Episode 185 - Welcome Back! Life Update: New Season + New Vibes

Welcome back to the show! We’re finally back on the mic catching you up on all things Can I Vibe With Y'all. Where we’ve been, what we’ve been doing behind the scenes, and why the break was actually needed.

We’re talking life updates, current vibes, upcoming plans and behind the scenes looks at what goes into making this podcast special for you. 

If you’ve been rocking with us, we appreciate you for sticking around! If you’re new, this is the perfect episode to get in the mix.

New beginnings. Let’s vibe!

Transcript

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What's good? What? Good. Oh, I'm out of breath. My bad. I was jamming. I was jamming right before that. I missed you. I missed you. Come in. I missed you. Welcome back to Can I Vibe with y'all with the vibes? Are you immaculate? Every time we hop up in here, you probably like, where you been? Where are the episodes? Where's the content? Where's the conversations? Where's all the good stuff? There's so much to unpack here. There's so much to unpack. Just know we're here with you. We're excited. We missed you. Went on a little unofficial break. And listen, we would tell you when we go on a break. We're not supposed to just go on a break, not tell you. We would tell you. Life was life in. Let's put it that way. Life was life and had to go on a little unofficial break. But all for the best. All for the betterment of this podcast. All to all to really just, you know, bring this all together and you know, have better conversations with you, make things better for you. And you know, just I'm excited. I'm excited. Hold on. I'm sorry. Like I said, I gotta catch my breath. I was jamming out right before this. I had like I get to talk to my people again. Oh! I don't even know what we're gonna figure out what we're gonna call this vibe tribe, the vibers. I don't know. Y'all let me know. We're gonna figure out a name coming into this. I think this is gonna be like an unofficial start to a new season. Um, because you know, things don't stop around here. We just kind of keep it going. But you know, since we missed a few weeks, maybe even a month, yeah, it's been more than a month, but um so be a start to a new season because we've been recording a lot in the meantime, so definitely got some good stuff coming for you. Um, yeah, y'all let me know what we're gonna call this. But oh, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Feels good to be home literally and figuratively. Um if it's your first time listening, it's your boy Kaz, host of the Can I Vive with Y'all podcast. Um, I'm doing the solo dolo today. Started doing that periodically, about a year ago. Um do it here and there because sometimes the boys can't always make it. Um But we catch a vibe regardless whether they are here or not. You know, they'll they'll be back in they'll be back in the studio tomorrow, so don't worry, don't worry. Um But yeah, kind of just catching you up on uh things that have been going on, um upcoming plans, what we got coming for you, and just having a little catch-up episode. So whether you are in the car, on the way to work, at work, in the house, listening with the kids, without the kids, uh where wherever you are. Listen, we're gonna catch a vibe as always. So um, you know, if you've been listening for a while, you know we keep it authentic on here. So had to do a lot of traveling the last almost two months, really. Um and I've been bringing the I kind of have like a mobile studio, so like I'll record when I'm on these travels as well. But been tough to, you know, be as efficient as possible. Um, you know, being constantly on the road and whatnot. But again, I'm gonna get into that because it's all been for the podcast, you know. It hasn't hasn't necessarily been like, you know, just you know, you know, I don't want to talk to these people no more, man. Let me just go about my way. Um, all been for the podcast. So been in uh had to go to California a lot, recording some episodes out there, uh, meeting some good people, and also working on things because listen, we've been saying this for a long time, right? We have been saying this for a long time, and I am I am putting it into action. We are going to make it happen. We are working on getting this tour set up because we want to come meet you, we want to come talk to you, we want to come vibe with you because it's one thing to you know hear my voice and you know take it in like this, but I want to meet y'all face to face. I want to catch a vibe with you because that is the whole point of this. Um, this podcast is not operate without you. And you you guys are all over. You guys are all over. Um I can see some of the analytics, and you know, it makes it tough sometimes because I'm like, I don't know where they are. Like, you know, shout out and shout out to you for real. It's it's a good thing, but there's a lot of you in in Australia, there's there's a lot of you in in Africa, there's a lot of you in in Canada, in the UK. Um so I'm like, I don't know where to go. I don't know. I'm trying to narrow it down. So um yeah, working on getting that set