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Speaker: My favorite memory actually was when we found a secret room in the dormitory, in the kitchen of the dormitory. There was like this hatch. We just saw this square cutout on the floor, opened it up, and we're like, whoa, there's a crawl space down here. So we went down there and we saw there was another cutout at some other random place. And we poked our head out and we're like, where are we? This is like a whole other apartment. it was like an empty tatami room that was meant for a graduate student that we had no idea about. remember Neil living there for like two months and just sneaking in every day. And he would like send us alerts like, oh, I think someone found me. I had to take off the light. Someone would come in and inspect.
Speaker: Welcome back to the Buying a House in Japan podcast, the number one Akia podcast. We're coming at you today with our first Dear Diary series of 2026, joined by my co-host, Joseph. Joey, how are you doing?
Speaker: Very good. Let's kickstart this off. First Dear Diary series of 2026. twenty twenty six We've heard from, I guess, podcast listeners that these are the best. We kind of shoot the shit a little bit. Actually, Joey, we're going to talk about some topics today though, right?
Speaker: Yeah, but I do think people like to hear about the adventure. like That's why they're getting into it and we're just two or three years ahead of most people trying to get into the Japan real estate space. So I guess they kind of want to, you know, maybe they see a little bit of their own journey in the stories we tell. So I think they like to hear about the stories as well of just us going through the process ourselves. Okay. So if you're new here, listening to this as your first podcast in 2026, Joey, hit us with a start off with a re intro.
Speaker: Taki and I are friends since college in Japan. um That was a long time ago. That was in 2010, 2011. I've been friends ever since.
Speaker: Three years ago, we started this business, Akiya Mart. It started just to help us find our own personal property. In Japan, we eventually settled on a property in Beppu. had such a good time throughout that process, realized there's a lot of friction points. We opened up the Akiemar website to everybody else in the world. I'm sure most podcast listeners have checked out our site, but you can browse. I think at any given time, there's 700,000 listings on our website that you can um check out. We've got hazard maps. We've got all kinds of really cool tools to help you along your discovery.
Speaker: Joey and I went to university in Tokyo at a university called International Christian University ICU. Ironically, I think like 4% of the student population is Christian. But we were part of this dormitory together called Second Men's Dorm.
Speaker: Recently, I sent an Instagram post to Joey of like, there's another dorm somewhere in Kyoto that's from the 1960s. The students are protesting from getting it torn down. Unfortunately, our dorm was torn down. But a lot of that Instagram post was very reminiscent of how Joey and I, I guess, grew up in our young adulthood in Second Men's Dorm. Yeah, I think you're talking about the Yoshida Dormitory in Kyoto. And I remember hearing about that while we were still in 2MD Second Men's Dormitory. Because I remember asking around, like, are there any, ah like, the dormitory was kind of special in that it's very similar to a fraternity in the U.S. or Canada, um but that's very rare for Japan. And I remember asking around, are there other any other dormitories that are kind of like this? And I remember people mentioned somewhere in Kyoto, I didn't remember the name, but when you sent me that post of the Yoshida dormitory, i was like, oh, this has got to be the one they were talking about. And it looks like it, too. it's disgusting. Yeah. Yeah, look at this Yoshida dormitory. It's very, very dirty looking. like
Speaker: yeah take Take a look at it because our dormitory was ah very, very similar to that. In fact, I was like, this looks exactly like Sekhemen's dormitory. My first impression when I met Joey was I was studying abroad. I'm california born and raised in California. went to school at UC San Diego and I was doing a year abroad in Tokyo. I was like rocking up to the dormitory with my big suitcase, i had my longboard in my other hand. And I see Joey and like a wife beater gold chain and like fixing his motor motorcycle outside of the dormitory. And my impression was like, okay, gonna meet a whole bunch of Japanese dudes. And Joey's like the first person I met outside the Japanese men's dormitory. So a very formative memory for me.
Speaker: What's your favorite memory from our college dormitory? So there's like all these different rituals. And like when you mentioned like what's my favorite experience, I keep thinking of all these different kind of rituals that the dormitory had. um ah Some are kind of like hazing and some are more just like a ah ah funny event that the dormitory does just with the dorm members itself. One was Daba Daba.
Speaker: We might've mentioned this before on the podcast. our Our business name actually gets its namesake from here. But on your birthday, at a certain time, they'll surprise you.
