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Bonus Episode: Year of the Horse · onefjef

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  Hello my friends, happy new year.
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  Happy 2026.
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  I was not going to do an episode this week.
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  And I even sent a message to my Patreon subscribers
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  indicating as much, but...
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  Now it's Friday and I started to feel guilty about not
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  keeping up with my
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  pledged to myself to release one episode every week.
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  So, I'm going to release this episode this week.
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  It's short, it's not going to be, well it's short so far, it may not be short.
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  It will be short.
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  So yeah, I was going to release a interview and interview this week.
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  But having some issues getting the audio off of Riverside, which is that platform that I can
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  complain about all the time, and which I will continue to complain about because
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  it's garbage.
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  It's garbage.
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  No good.
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  No bueno.
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  I am going to start trying to use a new
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  free platform to record a remote audio this year.
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  So if that goes well, I'll be sure to
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  say good things about it here on the podcast.
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  Oh, January.
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  January is the coolest month.
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  I don't care what T.S. Eliot says.
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  Does he say April?
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  April is not the coolest month at all.
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  April is actually usually a pretty good month.
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  January, February, those are the cool months.
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  So you heard it here.
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  T.S. Eliot is full of it.
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  I'm coming for you, T.S. Eliot.
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  I'm coming for you.
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  I have this coat.
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  I got this winter coat, this puffer coat, about two years ago now.
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  It has a very distinct coat.
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  It's very like a retro vibe coat, very colorful.
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  Has these stripes on it.
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  I love it.
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  But I have never owned a piece of clothing that gets as many compliments as this coat gets.
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  And I don't mind getting compliments on my clothing.
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  But I don't really know how to respond.
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  Like if I say thank you, that's me saying, basically thank you for acknowledging my good taste.
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  Which is weird to me, you know.
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  Maybe it's not weird to most people, but it feels weird to me.
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  It feels weird to say thank you.
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  Maybe I sometimes say, yeah, I like it too.
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  Because I didn't make it.
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  So I just went online and saw it.
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  And then searched for the lowest price and bought it.
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  Actually my girlfriend at the time bought me a puffer coat for Christmas.
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  But it was like this like boring gray puffer coat
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  that was just complete, it's not my jam.
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  So I exchanged it for this one that already compliments me on.
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  And I used to say that she got it for me, but then she broke up with me.
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  So now I just say it's mine.
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  I bought it myself.
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  Because even when I said that she bought it for me,
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  and maybe this should have been an indication that she was about to break up with me.
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  But she would say, when we were together and I would say,
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  oh, she bought it for me, she'd say, well, no, he picked it out.
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  So.
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  So yeah, I was at the UPS store dropping off.
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  They returned for Amazon in the, when buying the counter said,
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  I love your coat.
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  I'm so jealous of it.
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  Which is a lot jealousy of my coat.
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  I didn't expect that this morning.
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  But you know, it's nice to have a piece of clothing
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  that someone else is jealous of, I guess.
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  I guess.
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  No, it is.
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  Anyway, January's horrible.
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  I'm already feeling like the low level,
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  like depression and misery that kind of sets in this time of year when the,
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  here's the thing, you know, because I would like to be,
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  I would like to choose, I don't mind snow, right?
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  But I want to choose when I interact with snow.
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  I don't want to be, I don't want it to be forced upon me, you know.
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  I don't want to have to interact with it.
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  I want to be like, oh, I'm going to go skiing this week.
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  So I will interact with snow.
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  But here in Ohio, I am forced to interact with snow.
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  I have been forced to interact with snow for every winter of the last seven years.
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  I've been back.
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  And I'm over it.
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  I'm over interacting with the snow.
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  I'm over interacting with the cold.
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  I'm over putting on my very fashionable puffer coat.
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  And I won't miss the compliments.
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  I will not.
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  Because I think that I have decided that in about two months,
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  I'm going to move to Mexico City for about six months,
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  which is the length of a tourist visa.
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  So that works out.
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  And just see how it goes.
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  I'm going to sell a lot of my stuff here or at least try to.
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  And just kind of end my seven years of life here, seven plus years of life here in Columbus, Ohio.
