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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today is

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Speaker 2: one of those episodes. Are Ben and I are just

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Speaker 2: doing a little chat. We want to talk to you

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Speaker 2: guys about the new Year. I hope you guys have

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Speaker 2: a very safe and happy New Year. And now Ben

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Speaker 2: and I will reveal how we are spending our New year. Ben,

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Speaker 2: I don't ever make plans for New Year's Eve. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember when I ever had a plan for New

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Speaker 2: Year's Eve. The best New Year's Eve I've ever had,

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Speaker 2: besides ones of like my childhood teen years, which is

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Speaker 2: like always fun with your friends and doing crazy things

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Speaker 2: like going into Times Square at eleven thirty pm and

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Speaker 2: getting let in by coops and seeing the Jonas brothers

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Speaker 2: and all that when I was nineteen. It's great new

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Speaker 2: Year's put it as an adult New Year's My favorite

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Speaker 2: ones I've probably just been with a few close friends

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Speaker 2: in sweats playing games. What about you?

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Speaker 3: You know how I know I'm lame.

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Speaker 2: You've never seen it back into Times Square at eleven

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Speaker 3: Well, no, I've definitely never done that. I I'm lame

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Speaker 3: because in my twenties.

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Speaker 4: Oh you fell asleep. You always fall asleep.

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Speaker 3: I really tried hard. There was two New Year's distinctively

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Speaker 3: like I'm going to party, Like I'm getting out there

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Speaker 3: on the town. I'm gonna like kind of get dressed up.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna go to a nice dinner, and then we're

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Speaker 3: We're gonna like, I'm gonna put down the money, We're

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Speaker 3: gonna buy a table. We're gonna like do it up right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: those are two of the worst like night memories I

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Speaker 3: have in my life. It sucks. It's awful. Everything's so expensive,

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Speaker 3: it's packed. It's like butt to hump throughout the whole bar.

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Speaker 3: You can't get a drink, you can't get food. Everybody

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Speaker 3: one thousand miles per hour forward. It's busy. And here's

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Speaker 3: the part that just drives me crazy. You the party

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Speaker 3: doesn't start till that ball drops. Really, this is how

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Speaker 3: much I've gone out on New Year's. It's like it

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Speaker 3: you're not like getting like it'd be. I think both

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Speaker 3: those nights, you're coming in at like three o'clock in

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Speaker 3: the morning, which is just outrageous to me. And it's

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Speaker 3: been outrageous to me, not because I'm thirty six years old.

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Speaker 3: When I was twenty one years old, it was outrageous

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Speaker 3: I don't even want to call it fun because it's

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Speaker 3: not fun to me. Uh So, here's what we're gonna do,

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Speaker 3: which what we've done. Jessica and I have both very

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Speaker 3: similar in this manner. We're going to go or cook

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Speaker 3: in or go out to a great dinner. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: have a drink, and we're gonna talk about the year.

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Speaker 3: And this is one of the traditions that we have.

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Speaker 3: We also on New Year's we have this thing that

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Speaker 3: I've talked about before where we share our top five

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Speaker 3: favorite meals from the year. Those can only be two

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Speaker 3: have to be out like at a dinner. And they

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Speaker 3: don't share them with each other until we sit down

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Speaker 4: You just remember the meals.

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Speaker 3: No, we don't make them. We remember them and we

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Speaker 3: do our top five and she makes hers and I

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Speaker 3: And so sometimes the two of them align. Sometimes we

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Speaker 4: How do you hide each other from the kitchen?

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Speaker 3: No, we don't make them. These are like meals that

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Speaker 3: we had previously throughout the year. This could be a

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Speaker 4: You just talk about it.

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Speaker 2: Something I could never do with Jared because he does

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Speaker 3: And it's fun because we've done it since two thousand

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Speaker 3: from the year. Yeah, my parents do it. It's fun,

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Speaker 3: We watch the ball drop on the East Coast and

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Speaker 3: we say, hey, happy New Year, I love you, good night.

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Speaker 3: And that is the best way to do New Year's.

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Speaker 2: I like it, you know what I do that. This

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Speaker 2: will be my third year. This is our tradition. Dawson

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Speaker 2: and I. We get burger king and we sit and

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Speaker 2: we watch people do the what's the dip? You know

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Speaker 3: Oh, the polar plunge.

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Speaker 4: The polar plunge. Yeah, we get burger king and we

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Speaker 3: Oh you don't New.

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Speaker 4: Year's Day, that's New Year's Day. No, I'm doing it.

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Speaker 3: I could see Jared doing it.

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Speaker 2: I could see Jared doing it too, but this has

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Speaker 4: Okay, and then Jared.