Speaker: people in the dormitory and they'll grab you with your clothes on. Maybe you had your cell phone, your flip phone in your pocket and they would grab you and they'd, everyone would hoist you on their shoulders and they carry you down to the bathtub. It was like this large communal shower room down there. And they, they would have filled up the, uh, the bathtub with sometimes cold water, sometimes warm water. You know, it didn't really matter. And they would chuck you in ah the bathtub and the whole way down, they're chanting Daba Daba Daba Daba. And that was, you know, we had no idea what it all meant. But this was one of the things and everybody's birthday. We all did it. um can was that can be really fun
Speaker: Can't escape it. um You try to lock hear yourself in the room. They'll get you the next morning, like, you know, kind of thing. So like, you got to come out of your room at some point. I've got to go to the bathroom. That was really fun. i think the shower was actually really fun. I think that kind of kickstarted off my, um you know, love of Japanese hot springs and onsen. It was kind of like a a little sento, like a bathhouse in the dormitory itself, I think was really enjoyable experience. For listeners, it's a communal bath kind of room. It has like four or five kind of stalls ish with a big tub. Um, this was like a pretty popular thing. Like all the dudes would be like, okay, oh, food, oh time. And like, i don't know, it's, it's not definitely a common thing in the U S but like we've bathed together. I remember like being bored in the evenings and you'd kind of walk down the hall, like, Hey, anyone want want to go take a bath kind of thing? Like you're just kind of like asking random people if they want to go take a shower with you. I remember we um made a waterproof speaker and we had we connected to Bluetooth. So we like went to like a used hardware store and we got like this plastic box and you'd you'd fat like made some kind of waterproof speaker. We Bluetooth connected to us so a CD player and we had like one CD, like Club 2MD.
Speaker: And I just remember it having like a little cringy looking back, like some pit bull on it, some Some black eyed peas. Some of those tracks when I hear it now have memories that are like specifically attached to Club 2MD, Ofuro shower room. My favorite memory actually was when we found a secret room in the dormitory. Do you remember that? We opened up in the kitchen of the dormitory. There was like this hatch and then you guys like went under the crawl space and you found this entrance to this secret room that was like an empty tatami room that was meant for a graduate student that we had no idea about.
Speaker: Yeah. So I think thinking about it now, so it's like a hatch in the kitchen down to the crawl space. And I think like you'll actually see Japanese homes that have these. So it's basically like a little cutout in the kitchen and you can get these inserts. I think it it was meant to have these inserts. It's like a dual purpose. One, you can access the crawl space, but two, it's like a, almost like a cellar, a little cellar. You get these little inserts that go in and you can put like veggies in there or something like that. It's just kind of like a cool, cooler than the house temperature.
Speaker: um, kind of, uh, small cellar that you can put there and then you put the thing on top, but ours didn't have the seller thing. We just saw this square cutout on the floor, opened it up and we're like, Whoa, there's a crawl space down here. So we went down there with, um, flashlights and we found, yeah, we just,
Speaker: we're exploring underneath this dormitory building and we saw there was another cutout at some other random place and we poked our head out and we're like, where are we? This is like a whole other apartment. And I remember Neil living there for like two months and just sneaking in every day. And he would like send us alerts like, oh, I think someone found me. I had to take off the light. Like someone would come in and inspect.
Speaker: I feel like that spirit we ah developed during the ICU days is what has brought us over to the Akia days. It's very similar where you're like, go we're very used to like the really, really gross. The dormitory was filthy, like absolutely disgusting. Nothing compared to any of these Akias we are currently going in. So I think that hearted our...
Speaker: our skin a little bit. I think so too. I think I can put up with a lot of dinginess in Japan as a result of living there. I think like sento. Sometimes you'll go to a Japanese bathhouse and you're like, something about this feels a little bit dingy. Yeah, little gross, little dingy. Beppu onsen, jisouji onsen, is like a little bit gnarly looking, but it isn't.
Speaker: Yeah, but it isn't. like I think it's very clean, but like the appearance feels gnarly. And I feel like, yeah, from the 2MD days, I feel like ah very comfortable. I wouldn't say comfortable, but like it's not an issue.