up because you know it's it's long overdue. And just I'm just appreciative for you for real. I I I love that one with you guys. So hold on, we we're gonna keep this raw because we're doing a little early morning session right now. So I'm gonna sip this coffee real quick. And if you don't know me, I am not a morning person. I am not a morning person. I think it's because I wouldn't necessarily say I'm a night owl neither, but I'm very, very creative, and I spend way too much time at night just thinking about this. Um so yeah, sometimes I don't always function the best in the morning, but I'm like, listen, I get to talk to my people today. I get to talk to my people, it's all good. Um so yeah, some of some of those upcoming plans coming up for you. Like I said, we're super excited. Um we're actually we actually just dropped a new episode on YouTube, and we did this a year ago. If you really vibe with us, um we tested out a period simulator to see what women feel on a monthly basis, and we just did a part two. Shout out Dr. Gila, um, down in Miami. She had us come through and do that, and just go check it out. Check it out. Uh, me and my brother did it, and oh, I can still feel it. I can still feel it. So, yeah, go check that out. It's literally the first episode on YouTube. Um if you only really watch you know our Instagram or TikTok and watch the clips, you know, we'll throw clips on there for you as well. So yeah, all that good stuff. But let's get into let's get into what's been happening past month or so. Um and I I I wanna I wanna talk about this first. It's nothing crazy, nothing crazy. Don't don't don't let me scare you. Nothing crazy. But you know, in between these travels, I had some time to watch some TV. And I don't always have time to watch TV because I'm always I'm always freaking working. But I had some time to watch some TV. And oh, I was loving this show. Love on the spectrum. And I know I'm a little late to it, I'm a little late to it. I know it's different seasons. The last season finished a couple weeks ago, yada yada, yada. But oh, I was loving this show. Shout out to the girl who put me on. I'm not gonna say no names, but at first, you know, I was like, I don't want, I don't want to watch that. But I started watching, I'm watching on the plane, I get hooked, I start loving the characters. I'm like, oh, oh, this is my show now. This is my show, so now I'm excited for the next season. Um I won't give no spoilers if you haven't seen it, but you know, basically it's a show where you know they take people with autism or forms of autism, and they've just never really had love in their life, they've never dated, never had a first kiss, so they're just meeting uh potential pairs and potential partners, and it's just the way it just feels so authentic, and I love it because like you watch any dating show or reality TV or whatnot, and you could tell I don't know, you just you just you get that feel to it that a lot is like you know cut up or taken out, or you know, there's uh uh image portrayed for the characters or whatnot. Um but I love it because these people are just themselves, they were authentically themselves, and it's just like every character was so different, and just seeing seeing how awkward they operate in in these conversations, it's just like but it's it's not even like you're making fun of them, it's just like it's so enjoyable to watch, it's refreshing because it's like you know listen, we all human. We all human. Um, you could have the best conversational skills, like you, we've all been there with awkward dates and um you don't know what to say or you don't know how to express yourself. So it was just a refreshing watch. I I've been been binge watching that uh past few weeks. That's my show. So um, yeah, put me on to any shows that you think I should watch or we should talk about. Um I'm trying to tap into my TV gang more. Um because I guess I I enjoy watching TV, I just don't have a lot of time to do it. So um, you know, this could be our little uh little TV talk, you know. Maybe we we can we could talk about these shows together. Um another one I've been watching is The Boys. I am super late to that one, um, but I was put on to that as well. I saw they just dropped a new season. Um that's more like superhero vibe show, but also like uh like a huge spin from your typical, you know, hero plot. Um, it's like real life humans with real life whatever going on. So yeah, got into that recently as well. If you're a fan of that, let me know. Um gonna talk some TV more, some film more. Always music. Don't get me wrong. We always gonna talk music on here. Um, we have a few music episodes coming up, and as always, as always, I'm so excited. I'm so excited because I mentioned at the beginning, the boy. Oh, I said that they're gonna be here tomorrow. I'm sorry, they're not they're not gonna be here tomorrow, they're gonna be here in a few days, but um I'm letting y'all in on a secret right now, okay? I'm gonna let you in on a secret. I'm not supposed to give this secret, but I'm gonna give it anyways. We are about to record some new song clips. And some of you may have noticed if you watch