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Welcome to a bonus episode of The Friendzone sponsored by

none other than our Fave target Black

target. Yes. We missed you guys. We're back. We actually wanted to have a pretty quick conversation.

Just to kind of ease us into the new year about how we felt about the past couple of years.

And if that has affected how we're going into this new year of 2023. I wanted to ask you guys

actually just to start off and kind of kick the conversation. You know, back in 2019, I feel like

it made people get scared to celebrate the new year moving forward because of how unpredictable

2020 ended up being for us where we really were side-swiped. Like no one saw it coming. Do you all feel

that that changed how you now move forward with celebrating the new year or no? 100%. You know,

new year is always was my favorite holiday anyway. I'll tell you guys it's my favorite because it's

so hopeful. Everybody's in a good mood. But after 2020, nothing is for sure. Okay. Ain't that

something? It definitely changed it. I've definitely seen the change. I feel the change. I feel like

everybody used to be so like up in arms like, oh, you know, it's about to be new years. I have to

get myself together. I have to figure out what the party's going to be like Vision Board party.

You know what I'm saying? But I just don't see that same energy as far as everybody's concerned,

but I feel like everyone is holding on to it for themselves, trying to figure out how to find

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