Speaker: I think actually the most unique thing was living with a, it was a primarily Japanese men's dormitory. There were like maybe, I'd say 10% foreigners, maybe a little bit more than that. But I think like the characters we've met in college resemble a lot of the people we're dealing with today. And I think that helps us in our business. I'm like, oh, this guy's like that. And you know, and like, it helps us kind of not categorize Japanese personalities, but we understand it.
Speaker: I think we're to a much deeper level considering we were roommates with them and we we spent all our days with them and stuff like that. Yeah, we'll meet kind of characters throughout this adventure and like we'll have a business meeting with some company in Tokyo and like we'll walk away from the meeting and we're like, that guy really reminds me of like an adult version of this character from the dormitory or whatever. you know So long story short, we had a lot of formative memories in Tokyo when we studied abroad. Joey and I, fast forward, we stayed friends. about ten fifteen years or so we did a lot we have a lot we have a lot of adventures jerry we can cover them in a future podcast but um eventually we reconnected uh after working in tech for about 10 years both of us we realized let's try to make this work and uh since then we are now both full-times this is our main job We're a small team of two where we hire we hire small consultants on the side. So if there's something you are interested in working on with us, shoot us a message at podcast at akia-mart.com. But Joey, anything else to add on our backstory?
Speaker: What else do we do here at Akia Mart? We got the website. The second product we ever introduced is Akia Mart Direct. Yeah, we started the website back in 2024. And again, we made the website really for ourselves to find Akia's and our properties and Again, we had a ton of people reach out and we found that there was a demand for us to try to help people buy. We had sent some of our leads to people in the space and and we just were not happy with kind of how it works. So like, let's let's do this ourselves. um So Akiyamart Direct is our purchasing program. We do charge a fee, which a majority of that fee goes back to the agent and some of it goes to us to kind of keep this going and keep improving. But
Speaker: I'll keep it short. I think the AkiMart Direct program is one of the easiest ways to buy in Japan without having to go through the pain that we felt during our our processes. And come to learn recently too that um you know since the beginning of the AkiMart Direct program, we've always wanted to give back to the real estate agents. We were a little bit shocked to learn how some how much money some of these real estate agents make per month for the an enormous amount of work that they do. So I do think we might be unique in that sense. I don't know how unique. um There might be other um services out there helping you buy that give some of the money back to the real estate agent, but we definitely give it the majority of it back to the real estate agent. Rest assured that we want them to be paid fairly for the large amount of work that they're doing. And so if you are interested in the process, we do recommend doing a consultation. We have a team of consultants that we've trained and hired. um Go ahead and use the promo code or coupon code in Calendly Podcasts and this will waive the $20 fee. We'd love to chat with you, but this is the first step.
Speaker: Ultimately, I'd say we're not the cheapest in the game. We're not the most expensive, but I feel very confident. We feel very confident that we can get you across the finish line. Okay, excited to announce two new products. Both of these are little bit still a work in progress. Pretty exciting stuff, you know, along our vision to become more and more like the Zillow of Japan. The first new product I'd like to introduce is Akiyamark Care.
Speaker: So there are, ah buying house in Japan is not just getting the keys in hand. That's a big part of it, you know. getting your offer accepted, getting all the documents in line to purchase a property remotely in a different country. That is, you know, a big part of the battle. But then what are you going to do for utilities? how are you going to pay property tax? How are you going to get in touch with contractors? How are you going to get insurance set up? You can, ah you know, if you're to the type of person that's reaching out direct to a seller side agent on a listing you found on Sumo, for example, you're a little bit rolling the dice on whether this agent is going to help you. So, we have introduced a new product here at Akiyamark called Akiyamarkare, designed specifically to help you with these post-purchase problems. Yeah, we really say we're building the plane as we're flying it. So we started with a website, then we started we made Akiyamark direct. And Akiyamarkare is just the natural progression where As we were starting to help people through the buying process, we needed to standardize and kind of create a package where you know after you buy, you know at least your utilities, your tax representation, your mail is all being handled. So you'll see it on our site now um on our pricing page. It'll book a consultation. this
Speaker: will lead to one of our team members. We work currently with three folks to kind of help provide this standardized kind of level of care. um Japan Unlocked, which is Eric's company, Ryo under Nostal Homes, and John Cross with Mailmates, all three of our our good partners here.
