Unlearn16: Class is in Session - December 26, 2023


The One Where I Saved The Island of Misfit Toys

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00:00:00.000 Class is in session.
00:00:05.120 Hey, you doing everybody and welcome to Unlearn 16 Class is in session.
00:00:10.680 It is December.
00:00:14.000 I forgot what day it was.
00:00:15.140 Guys, I'm a little sleepy.
00:00:16.260 It is December 25th.
00:00:18.680 I am filming this on the 25th of December, 2023.
00:00:24.240 And as you get a little bit older in the years, a little long in the tooth, as they shall
00:00:29.280 say, I guess we start really thinking about past Christmases and people who obviously aren't with
00:00:38.060 us or life changes, or we start being a little bit more nostalgic, or heaven help me, I don't
00:00:44.760 know how much more nostalgic I can be, about what once, it's going to be a long night, ladies and
00:00:52.480 gentlemen, what once was. So I guess I want to talk about that a little bit. I want to talk
00:00:58.500 about nostalgia. I want to talk about, and I apologize for everybody who doesn't celebrate
00:01:02.780 Christmas. I get it. It's not your jam. Whether you're celebrating Hanukkah or you're celebrating
00:01:09.160 Kwanzaa or you're celebrating an Eid, whatever your thing is, please use this as a philosophical
00:01:17.000 application to that thing. Because as everybody understands who listens to me at all, I'm not
00:01:23.580 religious. I attach no religion to this particular holiday. I realize it's Christian, but
00:01:27.760 and culturally speaking it's inundated in all of our lives whether you want it to be or not
00:01:33.220 here's the thing though the thing that I remember the most and and the funny part is you remember
00:01:41.300 things from your own perspective in your own time so I think a lot of nostalgia especially for our
00:01:48.280 younger years comes from the fact that we had no idea whatsoever about what was going on we had no
00:01:56.980 idea what was going on in the world. We had no idea what was going on, like those weird family
00:02:02.160 dynamics, who was fighting with who, who was being an ass, who was whatever. We have no idea. For the 0.98
00:02:08.780 most part, most of us didn't understand who was stressed about money or which marriage was on
00:02:14.640 the rocks or as our older parents and grandparents, who they were missing and what they didn't speak
00:02:23.660 about. We didn't know any of that. Because as kids, this was our tunnel vision, right? As kids,
00:02:30.560 we just had a list. This is the present list. I would like all the things off said list. And
00:02:38.360 that's it. And I know it sounds materialistic, and it is. But it was also something about,
00:02:46.940 and I know not everybody gets everything off their list, not the point. The point is this.
00:02:51.320 The point is this beautiful moments of family, of, you know, doing things traditionally every
00:03:02.720 single year and you know what's coming and it makes you feel good and it makes you feel stable
00:03:07.680 and it makes you feel grounded. And for little kids, it was just the thing you did. But for
00:03:12.340 adults, what I'm beginning to understand about tradition, because you know how much I like to
00:03:16.880 chuck it i'm beginning to understand that the tradition that we hold in our families
00:03:25.760 is the thing that makes us feel safe it makes us feel grounded it makes us feel
00:03:34.000 like we have some element of control over what's going on in this insane insane world um
00:03:41.920 And that's why at Christmas, and that's why at holiday, we forget all the family dynamics.
00:03:48.000 We chuck our boundaries to the wind. No matter what that person has done to you over the last
00:03:57.660 300 and some odd days on Christmas, it doesn't matter. Come on in. Did you bring the spinach
00:04:04.120 dip? Did you bring the this? You got that present. That's it. That's it. And
00:04:11.460 And I remember moments in my life when I was a kid. Let me recap here. When I was a kid, I was very, very, very spoiled. And I don't mean spoiled in the sense I was rotten. I mean spoiled in the sense that my family, we show love through gifts.
00:04:31.780 Listen, Grandma Ruby's Get My Purse is not made up.
00:04:36.900 It's the foundation, okay?
00:04:40.040 It's a love language.
00:04:41.440 Is it the most healthy?
00:04:42.540 Who the hell knows?
00:04:43.440 I don't know, all these other love languages.
00:04:45.840 But is it genuine?
00:04:47.600 Yeah.
00:04:48.360 I think all love languages are healthy if they are genuine.
00:04:52.440 And that's the part a lot of people don't like, the whole gift-giving thing.