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  In the only way that I really can figure out how to right now.
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  I thought about this, like, how, where do I go?
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  I've got to get out of this house, as I've said.
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  Like this landlord situation is not tenable.
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  And like, I could sign another lease for another, you know, 12 months, but I don't want to be in Columbus that long.
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  So where else do I go?
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  I don't know.
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  I really don't know.
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  Where have I been that I've liked in the last year?
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  Mexico City.
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  So I'll go there.
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  It's also much cheaper than living in the United States, which United States has gotten very expensive.
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  Like, unaffordable really.
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  For me anyway, of course, I'm unemployed, but, you know, it ain't cheap.
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  Particularly healthcare.
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  It's ridiculous how bad it's gotten.
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  So,
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  so I think that's what I'm going to do.
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  And hopefully it works out.
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  And if it doesn't, it doesn't.
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  But I feel like I'm stagnating in my life right now.
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  And I think that I need to take a big leap, you know, like a big jump.
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  Do something crazy and see where I land.
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  Because it'll all be okay in the end.
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  Like it's all going to be fine.
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  Everything will work itself out.
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  I would just rather everything was fine in an exciting way
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  than everything being fine while I sit here and like waste away in my house here.
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  And avoid the snow in my house and spend what $150 a month on heating bills.
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  I mean, it's ridiculous.
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  It's ridiculous.
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  So,
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  that's what I'm going to do.
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  That's the, that's an exciting announcement.
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  Bonus episode announcement of the day of Friday, January 2nd.
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  And again, we're about 80% likelihood of that happening.
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  But I think it is going to happen.
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  And I'm going to give my notice to my landlord at the beginning of February.
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  Because if I give it to him now, he's going to be a lunatic.
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  For two months.
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  But if I give it to him at the beginning of February, he'll only be a lunatic for one month.
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  Yeah.
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  Next week I will be back.
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  I have a bunch of episodes, interviews, recorded in the can,
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  is it were that are not stuck on river sides.
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  So, starting next week and the week after and the week after,
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  I will be back to regular episodes.
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  Whatever that means to you.
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  Well, it means that they're going to be interviews with people, interesting people.
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  So, yeah, for the two people who did reach out on Instagram
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  a couple of weeks ago asking if the episode this week would be a interview.
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  First off, thank you for reaching out.
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  I really do appreciate the engagement.
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  But I apologized that my response was in retrospect a lie.
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  I didn't realize.
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  I thought I was going to have an interview this week, but
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  Riverside has screwed me again.
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  I said that weird.
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  Screwed me again like that.
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  There you go.
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  Riverside.
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  I don't know that anybody I know likes Riverside.
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  And I don't understand why they can't get their shit together,
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  but I'm not going to continue to talk about it because to give them more time
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  on my podcast is to give them more time because bad press is good press as we all know.
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  Anyway, so as a result of this decision that I've 80% made, I am
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  overwhelmed a little bit. You know, also a little bit
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  wistful to be leaving Columbus and the friends that I've met here.
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  A little anxious about all the things
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  excited for sure because I mean the reason I'm doing it is to keep things exciting
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  is to get out of the old comfort zone where all the fun stuff happens.
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  But the other side of getting out of the comfort zone is that it is outside of your comfort zone.
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  So prepare for some discomfort.
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  But discomfort is often better than boredom.
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  Something like that. Who knows?
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  But there's a lot of emotions happening and I'm sure a lot more will happen.
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  And if any of you are listening in the Columbus area and are looking to buy things that I might have,
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  which are a lot of things I've got a selling electric piano, selling a PlayStation 4,
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  selling a table. Anyway,
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  hit me up, onefjfpod@gmail.com or just text me if you know my number.
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  I was reading that the 2026 in the Chinese Zodiac is the year of the horse.
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  The
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  fire horse actually, but we can disregard the fire part for now and just run with horse.
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  The year of the horse and the year of the horse apparently represents action over reflection,
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  movement, momentum, independence, brave risks and big changes.
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  So yeah, giddy up.
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  I'll see you next week.
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  Very good, Jeffrey.