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Speaker 2: Loves the jaw the ball drop. He just loves Ryan

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Speaker 2: So we will probably usually do like dinner out to

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Speaker 2: We'll go out to dinner but early, be home by nine,

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Speaker 2: don't hate it. I don't know that we'll do that

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Speaker 3: I think there's special Like I don't want to say

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Speaker 3: New Year's now because Jessica knows that if any of

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Speaker 2: Really. If it was a friend's house, I would totally

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Speaker 3: It just is Ashley, I'll be honest with you. This

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Speaker 3: time of the year is so wonderful for so many reasons.

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Speaker 3: There's celebrations, there's gatherings, there's work commitments where people get

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Speaker 3: events and conferences and gatherings. So that's my whole year.

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Speaker 3: All I want for a day off for me where

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Speaker 3: New Year's is always that excuse where I'm like, everybody's

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Speaker 3: getting together. What does that mean for me? I don't

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Speaker 2: Do you get mad Sunday scaries like I do after

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little different for me because I work

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Speaker 3: and yeah, I definitely will, but I look forward to it,

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Speaker 3: I know it sounds good every year. Call me lame Ashley.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not lame at all.

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Speaker 3: Like I wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: I would absolutely do it too.

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Speaker 3: It works.

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Speaker 4: You guys should figure out how to have your favorite

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Speaker 3: I'd be good. Some of these are like Michelin Star restaurants.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to do that. Besides that, i'd

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Speaker 3: just cooking up cool, cool stuff. I am it will

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Speaker 3: be Funhi, it is a wonderful New Year's We wish

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Speaker 3: that you'll use twice. Make sure that you make all

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Speaker 3: of your plans for healthy eating. I'm not a New

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Speaker 4: Just don't keep on Nope, nope, nope.

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Speaker 3: But here's something fun. Here's my only thing this is

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Speaker 3: what I do and I don't know yet. Every year

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Speaker 3: I pick a new word. This year's word was connection,

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Speaker 3: and twenty twenty six will be a different word, and

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Speaker 3: I'll kind of pray over it, think about it, look

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Speaker 3: back at some of my journaling and writing from the year,

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Speaker 3: and say, okay, what in twenty twenty six is one

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Speaker 3: say it. I don't know what it's going to be,

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Speaker 3: but that's what I do. And then every I try

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Speaker 3: to keep it, you know, on top of mind for

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Speaker 2: I think mine, when you asked me last year, was

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Speaker 2: present or like enjoying the moment that you're living in. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I have been more thoughtful about it, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you have been because you've had a big year.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five has been a big year for you,

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Speaker 3: full of a lot of different balls tossing in the air.

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Speaker 3: Yet you are still saying.

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Speaker 4: Ashley, thanks, I think so. I think that's a good job.

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Speaker 3: I've told you when I think you're not clicking thanks, Ben,

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Speaker 3: you're crushing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know what am I going to

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Speaker 4: do this this year? Yeah, let me think about it.

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Speaker 2: I'll get back to you in the New Year on

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Speaker 2: that and you do the same with me and your

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Speaker 2: word and all that. Hey, Ben, before we go, I

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Speaker 2: do want to say, remember the one New Year's where

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Speaker 2: we kind of spend it together the New Year's Eve

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Speaker 2: or we had to wake up at like four point

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Speaker 2: thirty in the morning on New Year's Day to be

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Speaker 2: in the Rose Bowl parade together.

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Speaker 3: That was That was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I got to send.

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Speaker 2: Her our producer pictures of that. That is so cute,

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Speaker 2: such a good memory. I just thought, you know, I

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Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I'm on a float with

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Speaker 2: Ben Higgins. Ben Higgins is so cool and such a celebrity,

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Speaker 2: and I can't believe I've included with this guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I mean, that was a wildly fun day.

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Speaker 3: It is a day I'll never forget because it was

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Speaker 4: Turn twenty sixty. It was turning twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Right, probably twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know you were about to be the

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen Bachelor.

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Speaker 3: Oh it was pre bachelor. Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Well, Ben, look at this, Oh send it. Do you

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Speaker 4: know what that means?

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Speaker 2: That'll be ten years this New Year's Day it's been

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Speaker 2: ten years.

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Speaker 3: My goosh, oh my god, Ashley.

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Speaker 2: Goodness, Ben, and that's so crazy. You've been friends for

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Speaker 2: ten years, for real, for real, Look good us.

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Speaker 3: Now we're still doing.

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Speaker 4: It anyway, keep going on and on. You know we're

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Speaker 4: gonna bore the audience because they weren't there.

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Speaker 3: We'll make sure to post this picture. Happy New Year

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Speaker 3: to everybody. Happy twenty twenty six and there are great

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Speaker 3: things ahead, believe it. Until next time, I've been Ben.

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Speaker 4: I've been Ashley. See you, guys, Love you.

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