And uh... uh... Welcome one at all to our special end of the year. Not only do we have the damage report, but we have our garbage people of the year coming at you, which means we had to bring in Brett Erlich. Brett, how is it going?

It's my contractual obligation to appear on Fridays, John, unless something horrible is happening.

It is today's...

Well, also things are horrible and they're happening, but thank you for being here.

Right. Not to be too Jewish about it how is today different from all others you know what I mean John I mean feel free go wild at the end of the year I also I feel like I am being trolled by technology because there was that

weird thing where a little bit of the garbage people intro played and I heard it but I did not

hear the intro to the show. How is that possible?

So anyway, I'll tell you why.

There's a ghost in the machine basically.

So we use Zoom these days and it has a really good noise cancellation software so it only isolates voices and is like they probably

want to hear the voices not the music but I heard the kazoo but the kazoo is someone going

beep baa baa baa wa wa wa wa

wa that's deep actually anyway uh thank you Brett for being here I'm very glad to have you here

because we do have news we're going to talk about including some important

breaking news news that bears on the 2024 presidential election and we will by the way at the end of the week as

or the end of the show and week as we always do we'll be doing our garbage people

of the week but we're going to be looking back through the year as well in a couple

different ways and I think it's going to be fun. So please

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