Welcome everybody to Crystal Kyle and friends. Today it's just Kyle and Hassan.

Hassan, thanks for joining me, man. I appreciate it. What happened? Why is Crystal not here?

Long story. We normally record in the studio in D.C., but we had some family thing at home that we had to take care of in Virginia.

And, I mean, I literally went to bed at 6.30 in the morning last night and just woke up right when I texted you.

So it's, it's hectic.

It's, you know, kids get sick, yada, yada. You know, you know the drill.

I feel that. Well, I, no, I also, we're also doing it at a different time than we were supposed to,

and that's also my fault. So I thought maybe that's the reason why she wasn't here.

No, no, no, no. It's all good. Either way, it would have been just me and you today, given what's

going on here. Just like, just like the good old days, Kyle. It has been a while it has been a while man

sometimes I do feel like it's just you and me

against all of our

so many people in our in our field

so many people in our field

it's lonely out here brother it's lonely out here

we'll get into that in a little bit

and by the way for everybody listening to this

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Kylan and Friends, because I'm not only going to talk to Hassan about what just happened with

him at the airport with DHS, but I do want to get into Ethan. I want to get into the current

media landscape that you just alluded to. I want to talk a little bit about Kanye. So let's start with this,

man. Let's start with this. What the hell happened? Like, where were you? I guess you were

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