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I'm Holly Borkez.

I'm Serti.

Welcome back.

Welcome to the new year,

2026, the year of the horse.

As everyone's beating, dashing me in the head with that information.

I'm hoping it's as good as people say it's going to be.

Yeah.

And I kind of liked the analogy of like 2020.

You know, 2025 was like rough, but it was like the year of the snake shedding the skin.

And now we're like moving into

horse energy. I'm hoping that's good for all of us. So far not. Yeah, so far for me, not either,

but I'm trying to like not take it personally. Like it's not actually my personal drama. It's like around me. I don't know what that means exactly. That's me. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah. So. Personal, personal because we're very directly involved, but it's not about us or because of it. Yes. And yeah, I, I want, thank you, Sarah, yesterday for taking over the pod for me.

I wanted to let you guys know because so many of you have been following along, but Chad's dad did pass

away over the new year, a couple couple days ago. And so I just needed to take a little bit of

time with the family. And it's, death is so hard. Like I, my mom made a comment and was like,

well, you know, it happens to everyone. I'm like, that is not

comforting to me. Like, I know that it happens to everyone, but it's still really difficult to

like wrap your head around how the whole world just like continues moving even when you're

grieving something. Like it's, it's such a weird feeling. And then I look like

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