the song clips all the time. We probably look the same, whatnot. That is because we typically have to record them all in a day. Uh, because when we do it, it is a it is a process. It is a process, and we genuinely do jam out. It is authentic, it is real, it is not live. Um I'm sorry, it is live. Um that is our real self jamming out. There's nothing we fake about that. But as far as the setup and everything, it takes a while. So we typically have to um we typically have to do that in batches, like we'll do it like every other month, we'll record new songs. Um so if you're hearing this, you get a little about three-day grace period uh to send your song suggestions. We're gonna take some song suggestions. Um if you hear this after the three-day grace period, I'm sorry, but it's it's gonna be recorded already. But we keep it going because we love music. We love music on here so much. Um, we enjoy jamming with you. Um, trust me, if I could jam out with you right this second, I would. I'd throw a song on right now and jam out with you. But you know, copyright reason, copyright is real, so we're not gonna get in trouble on here. Um, but hold on, okay. My bad, my bad. Lost my train of thought for a second. Kind of transitioning a little bit, you know, we were talking about TV, uh, a little bit related. Um, if you're a sports fan, which I am, also some good sports going on right now. You know, we got the NBA playoffs, NHL, NHL playoffs, all that good stuff. But one of my favorites, one of my favorite, one of my favorite events is coming up, one of my favorite tournaments. The World Cup is coming up, and like I just mentioned, we have people on here listening from so many different places. So I want to use this opportunity to know where you're from, um, what country you're up in. And I I love the World Cup so much because it only happens once every few years, and it is the most I just feel like it's the most connected. Well, you know, we'll say football. In America, we call it uh soccer. But we're the ones, we're the ones that are wrong with that. Uh, football. It's the most popular sport in the world, and I just love how the World Cup just brings everybody together. Um, you know, you got the World Cup music, of course. We're gonna get into that. We're gonna get into that, but it is just such an enjoyable tournament to watch. Um, I just love seeing the cultures from different countries displayed on the world stage because you know, we you don't really see that. Um you you don't typically see that when you're in your you know respected respected city or country. So when that's all on a world stage and you have this country versus that country, and you're seeing like their culture and the people on the stands and and everything, I'm like, oh I love it. I love it, I love it. And the World Cup is hosting some some of the matches in the US or well in North America this year. So definitely excited to uh to bring it over here. Um like I said, I want to connect with y'all more. Um I forgot the exact start date, but yeah. Yeah, we we we we're gonna we're gonna chat more about that. We're gonna chat more. Um but with that, definitely I I forget if like I I believe on Spotify you could leave on a comment. Um I'm working on figuring out how because I know on our socials you could, you know, you see a video, see a clip, you leave a comment, whatever. Um but I'm working on how you can kind of just leave a comment on here, except besides through Spotify. Damn, that was nasty. My bad. Whatever, we'll keep it in. Um, but yeah, let us know what country you're from. Let us know where's what city you're from, if you're in the US. Uh, because like I said, we want to connect with y'all more. Um even if you wanna send a DM or email. Um, yeah, preferably DM if you do that. Because some people send emails sometimes, and there's like it will say like two words, so don't always know how to respond to that, not gonna lie to you. But like I said, we we wanna your feedback is very important, right? Your feedback is very important, and like I said at the beginning, working on setting up this tour, so it's very important to know where we would have to go because we can't pull up to a random city and no one's there. So we wanna know where you're from. Um, yeah, we just want to know where you're from, talk to you more, chat with you more. Been saying it for a while, but like I said, past couple months, we've been working on a lot of behind the scenes stuff to to grow this uh and to make this better. So this listen, this don't work without you, right? This does not work without you. I want you to know that. I can sit here and talk all day. Y'all can sit here and listen to me all day. It won't, it don't matter. It don't work without you. So I wanna I wanna let y'all know we're always appreciative of that. Always, always, always. Um hold on a sec. Um I keep losing my train of thought. My bad. It's the morning. You know what? Let's take a little coffee break. I wish I was like, I'm looking at the this mixer right now. If I was like on the radio right now, I'll play the little background tunes. Let's see if we can get a little background tunes. Wow.

