And we will open the phone lines today before we do that.

I thought it would be your show. Let you drive this train today with the able assistance of Greg and Mike in the studio and us down here in Houston, Ramon and Chad and me, Michael Berry.

It's been a whole lot of fun. Our sixth and final day with you. Clay and Buck will be back on Monday, rested and ready for another great year of broadcast.

Excellence before you start your calls. I I used to think that New Year's Eve and the whole New Year's resolution was just silly thing in the same way that I would make fun of cards, hallmark cards.

My grandmother was a cafeteria lady. She was a widow very young in life and she was a cafeteria lady. And then when the kids, when her kids, my parents' generation left home.

She was bored in the evening and not one to sit around asking anyone to come, you know, spend their time with her. She took on another job and she would get off from being a cafeteria lady.

She would drive to the hallmark store and she worked in the hallmark store. So never was there an occasion when I did not have a card in the mail.

So people who don't like cards, and I'm not crazy over them, but people who don't like cards or will say we'll make fun of cards. And I don't think people send cards the way they used to mostly because the whole snail mail concept and the email, instant gratification. It's easier. It's quicker. They can respond faster.

But I always had a saucepot for cards. I always thought that was a nice thing. And what it meant to me was that someone had thought about me before that occasion and taken the time in advance to write a nice note and send it along. And she would do it while she was working at the hallmark store.

And for you young kids, ask your grandparents what a hallmark store was and they'll explain news. You'd open the door and the tink tink tink tink rattle. And there was a distinctive smell. And there were lots of cards and lots of candles every small town has one.

It's usually owned by a woman there whose husband's made a little bit of money. And in order to get her out of the house and give her something to focus on other than him and his drinking.

He lets her do a little shop in town called sassy boutique or something of the order. And yeah, every little town has it. Mine, mine did as well. But the little bit bigger town, bridge city had had a hallmark store.

But I've come to learn over the years that resolutions do matter. And I say that because somebody out there's going to hear what I have to say and change their life.

Last year, I made some resolutions to take better care of my health to lose the weight that I hadn't lost over all those years that I kept talking about to sleep more to hydrate.

Now, it was partially informed by the fact that the the COVID mania was in full effect. But it was partly because it was long overdue. I just turned at the time 50 years old. And I was if it is to be it's up to me. I'm going to do this. And this is the occasion. And I'm going to do it. Well, I'm behold, I lost 70 pounds.

I feel better and look better than I have in a very, very long time. It's made me a better talk show host, but more importantly, it's made me a better dad, husband. I'm happier.

I feel good. A lot of very positive changes in my life. Well, the new year can sometimes give people the excuse that they needed. Right?

We don't just send a note to somebody. Hey, grandson, love you. You're great. But if it's their birthday, then we will. The new year can be an occasion where you do that. And I would encourage you to do that.

Because if you don't make that New Year's resolution, and I'm not saying go run and join a gym. But if you don't make that New Year's resolution, you're probably not going to do it on March 8th or June 9th or August 17th.

If you start it, you may not live up to it. But if you don't start it, you're never going to do it.

Exorcised water, sleep, vitamins. There's a great deal of information out there about regimens. You can undertake to strengthen your system, not just for COVID, because COVID is going to go away.

The common COVID is the common cold. And we're going to have up a respiratory infections for the rest of our existence on this earth. As we always have, that's not going to go away.

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