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Jesse

Amazing work Todd! I’m an Aussie singer/songwriter/music enthusiast. I fronted a country band for a few years and wrote a few hits over here…but I threw in the towel in 2023 when I realised I actually hate country music and I was putting in too much effort when everyone else was just singing “big truck, cold beer, good times” over pop song chords. All hail Olivia, Chappell & Sabrina! Can’t wait for your best of!

Adequately Sized Dog

This year's worst list felt less like a worst hit songs of the year (like the 2011 worst was) and more like a worst songs that technically managed to chart. It's a good sign for the year when you had to dig this deep to find something worth hating on. Well, when Not Like Us gets the top spot in the best list, here's to toasting Kendrick's victory with some (tax deductible) Tam's. I recommend the bacon cheese burger with fries and an Orange Bang.

bootaro kujo

Ty :)

margo

As someone who failed twice but passed eventually, chin up and onwards!

Liza Boudreau

Sadly, since watching this I can’t stop singing “Chevrolet”

Chris Satterfield (Compgeke)

Wait, did I just hear TERRIBLEHOLDMUSIC.WAV ?

RedBedroomRecords

I was fine with that song because I genuinely have lost all respect for noname at this point(after she platformed the guy who said vile anti-semitic shit about Zelensky and then bent over backwards to dismiss any and all criticisms towards him I was fucking done with her ass, she is such a fake progressive it's not even funny, it's just sad).

RedBedroomRecords

Crash actually got rid of "The Bin" sometime earlier this year(or maybe it was last year).

RedBedroomRecords

How is she a bitch? and what does Hilary have to do with her?

RedBedroomRecords

I disagree, Cheney is one of the few Republicans with actual courage and I saw nothing at all wrong with having Katy on stage, considering she performed at the inauguration it made sense to have her there.

RedBedroomRecords

thing is a lot of them actually HATE Muskrat as they are anti big-tech and that includes Twitter even with most people migrating to Bluesky and you'd better believe many of them HATE electric cars and love gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs so they're not going to buy a Tesla.

RedBedroomRecords

I think the beat sounds genuinely unpleasant. I personally believe in separating the art from the artist so i'll still listen to the good Kanye stuff every once in a while, but he hasn't made any music that was worth a damn since Drumpf's first term.

RedBedroomRecords

I bet a lot of Ye stans constantly spammed that song.

RedBedroomRecords

I think you're wrong about Katy Perry, she has plenty left in the tank and Women's World is a perfectly fine song, i'm with Spectrum Pulse in thinking that people massively overreacted to 143. Also that Dua Lipa album is fine, don't get the disappointment. Also that Eminem song is just fine, sad to see that I think Todd has missed the overall point of Em in general, Houdini is a damn good song. I was genuinely happy to see "Chevrolet" on this list though, my dad listens to a fair bit of country radio and I nearly recoiled in shock when I first heard that song and realized what it was sampling/covering, I was praying Todd would tear it shreds and my prayers were answered thank fuck, what an abomination of a song.

JasSpy

I didn't want to mention it was her, but yes. Discovered her channel in a very out of the ordinary way. She's not the type of vtuber I usually look for.

Arbor Rainier

🤞

Arbor Rainier

that's an insult to the word motherfucker

AstarothLuLz

Enjoyable as always, take some rest and have a good holidays.

Colton Rice

Is it Camila?

Anastasi

Not sure if someone else has commented, but there’s a moment at roughly 16:45 where you repeat “and why”, sounds like two takes stitches together. Great video! Always love the year end lists

Kay

As a fan of Taylor Swift, I fully expected "Fortnight" to be on this list.

Nick Sestanovich

That's not so much a comment on his weight as it is a joke about his name (a jelly roll is a jelly-filled pastry). It's no different than his jokes about Marshmello's name.

Judgesaturn507

Two nickels just appeared in my pocket…

Judgesaturn507

One rewrite away from an Office-style ‘that’s what she said’

bootaro kujo

Lol thanks Todd, failed my driving test today but seeing this made me feel better

Tedd-Z

Let's be real here. Most of them are just shamelessly grifting as much as he is. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if he's paid at least a few of them to react positively.

Taylor Abrahamse

Likewise!

