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it's Christmas
note the red sweater today's video is
gonna be really simple there's really
only one thing that I want to think you
know what I'm not just good at
multitasking as I thought I was gonna be
able to call just do all this as I fill
the wheelbarrow but it's not gonna work
give me a second this week gonna reset
up over here yep I think that I'll do
the Sun is really bright so I'm sorry
about that the balance of the lighting
also I got to 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 that I want to wrap
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 at 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 Linz podcast that thing is blowing
up and we are 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 to 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 to I video who
has not only supplied me with Wi-Fi in
like four different countries this year
but has supplied so many of you with
Wi-Fi thank you to each and every person
who went out of their way to purchase a
Tokyo lens print or bag or clock or even
any of the Tokyo lens pretty 50k here
that it's 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
I've seen a lot of that as well and you
know I love it now on to a little bit of
talk so the first one I kind of want to
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've been documenting the process
of my new shamisen being built I've been
going out to the makers shop out in the
mountains in western Tokyo and it is
very exciting this week I'm actually
gonna be going out and picking up that
new shamisen 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 it's times like this that I
don't really know how much energy to
approach this with but this this is
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 2019 around 5:00 5:30 p.m.
on TV Tokyo I will be performing the
opening act to TV Tokyo's 3 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 and I'm just so so excited to
share with you guys now with all of that
being said getting back to the main
point of today's video I just wanted to
say Merry Christmas to each and every
one of you maybe Christmas is really big
where you're from maybe Christmas isn't
even your thing maybe you're just like
I'm not really a Christmas person that
is okay 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 so hold tight
thank you all again
Merry Christmas to you and yours you
guys know I will see you again real soon
and I gotta get back to work
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