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I'm your host, Ryan Gable tonight from The Secret Teachings.

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Some of you I know are tuning in from my live broadcast this evening, where we did an end-of-the-year show,

and that's what we'll be doing tonight on Ground Zero, a year in review, 2025.

I hope that you had a good Christmas or X-Mus or marry this or that or holidays or I say holy days because I'm pretty sure that either way you break it down and say holy day, right?

If Jesus was born as people believe it's holy right or it's the winter

solstice either way god did create the sun right so it's still holy and plus these words come from the old

english hollig dog which means holy it's a holy time. People have been asking me if over here

in Japan, where I'm broadcasting from tonight, if they have a Christmas, and they do do a lot of

Christmas lights, they have Christmas markets, stuff that I've never even seen in the U.S.

before. It's pretty intense.

It's very Tokyo-esque.

But one thing that they do over here around Christmas that's different is it's about dating.

It's not really about family.

The family stuff comes later when they get out the Katomatsu, which is the bamboo kind of greenery, almost like a a tree it's more of a protective symbol you put in front of your your door on either side of the entrance to your home

it's about cleansing and bringing in the new year that's holy too it's a holy time but i hope you

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