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It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well. The blue light. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well.

The blue light glasses are on, which means I probably had a long night, which I did.

But a long night more in that it was, obviously it was New Year's Eve, but just that it was, you know, when you have a son, when you have a newborn, not a newborn, a one year old, you only get until about 5 a.m. to sleep in, 5.30. So it's a, it was, but it was great because I had to get ready for the show. So kind of like, I knew I had an alarm clock, which is also a nice thing about having a child now. But had a great New Year's party, hosted a bunch of friends. We had a murder mystery party. I did not get the murderer, pick the murderer. I am O for four. It's a tough scene for you, man. O for four on those. I have not picked the murder.

I'm just, I focus on the wrong stuff. And then, uh, we also did, we did a great game of Jackbox, which was a lot of fun. I don't know if you played Jackbox. I have not. No, that sounds great. Oh, you haven't? Oh, they're fantastic. Yeah, there's 10 of them now. But yeah, we played, we had a really good round of Jackbox, which was always, always a good way to kind of cap the night.

But happy New Year to you. Happy New Year's to everyone listening right now as well. Yeah. If I sound a little off, we were doing Chinatown karaoke last night after the Packers Vikings game. So you can blame the Creed and Enrique Anglacius moments I had at like, which won't

like midnight higher.

We all, we all, it was, I love, I like to group karaoke rooms because singing them as a group is fun and a little less stressful and a little less scary. So that's what we did. We just all like saying songs for like two hours and then just went home. I was great. I know. I've never done the group one. I've only done public one. But I always just think about the greatest karaoke performance I've ever seen in my life. Not because of the singing performance, but because of the energy.

Sure. There was this big guy who was built like Preston Lacey from Jackass.

He was built like that.

And he sang Sissotio by Phil Collins.

And he was doing cartwheels and stuff.

It was in Pittsburgh. and Lacey from Jackass. He was built like that. And he sang Sissuio by Phil Collins.

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