No red sweater.

Video's gonna be really simple.

There's really only one thing that I want to say.

You know what?

I'm not good at multitasking.

As I thought I was gonna be able to call.

Just do all this as I filled the wheelbarrow.

But it's not gonna work.

Give me a second.

Gonna reset him over here.

I think that'll do.

The sun is really bright, so I'm sorry about that.

The balance of the lighting Also, I gotta finish that as soon as we're done.

This today's video is basically super super simple Just to say Merry Christmas to you guys.

But I do have an announcement, the whole rap into this.

And before I make that announcement being that it's Christmas, I want to do the thing that I feel.

I should be doing it Christmas and express a little bit of gratitude, obviously gratitude to each and every one of you for being here for the entire year.

Gratitude to people like my little brother Alexander, who spent five weeks with us and tolerated me, making content for the entire time, not to mention my friends, family, loved ones who have supported me doing this for a full year.

Thank you to everyone who has joined the Tokyo Lens podcast.

That thing is blowing up and we're having so much fun over there.

Thank you to each and every single one of you who has taken time to hang out in the comments section and leave likes and all the love on those videos.

You might not be a commenter, and you might be one of those people who just sits back and watches everyone, and I appreciate you just as much.

So thank you.

Just thank you for being here.

Thank you Toe I video who has not only supplied me with WiFi and like what four different countries this year, but has supplied so many of you with WiFi thank you to each and every person who went out of their way to purchase a Tokyo Lin's print or bag or clock, or even any of the Tokyo Lens pretty 50 k a year.

That is really exciting.

Thank you guys so much.

The gratitude is there, and more than anything, thank you guys for becoming a community and supporting each other in the comments.

I've seen a lot of that as well.

You know, I love it now onto a little bit.

Talk.

So the 1st 1 I kinda wanna box off because I've been getting a lot of tweets and messages about it.

A lot of people have been saying, Hey, how's your new shamisen coming along?

Over the last month, I have been documenting the process of my new Shamis and being built.

I've been going out to the makers shock out in the mountains in western Tokyo, and it is very exciting this week.

I'm actually going to be going out and picking up that new show, Me said, and I will be documenting that as well.

I cannot wait to share it with every single one of you.

But even bigger than that, I have a little bit of an announcement.

And I'm very excited about this announcement.

So I don't really It's times like this that I don't really know how much energy to approach this with, but this this is a pretty big So this is gonna be a lot bigger if you're in Japan.

If you're not, I will find some way to share this with you guys.

But the announcement is that January 1st 2000 and 19 around 55 30 p.

M.

On TV Tokyo I will be performing the opening act TV Tokyo's three, Our New Year's special and I won't be performing it alone either.

That's all I can really say in this video right here.

I'm gonna be dropping a few more hints on Twitter and Instagram as we get closer to the date.

But for now they've asked me not to give away the whole farm and just just kind of keep the mystery there.

And, you know, I've never been opposed to a little bit of mysteries of this.

This is very exciting.

This moment is going to be the culmination of, like, almost a decade of work and goals all wrapped into one moment.

I'm just so so excited to share it with you guys.

With all of that being said, getting back to the main point of today's video, I just want to say Merry Christmas to each and every one of you.

Maybe Christmas is really big.

Where you from?

Maybe Christmas isn't even your thing.

Maybe you're just like I'm not really a Christmas person.

That is OK.

I just wanted to take a little bit of time to send some love and gratitude your way.

Thank you guys, for the support.

We may still have some more content coming this year's so hold tight.

Thank you all again.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

You guys know I will see you again real soon, but I gotta get back to work.