00:04:56.400 Because if it's not genuine, you're buying somebody.
00:04:59.200 if it is genuine, it is just the way, the method, the instrument you have to say that I love you,
00:05:07.480 which is why I talk about Get My Purse. And for those who don't know, my grandma Ruby, who
00:05:12.660 she passed in August, her favorite thing to say pretty much was Get My Purse for two reasons.
00:05:19.540 Number one, it showed her to have, she liked to be able to give, I think it empowered her. I think
00:05:27.820 it gave her a sense of purpose. It gave her a sense of, I am doing that for them. I am needed.
00:05:33.640 And it was her love language. And it was her love language because she was British
00:05:37.500 and because saying, I love you and big hugs weren't necessarily how she was brought up.
00:05:43.580 So my family very much has that, right? And so when I was a kid, listen, I got the cabbage patch
00:05:49.240 in 1984, guys. I got it. For those of you who don't know, please go look up the insanity that
00:05:56.500 was getting a Cabbage Patch Kid in the 80s, especially that first year. There was blood in
00:06:03.200 the streets, guys. Mom's, dad, throwing down in Zellers, in the Bay, in Eaton's, in Toys R Us.
00:06:13.500 It was, I mean, it was Gladiator, to be honest. And I got one of those. And I got one of those,
00:06:20.520 not my mom didn't get me one. My aunt actually got me one, but it was by luck because her work
00:06:25.860 got a bunch and she was so happy that they had access. Cause I told my mom, I wanted one like
00:06:30.440 two weeks before Christmas. Cause I'm that kind of ass. But in all fairness, um, it really did 1.00
00:06:36.740 revitalize my fundamental belief in, in Santa Claus because I got that that year, you know,
00:06:43.540 but I, whether it was strawberry shortcake, the Smurfs, I mean, and then I oscillated, right? A
00:06:49.700 little bit of He-Man, a little bit of, a little bit of Star, all the Star Wars, all the Star Wars,
00:06:55.240 My God, opening up Star Wars, like the Millennium Falcon on Christmas Day and having Ray, my
00:07:03.780 uncle, put it together and all of the packaging of all of the action figures.
00:07:09.880 It is so ingrained in who I am.
00:07:12.600 I have a whole wall of it out there because there were moments.
00:07:17.300 They signify these moments of perfection in your memory.
00:07:21.560 Were they perfect?
00:07:22.200 Of course not.
00:07:22.760 But you had no idea.
00:07:23.340 They were perfect to you.
00:07:25.240 and that's why we're very much tied to that and the older i get the more that i see
00:07:32.440 this idea of tradition and wanting to bring it back as a sense of if i bring back tradition
00:07:41.720 maybe i can maybe i can turn back time i really miss share she had a great christmas album by the
00:07:48.600 way go check that out but if i could turn back time right if i if i could reinvigorate this
00:07:54.680 tradition? If I could somehow build it back up, can I turn back and have that feeling? And the
00:08:02.440 answer, unfortunately, is absolutely not. You can't. You can't go back and get that feeling
00:08:09.100 because we know too much now, guys. We know too much. We know in our families who cheated on who,
00:08:15.980 who's leaving who. We know the siblings that are fighting. We know the cousins that aren't
00:08:21.400 speed. We know all of it. It's all on us now, right? And we're supposed to every Christmas
00:08:27.300 forget every horrible thing that's ever been done throughout and sort of bind, having this binding
00:08:33.700 force. And I tried to do that for a while because in my, let's say, I don't know, 20s, maybe pushing
00:08:42.080 30, when I had a bit of money, right? And we had gotten to the stage of picking names.
00:08:46.900 you guys know that you i'm sure most of our look times are freaking tough you're most people are
00:08:53.440 at that stage regardless and families get big right but we're at that stage of picking names
00:08:58.980 and and it never sat well with me and not because i had tons of money but because
00:09:03.780 just getting one thing for one person it just to me being brought up by get my purse ruby
00:09:11.580 Kazyorski, I was no longer saying I loved you, you know? And so I guess it was in my 30s that
00:09:21.000 I said, you know, I'm going to get something for everybody. Not a big thing. I'm not Rockefeller.
