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Tourists and New Yorkers wipe the slate clean ahead of 2025 in Times Square

Tourists and New Yorkers wipe the slate clean ahead of 2025 — both literally and figuratively — for the 18th annual "Good Riddance Day" in Times Square.

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00:00Hello Times Square! There we go! Happy New Year! We're ready to wipe away some of the negativity
00:09and some of the things that we want to just say goodbye to in 2024, but we have shredded things,
00:15we have crushed things, we have buried things, and this year we're doing something new. We are going
00:20to wipe the slate clean of the negativity and things you want to get rid of for 2024. Who's
00:26our first person? Come on up! Hello! What's your name? Where are you from? Jim, from Peru.
00:32And what are you saying good riddance to in 2024? Vips, TV shows, and wars. Away!
00:41Yeah! Doesn't that feel good? Doesn't that feel good? Awesome! Racist attacks, wars, crimes,
00:49home business, vicious, and on poverty. Those are great things to say goodbye to. Three, two, one!
00:58There you go! Say goodbye! Thank you so much! I'll take the eraser, you take the board.
01:04Great job! Make some noise for him! I'm from Ecuador. What are you getting rid of? I'm getting rid of all
01:09the negativity in my life. Negativity! Ready? Go for it! Wipe it away! Yes! Thank you so much!
01:16Great job! In 2024, I'm saying goodbye to scarcity mindset, fear, debt, and job insecurity.
01:26Ready? Three, two, one! Wipe that slate clean!
01:32I mean, that's a good wipe. That's a solid wipe. Good job! What are you saying goodbye to? Negative energy.
01:37All right, let's wipe it away, Misty. Come on. What are you saying goodbye to, David, from Far Rockaway?
01:42My depression, brooding grief, anger, and generally feeling like a loser. All right, David, you wipe
01:49that away. Wipe all of that away. Yes, David. Yes! Yes! Say goodbye! We are getting ready to say
01:58good riddance to all the negative things in 2024 that we want to say good riddance to.
02:04Sickness and laziness. No more lazy. No more procrastination. Hey, you're doing all right.
02:14So there you go. Thank you so much, Joe. Who's next? Hi, I'm Lauren from Brooklyn. What are you saying goodbye to? Long Island.
02:23Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
02:29It was a good release. It was. I feel like that, if I can continue to do so, it'll make life so much better and easier.
02:39Where are you from? I don't know. I've just had a lot of, like, depression, anger, a bit of a midlife crisis.
02:47I work like somewhat of a dead-end job. So I just like feel like a loser a lot. So I just feel it would be a good idea to just write it down and get rid of it.
03:00Putting myself last. Why do I want to get rid of that? Because I'm not.
03:08out and get rid of it.
03:12Putting myself last.
03:15Why do I want to get rid of that?
03:17Because I don't want to be last anymore.
03:19I go, I don't have to be first, I just don't want to be last.
03:38I just don't want to be last.

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