Christian Reiswig

God, “Miles On It” is fucking infuriating to me. It’s like they took the patented Blackbear 2-notes vocal melody and somehow made it even simpler. “We’re gonna put some miles on it if you know what I mean”. No idea what he means there, I’m gonna need you to be even more obvious next time please.

TenPoundHammer

New drinking game: take a shot every time Jelly Roll is mentioned.

Jeff P

He's a fat guy with the stage name Jelly Roll. Get outta here with that

MW

I think I've finally achieved peace because I was not familiar with...80% of this list. and I felt like I listened to a lot of popular music this year!!

SPBurke

Between Katy and Liz Cheney, Kamala really did open up that stage too much.

SPBurke

Then his Joker origin story will be complete.

SPBurke

I'm always disappointed when a reaction channel I like reacts to Tom MacDonald, or worse, the reactor treats MacDonald as if he makes good music and makes good points. He doesn't. Tom MacDonald's only exists to provoke. It's the word "motherfucker" in music form. Treating him as a serious artist is laughable at best, and offensive at worst. Ignoring bad music doesn't make it go away, but of all people, MacDonald needs to be ignored.

BlackCat1989

That's absolutely right, thus making J. Cole's comment even more terrible in retrospect.

Joseph Adams

The Nebula Read was on-point. As was the rest of the video!

Jacob Roth

Great video At 7:04, right when you say “50-50’s manager” it cuts to an unrelated and out of sync cut of you reacting to something.

Taylor Abrahamse

Ye is gonna die from a laughing gas OD next year or so

Tinni

I am not sure what you are asking, but SS Lazio supporters, who Kenya used to do the Football-style chants, are infamous for using fascist symbols. I think they also had a player who did the Nazi Salute after scoring a goal, and the fans of the club were okay with it. I don't know exactly what about SS Lazio attracts fascists. But it is the club of choice of Italian fascists.

Arbor Rainier

LMFAO love this analogy

Arbor Rainier

okay but gkmc was still a super acclaimed album (that literally put him on the map) no ?

Arbor Rainier

as someone who knows literally nothing abt soccer, why is there such a strong connection here ?

Arbor Rainier

as an autistic transfem leftist, i begrudgingly think the beat to that song is like. REALLY good, though any goodwill i feel towards it is def more then cancelled out by those lyrics. that said, iirc it did become a decent size tik tok hit at the beginning of the year and seemed to be used by primarily non-blatantly wack human beings so maybe she just wasn't thinking abt it very hard ? i def agree with your overall sentiment though -- one of my good friends, who i've been close to since middle school and is overall a rly wonderful guy (and whose political leanings very much lean left) has still been bumping kanye pretty hard these last couple years and it's very much worthy of a side eye from me. then again, id be lying if i said i never play music from problematic artists either ,,,, this whole dilemma would be so much easier if human beings stopped sucking so much lmao

Arbor Rainier

they appear to be

Arbor Rainier

oh shit good call

eloisefrommarketing

that was a nasty thing you did with the sponsorship lmao

Henry Kiley

As ever, incredible work, Todd. I'm still gobsmacked that #1 did as well as it did. I know songs that sound bad to my ears or have some annoying bits have huge success all the time but I genuinely don't get how a song as completely unpalatable as that got as far as it did. I'd rather listen to any other song on this list- including #2, which is saying a lot- ten times over.

Eric

Hope you get to enjoy your holidays Todd. This video seems like it was absolutely as hard to make as you made it seem.

Harrison Mohr

One error I've noticed: The subtitles for the lyrics on the #1 segment stop following along with the song about halfway through.

Tedd-Z

Yeah, claiming that you like #2 is like claiming your favourite song is 'I Know A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves'. No, you just like that I DON'T like it. You're gonna buy it because I don't like it, you're gonna listen to it precisely once because I don't like it, and then you're gonna go right back to review-bombing 'woke' games and attempting to doxx JoCat. Anyhoo, good stuff as always, Todd.

Momo

Happy holidays Todd! Get some rest and enjoy!

Wyatt

that Drew Carey Show clip was such a nice little nostalgia buzz

Ashe.

I think that's just cause that's literally what a jelly roll is

Discovery Tax

100% let's me know that as empty as my life is, there's really not that much to fill it with anyway 😅 Acerbic comedy and sharp deconstructions are definitely better than the drivel that is usually hit songs.