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Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, oh. I pressed the wrong button. I was trying to take a coffee break. Y'all hear that? Oh, yeah, that coffee's done, baby. Let me hit that one more time. Why not? The host goes bug. Um okay, I'm up now. What's up? What's up? Oh right, so yeah, this this is a little bit of a quick one, just kind of giving y'all welcome back um little rundown of what we've been doing, what's coming up. Um I know some of the episodes have been a little bit little bit shorter too. We've heard some people um give feedback. They would like longer episodes. So the the a lot of the next episodes coming up are much longer, don't worry. Um, it's just, you know, I'm by myself. I'm gonna be real with you. Um when I see other podcasts and it's them by themselves talking to a camera for three hours. I don't know how they do it. I'm not gonna lie to you. I have no clue how they do it. I I feed off of other people, so um, when I'm by myself, it's a lot different. But buts, but recently this girl who follows um gave me some feedback, and this is why I said feedback's very important. Either either positive or negative, because it's if it's negative feedback, feedback, that means maybe there's a change we gotta make. Um but I think it was like back in January, I think it was. I did a solo episode about like people pleasing. Um, I forgot the exact name of it, but if you find a people pleasing episode, it's up there. And I I told you at the beginning, I'm getting used to sitting here talking by myself. Um, I wouldn't say I'm uncomfortable, but it is different. It's it's very different. Like there's no one to look at, no one to, you know, I'm just kind of just talking to you. Um but she said that was one of her favorite episodes. She said it was just refreshing to hear. Um, wanted to hear more of that. And obviously it's subjective. Like, there'll be some of you that don't want to, you know, listen if it's just me the whole time. There's be some of you that that love it. But um hearing that, it was very motivating. Um, so like I said, the the feedback is always appreciated. Um, we're not sensitive dudes. Listen, me and my brother originally from New York, very blunt people. We could we could take we could take a lot. So um even if it's negative, you know, we're we always want to keep growing and glowing, baby. So like I said, anything you say, it's appreciated. Um, you know, if you want to be nice, that's even better because it kindness is free. It's a crazy world we live in. So you want to leave some nice things, go for it. You know, matter of fact, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm gonna say this too. I'm gonna say this too. Personally, we could take any type of feedback. If you go and leave a review, which you definitely should, make sure that's a good one because we can't have no, we can't have no uh no crazy reviews on here. You know, we want to blow this up, we want to show the world this beautiful podcast, we want to put this in a good light. So if you're gonna leave a review, then then definitely leave the positive. If you have anything else to say, then you know shoot us an email. We can chat about it. No big deal. But I'm gonna end off with a couple things because using a moment to reflect. Today is an anniversary. Today is an anniversary, and it's a special anniversary because I'm reflecting on this and it's still kind of surreal. But literally a year today, uh I can't even talk, a year ago today, um the job I was working randomly let me go on the spot, no notice, no severance package, just let me go, threw me out to the wolves. Um, and you know, obviously had already been doing this podcast um in the meantime, anyway. So that was the goal, anyways, was to you know pursue this full time, but that happened so unexpected. Literally came in one day, um clocked in by nine, by nine ten, I was out of there. Let me go. Um, and I'm reflecting on this because a lot of you don't know, you know, this podcast. Started in 2020, but you know, people just assume any creative or podcaster or influencer or whatever are just you know that's their full time. Um so just being transparent, you know, there was a lot of sacrifices that had to be made. I have worked so many jobs, I have worked so many jobs while doing this podcast. Um and you know, let's let we'll go down the job history because I've never actually explained it, but you know, now that I've been self-employed this past year, um, and just you know, pursuing this, growing with you, I am I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for