Speaker: um But in short, you know I think the Acumart Care para Program is a no-brainer. If you just bought in Japan, you don't have connections. and You can absolutely do this without us. Once you get on the ground, I'd say maybe after a year or something, you've made friends with neighbors who can do this. Yeah, I think like at least for i like what we're telling people is like at least for the first year, i think that going with a service like a package we've put together is really your your easiest entry into this system of managing your mail, managing tax payments and ah you know, getting utilities, to all that kind of stuff in Japan. And I think having a service that can just hook it up for you is, in my opinion, really where you want to be. And after that first year, if you find the service or you you think you can handle this better on your own or at a cheaper rate, then I would encourage you to do so at that time. But I really do think there's a lot you're going to be figuring out in those first few
Speaker: months to a year after purchasing a property in Japan and um you know really good to have someone that's that's got your back and designed a service around this yeah I think a lot of the Acumark care program is designed on what again who we wish we had we kind of went broad dog into some of these Akiya's not knowing what we needed. We'd lose mail. We found out like, oh, we need to go go to Konbini and pay this bill. Not like we couldn't pay it online with a credit card.
Speaker: um So a lot of tough learnings. And I do recommend this is like a no brainer base level of service that as as long as you know, your tax bills are being paid, your utility bills are being paid and someone is keeping track of your mail. That's like huge level up and head start when after purchasing an Akiya.
Speaker: Yeah, mail digitization services isn't something I expected would be so important to our operations. And it really has become that. to you know at At the current moment, Taki I spend about you know half the year outside of Japan. And to be able to get access to the mail, see the gas bills, see the the water bills, you know, it' it's more important as we have a business in Japan. So we we have an accountant that needs access to those receipts, but just being able to confirm certain things got delivered or confirm certain letters are there or. Every random time we seem to get a tax bill from the local municipality or the local government, it's good to be able to have pay those on time and to have, you know, someone watching your mailbox and with Aki Marcare, we guarantee that with the mail digitization services. So your mail will be routed.
Speaker: to a central processing place, scanned, and then emailed to you. And I think you can also get the physical mails in in you know in a lump package when when you actually go to Japan and want the physical mails. But in the meantime, you get everything delivered to you in your inbox as a scanned document.
Speaker: You might be asking, how much is this going to cost me? So we've negotiated this deal with all our providers, basically high level back of napkin math at time of recording. It's actually early 2026. Holy crap. It's early 2026. It costs about $500 US dollars for the setup for us to do all the paperwork and utilities and get those things set up plus a lockbox on the door.
Speaker: And then recurring fees, about $100 a month for all digitized mail services, utility bill payments. So actually for the utility bill payments, these companies are going to be paying on your behalf and then invoicing you after. So they are taking a risk here. Also, by being ah just your tax representative, they are also taking a risk too. If you all of sudden just vanish from the world, they are left with the bill here. So again, this recurring $100 fee per month is meant for us to kind of cover that that risk as well. And lastly, the the mail digitization service is P1 certified. And I didn't know what this meant, but it is Japan's equivalent of the SOC 2 certification. So i rest assured, your mail is being handled according to Japan's version of the SOC 2 protocol here.
Speaker: um If you are are interested, go ahead and book a consultation on our pricing page again or shoot us an email if you can't find it. And you don't need to be an AkiMart direct client either to start with AkiMart Care. If you've purchased a house in Japan ah on your own in some shape or form that didn't involve us, we are more than happy to enroll you in our AkiMart Care program as well and you'll get the same services that everybody else does.
Speaker: And very last plug here, if you're listening to this and let's say you're a renovation person in Japan and want to join our network, please contact us. We are always looking for more kind of service providers here. um Not quite sure what people are looking for, but off the top of my head, I think renovation is a big one. Cleaning is a big one. General kind of VA type stuff as well, I think are all things that customers need.
Speaker: All right. So we've been working on AkiMart here maybe for about the past six months. um It's coming together. But the newest product is AkiMart Viewing. So we realized that ah paying a steep fee, the AkiMart Direct fee at right now is around $5,000. Paying that fee to then start viewing homes when Maybe you're a little bit on the fence. Maybe you want to get a little bit of a better picture of what these homes are actually like before you want to lock your position in to ah buy a house. That's essentially what the Accumart direct fee is. You're locked into our program and we'll make sure that you get the house by the end of it. um But if you want to kind of dip your toes in the water first and start doing ah virtual viewings, this is what this product is for.