Nick Sestanovich

I think he's said the piano intros on the year-end lists are just popular songs he couldn't fit into the conversation.

Gideon Weinerth

I really like this new punctual Todd. I remember when these best/worst lists came out in February.

BlackCat1989

Todd, I think J. Cole was talking about good kid, m.A.A.d city about Kendrick's second album. Section.80 was his first album and To Pimp a Butterfly was his third.

Lanth

I always feel like that's a sign I'm living my life right

Tinni

I find it fitting that Kanye ended up working with Lazio, purely by accident because he was trying to get Inter Ultra to begin with, because many Lazio supporters, also love Hitler

Miss Chriss

If it makes you feel better, I’m ARMY and I thought the Jimin section was hilarious

JLo

No Maroon 5 again? Are they finally gone?

JasSpy

I occasionally have watched a popular vtuber who always gets over 1000 viewers on twitch and she seems like a genuinely nice person. The thing is that IRL she's a Lebanese-American woman, and somehow she LOVES Ye's "Carnival". She even has sung along to it on-stream, and I don't know how to feel about that. I mean, all I feel these days is numbness, confusion, and despair about the world anyway. You'd think that most of Ye's fans nowadays would be specifically really evil white males who are white supremacists. But this is a Lebanese woman who loves a song where Ye says he's like Cosby.

duke86fan

You put the Baltimora ending at the end of the video

Brandon Hay

Genuinely shocked Big Foot didn't make the cut, even as an honorable mention

Discovery Tax

Your videos are always the first time I hear these songs.

Joshua C

At about 13:11 there is like a single from from a different angle of the same performance.

Hawley Olsen

I vaguely remember something about a jelly filled pastry

Hawley Olsen

So hard to say if this is K pop's fault for deliberately exporting crappy music for Anglophones, or our fault for rejecting the good stuff so we can listen to English instead. BTS went from genuinely exciting music, like ON, to bland all English nothingburgers like Dynamite, and it's hard to be mad at them for that because if we'd wanted music like ON well we should have made that our hit instead.

Arbor Rainier

tbf j cole has also had some moments where he came off. not so great, like the line abt "[n words] being retarded, autistic" or the whole mansplainy snow on the bluff thing

Arbor Rainier

i've seen multiple people express the melody being kind of grating, which i'm inclined to agree with

Arbor Rainier

as someone who was bothered by the way todd talked abt jelly roll on the best of 2022 list i didn't have a problem with this one, altho i do think he was inching somewhat close to the line. i admittedly don't remember the part when he called him a donut tho

Arbor Rainier

i've always interpreted it as a memorable song from that year that sounds good on piano and sometimes has some sort of thematic tie in in the same way the bumper music does idk

Arbor Rainier

as a mentally ill person that's literally not an excuse for being a terrible fucking human being (also as someone stated below, kanye does actually have multiple allegations against him)

Arbor Rainier

same with the kanye part

Arbor Rainier

yea that's the worst part abt the maga folks -- there's literally nothing you can say to change the viewpoint of 95% of them, in fact most are actively trying to provoke a response of some type (even a legitimately well thought out criticism) i agree with todd, i hope as many of them as possible pay daddy musk to go to space and then that spaceship fucking explodes

Arbor Rainier

i've thought before abt how i would handle the tom macdonalds of the world if i was making a list like this and i think ive come to conclusion that they'd all me in a tier called "fuck you" that's essentially at the very top of the list but doesn't get the official #1 title because that's exactly what they want. granted that's still not a perfect system (would a song like carnival, which is an actual song but one by a horrible human being whose horrible human being-ness actively leaks into the track's lyrics, qualify ? how abt one like tunnel vision by kodak black where the reference to his character is much more subtextual ?) so idk 🤷 i guess what im trying to say is god bless todd for still making these lists when we live in an era of having to deal with several of these hack ass songs per year

Arbor Rainier

great list as usual !!! the middle of the list in particular (#7-#4) had me laughing the hardest i have in a while at one of your videos, which says something because that's a pretty common occurrence for me just here to say that as much of the world sucks right now, you and your content are a beacon of hope and i hope you know that you and your videos are singlehandedly bringing joy to so, so many people right now :) (and that even if you were to retire tmoro, you'd still have a vast library of humorous, insightful, and replayable content that will continue to be enjoyed indefinitely)