00:09:27.420 I'm going to get something for everybody. So I started with like getting t-shirts made,
00:09:32.520 like their favorite movie, or I started with just little things. Like I mean, 20 bucks,
00:09:36.920 right? That was back in the day, $20 could buy you something, but it still can. It still can
00:09:41.420 with some thought to be perfectly honest. It absolutely can. And I tried that and I realized
00:09:48.140 in my own family that was fractioned, fractured. It's not a fraction. It's not three over five.
00:09:57.920 When my own family that was fractured, I mean, my dad's side of the family, my dad passed when I
00:10:02.280 was like 24. And that was, you know, sort of just coming apart at all levels. My immediate family
00:10:14.740 here, I have, you know, Ray that I'm incredibly close to and his whole family and my mom. And
00:10:20.380 then we have other parts of our family. She's not as close. We're just not as close. And we try to
00:10:25.140 reign that in, right? You try. And I felt like I would try and it would never work. It would never
00:10:36.220 make me feel good enough. It would never make me feel like we bridged that gap. And what I
00:10:41.080 eventually started to realize, and this is the reality and I guess a little pain of being an
00:10:50.000 actual adult is that tradition is only going to work when everybody believes in it i know that's
00:11:01.840 kind of very santa claus um but it's true because if everybody believes it has value and if everybody
00:11:09.280 believes that that has value in your and then everybody's gonna give to it and you're gonna
00:11:14.480 you're gonna give as much as you get and then it's gonna you're gonna feel full but if you're
00:11:18.640 the only only person who's doing it not that i'm not the only person in my family but you understand
00:11:25.520 what i mean if you're the only person who is doing it and then those moments make you feel
00:11:31.280 more separate more alone more separated more fractured from the rest of your family and then
00:11:37.600 you start to really get a picture now this isn't this christmas issue is not new and it's not
00:11:47.360 revelatory it's just a very clear moment snippet of what the reality of those relationships are
00:12:00.320 and and what the reality of having a healthy boundary looks like and what the reality of
00:12:08.400 maybe not having as big of a family as you once did maybe not being this norman rockwell painting
00:12:16.960 with 50 000 people but having a more close-knit family now either blood family or and i'm i'm very
00:12:26.720 much a believer in this because i have friends that are my family that are my family if they
00:12:32.800 called me at any given moment i'd get up i drop everything i'd go and that's freaking beautiful
00:12:40.880 i don't mean this to be the christmas podcast that's all depressing it's not it shouldn't be
00:12:45.680 depressing at all what it should signify is this sort of awakening of it is important to have
00:12:54.560 healthy relationships and those healthy relationships are going to be magnified at
00:12:59.120 the holidays and if they're not magnified if they are weights around your neck if you feel worse
00:13:05.360 after than you did going in they are not healthy relationships and you do not need them in
00:13:09.520 And the traditions you are forging, the traditions you are forcing are actually causing you more damage than they should, right?
00:13:22.340 This notion, listen, I think, I'm an optimist, right?
00:13:26.520 I'm a genuine believer that most people, if they love each other, family by blood or family by choice, can get through almost anything.
00:13:36.700 You can make amends and you can grow and you can fight and you can, um, you know, struggle
00:13:44.440 and you can get through just about anything if you both want to.
00:13:52.060 And, and I think that's the hard part, right?
00:13:55.980 The hard part is recognizing when whoever else is in the room, whoever else are these
00:14:03.480 people, again, friends, partners, spouses, family, if these people aren't willing and
00:14:16.600 don't want to and don't see the value in it or, and in some cases, don't understand
00:14:21.780 how to work on the healing, to work on the growth, then you have to. You have to make
00:14:33.480 choices to leave with love. I wish you all the best. I hope you and whoever you choose
00:14:42.320 to surround yourself with are going to be incredibly happy. But it's not enough for
00:14:49.860 me. It's not enough for, you know, for a relationship. Now, as we all know, if you guys
00:14:55.300 know me at all, if you've listened to me at all, I stink at it. I am horrible at it. And to be
00:15:01.460 honest, for myself, I probably never do it. To be honest, people, there have been many people in my
00:15:11.680 world, who have been able to say and do pretty gross, horrible things to me. And I'll excuse it.