that happening because you know that wasn't necessarily in my plan book, but you know, it allowed room for a lot more growth. Um, and I I'm telling you, I'm telling you, it still feels like just scratching the surface. It still feels like it because this is the the first year that I've really been able to like pour everything into this. Um and I am so so so grateful to talk to you for real. I I will never ever take that for granted. I'm so grateful to talk to you. Um so yeah, just kind of just you know chatting with y'all because I've never said it, but you know, I know there's a lot of people out there who are like a lot of people hate their work, a lot of people hate their jobs, a lot of people hate their careers. And if you do, if you do love it, then beautiful, beautiful, you know, stick with it. Definitely very happy for you. But um, like I said, there were a lot of sacrifices that had to be made with this. So, number one, before the podcast even started, I was a personal trainer. Um I was I was very good at it, I enjoyed it. Um, but COVID happened, forced people to distance from each other. I couldn't be hands-on with my clients, I couldn't be near them at all. Um and um I actually, yeah, I didn't even leave that. That they they had to let me go. Well, they had to let everybody go because of COVID. Um, so little timeline, boom, that happens. Uh podcast starts maybe like four months after the world shuts down. Completely off a whim, too, completely random. Uh podcast starts. But obviously, there's no money coming in from the jump. All right, that's let's be real about it. There's no money coming in, kind of just talking on here, whatever. So, little Caz is working at FedEx. I'm working at FedEx, I'm delivering these packages all day. Freaking hated it. Hated it. Oh my goodness, that was some hard labor right there. Um, but podcast has started. I'm growing a love for podcasting, and you know, I'm trying to figure things out, figure things out because obviously bills still got to get paid. So working at FedEx, um, work there for a year, boom, right after FedEx, I get with this company, start doing some marketing. So I start learning, I'm I don't have a marketing background. So I start learning some marketing. The work I'm doing for the company is also helping uh grow the podcast. So managing the socials, putting out more clips every day, yada yada yada, the whole nine. Um so podcast is growing. I go from, and mind you, I've had like five jobs before the podcast even started. I you ask anybody I know, I have I have worked everywhere. So go from FedEx to marketing, then I get into finance. Now I'm working a finance job. Um, no clue what I'm doing, just kind of land it, but no clue what I'm doing. Um, I can't say I liked it because I'm growing a passion for this creative field, and now I'm doing this corporate finance BS, which don't get me wrong, if you're working, it's very important, very, very important. Great job. Um, but it just wasn't for me. So meanwhile, the podcast is growing, growing, growing online, and I'm at these jobs where like no one even knows I'm at working these nine to five gigs and just trying to figure it out. From the finance job, so we had we had FedEx marketing finance. Then I go work for a cruise line. I'm not gonna say which one, but I go work for a cruise line completely left field. I'm doing that, not really liking it. And I I'm realizing a pattern. What do I really love to do? I love doing this podcast, I love connecting with y'all. I love uh, even though it's online, especially since COVID, a lot grew online since COVID, so there's more connections online to where I'm loving that more than you know, whatever. So from the cruise line, this is where things got interesting. After the no, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There was a little stint in between that. After the cruise line, this is where things got crazy. The podcast is growing. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna take a chance. I'm gonna go full time on the podcast. I think this was like 2022 either 2022 or 2023. I'm like, I'm gonna go full all in on the podcast. I take a chance, quit the cruise line, go all in. Have a got about a good month or two, and then I'm like, ooh, okay, maybe this isn't where I need it to be yet. So now I'm forced to go back to work. I have to pick up the quickest job I can find. I go work at Total Wine, okay? I'm delivering alcohol, trying to make ends meet, grow this podcast. So I'm working at Total Wine. Um, I was like, you know what? Let me just do this real quick. I'll find something else. I'm like, I'll do this for like a month. End up being there. I'm not gonna say how long. End up being there longer than I wanted to. Um, you know what, I'll say how long. I was there for eight months. I was there for eight months, and that was the that was the most probably difficult part of this whole podcast journey because at this point I I had my I had a degree. I was also working on my master's degree at the same time. I'm super qualified, and I'm delivering alcohol, but everything happens for a reason, right? So while I'm there, I'm like, I did not want to be there at all. And I'm delivering this alcohol with occasional, like, you know, hours I had to work in the store, and I'm starting to learn a lot about different wines. So, as you know, we drink a lot of wine on here, um, you know, and they give like a 30% discount off of wine. So every week I'll buy a few wines, start learning them, start tasting them, and it honestly, you know, I it helped with the podcast because I start learning, you know, good wines to drink, um, good wine to have on here, whatnot. We start incorporating wine on the podcast. Boom, next thing you know, a wine sponsorship comes in. So everything happens for a reason. Um so after after Total Wine, which I was trying to get out of there for the longest time, um, a friend, a friend asked me, um, because of the following the podcast had at the time, um, a friend asked me if I know anyone who wanted to get into teaching. And I was like, you know, I'll see if I know any teachers or any any educators, anyone who wants to get into that. I'm still not exactly where I want to be yet. So I'm like, I I ask her, like, you know, is this something I could possibly do? Oh my god. So I get hired to become a teacher with no teacher experience a week before school is starting. Now that teachers, educators out there, so so much respect for what you do. That was that was a difficult, that was very difficult. Um I'm very grateful to have the kids I had. I was teaching fifth grade English. Um and I'm I'm very grateful for that experience. Um, I really did um love making a difference with the kids. You know, you have your your hard-headed kids here and there, but for the ones who like really cared, it was a very um uh what's the word? It was just a very just enlightening experience. It was it felt good to know you're making a difference. Um, but that was some hard work. That was some hard work. Um man, I'll never forget that. Especially because while teaching, um, I was working on a master's degree, and now the podcast was uh growing exponentially. So that made it very hard because it was growing, but I still didn't feel comfortable enough to just up and quit working because, like I just told you before, when I did that with the cruise job and it put me in the hole. So I was like, you know what, let me stick this out, um, collect a few checks while I'm here, still make whatever the podcast is making, and you know, keep going. So um ended up having to leave that because I was just I was so drained. I was so drained. Um just imagine I taught two different classes, about 25 kids each. So just imagine hearing 50 screaming kids all day long. Um, I'm overstimulated. I get home, I don't have the energy to even work on the on the podcast, and it kind of took a hit at that time because my job life was affecting my personal life. Um, and on top of that, uh the whole freaking school saw me on TikTok. So that was very uncomfortable. Teachers, principals, students, uh parents, the whole school. So I was like, yeah, I this I love I love the kids. I love the kids, but I had to I had to go. Um so fast forward after that, um, there were like there were a few random gigs I did in between. Those were like one-month gigs here and there, but end up um back at this marketing job, um, and I'm there, and I just have no I have no, I feel like I had no purpose, no structure. I don't really know why I'm here. I was learning a lot um to help with this, but um I was just like, damn, this is just a weird, weird point of my life. And fast forward, like I said, today is the year anniversary. I was there, um, didn't necessarily want to be there, um, but I knew I had previously taken a chance on the podcast, um, going all in on it, and that kind of backfired. And not in a bad way, it was just like, you know, I gotta be realistic too, you know, we still got bills to pay. Um, so I'm there and I'm like, I'm trying to figure out how to, you know, not have to do this every day. Um, and then boom, one day I come in, uh, and they're like, we're letting you go. Um, and it just