Arbor Rainier

man you're BRAVE for #9 (and for what it's worth you're totally right, that song sounds like ass)

Cody Baird

Take it easy man. Great work on this list. But I have lived under a rock this year (almost literally, and by choice) so this was my annual peek at what's "popular" in the real world, and I feel like I can say I don't care for it. Now if you'll excuse me I'll be returning to my bunker and hoping for the pain to end

Kristopher Bluth

I must really despise "Facts" if Todd putting goddamn Kanye at #1 makes me say, "Hmm...can't they be tied?" If anybody bellows I DON'T CARE IF I OFFEND YOU, trust me, not only do they, they get furious if they don't offend you enough. Hence the tantrums when sane people started abandoning Twitter for Blue Sky en masse. Oh, and I live in a liberal college town in a state Kamala Harris won by fourteen points and I see American flags flying all over the place. Get bent, you hacks. Enjoy your four years of President Elon.

Anne

A note on Kpop as a grown ass person who's been into it before it got popular: BTS basically lost their fire the second they started releasing English songs and it's been downhill ever since. They're being carried by goodwill at this point. Jimin is a good singer most of the time, but HYBE/BigHit loves autotune way too much. It's a style of the company and it's awful. Most kpop that's written in English is hot trash. Tends to shave off all the personality the groups/performers have and lands in this horrible gooey middle. There's a lot of great pop that can fly under the kpop banner, but America just loves to pick the WORST stuff.

Twist

Great work as always, didn’t see this noted yet but there’s a stutter at 16:45, extra “and why”

Austin F

as someone who is also bipolar, the way kanye defenders act as if his mental illness is in any way an excuse for the things he does and says makes me so mad. i think it's pretty insulting to imply that mental illness makes people act that way. i've made my fair share of bad life choices because of my illness, but i've never felt any compulsion to sexually harass people or compliment hitler

Joseph Warne

Verrrrrry curious now to know what you thought of Truck Bed by HARDY, I was sure it would be mentioned in some capacity but not even a dishonourable mention?

meffeww

the last two entries are probably some of the best criticism you’ve ever made. I don’t want to dismiss your previous stuff which I enjoyed, but even as recent as the Kid Rock video, I’ve had this dreadful feeling that even if you accurately debunk right-wingers’ viewpoints, the liberal side will agree with it, but the conservatives won’t care and desperately search for excuses to justify their beliefs. imo, the approach you’ve chosen now is the right one - don’t entertain their provocation, just point out how broken these people truly are that they have to resort to buzzwords and cheap attacks, whether it be insincerely (#2) or sincerely (#1). happy holidays, Todd! you truly deserve the rest.

The Hand Of The People

the extended edit at 25:03 from the numbering to the Jelly Roll bit just shows why you're still the best in the biz 15 years later Seconded the notes about copying and pasting the Tarzan Boy outro and some of the music levels at times

Koen Koster

The Marmellow part needs some full black footage beneath the b-roll.

Kamu

thank you todd! me and my spouse doing our annual rewatch right now so excited

James Liu

Christmas came early this year

Andrew Behm

Love the list & vid! Don’t know if anyone pointed this out yet, but after the (hilarious) better help at Nebula bit, the outro is the yodeling from Tarzan boy for a few seconds

Tim Briody

The intro song is a defacto honorable mention though, heh.

Ridd

There are no captions for the Drake song on the Honorable Mentions

Jon

Amazing work, as always Todd. I usually watch your videos when you upload to Patreon and again when they go public. Is that helpful to you? I can’t hear some of these songs again or I’ll begin committing nonviolent, petty crimes.

Moizza Khan

NGL, the minute I saw Katy Perry onstage with Kamala Harris I thought "get that b*tch offstage with her stink of failure! Did we learn NOTHING from Hilary's run?"

Shiny Skunk

Seems like a pretty neutral descriptor to say Jellyroll is a big dude compared to MGK, imo!

Shiny Skunk

I noticed there was some issues with the sound mixing in the MGK/Jelly Roll section, you're talking over some pretty loud music at one point. Also it's got the Tarzan Boy outro section, like with the name of the song and the song playing over it and everything. Which is admittedly, pretty funny!