00:15:22.780 I'll psychoanalyze it. I'll hear an apology. I'll let it go. I'll talk about it to death so that I
00:15:30.960 feel better. And then I can forgive again and again and again and again. But however, I have
00:15:39.220 gotten to a place, and I've been in this place for a very long time, that if you hurt and come at
00:15:45.300 or somehow emotionally chip away at the people that I love, that I hold most dear, that are
00:15:55.020 closest in my world, I will be done. Now, isn't that interesting? Isn't it interesting that we're
00:16:03.840 much easier to let go and and draw lines for watching people do bad things to people we love
00:16:13.440 that that are far less than what those individuals could have done to you
00:16:17.360 isn't it interesting i think it's fascinating
00:16:22.000 you know and and all of this being said i just sat around christmas eve with my family
00:16:28.960 You know, and I'm spending this week with more of my family that we're going to, you know, just sort of my extended family and my friends.
00:16:38.380 And I felt in that room more love, more acceptance, more comfort, more peace.
00:16:54.220 Not an iota, not a drop, not an inkling of anxiety or stress, or what if they're not having a good time?
00:17:02.280 Or what, did somebody say something and nobody said anything?
00:17:05.060 What was that?
00:17:05.580 Did they really like that gift?
00:17:06.920 Or were they just, nothing.
00:17:07.840 nothing that Christmas was that like just this beautiful sense of peace and I had that last
00:17:18.700 year I remember having that last year with my family and not being able to articulate it I
00:17:23.880 remember sitting around like last year was my grandma's last Christmas and I remember and it
00:17:28.440 was perfect if she had to have a last Christmas and we all know I wish she didn't last Christmas
00:17:36.360 was perfect because number one, she had this whole world of the internet who knew her and 0.70
00:17:42.960 loved her and sent her gifts. And she was just so emotionally touched by that. But I think she
00:17:50.720 truly felt loved and calm and secure, just like we all did. Now we switched up Christmas a bit
00:17:59.500 for my grandma because my grandma never, never, never, never could get up early in the morning.
00:18:03.920 So as kids, it was torment. But she managed, right? But as we all got older, she'd just be like, you know, let me sleep in. So we kind of switched everything to Christmas Eve outside of the Santa stuff. Obviously, she's going to have to get up for that. But, you know, we would do some stuff on Christmas Eve.
00:18:22.960 there was a peace and a giddiness and a, you know, you put White Christmas on TV and a love there
00:18:32.700 that is so incredibly important and beautiful. But that beauty becomes much more bright
00:18:44.180 and much more powerful if you've, let's say, you know, wiped off the lights and moved the brush
00:18:55.820 and cleared the way to actually have that as amazing as it could be, you know? Today, my mom
00:19:04.840 and I, like my whole family was here last night and Anna goes to her mom's and I'll follow soon
00:19:11.240 thereafter. But I spend a little bit of time with my mom now and we went to the casino today. And
00:19:18.340 why? Well, because her and my grandma used to do it back in the day when they were just by
00:19:22.780 themselves later on Christmas day. And so my mom and I did that. And there was something, again,
00:19:29.580 kind of funny because we were laughing that we were in a casino on Christmas, but
00:19:32.860 um okay it's a day and it's kind of funny and the tradition the idea that we have that kind of
00:19:42.160 relationship where you know you take a little bit of money out of the bank you spend time
00:19:47.840 together you laugh you we lost money let's be honest um we we laugh we we connect with other
00:19:56.780 people a little bit it was it was beautiful and you also start to recognize it doesn't matter where
00:20:02.460 you are, right? Doesn't matter whose house you're at. Doesn't matter what food you're eating. It
00:20:08.340 really, that is really like a distant second in that capacity. So I've been trapped a lot less
00:20:18.460 by nostalgia. Don't get me wrong. I still want all the toys. If anybody has any vintage Smurfs,
00:20:22.400 please hit me up from the eighties. But as for the dynamic, I don't need that anymore.
00:20:30.040 I don't need that anymore. I need things that are real and authentic and beautiful. I need people to be able to be honest and put it on the table. And that is so incredibly powerful coming to that.
00:20:51.100 and I can't believe I haven't had it for as long as I haven't had it you know and again I say it
00:21:01.620 doesn't need to be blood it can be people that that you have cho you guys have chosen each other
00:21:07.220 in fact I almost find that more powerful right blood you're bound together by obligation in some
00:21:14.200 sense. Friends, you're not. You're not. That's a choice. And that's a commitment. And that's
00:21:25.160 this beautiful thing that you've managed to build. And it's incredible to me. Absolutely incredible.
