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I'm Scotty Beam, a media personality, content creator, music enthusiasts, and a wing connoisseur.

And I'm Sylvia Obel, I'm a culture writer, host, producer, and lover of Beyonce. Yo Sylvia, I cannot believe that this year is really almost over.

Like, the blessings. I'm very excited about it. Don't get it confused.

I'm excited and afraid because each year I'm excited for the next year.

The next year gets worse. I don't know. I can't imagine missing 20, but I also didn't think I'd ever miss 2019.

So here we are, I mean.

You ever seen the meme on Twitter that's when somebody said, I've seen nobody say

2021 is my year.

Nobody has said that yet. Everybody is scared. My favorite, you know our

girl on the steps. They got her walking back down the steps this time around. I'm cracking

up. Right. She said fuck fuck that I'm going back.

It was all the lie.

But no, this by far has been the longest year of my entire life.

I feel like we've lived several years. I turned 30 at the top of this year. I feel I'm leaving this year about 35. I'm at least 35 at this point like I'm like I've been in my 30s for half a decade I feel like.

Yes, I mean, absolutely.

And while I can't say that I'm sad to see this year ago,

I do get a little excited when these year in reviews lists start popping up because like you said it's a long-ass year and there was a lot of stuff that went on you know that I thought happened in 2018 happened this year.

I was like that was this year.

Right.

Every time somebody say something that happened before summer,

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