Sam Jones

Um, Kanye is currently being sued for sexual harassment & assault. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg60g82meo

Sid Iyer

That fake out with the "Better Help" before the sponsor almost got me.

Brett

Lot of bad Jelly Roll this year. But this does make me stoked for the Best Hits List - I'm curious what actually topped it last year.

Riley Greenstein

I respect that ad read so much. I was worried for two seconds and then laughing for two minutes

Aria Artie

Tanks Todd

Elizabeth M Hyde

In the 2023 Worst List Todd said he *respected* TMTC, especially compared to Daylight, but I don't think he's ever said he likes it.

Pranav Arora

Iirc he came round Take Me To Church later on too

air budd dwyer

and for the record everyone knows he's schizophrenic and so stupid he can't tie his own shoes and we just don't feel bad because he did it to himself and also he deserves it

Pranav Arora

Discussed one of the BTS member's solo hit early in the list

Kathy Mathers

I didn't watch the video yet, but were there any KPop hits at all this year?

air budd dwyer

i really doubt this "hey don't make fun of mentally ill drug addicts" mentality you kanye cultists have extends to anyone except for him

Elizabeth M Hyde

Just Take Me To Church iirc, but I don't think he's ever "clicked" with Hozier so I was worried

Kathy Mathers

Does Todd hate Hoizer in general, or does he just hate "Take Me to Chruch"?

Matthew Sevush

Loved the video Todd! The editing does kinda fall apart near the end, I think it’s a symptom of your tiredness by the end of this video’s production. Have you looked into hiring an editor to take the load off?

Celeste Romero

happy holidays todd

Alissa Marglin

Hey just FYI that the video isnt paywalled on youtube/patreon. Just want to make sure you get your $ from pateron. Forgive me if I'm not understanding how it works.

CarlWheezer24

I politely disagree, plus the section at the end where you allege a mentally ill drug addict as a rapist bc he made some dumb puns had some editing mistakes and subtitle errors.

Ryw316

Based Todd, rest well.

Will Seamon

WE LOVE YOU TODD

Alex Georganas

Ummm the ending card is the one from the Tarzan Boy episode

Elizabeth M Hyde

This. Really disappointing to see Todd stoop to lazy bodyshaming fat jokes.

Elizabeth M Hyde

Thank you for sparing Too Sweet, phew

Marie Dacy

Todd’s best and worst lists are more important to me than Christmas 🙌🏻 A couple of errors I noticed: in the #5 song and onward, there’s some screen-crop issues where the clips of the music videos aren’t totally full screen. Also at some point during #3 onward the whole screen shifts to the bottom (maybe it’s just my phone?) During #1 some of the subtitles didn’t match up with the audio, and the video cut off kind of abruptly. Also, the first end screen was actually the “Tarzan Boy” end screen. Rest up Todd!! Thanks again for another amazing list ❤️

air budd dwyer

it's not an "error" per se but there is an old jack harlow feature where he says he wants to get cucked so he might just not like sex at all

Wren Jayasekara

Todd, considering the backlash you got for your comments about Jelly Roll's body on a previous list, it might be worth removing/changing them in this one (comparison to MGK, calling him a donut etc).

J Singh

Gotta finish my binge of the previous lists before I watch this one. Got 6 years left. Didn't expect it to be out this soon.

dlokteff

Glad I missed most of these! Edits - Not sure you wanted the Tarzan Boy cover over the credits there.

Kylie

That bad audio sync gag in the #2 section had me rolling. Says a lot about how good 2024 music was that Todd had to clutch at straws to fill this list

Adam Weller

Hi Todd! These videos are like Christmas for me, so please understand I’m just trying to be helpful with the following edit notes! 7:03 - The cut from you talking in this video to you in a previous video is a bit jarring. Was the idea only to show the 50/50 quote? 19:10 - It sounds like the music is up at a level you’d usually have it at while you’re not speaking for a few seconds here. Maybe worth dropping it a few decibels? 20:38 and throughout Marshmallo’s section - Your video in the background while the M/Vs with different aspect ratios block it to varying levels is a bit distracting. The same thing as above also happens intermittently throughout the Jack Harlow section, once at 28:08 at #3, throughout the McDonald/Shapiro section, the honourable mentions and #1. I have seen you do this once or twice before in other videos, but I get the impression it’s not intentional. Apologies if I’m wrong! 37:22 - Lyric captions are out of sync, so not all of the lyrics you’re highlighting actually come up. 39:50 - Accidental recycle of the Tarzan Boy OHW outro card.