00:21:35.420 So we're rolling into the new year. Do I have any New Year's resolutions? Don't be ridiculous.
00:21:41.240 Stop it. 0.99
00:21:42.000 Stop it with the news resolutions.
00:21:43.400 I think they're absolutely...
00:21:44.260 You want to change your life.
00:21:45.240 You want to do something different.
00:21:46.300 For the love of God, it is December 26th when you're listening to it.
00:21:49.140 Do it today.
00:21:51.080 Stop it.
00:21:52.660 Do I like New Year's parties?
00:21:54.240 No, no, I don't. 1.00
00:21:55.160 Again, people that are way too intoxicated, making stupid promises and changing their... 1.00
00:22:02.040 Stop it. 1.00
00:22:02.740 I don't like any of it.
00:22:04.100 I've always found New Year's Eve to be possibly the most pretentious holiday of them all.
00:22:10.460 Having said that, my wife-to-be loves it,
00:22:14.200 and so I will spend it with her and her family because they like it.
00:22:19.140 They see some value in it.
00:22:21.380 I'd like to be with her for it because she sees value in it.
00:22:27.420 So I think that's important.
00:22:30.940 But as for everything else, any changes you want to make,
00:22:35.080 anything you want to do in your world that's going to make you stronger,
00:22:38.960 more authentic, more powerful, that's going to make you be able to reach for what you want to do
00:22:46.840 and who you want to be, do it now. Shut the podcast. Don't even listen to the end. Go do it
00:22:53.220 now. I don't care what it is, but you don't need to wait until January 1st. There's no deadline
00:23:01.040 on that. Now as for nostalgia, it's not bad looking back. It's not beautiful. I tell so
00:23:11.000 many stories of looking back. They are beautiful, amazing, funny memories that everybody should be
00:23:17.780 able to look back to. However, let us not elevate nostalgia for perfection. Let us remember that we
00:23:30.060 were younger, we were less intelligent and less aware of everything going on at that moment. That's
00:23:36.680 why that moment brought us so much peace. Unless you're some kind of brilliant, sort of peaceful
00:23:43.600 entity that had your life and had your inner metaphysics figured out at 22. If you are that
00:23:51.560 person, please contact me. I have some questions for you. But if you're not, and if you're like
00:23:56.640 the rest of us. And you need life to knock you on your ass a few times, to really rake, you know, 0.99
00:24:04.320 take out the leg as the end of Karate Kid would have it. We need that. Sweep the leg. We need the, 0.99
00:24:12.080 we need, we need our leg to be swept in order to fall on our butt so hard, Mr. Miyagi, right?
00:24:20.640 In order to get back up, in order to recognize a little bit more, because I don't think you can
00:24:25.800 do that with nothing else. And I had this conversation with my mom. My mom's been feeling
00:24:29.400 great. So my mom went through cancer treatment. She had her bladder removed, a hysterectomy.
00:24:33.580 She's had a lot of arthritic pain. She has no METs, but the immunotherapy sort of
00:24:38.060 amped up her arthritis. And she was going through a lot of pain and now she's on some meds.
00:24:43.160 Anyways, she goes, you know, I feel so much better and we're out doing all these things.
00:24:48.100 And she knows these meds are going to have to change. And she goes, but I feel like
00:24:53.520 I could have been a better person. This is fascinating to me. I want you to listen to this
00:25:00.640 because she, she, every once in a while, my mom drops some wisdom on me where I'm like grounded.
00:25:06.820 I could have been a better person. I said, what do you mean by that?
00:25:10.540 She goes, well, when grandma was alive, I could have been a better daughter to her.