Speaker: We've actually been working on this, I think for like a year and a half. We had something we called Akiyamart Research a while back. Maybe we mentioned on podcast. This is our second iteration of it. So I do think we have a good shot with this. But as Joey mentioned, um this is going to be a viewing service. We're pricing it at $250. We are starting with Tokyo to make sure we do it right. So on every Akiyamart listing, you'll see an Akiyamart viewing kind of button. Again, think Zillow like house. Zillow has like a button that says house tour. We're trying to figure out how to do this. So again, building the plan as we're flying it. But our current plan is if you want to see any property in Tokyo, you pay $250 within five business days, we will get you a high quality viewing of any property. So what this is going to entail is our agents on the ground are going to call pick up the phone, call and call.
Speaker: The challenge here here is, and as you may have known from looking at Akiyamart listings, like the photos are just not good. How do we increase the standard level and quality of these photos or videos? So we are going to be gearing out our agents with some 360 cameras. We're going to be giving them clear to instructions on how to take these photos, what we want.
Speaker: And we are going to be putting it in a digitally easier way to view it. So yeah, this is our viewing product. We are not sure how it's going to be working out. And we're just doing a pilot ah for Tokyo at this point. I think next up, we are going to be piloting Niigata. Plan is to send Eric, who who lives in Niigata, to the gnarliest place.
Speaker: Akia as possible. But yeah, we're going to give this a shot. Ideally, we scale this out to the rest of Japan, but it's just really hard at this point because you need to have the right players in place to call and the right people to do the viewings.
Speaker: Yeah, we as Takei alluded to, the Akimart research product we used to have, um that Sometimes the sellers side agents are a little hesitant to have someone come in and film. And we just had our friend calling. This guy is, he's, he's actually a ah airline pilot. He had nothing to do with real estate agency. And I think that potentially, um, started the, the ask the request on a bad foot from the get go. And so we've learned from that experience and now we're working, it's our licensed agent that's making the call. It's a licensed agent that's going on the property. for Tokyo at least, for our initial round here, um to go do the viewing. So hopefully, um we think that this will be a success in this way. We've taken what we've learned from our experiment with Akiyama Research, and we've made a much more professional product this second time around.
Speaker: A lot of Westerners are going to be like, how come you guys aren't doing this for free? We are literally having our agent call and spend hours of time, go there, film it, upload it, communicate. it's not It's taken at least, I think, four hours of their time and probably an hour of our time just formatting and making sure this works. So do know I think that's why we have to charge this fee. um And it saves you a flight to Japan, i would say.
Speaker: Yeah. And you know, this is the, in the, the, I never read the book lean startup, but I heard a few things from Take. Um, you know, we're kind of in the experimentation phase here. We really want this product to work. You know, we tried once with Akimar research. Now we're trying again in its second iteration, Akimar viewing, and we're trying to see if there's traction here, you know, are people willing to pay for a service like that? And I feel like if people, if we do see traction and people are at least willing to pay for this service, we can improve it. You know, that gives us the bandwidth to be like, okay, there is something here and we improve it going forward. And maybe we can drop the price as we move forward. But we're in that experimentation phase. We want to see if this product market fit for this product. And is this something that we can scale to the entirety of Japan? Totally. If you've been our on our website, you're like really serious. you know You've probably done the whole Google Maps. You walked around the street, you found this property, you think it's the right price. You just don't have all the angles you need maybe and have have looked at the listing and you're pretty serious that like, hey, I want to buy a house, I think that is the right person. Before maybe starting Akimart Direct, you just need a little bit more information gathering.
Speaker: um This might be for you is actually, I think, how it is. And selfishly, I would love to go do a lot of, see a lot of viewings all over Japan and just see what kind of things you can get for what price points and just pay a fee to get that done versus us. meet You and I, Joey, are just me going there in person.
Speaker: I also think there's like, when we were when we were talking when we're discussing this, I think um me and Take are going to do a ah test run with our agent in Tokyo first, you know, to work out the kinks before we release this to the broader audience.
