Allaah! Top of the morning friends and family, we're today talking about mending bridges. Not actual physical bridges like this one right here that nature is trying to reclaim, but relationship, bridges, personal bridges. Once a week on this channel we upload a beautifully edited cinematic masterpiece. This video is uncut. And as I mentioned in this uncut, we're going to talk about the subject I just mentioned, which is mending bridges, particularly in your life with the people you know. Thank you for allowing me one cut in my usually hilariously owned cut video that has one cut usually my second cut I guess. I just had to make this one cut because of you know, Brian and Thumbnail and I was out of camping and I wasn't in service range and I come back and I'm starting to get social media stuff like flooded with pictures of Brian and not knowing what was happening. I talked to my buddy Andy Gabs who kind of let me know what was going on and all that to say... The context of this video is still relevant. I'm trying to say. Anyway, Brian was a big inspiration behind making the video anyway and it is a big inspiration. So it is the bridge too. But anyway, I'm pretty jovial in the video so I wouldn't want you guys to think that I had the information I have in Brian now and would remain that jovial throughout the video. So I guess I just wanted to say that. I also wanted to say that all those folks that I'm you know through the end of the bus years back and just like made fun of me for standing up for Brian when a lot of people were throwing him under the bus and seeing a lot of the same people make posts supporting him now. I just want you guys to know I forgive you guys a long time ago for that. So I'm glad that you're not dark enough people to keep being like that even when the guys going through something like this. And just to encourage you to keep that same energy with people who are alive and well and are not suffering health problems and are not struggling on their death beds and stuff. Keep that same energy of supporting people and lifting people up. Please. All right. Here's the video I filmed. One more cut. Sorry. Thank you. I just want to mention I remember when I was recording the video I talked about Brian you know having that being faced with much is mortality like being part of the reason he reshaped. I remember I also remember that it was actually when he first started having animal con before he got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was actually reaching out to people that used to not support him and inviting them to animal con even despite that fact. So anyway I just wanted to throw that in there too. I was walking along. We went camping for bringing in the new year and decided to get back into running. I'm running down this trail coming across this beautiful bridge and it's pretty messed up. Can't really get across it and I'm going to get across it. I'm going to find a way across it which is kind of part of the metaphor. Now specifically kind of addressing folks in the reptile hobby industry. There have been lots of mended relationships I witnessed in 2023. Big thanks to my buddy Brian Bartcheck who made it a big part of talk he was doing about you know. I know it's just a big theme in his life recently where he's just mending bridges because the unfortunate situation he's going through you know being faced with his own mortality. Cost and realizing you know life short. We're only here for a very small amount of time. Want to make the most of it. And part of that is is mending bridges with people that you have broken relationships with. And it's tough. It's not something easy to do by any means. I don't think that it's easy. I don't think that this is going to be an easy subject or topic for a lot of people to handle but I think it's an important one, a very important one because anyone who's ever mended a broken relationship I think it's fair to say that they were better off for doing that versus maintaining the maintaining the grudge or the bad blood. I would say that anybody who's encouraging you to continue keeping bad blood and not to reach out and try to mend a relationship that's probably pretty toxic. Pretty toxic person in your life right there. I think it's much better off not just for humanity but also for our specific industry when people are able to meet in the middle over whatever broken differences they have. And you know some of them might be intense. Some of them are probably less intense and don't really need to be kept going. I'm sure there's lots of things out there. What if he would walk? My point is it's probably going to be a bit of a mess if you try to reach out to this person that you have a broken relationship with and there might be some slipping. You might get hurt again. You might fall. It might break something. But I think it's more worth it to at least make the attempt and forgive whatever things happened that caused you to have this broken relationship in the first place because life is short. And I love the story of people having a broken relationship than reconciling, finding that middle ground where they can agree to disagree maybe still but also agree that you better off if we try to work together with what positive things we can see in each other and go from there versus maintaining brokenness and perpetuating brokenness. And that's something I've always been very passionate about is seeing people mend those relationships. And you know the cool thing is that some people that I've even spoken to who seem like they were hell bent on hell bent is a perfect word for it on not having forgiveness and not wanting to see those relationships mended. I've seen some of those relationships mend in the last year. So that was really cool. I love to see that. It's one of my favorite things on this earth with people is to see those beautiful moments where people reach reconciliation and they're making it to the other side of the bridge together and not letting that break keep them apart. Now I do agree that sometimes it may be so treacherous and it's just hard. It takes two. That's the thing. It takes two. And if one person doesn't want to reconcile then there's really nothing you can do about that. It's up to the other person. It really takes two people to fix that issue and to reach a meeting of the minds. More often than not I think if you just leave it unattended, eventually the whole bridge was just rotted away and it'll just be a chasm rather than a little bridge that you could have made your way across with a little bit of work. So that's my encouragement to you as you start this new year. It's a good time to reflect on the time past and things that are coming new and I think that's what I would encourage you guys all out there to do. So you have a broken relationship in your life. In fact, I'm going to start pulling through my own thing and see if there's something like that. I think I've done a pretty good job of maintaining relationships. So I feel like maybe for that reason I'm a reasonable person to be giving this advice. I don't really have any broken relationships. It's great. It's great. I tell you it's such a better way to live life, the short life that we have here. Yeah. I think everybody would be better off for it. So that's my encouragement to you for 2024. Please take care of yourselves. Take care of each other and we'll see you on the next video. Oh, you know what? I saw a bobcat right back there earlier. So that was really awesome. Haven't seen a bobcat in forever. Anyway, you guys take care of yourselves. Aloha.