 I thought I just say a few things about Christmas, my view of Christmas, what I think Christmas is good for, why I think it's a great holiday, why I enjoyed it, but why I think it's a great holiday. The urban legend, somebody says, let's guess how long it will take you on to repeat the urban legend. The Christmas came from a pagan solstice holiday. It did. I'm not going to repeat it. I say it every year. Everybody talked about it many times. It actually did come from a pagan holiday, as almost all the Christian holidays do. All of them are basically crept off of pagan holidays. Jewish holidays do the same thing. They basically take the times of the year where the pagans had holidays and they wrap a Jewish or Christian holiday around that. All the habits, all the actual behaviors that we engage in on Christmas are all either pagan or just straight commercial. There's no relationship between a Christmas tree and Jesus. There's no relationship between giving gifts and Jesus. There is no relation between the way Christmas is celebrated, the timing of Christmas being right now and everything else. None of that has anything to do with Christianity or with Jesus. It all has to do with the solstice, the winter solstice. It has everything to do with winter and celebrating the shortest day in the beginning, the end of winter, and it has everything to do with the commercial, the wealth of the Americans in the 19th century, early 20th century that had to do with selling stuff and creating a marketing campaign around Santa and reindeer and gift giving. That is all just a marketing, a brilliant, brilliant, amazing capitalist marketing ploy, but it has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity. None of this. You find the connection. You find the connection between Christmas tree, Santa Claus, reindeer, gift giving, and just lights and everything else associated with Christmas. You find a connection between that and Jesus. Good luck. Good luck. Jesus or Christianity. Good luck. I mean, it's just not there. It is about, particularly in the modern form, it's about American enterprise, American stores, American entrepreneurs, finding a way to leverage a minor religious holiday into a major cultural event and Christmas is really a cultural event. I love Christmas. It's a great time. It tends to be a relaxing time. December tends to be a time where people relax between even as intense as work is. It's always a time where people slow down just a little bit. Business just gets delayed a little bit. Not this year for me because of the move and because of everything else going on, but nothing happened on Christmas, just last points in the religion stuff. Jesus was not born on Christmas. Jesus was born in March, April probably. There's nothing to connect Christmas with Christianity other than the fact that they wanted to take over a pagan holiday. It's not an open myth. It is. It is. That is the fact. Anyway, forget about that. Not important. So this year has not been particularly relaxing for me just because of the move and everything else going on. I am, for those of you who don't know, I am basically shutting down, selling my home in California, leaving California forever. Actually, I had an experience today that confirmed my decision. I had to do something that related, I guess, to the regulations of the state of California. Basically, I was told I couldn't do what I wanted to do. There was no way to get around it. I am stuck. I'm stuck. I'm going to have to talk to a lawyer on Monday. Simple transaction that should be easy and simple and certainly in place like Nevada and Florida is a simple transaction is a nightmare. And for me right now, an impossibility because of the regulations in the state of California. So I am in the process of packing and selling my house in California and moving permanently to Puerto Rico and buying a place in Puerto Rico that will be my permanent home for the next, at least a decade, decade. So it's exciting, but it's a lot of work and was not very relaxing while trying to do these shows, trying to do my hedge fund work and everything else. It's been an intense, an intense few weeks. But I love Christmas usually, not this year, for the fact that it is a time for reflection, a time when things slow down a little bit, a time that you can take time for yourself, a time to invest in yourself, a time to do some introspecting and to plan for next year and to think about what happened during the year that has just passed. I will be doing a show on December 31st and the show from December 31st will be a retrospective for 2020, will be a kind of review of the year. And it is also going to be a show in which we'll have a $5,000 match. So we have an anonymous supporter who is doing, will contribute dollar for dollar, anything we raise up to $5,000. So it will be, this will be my big telethon night. And we will do a 2020 review of 2020, highlights, lowlights, lots of lowlights of 2020, the year I cannot wait to see end for a variety of professional and personal reasons. It is the year from hell. So I'm really, really excited about getting it over with and getting to 2021. 2020 was really the worst year for me personally that I can remember, at least in the last 30, 40 years. So I'm happy to get this over with. And what better way to get it over with, with a big bang, which will be a $5,000 match show. And for those of you who I hope you all show up, I hope you're being your friends, I hope you're being your checkbook. But it is that show will be at 4 p.m. Pacific time on 3 31, so 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Eastern time. And even Europeans will be up because it'll be closer to midnight. It'll be just past midnight over in Europe. It'll be in the UK. It'll be exactly 12 o'clock and in Europe. It'll be 1 a.m. The rest of Europe in Israel will be 2 a.m. So you'll all be still be returning from your parties a little drunk. What better time than that to raise money? So hopefully we can get you all engaged, get you all supporting the show. We've got a lot of exciting plans for 2021, including the building of a new studio. Whatever we raise will help to to build a new studio. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, women or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. 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