kind of threw me out there, forced me to just grow. Um, but I'm so, so, so grateful for it because it's giving me the free time back to, you know, grow this, um, connect with you more, work on all these things that we haven't done in past years. And like I said, this was kind of just the welcome back episode because I'm super excited for what's to come. Um, you know, don't always give the uh don't always give the behind the scenes of it, but you know, this is this is a a real authentic podcast. So um just having the opportunity to to do this with you and now being a year in it to where you know I I've I've I've always been in it, you know, even since it started, I've always been in it. Um it was just a lot more difficult to manage when you're out of workplace for nine to five, and then you know, we all know the code, you know, you got nine to five and the five to nine. So every day after work, whatever job I'm working, I'm coming home working on this. My my I was defeated. My days are super long. That's why, you know, like I said at the beginning, I didn't really have time to watch TV or or anything like that. So um, which don't get me wrong, even though I'm doing this now, now I probably work even longer. So any business owner, entrepreneur out there, they know like you know, once you stop working a normal job, you you work even more. Um, but the work now is so satisfying. Again, because of all of you, um, I really do enjoy talking to you. Um, I'm excited to see where this goes. Especially now is like, you know, just being a year into it to where I've been able to pour more into it. Um oh man. Oh man, that's why I said I I know there's there's so much growth that's gonna come. Um so yeah, happy anniversary to myself, I guess. Um but you know, I just want to say that because I know there's other people out there. Um they're they're probably they might be lost or trying to figure out their purpose or trying to figure out their passions. Um, you know, I definitely encourage you to keep going because it no matter what age, um, you know, we all we we all want to feel like we have a reason to be here, a purpose, or whatever it is. Um I'll say it again, honestly, you guys are my reason. You make this a lot easier. There's been um so much positive feedback that um I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I go down little rabbit holes, and you know, I I I don't I try not to do this like all the time because I don't want to I don't want to sit there like just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling all day. But here and now I'll um I'll go through comments sometimes, uh primarily like TikTok and IG. And um man, there's just some positive stuff out there. There's been people who've just been at like a low, very low point. And they'll say something like, you know, this podcast has, you know, it's been the reason they get out of bed, it's been it's been the reason they keep going, it's been the reason they keep pushing or whatever it is. And it's just it is so so motivating for me because even speaking to you now, I might not be speaking directly to you face to face, but when I read stuff like that, I'm like, damn. I like I I might have had the hardest day at work, and now I gotta come here and edit or research or respond or or prepare things or whatever, and I'm drained, and then I see something like that, and I'm like, this is the reason I do this. So again, very, very, very grateful. Um can't wait to meet all of you for real. Like I said, we're working on doing more events, doing more touring, uh, doing things like that. And I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. For real, for real. Um, yeah, I appreciate y'all. Uh apologies again for the little delay, but like I said, we're always working on some good stuff for you. Um, yeah, go check us out. Whether you listen, if you listen on Spotify, Apple, Google, Pandora, whatever, whatever you listen on. If you listen, cool. If you watch, go check out the YouTube. Um, getting that back going again. Because I know um, you know, we gotta do some uploading on that. The video is a little more extensive work than this. But you know, it's all good. Um, yeah, go check out the YouTube. If you only watch the clips, that's cool too. Uh, you know, whether we jam out, whatever we do. Um, thank you, thank you, thank you again. I felt like this was like a little welcome back. Um, not gonna lie to you, still still crazy just sitting here talking solo. But it's all good. I got I got y'all with me. Um yeah, appreciate you. Have a great week, great month, great year, great all that stuff. Much love.