Austin F

that whole verse from kanye kind of gives me pause, too. he's already not been great with consent in the past. the horrible thing with the synthetic nude lookalike of taylor swift in the Famous music video was actually what made me officially decide i was done with him, and that was before his political crap. i still think making a naked replica of a woman he was beefing with to imply he was sleeping with her was disgusting. people made so many obtuse excuses for him at the time (including 'there were other women there too!!!', as if that makes it okay...), but he's only proving himself to be the exact guy his detractors accused him of.

Wicked Dreamer

great video, Todd! I really appreciate all of the hard work you put into the year-end lists each year despite not wanting to do them.

Juhani Aho

Todd, I am so glad that you put CARNIVAL at number one instead of Lovin' On Me or some other song. Seriously, fuck that song forever. Kanye West can, to quote Crash Thompson, get in the fucking bin. (He's been in the bin to me since the Hitler-comments in 2022, but this entire Vultures-era is a nail in the coffin. I am never going back. Ever.)

Sadie S

Great video as always! I think you have the list of patrons twice. Also there's a ton of places in the second half where the footage of you is visible behind/at the edges of whatever footage is the focus.

Teddy Haines

I remember making a Worst Hit Songs of 2017 list back when I briefly ran a blog, and I put Dustin Lynch at number 10. I was officially ahead of the curve on hating this guy.

Matt Evans

As a Kpop stan, I can confirm that Kpop (especially the really popular stuff) stopped being fun even though being fun was kind of the whole appeal of Kpop in the first place. The most popular groups are making the least fun music. Also, a lot of producers suck at making Jimin's voice sound good lol

McNikk

Yes, yes very nice. Now, as your esteemed patron, I DEMAND you get to work on the best list right away! //Kidding of course. Hope you can find the chance to relax over the holidays.

Jaszon Alexzander

Your suffering is worth it for our entertainment, thanks Todd!

Martha Boatright

Subtitles for #1 pick’s listing of the rapists he’s not stops about halfway through, if you’re looking for help finding errors.

Cassandra Gelvin

Minor nitpicks just because nobody else has mentioned them (and because you asked). At 7:03 there is a weird clip of Todd for a few seconds. At 37:17 the subtitles of the song get out of sync and the later lyrics in the clip are not subtitled.

Grigorios

Wait what's so wrong with Training Season? The production was fantastic IMO and definitely carried the song. And if the lyrics are bad enough to put it in the list, why not Houdini instead, which was worse lyrically?

Tegan Davidson

I panicked for a second there when Todd started saying Better Help. Please Todd, if I can ask you one thing as a paying fan, never take a sponsorship from Better Help!

Bruno Sauvagnat

Really good video! Just a note, on the MGMK part, there's many part where the sound is louder than your voice so it's harder to hear and follow.

Stephen Staver

Seems you forgot to remove the Tarzan credits at the end of the video. Other than that, great review.

Jeremy Hanna

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS

Austin F

a J Cole diss track is a failure on arrival because one of J Cole's strong points is being able to come off as a genuinely good and well-meaning guy in his songs, which is fine (and is something a lot of rappers cannot do, including drake, lmao) but does NOT work for a diss track. this is the same man that wrote the lyric "I can tell you ain't laughed for a while, I wanna see that crooked smile". i love that song, but that's not a guy who's gonna make the next Ether

Herbieguy98

As my official one year anniversary being part of this patreon, I'd like to thank you for being my only connection / interest to modern pop music. These "worst of" lists are amazing. I can't watch it until after work but if it's as amazing as last year's then I'm gonna be very happy.

Pranav Arora

Loving that Todd isn't pulling his punches against KPop anymore.

Connor Rankin

We still appreciate everything you do, homie. Now rest up and enjoy your holidays :)

Gordon Stearns

The only holiday tradition that matters at all to me is Todd's year-end lists.

Wes Papes

It's the best time of the year, baby!

Stefan Ristic

at least the best list is gonna be way more fun to make this year than usual ! have a great christmas and new years, todd, super excited to watch this video :D