00:25:15.260 Had I understood the kind of, because my grandma had horrible arthritis, the kind of arthritic pain
00:25:21.040 that she suffered from. I could have been a better person. Had I had cancer before,
00:25:27.560 I could have been a better nurse and understood what my patients were going through and maybe
00:25:35.420 what more things they wanted to hear at different times. I could have been more empathetic because
00:25:41.360 I would have sat on the other side of that table. I could have just been a more grateful individual
00:25:48.200 because when you have pain and then don't have pain, your gratefulness shoots up because you get
00:25:54.280 the divergence, right? You get the excess, what it feels like to live with it. And when it,
00:26:00.720 when it's gone, what that feels like. And she sort of struck a chord in me that I think is
00:26:05.620 incredibly important. And I am thankful for everything I've gone through, no matter how
00:26:11.740 crappy it was. If we don't feel the bad, if we don't go through the horrible, if we don't feel
00:26:21.980 the pain, whether it's physical or psychological or emotional or whatever, if we don't go through
00:26:27.840 those lows, we don't know when we're in the high. We don't know when it's beautiful. We can't
00:26:35.660 recognize that those moments of beauty and those moments of, holy crap, I've got it. I have life
00:26:45.080 right now. We can't empathize. We can't relate. We help less. We reach out our hands less because
00:26:56.180 we haven't been through it. So for everybody who's trying to stamp out pain in the world,
00:27:03.260 I get it. I hate it. I mean, who wants that? But there's also this incredibly powerful thing
00:27:09.860 that people who go through pain, and again, no matter what kind, people that go through pain
00:27:17.840 and that go through hardship and are able to come out the other end and sort of
00:27:24.280 and step into a different position, they step into superhero status because they,
00:27:30.460 because of their lived experience, they now understand and can empathize and they can 0.87
00:27:39.180 change the world like a freaking superhero. I truly believe that. I truly believe that. 0.66
00:27:47.960 And that's why when kids come to me and they're like, oh, I hate this because I'm just, you know,
00:27:51.880 I have dyslexia. It's horrible. Or I hate this. I'm anxious all the time. Or I have this LD or
00:27:58.880 whatever, or nobody likes nobody. All of these horrible things that we have to traverse. I look
00:28:05.520 at them and I say, that's going to be your thing. You're going to overcome this thing. And you are
00:28:10.580 going to become a freaking superhero in this world because you are going to be able to see 0.77
00:28:15.040 other people struggling and other people going through that hardship. Give your hand out and 0.91
00:28:20.440 help them up. That's it. That's it. So it's not about eliminating pain and hardship.
00:28:28.880 it's about traversing through it coming out on the other side and using what you've been through
00:28:38.480 and understanding that what you've been through is the the key is the magic is this piece of
00:28:49.600 you know clarity that nobody else on the planet is going to have but you so when you see somebody
00:28:54.880 on the street who is struggling with the same thing, you're their safe haven. You are the
00:29:00.260 person that lifts them up, talks them through it. You are the one who lightens that load.
00:29:08.320 You know, and I think Grandma Ruby really taught me that this year. You know, not because I can
00:29:15.740 get her back. Not because, not because I, you know, I feel that lessons are learned in death
00:29:25.640 because I think, oh, to hell with that. But I do think this, I think she taught me how much
00:29:35.240 empathy and humor and, um, how much soul she had to offer this world.
00:29:48.220 And so when I go and work with, you know, and, and reach out to the seniors home,
00:29:55.820 or I go try to work with other people who are seniors and senior centers,
00:30:01.220 What I want in that is to understand that and to bring an awareness.
00:30:08.100 I have something to offer that they might need.
00:30:10.680 I can paint their wall.
00:30:11.980 I can carry in groceries.
00:30:13.360 I can, you know, take their cat to the vet, whatever it is.
00:30:16.820 These are the things that I can do.
00:30:18.800 And the things that they have to offer, their stories, their insight, their perspective are powerful and they still have purpose.
00:30:33.780 Because I think that's all my grandma ever wanted.
00:30:37.360 And I think that's all people want is to feel and to know that they have purpose.
00:30:44.220 yes that they are loved but but they have something they have something that they are
00:30:50.820 giving they have an energy that is important and that is needed and that people want to listen to
00:30:57.900 and that's what she taught me
00:31:01.780 because in the in the end spending time with her and telling her the same 50 stories or listening
00:31:10.620 to her tell me the same stories. It had nothing to do with the story being told. It had everything
00:31:17.940 to do with me respecting and listening and being a part of her energy. So choose your people wisely.
00:31:28.700 And when you find people that are loving, that are empathetic, that if you're going through hell,
00:31:35.780 they're going to go with you, hold on to them tightly and make sure you give as much as you
00:31:44.740 possibly can and everything gets lighter. Thank you so much, guys. I hope you had a great Christmas.
00:31:54.520 I hope you had a great time with your friends and your family. I hope you are feeling loved
00:31:59.900 and powerful. And on that note, I will see you next Tuesday. Same bat time, same bat station.
00:32:09.800 Dismissed. 1.00