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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to this week's episode of the Disunplugged Connecting with Walt podcast. I am co-host of Connecting with Walt, Craig Williams. And once again, I am not joined by our host, Michael Bowling,

because he is still on his path to recovery. But I feel like for, even though I've delivered

some good news sprinkled with some bad news here the past couple weeks, I feel like for the first time I can truly deliver really great news and that I finally had a chance to talk to Michael on the telephone.

So I have now heard his voice for the first time since I guess it would have been a week before we recorded our

final episode that we released with him in it. That would have been the last time I had heard

his voice. So it was over a month in that that time span. But I finally got a chance to hear him

now that he's at home and recovering.

And, you know what, for a person who was in the hospital for 17 days and went through

everything that he was going through, which I'm not going to get into detail, he'll probably

share about it, share all about it at some point in time, but I'll let him be the one to choose what he wants to say

about it and what he doesn't. But he sounded really good for what he's been going through.

And, you know, he's still not quite back ready to be on the show yet. So I know our short

little conversation was probably hard enough for him,

just to, to kind of muster through it. But I think, I think soon we're going to try to even,

I'll try to Skype him in and just record his audio so he can send you all a little message. But

ultimately, Michael did want to say that he has been receiving all of your messages.

Just like I've been promising you that he's been receiving and looking at them all,

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