Speaker: And I was like, oh, we should just find the weirdest house in Tokyo and send our agent there to go view it. And that kind of had me thinking like, i one, I think that's fun. Like, I think the viewings are fun. When we, when we first did our virtual viewings for our first house in Beppu, I remember that being like a pretty fun experience to see those. And, you know, you're thinking about, okay, we, we wanted to do it for three and we're thinking about which one to buy here. There's Tadao Ando homes for sale in Japan. Like you could do virtual viewing of a Tadao Ando house or, you know, the ski chalets. I just, I do think it's a fun experience as well. Um, you know, maybe there's like a really creepy Akiya that looks kind of haunted and you're like, I want to send an agent there. Let's just see what we're working with. Um, I think it's kind of fun a thing to do as well.
Speaker: One contrast to the United States. So the U S as many of you guys might know, has the MLS system. They have the system where they put lock boxes on the door. So if you're a licensed real estate agent, you could basically go on the MLS, find the lock box code, and then go and do the viewing. Very, very different in Japan. um It is still a very old school where the Japanese agent, our agent needs to call the seller's agent. They kind of need to court and find a time. Sometimes the seller agent wants to be there. Sometimes they want the customer to be there. There's all these intricacies that we really can't know until we get into it, but we're going to give it a shot and we will document the learning process.
Speaker: <unk>s You're right about that. I've never once seen a viewing where the seller side left the key in a lockbox. They're always there. they're always They always come to the property. So yeah, maybe it's just it's just how Japan works culturally.
Speaker: They haven't moved on to that like real industrialization of the real estate process. And some sellers agents must hate doing viewings. Like for example, our Tosa Shimizu. That's what was thinking. We went down to Southern Kyushu to look at this one house from a customer of ours and Oh my God. he The guy came up, he put on boots, he had a scythe to like take down all the weeds. You can tell he was not stoked. So lot of these agents are not excited by this too. Again, because the price point, there's just this root problem here of commissions being low for these agents and them not being motivated and wanting to move these Akias. So a lot of factors at play in all our products, but especially in this viewing product.
Speaker: So if you're looking at a house in either Tokyo or Niigata and you want to do a virtual viewing and you have not yet gone through the Acumark Direct program, this might be for you. um Reach out to us or you'll see a little button on Tokyo listings and soon Niigata listings as well.
Speaker: Okay, so four products in total. Just to recap, we have our website with Akiya Mart Pro subscription. We have our Akiya Mart Direct program, which is our purchasing program. If you want to book a consult, use podcast as a coupon code on Calendly.
Speaker: We then have Akiya Mart Care, which is our post-purchase program. Same deal. Use promo code podcast to get a free consultation on this too. And then newest character to the game, Akimar Viewing. This is our viewing product. A lot of names here. am Akimar Pro, AMD, AMC, AMV. What's the next acronym, Joey?
Speaker: AMB. AMB. Oh, coming soon. That's a secret Secret Project. Secret Project coming in. Cool, man. Well, it's a happy 2026 to everyone. We are going to be doing a couple more episodes like this where we take a deeper dive into our our backstory. We've gotten a lot of emails being like, we want to know more about you guys, but we just talk about Akia's all the time.
Speaker: Jerry, what are you last question for you. What are you excited for in 2026?
Speaker: So we'll do a deeper podcast on the entire visa process later. I'm still, I would say, about only 75% of the way through, but I recently had an employee visa, immigration visa accepted for Japan. So I'm excited about that. But as I said, not completely finished through the process. So we'll do a deeper dive into um the whole process that I've gone through up until now to get it. um You know, what it's like ah once it gets accepted or sorry, pre-approval and then all the things that go into actually um getting started up and running once you get to Japan. so I'm just waiting to kind of get settled and then we'll do a deeper dive into that.
Speaker: Okay. On my we are figuring out how to plant a mature sakura tree at our house in Tama Base Camp. We've gotten a couple quotes. I think we found the one we're going for like the weeping sakura that kind of overflows. um We are coming to Japan this March. So hopefully we can see the hanami at our house, Joey. Linda, our property manager has been awesome. I think the cost of it is like $2,000 all in for like a 15 to 10 to 15 year old sakura tree. So maybe new side business, Joey, do we start slinging some sakura trees all over Japan?
Speaker: I think and you got to see these weeping sakura trees. I think it looks really cool. I hope it fits with the yard. And even if it doesn't, I think it'll still be cool. Cool. Well, happy 2026, everyone. We look forward to more podcasts. And if you have not yet, go ahead and please like this podcast.
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