Hello from beautiful Southern California.

Hello from very cold dark.

Fill it off. Yeah. Oh, I expect nothing less from Philly. No, you're still in Southern

Cal. Yeah, well, so I was in Arizona. So we like came through LA. We go out to my mom's place

in Arizona and then we come back through because it's such a long drive. You can't really drive

direct from San Francisco to Phoenix because the mountains are in the way. So it's about halfway

to my in-laws. So we spent a day here coming down and a couple days going back. So it's a

a toofre. All the grandparents are visible and that's a pretty good trip. A lot of driving though.

I'll come back to that because there's something we wrote about recently. I want to touch on

with the road trip. But a big picture. Last time you were on this show. Oh, yeah. You were still the

editorial director for Macworld. For like 48 hours, yeah. Yeah, it was the night before the Apple

event. It was like September 8th, I think. Was it was that it or was it the 7th? I mean, we might

have recorded the 7th and published the 8th. Yeah, I think that's I think I remember sending a note

to Dave Whisk as saying like, is that going to go up before the Apple event? Because nobody's going

to want to listen to it afterward. But yeah, it was we were right on the cusp of the Apple event.

And then the Macworld layoffs and everything happened the next day. Yeah, that was that was

pretty funny because I was like, I could talk to John about it. And then I was like, no, I can't talk to

John about it because it's so so what big new things are going to happen this week? Yeah, I'm frightened.

Well, there's going to be a new year because the earth goes around the sun and nothing we can do

can stop that. So it's going to be 2015. So there's something. And beyond that, let's hope nothing.

I could I could use a little less fewer interesting events post talk show. So it fascinates me though.

It really does because in the grand scheme of things September is not that long ago. It's three months.

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