to make it in a legal job.

Yeah, I know, we just so we think we want to get rid of it. I think it's the best thing

that we could possibly do. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And then we're talking,

you know, we have some hot new releases, Taylor Swift, new album. She broke a streaming record

on the first day. We're going to talk about the top 10 streamed artists of the whole year.

Unfortunately, it hurts me to say we have to mention Kanye a little bit. Yeah.

It's painful, but we got to do it. And then there's a bunch of other stories. We have a hot day

of news and topics. And we're ready to go. You ready? Let's do it. Let's do it.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you're hearing this, we beat the odds.

And we recorded an episode tonight. I don't know how we did it.

Yeah, I mean, you know, the chances are low. We have what we call the bench operating.

So if you watch this on YouTube, when it pans to the bench, can you guys scream?

Do you know how to switch to the view of you?

That we're already back. So if you notice, usually there's

Javier is usually over on the couch. We'll call it the bench. And he's in the pilot seat today.

So, and to be clear, Ari is somewhere in Utah, which

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