Hello everybody and happy new year. I didn't say it in a particularly happy mode.

The reason I have to be honest with you because I don't know how not to say what I think

Which is ultimately advantageous, but it comes with a price

I'm not sure it's going to be a particularly happy year.

I'll be totally honest with you. It doesn't change my own love of life, joy of life, the happiness that I have with my friends and family and

work but the moral chaos in the West and in America where I live is quite considerable and

the divisions are greater than ever.

So anyway, look, I hope I'm wrong.

I hope it does end up a happy new year,

but I certainly wish you one,

both in your own lives and in the lives of whatever society you live in and in the world at large.

This is fireside chat number 3-2. And big changes, as you can see, I am now seated here as opposed to there.

So the dog, whoever the dog will be is in the background.

It is not a green screen of a dog and books and fireplace.

It is the same real dog, real screen, and real books.

Of it, real books. Of it.

Yeah, you're right.

Real screen in front of the in front of the fire side.

That's what I meant.

Anyway, what else can I tell you about the situation?

No, not really. That's it, so that's the change. Here I am.

Otherwise, all continues.

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