Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet, by webcast and by podcast, I may miss still Howard Hughes and this is still the unexplained.

Hey, I hope you're doing okay if you're preparing for Christmas, wherever you are in this world, and I know it's a weird experience in the Southern Hemisphere, where it can often be hot at Christmas time, but whether you're north or south or east or west.

I hope that it's going well for you, and I hope that you're going to have a great time across Christmas. Maybe it's a time to stop and think and reflect here in the United Kingdom.

Well, they're talking about the latest version of coronavirus and possible restrictions, and we've got political problems.

My personal take on that, and I'm talking to you as a man who did news for most of his career and still watches the news, and keeps an eye on it as far as I can.

I just think you have to leave it to one side over this holiday period, because whoever we are, all of us need a break from thinking of it.

If you think of what this two years has been like, nearly two years, for people, it's put an awful lot of people, not just self-employed people, but people who are working in businesses and are employed, and people who are not employed, people who are just trying to live a life.

It's put everybody under a lot of pressure, even just reading the news and thinking about it. So I think you just have to put it to one side and forget about it, and that's been part of the point of this show over the period where we haven't really talked very much at all about these things.

And personally, the more I do the show, the more I think it's the right thing to do.

I've had some lovely messages this last few days. Christmas greetings, long emails from you telling me your stories of how you discovered this show and how you use it. I love to get those emails.

They keep me going, they are my lifeblood, and they help to point me in the right direction, I guess.

So, you know, those are always greatfully received. If you haven't emailed, if you've always wanted to, you certainly can. Please go to my website, designed and created by Adam. Happy Christmas, Adam.

The unexplained.tv, follow the link, and you can send me an email from there.

Plus, of course, the website and the podcast are totally independent. They have been for 16 years in 2022, 16 years of doing them, and more than 600 hours of material now.

We depend on donations. So if you are able to, at this time of year, that would be fantastic to keep it all going and to allow me to crank it forward into 2022.

I think, but then every year is a big year that there are a lot of decisions that are going to have to make about the unexplained in the new year, how it's done, and more importantly, how it's set up.

You know, the biggest thing, and it was Art Bell who told me this. He said, buddy, and he gave me a certain amount of advice, and he was the master.

You know, he said, you can't do all of this stuff yourself. You've got to have somebody working with you. So the way that Art worked, and of course, you know, his was a big show.

He was on, I think, five nights a week, so it was a little different. But he depended on a team to find and provide him with suggestions for guests.

A lot of people would contact him too. But he depended on his team. You know, I don't have that. And I think it means that I have to be particularly focused about what I do.

So, you know, I need to look at that in the new year. One of the things, though, is, is I've tried to keep up the quality of what we do.

So I'm not going to take by and large, I'm not going to take there are no rules, of course. But I'm not going to take the show down the road of self improvement.

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